Story
Key Cast
Every name below is (Idea). Only the protagonist and the mentor's role come from the Codex.
| Name | Side | Role | Hook |
|---|---|---|---|
| The protagonist (player-named) | Unaligned | Player character | A farmer with an even pair of hands whose first spell rang the Glass across Velan. |
| Aske | Unaligned, ex-Warden of Measure | Mentor; Sallowbank ferry keeper | Froze a whole town on orders twenty years ago and has not cast since. |
| Tobin | Unaligned | Sallowbank eel-catcher | Forty years on the Sallow, and believes every story about it, the Drowned Choir's hum included. |
| Marra Hesk | Unaligned | Keeps the Sallowbank bakehouse | Feeds everyone whether they're hungry or not, and believes very little. Minds the protagonist's hens after the send-off. |
| Fenn | Unaligned | Marra's grandchild, about ten | Chalks door-marks on every fence and traces them, sure they must work if you push hard enough. |
| Tamsin Vale | Evane, Wardens of Measure | Rival and friend | Sent to recruit the player; believes the rules completely until she reads what the Hour Stair hides. |
| Rook | Facets | Lanternfall guide; glyph smuggler | One-armed, yet casts, which the Evane call impossible. Gives glyphs to anyone who asks and won't look at what that has cost. |
| Prelate Ondine Ash | Evane, Wardens of Measure | Speaker of the five factions; antagonist | Gave the Corran order, and will sacrifice Lanternfall to close the warps. Sincerely believes it saves more lives. |
| Iver Kest, "the Cutter" | Facets | Radical; antagonist | Un-taught as a boy; means to shatter the Heart Pane so no one can be un-taught again. |
| Mother Bramble | Evane, Tenders | Faction head | Heals anything nature would heal and nothing it wouldn't, and turns the dying away. |
| Keeper Hale | Evane, Keepers of the Hour | Archivist of the Hour Stair | Knows what really caused the Breaking and keeps the records sealed. |
| Choirmistress Wen | Evane, Still Choir | Faction head | Speaks only in mirrored hand-signs; the one Evane leader who writes to the Facets. |
| Caravan-master Dace | Evane, Waymakers | Teaches Gale | Runs caravans for both sides, which the other four factions resent. |
| Lio | Facets | A child in Lanternfall | Given a glyph too early; her first cast hurt her family, and now she is afraid of her own hands. |
| The Stilled of Corran | Facets | A town frozen in glass | About 200 people standing mid-step for twenty years; the test at the heart of Act 3. |
(Idea) Recurring enemies: glints (loose reflections leaking from warps, the common monster); Warden training golems; Sallow Wyrm; glass storms in the Shardfield; outlaw casters of both sides in the Undermere.