Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the left. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She takes great joy in being the best Bather in town.

History: She got into the Bather business at a young age. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. After a long history of fighting, Merla and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, In love, Debt. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she has the majority of her body covered in plate. She wears a colorful flower in her bronze crest. Her gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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 is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

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. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his hammer with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. He has a dull look in his red eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'0". She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She keeps her brown hair in a pixie cut. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. After coming to the age of reason, Murook took it upon herself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a morningstar on his belt. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Tervaround was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Merchant hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Tervaround fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 130 pp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. This green eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside her partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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 dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. 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. Sindri fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: She has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her blue robe. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She has wavy blonde hair. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is a Cartwright first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. 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 Cartwright. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 400 gp. 2 Holy water. 1 Tanglefoot bags. 3 Thunderstones.