Tyr is a cleric of Heironeous from The Shield Lands. He has served his god, and his people to the letter of the Heironean Code.  This has led him to heal and protect the Knights of his order.  After hearing that a Lance of Knights disappeared in the eastern Bandit Kingdoms, Tyr took it upon himself to try and find what happened to them.  Hearing a group of adventurers were seeking to clear evil from the area, Tyr took this as a personal Test of Valor to aid them lest they end up getting in over their heads.  Like most of his order, he has proven himself strong, courageous, and brash much like Heironeous himself. 

Elera was born an orphaned child of the streets of The Theocracy of the Pale.  She never fit into with the religious zealots that ran the orphanage, and often she was tormented for her elven heritage.  Elera was always escaping as a child. The sisters of the orphanage could never keep her caged in the walls. Elera found her education on the streets and back alleys. When the orphanage caught fire, she knew she would get blamed and made her escape from The Pale through the Nutherwood and into the Bandit Kingdoms to make her way the best way she knew how.   

Douglas has a mysterious past that he has not let be known to others, but his dark aura, pale skin and hair greyed before his time is telling of a otherworldly trauma of some kind. This arcanist has a more than temperamental rat familiar, Ixtyl, with unnaturally glowing red eyes. Douglas has mentioned a search for a particular zombie.  The adventurers in the eastern Bandit Kingdoms seem to be the best way of helping him in his search. 

The knights of the Shield Lands pledge fealty to the Lords and Ladies of their land.  The monks of the Stone Dog Clan were formed pledging protection to the people. Taken in by the clan, Chord was more than a little mischievous.  Though now of age to fully defend his people, Chord has been sent to scout the lands to the north. His shifu, Master Fenry, thinks that the warlord Iuz, or The army of The Horned Society may become an even bigger threat to the people than the Bandit Lords. 

Born to a noble father of the small Elven kingdom of Relav, and a wild human woman of the wolf clan druids, Vincent was man of two worlds. Relav is a kingdom of elves that have turned away from the forests and turned to what they claim is a modern society of castles and nobility. They claim elven superiority and would spurn a child born to the humans.  Vincent was taken from Relav and raised in the forests of the eastern Bandit Kingdoms, trained in the magics of the druid circle, and taught to protect the very forests his father's family would see conquered and destroyed. 

Born to the underdark, Elric was never treated well. Being born only half Drow is one thing, but a ~male~ half Drow...detestable.  Elric was quickly wretched from his mother and sold into slavery.  He was purchased and wedded to Valdiena, who would become a well acclaimed Wizard.  He was used as a body guard but never treated as anything other than a meat shield.  At one point when left unattended, he ran.  After a great deal of time making his way through some of the most unused tunnels, he found his way to the surface through an opening just on the eastern edge of the Rift Canyon.