Our Cast

The Heroes: The Outcasts

The Outcasts is the catch-all description for those who aren’t one of the organised powers (the Guild, Arcanists or Ten Thunders), a semi-organized people (the Neverborn and the Gremlins) or with too large an obsession with dead things (Resurrectionists)

Leveticus: Our brave hero. A nice, friendly, older man. Not at all creepy with his self-made bionic leg, cadaverous features, strange powers, ability to create undead Abominations from those he kills or his ability to come back from the dead using anchors made from undead victims. Oh no, not creepy at all!

Rusty Alyce: A companion to our hero. A “feisty” young woman with a replacement arm (that she talks to on occasion) and a mean shot with her Clockwork Seeker pistol who can also transform those she defeats into Abominations.

Hannah: The chief librarian of the Freikorps. She goes to battle in a large armoured suit, swinging a massive censer and casting the spells of friends and enemies.

Friedrich: Member of the Freikorps. Wears a “Strongarm Suit”, effectively powered armour that grants strength, great leaping ability and the power to shoot his enemies or have them injure themselves when they try to hit him.

Jayanne: Freikorps librarian. In the Freikorps the librarians don’t just look after the books, they read them looking for all the dangerous, interesting, bits and then use those either to heal their allies or to hurt their foes.

Ashes and Dust: A pair of symbiotic demons, “Dust Storm” and “Ashen Core” that, when combined, form “Ashes and Dust”, a fearsomely fast and vicious creation capable of creating Abominations. When Ashes and Dust has taken too much damage it splits into the two parts, which can re-combine to reform Ashes and Dust.

Abominations: Strange little “pets” made by Leviticus (and also Alyce, other Abominations and Dust and Ashes) out of “spare” parts from bodies and bits of machinery. Really slightly repellent.

Freikorps: A large mercenary organisation able to provide a range of services. Famous for their “suits”, overalls that provide armour and protection from blasts.

The baddies: Ten Thunders

The Ten Thunders are an organised criminal syndicate of sneaky and lying types who often pretend to be someone else.

Mei Feng: A senior enforcer for the Thunders who the Arcanists think is a leader of rail worker crews in their Mineworkers and Steamfitters Union. See I told you they were sneaky lying types. Mei Feng is a fearsome fighter and able to vent steam, creating an obscuring cloud.

Kang: Mei Feng’s sidekick. He is a tall, bald, wielder of a fearsome shovel and with sneaky abilities to heal himself.

Fuhatsu: A big strapping lad who had a bit of an unlucky accident and is now fairly far from being the sharpest tool in the box. He does though have a very large, steam powered, Gatling gun that he likes to use.

Samurai: The traditional semi-noble Japanese warrior, slightly modernised through the addition of a large steam powered Gatling gun.

Tokarage: Sneaky “ninja” types, harder to hit when they are on their own but they hit harder when they are with others.

Lone Swordsman: “Noble” and “brave” warrior “hero”, dedicated to slaying the enemies of the Ten Thunders (apparently through heart attacks as they try to chase him).

Monk of High River: Highly trained martial artist who isn’t bitter that he’s spent his adolescence on a bare mountain in the company of goats and old men (though they weren’t always easy to tell apart). No, not bitter at all about living in a freezing hovel as part of a tee-total, single gender, commune. Not all! No sirrah!