The Guild (PCs)
Dea
Deanathil 'Dea' Tinnarael-Whitehall (they/them) is a Terrifyingly Cheerful half-elven bard who originally hailed from the East of Faerûn, and has called the Guildhouse home since graduating from the prestigious University of Suzail. They can usually be found reading or doing some kind of paperwork in their favorite chair by the fire in the common room of the guildhall. They can also usually be found playing gigs at a shockingly long list of venues around the city. They can also usually be found attending to the business of the Neverwinter Voice newspaper, of which they are founder and executive editor.
It is unclear when they sleep.
Part of the reason they came so far west to start their own career was to escape the long shadow cast by their family. Their mother Morgan Whitehall is a famous bardic composer; their other parent Elesakalyn 'Saka' Tinnareael is, while not an overwhelmingly powerful spellcaster, an extremely influential arcane theorist. (Both are half-elves themselves, rather than a mixed-species pairing.) Both families have many other famous members as well. None of these are officially in politics, but Dea has from time to time been called back to Suzail to help prevent "another shadow war."
Talon
Talon of She Who Hunts the Dawn (he/him) is a colorful Bugbear shaman from the northeastern plains. His patron, the namesake She Who Hunts the Dawn, is a great owl spirit who is said to safeguard the people of the plains yet bring disaster to those who fail to pay her tribute. He came to Neverwinter some time ago following a mysterious vision given to him by Her, and chose to join the Guild as its work is "meet for a servant of the People."
Talon is quite wise, but rather... Rough-hewn, in terms of considering the feelings and perceptions of other people; the effect of this is sometimes compounded by the fact that he learned his Common from an old elven ranger who hadn't actually spoke it much in several centuries. He can usually be found somewhere within the thundering herd of Vlad's Barbarians, but Jim has identified him as a somewhat steadier sort than most of that crowd and frequently singles him out for missions.
Benthos "Benny" Haichen
Benthos "Benny" Haichen Ilizana is a Triton from the western seas. He is a member in good standing of the Bounty Hunter's Guild and Mallon Ilizana's husband. He has a young dog, Kelpy, who was a gift from Mal.
Benny grew up in a fairly isolated deep-sea Triton community but was always fascinated by the greater world, as represented by the merchant trade ships, and wanted to go out and become a sailor. Once he was a teenager, he did just that: He left home, signed on to a merchant ship (the Pelican's Pride, under Captain Rhise), and looked to the horizon for new adventures.
Benny spent a decade or so sailing the seas before deciding that he wanted to explore life on land. Neverwinter was a port town he quite liked, and the Bounty Hunter's Guild provided easy employment and a way to explore the city's surrounds, and so he settled down there.
Life in Neverwinter became quite exciting for Benny once he was recruited to the Resistance, then led by Henry Lillen and Taran Miraleth. It became even more exciting when he stepped between a dagger and then-Councillor Elion Qinro, kicking off a romance that ended poorly for everyone involved due to the layers of lies woven on both sides.
The bright side of Benny's entanglement with El, however, was growing close to Mallon Ilizana. After their respective relationships with El ended, Benny and Mal remained involved with each other, prompting everyone (including and especially Mal's mother, Jastira Ilizana) to ask them how long they had been dating and how serious they were about each other. Through a number of shenanigans, most notably Vaeril Elra's wedding, Benny and Mal are now married. (Something they weren't particularly planning on doing, but which they're perfectly happy about since—much like most of their relationship!—it was a happy accident that resulted in their marriage.)
Benny does not particularly enjoy being a Lord Ilizana, but being part of the nobility has some benefits when it comes to maneuvering through the politics of Neverwinter. Still, he'd rather be a simple sailor than the political figure he's become.
Azoren Embersong
Azoren Embersong, née Ashwind, is a half-elven bard with a loud fashion sense, and penchant for showering friends and enemies alike in confetti and glitter.
He’s 6ft tall with amber eyes, long straight black hair and typically sports a well kept short cropped beard. He doesn’t know his exact age but reckons he’s in his 60s.
History
Azoren was born in the city-state of Uthalinor, about 1,000 years ago. Growing up in a city where magic was power and status, his extended family wanted him to be a wizard or sorcerer. So, of course, he dropped out of school to join a band, and fell in with the bard crowd.
At that time the main faction of bards were already deeply involved in fomenting revolution against the ruling class of arcane magic users. Azoren was swept up in their intrigues by proximity and started working for an elven spymaster who went by the stage name of Divine.
Political differences and personal animosity led Azoren’s Aunt, Serai Ashwind, to set a curse on him causing him to skip forward in time. How long he had between each skip or how far into the future he would end up was random. Sometimes decades would pass without a desynchronization, other times only hours.
A romance with Divine fell apart after he disappeared for about a century. Even elves have trouble putting life on hold for that long.
The rebellion in Uthalinor succeeded, but upon returning from another of his time skips he found the city completely destroyed in retaliation. In the aftermath Azoren ended up wandering the continent and living off busking.
Present Day
800 years after the destruction of his home city Azoren ended up in present day Neverwinter and came to the Bounty Hunters’ Guild looking for work to supplement his income as a street performer.
He formed early friendships with Ceva and Big Jim, though initially remained standoffish with Daj because of his history with wizards. He also made connections with the Bards’ Guild and while never formally joining often finds gigs with them.
During the course of his membership in the Bounty Hunters’ Guild Azoren accidentally stumbled into a resistance meeting. He stayed in the hopes that this time things could turn out differently.
Daj was the key to finally breaking Azoren’s time travel curse. Daj introduced Azoren to the chronomancer, Toross Caiden, who helped him find out the curse on him was anchored to an object. His aunt’s watch. It was old enough to be considered a rare antique. Invis Winterenvy had acquired the watch and given it to his beloved wife Sana. It was buried with her when she passed. With the help of Winterenvy’s daughter Leda, Azoren gained access to the family crypt and dispelled the watch finally setting him free of the curse.
Delivered from the spector of being pulled out of time Azoren began thinking of Neverwinter as home instead of another temporary stop over. With the encouragement of Ceva he sought mind healing to adjust to living without the curse and to process what had happened.
Ten months after arriving in Neverwinter Big Jim set Azoren up with Kirvan Aramar, an instructor at the fighters’ college. They hit it off and have been dating ever since.