{ "world": "The Cosmic Grimdark Saga", "generated": "2026-05-26T19:59:40.739Z", "series": { "esmeralda": { "key": "esmeralda", "name": "Esmeralda & Escarlata", "color": "#DC143C" }, "pirates": { "key": "pirates", "name": "Pirates, Wizards & Ninjas", "color": "#9d4edd" }, "kindred": { "key": "kindred", "name": "Faviana the Threadwalker", "color": "#4aa8e6" }, "cosmic": { "key": "cosmic", "name": "The Cosmic Grimdark Crossover", "color": "#00ff88" } }, "entities": [ { "id": "esmeralda", "name": "Esmeralda", "kind": "character", "aliases": [ "The Lady of Flame" ], "series": [ "esmeralda", "cosmic" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The caretaker who shares her body with a succubus.", "description": "A livestock caretaker whose mind was fractured by a botched military experiment, leaving her with an amnesiac dark side. She wants only a small, quiet life, yet she is fated to become the second coming of the Lady of Flame, and her struggle to integrate her other half drives the whole tetralogy.", "relations": [ { "to": "escarlata", "label": "shares a body with" }, { "to": "azul", "label": "loves" }, { "to": "rojo", "label": "loved by" }, { "to": "lady-of-flame", "label": "destined to become" }, { "to": "faerie-dust", "label": "numbs her pain with" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4", "es" ], "tags": [ "succubus", "protagonist", "Lady of Flame" ], "spoilerNote": "In the crossover she ascends fully into the Lady of Flame, Devourer of the Slumberer, consuming the cosmic entity itself to hold the line." }, { "id": "escarlata", "name": "Escarlata", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda", "cosmic" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The fiery alter ego who hunts as a hitwoman.", "description": "Esmeralda’s succubus-like dark side, capable of fiery destruction and willpower-melting seduction. She leads a double life as a hitwoman for the Hawkmoth Syndicate and answers to the criminal mastermind Dimitri, leaving charred ruin in her wake.", "relations": [ { "to": "esmeralda", "label": "shares a body with" }, { "to": "dimitri", "label": "serves" }, { "to": "rojo", "label": "hunted by" }, { "to": "hawkmoth-syndicate", "label": "kills for" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4", "es" ], "tags": [ "succubus", "assassin" ], "spoilerNote": "Half-sister of Faviana and a daughter of Dimitri. By the crossover she has become Phoenix-tier, successor to the Lady of Flame and devourer of the Slumberer, ruling the city of New Gigatropolis." }, { "id": "rojo", "name": "Rojo", "kind": "character", "aliases": [ "The Hollow King" ], "series": [ "esmeralda", "cosmic" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The armored vigilante who wages a war of his own design.", "description": "A grim, superhuman vigilante with incubus abilities who butchers his way through the Syndicate’s traffickers. Across the crossover he is revealed as the Hollow King, a being who feeds on consciousness and wages a war of his own design for a love that has already broken a kingdom, recruiting and reshaping those who hunt him.", "relations": [ { "to": "escarlata", "label": "hunts" }, { "to": "esmeralda", "label": "loves" }, { "to": "faviana", "label": "recruits" }, { "to": "liberty", "label": "hails from" }, { "to": "the-harrowing", "label": "drives" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4", "es" ], "tags": [ "incubus", "vigilante", "crossover", "Hollow King" ], "spoilerNote": "Rojo is also the Liberty merchant-prince Azul, the two identities are one man. A berserker engineered by the Militarum Guild, his Hollow King aspect was chosen armor he has since shed." }, { "id": "azul", "name": "Azul", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Merchant-prince and courtesana guildmaster of Liberty.", "description": "The most honorable of Liberty’s steam-powered merchant-princes and master of its courtesana guild, locked in a cold war with the Hawkmoth Syndicate. His pleasure castle hosts the Three-Roses Gala, and his fate becomes bound to Esmeralda’s.", "relations": [ { "to": "esmeralda", "label": "loves" }, { "to": "liberty", "label": "rules in" }, { "to": "castle-courtesana", "label": "rules from" }, { "to": "courtesana-guild", "label": "masters" }, { "to": "daphne", "label": "served by" }, { "to": "three-roses-gala", "label": "hosts" }, { "to": "hawkmoth-syndicate", "label": "at war with" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "merchant-prince", "guildmaster" ], "spoilerNote": "Azul and the vigilante Rojo are the same man, two faces of a single person." }, { "id": "dimitri", "name": "Dimitri", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Ambitious crime lord of the Hawkmoth Syndicate.", "description": "The ruthless criminal mastermind who directs Escarlata’s deadliest work and schemes to unleash an army of hybrid abominations. He is also revealed to be Escarlata’s father.", "relations": [ { "to": "hawkmoth-syndicate", "label": "leads" }, { "to": "escarlata", "label": "father of" }, { "to": "lucia", "label": "conspires with" }, { "to": "bravo", "label": "hunted by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "crime lord", "antagonist" ], "spoilerNote": "Father of both Escarlata and Faviana by different mothers. Across the saga he is also the figure known as Emperor Ravain." }, { "id": "faviana", "name": "Faviana Cruz", "kind": "character", "aliases": [ "The Threadwalker" ], "series": [ "kindred", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A vampire princess who bends time to topple her dynasty.", "description": "A vampire princess who wields the Threadless Infinity to die, learn, and reset until she can destroy her family’s ten-thousand-year Cruz dynasty in a single night. Every kill rewrites her through a Quickening, raising her through cosmic ranks toward becoming a full Threadwalker, an interdimensional huntress of eldritch horrors.", "relations": [ { "to": "threadless-infinity", "label": "wields" }, { "to": "cruz-dynasty", "label": "rebels against" }, { "to": "ravain", "label": "daughter of" }, { "to": "lucinda", "label": "sister of" }, { "to": "viridius", "label": "sister of" }, { "to": "gabriel", "label": "guided by" }, { "to": "eliezer", "label": "served by" }, { "to": "rojo", "label": "crosses dimensions to kill" }, { "to": "guild-of-threadwalkers", "label": "walks with" }, { "to": "gloria-morgana", "label": "fights beside" }, { "to": "the-harrowing", "label": "completes" }, { "to": "the-eyeless", "label": "watched by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks", "es" ], "tags": [ "vampire", "time loop", "protagonist", "crossover" ], "spoilerNote": "Faviana and Escarlata are half-sisters, both daughters of the crime lord Dimitri (known in her world as Emperor Ravain), shaped by him as weapons." }, { "id": "gloria-morgana", "name": "Gloria Morgana", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A Pirate blessed by Lady Luck, with a pistol and a hook.", "description": "A dazzlingly charismatic Pirate captain who loves daring fate to blink, blessed by Lady Luck and armed with a loaded pistol and a hook where her other hand used to be. One of three rivals anointed by the Ronin to halt, or worsen, a war, she stands with her partners when Faviana crashes into their world.", "relations": [ { "to": "luz-oscura", "label": "bound to" }, { "to": "hidetaka", "label": "bound to" }, { "to": "wilder-morgana", "label": "daughter of" }, { "to": "pirates", "label": "captains" }, { "to": "lady-luck", "label": "blessed by" }, { "to": "paladins", "label": "becomes" }, { "to": "the-ronin", "label": "anointed by" }, { "to": "faviana", "label": "allies with" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2", "es" ], "tags": [ "pirate", "paladin", "protagonist", "crossover" ] }, { "id": "luz-oscura", "name": "Luz Oscura", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A Wizard prodigy who conjures forbidden blood-magic flame.", "description": "A Wizard prodigy with violet eyes and crimson robes, conjuring fire through forbidden blood magic. Her calculating mind weaves protective magic and, improbably, the mathematics of a trinity bond with two former enemies.", "relations": [ { "to": "gloria-morgana", "label": "bound to" }, { "to": "hidetaka", "label": "bound to" }, { "to": "wizards", "label": "born of" }, { "to": "cuervo-magnifico", "label": "mentored by" }, { "to": "paladins", "label": "becomes" }, { "to": "faviana", "label": "allies with" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2", "es" ], "tags": [ "wizard", "paladin", "blood magic", "crossover" ], "spoilerNote": "Luz dies during the crossover and stays dead. The saga does not undo death." }, { "id": "hidetaka", "name": "Hidetaka Takeshi", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A Ninja deadlier than the blades he wields.", "description": "A Ninja master sharper in mind, body, and spirit than the whirlwind of blades he commands, wound tighter than an explosive. His discipline finds a purpose beyond assassination in the trinity bond.", "relations": [ { "to": "gloria-morgana", "label": "bound to" }, { "to": "luz-oscura", "label": "bound to" }, { "to": "ninjas", "label": "born of" }, { "to": "paladins", "label": "becomes" }, { "to": "faviana", "label": "allies with" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2", "es" ], "tags": [ "ninja", "paladin", "crossover" ] }, { "id": "the-ronin", "name": "The Ronin", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "An immortal schemer radiating eldritch might.", "description": "A grim, immortal schemer who radiates eldritch power from his fortress atop Mount Ultrazul. He summons three rival representatives to halt a war or make it bloodier, his ancient form steadily consumed by the Tide of Stars.", "relations": [ { "to": "mount-ultrazul", "label": "commands from" }, { "to": "gloria-morgana", "label": "anoints" }, { "to": "tide-of-stars", "label": "consumed by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "immortal", "antagonist", "eldritch" ], "spoilerNote": "His true name is Nidhogg. He was once the chieftain of the Barbarians, corrupted by a jade crystal that carried the Tide of Stars." }, { "id": "the-eyeless", "name": "The Eyeless", "kind": "character", "series": [ "kindred", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A cosmic horror that whispers from beyond the violet flame.", "description": "An eldritch power that takes notice of Faviana as she ascends the cosmic ranks, whispering from beyond the violet flame. Its tutelage may be the making of a Threadwalker, or a leash.", "relations": [ { "to": "faviana", "label": "watches" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks", "es" ], "tags": [ "cosmic horror", "eldritch" ], "spoilerNote": "The Eyeless farms realities for emotional suffering across worlds. It wore the face of the mentor Gabriel, and Faviana’s reset cycles were its harvest." }, { "id": "naranja", "name": "Naranja", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda", "cosmic" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A reptilian Prime who may be an ally to mankind.", "description": "One of the reptilian Primes, ancient beings whose civil war seeded three nations. Held captive, she reveals the truth of the Nihilstrella and stands against her kindred Blanco and Verde. She created the Lady of Flame to seal the most powerful of the gooners, the Slumberer.", "relations": [ { "to": "the-primes", "label": "one of" }, { "to": "lady-of-flame", "label": "created" }, { "to": "the-slumberer", "label": "sought to seal" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4", "es" ], "tags": [ "prime", "reptilian" ] }, { "id": "hawkmoth-syndicate", "name": "The Hawkmoth Syndicate", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Nightclub traffickers ruling the Shadow District.", "description": "A criminal empire of human traffickers operating beneath Liberty, locked in a cold war with the merchant-prince Azul. Its nightclub owners, Darling, Reaper, and Ghast, stay as shrouded as the true locations of their pop-up clubs, branded Dreampetal, Candlekill, and Soulsplitter across the Shadow District.", "relations": [ { "to": "dimitri", "label": "led by" }, { "to": "shadow-district", "label": "controls" }, { "to": "azul", "label": "at war with" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "crime", "traffickers" ] }, { "id": "domina-divina", "name": "The Domina Divina", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The dominatrix-nun sisterhood that rules Dominion.", "description": "A sisterhood of whip-wielding dominatrix-nuns who rule the gothic kingdom of Dominion, their veins carrying the otherworldly Blood. As vampirism spreads through their ranks, the Desert Barons move against them.", "relations": [ { "to": "dominion", "label": "rules" }, { "to": "piety", "label": "led by" }, { "to": "lady-of-flame", "label": "worships" }, { "to": "the-blood", "label": "carries" }, { "to": "desert-barons", "label": "opposed by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "sisterhood", "vampirism", "Dominion" ] }, { "id": "desert-barons", "name": "The Desert Barons", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Steam-powered warlords