Characters in this over generations are the great champion Atrus von Halvard, son of a barbarian queens guard, a teifling fellow with gentle nature and great wit despite his incredible strength and love of battle. The bastard noble jean-pierre , swashbuckling captain of the royal southexian dragoons and ladies man. ( Think Errol Flynn with horns) who can cut down five men with his colichemarde and then toast an entire bar. High baron helix, the toy maker, his kindness warranted the title and his bravery earned it. His wife, the cannoness, pragmatic to being well past evil in her genius and search for how life works, dying and returning as a warforged dreadnought, she repays her debts using her wisdom to heal ( prosthetics and ... Unorthodox healing are her specialty)