ShardBreaker

Name: Emily Azizi

Physical Characteristics: Ethnically British-Iranian, born and raised in England. 35 years old, short, slim build. Skin tone is a tan color; dark, straight hair often pulled back into a ponytail. Brown eyes.

Investiture: Epic Power (post-Calamity): can sense the pulse and temperature of a person by touching them (on any part of their body). (+30, subject to agreement by Voidus’s ranking)

Skills: Intelligence – Smart (+10); Handiwork – Nursing, Skilled (+25); Scholarship – Medical, Average (+20)

Equipment: N/A

Weakness: Epic weakness: Eating green beans. Increasing mental instability due to minor timeline memory recollection – causes headaches. (-5)

Family: Parents still live on Earth (Reckoners – Invocation), along with a younger brother.

Home Planet: Earth (Reckonersverse – Invocation dimension)

Backstory: Was an honor student in high school. Following graduation, began college to get a nursing degree. After several years of college, Invocation appeared and she received her powers. Graduated as a RN. Came to the Alleyplanet for a change of scene after hearing about it from an acquaintance. Was hired as a nurse at Einladung Hospital in the Cognitive ward, where she has worked for about 1 year.

Guild: N/A

Psyche: Mostly stable, although she has begun having memories of a daughter accompanied by sharp headaches, which have bothered her significantly.

Personality: A kind and intelligent woman, she is also very involved with her work, which takes much of her free time. She is one of the few nurses who doesn’t mind working in the Cognitive ward long term and is less unnerved by patient’s mental instabilities than others.

Appearance: See Physical Characteristics. Usually is wearing navy-colored scrubs and a thin necklace with a stylized S on it (see Reckoners, “Faithful”), with a clasp that will break away easily.

Theme Song: Beyond the Summit – Jennifer Thomas

Fighting Style: N/A

30 (I) + 55 (S) – ~5 (W) = ~80ish [non-official ballpark rating]

Name: Byron

Physical Characteristics: A young boy of about 16 who's seen a lot for his "young" age. Wears a nondescript brown traveling cloak over some leather clothing for protection. Looks like most skaa, and has worked hard to be unnoticible. 

Investiture: A-Cadmium Savant. Savant Abilities: Can "carry" his bubble with him instead of it being stuck in space. Can also highly manipulate the bubble, changing it from extending only a foot around him to about the size of a small room, and changing the time compression from 9/10ths normal speed to 1/100ths speed, although the change takes proportional real-time to take place (ie he can't instantly drop out of a flared time bubble, unless his cadmium runs out). Also can "feel" disruptions along the bubble's edge as things enter, which sometimes helps him react, but can also cause severe pain for objects losing a lot of momentum. [If any of this seems too broken, I can change it. A WoB says a savant can keep his bubble with him, but most of the rest/specific numbers are just made up by me.]

Skills: Unnaturally quick reaction time, and skilled at theivery and general agility. Decent at hand-to-hand combat but hopeless with any weapon larger than a dagger.

Equipment: Generally carries little, only a glass knife or two, a lot of powdered cadmium flasks, and whatever he's managed to steal.

Weakness: Savant weaknesses: MUST burn cadmium (at least on a low level) at all times to avoid being poisoned by concentration of cadmium he usually has within him (more a trait of the actual metal and than his savant status). His sense along his edge causes him some level of pain and exerts some level of force, even if the object is stationary while he is moving. Bouncing around time speeds so much has also taken a lot of his Connection (spiritually and personality-wise) and increased his anti-social tendencies: he doesn't see the value in friends or society, and has a difficult time making friends he knows will be gone the next time he has to skip.

Other weaknesses: awful balance outside of his bubble (due to instinctive counteracting of the forces from the edge). If his cadmium runs out suddenly, he'll collapse. A kleptomaniac to some degree: he likes stealing random trinkets as well as money.

Aluminum "weakness": generally, it's accepted that aluminum breaks time bubbles, but Byron is stronger than most. As a result, aluminum only partially breaks the bubble: an aluminum object will move in real-time while anything else is slowed. A large aluminum object can break the bubble, and being trapped in aluminum will prevent him from making one. As a result, Byron can't carry aluminum. [This isn't really necessary if it seems too complicated/potent, but with the frequency of aluminum weaponry in the Alleyverse it would be a cool defense and limitation].

Family: From Scadrial, a loving family that just didn't understand cadmium. Long dead from his own time-skips. He misses them, somewhat, but can hardly go back since he's technically the ancestor of 1/10th of the Elendel population (or so he fears). Knows Cassie from a long time ago, 

Home Planet: Scadrial.

Backstory: Byron was born on Scadrial soon after the Catacendre, and soon Snapped with his new Cadmium powers, which no one seemed to understand. He had friends with some of the other Mistings of his generation (namely Willum/Tyrian and Cassie), but didn't fit in very well. Along with Tyrian and Cassie he worldhopped to Roshar, where he and Cassie grew closer as Tyrian went of to wreak havoc to adventure on his own. Cassie helped him with cadmium creation, but after his own tendency for theft got him in trouble with a local Shardbearer, Byron hyper-flared for the first time, skipping over years within about a week. He discovered his pseudo-addiction to cadmium, and found Cassie had left Roshar leaving him enough cadmium to last a lifetime. It soon ran out. Byron followed Cassie's footsteps to the Alleyverse in search of more cadmium, not even sure if they knew eachother anymore. They have (or will) re-met, but Byron's lack of age means their relationship, like many of Byron's, is distant and old.

Guild: Unaffiliated for now. He doesn't see the point.

Personality: Tends to be easygoing but anti-social. Will briefly get to know people, steal from them, and vanish, but he sticks with his gut on who to steal from, and won't steal from those he think would retaliate or would help him in some way. He doesn't like antagonizing people but generally will retaliate if provoked.

Fighting Style: Tends to flare his cadmium if he gets into a fight: this makes him look slower than he is, and when attackers enter his time bubble he becomes much more dangerous.

Name: Arkaitz (“tz” makes a sibilant “ts” in Basque) Ducharme. His Epic name was Sorgin.

Physical Characteristics: He changes his body and appearance to match his outfits, but he usually stays pretty lean and around 178 cm in height, with his only truly consistent feature being his glowing lavender eyes.

