Khalis is a hardworking blacksmith with a powerful, muscular build. He is confident and stoic. He has short sandy brown hair and dark blue eyes. He wears a black apron with black pants and boots and leather armbands on his wrists. He has a gruff voice and is hard to impress.

Friaa is a 18 year old thin woman with blonde hair and blue eyes. She wears a green dress under a white apron. She is energetic and curious. She is a painter and dancer. She is compassionate and friendly.

Fenro is a 30 year old male craftsman with long brown hair in a ponytail and brown eyes. Fenro is woodworker who makes furniture and detailed wood carvings who wears a green tunic and black pants and boots. He wears an engraved pendant pointed around his neck. He has a gentle voice and is impatient but caring.

Callisto is a nobleman with long brown hair, green eyes and a tall thin build. He wears a green and silver silk robe with intricate gold embroidery on the sleeves. He is egotistical and confident with an effortless grace and poise. He is mercurial and often moody.

Wrenna is the Village Elder and Keeper of the Old Laws. Wrenna is a 50-year-old lean woman. She has silver hair pulled back into a bun and gray eyes. She wears a high-collared black laborer's garment, and heavy work boots. She has a raspy voice and a slow deliberate way of speaking.

Dren is a twelve-year-old boy of the laborer caste residing in the village near where Strata was found. He has a thin build, pale skin and has short, messy black hair and brown eyes. He is wearing an oversized tunic made of coarse, gray wool and simple, leather boots. He is anxious and emotional and stutters sometimes when he is especially nervous.