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Tenatively interested. I assume a devil character would be off-limits as the characters oughta be the up-and-coming street-level gentlemen of no renown and with but a few particularly distinguishing qualities?

Would you allow one to play as a highly hopeful and irresponsible Benthic student that yearns hotly for knowledge of a more esoteric and forbidden nature but whose competence is currently not quite enough to mark him as a true scholar of correspondence?

If that's a no, what about simply a dangerous and ambitious person posessing a nigh-on preternatural potential for violence and looking to quite literally carve out a legacy of fame and wealth out of the streets and citizens of London?