Character name: Elaine Silvereye

Character created by: RC

Character appearance: Very short, skinny, early twenties, pale skin, silver eyes, long red hair.

Character personality: Cheerful, optimistic, loyal, but prideful. Defends those she cares about even if she knows they're wrong.

Family: Married, has a child, has a twin sister.

Influences: Being practically raised by her much-tougher twin has given her a sense of being weak. Her marriage has strengthened her--a little--but she still has a complex.

Abilities: Skilled thief. She can't fight, has no magic, but a quick tongue.

Strengths: Loyal, stubborn, optimistic, diplomatic, good at controlling her sister.

Weaknesses: Considers herself weak, won't lift a finger to defend herself, refuses to kill, can be blind to people's faults.

Likes: Peace, calm, her sister, her son, her husband, not having to fight.

Dislikes: War, problems, disarray, when her twin rushes off into trouble, having to keep an eye on problematic people (read: Gerald.).

Powers: No magic.

Character created by: Xanxa

Character name: Lord Andreas Alano Cesario (AKA the Chimera Obscura)

Character race: Human - Carpathian Spy Master (Ascended Master)

Character appearance: Short, thin slight build, light brown skin, waist length black hair, usually tied up with a piece of old bandage, long droopy moustache. Usually wears shabby checked suits with old brown sandals. Sometimes disguises himself as a beggar.

Character personality: Wildly eccentric and unpredictable. Sly, devious, wicked sense of humour, often self-depreciating. Changes subject abruptly in conversation. In private, he is a loving husband and father, devoted to his extended family.

Family: Direct descendant of the Warrior God Martius, through the Entrevi and Cesario families. Married to Anwyn, has five children, two of whom he adopted.

Strengths: Spy Master, adept at breaking and entering, climbing, picking locks, setting explosives, administering poisons, computer hacking. Ascended Master who can take mortal form when he chooses. (For the purposes of this story, he will be in mortal form).

Weaknesses: Generous to a fault. Cannot walk past a beggar without giving money.

Likes: Making and breaking codes, picking locks, playing the flute, doing conjuring tricks, telling jokes, entertaining children.

Dislikes: Cruelty, slavery, injustice and intolerance. Anything or anyone threatening his extended family.

Magic - 7

Character created by: Xanxa

Character name: Dorota Cadogan (AKA Dorrie)

Character race: Human- Virian

Character appearance: Short hair, chopped in messy layers by herself, black with grey streaks. Plump build, pale skin, wears leather tunic and leggings, plus a shabby cloak.

Character personality: Sly, devious schemer. Loyal to no-one except herself. Very manipulative.

Family: Mother Reenah (deceased), father unknown, has one daughter, Vanessa.

Strengths: Intelligent, uses mind-trickery and minor spells. Can change her appearance but rarely does.

Weaknesses: Greedy and power-hungry.

Likes: Finding young girls to train as her apprentices, stealing, causing conflicts, manipulating people.

Dislikes: Men, anything pretty and girly, happy families, anyone being successful at what they do.

Magic – 6

Character name: Morgan Shadowbinder

Character written by: RC

Character appearance: dark hair, piercing green eyes, early twenties (a little older than Gerald), short, round. Never seen without his spellbook.

Character personality: Bright, always talking, always hungry, sloppy, extremely optimistic. The only people he ever argues with are Elsa and Gerald, though he harbours a love for Elsa that he hides after she married Gerald.

Family: He considers healer Apollo to be his brother. In spite of his friendly nature, he doesn't let anyone else into his world.

Influences: His parents turned out to be murderers and disowned Morgan. This affected him more than he likes to admit, and he very rarely speaks about them.

Abilities: Has good control over magic and uses a rapier rather well. Must use his spellbook for more complicated spells. Channelling darkness has the potential to turn him dark, and his magic's power varies depending on his mood.

Strengths: Fiercely optimistic, powerful magic, will fight and die for what he believes in if necessary.

