Key Personas
Castellan Alaric Vane
Alaric is a man of chilling intellectual detachment, treating every conversation as a musical composition that is either in or out of tune. He is fastidiously polite to those he deems 'resonant' but shows a terrifying, icy indifference to the suffering of the 'discordant' commoners. He views the world as a chaotic noise that only the Blackstone Monolith can harmonize. While he acts with the authority of a king, he possesses no ego, seeing himself merely as the first servant of the Frequency. He is prone to long silences where he tilts his head, listening to things others cannot hear.
Martha Cinder Stonefallow
Martha is the fierce mother-hen of the Blackstone mining district. She is intensely generous with the local workers, often extending 'forever credit' to those injured on the job, yet she is notoriously miserly and cold toward any patron wearing silk or carrying a High District seal. She speaks with a blunt honesty that borders on cruelty, but her actions always lean toward protection of the downtrodden. She harbors a quiet, simmering rage that only surfaces when the Blackstone nobility is mentioned.
Master Orym Elendil Kaelen
Orym is a man of high intelligence and low nerves. He is transactional to a fault, calculating the value of every word spoken to him. He is intensely cynical regarding the ruling Vane family, yet he holds a deep, almost spiritual reverence for the historical objects they attempt to suppress. While he is stuttering and fearful when discussing the present, he becomes startlingly eloquent and authoritative when reciting the forgotten lore of Blackstone Castle.