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”Yesterday we lost our lives, tomorrow we were born”

The Argus is a D&D fifth addition campaign set on the titular Argus, a massive submarine that is made up of several floors, each an entirely different civilization. When the Argus’s enigmatic captain announces that he is dying and will pass down his power to whoever reaches him first, war breaks out across the ship as each faction seeks to claim the captain’s power for himself. Our heroes are sucked into the conflict when they receive a set of instructions from a dying stranger to stop the end of the world, but doing so will take them right into the eye of the storm

This Work Contains Examples Of:

  • The Ageless: Lots of characters, in part due to the Argus being an Eldritch Location
  • Alternate Character Interpretation
    • Papa. Caring ruler that tried his best and achieved a utopia for hundreds of people at a great cost and sacrificed everything to maintain the Argus? Neglectful asshole that let thousands of people live in terrible conditions to benefit a select few and brought the Argus to ruin by egging on a fight for the successor?
  • Amazing Technicolor Population: The zotl
  • The Assimilator: Atlantis
  • Arc Villain

  • Big Bad Ensemble: The High Controller, Armitage Jan-Markuth, and Olga Chitterly
  • The Big Bad Shuffle: Pinpointing the actual villain of the story is kind of complicated. The High Controller or the Chairman are the biggest and most persistent threats depending on the arc, but ultimately both of their actions are the result of Olga’s treachery
  • Big Good: Meradinus Crisp
  • Barbie Doll Anatomy: Buddy and the other Alanteans
  • Benevolent Conspiracy: The Kingtakers
  • Catchphrase
    • “Any way I can help” - Buddy
    • “No honor…” - Lord Spiver
    • “Solano Bernardina, customer relations.” - Solano Bernardina
    • “Can I quote you on that?” - Nino
  • Chekhov's Gun: Almost everything
  • Complete Monster
    • Chiggir Marnal-Synes: A famous actor that secretly runs a human trafficking ring across the Sprawl. Taking advantage of his good reputation and the terrible conditions of the Sprawl, he lures unsuspecting youth in with promises of great career opportunities, only to have them doomed to a hellish life as a sex slave.
  • Crapsaccharine World: The Gardens and the Sprawl in particular
  • Eldritch Location: All of it. The Abyss, The Argus, Atlantis, it’s all very weird
  • Endless Winter: The Tempest
  • The End of the World as We Know It: What the conflict for the Wheel will supposedly end in
  • Hate Sink: Spiver, Skif, Vethos, Solano, and especially Olga
  • Heartwarming Moments
    • A young, wheelchair-bound leper girl being inspired by Grimia, a beautiful, successful person with a disability like hers
    • Spiral becoming a surrogate father to Ivie and eventually offering to adopt her
    • Mies’s first announcement as God Captain. They are overwhelmed with joy and excitement the whole time, with Grimia and Ivie helping them out.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: While in the barrens, the characters find the ruins of a settlement called New Osharia, which died out because of their own strict rules on racial population and reproduction
  • Hope Spot: Things seem to finally be going when when Mies becomes the new God Captain, and they begin their journey to the surface…Then the ship breaks and becomes stuck at the very center of the universe…and Belladonna invades the material plane
  • Jerkass Woobie
    • Grimia some of the time
    • Mr. Black, who has been forced to deal with constant agony, and was hated for his hideous deformities since the moment he was born from his drug-addicted parents. Although it’s hard to have too much sympathy for him considering that he grew into a sadistic, rapist thug.
  • Kill Sat: How Belladonna uses the Argus to keep the surface people in line
  • Layered World: How the Argus is set up
  • MacGuffin: The Argus’s steering wheel, and also Lione’s book
  • MegaCorp: Belladonna, formerly known as Wolfsbane Valley Trading Company
  • Moment of Awesome
