Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She typically wears red cloth garments or leather armor. She has a long brown ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Merla grew up listening to her father's many stories. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Soapmaker hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 900 gp. Rhodochrosite (11 gp). 1 Full Plate. 1 Breastplate.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he tends to wear a large white jacket. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He takes great joy in being the best Fletcher in town.

History: Born to a Jeweler, his father struggled to pay the bills. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 11000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (40 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1600 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2800 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (100 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (6000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears suspenders and violet workpants. Her shirt is white, and she wears a heavy violet leather apron most of the time. She carries a battered sword and tarnished shortbow as well. Her auburn hair is knotted and matted. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Through the years after Avelina was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Avelina's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with tan slacks. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly glaives and spears. She has wavy silver hair. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. She was taken from her home at a very young age. 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: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record, Guardian, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease, Antagonistic. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1900 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, yellow shirt, and brown tie. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Glassblower. He tends to his Glassblower job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To be a Sellsword again; and he is content

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears professional attire. She wears her beige fur down. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Just what you see.