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Ephsephin Alweather

**Ephsephin Alweather** is a member of the Red Berry Boys first appearing in *Book I, Chapter 02: The Red Berry Boys*.

## Appearance

Ephsephin is a tall man with black hair who wears a light taupe bolero hat with a deep red ribbon band. His cheek gets cut and then messily stitched together after the Red Berry Boys' first run in with Duane and Sette, his hat is also stolen by Sette.

## Background

He is Sharteshanian and used to work at the docks before Starfish offered him a job making more money. His mother named him Ephsephin after hearing Aldish dock workers saying efhsefhin and thinking their speech dignified gave her son a name that sounded dignified to her ears, not knowing it meant unlucky.

## Personality

Ephsephin cares for his mother and took Starfish's job to help support her and keep her from injuring herself working so hard. He treats people he's victimized in a casual way as though he doesn't expect them to try to get revenge or fight back, has a violent temper and a cruel streak.

## Relationships

* **Starfish** - His boss. Unlike some of Starfish's other workers Ephsephin isn't bothered by Starfish's sadistic treatment of children nor his job kidnapping kids to enslave them, have them cut open and have organs ripped out to place First Silver in them for smuggling or any of the other brutal acts they carry out in their job.

* **Cutter** - Ephsephin trusts Cutter enough to let him stitch his face, but isn't happy with the results. Cutter has no care for the man and eats him after his death.

* **Jivi Flask** - He talks to Jivi casually while he's eating as such as though they could be friendly acquaintances, even though he's kidnapped and enslaved him and put him into a horrific situation.

* **Mathis Quigley (Sr.)** - Quigley doesn't like Ephsephin but trusts him enough to let Matty go into town with him.

* **Mathis "Matty" Quigley (Jr.)**

## Abilities

Ephsephin uses brute force, throwing knives, and a short sword.

## Recent Events

### Chapter 2

Ephsephin and Bett attack a pair of sisters in Ulestry leeringly telling the elder that they just want her little sister, to cut up. Ephsephin then tells the elder he could find a use for her too, implying he intends to rape her, when Duane Adelier bursts into the clearing to rescue the girls. Ephsephin gets his cheek sliced open in the confrontation but manages to escape.

### Chapter 4

He comes across Sette wearing his stolen hat and grabs and threatens her. She stabs him and flees, leaving the hat behind.

### Chapter 5

He is injured by Sette on the same cheek Duane had already sliced open. His hat is later worn by Sette.

### Chapter 6

Ephsephin was beaten to death after Jivi slipped rat traps into his bottle.

1. ↑ https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch08/ch08\_54.html
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/674543830057582592/so-efhsefhin-means-unlucky-in-aldish-any
Greenie

"Greenie" is a eighteen year old prostitute working for Stockyard Frummagem at the Deadly Nevergreen in Ethelmik.

## Recent Events (spoilers)

After being asked by Dawn to entertain Duane Adelier along with "Chocolate" she got bored and left the room when he started reading from Ssaelit scripture. She was delighted to find he'd managed to escape in the short time between her walking out and being brought back in by Knock, even though she'd learned they were supposed to keep him distracted and in the Nevergreen until nightfall.

When the first silver started tearing its way through the Nevergreen, "Greenie" was trapped inside. She fled to the lift with "Chocolate", "Vanilla", a lady with short cropped orange hair, and the shirt averse male prostitute only identified as a "twink". She was bleeding from the temple and when the group arrived downstairs and saw the monstrous source of the attack on their workplace she started murmuring that they were being punished by the gods for going against Queen Maharaishala Sonorie. One of her co-workers angrily yelled back that they'd done nothing wrong. When the group decided to go back up on the lift "Greenie" stepped forward saying that they couldn't leave Anadyne Frummagem, Knock and the others downstairs and was skewered by the First Silver, and then yanked through the door of the lift breaking it as her friends stared on and reached towards her in shocked horror.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/128640490495/is-the-lady-whose-finger-sette-bit-off-still
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/85897661645/how-old-is-the-green-haired-female-with-pigtails
Elan Aled

**Private Elan Aled** is a member of the Crescian Peaceguard assigned to supplement the Ethelmik constabulary. He is a subordinate of Captain Hetr.