    • Ivie defeating Spiver in an honorable duel even when he starts cheating
    • Grimia crashing the Farewell Concert, saving Mies and Riri, and finally killing Tenpenny and Bernardina
    • Ivie turning Hax’s twisted logic against him during her epic Reason You Suck Speech
    • Grimia gunning down Skif, saving Nino’s life
  • Mood Whiplash: It happens a lot
  • Moral Event Horizon
    • Davos Octalius’s serial murders of lowblood runways
    • Bernardina hijacking the nanobot virus to kill his own people for the sole reason of putting pressure on the Kingtakers.
    • Spiver murdering his own daughter in an honor killing. Made even worse with the reveal that he only did it to help his image among the elders after his dealings with the Octalius family came to light.
    • Chairman Markuth admitting that he was responsible for Papa’s death
  • Musical Theme Naming: The plot is literally made up of music references
    • The Argus itself is a reference to the Ween song of the same name
    • The plot of the Sister’s Tale loosely follows the lyrics of King Crimson’s Court Of The Crimson King
    • In addition, the Moonchildren are a reference to the song Moonchild from the same album
    • Mies is based off the musicians Sophie and Arca
    • The High Controller comes from the Yes song Machine Messiah
  • Mystery Meat: All of the meat in the Sprawl secretly comes from giant roaches. As well as anyone who gets on Medium Jimmy’s bad side
  • Nightmare Fuel
    • Mr. Black. A perverted, sadistic, seemingly unstoppable Belladonna assassin that’s capable of disappearing into the shadows like nothing and randomly popping back out again to strike
    • The Old Colonel and his house.
  • One Nation Under Copyright: Belladonna owns the entirety of the Sprawl, the Springs, and most of the Tempest
  • Penal Colony: The Cage
  • Planet Space Ship: The Argus is an underwater version of this
  • Plot-Triggering Death: Papa
  • Poor Communication Kills: Ryyselda tells the Moon King to “throw that horrible, manipulative parasite of a woman off the tower”, referring to his daughter. He throws Ryyselda instead
  • Ripped from the Headlines: Several of the antagonists are inspired by real life criminals:
    • Harrow Bell becoming wealthy and successful through infamy after getting off scot free for killing and eating people. As unbelievable as it is, it’s actually based on the case of Issei Sagawa, which ended the same way
    • The Octalius couple taking in runaway and orphaned children to kill them without raising suspicion is based off the real serial killers, Fred and Rosemary West. Lord Octalius is even visually based on Fred.
  • Running Gag
    • “Why did you click ‘yes???’ if you couldn’t read it??”
    • Buddy trying to make coffee
    • Grimia’s attempts to see Spiral’s face
  • Science Fantasy
  • Squick: Pretty much everything that happens in the Womb
  • Succession Crisis
  • Super Wheelchair: Grimia buys one in the Gardens
  • Tear Jerker
    • the honor killing of Misa Thoraz by her own father. Made even worse by the fact that she was so close to achieving her dreams, and Grimia’s guilt over being tricked into assisting with the scheme
    • The Moon King’s death
    • Abney breaking down when Papa is unable to recognize him
    • Papa finally dying peacefully after all the suffering he was put through
  • Trapped in Another World: The Argus routinely uses teleportation magic to abduct groups of people living on the surface in order to maintain a steady population and culture
  • The Trickster: Spiver Thoraz
  • Unholy Matrimony: Lord and Lady Octalius
  • Womb Level: The Meat Jungles
  • The Woobie
    • Grimia and Ivie both had pretty terrible lives before they were pulled into the plot
    • Davos Tridentarius. He watched his beloved brother die for him, and was forced to take on his responsibility as Moon King. He spent his reign being manipulated and abused by his mother, and then his sister. He even had to give up his one chance of freedom to protect his daughter from Spiver and Hax, who eventually kill him when he finally stands up for himself.