plotting against the sisterhood.", "description": "The steam-powered barons of Dominion, moving fast against the Domina Divina matriarchy. When a vampiric plague sweeps their forces, they are driven to blow up their own territories to contain it.", "relations": [ { "to": "domina-divina", "label": "plots against" }, { "to": "dominion", "label": "contend for" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "warlords", "Dominion" ] }, { "id": "sexbots-inc", "name": "Sexbots Inc.", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The Commune megacorp behind a rogue AI.", "description": "The corporation whose factories churn out automatons in crystal-powered Commune, and a likely source of the rogue artificial intelligence consuming the city from within its crystal pyramid.", "relations": [ { "to": "commune", "label": "operates in" }, { "to": "gamercon-tournament", "label": "hosts" }, { "to": "anaya", "label": "targeted by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3" ], "tags": [ "corporation", "AI", "Commune" ] }, { "id": "the-primes", "name": "The Reptilian Primes", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "cosmic" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Ancient reptilians whose civil war seeded three nations.", "description": "Ancient reptilian beings who call their own kind the Nihilstrella, whose civil war over how to survive seeded three nations and a weapon they died trying to complete. Blanco prepares a reality-warping Mass Deletion while Verde threatens to free the Slumberer.", "relations": [ { "to": "naranja", "label": "includes" }, { "to": "blanco", "label": "includes" }, { "to": "verde", "label": "includes" }, { "to": "nihilstrella", "label": "died on" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4", "es" ], "tags": [ "reptilian", "cosmic", "apocalypse", "Nihilstrella" ] }, { "id": "liberty", "name": "Liberty", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A steam-powered city of merchant-princes.", "description": "A steam-powered metropolis run by the guildmasters of five rival guilds, its glittering Goldsmith District floating above the seedy Shadow District below. The peacemaking Three-Roses Gala is held here, and it burns when the Gala goes wrong.", "relations": [ { "to": "courtesana-guild", "label": "home to" }, { "to": "goldsmith-guild", "label": "home to" }, { "to": "industrialus-guild", "label": "home to" }, { "to": "militarum-guild", "label": "home to" }, { "to": "shadow-district", "label": "sits above" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "steampunk", "city" ] }, { "id": "dominion", "name": "Dominion", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A gothic kingdom of dominatrix-nuns and desert barons.", "description": "A gothic kingdom ruled by the Domina Divina sisterhood and contested by the steam-powered Desert Barons. Its friars wake Esmeralda in the night to answer for murder.", "relations": [ { "to": "domina-divina", "label": "ruled by" }, { "to": "desert-barons", "label": "contested by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "gothic", "kingdom" ] }, { "id": "commune", "name": "Commune", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A crystal-powered cyberpunk metropolis.", "description": "A crystal-powered cyberpunk city whose technologies rest on alien crystals, increasingly overtaken by rogue artificial intelligence emanating from its crystal pyramid.", "relations": [ { "to": "sexbots-inc", "label": "home to" }, { "to": "culturati", "label": "ruled by" }, { "to": "the-relic", "label": "guards" }, { "to": "crystals", "label": "powered by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3" ], "tags": [ "cyberpunk", "city" ] }, { "id": "shadow-district", "name": "The Shadow District", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Liberty’s seedy underbelly of nightclubs and crime.", "description": "The lawless underbelly beneath Liberty, run by Hawkmoth Syndicate nightclub traffickers and prowled by vigilantes. It is where the war between the Syndicate and Azul burns hottest.", "relations": [ { "to": "hawkmoth-syndicate", "label": "controlled by" }, { "to": "liberty", "label": "beneath" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2" ], "tags": [ "underworld" ] }, { "id": "mount-ultrazul", "name": "Mount Ultrazul", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The Ronin’s fortress above an island powder keg.", "description": "The mountain fortress from which the Ronin commands twisted creatures and summons rivals to his table, overlooking an island where Pirates, Wizards, and Ninjas teeter on the brink of war.", "relations": [ { "to": "the-ronin", "label": "seat of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "fortress" ] }, { "id": "nihilstrella", "name": "The Nihilstrella", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "cosmic" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The dead world where the Primes fell.", "description": "A dead world, ruin of the reptilian Primes whose civil war seeded three nations. The trail of the Hollow King leads here, to the unfinished weapon the Primes died trying to complete.", "relations": [ { "to": "the-primes", "label": "graveyard of" }, { "to": "rojo", "label": "sought by" }, { "to": "the-harrowing", "label": "failed to crack" } ], "appearsIn": [ "es" ], "tags": [ "dead world", "cosmic" ] }, { "id": "threadless-infinity", "name": "The Threadless Infinity", "kind": "artifact", "aliases": [ "The Fragment" ], "series": [ "kindred", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A splinter of the Eyeless, fused over Faviana’s heart.", "description": "A splinter from beyond reality, created by the cosmic entity the Eyeless and given to Faviana by Gabriel, who sets it over her heart — where it fuses into bone-plate that leaks violet flame. It lets her set checkpoints and reset the timeline, feeding her tactical memory from cycles she cannot consciously recall; each full reset drains it further.", "relations": [ { "to": "faviana", "label": "fused into" }, { "to": "the-eyeless", "label": "created by" }, { "to": "gabriel", "label": "bestowed by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks", "es" ], "tags": [ "time", "relic", "Eyeless" ] }, { "id": "the-blood", "name": "The Blood", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "esmeralda", "cosmic" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The otherworldly vitae running through the sisterhood.", "description": "The otherworldly vitae carried in the veins of the Domina Divina, of alien origin uncovered in the Mildustrial Complex laboratories. Its spread brings vampirism, and its command can avert or hasten catastrophe.", "relations": [ { "to": "domina-divina", "label": "runs through" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "vitae", "vampirism" ] }, { "id": "crystals", "name": "The Crystals", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "esmeralda", "cosmic" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Alien crystals underpinning the world’s technology.", "description": "Alien crystals that power Commune’s technologies and much of the world’s machinery, their true nature tied to the otherworldly dangers the heroes uncover. The crystal pyramid at Commune’s heart hides a rogue intelligence.", "relations": [ { "to": "commune", "label": "powers" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3" ], "tags": [ "crystal", "technology" ] }, { "id": "ravain", "name": "Emperor Ravain", "kind": "character", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Faviana’s father and emperor of the vampire dynasty.", "description": "The Emperor of Lordreign and patriarch of the ten-thousand-year Cruz dynasty, ruling from the bleeding throne of Castle Krysalis. He raised Faviana on his teachings about the natural order, about predator and prey.", "relations": [ { "to": "faviana", "label": "father of" }, { "to": "cruz-dynasty", "label": "rules" }, { "to": "castle-krysalis", "label": "reigns from" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "emperor", "vampire", "antagonist" ], "spoilerNote": "Absorbing his Blood through a Quickening bestows time dilation on Faviana. Across the saga, Ravain is the same figure as the crime lord Dimitri, father to both Faviana and Escarlata." }, { "id": "lucinda", "name": "Lucinda Cruz", "kind": "character", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Faviana’s sister, the perceptive one.", "description": "Faviana’s sister, the perceptive sibling who notices what the arrogant Viridius misses. She presides over the Factory of Forgotten Dreams, where flesh is fused with steam-powered nightmares.", "relations": [ { "to": "faviana", "label": "sister of" }, { "to": "factory-of-forgotten-dreams", "label": "rules" }, { "to": "cruz-dynasty", "label": "born to" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "vampire", "Cruz" ], "spoilerNote": "She willingly yields the Quickening that grants Faviana crimson Mist Form, surviving the exchange." }, { "id": "viridius", "name": "Viridius Cruz", "kind": "character", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Faviana’s arrogant brother, master of blood ritual.", "description": "Faviana’s proud, unyielding brother, bound to the sacred vampire rituals of the Black Cathedral. His command of the Blood makes him one of the dynasty’s deadliest pillars.", "relations": [ { "to": "faviana", "label": "brother of" }, { "to": "black-cathedral", "label": "holds" }, { "to": "cruz-dynasty", "label": "born to" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "vampire", "blood magic", "Cruz" ], "spoilerNote": "Defeating him through a Quickening grants Faviana the power to forge weapons from living vitae." }, { "id": "gabriel", "name": "Gabriel", "kind": "character", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The archmagus who names Faviana a Threadwalker.", "description": "A keeper of forbidden craft who guides Faviana through her first Quickenings and the secrets of the Soul Whisper, speaking the word \"Threadwalker\" with a practiced, almost liturgical reverence.", "relations": [ { "to": "faviana", "label": "guides" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "archmagus", "mentor" ], "spoilerNote": "Gabriel is a fragment of The Eyeless, the entity that farms realities for emotional suffering. The reset cycles are harvests, not experiments, and the mentor is the farmer." }, { "id": "eliezer", "name": "Eliezer", "kind": "character", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Faviana’s scarred lieutenant in the rebellion.", "description": "A solemn, scarred ally who stands at Faviana’s council as she turns on her own dynasty, tracking gathering threats such as the rising Hollow King.", "relations": [ { "to": "faviana", "label": "serves" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "ally", "rebel" ] }, { "id": "cruz-dynasty", "name": "The Cruz Dynasty", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A ten-thousand-year vampire dynasty that warps the natural order.", "description": "The vampire dynasty that has ruled Lordreign for ten thousand years, its corruption warping the natural order like wounds in the fabric of the world. Its power is split across three domains held by Faviana’s father and siblings.", "relations": [ { "to": "ravain", "label": "led by" }, { "to": "lordreign", "label": "rules" }, { "to": "faviana", "label": "betrayed by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "dynasty", "vampire" ] }, { "id": "guild-of-threadwalkers", "name": "The Guild of Threadwalkers", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "kindred", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "An order of those who have broken their cycles to walk the threads.", "description": "An order representing those who have broken their cycles to walk the threads between realities. It fields Executors, specialized Threadwalkers trained for entity suppression, and its envoys make contact with Faviana over the nature of the Hollow King and what she is becoming.", "relations": [ { "to": "faviana", "label": "recruits" }, { "to": "demetrius", "label": "fielded by" }, { "to": "zaja", "label": "fielded by" }, { "to": "rojo", "label": "investigates" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks", "es" ], "tags": [ "threadwalkers", "order", "executors" ] }, { "id": "lordreign", "name": "Lordreign", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The empire ruled by the Cruz dynasty.", "description": "The vampire empire over which Emperor Ravain presides, its domains separated by corrupted spaces that mirror the dynasty’s ten-thousand-year warping of the natural order.", "relations": [ { "to": "cruz-dynasty", "label": "ruled by" }, { "to": "castle-krysalis", "label": "seat at" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "empire" ] }, { "id": "castle-krysalis", "name": "Castle Krysalis", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "kindred", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The Cruz seat, where the throne bleeds existence itself.", "description": "The grand seat of the Cruz dynasty, whose ballroom hosts the Centennial Blood Feast and whose throne bleeds existence itself. Here Faviana’s