The player has the option of playing Blood Magic as one of four characters, known collectively as The Unlikely Heroes. They are named so because they are actually caricatures of everyday individuals, similar in their human natures to the various pilgrims in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. The idea behind this rather strange selection is that anyone can be the hero of this story. Each of the Unlikely Heroes has unique abilities, strong and weak points that are represented in his or her initial attributes.