Valthorne

Name: Paltric Quince Role: Dissonant Scribe and Truth-Baiter Stats: Body 1, Mind 1, Charm 1 Special Ability: Crowdspeaker WAND: Twin quills grown from a griefstone tree; hums with joy Faction: Iron Veil Syndicate Resonance Note: Can extract truths disguised as lies—but cannot speak plainly without consequence. Backstory: Paltric’s

Name: Halvyr of the Last Pause Role: High Interpreter Emeritus Stats: Body 1, Mind 2, Charm 0 Special Ability: Resonance Anchor WAND: A telescope etched with ancestral voices; hums with grief Faction: Order of the Saffron Veil Resonance Note: Can hear verdicts that were never spoken—but each one he

Name: Monach Vellum of the 11th Echo Role: Interpreter-Priest of the Saffron Veil Stats: Body 0, Mind 2, Charm 1 Special Ability: Drift Sense (+1 to Mind for reading etheric wakes/Flow shifts) WAND: Pendulum-shaped rosary of time-lost trials; hums with defiance Faction: Order of the Saffron Veil Resonance Note:

Name: Kohr the Steady Role: Resonance Anchor & Defender of the Outer Flow Stats: Body 2, Mind 1, Charm 0 Special Ability: Resonance Anchor (Flow Track cannot drop below 3 once per scene) WAND: A patchwork cloak of childhood drawings stitched by those he saved; hums with grief Faction: Commons

Name: Thessa of the Amber Meridian Role: Drift Watcher Stats: Body 1, Mind 1, Charm 1 Special Ability: Crowdspeaker (+1 to Charm in Murmuration Squares or calming crowds) WAND: Weathered reed staff that bends toward districts in need; hums with hope Faction: Commons (Attuned) Resonance Note: Can hear the Law’

Name: Churazh the Rememberer Role: Constabulary Golem Ascendant Stats: Body 2, Mind 1, Charm 1 Special Ability: Drift Sense WAND: A blade-shaped rune rod fused to its own spine; hums with defiance Faction: None—autonomous golem Resonance Note: Stores every unspoken verdict in its bones. Can project them to sway

Name: Liska Vall, also called “Shardhand” Role: Grief Thief of the Spiral Mouth Faction: Dissonant (Unofficial, rumored Lost) Stats: Body 1, Mind 1, Charm 1 Special Ability: Crowdspeaker — +1 to Charm when addressing or swaying a square WAND: A broken shard of mirrorglass, wrapped in thread; hums with grief Resonance

Name: Verdict-Shrine Lathomen Role: Cerulean Cloak Arbiter Stats: Body 1, Mind 2, Charm 0 Special Ability: Resonance Anchor (Flow Track cannot drop below 3 once per scene) WAND: A reliquary of verdict fragments that hums with defiance Faction: Cerulean Cloaks Resonance Note: Can resist psychic storms by invoking historical consensus—

Name: Vaelor Revyn, Keeper of the Ninth Meridian Role: High Tribunal Chronoseer (Order of the Saffron Veil) Faction: Interpreters Stats: Body 1, Mind 2, Charm 0 Special Ability: Resonance Anchor — Once per session, the Flow Track cannot drop below 3 WAND: A golden-laced staff known as Time’s Favor, tipped

Name: Caltra Mire Role: Dissonant Archivist of the Whisper Markets Stats: Body 0, Mind 2, Charm 1 Special Ability: Drift Sense (+1 to Mind for etheric wakes/Flow shifts) WAND: Leather-bound notebook whose pages flutter when truth nears; hums with grief Faction: Iron Veil Syndicate Resonance Note: She can recall