Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her silver hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Merla grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She struck the Spy job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand her business

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull brown iron scale mail. His hair is blonde, silky, and of moderate length. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He refers to his adoptive father 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: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized red coat. Her hair is short and white. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. 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: Tawna hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. She took after her mother in leading caravans. Because they were valued, her mother taught her to defend herself. When her mother died while fighting gnolls, the young Tawna began to lead the lost caravan. After a long history of fighting, Tawna and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and has the majority of his body covered in plate. His crest, while still mostly bronze, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. In his 18th 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. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 4000 cp. Obsidian (7 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp).

Description: Standing 2'8", this woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her shortspear with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has green eyes.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Mason who has hired her part-time. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her parents enrolled her in a Cleric school at a young age so that she could practice her druidic talents. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Old masterpiece painting (1200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a black armored body suit, with a simple blue line shooting up and back down. Her black hair, when down, is lengthy. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Gifted from a young age, Bilga studied abroad. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Star ruby (900 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears dark leathers with embroidery. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Bowyer born in the past three hundred years. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Bowyer work with an outfit from a few towns over. Bowyer work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He struck the Bowyer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 18000 sp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy bronze crest. He wears a green armored body suit, with a simple pastel line shooting up and back down. He has a hunchback. His crest is cut close to his head. His red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Unemployed who has hired him part-time. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and wants his loneliness to end

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Has a crush, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 12000 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (100 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (50 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1600 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (100 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (50 gp).

Description: She typically wears yellow cloth garments or leather armor. She carries with her a set of shortbows, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her red hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her first spouse was a Interpreter, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Shanairla fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Red spinel (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Onyx (80 gp).