Epic Powers: Whenever he wishes, which is most of the time, he is the single most attractive person alive regardless of his appearance, clothing, or other features. He can also change his body shape, facial structure, skin color, hair color, etc. However, he cannot change the color of his eyes. His final power is regeneration, theoretically on par with that of Limelight. 

Skills: He is a professional acrobat, skilled chef, and a decent shot. He also speaks French and Basque perfectly, and English with an incredibly mild accent. 

Equipment: Usually just the expensive clothes on his back and some form of weapon, like a handgun or knife.

Epic Weakness: The flower of Carlina acaulis, the wild thistle. He must know the flower is present for it to function, and it must be intact.

Other Weaknesses: While he does possess an incredible healing ability, it is not perfect: he must heal everything intentionally, not just waiting and letting things heal themselves, and he must know how they would heal (cuts and stab wounds are easy, but things like a penetrated lung are more difficult). Also, he does not enjoy being rejected. At all. Seriously. He is quite used to getting what he wants. 

Family: Arantxa (Mother, Basque), Maximilien (Father, French), assorted siblings.

Home Planet: Alternate Reckoners Earth (The one that had Invocation, not Calamity) 

Backstory: Arkaitz was born to a poor family living in the French countryside, and grew up as one of many hungry mouths that needed to be fed. As such, he wished for an escape, and when the cirque came to his town, he decided he would leave with them, starting his life as an acrobatic performer. Many years later, when Invocation rose in the sky, he began to gain strange new powers. He began to manipulate those around him, and eventually incurred the attention of a very powerful Epic, who, in an attempt to reduce competition, tried to teleport Sorgin to a dead universe, but instead sent him to the Alleyverse.

Guild: Does not exist this Era, but will next Era.

Psyche: Unbelievably twisted.

Personality: He is a very manipulative and cruel person, but outwardly he seems kind and charismatic. Also, he is a very promiscuous person, with literally anyone.

Appearance: Again, it changes, but always unbelievably attractive.

Theme Song: “Putting on the Ritz” by Mel Tormé

Fighting Style: He usually prefers to talk to people so he can get close and then slip a knife between their ribs or a gun under their chin

Name: Silas, but he’d probably just scream/attempt murder if you asked him.

Physical Characteristics: Silas is a tall man, gaunt from years of imprisonment and horribly scarred and disfigured from his life of crime and drugs.

Investiture: Amberite Aether and Night Aether.

Skills: Silas has trained and achieved incredible combative skill with his Aethers. 

Equipment: Usually nothing, as with an Amberite Aether, he can create nearly anything he could want.

Weakness: First off, he is certifiably insane. He often treats others around him like children or toys, and if he feels the need to protect them, he will do so obsessively, and if he is in one’s debt, he will always pay it off. That, however, is only one small part of it, the rest of which will be explained below.

Family: His family is dead, for the most part, but he has two daughters, who he does not know of, from a relationship with Ambrosia, the daughters being Nectar and Asa.

Home Planet: Alleyplanet

Backstory: Silas was born to an incredibly wealthy family (a fact he still does not know), and after his parents died a mysterious death, he was sent to live with his grandfather. A few years later, his grandfather’s house burned down, and Silas ran away to live on the streets. He continued to run among the underbelly of the city for the majority of his life until he was alerted of a man who wanted to meet him. This man trained him to become a weapon, and the true Silas began to emerge. However, this man who trained him pushed what many would have considered too far, and Silas broke. He tried to fake normalcy, but when his back was turned, he snapped the neck of his master and ran away. He found a planet with a powerful Investiture, and as he had lived without any Investiture his whole life, he obtained some and returned to the Alleyplanet He was caught by the authorities, who quickly realized that he was quite insane. He resided in a mental institution for many years of his life, until he became far too dangerous to live there with the rest of the patients, so on the night of the Festival, a van was sent to transfer him to a supermax prison.

Guild: N/A

Psyche: Hmmmmm I have no idea what his mind is like. 

Personality: If he weren’t absolutely insane, he’d be a kind of chill person.

Appearance: Silas is tall and lean, with gaunt cheekbones, a bald head, scarred face, and a ragged beard.

Theme Song: “They’re Coming to Take Me Away”

Fighting Style: Catch people off-guard and fight to win, not survive.

Name: Lina Doomseeker

Physical Characteristics: Tall, shoulder length-ish frizzy light brown hair that covers her left eye (hides a scar), hazel eyes, dark shadows under her eyes, olive skin, big feet. She's about thirty.

Skills:  Trained for 7 years in woodcarving, 5 months in healing, and about 2 years training to use knives in melee combat, soother

Equipment: Two knives on her belt (one of them's a carving knife), and one in her boot 

Weakness: hates the sight of blood, freezes up quite a bit when she sees a lot of it (-10), when she gets super self-concious, her movements get rigid and she tends to ramble easier (-5), gets stuck in her head easily (-5)

Family: A five-year-old that she accidentally 'adopted' off the streets who calls herself Cuba.

Home Planet: Scadrial

Backstory: She was a little bit ignored as a child, so she got out of her home as soon as she turned 18 but it did mean her parents didn't notice when she was taking classes on knife use for two years, started learning woodcarving from her uncle to have a decent flow of income when she left, gave a little girl on the streets a couple boxings and a slice of bread, and then the girl started following her around, and she just couldn't get rid of the kid, so she just went with it. Realized belatedly that she had no clue about how to take care of a small child, so she's doing her best, but if she messes up, don't judge her. Also learned healing at that point, because this is a little kid that she has to take care of, she better know how to take care of her.  Anyway, she was wandering around with Cuba when she ended up in the Alleyverse. she was definitely confused, but she just went with it. 

Guild: Unaffiliated as of now, has her eye on a guild

Psyche: Generally mostly good natured and happy, kind of stern, but gets self conscious fairly regularly. 

Fighting Style: Hit the enemy when they least expect it, hit them where it hurts, and RUN.  

Name: Nuemark Bordeux

Investiture: Knight Radiant: Skybreaker 4th ideal.

Spren: Annette, a quiet and serious yet optimistic Highspren. She rarely shows herself to anyone, even Nuemark unless in shardblade form.

Special Skills and/or additional tools and weapons: Sleek, mid-size, automatic pistol. It has a single-stack magazine capable of holding eleven rounds and a four inch barrel. Spren, Annette. She turns into a 6 foot long, double fullered, straight blade, as broad as four fingers with an 'L' shaped spike near the tip and a Scandinavian grind. The spike is about 9 inches long and a diamond cross section. She has long, slender, quillions and a straight nagel. Bordeux is skilled at fighting with both his pistol and his "Nett-blade". He  is a sound tactician.

