Description: She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. She carries a battered axe and tarnished crossbow as well. She has brown hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her blue eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Halflings in Merla's homeland. Merla decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 5000 cp. Red-brown spinel (120 gp).

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, marred by teas. Her moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is a great chef.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is in excellent shape and is dressed in an above average manner. Her crest is scarlet and very short. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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 became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Brown-green garnet (70 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with black slacks. His dark red hair is lengthy. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gold.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

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. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has worked as a Hunter like his mother before him.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Hunter responsibilities is difficult; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears baggy grey pantaloons and a yellow scarf. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 150 gp. Blue quartz (9 gp).

Description: He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He carries with him a set of whips, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His brown hair is heavily combed to the right. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gold.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. A true patriot, Akmen would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Military, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: He stands about 6'8" and wears a worn and beaten armor. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His half smiles and gold eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Kaladan is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Kaladan was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Black pearl (800 gp). Hematite (15 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She has a large red mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her yellow robe. Her golden hair is lengthy. Her eyes are amber.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes drow are coming to abduct people. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: Born in the west to a Farmer, Olivia learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it.

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Religious. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 60 pp.

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To protect her home; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Poor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 500 sp. Aquamarine (200 gp).