Characters

Players

     Grimia 
A famous disabled pop star from the sprawl

  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Beneath her aloof personality, she is a kind soul, especially towards children and the less fortunate
  • Psychic Link: The power Mies granted her. At random moments (although they are often relevant or helpful to her) can see through the eyes of someone for a few minutes, and sometimes even communicate with them
  • Stepford Smiler: She puts on a happy face and cheery attitude whenever she’s interacting with fans or anyone else that just knows her from her fame.
  • Winged Humanoid

     Ivie 
”Alcyhol”

A young warrior from the Nursery

Allies

     Spiral # 6778 

“We all have things we would rather leave behind”

Galwey O’Coyle

A masked mercenary sent to work for Ivie

  • The Atoner: Sort of. Due to his past atrocities, he believes he doesn’t deserve redemption, but still wants to be a better person
  • Collective Identity: The Spirals are an organization of blades for hire that all share the same persona and code
  • Cool Mask
  • Dark and Troubled Past: The details are unclear, but it was bad enough that he preferred to throw away his entire identity
  • Expy: He’s basically a fantasy version of V from V for Vendetta
  • Fate Worse than Death: What the God Captain inflicted on him as revenge for his family’s death. He gave the once heartless killer empathy, forcing him to live with the guilt of his actions
  • Gentleman Thief
  • Heel–Face Turn: It’s eventually revealed that he used to be the Mutineer’s vicious right-hand, until Papa cursed him with a sense of empathy, forcing him to change his ways
  • Lovable Rogue
  • Mr. Fanservice: Enough so that him revealing the corner of his mask is enough for him to give inspiration
  • Punch-Clock Villain
  • Team Dad: Ivie has started to refer to him as “dad”

     Lione 

Princess Lione Tridentarious

The runaway daughter of the Moon King

     Buddy 
An Atlantean foot soldier that the party take with them after it loses it’s memories

  • Adorkable
  • Become a Real Boy: He becomes a living creature as a side effect of being a celestial
  • Big Good: As it turns out, Buddy was the one who set everything into motion in order to bring the party together and save the world
  • Blithe Spirit: He doesn’t understand the world of the Argus at all. That doesn’t stop him from trying to have fun with it.
  • Extreme Doormat: He just wants to make everyone happy
  • Heel–Face Turn: After his memories were lost.
  • Joins to Fit In: After accidentally burning Lione, he briefly returns to the Atlanteans, thinking it’s the only thing he can do right.
  • Swiss-Army Appendage
  • Token Heroic Orc: He’s the only Atlantean so far that’s not a brainwashed drone or complete psychopath

     Nino 
A young and devoted reporter

     Riri 
A naive harpy singer

The Holy Kingdom of the Moonchildren

     The Moon King 

King Davos Tridentarious

The tyrannical monarch of the Moonchildren

  • A God Am I
  • Red Baron: After this assault on the Nursery, he is referred to as “the Mad King” by most
  • The Caligula: Subverted
  • Eye Scream: Spiver rips the Royal Lens out of his eye socket
  • Good All Along: The Mad King turns out to be a sweet, naive man with a very low IQ that just wants to help his people. All of his tyranny and conquest is a result of Ryyselda’s manipulation
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Rather than taking the chance to escape from his miserable life as a king, he decides to stay behind to try to keep people like Hax and Spiver from coming after his daughter
  • Manchild
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: His selflesss decision to stay at the Gardens and hold off Atlantis leads to him being brutally killed Spiver when he starts to get in their way
  • Puppet King: His sister is the one really pulling the strings behind the Moonchildren Party

     Lord Niro Boros 
An outcast cousin of the king

  • Black Sheep: Due to how outspoken he is about his sexuality, lifestyle, and political views, most of his family see him as a freak and never talk to him.
  • Camp Gay

     Sir Krayne Boros 

”I WANT A GUN THAT’S ALSO AN AXE! WHY CAN’T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT??!!”

