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    Jane Buxton 
Jane Buxton is a teenage girl who, one day, received a letter containing a mysterious cerulean sand, along with the new-found certitude her brother George was alive in reality.

Always optimistic, she hates violence and love engineering, especially aeronautics, because she thinks flying to the sky would allows her to see her mother, who died while giving her birth.


  • Blue Blood: Is from an aristocratic family.
  • Brainy Brunette: Was smart enough to build flying machines, and shows a strong interest to the physics needed to do so.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: Is very interested in engineering, had several flying machines built, including ones using azurium, and worked aboard a landship.
  • Lady of Adventure: Jane isn't about to let a few hundred thousand square kilometers of sand stand in the way of finding her brother. So she sets off on a grand adventure across the globe, at 15 years old.
  • Missing Mom: H Er mother died while giving her birth.
  • Plucky Girl: Despite occasional moments of doubt, Jane tries to remain optimistic about her chances of finding her brother George alive. And she's willing to do whatever it takes to reunite with him, even travelling to the Eastern desert.
  • Secret Identity: Jane nearly reveals herself as a member of the Buxton Family, but hastily switches it to being "Stuart" when she introduces herself to Barsac.
  • Wide-Eyed Idealist: She has a very optimistic vision of the world, see only good and positive in technical progress and other human beings and suffers a Hero BSOD after she discovers flying machines could be used for evil.
  • Wrench Wench: Jane shares her brother's interest in wanting to create flying machines. She's named each of her attempts "Albatross" and numbered them apart for the last one which she names "Silver Wings" and helps the other engineers on the landboat of the Barsac expedition.

    Chambellan 
Chambellan Agenore is the butler of the Buxton family. Kate and he were the sole remaining domestics after the Buxton Bank Robbery caused the family's wealth to collapse.

Very attached to Lord Buxton, he saw grow his children. He's fond of fishing and preciously holds the fishing rod Lord Buxton gifted him.


  • Battle Butler: Fought his way through Neo City to protect Jane.
  • Old Retainer: Practically raised the Buxton children, remained in the house with Kate after their bank failed and followed Jane through the Levant.
  • Private Tutor: On the boat to the Levant, the butler Chambellan is shown teaching Miss Buxton about Alexander the Great's conquests.
  • Quintessential British Gentleman: Manages to maintain proper standards of behaviour and clothing, which puts him at offs with Sabri.

    Sabri 
Sabri was a young orphan initially found by the duo after he stole Chambellan's moneybag with his band of street children. He's soon recruited as Native Guide by Jane, and saves her and Chambellan from desert robbers.

Managed to befriend Jane but had a tense relationship with Chambellan, although it softened later when they elarnt to know each other.

Later, he met Sasha and promised her he would bring her parents back.


  • Artful Dodger: Thrived in the streets until meeting Jane.
  • A Father to His Men: Accepted to follow Jane as a guide only after his fellow orphans came to told him they found themselves positions.
  • Recruited from the Gutter: Jane recruits him as a guide to the town where George is allegedly buried. He
  • Street Urchin: Lived in the streets with his band of fellow orphans.

    Comet 
Comet is the dog adopted by Jane after his former mistress rejected him.

He loves sparky objects, which often cause conflicts with humans.


  • All That Glitters: Loves bright objects, which caused Banshee to be accused of theft.

Barsac Expedition

    Christopher Barsac 
Christopher Barsac is the university rector who had heard George Buxton speak about the azurium; he was alone to have believed him.

Years later, he led an expedition to investigate about mysterious diseappearances of native villagers. The secret side of this mission is also to search about George Buxton's whereabouts.


  • Badass Bookworm: Himself a scholar, directed a expedition abroad to track down the responsibles of the kidnappings of villagers.
  • The Lost Lenore: His wife and daughter died during a flood in India, because the doctors weren't able to reach them. This is the reason why he's so interested in flying machines.

    Marcenay 
Marcenay is the military officer of the Barsac expedition.

A lieutenant, he's very attached to his men.


Hanah Tribe

    Old village chief 
Was the head of the tribe at the beginning, before dying fighting Neo City forces.

