I've finished with pertinent NPCs :) [hider=Lucius Elliot] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/JcLAgdP.png[/img][/center] [color=F8CFF0][b]š“›ucius š“”lliot[/b] is a member of the Scholar Guild, seemingly gifted with a near-photographic memory. Lucius is, to put it mildly, rather anti-social. He has a habit of overthinking and over analyzing everything, though his analytical skills are something that his teachers at the Polytechnique Institute thought were one of his greatest strengths. Lucius is very awkward at parties, and he is a bit disdainful of most people that he meets. He was told by his patron and benefactor, Mordecai Sullivan, that he became severely ill and lost his memory and was in a coma for several years. As such, he started at the Polytechnique Institute when he was 16, although he managed to graduate at 18 due to his rather...precocious nature. š“t the Institute, Lucius met Victor Bennett. The two became fast friends, and Lucius even helped Victor with his ambitious goal of using automatons for a good purpose. However, after Victor died, Lucius became increasingly erratic, pulling away from his friends and girlfriend and continuing the automaton research on his own until his arrest. Lucius is thought to be thirty years of age. [hider=Your character does NOT know this unless a reasonable reason was worked out with me/Shy via PM] š“˜n truth, Lucius was raised in the middle of nowhere by two scientists from Gearinggate Harbor (Richard and Darlene Elliot) who were attempting to create the first automaton. A cruel twist of fate had them experimenting on their own son, and after they succeeded in basically transferring Lucius's consciousness to a clockwork body, a new personality emerged through a combination of wacky dark magic and the trauma. The alternate ego named himself Dirk, and Dirk killed Lucius's parents and snuck aboard an airship bound for Gearinggate Harbor. In Gearinggate Harbor, some of the Elliots' old contacts and their apprentice, Gerald, recover Lucius. They spent a few years attempting to fix the alternate-ego issue, but Lucius is ultimately written off as a failure and they move onto other approaches. Lucius himself is supposedly deactivated and dumped, although Mordecai Sullivan was able to recover him and re-activate him fourteen years ago. Lucius is completely unaware of the fact that he is an automaton, though Dirk knows. Dirk is sadistic and malicious and really does not like humans. š““irk had remained dormant for twelve years before Victor's girlfriend, Charlotte Vernell, informed Lucius that Victor had an incurable disease. This, combined with Victor's death two years ago, caused Dirk to re-emerge. [/hider] [/color] [/hider] [hider=Captain Adrianna Iphigenia Kingsford] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/VeTQNN8.png[/img][/center] [color=F8CFF0][b]š“’aptain š“drianna š“˜phigenia š“šingsford[/b] was born to a moderately important Legionnaire family. Adrianna has followed the footsteps of her parents and grandparents and great-grandparents and devoted her life to serving the Legionnaire Guild, and by extension, the Council. Her mother, however, firmly believed that simply knowing how to shoot a gun was not enough-a Legionnaire needed to be able to spy and manipulate, as well. She sent Adrianna to Madame Geraldine's, where she excelled in courses regarding guns and swords and physical confrontations, but did not do as well in the etiquette classes. Nevertheless, Adrianna enjoyed her time at the finishing school, and she is finding some of the skills she learned there particularly useful in her career, especially now that she has to lead this investigation. She became best friends with Rowena Imperia-Airwright during finishing school. Their relationship is...complicated, at best, but Adrianna definitely values Rowena's input on anything to do with etiquette and espionage. š“drianna possesses the usual enhanced physical abilities characteristic of Legionnaires-augmented senses, a seemingly infinite amount of stamina, lightning-fast reflexes and speed, and whatnot. Steadfast and reliable, Adrianna never seems to tire, and she throws herself wholeheartedly into her duties. Adrianna is extremely loyal, and very analytical. She can be a bit cold and unfeeling, sometimes, and she's not very people-smart. Adrianna is a bit on the quiet side, and she can be rather stoic, but one must admit that she is pretty damn good with a gun. She is currently twenty-nine years old. [/color] [/hider] [hider=Victor Bennett (DECEASED)] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/dlPW7kl.jpg[/img][/center] [color=F8CFF0][b]š“„ictor š“‘ennett[/b] was a member of the Scholar Guild, and an accomplished scientist renowned for his work with mechanical wings. Lauded as "the most brilliant mind of his generation", most people were surprised to find that charming, charismatic Victor was close friends with the standoffish Lucius. š“„ictor's grandmother, Helen Bennett, was afflicted with a disease that even the healers of the Apothecary Guild could not cure. This inspired Victor to take an interest in automatons and creating a way to retain somebody's personality when their Myalo was transferred to the metal body. Victor himself also had the disease-it ran in the family-although he refused to get tested for it, and thus remained unaware. Victor and Lucius worked together on this project for a couple of years, until Victor himself succumbed to the disease. š“¤nbeknownst to most everybody, the work that Lucius did independently after Victor passed away was aimed at somehow bringing Victor back to life. Lucius extracted Victor's Myalo less than an hour after the scientist died, and he has since, with Dirk's help, preserved it until he had built an appropriate metal body. Lucius had successfully animated automaton Victor just hours before his arrest. Victor is now living with his former girlfriend, Charlotte Vernell, who has kept the news of his miraculous "resurrection" quiet. He was twenty-eight at the time of his death. [/color][/hider] [hider=Charlotte "Lottie" Rosalind Vernell] [center][img]http://www.measurements.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Arden-Cho.jpg[/img][/center] [color=F8CFF0][b]š“’harlotte "š“›ottie" š“”osalind š“„ernell[/b] is a member of the Apothecary Guild. She is a Patho-healer, and works as a nurse in the Cindergate Hospital, specializing in brewing and administering medicines. Sweet and chattery, Lottie is extremely friendly, if a bit...silly. She met Victor Bennett through his grandmother; Lottie was one of the nurses assigned to Helen at the hospital, and the two eventually became very close. š“ graduate of Madame Geraldine's, Lottie's smarter than she looks. She has discovered that Lucius somehow brought Victor back to life through [i]highly[/i] illegal means, and she has kept this a secret from everyone besides her closest friend because she can't bear the thought of losing Victor again. Lottie is twenty-eight years old. [/color][/hider] How would people feel about being able to make NPCs themselves? Oh, and do y'all think a list of noteworthy locations within HG itself would be useful?