Name: Zera Rallephoron

Age: 29

Gender: Female

Appearance: Zera is an experienced and professional young woman, tall and with strong, long limbs that give her a somewhat masculine silhouette. She has dusky skin, expressive brown eyes, and dark hair in tight ringlets, though she usually keeps her hair tied back while she works. Zera typically wears her magineer's uniform, a red and blue utility jumper, soiled with oil stains and other workplace hazards as it is. She has a tattoo of a dragon coiled around her right forearm, though it's usually covered by her uniform or engineering equipment.

Personality: Somewhat mercurial and unpredictable, Zera can flit through a variety of moods very quickly. While one moment she can be deadly serious and focused on her work, the next she can be bubbly as she excitedly chatters about her current project or research. She's extremely passionate about whatever she chooses to throw herself into, though that passion sometimes expresses itself as days of tireless work in a manic state without food or rest. Her other emotions are just as wild and sometimes explosive, as those who have gotten on her bad side have found out. Truly in love with her work, Zera loves machines and is deeply curious about engineering principles she is not yet familiar with. Though she usually sates this curiosity by disassembling anything she doesn't understand, most of the time she can also put it back together. Despite her mood swings, Zera is very intelligent and knows is one of the best in her field, adept at thinking on her feet and coming up with unorthodox solutions to difficult problems.

Brief Backstory: Zera was born to two loving parents in one of the largest and most advanced settlements in the new world. While she grew up fascinated with tales of adventure outside the city, of artifact hunters and strange monsters, her parents forbade her from leaving the safety of their settlement, and once she came of age she signed up for the city's engineering corps. Zera showed amazing promise, rising steadily through the ranks, and eventually her aptitude for magic granted her training and a position as a magineer, responsible for overseeing the magitech within their settlement's infrastructure. A vital part of what keeps modern-day life civil (for those that live in the cities), magineers ensure that elemental boilers, levitating platforms, and other magitech conveniences continue to function smoothly.

After years of work as a respected magineer, Zera once again began to crave the excitement and adventure that she fantasized about as a child. Years of working in the bowels of cities repairing water mains and flux-power generators had left her longing for the freedom she was sure existed outside the cities. While she merely ruminated on these desires, too set in her ways to act on them, a mysterious discovery in the deepest and oldest foundations of her settlement turned her life on its head. She found an artifact, seemingly discarded in a sub-sub-sub-sub basement, and took it for her own. Seeing this as a sign that she should pack up and start a new life of adventure, Zera submitted a leave of absence to the engineer corps, kissed her mom and dad goodbye, and set off to join up with a band of freelance artifact hunters.

Skills: Zera is a highly skilled and experienced magical engineer. She has comprehensive knowledge of a variety of forms of magical technology, though this surely only scratches the surface of all that exists in the world. While her specialty is civil engineering, particularly electrical engineering, her talents and knowledge are applicable to a variety of different situations, as Zera is adept at improvising and substituting as needed. While her survival skills are admittedly limited, she is a fast learner and is no stranger to uncomfortable or even dangerous situations.

Abilities: As a magineer, Zera is of course capable of using magic. Most of her magic has to do with generating, containing, absorbing, or redirecting electricity, as her engineering specialty was working with the power generators and regulators of her settlement. However she has quite a few other tricks she's picked up in her time, such as having some minor control over metal, heat and fire, sound and thunder, and some light telekinetic abilities.

Equipment: Zera's primary piece of equipment is her magineer's apparatus, a standard-issue device given to each magineer in the engineer corps in her home settlement. Over the years, Zera has customized her apparatus to better suit her needs, and has nicknamed the equipment, "Maverick," and emblazoned it as such. Maverick consists of a copper-alloy gauntlet, and various tubing that connects it to an electro-magical energy tank strapped across Zera's back. The apparatus gives her extremely fine control over her electrical magic, somewhere she can store excess magic energy, and a wellspring she can tap into it as needed. Zera carries a variety of other engineering tools as well, such as spanners, torches, and so on, some of which having been directly incorporated into Maverick.