Weaknesses: Struggles to find the balance between light and darkness, Elsa's marriage, his love of food, his messy behavior.

Likes: Food, eating, food, using magic, those he trusts, food, fighting, bandying words.

Dislikes: People who call him fat, people who tell him he's evil, Gerald, the darkness inside.

Magic: Without darkness, 5. With darkness, 7.

Character name: Fitzgerald Hunt (Gerald)

Created by: RC

Appearance: Dark haired, clear eyes, early twenties, scruffy, tall, broad-shouldered, has a brand of a hand on his neck that he hates talking about.

Personality: Can be rough with people he doesn't like and rather annoying. Quick with a joke or snarky remark. Doesn't like to lose. He has a peculiar sense of mercy and won't kill those he thinks deserve to live.

Family: Married to Elsa. He left his home country and his family behind.

Influences: A desire to be a knight at an early age left him with a strange sense of the knight's code. The forced murder of his mentor scarred him and hardened him.

Abilities: Extremely skilled fighter in all manners of weaponry.

Strengths: Good at fighting, has a good amount of money to his name, loyal to people he cares about, oddly merciful.

Weaknesses: No tact, dislikes arrogance (except in himself), the exact opposite of a diplomat.

Likes: Fighting, money, Elsa.

Dislikes: A lot of things, mostly Morgan.

Name: River Meer

Created by: RC

Appearance: Thirteen, EXTREMELY short, very skinny, plain, big brown eyes, curly brown hair that covers her face. Carries a big book she writes what she wants to say in.

Personality: Very shy and mute. She has no memories and can't speak. She dislikes any attention and tries to blend in--usually doesn't work. Gives off an aura of childish innocence.

Family: She doesn't remember.

Influences: None.

Abilities: Extremely powerful and uncontrollable magic. Most of the time, she doesn't even realize she's using it until it's too late.

Strengths: Sweet, any good person who sees her likes her, tries hard.

Weaknesses: Naive, innocent, too trusting, her inability to speak, unable to control her magic, can't defend herself.

Likes: Peace, people who are kind to her, people who help her.

Dislikes: Her magic, herself, bandits and those who try to take advantage of her, being unable to speak frustrates her, evil.

Magic: 7 (the only problem is that she overextends herself every time she uses magic and knocks herself unconscious.)

Character name: Iereth Rivenstiel

Character created by: ANA

Character appearance: black hair that sways to the right, silver eyes, fair complexion, youngish

Character personality: Loves learning, a bit mischievous, he hates hurting people.

Family: Sister Isla, Uncle Thane, father Riven. Mother deceased

Influences: Well educated. Exiled from his own kingdom for 'killing' the queen, he aims to redeem himself. Due to often being a scapegoat, he hates doing evil things, but has a habit of doing 'harmless' pranks.

Abilities: Excellent with a sword, can do magic, good with medicines

Strengths: His sword play, magical abilities, stubborn

Weaknesses: no sense of direction, a bit gullible, too trusting, unable to control magic properly, can't ride a horse, horses

Likes: Magic, reading, swordplay, jokes/pranks, his friends

Dislikes: Horses horses horses...

Magic: 2-9... his magic depends on the volume of his words. The louder he is, the more powerful. Side effects: falling asleep for long periods of time, extreme hunger, spells that don't do anything or go horribly wrong.

Name: William Scarlet (refers to himself as Will)

Created by: RC

Appearance: Gangling, tall, red hair, dark eyes, an ever-present grin, mid-teens. Carries a bow, a quiver of arrows, a sword, and multiple knives as well as a pin to pick locks with.

Personality: Bright, cheerful, friendly. Manages to say a lot without saying anything about himself. Helpful, gallant, has a strong sense of dignity and extremely faith-filled.

Family: A group of thieves is his family. His uncle is the leader.

Influences: The thieves he works for have given him... flexible morals.

Abilities: Good with a sword and bow, immune to all magics, friendly or unfriendly, can (sort of) pick a lock, has a quick tongue. Can lie very convincingly.