## Appearance

A tall skinny sickly man with short cropped black hair.

## Background

He has a heart problem, for which Lord Winalils devised a treatment which saved his life but requires killing animals. To repay Winalils, he helped Sette and Duane sneak into Ethelmik.

## Recent Events (Spoilers)

**Only A Cause**

When the Crescian soldiers begin to destroy Ethelmik, Elan takes up Captain Toma's sword in an attempt to save Elka. A pymary caster pierces his chest with a rock pillar, mortally wounding him. While still alive, the caster performs a Core Leech on him, killing him.
Languages

While most of Kasslyne now uses Continental the continent has a rich linguistic history, and there are remnants of dead languages peppered in the few remaining ones. Wrights all have to use Old Tainish in order to cast spells, as the language is the only one the Khert will recognize. Old Tainish is not however used conversationally as it is an unwieldy archaic language for such a usage, and unchanging in its need to remain the same for the Khert.

## Cresce

Crescians speak Continental (English) by the time of Book I but place and animal names are still often in the old Crescian language spoken in Queen Crescia's day. Examples of loanwords from "Old Crescian" include Mosbuik and Vliegeng. Pantoffel's name is also from the language. Ashley uses "Dutch/Afrikaans as a stand-in for the language that dominated Cresce before Continental took over. Sometimes [she] mangles it a little bit to show how the passage of time has corrupted memory of it, but other times it’s much more transparent."

## Alderode

While Continental is also widely spoken in Alerode the Ssaelit often speak Modern Tainish, a language evolved from that of the ancient Tains. The Rortidians who conquered Tain and founded Alderode spoke Nebrofon, and though that language is long dead loanwords from it pepper Modern Tainish, especially as used by the Copper caste. *Purasa* and *saban* are two words that "generally mean spellwright" and are from Nebrofon.

## Inak

The Inak have their own language, which is difficult for a human mouth or alphabet to replicate meaning it's almost never transliterated in *Unsounded*. Ruffles' Inak name, approximately HcH’stefaacsth meaning ruffled beetle princess, is one of the few Inak words shown in *Unsounded*. "Two-toes’ voices aren’t well-suited to human language. Not only does it require sounds they have trouble reproducing, but two-toe language has a natural lilt and melodious quality to it. Almost like birdsong.
This is hard to translate in a comic, so [Ashley has] some of them - particularly the older ones who actually speak the old language or at least remember it - fall into occasional rhymes." "Inak replaces labials with back of the throat growls and clicks and tongue curls. So that /rr/ in Rroan is a bestial growl when Ruffles says it, but a human just defaults to rrrr."

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/626999484982951936/even-with-continental-being-your-fantasy
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/189477021280/dutchman-here-and-i-am-curious-to-know-where-a
3. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/164900581115/are-you-using-dutch-for-made-up-words-and-names-in
4. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/164872034895/hahah-a-lot-of-dutch-and-maybe-afrikaans
5. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/697917925290557440/whats-the-difference-between-purasa-and-alia
6. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/612757998086111232/angry-lizard-teens-calling-ruffles-ruffles
7. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/181200183225/when-nanna-says-my-grandmothers-days-she-really
8. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/661624133707268096/you-have-naming-systems-for-cresce-and-alderode
Chapter 5

Coverpage of Chapter 5

Chapter 5, Darkening Sky began posting on [DATE]. Its tag line reads "In Which Two Wrights Make A Wrong"

## Synopsis

In spite of her defiance, Sette is knocked about and thrown around by vengeful Ephsephin of the Red Berry Boys. Quigley shows up to put an end to it, and Ephsephin, afraid the authorities will come, moves to throw Sette off the nearest cliff. Instead Duane reappears with a vengeance and a fistfight ensues that too soon proves the zombie far more resilient than the slaver. Ephsephin's hide is saved by Quigley's sudden interference. Surprised to see a fellow Aldishman, Duane tries to reason with the newcomer. Disdainful, Quigley initiates a duel. As the sky darkens, the sorcerers do battle at the cliffside, with Sette and Matty watching in wide-eyed interest. In spite of Quigley's bald-faced disregard for the rules of honourable Aldish combat and Duane's injured leg, the zombie eventually overcomes a summoned bugbeast by sparking a powerful explosion with Pressure Aspect too quickly removed from a nearby mountain. The duel is concluded.