Age: 29

Weaknesses: Not altogether sane. Too trusting. Very strong moral compass (not always a weakness). Follows laws of his guild to the letter (as any skybreaker should).

Physical characteristics: Male, 6ft, 165 lbs, jett black hair, worn at a medium length, and parted in the middle, icy blue eyes (previously a muddy green). Upturned nose. Arched eyebrows. Athletic. Often wears a charcoal crombie over a dark maroon vest with a black cravat, chocolate colored, button down  shirt, and slacks with wingtips.

Family: Father, Mother, Brother, Brother, (Father and first brother disceased).

Home Planet: Roshar

History/Biography: Born 20 years before the Everstorm,  Nuemark Bordeux was raised unaware of his father's heritage. His father was a Scadrian worldhopper who settled down with a dark eyed woman in Roshar and started a family. Nuemark was second of three sons. He grew up normally fairly normally, as an Alethi stonemason's son. Eventually he ended up being pressed into the army as a spearman when he was 17. His father was pressed in at the same time, as was his older brother. They had to leave Nuemark's brother and mother unprotected, but sent a portion or thier pay back through mail.

     He was a quite moral young man and hated to hurt anyone as he did, but was compelled to do so as it was against the law to disobey those above you in the chain of command, and his father had always taught him to obey the law at nearly all costs. The three of them were seperated under different command. Nuemark became a very proficient fighter, however he had developed a dangerous habbit of pulling his blows right before they hit when he didn't make a conscious decision to attack someone. He also avoided lethal blows when he could, both of which he stll does to this day.            They were soon relocated to the shattered shattered plains and within a month of fighting, Bordeux was notified that both his father and brother died in the same battle. He was devastated and abandoned his strong morals for some time, embracing the chaos, leaving cold skill and power, killing parshendi with such brutality and efficiency that he soon became quite infamous. He eventually found relief from his madness in following the laws which he was always taught to the letter, compulsively. Darkathna, who had been watching him for some time, then bonded with him and their relationship somewhat helped his sanity. The shattered plains campaign ended, and Nuemark had spoken the first two ideals. He was released from duty. He checked in on his younger brother and mother, now running the farm quite well, and went off to the Alleyverse to conquer it's injustice. He ran across the Ghostbloods, hoping to bring them to justice, met the people in the guild and decided to swear to their law instead. Unfortunately, Nuemark still suffers from frequent intrusive thoughts and images of  commiting violent acts upon many people he meets, particularly those he cares about. He obsesses over these and comes up with ways to convince himself that the "man in the thoughts" is not him, chiefly through compulsive behavior, such as regularly placing a hand on each of his weapons in turn, to prove to himself that just because he has them, doesn't mean he has to kill with them; always washing his hands after combat, whether it be mere sparring or a battle in which he killed half dozen, though it seems to him that he receives more frequent images the greater violence in which he is involved. He doesn't tell anyone but Annette about the internal struggles he has and thus, despite being charismatic before the war, he does seem rather closed off to most people these days.

Guild: Ghostbloods

Oaths:  

Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination.

I swear to seek justice, to let it guide me, until I find a more perfect Ideal. 

I swear to the will and laws of the Ghostbloods. This is  my Oath.

I will seek out traitors and oathbreakers in the Alleyverse and bring them to justice. This is my Oath.

Name: Dr. Gears

Physical Characteristics: Male, tall and thin, brown hair, brown eyes, wears a lab coat at all times. 

Investiture: 1 Aviar (same species as Sak)

Skills: Genius intelligence, Expert scholarship (Investiture, Realmatic Theory, Alleyverse mechanics), Average projectile weapons (strictly firearms)

Equipment: A clipboard, a journal, Aviar feed, a pistol

Weakness: Not very strong, has little to no experience fighting up close.

Family: Unknown

Home Planet: Earth [real Earth, not Reckoners Earth]

Backstory: Dr. Gears worked with a vague yet menacing secret agency that contained anomalous objects. After [DATA EXPUNGED], which sent him into another dimension, he has begun researching the cosmere. 

Guild: Unaffiliated

Personality: Completely emotionless. Lacks a startle reflex and a flight-or-flight response. Current objective: assimilation of all cosmere knowledge. Will stop at nothing to complete the objective. No sense of morals.

Fighting Style: Sniping the enemy from a distance. If this is impossible, traps and/or explosives.

Name: Okameahelemakeakaheuhanei'ike'oleikameanānaeho'opa'i (Also known as Okame)

Name: Python

Physical Characteristics: Awakened coil of strong rope about 10m long, coiled around itself in a humanoid shape. Speaks telepathically.

Command: Protect people from harm.

Investiture: Type IV awakened object (90)

Skills: Can coil into many different shapes. Is good at tying and untying knots.

Equipment: Wears a cloak to disguise the fact that it is a rope, as to not alarm people

Weakness: Will not hurt people, even if they are trying to hurt others. (-20) It tries to understand people and emotions, but doesn't. (-10) It doesn't have basic skills like reading. (-5) It knows that fire would destroy it.

Home Planet: Nalthis

Backstory: created by a powerful awakener with the command to "Protect people from harm." Came to the Alleyverse somehow, and continues to try to protect people.

Guild: none for now

Personality: Innocent, genuinely wants to help but sometimes causes even more harm.

Fighting Style: extends ropes to trap opponents without hurting them.

Gethen Entrone

Physical Characteristics: Male, medium height, emerald eyes, Dirty blond hair

Investiture: Chromium Ferring, Tineye.

Skills: Smart, Expert projectile weapon training

Equipment: A chromium wristwatch and arm brace, vials of tin powder, Rifle, Revolver.

Weakness: He trusts on his stored luck to get him out of anything, so he often walks into situations blindly. He isn't very useful in a fight except for sniping from a distance. He isn't good with the lower class, and often comes off as rude.

Family: House Entrone

Home Planet: Scadrial (era 2)

Backstory: Gethen was born on Scadrial after the Catacendre to house Entrone. He trained with the rifle for 11 years under his brother, Dendor. When Dendor was killed by a worldhopper, Gethen tracked down the murderer and arrived in the Alleyverse. 