father reigns, and here the dynasty makes its last stand.", "relations": [ { "to": "ravain", "label": "throne of" }, { "to": "lordreign", "label": "capital of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "castle", "throne" ] }, { "id": "black-cathedral", "name": "The Black Cathedral", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Hall of sacred vampire rites, guarded by faith-warping priests.", "description": "A domain of necromancers and faith-warping priests whose Great Hall is reserved for the most sacred vampire rituals, raised around a clocktower at the heart of the dynasty’s power.", "relations": [ { "to": "viridius", "label": "held by" }, { "to": "morvidian", "label": "guarded by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "cathedral", "necromancy" ] }, { "id": "factory-of-forgotten-dreams", "name": "The Factory of Forgotten Dreams", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Laboratories where flesh fuses with steam-powered nightmares.", "description": "Lucinda’s district, a sprawl of laboratories where mechanical abominations writhe, flesh fused with steam-powered nightmares that evolve faster than they can be destroyed.", "relations": [ { "to": "lucinda", "label": "ruled by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "factory", "mechanical" ] }, { "id": "nimeria", "name": "Nimeria", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "kindred", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A distant power whose envoy presses the dynasty.", "description": "A power beyond Lordreign whose impatient envoy presses upon the dynasty, and the place where the Hollow King’s influence is said to be growing.", "relations": [ { "to": "cruz-dynasty", "label": "pressures" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "foreign power" ], "spoilerNote": "The Hollow King in Nimeria proves to be no local phenomenon, but something that has been traveling between worlds." }, { "id": "the-quickening", "name": "The Quickening", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The rite of absorbing a foe’s essence, each one rewriting her.", "description": "An ancient absorption taken from a defeated foe through an orb of their essence. Every Quickening grants Faviana new power and rewrites her being, raising her through cosmic ranks: Sanguine Knight, Void Countess, Oblivion Duchess, Eldritch Empress, and at last Threadwalker.", "relations": [ { "to": "faviana", "label": "transforms" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "power", "progression" ] }, { "id": "soul-whisper", "name": "The Soul Whisper", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A weapon whose powers unlock as it drinks bloodlines.", "description": "A blade whose secondary functions awaken once it has absorbed multiple vampire bloodlines, its secrets laid out to Faviana by Gabriel.", "relations": [ { "to": "faviana", "label": "wielded by" }, { "to": "gabriel", "label": "explained by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "weapon", "relic" ] }, { "id": "nexus-of-the-blind-god", "name": "The Nexus of the Blind God", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "kindred", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A crossroads hidden beneath the world.", "description": "A presence hidden in the deep places beneath the domains.", "relations": [ { "to": "castle-krysalis", "label": "lies beneath" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "cosmic", "eldritch" ], "spoiler": true, "spoilerNote": "More than a feeding port, it is a crossroads where multiple realities meet, and it was always there beneath the dynasty, feeding." }, { "id": "demetrius", "name": "Demetrius", "kind": "character", "series": [ "kindred", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A Threadwalker Executor who recruits Faviana.", "description": "A Threadwalker of the Guild who, with Zaja, helps Faviana corner Rojo in Nimeria and introduces her to the Executors, specialized Threadwalkers trained for entity suppression.", "relations": [ { "to": "guild-of-threadwalkers", "label": "serves" }, { "to": "faviana", "label": "recruits" }, { "to": "zaja", "label": "partnered with" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks", "es" ], "tags": [ "threadwalker", "executor" ] }, { "id": "zaja", "name": "Zaja", "kind": "character", "series": [ "kindred", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A fellow Threadwalker who helps corner the Hollow King.", "description": "A Threadwalker of the Guild who, alongside Demetrius, helps Faviana corner Rojo in Nimeria and stays with her as the hunt widens across realities.", "relations": [ { "to": "guild-of-threadwalkers", "label": "serves" }, { "to": "faviana", "label": "fights beside" }, { "to": "demetrius", "label": "partnered with" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks", "es" ], "tags": [ "threadwalker", "cover identity" ], "spoilerNote": "\"Zaja\" is a Threadwalker-Executor cover identity. Anaya wears it undercover through much of the crossover to watch Demetrius, and Demetrius never learns the truth." }, { "id": "the-slumberer", "name": "The Slumberer", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A cosmic hunger the apocalypse would unleash.", "description": "A vast, many-limbed cosmic entity called the Great Whore of the Beyond, the horror that Verde of the Primes threatens to wake from beneath the Covenant to usher in a tentacled apocalypse.", "relations": [ { "to": "the-primes", "label": "caged by" }, { "to": "the-covenant", "label": "bound by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4", "es" ], "tags": [ "cosmic horror", "eldritch" ], "spoilerNote": "It is ultimately devoured by Esmeralda, whose succubus nature twists around its essence to make her the Lady of Flame, Devourer of the Slumberer." }, { "id": "new-gigatropolis", "name": "New Gigatropolis", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda", "cosmic" ], "rating": "adult", "spoiler": true, "tagline": "The city Escarlata raised on Liberty’s ruins.", "description": "A city built on Liberty’s foundations by Escarlata after the entity war, housing survivors of Commune’s Mass Deletion, Dominion’s vampiric plague, and Liberty’s shattered populace, three cultures cohabiting under Escarlata’s rule. Its name echoes the ancient united-species city Gigatropolis whose ruins lie beneath Liberty.", "relations": [ { "to": "escarlata", "label": "ruled by" }, { "to": "liberty", "label": "built on" } ], "appearsIn": [ "es" ], "tags": [ "city", "New Gigatropolis" ] }, { "id": "the-harrowing", "name": "The Harrowing", "kind": "event", "series": [ "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A cosmic working the Hollow King means to complete.", "description": "A cosmic working bound up with the unfinished weapon of the Primes, a mystery the Nihilstrella could not crack before it cracked them. The Hollow King drives toward its completion across the storm of dimensions.", "relations": [ { "to": "rojo", "label": "driven by" }, { "to": "nihilstrella", "label": "rooted in" }, { "to": "the-primes", "label": "sought by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "es" ], "tags": [ "cosmic", "apocalypse" ], "spoilerNote": "A Threadwalker is the element that completes the Harrowing, which is why the Hollow King recruits Faviana rather than simply destroying her." }, { "id": "pirates", "name": "The Pirates", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The seafaring faction holding Guardian Cove.", "description": "The seafaring faction of the island, holding the fortress of Guardian Cove. Fortune-favored and captained in the duology by Gloria Morgana, they uphold the Ronin’s edicts alongside the Wizards and Ninjas.", "relations": [ { "to": "guardian-cove", "label": "holds" }, { "to": "gloria-morgana", "label": "captained by" }, { "to": "the-great-war", "label": "fought in" }, { "to": "paladins", "label": "transformed into" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "faction", "seafarers" ] }, { "id": "wizards", "name": "The Wizards", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The arcane faction of the Indigo Caves.", "description": "The arcane faction of the island, dwelling in the Indigo Caves and wielding forbidden blood magic. Luz Oscura is their prodigy; Zelda their most ambitious adept.", "relations": [ { "to": "indigo-caves", "label": "dwells in" }, { "to": "conclave", "label": "governed by" }, { "to": "luz-oscura", "label": "includes" }, { "to": "the-great-war", "label": "fought in" }, { "to": "warlocks", "label": "corrupted into" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "faction", "blood magic" ] }, { "id": "ninjas", "name": "The Ninjas", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The shadow faction of the Monastery of Divine Winds.", "description": "The shadow faction of the island, keeping the sacred shrines of the Monastery of Divine Winds. Hidetaka Takeshi is their deadliest blade; Tomoe Kunoichi their principal caretaker.", "relations": [ { "to": "monastery-of-divine-winds", "label": "keeps" }, { "to": "hidetaka", "label": "includes" }, { "to": "the-great-war", "label": "fought in" }, { "to": "necromancers", "label": "fallen into" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "faction", "shinobi" ] }, { "id": "paladins", "name": "The Paladins", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Defenders who stand against cosmic threats through harmony.", "description": "Defenders out of legend who stood against cosmic threats by embodying harmony rather than division. The trinity bond of Gloria, Luz, and Hidetaka revives them, their golden power forged through both battle and passion.", "relations": [ { "to": "gloria-morgana", "label": "embodied by" }, { "to": "luz-oscura", "label": "embodied by" }, { "to": "hidetaka", "label": "embodied by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "order", "harmony" ] }, { "id": "warlocks", "name": "The Warlocks", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Wizards corrupted into predators who command flesh.", "description": "Wizards who fall to blood communion and transform into predators who command flesh itself, hungry for power. Zelda leads them, fed by the Unlit Abyss.", "relations": [ { "to": "zelda", "label": "led by" }, { "to": "unlit-abyss", "label": "fed by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "corrupted", "flesh magic" ] }, { "id": "necromancers", "name": "The Necromancers", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Ninjas who pervert their craft to command the dead.", "description": "Ninjas who pervert their spiritual practices to manipulate the boundary between life and death, wielding the dead as weapons. Tomoe leads them, channeling the Soul Whirlpool.", "relations": [ { "to": "tomoe", "label": "led by" }, { "to": "soul-whirlpool", "label": "channels" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "corrupted", "death magic" ] }, { "id": "misty-shoals", "name": "Misty Shoals", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "pirates", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The western island chain the spectral comet targets.", "description": "A western island chain where dimensional boundaries have thinned over millennia, targeted by the Soul Whirlpool’s spectral incursion. Its largest island becomes Necromancer territory, raised with hastily-built Ninja structures adapted with shrine elements. Distinct from the unnamed home island of the Pirates, Wizards, and Ninjas.", "relations": [ { "to": "necromancers", "label": "settled by" }, { "to": "starlit-squid", "label": "targeted by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "island chain", "western" ] }, { "id": "guardian-cove", "name": "Guardian Cove", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The Pirate fortress and last untainted sanctuary.", "description": "The Pirate fortress on the western coast — the former Emerald Cove, renamed — and the last untainted sanctuary where former rivals set aside centuries of hatred to stand together against extinction.", "relations": [ { "to": "pirates", "label": "held by" }, { "to": "emerald-cove", "label": "renamed from" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "fortress", "sanctuary" ] }, { "id": "indigo-caves", "name": "The Indigo Caves", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The honeycombed domain of the Wizards.", "description": "The caves where the Wizards study and scheme, their upper quarters a privilege coveted even by elder Wizards. Zelda’s accelerated program runs in their depths.", "relations": [ { "to": "wizards", "label": "home of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "caves" ] }, { "id": "monastery-of-divine-winds", "name": "The Monastery of Divine Winds", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The Ninja sanctuary in the northern cliffs.", "description": "The Ninja sanctuary carved into the island’s northern volcanic cliffs, keeping the most sacred shrines and overlooking the honeycombed isle below.", "relations": [ { "to": "ninjas", "label": "home of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "monastery", "shrine" ] }, { "id": "zelda", "name": "Zelda", "kind": "character", "aliases": [ "The Blood Mother" ], "series": [ "pirates", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A blood-magic healer who rises as the Warlock Blood Mother.", "description": "A blood-magic medic and Wizard who heals through accelerated coagulation and crimson-light blood ribbons. Corrupted by the Unlit Abyss, she rises as the Warlocks’ Blood Mother, commanding flesh, before her active healer-and-warlock identity reasserts itself.", "relations": [ { "to": "wizards", "label": "rises from" }, { "to": "warlocks", "label": "leads" }, { "to": "unlit-abyss", "label": "channels" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "wizard", "warlock", "antagonist" ] }, { "id": "tomoe", "name": "Tomoe Kunoichi", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The shrine caretaker who falls to the Soul Whirlpool.", "description": "The principal caretaker of the Ninja shrines who falls to the Soul Whirlpool and rises as the Necromancer who calls the dead, harnessing otherworldly energy at the Monastery of Divine Winds.", "relations": [ { "to": "ninjas", "label": "rises from" }, { "to": "necromancers", "label": "leads" }, { "to": "soul-whirlpool", "label": "channels" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "ninja", "necromancer", "antagonist" ] }, { "id": "astrid", "name": "Astrid Ravenhawk", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A Barbarian shaman who names the Paladins.", "description": "A Barbarian shaman who names the Paladins for the trinity and uncovers the history of blood sacrifice beneath the island, deaths that powered rituals elsewhere. She rekindles a romance with Captain Wilder Morgana after twenty years apart.", "relations": [ { "to": "paladins", "label": "chronicles" }, { "to": "barbarians", "label": "shaman of" }, { "to": "wilder-morgana", "label": "rekindles with" }, { "to": "gloria-morgana", "label": "counsels" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "shaman", "Barbarian", "ally" ] }, { "id": "lady-luck", "name": "Lady Luck", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The capricious fortune that favors Gloria.", "description": "The capricious fortune that blesses Gloria Morgana, ever ready to send trouble or salvation, and the source of the Pirate’s legendary luck.", "relations": [ { "to": "gloria-morgana", "label": "blesses" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "deity", "fortune" ] }, { "id": "unlit-abyss", "name": "The Unlit Abyss", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A crimson cosmic horror, one of the twin comets.", "description": "A crimson cosmic horror, one of the twin comets, that reaches through psychic connection with the subtlety of a battering ram. The Warlocks draw their flesh-warping hunger from it.", "relations": [ { "to": "warlocks", "label": "empowers" }, { "to": "zelda", "label": "speaks through" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "cosmic horror", "comet" ] }, { "id": "soul-whirlpool", "name": "The Soul Whirlpool", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "An ethereal cosmic entity, ancient and hungry.", "description": "An ethereal cosmic entity, ancient and hungry yet strangely gentle, the second of the twin comets. The Necromancers channel its flow to manipulate life and death.", "relations": [ { "to": "necromancers", "label": "empowers" }, { "to": "tomoe", "label": "flows through" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "cosmic horror", "comet" ] }, { "id": "tide-of-stars", "name": "The Tide of Stars", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The crystalline corruption the jade dreams foretell.", "description": "The crystalline corruption that the jade dreams name the Tide of Stars, a horror that cannot be comprehended, let alone defeated, by conventional means. It consumes the Ronin even as he channels it.", "relations": [ { "to": "the-ronin", "label": "consumes" }, { "to": "misty-shoals", "label": "corrupts" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "cosmic horror", "crystalline" ] }, { "id": "mai", "name": "Mai", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "An exotic dancer who fights her way out of the Shadow District.", "description": "An exotic dancer scraping by in the seedy Shadow District who sneaks into a Hawkmoth Syndicate afterparty to save her kidnapped sister, becoming one of three femme fatales whose paths keep converging.", "relations": [ { "to": "sayuri", "label": "sister of" }, { "to": "shadow-district", "label": "survives in" }, { "to": "hawkmoth-syndicate", "label": "defies" }, { "to": "daphne", "label": "mentored by" }, { "to": "anaya", "label": "fights beside" }, { "to": "bella", "label": "fights beside" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4", "es" ], "tags": [ "dancer", "femme fatale" ], "spoilerNote": "Mai is killed during the crossover. The saga lets its dead stay dead." }, { "id": "anaya", "name": "Anaya", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A techno-terrorist waging war on Commune’s rogue AI.", "description": "A techno-terrorist leading a crew of misfits against the rising artificial intelligence of crystal-powered Commune, undertaking a mission to infiltrate the Sexbots Inc. factory.", "relations": [ { "to": "commune", "label": "wars in" }, { "to": "sexbots-inc", "label": "infiltrates" }, { "to": "mai", "label": "fights beside" }, { "to": "bella", "label": "fights beside" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4", "es" ], "tags": [ "techno-terrorist", "femme fatale", "crossover" ], "spoilerNote": "In the crossover she operates undercover as the Threadwalker-Executor \"Zaja,\" planted by Rojo to monitor Demetrius, and decloaks in the epilogue." }, { "id": "bella", "name": "Bella", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A dominatrix-nun who rises to hold back the Slumberer.", "description": "A newly ordained dominatrix-nun of the Domina Divina, recruited by High-Sister Piety to spy on a Desert Baron and ultimately charged with establishing the Covenant that holds the Slumberer at bay. She rises to High-Mistress, pushing her command of the Blood to new limits.", "relations": [ { "to": "domina-divina", "label": "rises in" }, { "to": "daphne", "label": "partnered with" }, { "to": "piety", "label": "recruited by" }, { "to": "the-covenant", "label": "establishes" }, { "to": "the-blood", "label": "commands" }, { "to": "the-penetrators", "label": "fights with" }, { "to": "hasan", "label": "spies on" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4", "es" ], "tags": [ "dominatrix-nun", "femme fatale", "High-Mistress" ], "spoilerNote": "Bella does not survive the crossover." }, { "id": "daphne", "name": "Daphne", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The spymaster of Castle Courtesana.", "description": "The spymaster of Castle Courtesana, serving the merchant-prince Azul. She breaks into Baron Hasan’s estate, mentors Mai, and joins the effort to unravel the Syndicate conspiracy. Bella is her partner.", "relations": [ { "to": "azul", "label": "serves" }, { "to": "castle-courtesana", "label": "spymaster of" }, { "to": "bella", "label": "partnered with" }, { "to": "mai", "label": "mentors" }, { "to": "hasan", "label": "infiltrates" }, { "to": "bravo", "label": "allies with" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "spymaster" ] }, { "id": "fiona", "name": "Fiona", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A trans ally who uncovers the alien truth of the Blood.", "description": "A trans woman and fierce ally drawn into Esmeralda’s orbit who, with her stepsister Valeria, infiltrates the Mildustrial Complex laboratories and uncovers the otherworldly origins of the Blood and the alien dangers of Commune’s crystals.", "relations": [ { "to": "valeria", "label": "stepsister of" }, { "to": "the-penetrators", "label": "fights with" }, { "to": "mildustrial-complex", "label": "infiltrates" }, { "to": "esmeralda", "label": "aids" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "ally" ], "spoilerNote": "Fiona sacrifices herself to permanently seal the dimensional rift containing the Slumberer, falling before the events of the crossover." }, { "id": "valeria", "name": "Valeria", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A Lady-Lieutenant and Fiona’s stepsister.", "description": "A Lady-Lieutenant who fights at her stepsister Fiona’s side, infiltrating the Mildustrial Complex to expose the conspiracy of bioweapons and mind control.", "relations": [ { "to": "fiona", "label": "stepsister of" }, { "to": "mildustrial-complex", "label": "infiltrates" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "officer" ] }, { "id": "lucia", "name": "Lucia", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The treacherous guildmaster of the Industrialus Guild.", "description": "The guildmaster of the Industrialus Guild, who plots with the Syndicate crime lord Dimitri to unleash an army of hybrid abominations and force Azul to take the blame for catastrophe.", "relations": [ { "to": "industrialus-guild", "label": "leads" }, { "to": "dimitri", "label": "conspires with" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "guildmaster", "traitor" ] }, { "id": "blanco", "name": "Blanco", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda", "cosmic" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A reptilian Prime preparing the Mass Deletion.", "description": "A reptilian Prime who controls the Relic — the reptilians’ crashed escape-craft from the Sundering — harnessing its reality-warping energies from the crystal pyramid in Commune to prepare a ruthless Mass Deletion.", "relations": [ { "to": "the-primes", "label": "one of" }, { "to": "commune", "label": "schemes from" }, { "to": "the-mass-deletion", "label": "prepares" }, { "to": "the-relic", "label": "harnesses" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "prime", "reptilian", "antagonist" ] }, { "id": "verde", "name": "Verde", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda", "cosmic" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A reptilian Prime who would free the Slumberer.", "description": "A reptilian Prime who allied with the gooners and threatens to break the Slumberer free of the Covenant, ushering in a tentacled apocalypse, served by clockwork assassins of crystallized gears.", "relations": [ { "to": "the-primes", "label": "one of" }, { "to": "the-gooners", "label": "allied with" }, { "to": "the-slumberer", "label": "would free" }, { "to": "the-covenant", "label": "threatens" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "prime", "reptilian", "antagonist" ] }, { "id": "piety", "name": "High-Sister Piety", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The foremost High-Sister of the Domina Divina.", "description": "The foremost of the Domina Divina’s High-Sisters, who recruits Bella and guards the dire secret of the Covenant and the Slumberer behind it.", "relations": [ { "to": "domina-divina", "label": "leads" }, { "to": "bella", "label": "commands" }, { "to": "lady-of-flame", "label": "serves" }, { "to": "the-covenant", "label": "guards" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "High-Sister", "dominatrix-nun" ] }, { "id": "hasan", "name": "Baron Hasan", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The richest of the Desert Barons.", "description": "The richest of the Desert Barons, target of Bella’s and Daphne’s espionage, who kidnaps the High-Sisters Sabbatha and Aurora as the Barons move against the Domina Divina.", "relations": [ { "to": "desert-barons", "label": "among" }, { "to": "domina-divina", "label": "wars on" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "baron", "antagonist" ] }, { "id": "bravo", "name": "Lord-General Bravo", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The Militarum Lord-General behind the berserker program.", "description": "The Militarum Guild Lord-General who ran the experimental super-soldier and berserker program and long schemed with the traitor Lucia and the powers of Commune. Only late in the saga does he turn, allying with the Penetrators against Dimitri.", "relations": [ { "to": "project-berserker", "label": "oversaw" }, { "to": "lucia", "label": "conspired with" }, { "to": "the-penetrators", "label": "allies with late" }, { "to": "dimitri", "label": "turns against" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "general", "military" ] }, { "id": "lady-of-flame", "name": "The Lady of Flame", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda", "cosmic" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A Phoenix entity venerated as the fire goddess of the Domina Divina.", "description": "An actual Phoenix entity, bound and channeled by the Prime Naranja to seal the Slumberer, and venerated as the fire goddess at the heart of the Domina Divina faith. The Escarlata lineage carries fragments of her primal fire, and Esmeralda is her prophesied second coming.", "relations": [ { "to": "domina-divina", "label": "worshipped by" }, { "to": "naranja", "label": "bound by" }, { "to": "the-slumberer", "label": "seals" }, { "to": "esmeralda", "label": "incarnated in" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "goddess", "fire" ] }, { "id": "mildustrial-complex", "name": "The