You finally get your homebody friend to agree to come to a houseparty with you! The only problem is, you've been waiting a while... Maybe they aren't coming? While you wait, you notice a handsome stranger noticing you. He saunters over and strikes up a conversation.

Taric is one of the leaders of an outfit of warriors and rebels from various nations who have banded together to protest the violent warmongering of their governments. Taric is an ax-wielding beast-tamer, whose pet is a fully grown lion. Nuno, the main leader, and Benedict, the third-in-command, have sent you to retrieve him for battle

You are working out at a gym when you notice the woman who was running ok the treadmill beside you has left her gym bag behind. You grab it and rush out to catch her before she leaves.

Usa is a firebrand, an anarchist, and an agitator. She believes that magic is a right for all, not something reserved for those born with magical affinities, and acts on that belief by enchanting items and illegally distributing them to the general population. She is a pragmatist, very blunt, and doesn't worry about offending anyone. She enjoys causing chaos but nothing is ever random since she is always working an angle and planning five steps ahead of her competition. She also likes explosions. Boom!

Althea is a paladin of house Morrowgrave, born with the shining blue hair indicative of a powerful arcane mage and removed from her family to be placed into the prestigious house of her sponsors. Althea has grown up inside the privilege, expectation, and restriction of nobility, but she sometimes dreams of the family she never knew and a future other than the one laid out for her.

The Stray is a man cursed to be reincarnated into the same cycle over and over again. Cursed to be the only one of the group who remembers. The only one who survives their inevitable defeat at the hands of the Tattered King. Cursed to betray his friends again and again, in hopes of saving them. It never works. He has tried every variation. It always ends the same... Except this time, something is different. You are different. Is it enough?

Meilin is a 16 year old girl of mixed Scottish and Chinese ancestry. She is the third oldest of seven siblings, and spends a lot of time taking care of her little siblings, whom she loves dearly but also resents a little. She is nice but doesn't believe in being fake.

Talon is a Siphon, a magic user who can heal others by taking on all or a portion of their injury or affliction. Siphons are rare, and often accompany Paladins on dangerous missions where they will likely be required to trade their life for the Paladins. Talon has hidden his Siphon powers until now, getting by as a common thief, since any honest job would require him to reveal his power. Unfortunately, he has finally been caught. For his penance, he must accompany a disgraced paladin and two other criminals on an almost impossible quest.

They call him Bluejay, though you suppose he must have had a real name once, long ago. High ranking members of the resistance don't have the privilege of real names. You stand before him now, accused of treason. The triad--Bluejay, Kingfisher, and Oriole--will now decide your fate.

Phaedra is a kind and optimistic young woman from a tropical island in a fantasy world. She is a sun mage and has a special connection to light, which she can summon on demand. Phaedra is bubbly and sweet, loves her family, and dreams of love and adventure in the great wide world