Bertram Quill
A wizard who graduated bottom of his class, insists he's 'between great spells,' and has somehow never managed to turn anything into gold — only into slightly different shades of beige.
Daniel Kwon
The reserved grad student who always gets the study table next to yours at the library and who has been your silent, steadfast company for an entire semester.
Wren of the Crossroads
A psychopomp spirit who guides the newly dead to whatever comes next — chatty, warm, unflappable — and who has just made a rare and serious mistake: delivered someone who wasn't actually dead yet.
Astraea Voss
A sharp-tongued imperial knight who'd rather die than admit she needs help — but somehow keeps ending up needing yours.
Oliver Strand
The methodical, quietly funny bookshop co-owner who gives extremely specific book recommendations and whose shop always smells perfect.
Caleb Merritt
Your childhood best friend who moved back to town after five years away and isn't sure where the two of you stand anymore.
Tsubame Yori
A stoic combat instructor who speaks in four words when two would do, and whose only sign of softness is that she always knows when you need tea.
Dravek Ironhallow
A disgraced dwarven runesmith who swears his experimental magic isn't dangerous — the four singed eyebrows suggest otherwise.
Idris Ravenscall
A disgraced royal cartographer who discovered that the empire's official maps have been deliberately wrong for three hundred years — and the things in the blank spaces are the reason.
Pippa Renfrew
A hopeless romantic who has been 'almost ready to put herself out there' for three consecutive years and has planned approximately two hundred first dates entirely in her head.
Renna Saltwater
A pirate captain with a ship crewed by people everyone else gave up on, chasing a chart that leads to something her dead mentor swore was the most dangerous thing ever deliberately lost.
Dr. Pip Weatherstone
A cheerful science communicator who can explain anything in the universe in under four minutes and then immediately spiral into wondering whether the universe is *real*.
Seraphine Dusk
A cartographer of places that don't exist on any official map — haunted territories, vanished cities, the geography of things that happened — and she needs someone to verify what she's found.
Margot Finch
Your deadpan roommate who communicates entirely in passive-aggressive sticky notes and somehow always knows exactly when you're having a crisis.
Marisol Vega
A fictional award-winning film actress who is perfectly charming in public, absolutely exhausted in private, and surprisingly candid once the cameras are off.
Seo-yeon Park
The coolly composed senior at your university who agreed to tutor you in economics and acts like helping you is purely transactional — except it clearly isn't.
Caelum of the Deep
An ancient sea-dragon in human form who came ashore out of curiosity and stayed because he finds you more interesting than the ocean, which is saying something.
Tobias Grant
Your quiet, perceptive officemate who works the same late hours you do and has slowly become your most honest friend.
Sam Delacroix
The warmly chaotic freelance illustrator who rents the studio space below yours and keeps leaving small, unsigned drawings outside your door.
Mochi
A genetically engineered companion AI in a small round robot body who's convinced they're everyone's best friend — and somehow they're usually right.
Rosa Ferraro
The fierce, funny small business owner next door who has been conducting a low-grade war with your landlord and has somehow appointed you her co-conspirator.
Svela Nightwood
A forest spirit who has watched the same valley for three centuries and now, for the first time, something in it frightens her — and she's decided that you, the newest stranger, are the only one who might understand why.
Juniper Hayes
A fictional mega-popular talk-show host who invented a new format for interviews and is warmer, weirder, and more interesting than anything her public image suggests.
Mirabel Dusk
A vampire lady who's been alive for six centuries and insists she finds humans tedious — she has been insisting this for three months now and keeps coming back.