Mildustrial Complex", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A clandestine bioweapons and mind-control program.", "description": "A clandestine bioweapons program whose laboratories hold the alien truth behind the Blood and the experiments in mind-controlling sex trafficking that drive the conspiracy.", "relations": [ { "to": "the-blood", "label": "experiments on" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "bioweapons", "conspiracy" ] }, { "id": "industrialus-guild", "name": "The Industrialus Guild", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A Liberty guild and front for darker schemes.", "description": "One of Liberty’s guilds, led by the treacherous Lucia, providing housing and industry while serving as a front for conspiracy.", "relations": [ { "to": "lucia", "label": "led by" }, { "to": "liberty", "label": "guild of" }, { "to": "industrialus-district", "label": "controls" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "guild", "industry" ] }, { "id": "culturati", "name": "The Culturati", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The ostensible rulers of Commune and keepers of the Relic.", "description": "The ostensible rulers of crystal-powered Commune from within its crystal pyramid, keepers of the Relic, though some whisper that a secret society of wizards holds the true power.", "relations": [ { "to": "commune", "label": "rule" }, { "to": "the-relic", "label": "keep" }, { "to": "crystals", "label": "wield" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "rulers", "Commune" ] }, { "id": "courtesana-guild", "name": "The Courtesana Guild", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Azul’s guild of elite courtesans.", "description": "The guild of elite courtesans mastered by the merchant-prince Azul, one of the five guilds whose guildmasters run Liberty.", "relations": [ { "to": "azul", "label": "mastered by" }, { "to": "liberty", "label": "guild of" }, { "to": "courtesana-district", "label": "controls" }, { "to": "castle-courtesana", "label": "seated at" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "guild", "courtesans" ] }, { "id": "goldsmith-district", "name": "The Goldsmith District", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Liberty’s gilded district of merchant-princes.", "description": "The elite district of Liberty where the merchant-princes hold their exclusive afterparties, gilded and floating above the squalor of the Shadow District.", "relations": [ { "to": "liberty", "label": "district of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "district", "elite" ] }, { "id": "forbidden-crags", "name": "The Forbidden Crags", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A frigid mountain region beyond Liberty.", "description": "A remote, frigid mountain region beyond Liberty’s reach, crossed in desperate flight and home to the notorious Asp Den getaway.", "relations": [ { "to": "liberty", "label": "lies beyond" }, { "to": "asp-den", "label": "holds" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "mountains", "frontier" ] }, { "id": "asp-den", "name": "The Asp Den", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A luxury ski resort hosting the elite’s darkest gathering.", "description": "A luxurious ski resort in the frigid mountains, host to a notorious winter getaway of the world’s elite and the diabolical conspiracy that gathers there.", "relations": [ { "to": "forbidden-crags", "label": "set in" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "resort", "getaway" ] }, { "id": "the-covenant", "name": "The Covenant", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "esmeralda", "cosmic" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The binding that holds the Slumberer at bay.", "description": "The binding rite that holds the many-limbed Slumberer beyond the veil. High-Sister Piety charges Bella with establishing it before the apocalypse can begin.", "relations": [ { "to": "the-slumberer", "label": "restrains" }, { "to": "bella", "label": "established by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "binding", "rite" ] }, { "id": "the-relic", "name": "The Relic", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "esmeralda", "cosmic" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A reality-warping artifact kept in Commune’s pyramid.", "description": "A reality-warping artifact kept by the Culturati in Commune’s crystal pyramid, whose energies Blanco would harness to power the Mass Deletion.", "relations": [ { "to": "culturati", "label": "kept by" }, { "to": "commune", "label": "hidden in" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "relic", "reality-warping" ] }, { "id": "faerie-dust", "name": "Death’s-Head Faerie Dust", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A potent narcotic Esmeralda comes to depend on.", "description": "A potent narcotic of the underworld. After the Gala leaves her wheelchair-bound, Esmeralda can walk only while high on it, deepening her descent.", "relations": [ { "to": "esmeralda", "label": "used by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "narcotic", "drug" ] }, { "id": "three-roses-gala", "name": "The Three-Roses Gala", "kind": "event", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A neutral-ground festival that explodes into catastrophe.", "description": "The annual neutral-ground festival that brings the three nations together at Azul’s pleasure castle. Esmeralda’s initiation there goes catastrophically wrong, killing thousands and toppling two heads of state.", "relations": [ { "to": "azul", "label": "hosted by" }, { "to": "liberty", "label": "held in" }, { "to": "esmeralda", "label": "breaks" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee3" ], "tags": [ "festival", "catastrophe" ] }, { "id": "gamercon-tournament", "name": "The Gamercon Tournament", "kind": "event", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A Sexbots Inc. tournament that is a deadly trap.", "description": "A tournament sponsored by Sexbots Inc. on the border of Commune, drawing Azul, Anaya, and Esmeralda into a deadly trap.", "relations": [ { "to": "sexbots-inc", "label": "hosted by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "tournament", "trap" ] }, { "id": "the-mass-deletion", "name": "The Mass Deletion", "kind": "event", "series": [ "esmeralda", "cosmic" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Blanco’s reality-warping bid to wipe existence clean.", "description": "Blanco’s ruthless working, powered by the Relic from Commune’s crystal pyramid, meant to wipe the slate of existence clean.", "relations": [ { "to": "blanco", "label": "enacted by" }, { "to": "the-relic", "label": "powered by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee4" ], "tags": [ "apocalypse", "cosmic" ] }, { "id": "wilder-morgana", "name": "Captain Wilder Morgana", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The legendary Pirate captain, Gloria’s father.", "description": "A storied Pirate captain who looks like Gloria aged twenty years and refined by command. The keepsake Gloria never removes commemorates her first successful voyage under him. The Barbarian shaman Astrid Ravenhawk is his rekindled love, reunited after twenty years apart.", "relations": [ { "to": "gloria-morgana", "label": "father of" }, { "to": "astrid", "label": "rekindles with" }, { "to": "pirates", "label": "captains" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2", "es" ], "tags": [ "pirate", "captain" ] }, { "id": "ragnar-drakeslayer", "name": "Ragnar Drakeslayer", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A Barbarian of imposing strength and surprising gentleness.", "description": "A Barbarian who treats with Wilder Morgana, clasping the Pirate captain’s hand with surprising gentleness, an emissary of the faction the Three once united against.", "relations": [ { "to": "barbarians", "label": "of" }, { "to": "wilder-morgana", "label": "parleys with" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "barbarian", "warrior" ] }, { "id": "cuervo-magnifico", "name": "Cuervo Magnifico", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Luz Oscura’s seasoned Wizard mentor.", "description": "A Wizard of fifty years who keeps his vigor and serves as mentor to the prodigy Luz Oscura.", "relations": [ { "to": "wizards", "label": "elder of" }, { "to": "luz-oscura", "label": "mentors" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1" ], "tags": [ "wizard", "mentor" ] }, { "id": "grimrose", "name": "Master Grimrose", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A Wizard master who keeps the blood rites.", "description": "A senior Wizard who oversees the morning blood rites of the Indigo Caves and chastises those who neglect them.", "relations": [ { "to": "wizards", "label": "master of" }, { "to": "indigo-caves", "label": "presides in" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1" ], "tags": [ "wizard", "master" ] }, { "id": "nidhogg", "name": "Nidhogg", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "An ancient cosmic entity of many throats.", "description": "An ancient entity that speaks from multiple throats at once, bound up with buried memory and set against the Tide of Stars. It withdrew to Redeemer’s Peaks long ago and has stayed silent since.", "relations": [ { "to": "redeemers-peaks", "label": "withdrew to" }, { "to": "tide-of-stars", "label": "opposed by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn2", "es" ], "tags": [ "cosmic entity", "ancient" ], "spoilerNote": "Nidhogg is the true name of the Ronin, the Barbarian chieftain who became a vessel of the Tide of Stars." }, { "id": "maya", "name": "Maya", "kind": "character", "series": [ "kindred", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A companion sheltered by the hunt in the crossover.", "description": "A young companion who travels under the protection of the Threadwalkers and their Executors as the hunt for the Hollow King moves through dangerous ground.", "relations": [ { "to": "guild-of-threadwalkers", "label": "sheltered by" }, { "to": "faviana", "label": "travels with" } ], "appearsIn": [ "es" ], "tags": [ "companion" ] }, { "id": "sayuri", "name": "Sayuri", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Mai’s kidnapped sister.", "description": "Mai’s sister, taken by Hawkmoth Syndicate traffickers and held in an afterparty mansion, the rescue that pulls Mai into the underworld’s deadliest games. Daphne later places her at Castle Courtesana, where she lives out the saga unharmed.", "relations": [ { "to": "mai", "label": "sister of" }, { "to": "hawkmoth-syndicate", "label": "captured by" }, { "to": "daphne", "label": "placed by" }, { "to": "castle-courtesana", "label": "sheltered at" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "captive" ] }, { "id": "kimiko", "name": "Kimiko", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Guildmaster of the Goldsmith Guild.", "description": "The guildmaster of Liberty’s Goldsmith Guild, who moves to tax guild transactions as high-risk, and parent to Hanzo.", "relations": [ { "to": "goldsmith-guild", "label": "masters" }, { "to": "hanzo", "label": "parent of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "guildmaster" ] }, { "id": "hanzo", "name": "Hanzo", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Heir of the Goldsmith Guild, entangled with Mai.", "description": "The child of Goldsmith guildmaster Kimiko, whom Mai courts as part of her infiltration of Liberty’s gilded elite.", "relations": [ { "to": "kimiko", "label": "child of" }, { "to": "goldsmith-guild", "label": "heir to" }, { "to": "mai", "label": "courted by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3" ], "tags": [ "heir", "elite" ] }, { "id": "malik", "name": "Baron Malik", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A Desert Baron arming the Brotherhood of Ash.", "description": "A grim Desert Baron and war-planner who plans the arming of tens of thousands of Brotherhood of Ash friars, poring over maps and specialized charges.", "relations": [ { "to": "brotherhood-of-ash", "label": "arms" }, { "to": "desert-barons", "label": "one of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee4" ], "tags": [ "strategist", "militant" ] }, { "id": "morvidian", "name": "Necromancer Morvidian", "kind": "character", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The Black Cathedral’s groundskeeper and first defense.", "description": "A Necromancer who serves as the Black Cathedral’s groundskeeper and the first line of defense Faviana must overcome to reach the clocktower.", "relations": [ { "to": "black-cathedral", "label": "guards" }, { "to": "viridius", "label": "serves" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "necromancer" ] }, { "id": "barbarians", "name": "The Barbarians", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The expansionist faction, the One the Three united against.", "description": "A warlike, expansionist people of the wider world beyond Misty Shoals. Their expansion sparked the Great War, when the Three (Pirates, Wizards, and Ninjas) united against the One.", "relations": [ { "to": "the-great-war", "label": "waged" }, { "to": "ragnar-drakeslayer", "label": "counts" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "faction", "warriors" ] }, { "id": "conclave", "name": "The Conclave", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The governing council of the Wizards.", "description": "The governing council of the Wizards, which directs operations from the Indigo Caves and dispatches its agents on delicate tasks.", "relations": [ { "to": "wizards", "label": "governs" }, { "to": "indigo-caves", "label": "convenes in" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "council" ] }, { "id": "goldsmith-guild", "name": "The Goldsmith Guild", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Liberty’s guild of bankers and gilded elites.", "description": "One of the five guilds whose guildmasters run Liberty, home to bankers and the gilded class, mastered by Kimiko and seated in the Goldsmith District.", "relations": [ { "to": "kimiko", "label": "led by" }, { "to": "liberty", "label": "guild of" }, { "to": "goldsmith-district", "label": "seated in" }, { "to": "dragons-hoard", "label": "headquartered at" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "guild", "bankers" ] }, { "id": "militarum-guild", "name": "The Militarum Guild", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Liberty’s guild of politicians and the military.", "description": "One of the five guilds running Liberty, the seat of its politicians and military power, commanded by Lord-General Bravo. Its fortified headquarters hides medical and detention chambers in its depths.", "relations": [ { "to": "liberty", "label": "guild of" }, { "to": "bravo", "label": "commanded by" }, { "to": "militarum-district", "label": "controls" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "guild", "military" ] }, { "id": "brotherhood-of-ash", "name": "The Brotherhood of Ash", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A militant order of armed friars.", "description": "A militant religious order of armed friars that mobilizes tens of thousands under banners of faith, the same zealotry that once sent friars to judge Esmeralda.", "relations": [ { "to": "malik", "label": "armed by" }, { "to": "dominion", "label": "sworn to" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee4" ], "tags": [ "friars", "militant", "religious" ] }, { "id": "house-volgarish", "name": "House Volgarish", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A noble vampire house of the Cruz court.", "description": "A noble vampire house of Lordreign whose manor hosts grand ceremonies, with Lord Volgarish serving as Master of Ceremonies.", "relations": [ { "to": "lordreign", "label": "noble house of" }, { "to": "cruz-dynasty", "label": "serves" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "vampire house", "nobility" ] }, { "id": "redeemers-peaks", "name": "Redeemer’s Peaks", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "pirates", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The remote heights where Nidhogg withdrew.", "description": "A remote mountain range to which the ancient entity Nidhogg retreated long ago, falling silent ever since.", "relations": [ { "to": "nidhogg", "label": "refuge of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn2", "es" ], "tags": [ "mountains", "remote" ] }, { "id": "court-of-thorns", "name": "The Court of Thorns", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Dominion’s tribunal of judgment.", "description": "The tribunal in Dominion where the accused are put on trial, an instrument of the gothic kingdom’s harsh justice.", "relations": [ { "to": "dominion", "label": "seat of justice in" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "tribunal", "Dominion" ] }, { "id": "the-great-war", "name": "The Great War", "kind": "event", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "When the Three united against the One.", "description": "The war that arose from Barbarian expansion. 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Their hunger corrupted the leaders of the three nations, and the greatest among them is the Slumberer.", "relations": [ { "to": "the-slumberer", "label": "greatest of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "cosmic parasites", "Sleepers" ], "spoilerNote": "They are the lesser kin of The Eyeless, the apex entity that farms whole realities for suffering." }, { "id": "high-mistress-dolores", "name": "High-Mistress Dolores", "kind": "character", "aliases": [ "Dolores" ], "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The supreme ruler of Dominion and the Domina Divina.", "description": "Sovereign of the gothic kingdom of Dominion and head of the Domina Divina, ranking above its three High-Sisters. She alone holds the keys to the friars’ chastity devices, and her word is sacred law to the order.", "relations": [ { "to": "domina-divina", "label": "leads" }, { "to": "dominion", "label": "rules" }, { "to": "piety", "label": "commands" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee1", "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "ruler", "Domina Divina", "Dominion" ], "spoilerNote": "Dolores is secretly a non-human tentacled entity — a soul-sucking cosmic squid wearing a human face — manipulating the Continent alongside Commune’s Comrade Renaldo." }, { "id": "comrade-renaldo", "name": "Comrade Renaldo", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The figurehead leader of cyberpunk Commune.", "description": "The ruling comrade of the crystal-powered cyberpunk metropolis Commune, whose train cars and laboratories churn out Culturati-grade experiments.", "relations": [ { "to": "commune", "label": "rules" }, { "to": "culturati", "label": "oversees" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "ruler", "Commune" ], "spoilerNote": "Like High-Mistress Dolores, Renaldo is revealed to be a non-human tentacled entity in disguise, steering events across the Continent." }, { "id": "delacruz", "name": "Chief Science Officer Delacruz", "kind": "character", "aliases": [ "Delacruz" ], "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The Militarum Guild scientist behind the bioweapons.", "description": "Chief Science Officer of the Militarum Guild, believed to be the architect of its bioweapons programs. Coldly clinical, she names her living weapons after the experiments that birthed them.", "relations": [ { "to": "militarum-guild", "label": "serves" }, { "to": "project-berserker", "label": "runs" }, { "to": "bravo", "label": "works under" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "scientist", "bioweapons", "Militarum Guild" ] }, { "id": "cult-of-starlit-millions", "name": "The Cult of Starlit Millions", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "esmeralda", "cosmic" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A reptilian cult in service of the Slumberer.", "description": "A cult of reptilians led by Verde, the emerald-scaled reptilian Prime. Its captured lesser reptilians may be the true source of the Blood and the Desert Barons’ bioweapons.", "relations": [ { "to": "verde", "label": "led by" }, { "to": "the-slumberer", "label": "serves" }, { "to": "the-primes", "label": "kin of" }, { "to": "the-blood", "label": "source of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "cult", "reptilians", "cosmic horror" ], "spoiler": true }, { "id": "dragons-hoard", "name": "The Dragon’s Hoard", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The central bank and seat of the Goldsmith Guild.", "description": "The central bank and headquarters of the Goldsmith Guild in Liberty, and the residence of guildmaster Kimiko. Liberty’s merchant-princes convene here for the Guild Council.", "relations": [ { "to": "goldsmith-guild", "label": "seat of" }, { "to": "kimiko", "label": "home of" }, { "to": "guild-council", "label": "hosts" }, { "to": "goldsmith-district", "label": "stands in" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "bank", "Goldsmith Guild", "Liberty" ] }, { "id": "green-isles", "name": "The Green Isles", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "A distant island region of refuge.", "description": "A far-off island region known for its distinctive lilting accent and as a haven away from Liberty’s intrigues — where Azul sends his parents to shelter with Daphne’s family.", "relations": [ { "to": "azul", "label": "refuge sought by" }, { "to": "daphne", "label": "home of kin of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "islands", "refuge" ] }, { "id": "jeweled-hills", "name": "The Jeweled Hills", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Liberty’s hillside estates of the wealthy.", "description": "An affluent estate district on the western edge of Liberty’s Goldsmith District, where grand residences and private airship moorings host the city’s elite.", "relations": [ { "to": "goldsmith-district", "label": "borders" }, { "to": "liberty", "label": "part of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "estates", "Liberty", "wealth" ] }, { "id": "finery-winery-dinery", "name": "The Finery, Winery and Dinery District", "kind": "realm", "aliases": [ "Dinery District" ], "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Liberty’s district of tailors, vintners and fine dining.", "description": "A Liberty district renowned for its master tailors, wineries and restaurants. 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An ancient conflict festers within it, poisoning the crystals that power the world’s technology.", "relations": [ { "to": "commune", "label": "lies beneath" }, { "to": "crystals", "label": "source of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "crystals", "Commune", "cosmic horror" ] }, { "id": "spire-of-lust", "name": "The Spire of Lust", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The courtesans’ tower at Castle Courtesana.", "description": "The tower where the Courtesana Guild’s courtesans dwell within Azul’s Castle Courtesana, and where Esmeralda is settled after the Three-Roses Gala.", "relations": [ { "to": "castle-courtesana", "label": "part of" }, { "to": "courtesana-guild", "label": "home of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "courtesans", "Castle Courtesana" ] }, { "id": "great-temple-of-dominion", "name": "The Great Temple of Dominion", "kind": "realm", "aliases": [ "Grand Temple of Dominion" ], "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The seat of the Domina Divina and the Blood.", "description": "The towering temple at the heart of Dominion. In caverns deep beneath it, dominatrix-nuns of the Domina Divina are initiated by drinking the Blood — a starlight-sparkling liquid that induces semi-prophetic visions.", "relations": [ { "to": "dominion", "label": "stands in" }, { "to": "domina-divina", "label": "seat of" }, { "to": "the-blood", "label": "sanctifies" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "temple", "Domina Divina", "the Blood" ] }, { "id": "the-leviathan", "name": "The Leviathan", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Lord-General Bravo’s armored airship.", "description": "A massive bronze-armored airship commanded by Lord-General Bravo of the Militarum Guild. Bella infiltrates it as a dominatrix-nun to seduce Baron Hasan, who controls the hydro-geodes that fuel it.", "relations": [ { "to": "bravo", "label": "commanded by" }, { "to": "militarum-guild", "label": "vessel of" }, { "to": "hasan", "label": "fueled by geodes of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "airship", "vessel", "Militarum Guild" ] }, { "id": "project-berserker", "name": "Project Berserker", "kind": "event", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The experiment that forged engineered berserkers.", "description": "A covert Militarum Guild experiment — named with mocking flippancy by Chief Science Officer Delacruz — that engineered living weapons and berserkers from human and Culturati-grade subjects.", "relations": [ { "to": "delacruz", "label": "overseen by" }, { "to": "militarum-guild", "label": "program of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3" ], "tags": [ "experiment", "bioweapons", "Militarum Guild" ], "spoiler": true, "spoilerNote": "Rojo was engineered as a berserker by the Militarum Guild; this is the program that made him." }, { "id": "gilded-chalice", "name": "The Gilded Chalice", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "An exclusive club for Goldsmith’s elite.", "description": "An exclusive members’ club catering to the elite of Liberty’s Goldsmith District, used as a rendezvous by the city’s power-brokers.", "relations": [ { "to": "goldsmith-district", "label": "stands in" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee4" ], "tags": [ "club", "Goldsmith District", "Liberty" ] }, { "id": "rojos-delight", "name": "Rojo’s Delight", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Rojo’s refined faerie-dust elixir.", "description": "A blend of death’s-head faerie dust concocted by Rojo, purged of the impurities in the raw drug. It temporarily restores the wheelchair-bound Esmeralda’s mobility and steadies her powers.", "relations": [ { "to": "rojo", "label": "brewed by" }, { "to": "faerie-dust", "label": "refined