Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. 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: She comes from a rich northern family. Her parents enrolled her in a Bard school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. He has dyed his greying copper crest a little too much giving a sharp copper color. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Pandjed was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Mayor hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1400 gp.

Description: He wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. His white crest is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are red and beady.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Tarhun was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dragonborns in the north were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 6000 sp. Rhodochrosite (9 gp). 1 Healer’s kit. 1 Average lock. 1 Average lock. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her scarlet crest is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are gold and beady.

Personality: This woman loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Ploughman hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military, Religious. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and he perpetually has his pickaxe ready. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor, Criminal record, Debt. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1500 gp. Tourmaline (130 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Red garnet (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears a grey coat over a green low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head. She is an epitome of beauty. She wears a colorful flower in her chestnut hair. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: Vistra was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Actor hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: Freshwater pearl (13 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a red coat. Her chestnut hair is still thick. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Impulsive. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 400 gp. Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1100 gp). 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: This man likes to wear black tank tops with brown pants, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His long blue hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are likewise red.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Stableman who has hired him part-time. He uses divination through singing.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he wants to get laid

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 300 gp. Hematite (14 gp). Coral (140 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (800 gp).

Description: He wears a brown shirt, with a blue mid length shorts with blue tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them, and he perpetually has his sword ready. His gray fur has been sun bleached extensively. He has green eyes.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Apothecary arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He worked as a nervous Apothecary and found it very stressful. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 1900 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp).