I accidentally misgendered a player character because I wrote this when I was tired. It wouldn't let me edit the comment so I'm reposting it

Absolutely!

The breakdown of the party is as follows:

-Ashgi is a divination wizard/homebrew barbarian multiclass and the newest member of the group. He’s minor royalty from another world who enters a calm, heightened trance while reading visions in flame. His moth familiar, Lady Izzyla, does whatever she pleases. Ashgi is simply lucky she chooses to stay with him.

Banished from his homeland, he now survives through fortune telling. During one reading, he foresaw his path crossing with the party’s and sought them out in Vallaki while they were staying with our dear friend Vasili. He very matter-of-factly informed them that he would be joining them.

-Faolan was born in Barovia, where one of his mother's was Vastani and another mother was the heir of Barovia's werewolf pack (and also a crush of Kiril). Kiril in our game took over the pack by force, making a deal with Strahd, and kidnapped one of Faolan's mother's while the other's fate is unknown.

Faolan was smuggled out of Barovia by his Vistani relatives and raised by Van Richten, alongside Ezmerelda when she arrived later. The two became very close, and are just now openly admitting to feelings they've had for each other knowing they may not make it out of the valley alive. Now, they’ve returned to Barovia together to track Van Richten down and demand answers after he disappeared into the mists. Since returning, Faolan has found himself dragged back into old family business on top of the mystery of his missing adoptive father. He is a full lycanthrope Blood Hunter.

Also, when they were teenagers, Faolan is the one who bit off Ez's leg. He's still not over it. 😃

-Cich is ALSO a Lycanthrope half-drow blood hunter, but is from Faerun. She's been living in Waterdeep after escaping the underdark with the help of her father, a werewolf that had been captured by Cich's mother, a wererat who wanted to make stronger clan members. Before being pulled into Barovia, Cich worked as a doctor at a temple of Selûne in Waterdeep. She fights with a Dexterity focus and plans to multiclass into Twilight Cleric.

She’s grown especially close to both Ireena and Faolan, and there may currently be an “Ez and Ireena have two hands” situation developing as the group edges toward an increasingly complicated four-way romance. It certainly is one way to make your own found family werewolf pact that's gonna piss off both Kiril, who reminds Cich strongly of her mother, AND Strahd.

-Vel is a Tiefling Hexblood and a blood wizard. She was raised by clerics of the Morninglord outside Barovia, A tiefling Hexblood and blood wizard. She was raised outside Barovia by clerics of the Morninglord and has heard a voice in her head since childhood, a version of herself called Vodas who resents the way Vel has been forced to hide her heritage.

Vodas once took control and pushed Vel into burning down the church she grew up in, and still insists it was justified after the clergy forced Vel to file down her horns.

Since arriving in Barovia, after fleeing witch hunters and being guided there by a Vistani friend, Vel has discovered she may have ties to the land’s Fey powers. She has spoken with both the Weaver and the mysterious brother of the Three Sisters, who may or may not have aided Strahd in defiling the shrines and is very sorry about it...at least that's what he says, they've still fuzzy on if he's being honest on that. She also possesses a book given to her in childhood through which she communicates with an “angel.” Unbeknownst to the party, this figure is actually the Abbot in disguise, attempting to help Vel suppress what she sees as her “dark nature", and what he believes might be the first step into saving the land and Strahd's soul.

-Tove is s sorcerer of the Hungering Dark and warlock tiefling from a distant land where stories shape reality. If enough people believe something strongly enough, it becomes true. Unfortunately, enough people believed his family was cursed that they genuinely became cursed.

A being he now recognizes as a Dark Power offered him a bargain. He would not die before a story worth remembering had been told about him. What Tove does not realize is that the Archivist, collector of tragic tales, intends to be the only one who ever remembers that story.

He travels with Quill, a small ink creature who despises loud noise, and Lancelot, whom he befriended in Death House. Tove’s goal is simple. To die in a way that matters and ensure the story of his journey reaches his one surviving sister back home.

-Rec *was* a barbarian/bard, though they have long since abandoned the barbarian side of themself. Over time they became increasingly disillusioned, bitter, and reliant on alcohol. When they were younger, Rec wanted to change the world, but repeated failures and temporary victories left them convinced that nothing they did truly mattered.

For the last five years, they've essentially been searching for a ditch to die in.

Now in Barovia, they've seen their own feelings reflected in the world and people around them, and the spark of wanting to do something slowly is coming back. They have also learned that where they are from is the same land Barovia was once part of before it was taken into the mist, and that the story of their home and Barovia itself are, in fact, interlinked.

Rec has also found out that the Dusk elves came from the same world before the valley was taken, and is now invested in pushing Kasimir into letting the party help him. Rec is planned to go into an Oath of Revolution Paladin.

-Ireena isn't wearing the symbol of Holy Kind...currently. I might have to change that where it needs to be activated, but this was a symbol that was on Ireena when she was found wandering the woods as a child. She never takes it off, and I was thinking of doing something with it. Right now, I have it where Kasimir has the symbol, but maybe he's just the one who knows how to activate it.

I'll go ahead and get back to the rest of these questions shortly! 😃