Guild (can be unaffiliated):

Personality: He is interested in the lower class and sometimes tries to help them, but doesn't understand them at all. he understands the other nobility much better.

Theme Song: Enter Hollownest by Christopher Larken

Fighting Style: Uses tin and stored chromium to hit from a distance. 

Name: Max Tenira

Investiture: A-Zinc, F-Nicrosil Twinborn. A Rioter and a Soulbearer

Occupation: Head of Operations at the Canton of Combat publicly, and in secret is an assassin for the Ghostbloods.

Weakness: Lots of suppressed trauma (Seven Day War, going insane, Rioting Oasis, Devaan’s death, Mara’s death, the Solace incident). He’s tried to control it in day to day scenario, but a single emotional Allomancer or mentally-affecting magic user who knows what to do could use it to incapacitate him. Cares deeply for his family, which can be used against him.

Special Skills: Twinborn combination allows for very powerful Rioting. Skilled – Melee weapons (staff and sword)

Weapons:  Max wields Sethramir, a sword Devaan made that talks to him like a spren. Operates like a Shardblade, but when it hits a person it causes lasting spiritual damage (can be healed) and prevents the victim from using spiritual Investiture as long as the damage is there. The limit is that Max cannot use spiritual Investiture while holding it (so he can’t use his nicrosilminds). When twisting the hilt, Sethramir turns into a shard-spear that can control wind.

Appearance: Brown hair, brown eyes, well built for his age. Slightly shorter than average, but not by much. Often dresses in trousers and a grey fluffy coat.

Family: Doesn't remember any of his biological family, except for his twin sister, Mara, who he grew up with. Only very faintly remembers his mother's face. Has a wife, Althea, who he loves, as well as two children (Vivacia and Reval).

Home: AlleyCity (the Alleyverse).

Personality: Generally, a happy and adventurous person, though he knows how to keep cool and collected in times of stress. Can somewhat control his emotions to a degree. Has matured and grown a lot more responsible since his teenage years.

Backstory: Raised in the Alleyverse until eight by his parents. His parents fought and were killed in the Seven Day War, and Max and his sister Mara were left alone to the Abominations. He Snapped that night and was saved by Rashan Caer. Was raised from eight by Devaan Sheonar.

With Mara, they both found Aonic armors. Joining a 2v2 duel with Mara, Max saw his sister die in front of his eyes. He slowly began to go insane. He began to don an Aonic armor that was a fusion of his and his sisters, and couldn’t take it off, otherwise his insanity would take over. The culimination of his insanity ended up in him Rioting the entire of Oasis and killing hundreds of people. He was healed by Solace, who turned evil.

With Althea Tenira, they searched for Solace and saved him from his evil Epic powers. He fell in love with Althea, and after Solace was dealt with he married her.

In Era 5, he met Althea when they were teenagers and they got married in their twenties, and started a family together.

Name: Alask Ao

Age: 22

Investiture: Alask has been spiked with the cognitive entity of a Shade, tethering it to his body, which he has a Nahel bond with. No additional Investiture.

Weakness: It required two spikes to get the Shade into Alask, so he is very vulnerable to emotional Allomancy. The Shade itself tethered to his body is also a weakness, should anything happen that angers the Shade (eg. Bloodshed) Alask could lose control of his body temporarily and the Shade will take over control. Alask is also highly susceptible to silver, as it burns him on contact.

Special Skills: Alask is not really a fighter, but if the Shade takes over Alask’s body, Alasks durability, strength and speed increase dramatically, but only as long as the Shade controls it. Effectively, he becomes an animal. Alask was trained in lockpicking by his mother, and has amateur knowledge on the subject. Alask is also great at improvising plans on the spot should anything go wrong.

Weapons: Alask doesn’t carry any weapons. Rather, he uses his bare fists for combat if he gets into it.

Appearance: Dark hair, tanned skin, brown eyes. Alask is lean, and about average height and build for his age.

Family: Mother, father and brother, though they’re on the other side of the planet and don’t know about what’s been happening with Alask.

Home: Raised from birth in the Alleyverse, though he grew up in one of the poorer districts.

Personality: Alask considers himself to be a normal person despite his spikes, which he keeps secret from everyone he doesn’t trust. He feels hate towards the guilds, as he knows one of them is the one that experimented on him. Alask is cunning and resourceful, and able to quickly form a plan from available resources. Has a sense of humour. He is highly ambitious, willing to do almost anything to enact his plans and keen to spread the influence of the Forge throughout the Northern Slums.

Backstory: Alask grew up with his parents and brother in the Alleyverse. When he turned 18, he left his home to try and find a job that would pay enough for him to take care of his family. This required significant travelling, and one day Alask was captured by a guild who ruthlessly tested on him with hemalurgy, spiking a Shade into his body utilising two spikes in the chest. When they realised he didn’t have any abilities, they threw him out. Alask’s been wandering ever since, scared to go back to his family lest his Shade kill them. He joined a thieving crew and then joined Laonin at the Forge. When Laonin left, he assumed control of the Forge and formed the plan to summon the Phoenix at PlasmaCore.

In Era 5, Alask is the high ambitious leader of the Forge, which now controls a large portion of the northern slums, in a large community that’s sort of separate from the non-slum parts of AlleyCity. He claims to do it in honour of Laonin and provides the poor with food, water, as shelter through buildings the Forge has reconstructed. However, resources are not 24/7 and the slums have sort of remained static in development since the Forge came, which is deliberately done by Alask to keep control of the area.

Name: Wesley Miller (goes by Wes)

Appearance: A short teenager dressed almost always in a black Ghostblood underling cloak, which is too big for him. He uses it to hide a massive and deep running scar that crawls over his entire back to his left forearm. Usually makes himself look smaller because of self-esteem issues, has black hair and hazel eyes. Wears glasses.

Investiture: Bendalloy Feruchemy (Subsumer)

Personality: Incredibly innocent and naive to most parts of the world. To strangers he is usually introverted but he is very quick to trust people. With friends, he is cheerful most of the time. He is easily intimidated by and scared of authority figures. Has incredibly low self-esteem issues.

Strengths: Engineering and inventing, very skilled with technology and machinery for hacking and to make a variety of inventions. He is small and nimble, which allows him to crawl into small spaces. He watches a lot of action movies (sort of a skill, I guess ).

