Description: She dresses well, wearing red shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the south were limited. After a long history of fighting, Merla and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Sensitive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 100 gp. Brown-green garnet (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 3'11" when asserting herself. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gifted student she started as a Beggar, but she got bored and became a Sculptor. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Flaws: Forgetful, Mundane. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Religious. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a blue collared shirt and pastel skirt. She accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. 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: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and regain custody of her daughter

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. Onyx (60 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a black vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His grey leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his black boots flare out at the collars. His brown hair is long and unkept. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. Thamuz was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 7000 sp. Old masterpiece painting (1900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a grey vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his grey boots flare out at the collars. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Gilbert hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He uses divination through singing.

History: He is a Succubi in disguise. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 130 gp. 2 Holy water.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down and is in decent physical shape. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He takes great joy in being the best Barrister in town.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He's also a talented Doctor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Citrine (60 gp). Emerald (1000 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears bulky black painted plate armor. She carries with her a set of maces on her belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. She has brown hair. Her white eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with painting. She constantly tries to fill her life with painting. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Born to a Bounty Hunter, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She worked as a nervous Bather and found it very stressful. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Bather for hire.

Motivation: Expand her business; and balancing her hectic life and new bather responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 400 gp.