Name: Hans Von Hessen
Age: 52
Appearance: Short and squat, with broad shoulders and face. His eyes are pale blue, and his hair was once the color of straw, but is now almost entirely gray. His hair is, however, still just as thick as when he was a young man. He dresses very well, betraying his wealth, and wears a pair of pince nez on a golden chain. A second golden chain runs across his belly, leading to the pocket he keeps his watch in. 
Experience: Professor Von Hessen started life in Germany, quite rich already from his family. He received adequate schooling for most people, but found it always lacking and took it upon himself to supplement it with his own reading and experimentation. In the first half of his life, he became known as an inventor and genius. When the Great War broke out, and Germany's involvement became imminent, officials in the war effort came calling, hoping to put his genius to good use. But they found him already missing, all of his inventions and notes either taken with him or burned. He reappeared after the war in England, already having citizenship under mysterious circumstances. 

Now he lives a life of leisure, but still has his fingers dipped in a few pies. One of them is the archaeology department of the Stonebridge University. 
He has gone through considerable political and personal effort to ensure his war veteran nephew citizenship alongside him. 

Name: Wilhelm Von Hessen.
Age: 25
Appearance: The family resemblance between Wilhelm and his uncle is clear, though the younger man is much taller. His hair is the same straw yellow that Hans has lost to old age, and their eyes and broad faces are uncannily alike. 
Wilhelm dresses simply in shirts and trousers held up by suspenders. He has an old gray jacket that he wears as well. 
He walks with a pronounced limp, though it doesn't seem to pain him. 
Experience: He worked as an errand boy for his father's mechanic shop before the war, and joined up as soon as he was old enough. He served three years, fighting in the front lines before an injury a few short months before the war ended. He was sick to death of Europe at the time, and when he was capable of travel he started making his way East. He effectively fell off the face of the earth for three years, and when he returned to Europe he went not back home, but to England with his uncle Hans, who had a job for him. 

These are actual spoilers. If you want to read them, feel free. But I'm mostly putting them here so that nobody thinks I'm springing things on people out of nowhere. If you want to be surprised by things, do not read them. 
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Is missing his right leg from an artillery strike. He has a complicated mechanical prosthetic of his uncle's design, which is the reason for his limp. 
His leg also has a special compartment that holds a kukri knife, and a Mauser pistol, though he can't touch the latter. 

In his travels in Asia, he met a monk and received a Sak Yant tattoo. It is a contract with a spirit that will protect him, but in exchange he has been forbidden from ever touching a gun again. If he breaks the contract, he has to cleanse himself and make amends to the spirit, or else he will be cursed with bad luck. 

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