Weaknesses: Scared of authority figures, low self-esteem, overly trusting of people, overly naive and innocent, heavy trauma from scar on his back. No skill in fighting. Not very good at talking to people. Dislikes large events and crowds. Blind without his glasses. Feels powerless without some sort of tech nearby.

Backstory: Born and raised in the Ghostblood headquarters. This led to not knowing very much of the outside world, and being very subservient to GB authority figures. One day he accidentally insulted Mr. Itiah’s handwriting and got the scar on his back. He graduated from his GB dorm-school and joined the Guns N’ Ninjas GB team. Failed in assassinating Syndicate and helped remove the Vortex and some evil robots during Ajax’s Invasion.

In Era 5, Wes is a secret Ghostblood agent who’s just finished training. His role isn’t to assassinate targets or inform assassins, but to clear records of things like phones, surveillance footage etc. so that there’s no digital evidence the Ghostbloods were even there.

Name: Reval Tenira

Age: 15

Investiture: None

Skills: Reval is intelligent and average with handiwork, hand-to-hand combat and melee weapons, specialising in long daggers. He is also amateur in scholarship.

Appearance: Average height, fit, brown hair and seemingly brown eyes that are actually maroon (a mix between brown and red (I don’t know how eye colours work :P)).

Weaknesses: Feels burdened by expectations (that aren’t really there), and thinks he has to amount to something to prove himself to his family. He feels like he’s let them down by not having Investiture, and so is envious of those who  do. High sensitivity to criticism.

Personality: Reval is a teenager with a lot of strong views on things like Investiture and Guilds. He takes after his mother in valuing logic and analysis and is eager to prove himself. He’s at heart a good person, though, and just wants the best for everyone. He’s protective of his little sister.

Guild Affiliation: None

Backstory: Reval is the oldest child of Max and Althea, and is Vivacia’s brother. He lives near to AlleyCity. When he was little he thought he’d get powers like his parents but ended up being disappointed. He felt even worse when his little sister turned out to have Allomantic abilities. He tried (and currently tries) to improve himself by doing good in school and training with weapons. He loves his family would protect his sister at all costs, but feels a little out of place.

Name: Talon Patson

Sex: Male

Age: Twenty-three

Sexuality: Demiromantic homosexual

Nationality: Caucasian mix

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, normal Earth

Physical appearance: Five feet ten inches tall. Slim build; tattoo of a dragon with spread wings on his back. Light, rosy skin. Lean, soft face; several freckles on nose and cheeks. Shoulder-length, curly blond hair. Ice blue eyes; emerald rim around the pupil. Wears band T-shirts and jeans at work and long-sleeved, comfy shirts and pajama pants at home. 

Personality: Cheerful, flirty, and snarky. Has trust issues and rarely believes people when they compliment or insult him. Often seems like he isn’t listening because he has trouble looking people in the eyes unless he’s flirting. Is overzealous about sex, kissing, etc and comes off as very needy. Doesn’t understand how to express his feelings to people he loves. Can be angered by people turning him down rudely and people telling him he’s bad at sex. 

Family: Mother- Debrah. Father- Matt. Siblings- Kane (brother, twenty-five), Jackie (sister, twenty). Spouse- none. Children- none. Extended family- unimportant. 

Skills: Average intelligence. Skilled bartender and waiter. Expert thief. Skilled brawler. Amateur sniper. (145) 

Biography: Talon was born in Chicago to his relatively poor family. He grew up an effeminate boy uninterested in sports, and was bullied for this in all his years of elementary school. He built up emotional walls and started to act up both at home and at school, becoming a boy infamous for doing whatever he wished and not caring who or what he damaged on his way. He lost his virginity to his best friend in eighth grade and started exploring his lusty side. Thus, he was the “queen” of high school until sixteen, when he went too far and got sent to a private school for selling marijuana. Here his profits increased tenfold and he learned how to thieve. He left high school with no idea of what he was going to do with the rest of his life. He ended up working as a cashier and living at his parents’ house, dissatisfied with life. He met a stoner one night in a club and listened to the man’s tales of a dozen worlds unlike anything on earth, and Talon followed the man into an alley when he said he could show Talon those worlds. When they walked out of the alley, they were in a completely different world, and Talon smiled for the first time in years, thinking of all the things he could do here. He became a bartender at the Bleeding Spike and bought an apartment.

Notes: Smells like conditioner and moth balls. Theme song is “Hello My Old Heart”.

Name: Dot

Physical Characteristics: Varies. His common form is humanoid, though subtly inhuman. Small, barely over five feet in height. Compact, powerful build. Strikingly dark skin, nearly the same shade as his black hair. Dark eyes that faintly gleam peer intently out of an angular face. Quick, scarred-looking hands, long-fingered and capable. With his build and a runner's legs and arms, no space is wasted in his figure. He has a flying hordeling with a large, dark silver eye on its back which, when it is with him, is always close at hand. This is a mere curiosity as far as anyone has known, because he could observe an environment with many of them like the rest of his kind can.

Investiture: Sleepless. He has created his form to be very fast and agile, and has over time given it the ability to pour on bursts of incredible speed, though this will exhaust him if done for more than a few seconds.

Skills: Scholarship Investiture. Expert artifabrian. Mastermind intelligence.

Equipment: He has a number of rare or strange items which he keeps for curiosity in various hidden places. He rarely has more than a little money and some small, useful tools on his person, preferring to improvise what he needs from his environment. He keeps hidden supply caches which he can fall back on to build things, exchange for other resources, or generate what currency he may need, though he almost never uses much money at once. These are not limitless, nor is anything ever perfectly hidden, not even someone as accustomed to longterm planning as he is can manage that. Also they are spread across several worlds and a number of hard to access places, meaning it takes him a lot of time to gather any significant amount of resources. He uses all of this very sparingly, preparing for an eventuality he rarely speaks of.

Weaknesses: He has walked too close to the lives of short-lived creatures, so he does have emotions to manipulate that are more easily read than others of his kind.

If he does get attached to someone, he will almost never show it, meaning the actions which stem from it can be vastly misinterpreted.

He is insatiably curious, so often runs the risk of losing chunks of his physical resources or damaging/losing the hordelings that make up his main form in his wandering and experimenting and tinkering.

He has difficulty externalizing the things that drive and motivate him, and doesn’t broach the subject if he can avoid it.