As Duane tries to question defeated Quigley about the Red Berry Boys' intentions, Quigley's ten-story-tall construct arrives - piloted by his son - to pluck him to safety. Captain Toma of the Peaceguard also arrives, but with night swiftly fallen, Duane seems no longer in a mental condition to deal with another threat. Sette flees with him as Toma pursues Quigley into his construct's interior. In this unfamiliar environment, Toma is overcome. Starfish tells the officer that the slavers are working for someone named Delicieu, then orders his murder. Fortunately Quigley's son Matty interferes, rescuing the officer and spitting him back out into the woods.

## Appearances

### Characters

* Morgen
* Elka
* Emil Sava-Toma
* Eriks
* Sette Frummagem
* Nary-A’Care Frummagem
* Stockyard Frummagem (mentioned)
* Tar-nut Frummagem (mentioned)
* Duane Adelier
* Mikaila Adelier
* Pantoffel
* Red Berry Boys
	+ Arctrit Ramora
	+ Turas Thanigirri
	+ Ephsephin Alweather
	+ Mathis Quigley (Sr.)
* Mathis "Matty" Quigley (Jr.)
* Jacob
* Vienne Quigley (mentioned)
* Uaid

* Pigs
* Bugs
* Millifikhit Parasites

### Items/Concepts

* Chitz
* Swarm
* Cinnamon Sticks
* Emil's Spellslicer

* Khert Fire
* Wrights
* Slavery
* tacit casting
* Pymary - duels
* Pymaric
* Gefendur
	+ Riv
	+ Yerta

## Trivia

* Synopsis taken from this page of the author curated wiki.
Glut

**Glut** is an addictive smokeable steroid that enlarges users muscles and, over extended use, their skeletal system as well. Smoking it gives users a "loopy-happy" high. Long term addicts tend to be large and distinctively misshapen in a way unlike the giantness of elder expanded with time Coppers. Glut addicts can be picked out by their proportionally huge hands and shoulders, and are generally quite bulky with muscle even before their addiction starts warping their skeletal structure.

## In Book I

Knock-Me-Down Frummagem took glut the night Starfish had her and Anadyne Frummagem come transfer his unhappy cargo into Stockyard's hands, with Starfish planning on having them wiping out the surviving members of his crew save Cutter to increase Starfish's personal profits. Ana was irritated with her for being high while on the job, and while it might explain her detached cheerfulness despite being punted by a giant construct and having a large pulley dropped on her head such a reaction isn't unusual for her even when she's been starved for days; she just enjoys a good fight as long as no one she loves is badly hurt. She was smoking again the next day when Sette and Duane showed up at the Deadly Nevergreen and she settled in to enjoy the unfolding chaos.

Toby's massive shoulders and hands were the result of a glut addiction, and Kima Bell's bizarre proportions are likewise due to a glut addiction in his youth.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/616751079975223296/dont-know-if-it-was-explained-before-somewhere
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/158714521020/bell-looks-big-does-he-abuse-glut-like-toby-and
Nicholas Desportes

## Relationships

### Family:

Alexandre Aronson Desportes (non-biological son, 1998 -)Henri Nicholas “Harry” Cadieux Desportes (son with , 2012 -)

Éva Aronson (formerly girlfriend, ✞, 1981 - 2011)

Rita Cadieux Desportes (wife - lover, one-night stand, ✞, 1980 - 2012)

### Significant Others:

Éva Aronson (frist wife, ✞, 1974 - 2000)Rita Cadieux Desportes (second wife, ✞, 1983 - 2012)

## Early Life

### Residences:

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada (birthplace of Alexandre and Henri)
Marhettin Winalils

**Marhettin Winalils** was Bastion Winalils' beloved older sister. After her death he tried to bring her back by sounding her memories from the Khert, but wasn't able to get enough of hers alone and had to fill in with other random gathered memories. The resulting personality had a number of Marhettin's memories, but drew its own personality from a handful of memories from a poet named Timofey Gafkovich.