    Camille 
Camille is the daughter of the chief, suceeding him after he died from a Neo City attack.
  • The Chief's Daughter: Unusually for this trope, she's a more active version.
  • Lady of War: Led her villagers to fight against Neo City.
  • Science Is Bad: Of course, since the only machines she ever saw were the ones used by Neo City. She even attempted to attack the Armadillo until Jane managed to interpose.

    Sacha 
Sasha is an orphan Camille welcomed after her parents were caught by Neo City slavers.

Sabri befirends her and promises her to free her parents.


Buxton family

    Lord Buxton 
Lord Edward Buxton is the leader of the family and a banker, the father of Georges and Jane.

Three years after his first wife Lady Buxton died giving birth to Jane, he remarried to Margaret, the mother of 11-year-old William. Margaret died a few years after.

Years after, he learnt his son-in-law William had invested his clients' money in dubious ventures and was angry after him. The day after, his bank is robbed and he has been accused of fraud, leaving him ill and bedridden in the process.


  • Honour Before Reason: Refused to let William do some very rentable yet risked investments with his clients' money, feeling it would be a breach of trust.
  • Impoverished Patrician: The robbery of his bank caused his wealth to vanish, leading him to have to dismiss most of his domestics in Glenar, apart for Chambellan and Kate.
  • Trauma Conga Line: Lost two wives, then his bank failed, his stepson diseappeared and his son travelled abroad and then was told to have been executed for treason. Lord Buxton sure had had a tough life.

    George Buxton 
George Buxton was an inventor and engineer who made a discovery about a cerulean sand reacting to the moon to make items fly, which he called "azurium." His discovery made him the laughing stock of the assembly, but Barsac ends up attracted to his ideas.

After leading an expedition to find deposits of azurium, a letter was sent at Buxton House to inform them he had been shot for treason.

However, one day, a mysterious letter to Jane changed everything...


  • Genius Gadgeeter: Was an able engineer whose life ambition was to create a flying machine.
  • Shot at Dawn: What he's told to be. The real facts say otherwise.

    William Buxton (spoilers) 
William Buxton was the son-in-law of Lord Buxton after he married his mother Margaret, when he was eleven.

When be became older, he started to work in the Buxton Bank, until Lord Buxton contested some of the investment choices he did.

The day after, he diseappeared and the bank was robbed...


  • The Resenter: Resents the Buxton family for his mother's death.

    Kate 
Kate is an old maid working for the Buxton family.
  • Old Retainer: Much like Chambellan, stayed with the Buxtons when they had to dismiss most of their domestics.

Neo City

    Harry Killer 
Harry Killer is the leader of Neo City.
  • Bad Boss: In the last episodes, had soldiers die solely to test his superweapon. Even earlier, just before the founding of Neo-City, threw Abbas out of his land yacht to make room.
  • Evil Overlord: As the leader of Neo City, has presided over the enslavement and the plunder of native villagers.
  • I Own The City: Neo City is his thing.

    Morilire 
Morilire is The Spymaster of Harry Killer, who followed Jane since England.

As he's kept out of the loop by Harry, he soon wonders why Killer is interested in her.


  • The Spymaster: Led the military forces of the city, tracked down Jane since England before catching her and her followers Sabri and Chambellan near Georges's false grave.

    Professor Kamale 
Professor Kamale is the chief scientist of Neo City, living in ignorance of what really happens.

In reality, he is Georges Buxton, to whom Harry Killer had believe he caused the accidental deaths of the British soldiers who came along him, adding he could redeem himself by helping to create Neo City as a shining exemple of what scientific progress can bring to mankind.


  • The Atoner: Believes he had to atone for an error which caused hundreds to die. However the incident was really wilfully caused by Harry Killer.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: As there's no more room in the lifeboats of the flying aircraft, told Jane to take the last one.

    Jeanne 
Jeanne is the adoptive daughter of Harry Killer.

First having a very rosy vision of Neo City, Jane managed to dispel her illusion about its inner workings.

In the ending, is adopted by Barsac.


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