Family: unknown

Home Planet: Roshar, sort of

Backstory: He is thousands of years old, with memories and records that reach back to the prior Desolation. Most of those who remain of his species are as old, and some are older. After those events, he spent much of his time wandering worlds. His aim was to understand, not only things and events, but the people who made them all so interesting. With his careful attention to detail, he inevitably couldn’t escape context and perspective. He grew to fear settling down anywhere, knowing that he would notice silence, knowing that it could matter. He spent time on Scadrial, Nalthus and Roshar, but very little time anywhere near Sell because of the difficulty getting there. (If it’s impossible, I can take that off, I don’t remember at the moment.) He stumbled into the Alleyverse briefly long ago and went exploring beyond it, which resulted in plenty of timeline strangeness, as he tended to drop into places at odd times and into places he’d been before or after he should have been able to. He spent little of his time in the Alleyverse in anything remotely resembling one piece, so he could be recognized, but the chances aren’t high. He has been drawn back to it because it presents a mystery to him. He has a faint, uneasy feeling that everything is horribly wrong there, but can’t pin a finger, or a Hordeling on it. As this isn’t a situation he has encountered in a very long time, he can’t resist his curiosity. He is one who loves a strange experiment, an interesting device, a curious dilemma, the way universes work, what those within them do with that, how worlds form, how people form, what makes everything alive.

Guild: unaffiliated, for now

Personality: Insatiably curious. He can seem reckless sometimes. He can seem cold and detached, in some situations somewhat controlling. He is calculating but also considerate, thoughtful and reflective. The external dichotomy comes from, in part, his difficulties with communication. There are many things he will do in the pursuit of information and a working understanding of information that create his external impression.

Theme Song: none yet

Fighting Style: Avoid if at all possible, if not, get to high ground as fast as he can and throw or fire something.

Name: Althea Tenira

Age: 31

Investiture: Elsecaller, 4th ideal, Spren is called Brashen

Skills: Expert Scholarship Investiture, Mind link with Max (allows for wordless communication, sharing of memories)

Physical: Long white hair and skin, crystalline red eyes, slight build, medium height

Weaknesses: She’s an albino, direct strong light hurts/ blinds her (Photophobia), is able to move around in the sunlight when wearing appropriate protection (sunglasses, longsleeves, sunscreen); mild PTSD (Trigger: fire/ explosions,emotional allomancy); doesn't trust her own senses/ emotions to 100% anymore (e.g. she tries to touch people to make sure what she is seeing/ hearing and what her touch tells her correlate)

Character: Problem-oriented thinking, limited sense for jokes/ fun, can be taken for cold-hearted, prefers to hide her emotions behind a mask on her face, prefers to solve conflicts without fighting

Backstory: Althea grew up in an orphanage close to the horneater peaks, as her parents gave her away when they discovered her outer appearance. She usually kept to herself and spent her time reading, learning. When she was allowed to, she left the orphanage to travel the world and further improve her abilities. She was recruited by the Ghostbloods soon after she left the orphanage and they taught her about hemalurgy and how to soulcast. After she bonded her spren, she spent more and more time in shadesmar or soulcasting. Especially shadesmar was a place she grew to love, as the light there didn’t hurt her. From her thirteenth birthday on she worked in the laboratories of the Ghostbloods, advancing through their ranks until she was appointed Righthand shortly before Solace returned to take back control.
Althea learned that she had a sister, shortly before the start of Era 2. She then had her followed and finally decided to appear in the open at the Ghostblood Ball hoping, to meet her there.
After Solace/ Sephtis appearance and the conflict in Oasis City she and Max followed him. They managed to find out about his weakness and stopped him from conquering the world, by making him face his own fear. Afterwards she married Max and now lives together with him in a small house outside of Alleycity.

Name: Lena (originally Lanera Aander)

Age: 27

Physical: long red hair, small and light built, unassuming face, always carries a bag with some poisons and something to eat

Investiture: None

Skills: Expert Poison Mixing (40), Expert Draught Mixing (40), Skilled Disguising (30), Average Healing (20), Average Cooking (20)

Weaknesses: can’t see blood (-10), can’t hide her emotions, Antisocial personality disorder (description see Characteristics)

Characteristics: delightens when she is able to poison somebody, especially if she has the time to study the reactions of her victims, cold-hearted, is willing to sacrifice others any moment (or as soon as she feels she has nothing to gain from the relationship)
Antisocial personality disorder:

-Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors:
deception, as indicated by repeatedly lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure;
-impulsivity or failure to plan ahead;
-reckless disregard for safety of self or others;
-consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work     behavior
-lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.

Family: Lena grew up in Teoin, her parents were merchants and overlooked her tendency to poison smaller animals, when she was a child. Later, when she grew older and started to slip poison to some of their workers, they tried to steer her from that path, but failed. Lena has a 5-year old son, she almost never gets to see. Her grandmother cares for the child, and writes some letters to Lena now and then, but mostly their contact consists of Lena sending money home to support them both. She and her grandmother have the agreement, that Lena stays away from the child. There isn’t any noticeable contact to her parents, but she does visit eldest brother now and then, who lives and works in Alleycity.

History: After the birth of her child, Lena and her husband lived together in Teoin. The marriage had been arranged by her parents, as they hoped, that having a family would ground Lena. Shortly after the birth of their first child, Lena poisoned her husband after a fight, since she felt, like he wanted to control her. Avoiding arrest, only by her parents connections, she left Teoin late at night. With nothing but her son and a few cloths and travelled to her grandmother. She stayed there for the next few months, but after a while there, her grandmother caught her observing the death of the village smith, making notes as to how improve her draught. The incident was followed by a longer discussion, and ended with a choice for Lena. Leave Sel and never return, or face arrest and a trial most likely ending in her death. Lena left Sel, leaving her child with grandmother, something her grandmother insisted on and joined some travellers on their way to Alleycity. After her arrival there she started to steal and to scam, finally met the other members of the Thieve’s Guild and joined them on their most recent heists. She has a small flat in a poorer part of the city, which looks like a laboratory, full of plants, and chemical substances, as she is earning her money by selling poisons. She still tries them always out the first time herself, and prefers to carefully note down the reactions of her victims. She doesn’t necessarily kill them, believes incapacitation to be even more interesting, since it means, she has to work with more precision.
During Era 2 Lena participated in a few scams, the largest one being Alleyzon where she and a few others members stole a whole plane full of goods. Afterwards she joined Gonev and Pry to rescue Pry’s siblings from Crow.

