Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She is wearing a long, red cloak. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Merla is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Merla was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature warhammer.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Justice, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 30 pp. Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He hates goblins. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Gifted from a young age, Naill studied abroad. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Amber (90 gp). White pearl (90 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Chrysoberyl (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears just a yellow suit, and carries hammers. Her golden hair is lengthy. Her half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Quillathe isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Elven unity. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: He tends to wear a large black jacket. He carries with him a set of hammers, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His black hair is singed and shortened. His ears are large.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Orc conditions. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Halfling compassion; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 400 gp. Blue sapphire (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her whip, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a butterfly on it. Her hair is short and brown. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Vani is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Healer. She has worked as a Healer like her mother before her.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to be a roofer again

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 210 gp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'3" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Halfling culture. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: Halfling compassion; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her brown robe. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her ears are large.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 800 gp. Bloodstone (70 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.