Friends

Calder Vane features a sharply angled, roguish face framed by unkempt dark hair and a persistent shadow of stubble. His frayed, dark-green tunic is patched at the elbows and heavily fitted with hidden interior pockets for stashing pilfered goods.

This slender human commoner moves with surprising agility, constantly darting his eyes from side to side while subtly adjusting his cloak. An accomplished archer, Calder is the one who first discovered the secret of the Crowns of Obscurity and began freeing the village. He's gained significant clout within Velders as a result and is a de-facto leader in an unsteady truce with Joffrey.

Phineas Carpenter has a leathery, weathered face framed by a thatch of unruly graying hair, and his tough, calloused hands bear the permanent stains of countless hours working with resin and timber. He wears a heavy, patched canvas apron stiffened by decades of sawdust and wood glue over a faded, oversized tunic that hangs loosely from his boney frame. Despite his meager living in poverty, his sharp eyes remain constantly observant and hard to read, missing nothing in the grain of the wood or the strangers passing by his ramshackle workshop.

Two odd, flesh-colored antlers sprout from above his bushy eyebrows, curving slightly forward over his furrowed forehead. He twitches his head whenever the fleshy growths itch, often running his thumbs along the grain of a wooden plank to steady himself. Broad-shouldered and stout, he wears coarse, grease-stained trousers held up by a frayed rope belt.

Sylva Greenbriar features a striking, wood-grained face marred by a thick, pale scar slicing directly across her milky-white left eye. She wears a tightly wrapped cloak woven from coarse burlap and autumn leaves to conceal her missing left arm.

This lithe dryad moves through the cobblestone streets with an uneasy, swaying grace, constantly guarding her missing limb. Her wooden features and forest-green skin draw wary glances from passersby.

Orion Vann is a sturdy frogfolk lumberjack whose colorful, mottled emerald-and-amber skin is dusted with a constellation of darker freckles across his broad cheeks and snout. His face is dominated by a perpetually crooked jaw, the result of an old timber accident, and a strange, bristly patch of moss-like growth on his chin that he proudly calls his beard. He wears a heavy, salt-stained canvas tunic patched with cured hide, perfectly suited for hauling heavy logs through the misty river valleys.

Orion first met the party at the entrance to Velders, so he was not among the lumberjacks with Calder. He volunteers with the town watch.