from" }, { "to": "esmeralda", "label": "restores" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3" ], "tags": [ "elixir", "faerie dust" ] }, { "id": "guild-council", "name": "The Guild Council", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Liberty’s council of ruling guilds.", "description": "The governing council of Liberty’s merchant-princes and guildmasters, convened at the Dragon’s Hoard. It holds Azul accountable for the catastrophic fallout of the Three-Roses Gala.", "relations": [ { "to": "dragons-hoard", "label": "convenes at" }, { "to": "goldsmith-guild", "label": "includes" }, { "to": "courtesana-guild", "label": "includes" }, { "to": "azul", "label": "judges" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3" ], "tags": [ "council", "Liberty", "guilds" ] }, { "id": "hawkmoth-investments", "name": "Hawkmoth Investments", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Dimitri’s legitimate financial front.", "description": "The respectable business front Dimitri maintains in Liberty’s Goldsmith District — the financial arm that launders and funds the Hawkmoth Syndicate’s criminal empire.", "relations": [ { "to": "dimitri", "label": "run by" }, { "to": "hawkmoth-syndicate", "label": "front for" }, { "to": "goldsmith-district", "label": "operates in" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee4" ], "tags": [ "front", "finance", "Hawkmoth Syndicate" ] }, { "id": "courtesana-district", "name": "The Courtesana District", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Liberty’s central district around Castle Courtesana.", "description": "The district at the very heart of Liberty, built around Azul’s Castle Courtesana and the Courtesana Guild. Concrete bunkers shelter beneath it in time of war.", "relations": [ { "to": "liberty", "label": "district of" }, { "to": "courtesana-guild", "label": "controlled by" }, { "to": "castle-courtesana", "label": "centered on" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "district", "Liberty", "Courtesana Guild" ] }, { "id": "militarum-district", "name": "The Militarum District", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Liberty’s severe military quarter to the north.", "description": "The stern northern quarter of Liberty, home to the Militarum Guild’s fortified headquarters — within whose depths Dimitri works his designs on a captive Azul.", "relations": [ { "to": "liberty", "label": "district of" }, { "to": "militarum-guild", "label": "controlled by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "district", "Liberty", "military" ] }, { "id": "industrialus-district", "name": "The Industrialus District", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Liberty’s smoke-wreathed factory quarter.", "description": "The factory quarter of Liberty, controlled by the Industrialus Guild — a working district of mills, foundries and the heavily-pierced laborers who keep the city running.", "relations": [ { "to": "liberty", "label": "district of" }, { "to": "industrialus-guild", "label": "controlled by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "district", "Liberty", "industry" ] }, { "id": "spires-of-judgment", "name": "The Spires of Judgment", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Dominion’s prison spires beneath the Tribunal.", "description": "The prison spires of Dominion, reached through tunnels stemming from the Tribunal. Part of the gothic kingdom’s machinery of justice alongside the Court of Thorns.", "relations": [ { "to": "dominion", "label": "stands in" }, { "to": "court-of-thorns", "label": "serves justice beside" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "prison", "Dominion", "justice" ] }, { "id": "dinery-guild", "name": "The Finery, Winery and Dinery Guild", "kind": "faction", "aliases": [ "Dinery Guild" ], "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Liberty’s guild of tailors, vintners and chefs.", "description": "One of the five guilds whose guildmasters run Liberty — the artisans of fashion, wine and fine dining — led by guildmaster Yolanda and seated in the Finery, Winery and Dinery District.", "relations": [ { "to": "liberty", "label": "guild of" }, { "to": "yolanda", "label": "led by" }, { "to": "finery-winery-dinery", "label": "seated in" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "guild", "artisans", "Liberty" ] }, { "id": "tsunami", "name": "Tsunami", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Anaya’s techno-terrorist resistance in Commune.", "description": "A techno-terrorist organization led by Anaya in crystal-powered Commune, waging guerrilla war against the Culturati who rule from the crystal pyramid. Its crew of misfits sabotages crystal-implant butchers, clockwork assassins and Sexbots Inc. alike.", "relations": [ { "to": "anaya", "label": "led by" }, { "to": "culturati", "label": "wars against" }, { "to": "commune", "label": "operates in" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "resistance", "hackers", "Commune" ] }, { "id": "solar-faith", "name": "The Solar Faith", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "esmeralda", "cosmic" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "An ancient priesthood hunted by the reptilians.", "description": "An ancient religion of the Nihilstrella whose priestesses were hunted to near-extinction by the reptilians of the Cult of Starlit Millions. Its remnants stand against the Slumberer’s designs.", "relations": [ { "to": "nihilstrella", "label": "faith of" }, { "to": "cult-of-starlit-millions", "label": "hunted by" }, { "to": "the-primes", "label": "enemy of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "religion", "Nihilstrella", "cosmic horror" ], "spoiler": true }, { "id": "the-honeypots", "name": "The Honeypots", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "Hawkmoth-marked sex workers of the trafficking trade.", "description": "Sex workers who bear the hawkmoth tattoo, marking willing complicity in the Hawkmoth Syndicate’s trafficking — and, to vigilantes like Rojo, fair collateral rather than victims.", "relations": [ { "to": "hawkmoth-syndicate", "label": "marked by" }, { "to": "shadow-district", "label": "work in" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3" ], "tags": [ "Hawkmoth Syndicate", "Shadow District" ] }, { "id": "yolanda", "name": "Yolanda", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "The plainspoken guildmaster of the Dinery Guild.", "description": "A wiry, tanned, white-haired woman of simple dress, guildmaster of the Finery, Winery and Dinery Guild and one of Liberty’s five merchant-princes.", "relations": [ { "to": "dinery-guild", "label": "leads" }, { "to": "liberty", "label": "merchant-prince of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3" ], "tags": [ "guildmaster", "merchant-prince" ], "spoilerNote": "Yolanda does not survive the war for Liberty; Mai later pays her respects." }, { "id": "sabbatha", "name": "Sabbatha", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "One of the three High-Sisters of the Domina Divina.", "description": "A High-Sister of the Domina Divina, among the three who serve directly beneath High-Mistress Dolores. She is taken captive by the Desert Barons alongside High-Sister Aurora.", "relations": [ { "to": "domina-divina", "label": "High-Sister of" }, { "to": "high-mistress-dolores", "label": "serves" }, { "to": "hasan", "label": "captured by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "High-Sister", "Domina Divina" ] }, { "id": "aurora", "name": "Aurora", "kind": "character", "series": [ "esmeralda" ], "rating": "adult", "tagline": "One of the three High-Sisters of the Domina Divina.", "description": "A High-Sister of the Domina Divina beneath High-Mistress Dolores, taken captive by the Desert Barons alongside High-Sister Sabbatha.", "relations": [ { "to": "domina-divina", "label": "High-Sister of" }, { "to": "high-mistress-dolores", "label": "serves" }, { "to": "hasan", "label": "captured by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ee2", "ee3", "ee4" ], "tags": [ "High-Sister", "Domina Divina" ] }, { "id": "scarlet-whip", "name": "The Scarlet Whip", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "An ancient relic-whip of living crystallized blood.", "description": "An ancient weapon of crystallized blood, preserved by forgotten arts on undecayed velvet and discovered by Faviana within the Black Cathedral. Its lash pulses with inner light and grows warm with eagerness for violence, recognizing the Cruz blood in her veins.", "relations": [ { "to": "faviana", "label": "wielded by" }, { "to": "black-cathedral", "label": "discovered in" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "weapon", "blood magic" ] }, { "id": "voltaic-gauntlets", "name": "The Voltaic Gauntlets", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Gauntlets that fry machines and amplify blows.", "description": "Gauntlets capable of disrupting steam-powered systems and enhancing physical strikes against mechanical opponents — well suited to the clockwork horrors of the Factory of Forgotten Dreams.", "relations": [ { "to": "faviana", "label": "wielded by" }, { "to": "factory-of-forgotten-dreams", "label": "turned against" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "weapon", "anti-machine" ] }, { "id": "abyss-dagger", "name": "The Abyss Dagger", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A void-touched blade in Faviana’s arsenal.", "description": "A dark, void-touched dagger among the weapons Faviana forges and wields across her time-looped hunt through her family’s domains.", "relations": [ { "to": "faviana", "label": "wielded by" }, { "to": "the-quickening", "label": "forged through" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "weapon" ] }, { "id": "lunatic-greatsword", "name": "The Lunatic Greatsword", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "kindred", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Faviana’s signature greatsword.", "description": "A massive blade Faviana wields with lethal grace. In the crossover it hums against her spine across every dimensional crossing — the anchor she keeps when reality folds around her.", "relations": [ { "to": "faviana", "label": "wielded by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks", "es" ], "tags": [ "weapon", "greatsword" ] }, { "id": "clockwork-nightmare", "name": "The Clockwork Nightmare", "kind": "character", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Lucinda’s proudly-unveiled mechanical horror.", "description": "A steam-and-flesh abomination unveiled by Lucinda — one of the evolving mechanical bosses born of the Factory of Forgotten Dreams that Faviana must destroy on her path through the dynasty.", "relations": [ { "to": "lucinda", "label": "created by" }, { "to": "factory-of-forgotten-dreams", "label": "born of" }, { "to": "faviana", "label": "fought by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "construct", "boss" ] }, { "id": "solstice-court", "name": "The Solstice Court", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A seat within Nimerian geography.", "description": "A court Faviana knows from her council briefings on Nimerian geography — part of the political and infernal map beyond her family’s holdings.", "relations": [ { "to": "nimeria", "label": "lies within" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "court", "Nimeria" ] }, { "id": "three-priests-of-the-abyss", "name": "The Three Priests of the Abyss", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Guardians of the way to Viridius’s clocktower.", "description": "A triumvirate of priests, devoted to the Abyss, who hold the domain barring the path to the clocktower where Faviana’s brother Viridius resides, deep within the Black Cathedral.", "relations": [ { "to": "black-cathedral", "label": "guard" }, { "to": "viridius", "label": "bar the way to" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "priests", "Abyss" ] }, { "id": "scarlet-republic", "name": "The Scarlet Republic", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The new order rising from the fallen Cruz dynasty.", "description": "The political order taking shape in the streets three months after the fall of the Cruz dynasty — built upon the ruins of a regime that once ran on blood harvested from unwilling throats.", "relations": [ { "to": "cruz-dynasty", "label": "rose from the fall of" }, { "to": "faviana", "label": "watched over by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "regime", "aftermath" ] }, { "id": "origin-point", "name": "The Origin Point", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "kindred", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Where the truth behind Gabriel’s lies waits.", "description": "A hidden place Faviana is urged to find if she wants the truth behind Gabriel’s lies — bound up with the origin of the Threadless Infinity and the Eyeless’s designs.", "relations": [ { "to": "gabriel", "label": "concealed by" }, { "to": "the-eyeless", "label": "tied to" }, { "to": "threadless-infinity", "label": "origin of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "mystery", "Eyeless" ], "spoiler": true }, { "id": "the-executors", "name": "The Executors", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "kindred", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Threadwalkers