Sebastian Smith

Sebastian Smith, Bitter Weapons-designer (Zachary Pesner), age 45
You were born and raised in Tedoch, and in your youth were apprenticed to Mason, a local blacksmith. You worked alongside your best friend, Jackson Bering (Chris Miller). The two of you learned your trade together, and set up small smithy in town.
Then the Emperor rose to power. Jackson joined up with a band of rebels off to join Jon Farshield’s rebellion, but you refused to travel with him. You could see the way the tide was turning, and you kept your head low. Jackson managed to survive the war, as did his youthful pride and naivety.
As the Emperor continued to rise, you distinguished yourself as a clever man and a good weapons-designer. Mason died around the time the Factory was built, twenty years ago, and you took his position. You were noticed as someone with an eye for weapons, and the bureaucrats tapped you to design weapons to be built in the Factory.
To say that Jackson was unhappy about this would be to put it lightly. The two of you fought, and came to blows, and eventually went your separate ways. He still believed the Emperor was a cruel man, and supporting him made you as bad as the man himself. But you did what you had to do—you had a wife to support, and probably children soon.
As time went by, you worked your way up, and are now functionally a manager in the Factory. This provides comfortably for you and your children, Marissa (Makaela Stevens) and Tate (David Gottsegen). It does nothing for the hole in your conscience, though. Your wife Kelsa left you, four years ago, for parts unknown. Your children don’t respect you at all, you can tell. It’s starting to feel like they hate you.
Your best (really only) friend is a fallen and broken angel named Zariah (Will Duffield). You have a lot in common—fallen from grace, left by your respective wives, generally bitter outlook… Oh, and you suspect Tate is dating Zariah’s daughter, Sera (Ruby Lavin).
Jackson still works as a lowly grunt in the Factory. Recently his son, Federick, has been trying to get a promotion at the Factory, in the hopes of starting a family of his own.
You don’t care. You won’t give him the promotion.
In no small part, this is due to your losing favor with the governor. You haven’t been pulling your weight of late, and unless you come up with an edge soon, you’re going to be put back to menial labor. You’ve heard that one of the Ka’tiga, Est’fan Ta (Trevor Volpe), has a map to a valley several miles away with some sort of rare mineral. If you could use that mineral in an alloy, it’d be all the edge you’d need, so you’re willing to do just about anything to get your hands on that map…