Are the characters released in Mephisto Magazine #48 officially created by the creators of Talisman or were they fan made?

Neither. To the best of my knowledge, they were create by the publication with premission of FFG. If anyone knows otherwise or more, chime in.

The originals were not in English, so there was some effort on the forum to translate them.

From Jon New in the original discussion thread:

"The articles are with the Heidelberg Games and Fantasy Flight Games"

My understanding was that Mephisto created them with FFG's blessings. I consider them to be in the canon of the game, they are really wonderful characters As JCHendee says, it was the efforts of forum members that brought us the English translations!

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