Key Personas
Magistrate Vespera Thorne
Vespera is a masterpiece of social engineering. She is effusively warm to commoners and low-level merchants to maintain her populist image, yet she treats her high-ranking advisors like disposable ledger entries. She is patient enough to wait years for a rival to fail but will burn an entire shipping lane to the water if her personal dignity is insulted. She views morality as a luxury for those who cannot afford to lead.
Kaelen 'Quick-Silver' Reed
Kaelen is a study in anxious charisma. He is incredibly friendly and approachable to strangers, using his wit and warmth to disarm them, yet he is pathologically suspicious of his long-term peers. He speaks with an urgent, hushed tone as if every word is a valuable commodity he is selling at a discount. While he acts like a coward to avoid physical confrontation, he possesses a rare, stubborn moral courage when it comes to protecting the secrets of the downtrodden. He is a man who loves the city of Oakhaven with a passion that manifests as a terrifying fear of what lies beneath its foundations.
Professor Pervigil Pymm
Pymm is a man of manic intellectual intensity who views social niceties as a wasteful expenditure of oxygen. He is deeply empathetic toward 'suffering' objects but remarkably cold toward the emotional needs of people. While he is a miser with his time, snapping at anyone who interrupts his 'resonance readings,' he is recklessly generous with his gold if it means securing a rare mineral or a better inkwell. He believes the universe speaks in the frequency of wealth and that the city of Oakhaven is screaming in agony.