Name: Mike Austen (aka Mustafa Marcus Martha Mario Maverick Mary Micky Mich Morgan Melaku Macik Maurice Megan  Moses Mac Monica Molly Maddy Maddona Magento Maco Makie Malikia)

Age: 16

Physical characteristics: dark hair, tan, well-built for a teen, lanky, brown eyes, seven spikes in his chest

Investiture: spiked: can change parts of his body into animal parts (fox, cat, squirrel, wolf, porcupine, snake, squid, salmon) (100) no Investiture in Era 5

Weakness: easy target for emotional allomancy due to his spikes, panically afraid of Ark and any (known) members of the DA, claustrophobia (-25), very poor and therefore preserves whatever money he can get, he is avaricious, never spends more than he absolutely has to, regularly not eating enough

Character: shy and quiet, tries to keep to the background, very passionate about avenging his dead friend, will stand up for his convictions and for his friends shy and quiet, tries to keep to the background, very passionate about his family and friends who he will stand up for any time, most of the money he makes with his heists goes to them

Special skills and Weapons: assassination (average) (40), melee weapons (average) (35) // thievery (skilled) (40), melee weapons (average) (35)

Family: two younger brothers (David, Garrus), parents are still alive and they all live in a village close to Alleycity

Guild: none

Home: Alleycity

History/Biography: Mike grew up in Alleycity. One day he was on his way through the city with his best friend and they were robbed. His friend died on his way to the hospital and Mike swore he would avenge him. He joined the Ghostbloods for this reason and they started to train him. During one of his last trainings he saw the councilmember Ark for the first time and mistook him for the man, that had killed his friend. He tried to assassinate Ark and failed. Mr. Itiah claimed Mike had acted on his order, to show the class that you couldn’t let your guard down even for a moment. This saved Mike’s life, but Ark still ordered him to go to his friend KoTiel and offer himself for an experiment. KoTiel spiked Mike several times and afterwards sent him back to Ark. Ark questioned Mike about his powers, but Mr. Itiah stepped in a second time and ordered Mike to his sleeping quarters and assigned him therapy sessions.

Name: Zokora An’Inera

Age: 32

Investiture: Willshaper (1st ideal) (90 - 5 = 85) (Spren called Sera) Stoneward (1st ideal), Spren calless Sera

Skills: Assassination (average, 40), Weapon (Meelee weapons, average) (35) Handiwork (healing, expert, 40), meelee weapons average (35)

Physical: long black hair, dark eyes, brown skin, lean and muscular

Weaknesses: easily offended, curious, feels hunted by the souls of those she killed (= hallucinations)

Character: very loyal (towards Althea), unorganized, conflicted, yearns for another friend apart from Althea values her friends a lot, strong desire to work for the people of the city and to offer everybody a chance to choose their own way, won't kill again

Family: dead

Homeworld: Alleyverse

Guild Affiliation: Ghostbloods (Rank: Althea’s assistant) TUBA

Backstory: Zokora grew up in the Alleyverse. Her parents died in the seven day war, and afterwards she ended up with the Ghostbloods. She worked as an assassin for easier targets for years, making it to an Elite, until one day she met an old man. He told her of ghosts, and that she was hunted, and while she laughed at him, the thought somehow never left her again. Sometimes she can feel the ghosts coming after her, hunting her, wanting revenge. She tried to switch to another occupation afterwards, as she figured, that if she stopped killing people the ghosts would stop. Zokora met Althea per chance in Oasis City, and somehow ended up with a new job a few months later. Most of the time she is Althea’s eyes and ears, and is everywhere, where Althea can’t be, takes over meetings, or listens to endless discussions at the government. Additionally she sorts through reports and acts as an Gatekeeper for those wanting to speak with Althea.

Name: Vivacia Tenira (goes by Vivi)

Age: 12

Investiture: A-Copper

Skills: Average (Melee weapons), Skilled (dancing)

Physical: brown hair (shoulder length, colour like Max' hair), green eyes (like Damaya's), slim, but trained for a child her age

Weaknesses: takes many things too lightly and rarely considers the consequences of her actions, skips classes whenever possible

Character: happy and joyful, she knows that life can be dangerous (sometimes), but she tends to ignore that and just does whatever she wants to, very proud, all-or-nothing person

Equipment: a rapier (her size), always carries a backpack (contains: her favorite stuffed animal (a white and pink unicorn, small, called: Rainbowglow), jelly beans, the rapier, a device so that her parents can contact her, paper and a pencil for school, an (sometimes empty) lunchbox, a flashlight without power, dancing shoes)

Guild affiliation: none

Homeplanet: Alleyverse

Backstory: Vivacia is Max and Althea's daughter, their younger child. She grew up in their house close to Alleycity and when she's not skipping class she attends one of the schools nearby. She greatly adores her older brother and would do anything for him. If possible she follows him around, although she regularly runs off once she gets bored. She feels very guilty by having inherited an allomantic power while he has nothing and therefore never mentions it when he is around. She reduces using her power to situations, when he can't notice, but tries secretly to protect him if possible.
She is intrigued by the thought to join a guild just like her parents and in general strives to make them and her brother proud. As she is the one with Investiture, she decided that she needs to step into her parent's paths and asked Max to show her how to wield a weapon. He picked a rapier and so she started to learn how to use it.
Vivi's real passion is dancing and she pours all her energy into these classes. They are one of the few appointments she's always on time for, and she trains hard all the days in between.

Name: Laurelai Esserethel

Abilities:

• Forgery - A master-level Forger, proficient in Resealing and has a set of Soul Stamps which she keeps hidden. Particularly proficient in unusual applications of Forgery and creating short-term stamps for use on living subjects to help her fathers research.
• Expert Scholar
• Mastermind Intelligence

Equipment: Pen, paper, Forgery equipment (Carving kinves/picks, Soulstone, etc.)

Physical characteristics: Tall but skinny, long, straight blonde hair, bright blue eyes. Has a large wardrobe and enjoys changing clothes fairly frequently though she is particularly fond of Alethi and Selish dresses.

