Description: She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her chestnut hair is wavy and long. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Merla's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She's also a talented Hunter, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job, Debt. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman, marred by chocolates. His silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. 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: He is wracked by social anxiety; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: 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 attire stands in sharp contrast to her hammer, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her arcane abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has dyed her greying gray fur a little too much giving a sharp gray color. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the west. While she appears to be a normal Tabaxi, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1000 sp. Blue quartz (5 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'11". She prefers to wear black clothing when she does not wear armor. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her violet eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson black hat.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is content; and she is greedy

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 300 gp. White opal (900 gp). Rose (80 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, black shirt, and brown tie. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Passionate, Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Sard (30 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. His white crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He is a great chef.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is greedy

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 2100 sp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a quarterstaff on his belt. His silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Herbalist arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Through the years after Aelar was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Aelar's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.