WARNING: Given the nature of the game and the way the full story is hidden behind multiple routes, endings and side stories, this section will contain huge spoilers for some of the bigger twists in the story. Proceed with caution.
A young woman with the red eye of a witch —- she disguises herself as a boy to avoid persecution from the very suspicious townsfolk who believe their eternal winter to be the work of a vengeful witch. Working as handyman in the town, she keeps a delicate neutral relationship in public with both the Wolf and Hawk clans despite being adopted by the leader of the Wolf Clan. After taking the Wolf Clan’s side in an argument in early game, she finds herself at odds with members of the Hawk Clan who no longer want her to work for them leading to her taking on a request from the church to find their missing sacred artefact, the Kaleido-Via…
- Curtains Match the Window: She has gray eyes and gray hair.
- Given Name Reveal: Her true name is Eiar.
A mysterious young man who seems to know a lot about the town and the town’s curse, and mysterious events that took place years ago… It’s not clear whether or not he’s a friend to Jed, or a potential enemy.
Eldest son of the leader of the Wolf Clan, Lavan is next in line to lead the Wolf Clan. He’s a calm and responsible young man who has earned the respect of many in the town, and can be very protective of Jed.
- Curtains Match the Window: He's depicted with gray eyes and gray hair.
The second son of the current leader of the Wolf Clan, and Lavan’s younger brother. He’s quite hot-tempered, but is talented with a blade and has earned the respect of his family’s soldiers for his leadership skills.
Son of the Hawk Clan’s leader. Due to his stoic expressions and distant attitude, people find him difficult to relate to and get along with. He deeply respects his father, Olga, and assists him in his work. While he is next in line to lead the Hawk Clan, he prefers to work alone.
A mysterious one-eyed man with no memories of his past. He acts at the keeper of the tower that Jed resides in, and acts as her guardian while she lives there. It’s due to his magic that Jed is able to hide her red eye from the people of the town.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He’s flighty, flirty and a bit of a Gadfly at the best of times. But he genuinely cares about Jed and her wellbeing, and she cares about him too.
- Identity Amnesia: Ashen Hawk has no memories of his past, or how he came to live in the tower but he seems perfectly happy in his role as the tower’s keeper. He died there, eighteen years ago. There are flashbacks as well that suggest he lived there for a time while alive, before unintentionally wronging the previous owner of the Tower.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: His amnesia doesn’t seem to bother him much. It hides a large chunk of the mysteries of eighteen years ago — including that he was Olgar’s best friend, Francisca’s husband, and is Levan and Levi’s estranged father.
- The Not-Love Interest: He has an ending, like other love interests, but his ending is not romantic due to the parental nature of his relationship with Jed.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: He loved Francisca, but was painfully unprepared to settle down into married life and be a father. As a result, Francisca was left raising Levan and Levi alone, and he spent most of his time away from home and struggled to make it clear he cared about her.
- It's Personal: He acts as an antagonistic, but not exactly evil presence for the first part of the game purely due to his nature as head of the Hawk Clan. It’s only after having his memories returned to him by Hugh, and remembering the Awful Truth of his wife’s death and his sister’s involvement that he takes action and incites Jed’s anger by having Francisca killed.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: He’s Jed’s biological father, although he had long believed his child to have perished unborn alongside his wife, Aria. Lugus and Tee are his adopted children.
- All for Nothing: She is essentially responsible for triggering most if not all of the misfortunes that fell on the town eighteen years before the game began, yet she ends up with nothing she wanted as a result of her actions. Her husband is still dead, Aria’s legacy still lives on in the child she left behind, and her relationship with her beloved brother remains strained. And as soon as Olgar remembers what she did, his first action is to form a lynch mob of townspeople to hunt her down as a witch.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The kind and loving leader of the Wolf Clan is behind the recent string of murders of Wolf Clan members, persuading her own child to do the dirty work. Her own paranoia and jealousy led to her orchestrating the murder of her best friend eighteen years before the start of the game — her best friend who also happened to be her own brother’s beloved wife.
- Broken Pedestal: On multiple levels for multiple characters once the secrets really start dropping; Jed especially.
- Freudian Excuse: Her physical and mental abuse at the hands of her parents is why she was so deeply attached to her brother Olgar in the first place — he was the only person who showed her any kindness, and she would have done anything for him and his dreams of seeing a town no longer divided by clan politics.
- Idiot Ball: A lot of the games events could have been avoided if she’d just talked to Aria and Ashen Hawk before making up wild accusations in her own head.
- Killed Off for Real: Given that souls who die in the Abyss are driven to madness and excluded from the cycle of reincarnation, it’s safe to say she is deader than dead.
- Love Redeems: Played with. It’s clear she loves and cares for Jed like her own child. However her love for her brother, and her love for her husband are what sparked her paranoia and sanity slippage in the first place.
- Motherly Side Plait: Wears her hair in this style. As you might expect, she ends up dying.
- Sanity Slippage: She was fairly stable for a long time due to her firm beliefs in her brother’s dream to unite the town, and her own sense of security as his aide and closest confidant. Realising she was losing Olgar to his new wife and family, and Ashen Hawk’s inability to settle down rattled her deeply. Her jealousy at Aria’s happy relationship with her brother also led to her paranoia-fuelled belief that Aria and Ashen Hawk were having a relationship behind their backs.
- Secret-Keeper: She knows Jed’s birth gender, and is the person who persuaded her she had to hide it in order to keep herself safe.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her paranoia and jealousy sparked a series of events that not even she could’ve predicted. It led to her outing Aria as a witch, and she’s the one that pushed an desperate and starving man to spread the rumour and spark the witch hunt that killed her. However, the loss of his beloved wife drove Olgar mad, led to the massacre of half the village at his hands, and the death of Francisca’s own husband when he tried to stop him. The incomplete Kaleido-Via tried to grant both Olgar’s wish to revive Aria and Ashen Hawk’s wish that none of this had happened and failed at both, leading the town to be blanketed in a snow that killed the population and dragged the town itself into the Abyss.