Strengths: Loyal to his friends, hard to annoy, a good fighter.

Weaknesses: Stubborn as a mule, a bit of a prankster, gets injured (a lot, usually his own fault), can't see the obvious things in front of him. Has a habit of rushing in without thinking.

Likes: His friends, being a hero, stealing, talking, lying, talking.

Dislikes: Getting hurt, when he doesn't get his way, being ignored, getting caught, being confused, when people hurt his friends, when people accuse him of being immoral.

Magic: none. His immunity to magic only affects him.

Character name: Benjamin (Ben) Stone

Character created by: ANA

Character appearance: physically 18 (but really around a hundred), dark red hair, average height, very pale. Golden eyes are entirely black when talking to dead

Character personality: Prefers talking to the dead more than the living, a bit odd, cheery

Family: Grandfather

Influences: From a family of necromancers, he's grown up talking to the dead and is very bold about his emotions due to his communications with the dead. He believes respecting the dead is extremely important.

Abilities: Necromancy

Strengths: Excellent at necromancy, wise for his 'age', empathetic

Weaknesses: sunlight, only knows necromancy, unfamiliar with normal people

Likes: talking to the dead, flowers, food

Dislikes: red meat, sunlight, people who disrespect the dead,

Magic: 5, can summon spirits and undead creatures, and has a tendency to abandon his body.

(Ben's only truly allied with those who died...)

Character name: Lias

Character created by: ANA

Character appearance: fangs, forked tongue, yellow slitted eyes, bald, average height... can be a giant snake, silver scales, golden eyes,

Character personality: Is very pretentious and is selfish. Never lies but twists words

Family: N/A

Influences: Background not really known, has lived for a while, through many encounters with humans, has little trust in them

Abilities: venom can heal but put a person asleep for a few days. Fast and quick witted. Can shift form from something more human to something not human at all. not much for fighting, but as a human uses a dagger.

Strengths: is a giant snake, clever, excellent sense of smell, fast

Weaknesses: iron, fire, snow, can get distracted, bad vision

Likes: chickens (raw), eggs (raw), birds... (raw)

Dislikes: humans, animals, everyone, fire

Magic: is a giant snake, but can be a human... size as a snake depends on mood. The angrier, the larger. otherwise, still pretty big, but can be as small as a 10 feet.

Character name: Elspeth Andarsen

Character created by: K.V.

Character appearance: In her mid-70s; short and rather stout; bright, glowing eyes that shine red when she's angry; rosy cheeks; rusted spectacles that keep sliding down her bony nose

Character personality: very feisty; thick Scottish accent; speaks her mind about everything, no matter if it offends others; loyal to her husband but never to anyone else

Family: Married to Ramsey; no children

Influences: She usually doesn't listen to anyone but herself, and sometimes her husband (if she feels like it). However, she worships the great Nwyfre (a Welsh dragon "god" that gave her race their powers).

Abilities: Cooking, cleaning, making spicy pastries that everyone else hates but they're too afraid to tell her. She's a shapeshifter who can transform into a big red dragon; she knows how to fight in dragon form, but hasn't had the need to for decades

Strengths: Stubborn, strong despite her age, fearless

Weaknesses: She can be very rude; doesn't listen to others' opinions; won't take no for an answer

Likes: Cooking, cleaning, yelling at her husband, flying (though she hardly goes out anymore)

Dislikes: humans, weakness, people she disagrees with (basically everyone), cheese toast, maple syrup, finger sandwiches, coffee, sports, tax collectors, thunderstorms, wool sweaters, small talk, moustaches, politics, television, ear plugs, etc.

Powers: Shapeshifting to dragon form. No other magic.

Character name: Ramsey Andarsen

Character created by: K.V.