The head of the Moonchildren’s royal guard

     Lady and Lord Octalius 

Ryyselda Octalius

Sister and advisor of the Moon King

Davos Octalius

Ryyselda’s husband

Belladonna

Leadership

     The Chairman 

Armitage Jan-Markuth

  • Big Bad: The closest thing the story has to one
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He seemed like a friendly old man up until he was revealed to be the Chairman of Belladonna
  • Corporate Conspiracy: He plans to destroy the Argus’s wheel so that there will be no new God Captain, and Belladonna will be in control instead
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive
  • Disney Villain Death: He ends up falling to his death inside the mech
  • Driven to Suicide: According to Buddy, In every timeline, after he accidentally destroys the world, the first thing he does (if someone doesn’t kill him first) is shoot himself in the head
  • Hero Killer: While under the zone of truth, he lets it slip that the reason Papa is dying is because they have been poisoning him.
  • Lethally Stupid: On a worldwide scale. His foolish choice to destroy the wheel kills millions of people in multiple timelines
  • Lonely at the Top
  • No One Sees the Boss: Do to constant assassination attempts, the identity of the current chairman is only known to a select few.
  • Obfuscating Disability: He carries around a cane and fakes a limp to seem less threatening
  • Rapid Aging: He randomly gets attacks of this as a result of a genetic condition related to his half-elf lineage. It eventually ends up causing his death
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In every other timeline, Markuth’s destruction of the wheel causes a train reaction which destroys the entire planet and kills nearly everyone.

     Vice Chairman Humboldt 

Beatrice Humboldt

A soulless husk of a man that exists only to serve Belladonna

     Solano Bernardina 
Belladonna’s PR manager, in charge of cleaning up their messes in whatever way he sees fit

  • Accidental Public Confession: Grimia broadcasts him gloating about murdering Papa to the entire crowd.
  • A Man Is Always Eager: His justification for downplaying the experience of Chiggir’s male victims
  • The Chessmaster
  • Complexity Addiction
  • Fatal Flaw: His arrogance. He’s grown used to always having the advantage and everything as he plans, that when things get shaken up, he doesn’t really know how to cope.
  • Hate Sink
  • Make It Look Like an Accident: What he did with Grimia’s “accidental” injury by a Belladonna construction vehicle
  • Narcissist: Solano has a very high opinion of himself, and gets aggressive when he feels like others don’t hold this opinion
  • Sadistic Choice: He forces the Kingtakers to choose between deactivating the virus, their one advantage, or letting Bernardino’s mutation kill the infected
  • Slave to PR: It’s his job to make Belladonna look good at any cost
  • Smug Snake
  • Torn Apart by the Mob: After his secret is revealed, the crowd stars throwing things at shaking the stage, which causes the screen to fall down and crush him

     The Jameson Brothers 

Cobb “Little Jimmy” Jameson

The youngest Jameson brother, currently running the energy factories owned by his older brother

Slugg “Medium Jimmy” Jameson

The middle Jameson brother. A bitter, jaded slacker that distances himself from his brothers.

  • Ax-Crazy: Judging by how he brags about pushing a strike organizer into a meat grinder, and gleefully tortures Tenpenny, he’s definitely not the most stable person around.
  • Boom, Headshot!: How he dies at the hands of an assassin sent by his older brother
  • Cultural Cringe: He is deeply ashamed of his orc bloodline
  • Black Sheep
  • Card-Carrying Villain: Unlike most other Belladonna leaders, he does not attempt to hide his evil nature, openingly boasting about it
  • Cattle Baron: He owns the entirety of the Sprawl’s meat production plants
  • Chubby Chaser
  • Plastic Bitch

Chimney “Big Jimmy” Jameson

The oldest Jameson brother. Elevated his family into wealth after inventing the Abyssal Combine that powers the Argus

  • Affably Evil
  • Anti-Villain
  • Big Brother Mentor
  • Driven to Suicide: After he is defeated, he jumps into the Abyssal Combine
  • It's Personal: He blames the players for his brother’s deaths
  • Mercy Kill: He has Medium Jimmy killed to save him from the President’s wrath once it comes to light that the Kingtakers used his meat to spread disease
  • Self-Made Man
  • The Social Darwinist: Big Jimmy lived in poverty and pulled himself out with his invention. Despite this, he holds no empathy for the poor, because he thinks they should be able to get out of their situations by working hard like him, otherwise they’re just lazy

     Chiggir Marnal-Synes 
”We could put your talents to great use”

A charismatic and well-liked actor

     Mernad Glaumon 
A powerful record company owner and one of Chiggir’s associates.