Home planet: Alleycity, with some Selish heritage

Backstory: Laurelai has grown up with primarily her father as her mother passed away during her birth, but she's led a happy and comfortable life. She enjoyed helping with her fathers research and learning from him as she grew up. She also enjoyed painting his nails and practicing makeup on him but this has been less frequent as she grew up. Since moving out of home, Laurelai has struggled to find her place in the world. She works in a specialised mental health clinic in the city that uses a combination of Soothers and Forgers to help residents overcome mental trauma and often spends some time in various bars around the city listening in on surrounding conversations, occasionally tailing people out and watching them for some time. She's particularly interested in the urban legends about a secretive group of researchers who live somewhere in the city.

Weakness: Curiosity, Laurelai will often ignore her own safety in the pursuit of the subject of her curious whims. She is lacking in any form of combat experience, though is mentally secure and familiar with gore so can at least avoid being too shocked if such an occurrence were to happen.

Family: Professor Esserethel (Father)

Guild (can be unaffiliated): Currently unaffiliated

Personality: Intensely curious and a touch arrogant, Laurelai loves to watch people and try to understand them better. This can come across as empathetic but can be offputting when people realise that her interest is much colder and more analytical.

Fighting Style: To not.

Name: Whisper

Abilities: Hemalurgic spikes granting:

Lightweaving (And the ability to use Stormlight to do so, however no Stormlight healing or strength boosts etc.) 

Enhanced dexterity and leg strength (A bit stronger than what pewter would grant, but no increased durability beyond the ability to withstand her own strength)
Skills: Expert intelligence: Incredibly intelligent, though with little exposure to any specific scholarly research. (60 points), Hand-to-hand Combat training (50 points)

Weaknesses: Unable to speak: Unable to speak louder than a very faint whisper.

Hemalurgy: Has three spikes, likely enough to be manipulated by a Lerasium Mistborn or multiple Soothers/Rioters working in sync.

Physical characteristics: Whisper changes her appearance frequently, rarely looking the same way for long. But usually appears to be a young urchin girl, varying her features slightly every now and then.

Home planet: Scadrial

Guild: DA / Church of the Whiterose

Backstory: A former DA test subject, Whisper spent a lot of her early years in the labs from the department of Zoohemalurgy. She has several abilities derived from animals from various planets, this has also resulted in some changes to her anatomy as well, though these are usually hidden with careful disguises or Lightweaving, these experiments also inadvertently removed her ability to speak beyond a faint whisper which eventually led to her nickname.
After the conclusion of the experiment that created her, Whisper was deemed one of the more successful subjects and had managed to maintain her sanity throughout the process, she was then recruited by another department of the DA and began actively working for them, putting her intelligence and abilities to good use.
Over the past few years Whisper has been found whispering to shadows or seeming to react to voices that others cannot hear. During the same period she has become obsessed with the ancient figures of the DA such as the Lonely God and the Stranger. She expresses an utterly fanatical attitude towards them and has on numerous times been found researching some method by which to bring these ancient gods back.

Family: None

Guild (can be unaffiliated): DA

Personality: Outwardly Whisper usually appears to be a sweet, caring girl who is interested in helping others. Inwardly she expresses signs of extreme sociopathy and has very little regard for the feelings of others, treating them only as a means to an ends or a possible source of defense. She constantly examines those around her and while she is remarkably insightful in some ways she can be somewhat oblivious in others, struggling to comprehend some peoples motives where they revolve around altruistic acts. Whisper does not take any particular joy in being cruel but neither does she enjoy being kind, instead simply employing whatever means she need to to accomplish her goals.

Fighting Style: Get other people to do the fighting for her, or to only ever fight from a position of absolute advantage, preferably ending the fight before it starts.

Name: The Professor / Nox / Professor Esserethel

Investiture: None

Appearance:  Tall, clean shaven and with remarkably few wrinkles given his age other than some crows feet at the corners of his eyes. Blonde-haired and pale-skinned like his daughter Laurelai, though his eyes are green while hers are blue. Most often wearing a labcoat over a plain shirt and some jeans. Occasionally his daughter will manage to convince him to wear something slightly nicer, 

Skills: Intelligence (Mastermind), Scholar (Expert), Handiwork - Various magical / technical items (Expert)
Equipment: Various items of study

Backstory: One of the most renowned researchers in the city, the Professor has made breakthroughs on any number of different subjects of research. Various inventions have allowed both he and his daughter to live well off but he does have some issue in finding funding sometimes as he rarely stays on one subject too long, often flitting from Realmatic theory to Artifabrian research to mechanical engineering and physics. He is generally regarded as something of a brilliant eccentric to most other researchers, able to make startling breakthroughs but also wasting his talent by not committing it to any one subject long enough to make a substantial impact. He raised his daughter Laurelai alone, as her mother died during child birth and treats her with just as much love and excitement as he does his research.

Guild: None

Weaknesses: Vast, unending and unabating hatred of pineapples. Tends to take a 'wait and see' approach most of the time and avoid getting involved for as long as possible.

Family: Laurelai Esserethel

Personality: Excited and energetic, the Professor pursues his work with ardent passion, often forgetting to eat or sleep. He has some somber moments, especially when recalling his departed wife, but on the whole maintains a passionate outlook on life and is always looking for something new.

Fighting Style: Can we not please? It hardly seems necessary.

Name: Zyn Noname

Investiture: Possible Hemalurgic influence in his heritage, has a less rigid skeletal structure than normal.

Skills: Contortionist, adept at climbing, squeezing into small areas, second story work, breaking and entering. Not great with locks but has acquired some basic skills.

Weaknesses: very uncomfortable with violence. His bones break more easily than most peoples.

Age: 21

Family: N/A

Physical characteristics: tall, sinewy body with short, blonde hair. Cloudy grey eyes.

History: A teenage runaway, Zyn left his family on Scadrial to seek his fortune. He was hired by a world hopper for a small local job and eventually earned passage to Alleycity.

Name: Ember

Investiture: Is a spren

Skills: Can be really, really, really enthusiastic about things.

Weaknesses: Loves exploring the world and figuring things out, usually does this by trying to set things on fire or convince other people to do so for him.

Age: Who knows?

Family: Firespren and other Ashspren

Physical characteristics: Glowing orange/red light, usually in a masculine humanoid figure about 3 inches tall.

History: A spren seeking a Radiant to bond with, Ember is still trying to remember exactly what he's supposed to be doing but is very happy to have found his bonded partner finally.