Character appearance: In his mid-70s; tall and thin; bright, glowing eyes that shine red when he's angry

Character personality: easygoing and kind, but will argue with his wife; thick Scottish accent; very loyal to his wife even though he tires of her feistiness

Family: Married to Elspeth; no children

Influences: He loves his wife and listens to her wishes (even though he won't admit it); also worships the great Nwyfre, but not to the same extent that Elspeth does

Abilities: Cooking (especially spicy pastries that he and Elspeth make); retired spy who used his dragon form to increase the success of his missions (only Elspeth knows of this). He's a shapeshifter who can transform into a big red dragon; skilled fighter and quite intelligent, though his memory is going

Strengths: Brave, kind, loyal

Weaknesses: A little too trusting of others; has trouble keeping secrets (yet has somehow managed to keep his history as a spy secret), donates lots of money to charities (despite Elspeth's protests)

Likes: Cooking, swimming, flying, reading

Dislikes: none

Powers: Shapeshifting to dragon form. No other magic.

Name: Rachel Andric

Created by: RC

Appearance: Short, blonde, curly hair, almost-clear blue eyes, very beautiful, pale, late teens, always wears a red cloak.

Personality: Quiet, moody, privately emotional, rarely smiles, ill at ease, slow to trust people. Prefers to be alone.

Family: Had a brother. She refuses to disclose what happened to him. Only Will seems to know.

Influences: Being abandoned by her parents and her brother at a young age has forced her to toughen up--or pretend to toughen up, at least.

Abilities: Her magic, apparently bestowed on her by her brother, enables her to put someone to sleep by simply touching them. Can use a sword (kind of).

Strengths: Steadfast, knows what she wants, brave, level-headed.

Weaknesses: Will go to great lengths to avoid speaking to people. Not a particularly good fighter, and using her magic leaves her feeling ill. Can't stand the sight of blood.

Likes: Solitude, quiet, peace, thinking.

Dislikes: Getting dragged into problems, messing up, mentions of her family, fighting, alcohol.

Magic: 5. She's left practically useless if she uses it too much.

Character created by: Xanxa

Character name: Jaekatha Urnost (AKA Jaek)

Character race: Human – Losinthan (Apprentice Chronomage)

Character appearance: Tall, thin, very pale skin with a slight bluish tone. Very long straight white hair. Pale grey eyes, almost colourless. Dresses in a black jumpsuit and black cloak. She is in her late teens.

Character personality: Mischievous, loves playing practical jokes. Neither good nor evil, merely curious and adventurous.

Family: Unknown. Raised by the Chronomages.

Strengths: Intelligent and inquisitive. Loves learning new skills and pushing her boundaries. She can do martial arts and wield weapons but prefers using her brain to defeat enemies.

Weaknesses: Easily bored, lacks focus, has a habit of getting into trouble due to her rebellious nature.

Likes: People-watching, playing practical jokes, messing around with temporal equations and skewing time lines.

Dislikes: Routines, rules, her home planet (Losintho), authority figures, staying in one place for too long.

Magic – 7 (8 at a push if she focuses properly, which she very rarely does)

Character created by: Xanxa

Character name: Darshan Yadav

Character race: Human – Hindustani (Rajah)

Character appearance: Tall, slim but well muscled. Medium brown skin, long dark hair worn in a knot on top of his head, long sweeping moustache. Usually dresses in a jewelled waistcoat and baggy trousers in bright colours.

Character personality: Arrogant, vain, manipulative.

Family: Comes from a long line of Hindustani Royalty.

Strengths: Intelligent, can do martial arts and fight with a scimitar, although he usually orders his guards to do any fighting.

Weaknesses: Vanity, laziness.

Likes: Himself, the finer things in life, displaying wealth, watching contests of strength, watching exotic dancing girls.

Dislikes: Albionites, noisy children, women who complain too much, disobedience, the colour yellow.

Magic – None. He relies on his guards to protect him.

Name: King Randolph Celden

Created by: RC

Appearance: Tall, muscular, early twenties, white hair, white eyes, clean shaven.

Personality: Likes to get people to do things for him. Collects power by finding people's weaknesses and using it to recruit them into his army. He doesn't like doing things himself and enjoys torturing people who don't like what he does.