Contractors, Enforcers, and Employees

     Mr. Black 

Friltish Thorne

A shady figure that does Belladonna’s less pleasant work

     The Mascot 
”You got a lotta heart, kid”

A fearsome assassin dressed up as Bellabear, Belladonna’s mascot

     Vulpine Kross 
The cruel leader of the Shallow Company mercenaries

     Tenpenny 

Lucius “Two Toe” Tenpenny

Grimia’s abusive manager

     Turhan 
The head of security in the Tempest

     The Turgle 
A dybbuk hired to possess Papa and control the Argus on Belladonna’s behalf.

     Captain Seward Rhombus 
The captain of the Company Police

     Veruca 
Grimia’s rival performer

The Sprawl

     The President 

Caleb Monsoon

The smarmy, power-hungry ruler of the Sprawl

     The Vice President 

Parci Vukwint

The idiotic right hand of the President

     Harrow Bell 
”I consider myself a…humanitarian of sorts”

The President’s seer

     Fatto 
Popular opera singer

  • Beautiful Singing Voice: Fatto is famous for this
  • Big Fun
  • Kavorka Man: Despite being so fat he can barely move, he is quite popular with the ladies thanks to his voice, charisma, and money.
  • Nice Guy: Despite his strange appearance, he is once of the kindest Sprawl musicians

     Starr Moon 
Grimia’s “boyfriend”

  • Fake Relationship
  • Lack of Empathy: He really doesn’t seem to care about anyone or anything around him
  • Spark Of Rebellion: Starr abandoning Belladonna’s lifestyle is what finally provokes the people of the Argus to turn on Belladonna …and then he immediately dies

Miscellaneous Floors

     The Author (Spoilers) 

Olga Chitterly

'“I do nothing but give and give and give, and everyone just hates me.”'The author of the 'The Sister’s Tale', now operating as a thief in the Cage

  • Big Bad: While not as dangerous as Markuth or the High Controller, she’s one of the main instigators of the story’s conflict
  • Captain Obvious Reveal: What we knew about Olga from her writing doesn’t make it all that surprising that she’s a terrible person
  • Disney Villain Death: Grimia knocks her off the edge of the God Captain’s control center, and she is disintegrated on the way down when Markuth’s machine explodes
  • Evil Old Folks
  • The Fagin
  • It's All About Me: All of her actions are motivated by her extreme selfishness. As it turns out, she doesn’t even really want to become God Captain, she just thinks she deserves it.
  • Hate Sink: Olga spends all of her screentime being as horrible, insulting, and unlikable as possible
  • Jerkass
  • Motive Decay: Her motives are very unclear, and seem to change every time she talks about them. By the end, it just seems like she doesn’t really have any, she just wants to spite everyone else
  • Not-So-Harmless Villain: At first she seemed like just a thorn in the party’s side. In reality, she is a dangerous psychopath that drove her sister to madness, actively assisted in the end of the world in several timelines, and wants to take the Wheel from herself
  • Russian Fashion: She wears a traditional babushka outfit
  • What the Hell Is That Accent?: She has a bizarre, shrill Icelandic accent that occasionally shifts into other accents. Word of God says it’s a result of all the fake personas she puts.
  • You Owe Me: Her typical response whenever the players whenever they point out something bad they did

     Petra 
New recruit at the training grounds

     Glordia and Leff 
”Why don’t you come back to our camp! There’s a mirage! You can swim in it if you pretend hard enough!”

