AKA: | Glorious Leader, Our Glorious | |
Origin: | ? | |
Appearance: | Tall, bearded, light brown tangled hair, dressed in furs. Handsome and commanding. | |
Personality: | A natural leader and a great orator who has had adventures in many realms. He always tries to do the right thing, but events never seem to work out quite as he expects. | |
Abilities: | Rathgard has a truth sense that enables him to tell when someone speaks an outright lie. He can influence the weather. |
Origin: | The Phoenix Caves | |
Appearance: | 5'2", fit and athletic, fairly long multi-coloured hair, looks about 20, wears padded armour in strategic places and not much else. Her most striking feature is the baby phoenix feathers which are sewn around her eyes. | |
Personality: | A warrior woman who likes to do things in her own way, which does not generally involve tact or diplomacy. She is seeking knowledge at the behest of her master, a wizard who cured her foster-mother of a fatal illness. She cannot remember her master's name or what he looks like. She has a book of spells (weapon sigils), a book of maps and a book she cannot read. | |
Abilities: | Flame can inscribe sigils on weapons that give them special powers. She can perform an hour long ceremony to answer a question. The response will always be true, but will not necessarily be the one for which the questioner was hoping. She is personally immune to extremes of heat and cold. She can warm or cool external objects, particularly those affiliated with fire. |
Origin: | Woodhall |
Appearance: | Utterly unmemorable. Small and skinny, dark eyes, thin, patched trousers (blue, red), gold feather. |
Personality: | A showman and prestidigitator who lives by giving magic shows. They are very good. When he's not performing, he is quiet and watchful. So easy to forget that he is there... |
Abilities: | Nothing worth mentioning. Really. Though people often seem to behave oddly when he is around. |
AKA: | Steps |
Origin: | Fable |
Appearance: | 20s, a cross between Friar Tuck and Little John. Carries a quarterstaff. |
Personality: | An explorer with an air of tragedy about him. Following the deaths of all his family at the hands of white scorpion raiders and of his lover (and unborn child) in an accident, he believes that he is under a curse and is seeking to reverse it. |
Abilities: | He is a remarkable healer, able to preserve the life of even the most fatally injured (usually). He has an iron constitution and can walk without ever tiring. |
Origin: | ? |
Appearance: | Burly, light brown eyes, beard and hair (long and pulled back), dresses in fur. He has a cart that smells of fish. |
Personality: | An experienced merchant, he has an extensive network of contacts in Everway. A quiet observer who can drive a mean bargain. |
Abilities: | Capable of an astonishing turn of speed. Good at trade negotiations. |
Origin: | Shifting Sands |
Appearance: | A young woman with long black hair and a great hat. A hawk perches on her shoulder. |
Personality: | A Spirit Worker with a tendency to over-indulgence. She is seeking her brother who was taken by a group of Satyrs. |
Abilities: | She can send her hawk out to scout, looking through its eyes if she performs a ceremony first. She can speak with spirits. She can bottle spirits and move them from place to place. |
Origin: | Man-sun |
Appearance: | 40s, clean-shaven, pale skin, small and skinny with a shock of orange hair. Wears a skull-cap. Always carries a sack of toys. |
Personality: | An archetypal scientist. Chatty, knowledgeable and insatiably curious. He grew up in a commune dedicated to knowledge and peace which was raided and destroyed by the priestly rulers of his home realm. He is fleeing to Everway to seek the assistance of Chamber Platinum. |
Abilities: | He can make toys based on "scientific principles" out of almost anything. |
AKA: | The Dragon Lord, The Storm Lord, The Last of the Twelve |
Origin: | ? |
Appearance: | Dressed entirely in armour. Red glowing eyes. |
Personality: | Bellicose and domineering. Given to conquering any realm he enters. He is constantly seeking out the heroes, believing that his fate is tied to theirs. This view is not shared by the rest of the party. |
Abilities: | He has a dragon companion (Tempest) who communicates by means of images and is possibly more intelligent than his master. He is a master battle tactician. He has a magical bow that shoots fiery and explosive bolts. It needs diamonds. He has a form of second sight that allows him to look beyond physical barriers and see the true forms of things. |
Origin: | Great Plains |
Appearance: | Classic barbarian. Big, burly, furs. |
Personality: | Classic barbarian. Not fond of town life. Gets on well with Flame and with Tempest. His family was butchered by White Scorpion raiders - he spent 30 years getting his revenge. He has joined the Green Mountain Warriors, having fallen in love. |
Abilities: | He can communicate with, see through the senses of and suggest actions to animals. He has two pet ferrets called Snake-killer and Fur-belly, whom he can control as extensions of his own body. |