Description: This exceptionally lanky woman likes to wear ponchos typically of a light white in addition to tight pants. Her blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Merla speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. Merla is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: She is greedy; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Family, Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and is wearing a tight red one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the right. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Gifted from a young age, Dell studied abroad. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His black hair has been sun bleached extensively. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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. The war was a terrible time for him, and Delg does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and a strong sense of loyalty to halfling people

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Sage arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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 Sage. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Sage.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she's attracted to the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 pp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a tan wide-brimmed hat and tan clothes. She has a long red ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. 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: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered dancing. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 400 gp. Moss agate (10 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and obtaining odd cultural tabaxi artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 2600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a grey coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon her head, and she perpetually has her scythe ready. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Her first spouse was a Stableman, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To unite with her sister.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a brown shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and green pants. He wears his beige fur up. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Tabaxis.

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 took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Tabaxis in the north were limited. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and half-orc compassion

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 50000 cp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He wears his golden hair up. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Pallabar was born the youngest of three triplets. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful, Depressed. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 24000 sp. Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item.