A halfling couple on their honeymoon

    Melanie and Kwasi 
A duo of eco-terrorists

”Melanie Smith”

Kwasi

     Vinny the Eel 
A well-known billionaire philanthropist

     Skarr 
'”Nah man, I’m cutting back on all that blood, I gotta get that summer body.”'An undead follower of Harrow Bell, now a celestial

     The Fire Witch 

Sylvina

A powerful mage that lives in exile in the Tempest

     Rushu 
A burnt-out and spiteful factory worker

     Minor Characters 

Spiral #8635

A member of the Spiral Collective hired by Bernardina

Old Colonel Cullin

A monstrous colonel of the Mutineer that haunts the Barrens

     The Chiropractor 
A serial killer that somehow became a celestial

Supervisors

     Papa 
”Mary…shut the garden door…”

The God Captain

The Argus’s enigmatic captain

     Uncle Abney 

Abney Cargan

Papa’s right hand man, and the ruler of the Foundation

     Garth 
The dorky head supervisor of the Nursery

Kingtakers

     Joppa Tusc 
The founder and Head Honcho of the Kingtakers

Inner Circle

     Walrus 
”I remember when I was a little girl like you, brash, cocky, thought I knew everything”

Meradinus Crisp

An old, grizzled man, one of the Kingtaker’s leaders

     Lion 

Cedrik Gildenjarl

King Tridentarius’s bastard son. Strong, respected, and pure of heart, Cedrik is who the Kingtakers plan to make the new God Captain.

     Crow 

Sebastien Takana

An eccentric genius with no social skills

     Jackal 

Petra

     Peacock 

Mies

A glamorous independent musician with several secrets

     Badger 

Stahl Digby

A farm boy looking for a way home

     Owl 

Dauna Styx

The Kingtakers’s weapons expert.

     Crocodile 
”You’re not special, everything sucks, and it’s never getting better”

Skifalion Parann

A brash and nihilistic enforcer of the Kingtakers.

  • Character Tics: Tapping surfaces rhythmically. It turns out this is how he was relaying information to Bernardina
  • Dirty Coward
  • Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: He feels that people who identify as nonbinary and transgender are appropriating zotl culture
  • Hate Sink: He’s an all-around shitty person that spends all his screentime being an asshole
  • Heroic Lineage
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: He could have easily just accepted his life of luxury and become a Karma Houdini, but his anger at Grimia and Ivie drives him out to attack them, leading to his death
  • Jerkass
  • The Load: He’s only kept around out of respect for his father
  • Manchild: His spoiled, whiny attitude and pretentious nihilistic ramblings make him sound like a 14-year old, but he’s canonically 34.
  • The Mole: He sells out the Kingtakers to Belladonna
  • Rasputinian Death: He is electrocuted, burned, disemboweled, and then finally shot in the head
  • Straw Nihilist

Other

     Edrenn 
A shy and bashful agent

     Crocodile’s Gang 
A gaggle of thugs that follow Skif around

Atlantis

     High Controller 

Rosa Chitterly

The tyrannical ruler of Atlantis

     High Warmaster Bilif 
The cultured warlord in charge of the Argus invasion

  • Affably Evil
  • Big Bad Wannabe: He is presented as the main threat to the players before his abrupt death
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: The Players accidentally crush him with their airship during the invasion the Nursery.
  • Horror Hippies: He adopts a more progressive ideology than the average Atlantean, and shows a respect for the Argus’s people. This of course doesn’t stop him from wanting to kill and convert them all.
  • Wicked Cultured: He studied the Argus’s culture for a decade before the invasion