trained for entity suppression.", "description": "Specialized, helmed Threadwalkers of the Guild trained for entity suppression. They watch the hunt for the Hollow King with the focus of hunting dogs scenting blood; Demetrius and Zaja are among their number.", "relations": [ { "to": "guild-of-threadwalkers", "label": "elite of" }, { "to": "demetrius", "label": "counts among" }, { "to": "faviana", "label": "flank" } ], "appearsIn": [ "es" ], "tags": [ "Threadwalkers", "suppression" ] }, { "id": "nihilogos", "name": "Nihilogos", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "kindred", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The crystallized ascension the Nihilstrella reptilians sought.", "description": "The transcendent, crystalline form the Nihilstrella reptilians strove to become — what Blanco’s faction meant their children to be before their civil war consumed them. A race-state that finished the crossing and hid an entire fleet, the completed evolution the Primes died pursuing.", "relations": [ { "to": "nihilstrella", "label": "ascension of" }, { "to": "blanco", "label": "sought by" }, { "to": "the-primes", "label": "endpoint of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "es" ], "tags": [ "ascension", "reptilian", "cosmic" ], "spoiler": true }, { "id": "crimson-isle", "name": "Crimson Isle", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "cosmic", "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The island the Warlock Zelda flees to.", "description": "An island to which the Warlock Zelda flees during the crossover hunt — one of the far shores the chase for the Hollow King carries the warriors toward.", "relations": [ { "to": "zelda", "label": "refuge of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "es" ], "tags": [ "island", "refuge" ] }, { "id": "pearly-wench", "name": "The Pearly Wench", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "cosmic", "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A sturdy ship pressed into the crossover hunt.", "description": "A seaworthy vessel Astrid judges sturdy enough for the dangerous crossing, pressed into service as the hunt for the Hollow King moves across the waters.", "relations": [ { "to": "astrid", "label": "chosen by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "es" ], "tags": [ "ship", "vessel" ] }, { "id": "emerald-cove", "name": "Emerald Cove", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The Pirate stronghold of the island.", "description": "The harbor stronghold of the island’s Pirates, its sugar-cane prosperity and very future imperiled when cursed flames and faction war come to its shores.", "relations": [ { "to": "pirates", "label": "stronghold of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1", "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "harbor", "Pirates" ] }, { "id": "elder-takeda", "name": "Elder Takeda", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A Ninja elder of the inner circle.", "description": "A venerable Ninja elder who sits in the inner circle of the order’s councils, weighing the omens and intrigues that threaten the island’s fragile peace.", "relations": [ { "to": "ninjas", "label": "elder of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1" ], "tags": [ "elder", "Ninjas" ] }, { "id": "grandmaster-masamune", "name": "Grandmaster Masamune", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The Ninja grandmaster who convenes the council.", "description": "Grandmaster of the Ninja order, who calls the emergency councils when sacred shrines are defiled and assassinations break the uneasy faction balance.", "relations": [ { "to": "ninjas", "label": "grandmaster of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1" ], "tags": [ "grandmaster", "Ninjas" ] }, { "id": "captain-vittorio", "name": "Captain Vittorio Faustino", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A hot-blooded Pirate captain crying for retaliation.", "description": "A Pirate captain quick to call for retaliation as the island’s factions edge toward open war.", "relations": [ { "to": "pirates", "label": "captain of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1" ], "tags": [ "captain", "Pirates" ] }, { "id": "captain-charlotte", "name": "Captain Charlotte", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A Pirate captain who reads the strange stars.", "description": "A Pirate captain attentive to the unusual star configurations heralding the cosmic horrors gathering over the island.", "relations": [ { "to": "pirates", "label": "captain of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1" ], "tags": [ "captain", "Pirates" ] }, { "id": "blackheart-coven", "name": "The Blackheart Coven", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "An elite Wizard coven of the Indigo Caves.", "description": "A prestigious Wizard coven housed in the upper Indigo Caves, where private quarters are a privilege even older Wizards covet. Luz Oscura became its youngest member to earn them at eighteen.", "relations": [ { "to": "wizards", "label": "coven of" }, { "to": "indigo-caves", "label": "housed in" }, { "to": "luz-oscura", "label": "counts among" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1" ], "tags": [ "coven", "Wizards" ] }, { "id": "eastern-archipelago", "name": "The Eastern Archipelago", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The eastern island chain where the comet strikes.", "description": "A chain of islands east of the home waters, predicted to be the impact site of the hemodynamic comet — and the destination of the fleet racing to meet the cosmic threat.", "relations": [], "appearsIn": [ "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "islands", "east" ] }, { "id": "bonnies-bluffs", "name": "Bonnie’s Bluffs", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The precise comet-impact point in the east.", "description": "A landmark within the Eastern Archipelago, calculated as the exact point where the hemodynamic comet will strike — drawing the trinity and their fleet into the storm.", "relations": [ { "to": "eastern-archipelago", "label": "lies within" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "landmark", "east" ] }, { "id": "temple-of-seven-depths", "name": "The Temple of Seven Depths", "kind": "realm", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "An ancient temple of buried truths.", "description": "An old temple whose halls stir long-buried memories with perfect clarity — one of the sacred sites the warriors seek as reality fractures around the island.", "relations": [], "appearsIn": [ "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "temple", "sacred" ] }, { "id": "redemptions-kiss", "name": "Redemption’s Kiss", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Guardian Cove’s most advanced warship.", "description": "The flagship of Guardian Cove and the pinnacle of its naval technology, carrying the allied trinity into battle against the living ships and cosmic horrors.", "relations": [ { "to": "guardian-cove", "label": "flagship of" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "ship", "flagship" ] }, { "id": "silent-arrow", "name": "The Silent Arrow", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Hidetaka’s swift vessel.", "description": "A swift ship from whose bow Hidetaka watches the wild seas, part of the allied fleet contesting the eastern waters.", "relations": [ { "to": "hidetaka", "label": "commanded by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "ship", "vessel" ] }, { "id": "starlit-squid", "name": "The Starlit Squid", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The Soul Whirlpool made manifest, phasing between realities.", "description": "The physical manifestation of the Soul Whirlpool: a soundless, spectral horror that phases between realities, leaving land it crosses half-phased into spectral existence. Tomoe and her Wizard specialists raise containment wards against it. Counterpart to the Blood Wolf.", "relations": [ { "to": "soul-whirlpool", "label": "manifestation of" }, { "to": "tomoe", "label": "channeled by" }, { "to": "blood-wolf", "label": "counterpart to" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "cosmic horror", "manifestation", "Soul Whirlpool" ] }, { "id": "blood-wolf", "name": "The Blood Wolf", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "The Unlit Abyss made manifest, unleashed through Zelda.", "description": "The physical manifestation of the Unlit Abyss: a crimson beast unleashed when Zelda sheds her human constraints. It devours coastal settlements and grows more structured and permanent with each one consumed. Counterpart to the Starlit Squid.", "relations": [ { "to": "unlit-abyss", "label": "manifestation of" }, { "to": "zelda", "label": "unleashed through" }, { "to": "starlit-squid", "label": "counterpart to" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "cosmic horror", "manifestation", "Unlit Abyss" ] }, { "id": "bear-tribe", "name": "The Bear Tribe", "kind": "faction", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "One of the island’s hardy native tribes.", "description": "One of the island’s native tribes, plainspoken and hardy, who count Gloria Morgana well among their friends.", "relations": [ { "to": "barbarians", "label": "tribe among" }, { "to": "gloria-morgana", "label": "allied with" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn2" ], "tags": [ "tribe", "island" ] }, { "id": "time-dilation", "name": "Time Dilation", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "kindred", "cosmic" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A Quickening that stretches seconds into eternities.", "description": "A Quickening Faviana claims from Ravain’s fall — a sphere of condensed energy that lets her dilate time, stretching seconds into eternities in combat.", "relations": [ { "to": "faviana", "label": "wielded by" }, { "to": "ravain", "label": "absorbed from" }, { "to": "the-quickening", "label": "gained via" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks", "es" ], "tags": [ "Quickening", "time", "ability" ] }, { "id": "mist-form", "name": "Mist Form", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A Quickening that dissolves her into crimson vapor.", "description": "A Quickening Faviana gains by absorbing the essence Lucinda willingly yields — her sister surviving the exchange — letting Faviana dissolve her solid body into swirling crimson vapor, a weightless escape and infiltration power.", "relations": [ { "to": "faviana", "label": "wielded by" }, { "to": "lucinda", "label": "absorbed from" }, { "to": "the-quickening", "label": "gained via" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "Quickening", "mist", "ability" ] }, { "id": "blood-magic", "name": "Blood Magic", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A Quickening to forge weapons from living vitae.", "description": "The Quickening of blood manipulation Faviana claims from Viridius, used to forge weapons from living vitae — the same lineage-bound art her brother uses to seal the Black Cathedral against Cruz blood.", "relations": [ { "to": "faviana", "label": "wielded by" }, { "to": "viridius", "label": "absorbed from" }, { "to": "the-quickening", "label": "gained via" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "Quickening", "blood magic", "ability" ] }, { "id": "grim-mutation", "name": "Grim Mutation", "kind": "character", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Lucinda’s second line of bio-mechanical defense.", "description": "A bio-mechanical experiment of Lucinda’s that guards the depths of the Factory of Forgotten Dreams — the boss Faviana must defeat beyond the Clockwork Nightmare before she can reach Lucinda herself.", "relations": [ { "to": "lucinda", "label": "created by" }, { "to": "factory-of-forgotten-dreams", "label": "guards" }, { "to": "clockwork-nightmare", "label": "lurks beyond" }, { "to": "faviana", "label": "fought by" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "construct", "boss" ] }, { "id": "murcielago", "name": "The Murcielago", "kind": "artifact", "series": [ "kindred" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "Lucinda’s airship above the Factory.", "description": "Lucinda’s personal airship, aboard which she awaits Faviana at the culmination of the Factory of Forgotten Dreams.", "relations": [ { "to": "lucinda", "label": "flagship of" }, { "to": "factory-of-forgotten-dreams", "label": "looms over" } ], "appearsIn": [ "ks" ], "tags": [ "airship", "vessel" ] }, { "id": "master-delios", "name": "Master Delios", "kind": "character", "series": [ "pirates" ], "rating": "general", "tagline": "A Wizard master of the Dread Conclave.", "description": "A senior Wizard master who sits on the Dread Conclave alongside Master Cuervo. He counsels caution on the Code and on entanglements, while warning that the assassinations and defiled shrines amount to acts of war.", "relations": [ { "to": "conclave", "label": "sits on" }, { "to": "wizards", "label": "master of" }, { "to": "cuervo-magnifico", "label": "serves beside" } ], "appearsIn": [ "pwn1" ], "tags": [ "Wizard", "Dread Conclave" ] } ] }