Family: He has no heir.

Influences: Being considered weak has made him want to prove he's powerful by amassing power. He has newly ascended the throne and wants to prove himself by conquering Hindustan.

Abilities: Handy with a sword--when he needs to be. Good at finding people's weaknesses and taking advantage of them.

Strengths: Using people, fighting with a sword, finding weaknesses, keen strategic mind.

Weaknesses: Thick-headed, has no sense of loyalty.

Likes: Torturing people, beautiful women, other people doing stuff for him.

Dislikes: Weakness, people telling him what to do, people outsmarting him.

Magic: No magic; just an extremely uncanny talent for finding people's weaknesses.

Character created by: Xanxa

Character name: Darshana Yadav (impersonated by Jaek)

Character race: Human – Hindustani (Rani)

Character appearance: Tall, slim but deceptively strong. Medium brown skin, long dark hair, very attractive. Dresses seductively in thin multi-coloured veils, accompanied by lots of jewellery.

Character personality: Arrogant, aware of the effect that her beauty has on all Hindustanis (they worship her like a Goddess). Intelligent, quietly-spoken, air of authority. Has a sadistic streak.

Family: Comes from a long line of Hindustani Royalty.

Strengths: Intelligent, some knowledge of martial arts and weapons. Prefers daggers to the usual Hindustani scimitars. Also has in-depth knowledge of poisons.

Weaknesses: Recreational drugs (although the fake Rani will only pretend to be intoxicated)

Likes: Intelligent men, the finer things in life, torture.

Dislikes: Albionites, dirt, unintelligent people, her siblings (she mistrusts all of them)

Magic – None (But since Jaek is impersonating her, 7)

Character name: Cliff Wendham

created by: RC

Appearance: Very tall, really skinny, curly blond hair, light grey eyes. A remarkably cheerful face. Sixteen.

Personality: Pretty happy, a bit flighty, clumsy, and rather cowardly. A thief by necessity only.

Family: His father died. He fell in with thieves Elsa and Elaine Silvereye when they were all sixteen.

Influences: His father's death at the hands of the king forced him to become a thief. He joined in with Elsa and Elaine, but a mysterious assassin (Gerald) killed him on his way to capturing Elsa and Elaine, hiding Cliff's body and telling Elsa, whom Cliff fell in love with, that Cliff had run away. Jaek saved him just before his death and brought him to Hindustan to torture Gerald.

Abilities: A competent thief and swordsman.

Strengths: Bright-faced, a good liar, a good swordsman.

Weaknesses: Clumsy, cowardly, complains a lot.

Likes: Elsa, Elaine, eating, sword fighting.

Dislikes: Assassins, evil, cruelty, people being cruel to beggars.

Character created by: Xanxa

Character name: Lady Anwyn Lyandra Menehari-Cesario (AKA Anni)

Character race: Human – Carpathian Varathusian (Ascended Master but can take mortal form when she chooses. For the purpose of this story, she is in mortal form)

Character appearance: Short stature, medium build, muscular and wiry. Medium-brown skin, long dark hair styled in dreadlocks, dark eyes, wide mouth, slightly pointed chin. Attractive in a fierce, untamed way. Age – Indeterminate but looks to be late thirties or early forties.

Character personality: Can seem very intimidating. Fiercely protective of her loved-ones. Extremely passionate in everything she does. Playful sense of humour and can be very caring and motherly.

Family: Large extended family. Married to Lord Andreas Alano Cesario, they have five children and many grandchildren.

Strengths: Sorcery (Vyrdigaan Master level), very skilled at martial arts. A natural leader, experienced in politics, espionage and reading people.

Weaknesses: Gets homesick for the desert and hates leaving it for more than a few days at a time. Very hot temper and sometimes has a cruel streak.

Likes: Her family, her work, her home in the desert, teaching new recruits.

Dislikes: Bullying, injustice, prejudice, wearing clothes, especially formal dressing.

Magic – Hard to measure, extremely powerful, but for the purposes of this story, 9