     Warmaster Hax 

Ivus Hax

The obsessive, jingoist right hand of Bilif

  • Absolute Xenophobe
  • Baby Factory: His primary role before his promotion was the abduction of women from the Argus to be forcefully impregnated so that their children can be turned into Atlanteans
  • Big "NO!": After Bilif’s death
  • Empty Shell: He has a major breakdown trying to comprehend why the players don’t operate by his logic, that his mind breaks, and he is rendered brain dead.
  • The Comically Serious: To the point where he literally filters out the players quips
  • The Dragon
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He just simply cannot understand why anyone wants to do anything than serve the High Controller, or not want their body to be horrifically mutilated and stripped of their identity
  • Eye Scream: During his unhinged rant, Ivie slashes his eye out
  • Fatal Flaw: His jingoism. He is so convinced that his culture is the only one that matters that he refuses to even understand how the people of the Argus operate, which leads to him failing again and again.
  • General Ripper
  • The Heavy: While the High Controller remains in the shadows, Hax is the main threat of Atlantis that the players have to deal with
  • Proud Warrior Race Guy
  • Sanity Slippage: After his ascension
  • Species Loyalty

     The Warmaster Council 
A team lead by Hax made up of Atlanteans possessing more individuality in order to help preserve their species

In General

Gan Sun

A monstrous, hulking warrior of Atlantis

  • The Brute
  • Pet the Dog: Buddy claims Sun was the only one who showed him any kindness during his time with them

Aro Gelphi

A pompous, whiny Atlantean who despises all natural life.

Berto Cog

One of the original Atlantean, now senile and worn out

     Atlanteans in General 
A massive army of cyborgs led by the High Controller

Drones

Drones make up most of Atlantis, they are soulless husks used for labor and combat

  • Cruel and Unusual Death: When Olga kills the High Controller, the Atlantean’s artificial minds deactivate, and their machinery fails. This means that they all become sentient as their previous selves again, fully aware of what has been done to them. They all die screaming in agony and horror
  • Death of Personality: A side effect of their conversion. Supposedly, when paradise is finished, they will get their sentience back and be rewarded for their service
  • Full-Conversion Cyborg: They are completely mechanical on the outside. The only thing that remains intact inside is their organs and nervous system, as well as their mummified heads.
  • Mooks
  • Tragic Robot: The majority of Atlanteans were forced into becoming the cold, emotionless monsters that they are today

Scions

Mortal followers of Atlantis that go through smaller conversations in exchange for their loyalty

Scions

     Spiver Thoraz 

“No honor among them! They are not worthy to partake in the flesh of the horseshoe beast!”

Lord of the Lowbloods

  • Bait the Dog: When he reappears with the Kingtakers, it seems like he genuinely cares about his daughter and wants her to be returned safely. And then he murders her in an honor killing
  • Corrupt Bureaucrat
  • Crocodile Tears: Constantly
  • Dirty Coward
  • Hate Sink: He’s a pompous asshole that abuses and manipulates everyone around him. This, combined with his hypocrisy, sexism, and refusal to ever admit his wrongdoings makes him one of the most unlikable characters in the story
  • Heroic Build
  • Hypocrite: Spiver preaches about dignity and honor, but he himself is a petty, corrupt bully and one of the biggest cowards in the campaign
  • Noble Savage: He’s a parody of these types of characters
  • Offing the Offspring: He murders his daughter to “restore honor” to his family because she was “defiled”
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: He is willing to let undocumented refugees from the lower floors die instead of come into his land and “poison the culture”
  • Power Tattoo
  • Rasputinian Death: He gets his eyes stabbed out, is set on fire by Ivie, and run over by a tank
  • Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: Becomes this when he takes over the lower floors

     Ivie’s Parents 
”What about dinner?”

“We’ll have it in the morning”

Arjan and Nala Cirlel

Outsiders

     Lumturi 

     Damien 
An old friend of the Queen

     Calida 
Goddess of the campfire

     Sydar 
Death himself

     Vethos 
God of the sun

Others

     The Stranger 
A mysterious figure that set Ivie on her journey

     The Sisters 

Selma and Seryn

The fictional protagonists of The Sister’s Tale

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