Chapter 10B — The Cast as Callings
Every established character, mapped to a Calling and subclass so you can stat them the moment they walk on stage. Statting rule of thumb: tier their level to their narrative weight (guild Leaders 9–13, seconds and rising stars 5–9, supporting cast 2–5), then pull the class features from the Handbook. Full stat blocks (including legendary abilities for the story-tier figures) are the companion pass to this roster — see the bestiary format in.
The Archons
Section titled “The Archons”| Character | Calling | Subclass | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyl (Cylenna Corveliss) | Cipherwright | Thoughtplayer | Three-generation secret witch-line of the Knowing. Stat as Cipherwright at street level; at full archonic expression (all four Chaos currents, absolute black) she transcends class stats entirely. |
| Oen | Stonewright | Standing Bench | Reads load, stress, and Founding-era structure by native Order-sight — “the city is your spellbook” was his childhood. Transcends class stats at full expression (pure white). |
Guild Leaders & Seconds
Section titled “Guild Leaders & Seconds”| Character | Calling | Subclass | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nathia Tolleman (Alum-sidek) | Cipherwright | Analyst | Provisional — “a witness who has already decided.” |
| Haymond “the Scorpion” | Vowbound | Standing Shield | His covenant’s sole term is the protection of one person; the Scorpion move is a Sealing Strike. |
| Callum “Kane” Stoneheart | Ironclast | Bulwark | Strength held in reserve; relaxes as threat rises. |
| Tara Trapper | Duelist | Storm-of-Steel | Paired short blades, “too quick.” |
| Titus (Masons Left) | Ironclast | Oathforge | Provisional by guild register. |
| Lady Summer (Emphemere) | Hearthwarden | Winter Covenant (new, below) | Public Current glamour is trained cover; her real practice is the Growing turned inward. |
| Heathcliff (Emphemere Right) | Heartstring | Counterpoint | Hears the argument under the argument. |
| Sergey (Emphemere Left) | Warrens-Runner | Layer-Ghost | Former Yiskii intelligence officer. |
| Gren’o’nos’n’offak (Torrus Ectos) | Ironclast | Deepdelver | Story-tattooed brawler; hunger given back in blood. |
| Vazzerin “Vaz” Ohn (Blue Cross) | Duelist | Standing Guard | Dying well as a discipline; let them break against you. |
| Quinton Marvelous (Red Dragons) | Duelist | Precise Line | Wait for the opening; never miss it. |
| Alont (Temple) | — civilian | — | Political priest, no attested practice. |
| Niska (Temple inner teaching) | Zar’ir Adept | Path of the Undivided (new, below) | Unshaped Faith at saint tier; gold stone, twice public. |
| Uing-Wei (Temple Left) | Zar’ir Adept | Embelekor-Michana | Oathkeeper-confessor; Oathsight as vetting rite. |
| Pershaun (Iron Coin) | Warrens-Runner | Long Count | The long-game money circuit incarnate. |
| Fitran “Fitz” Mihran (Multani) | Cipherwright | Analyst | Stone runs magenta reading rooms; three-to-five agendas per sentence. |
| Rhys (Abyssal Fires) | Cipherwright | Analyst | Asks more than he answers. |
| Emez (Bavit-vita) | Heartstring | Counterpoint | Deepest Heart practitioner alive; flag Dreamwalker-adjacent features at high level. |
| Singh (Bavit-vita) | Heartstring | Cadence | Blades Mahir and Nayan; “my life for many, for all, or for one.” |
| Bathemel · Gwen (Bavit-vita) | Heartstring | Cadence | Provisional by tradition. |
| Skylar (Alyu’amare) | Heartstring | Counterpoint | The sincere envoy; the naivete is the missing Insight. |
| Creven Alont (The Core) | Hollowmarked | Dreamwalker Vigil | Threshold-walker register; thin canon. |
| Jinto Sien (Order of the Spider) | Warrens-Runner | Spider’s Hand | The circuit is named for his guild’s craft. |
| Elacole Stone (White Legion) | Heartstring | Legion Stage | The Hall’s home guild is hers. |
The Houses
Section titled “The Houses”| Character | Calling | Subclass | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olandra Corveliss (“Anne”) | Cipherwright | Thoughtplayer | The tradition’s living master: fifty years of perfect concealment — suppressed eye-flash, stone run clear. |
| Nydia | Cipherwright | Thoughtplayer | First of the three-generation line; aged, low HP, full-tier Reaching. |
| Aesen Corveliss | — civilian | — | Explicitly no practice; his weapon is fifteen years of coalition-building. |
| Searlis Corveliss | Warrens-Runner | Long Count | Forty years of positioning; seizure through other men’s hands. |
| Gadwin Corveliss | Ironclast | Oathforge | ”My word is oath-metal.” Post-binding, restat as Relic-Bound (Bound Vessel) — a man bound to a power that collects. |
| Master Enwith | — civilian | — |
Supporting, Outlaw & Historical
Section titled “Supporting, Outlaw & Historical”| Character | Calling | Subclass | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otger (“Square Bear”) | Hearthwarden | Ward Covenant | Canon calls his art Heart-work, but the frays-own-self healer chassis is mechanically him. |
| Mo · Degran | Cipherwright | Analyst | Provisional; canon OPEN. |
| Shaesahn (Iosan Serpents) | OPEN | OPEN | Insufficient canon. |
| Valareth (Heralds) | (Cipherwright) | (Veilwright) | The lich-king in softened guise — the disguise itself is Veilwright work. Beyond mortal statting; run story-tier. |
| Valekith (historical) | Cipherwright | Thoughtplayer | Mind-invasion by mirror at state scale — the tradition’s darkest chapter. |
| Kane Stoneheart the elder | Ironclast | Oathforge | Legendary-tier mortal; the oath that broke chains. |
| Fulthren (folk hero) | Verge-Tracer | Stormseeker | ”In the black” — stat only if he proves historical. |
Proposed new subclasses (adopt or veto)
Section titled “Proposed new subclasses (adopt or veto)”- Hearthwarden — the Winter Covenant (for Lady Summer): the Growing turned inward — cellular renewal of the practitioner’s own flesh, each year bought with a year burned; the ledger balances only by letting the cost drift off the self and onto the world. The one Covenant that walks the Hollow’s near edge by design.
- Zar’ir Adept — the Path of the Undivided (for Niska and the inner teaching): no god-pair — the adept holds the outward and inward orientations as a single unshaped-Faith Reaching, consecrating integration itself. The focus stone runs lustrous gold.
Name-only figures (Berreldin, Dru Danum, Fidi’olliana, and the rest of the roster’s thin entries) stay unstatted until their canon grows.