Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her blonde hair is greasy and uncared for. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Gifted from a young age, Merla studied abroad. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: She tends to wear a tan poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Assassin arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She became a Assassin soon after.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 500 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her eyes are amber.

Personality: Hugolina wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Expert, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Hugolina hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She was granted druidic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 2700 gp. Hematite (16 gp).

Description: She stands about 5'7" and likes to wear yellow tank tops with brown skirt. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her auburn hair is braided into rings. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are amber.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Herleva was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Herleva has worked very hard to control her curse. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: 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; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Joker, Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'8". He wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. He keeps his black hair in a flapper bob. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He got into the Blacksmith business at a young age. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1500 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (50 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears blue robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a scimitar, but if one is not available she will default to her quarterstaff. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 20000 cp.

Description: 5'8" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing yellow cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tiefling artifacts is her passion; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. She keeps her white hair in a pixie cut. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

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. In her 17th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. With wild golden hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Disciplined, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 300 gp.