Yuri Jenkinson, elf fighter

Yuri is a tall, slightly chubby elf who is pretending to be a human. He dyes his hair black and keeps it long to hide his pointed ears. He carries a bronze shield of elven make and a magical double-edged longsword, which causes his muscles to bulge and swell whenever it is drawn. (Treat as STR 24 while holding this blade). He was exiled from his elven tribe a century ago for “inappropriate fraternization” with the nearby human townsfolk. His real name is sixteen syllables long.

Arramog Blackmane, dwarf wizard

Arramog is a muscular dwarven man with black hair and a curly beard. He carries an ornate metal staff with a round top, on which 12 rings dangle, each inscribed with intricate runes. He wears a vest filled with charms and trinkets.

Elvis Zon, human wizard

Elvis is a short, chubby man with unusually long fingers and sunken eyes. He has thick brown hair and light skin. His familiar is a formation of cubes that hovers over his right shoulder, constantly rearranging itself. Elvis’ spell focus is a wand made of ash wood, tipped with a yellow crystal.

Thola Min, human wizard

Thola is a tall woman with long, blonde hair. She wears a red outfit with black edging, and carries a black and gold spellbook in a holster at her hip. She is fascinated by the undead, and studies necromancy in the hope of eliminating backbreaking labor and creating a “utopia of bones.”

Felicity “Fel” Sheridan, human fighter

Fel is a short woman with brown hair and green eyes. She wears a necklace with a shard of red crystal around her neck, which helps guide her to more fragments of the Heart Crystal. She has a strong drive to do good for the “common people,” seeing her noble blood as both a blessing and an obligation. She fights with a short sword with a V-shaped guard and the crest of her family on the pommel.

Rofon Zammag, drow ranger

Rofon is a dark-skinned drow with white tattoos on their arms. They are six feet tall and have an extra finger on each hand. They are well accustomed to the dangers of the underworld, from the venoms of giant spiders to the types of traps laid by ancient dwarven underkingdoms. They learned Common from old books, and as a result, they sound like they just stepped out of an ancient bard’s plays.

Gorgain, blue dragonborn cleric

Gorgain is a blue-scaled dragonborn from the western badlands. She stands at six and a half feet tall, not counting her ibex-like horns. She is a worshipper of the King of Dragons, a mythical three-headed ancestor of all modern dragonkind, from the true dragons to the kobolds. Her voice is deep, allowing her to battle prayers to cut through the noise of battle and give strength to her allies.

Matteo Mendel, human rogue

Matteo is a black-haired man with light blue eyes. He says that he’s a simple man who wants to work as little as possible and live as comfortably as he can, but deep down he is drawn to Felicity’s altruistic “do-gooder” ways. He often runs his hand through his hair as he talks, and he thinks it makes him look cool. He fights with an ornate, curved dagger.

Ollie Gochae, cursed fighter

Ollie was once a man, until the foul wizard Jankalli used a polymorph spell to turn them into a giant worm. Ollie’s armor has been extensively customized to make it usable with his condition. He can still speak as if nothing has happened, but he usually wears a helmet to hide his strange appearance.

Qui’ka’rana Dru-dra-Ro’ssen, elf bard

Qui’ka’rana, or “Qui” for short, is a blonde elven woman. Her right arm is made of living wood, bound directly to her flesh to replace the arm that she lost while fighting a dragon. She plays a violin, weaving music into spells and blessings in combat. Her speech is florid and often littered with insults so subtle the listener only picks up on them days later.

Ga’shrogg, half-orc monk

Ga’shrogg is a tall, muscular half-orc man with red hair that sharply contrasts against his green skin. He was raised at a monastery high in the mountains, where he learned to combine his natural strength with the finesse and ki manipulation of ancient martial arts. He stays with the party because they always seem to get into challenging fights, letting him push his limits.

Wolfsbane, skeleton druid

Wolfsbane is an animated skeleton, brought back to life by a magical mishap. He doesn’t need to move his jaw to talk, but he does anyway, because it freaks people out slightly less. In life, he was a powerful druid, and he has spent much of his undeath working to reclaim this power. Unfortunately, he can only turn into skeletal forms of various creatures. Fortunately, a bone devil is all bone, and this is his combat morph of choice.

Traldor, infested warlock

The entity known as Traldor is actually two beings: A human, once named Jimmy Rhys, and a being from deep in the astral sea that has wrapped itself around his head and permanently bonded to him, whose name is unpronounceable by any of the mortal races. The combined entity is a powerful wizard, hampered only by the occasional fights between the host’s morality and the entity’s hunger for power and knowledge.

Malathos, tiefling fighter

Malathos is a purple-skinned tiefling man with black hair and horns. He carries two swords: One has a black, curved blade inlaid with intricate blood-red characters. The other has a gleaming cleaver-like blade inscribed with angular, golden runes. In his younger days, he lashed out against the world as a result of the bullying he faced for being a tiefling. Now, he strives to build a better world for all.

Protector, warforged paladin

Protector, or “Tec” to her few friends, is an ancient machine built by a forgotten civilization. She spent eons in the depths of a dungeon, inactive and forgotten, until she was found by Jimmy Rhys and Malathos. She is thoughtful and hates making decisions without knowing all the facts. She carries a silvered sword with a gold-plated guard, and a heavy shield with a stylized tree painted on it.

Culvenn Au’Blaine, aasimar rogue

Culvenn is a direct descendant of St. Marth, tormented by occasional visions of him. Culvenn is a short man with red hair and dark bags under his eyes. He was once a street urchin, living off of what he could steal, until he attempted to steal Malathos’ coin-purse. Instead of turning him in to the authorities, Malathos took him under his wing and taught him to use his deft fingers and magical aptitude for a higher cause. During a near-death experience, Culvenn was visited by the spirit of St. Marth, who awoke the divine aspects of his heritage.