The whole story revolves around the cast and program of Critical Role. This is an initiative created by some American actors and voice actors who in 2015 started playing live every Thursday night on the streaming program, Twitch, at Dungeons & Dragons, the most famous role-playing game in the world.
Almost all of the characters in this story are heavily inspired by some of the cast members of Critical Role. Specifically, Matthew (Matt) Mercer, the DM, or narrator of the group, will be the protagonist and narrator of the story.
With him, other members of the current gaming group present, will be Marisha Ray, wife of Matt, both in history and in real life, Taliesin Jeffe, best friend of Matt and then other random members of the cast, namely Laura Bailey, Sam Riegel, Ashley Johnson and Brian W. Foster, Ashley's boyfriend.
The only fully invented character is Rebecca Baker, Matt's longtime friend and co-producer of Critical Role.
It is important to know that the age of the characters does not correspond to the one they really have, and that obviously their characters and intentions are not relevant to reality, they are simply the result of my imagination.
That said, enjoy your reading!