Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a white collared shirt and tan skirt. She accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has moderate length black hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. Merla enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Flaws: Insomniac, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Job, Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He keeps his dark red hair in a flapper bob. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He is content; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 9000 sp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (60 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. She has wavy brown hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Persistence. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Gifted from a young age, Jane studied abroad. She worked as a nervous Herbalist and found it very stressful. She tends to her Herbalist job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: To protect her home; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 20 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp).