In the Beginning...
Six strangers - Akissi, Orosh, Paetro, Ramach, Koros, and Mote - are given glowing platinum coins of different colors by mentors, would-be lovers, relatives, and close friends. They are told of an adventuring collective , and that they are invited to become members. On the day a coin stops glowing, each is to go to a specific inn on Anvard. The strangers find later that their coins all more or less stopped glowing at the same time, and one by one they make their way through Gates and Travertons to the city and Island of Anvard, to the Gellersway Inn...