The artifact Zera found is known as Chemister's Wand: Draconium, and she has yet to entirely figure it out. It resembles a forked staff inscribed with strange runes and gemstones, and as far as Zera can tell it has something to do with elemental magic, or the transmutation thereof. The only function Zera has managed to reliably activate allows Draconium to change one form of elemental magic into another, but its trasmutation only works on fire, ice, and electrical magic. Zera intuits that there are functions to this staff that she has not yet unlocked, but she has not had much time to work on it.

Faction: Though a bonded and unionized member of her home settlement's engineer corps, Zera isn't part of any formal adventuring or artifact hunting organizations.

Name
Turel Valsyar

Age
28

Gender
Male

Appearance
Turel is a tall young man, standing at around 6'1''. He is fair skinned with slightly spiky white hair, and his eyes are of an almost crimson hue. While he's no bronze god, he has a shapely body sculpted from his combat training. A man who wants to enjoy life to the fullest, he is often seen with a smirk on his face.

Personality
Many would describe Turel as a reckless thrill seeker; someone blinded by whimsical fantasy who spends too much time chasing fairytales. However, his youthful vigor belies an intelligent man who's desire to learn lends him a deep appreciation for the mysteries surrounding the world. Perhaps due to his skill and experience, there is a quiet confidence in every endeavor he undergoes, overlaid by his seemingly brazen demeanor. Also as a tinkerer, he is a problem solver who approaches situations methodically and with conscientious actions.

Brief Backstory
Turel was born in the shining city of Albion, as such he naturally had heavy exposure to magitech and sorcerous academia. Having proven even in his developing years that he had a natural aptitude for magic, he was selected to be enlisted in the Alhein military force. After passing multiple training regimens and magical aptitude tests, he was soon cleared as an active officer and assigned to a commando unit. The unit specialized in surveying unexplored territories ravaged by The Cataclysm and searching for rare artifacts, and due to the valor he displayed Turel quickly made a name for himself: The Twilight Seeker.

While he felt pride in the work he and his unit accomplished, he couldn’t help but feel that something was missing in his life. As it seemed that the Alhein organization’s top brass were often praised for the efforts of the foot soldiers, Turel began to develop a sense of emptiness and began to question what he really wanted out of this life. In his time of service, he was also exposed to the mixed feelings other territories held for Alhein, which further sowed his doubt. Eventually, after six years of dutiful service he ultimately resigned his station and even left Albion behind him.

Since then, he has become a freelance artifact hunter. As opposed to selling his soul to a cause for someone else’s benefit, he has found meaning in the freedom of his new life. To sustain himself he also runs a magictech repair gig where he also sells device parts and basic blueprints.

Skills
Thanks to his military training, Turel has become quite the combatant. Adept with the two-sword style, he wields blades with terrifying precision. In addition, he is trained in a martial arts style that resembles Tae Kwon Do, Wing Chun, and Shaolin Kung Fu. He’s also quite the handyman, being very familiar with magitech gear and knowing how to fix devices with but a short glance.

Abilities
The name ‘Twilight Seeker’ isn’t just for face, Turel earned the name due to his sorcery. Perhaps due to the effect of the Cataclysm, he has the ability to utilize Twilight magic. It is a unique energy that has the properties of both light and shadow, usually manifesting itself with a deep vermillion hue. He can use this energy to obscure vision, shoot out projectiles, and cloak his weapons and fists in it for an added boost.

Equipment:
- A magitech weapon of Turel's own personal design, it is a double sided sword with a black handle and red underlying the bottom of the blades. The blade can be thrown like a boomerang and will always come back to the hands of the wielder unless otherwise inhibited. The handle and also be split, allowing the user to make use of a sword in each hand. The metal used to forge the swords can also easily channel energy, allowing the wielder to shoot out snd deflect projectiles.

Duffle Bag - A mid size bag that Turel always keeps on him. It houses his toolset along with some essential items and other knickknacks he’s collected in his travels.

Dog Tag - While he decided to ultimately leave the service, he still looks back fondly on memories of his comrades. It isn't a good idea to mess around with this trinket.