Calden – the cook is a touch creepy and doesn’t like interacting with the people he often feeds. Yet just last month, Dandre caught him peering through some bushes, grinning like a fool as Quinn tried his soup, proving he has the rich soul of a grandmother.
Adalee Amredor – local huntress and the cutest girl in town, that is, if you like them six foot two. She can carve and cure a bow in a single day and once killed a three-hundred-pound boar with a dirk and a double helping of stark-raving terror.
Corell Amredor – Son of Matthias Amredor and as tall and bristly as a Sirrushi Fur tree. He can gut and skin a deer in under ten minutes but prefers to force his children to suffer the task instead.
Selna Amredor – high ranger of the Sirrushi Direbane. Feared by orcs and trolls alike, but as any true ranger, deals fairly with all races. Too busy for love, the stunning woman has turned more than a few heads, players and NPCs alike.
Hardel – the tallest and loudest of the Sirrushi Direbane, Hardel made his name in the Unspoken War waged between the horse men of the sea and the kraken lords who tried to make the northern coast of Marianor their home. He met his impressive gryphon friend Bastral on another trip through the Lemish Mountains. Neither has spoken of their meeting, but rumor has it that the two challenged one another to a duel. Having reached no clear winner, the two joined forces forever after.
Teegan Shadespar – the famous PvP arena champion. A rogue type fighter with a hidden and unique class and has more than his fair share of unconscious swagger. The players who meet him either want to latch onto the high-level elf in hopes of attaining a hint of his greatness or else despise him. Morgaine, a fellow sneaky dark elf, is his best friend and occasional arena companion.
Oliver – a guildie at heart, Oliver became an orc in realistic mode to prove to himself that he could become as tough as he boasted and to ignore the opinions of others. As loyal as he is full of it, Oliver only regrets letting himself fall for Madi the second he laid eyes on her.
Mayor Sherman Hesperine - a shady character that was somehow both big-boned and drawn in the face. A once a jolly man who later only pretended to be, Sherman was filled with fear and regret. He was condemned by the man who saved him in his youth. Even as he died, he knew the irony of the situation. He had been a good and honest mayor until the day one of The Rat King’s shamans pulled him under the beast’s influence.
Tumsley (Raised and Claimed by the Chishri Spider clan) – the only known case of a human being fed and weened by spiderkin, Tumsley is an odd person who makes wicked men nervous and good men feel at ease.
Garren – Alysand’s oldest friend in Benham and a single father of a pack of flea-bitten kids. Even without getting a good night sleep in almost fifteen years, the man manages not to punch the children, and refuses even to tie them up when rowdy.
Harnoth – The captain of the guard and First Fang of the Sirrushi Wyverns. Harnoth was only a broodling when his father died at the end of human swords. Shortly after the pact of the races was broken, he learned the foul nature of the two-legged creatures who walked in the daylight above. The wyvern could not forgive the other races until he faced Hana’s unflinching honesty and goodness. Then he saw his only true crime was hatred.
Races, Groups, and Creatures of Marindor
Enfield (Vardeen) – tribes vary in form and enjoy great degrees of autonomy, but the noble beasts are united under one leader. This leader has many names but is loosely referred to as Den Mother. Pachi’s tribe is noted for their black and crimson feathers and more defined feline features that extend not only to their deadly claws, but to their rasping tongue and ability to purr. Also, her tribe is taller, taking on the canine bone structure in the legs. All tribes maintain the three-animal combination between fox, great cat and eagle.
Gryphon (Corshani) – were bred by the gods themselves and flew over the peaks and valleys of Marianor long before even the first elves came over the sea. Righteous in all ways, the gryphons fell from power because of their inflexibility. Fighting on the front lines of a dozen wars thinned their ranks, and now only a few dozen flocks remain. If not for their longevity, the gryphon lords would have died out long ago.
Ratkin (Nezumi) – spawned by the ancient Rat God Nezumi who formed the race in her image. Traditionally live in small bands of hunters and gatherers dispersed throughout the land. They are not overtly aggressive, and only occasionally do they rise up as a group to raid for resources, primarily metal as they are not known for their ability to forge. With the rise of the Rat King, high carbon steel has been found in their possession, the forging skills most likely copied from captured gnomes taken from their smithies deep in the Sirrushi mountains. Though they are normally never more than five feet tall at most, recently, some have been seen to be taller than men.
Flame Leopard – a younger species in Marianor, the first of the flame leopards were seen in the sprawling wasteland to the south just two hundred years ago. Some scholars consider the beasts bred of fell magic while others remain more optimistic. They are fair in mind and form, after all, and remain loyal to any soul they are bonded to.
Wyverns – The two tribes of wyverns are the Fafniri and the Sirrushi.
Fafniri – sons of Fafnir, the Fafniri tribe, have taken on their predecessors’ affinity
