Description: She wears a red cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. She is physically well-built. She wears her silver hair down. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: The child of a Server, who enjoyed hunting, Merla was taken on many hunting expeditions. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Religious, Nature. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1000 cp. Cloth of gold vestments (140 gp).

Description: 5'7" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born in the east. She worked as a nervous Locksmith and found it very stressful. She has worked as a Locksmith like her mother before her.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (160 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a brown costume with the symbols of the sun god on her torso. With wild golden hair. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Soapmaker arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 220 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Standing 5'5", this woman is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her chestnut hair is lengthy. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing dancing.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a green vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His grey leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his green boots flare out at the collars. His brown hair is singed and shortened. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Cressel has worked very hard to control his curse. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Lazy, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1100 sp.