## Appearance

Hettie had wavy black hair, a curvy body and a love for cream and yellow clothes and hats decked in flowers.

## Background

Marhettin died in her early twenties, falling victim to Weeping Plague alongside her mother and half of the unfortunate kussen enslaved at Morningmont.

## Relationships

* **Bastion Winalils** - Hettie's little brother whom she did more to raise than her disinterested parents. He did not take her death well, trying to bring her back from the pieces of her memories he could find in the khert.

### Potential Spoilers for Potential Tales!!

* **Vickers** - The Winalils's vliegeng handler and Hettie's love. They were planning to run away together with Bastion to avoid Hettie's arranged marriage when both Vickers and Hettie caught the plague and died.

## Notes

* Hettie was to be a major player in the Morningmont story which Ashley was working on before making *Unsounded*. The story remains Bastion's backstory but hasn't been finished or released. Synopses of sections of the once planned novel have been uploaded to Ashley's tumblr. All bits of the Morningmont story known are subject to Ashley's rule that nothing is set in stone until published in *Unsounded* or another of her works, and she has indicated she might use that unfinished tale for a future work. Hettie and her death are fully confirmed as cannon for *Unsounded*.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/676176464875569152/as-someone-with-a-ton-of-ocs-the-most-personal-of
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/676764430922596352/so-bassy-can-see-all-these-things-only-with-his
3. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/616130780208463872/sapphiredragonstudios-im-curious-was-bastions
4. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/676147354312867840/awwww-does-bastion-actually-consider-timofrey-a
5. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/676144934526550016/do-you-have-a-picture-of-bastions-sister-or-is
6. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/675718369952104448/you-said-bastion-had-like-a-sister-familywhat
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/163007934280/can-you-tell-us-more-about-marhettinn-or-is-that-a
8. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/163032831010/why-bastion-didnt-catch-a-plague-and-how-exactly
Bodi

**Councillor Bodie** is one of the four Lords of Vits, the most powerful men in Alderode.

## Background

Duane punched Bodie during an important meeting when Bodie gleefully suggested the Ssaelit spread the poorly understood and controlled deadly Weeping Plague to decimate Gefendur populations and prevent losing council seats as the Gefendur were suggesting "rebalancing" the council due to how many Ssaelit had perished from to the disease. He also hates Soud (Gold).

## Notes

* While Bodie's last name has not been definitively revealed one of the planned character names for Book II was revealed to be a Rebecca Court and later Rebecca was revealed to be the planned name of Bodie's daughter, implying his family name might be Court. Years later Rebecca's full name was revealed as Rebecca Bodie.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/695794704320790528/even-the-adeliers-i-dont-have-high-hopes-for
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/181757051090/are-their-any-main-or-nearly-main-if-that-makes
3. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/727119516016033792/let-me-be-blunt-for-a-sec-here-but-how-do-you
Leysa Adelier

Leysa 6 years prior to the start of Book I

**Leysa Adelier** is Duane Adelier's loving wife and the mother of Mikaila and Simon. She is also a soud.

## Personality

Sharp, clever and flirtatious with her husband. She's close with her parents.

## Relationships

* **Duane Adelier** - beloved husband.

* **Mikaila Adelier** - Eldest child, a troublemaker whose illicit pymary was getting so out of control Leysa's family had started making excuses not to visit anymore and there was concern the elders would eject them from their ghers at the time of Duane's assassination.

* **Simon Adelier** - Son

* **Lemuel Adelier** - Brother in law

* **Orlina** - Leysa's mother, whom she is close to and whom she convinced Duane to move in with.

* **Simon** - Leysa's father

## Recent Events (Spoilers)

As is traditional in Alderode Leysa married her husband's brother after Duane's death.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/671917725709369344/is-duanes-cranky-mother-in-law-still-kicking-i
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://zacksfairest.tumblr.com/post/56621325867/this-is-very-important-information
Silas

**Silas** is a plat boy who served in the State Ssaelit Order of Chinoll as a child.

## Appearance

Silas was a petite youth with a smattering of freckles across his cheeks. During his time serving in the State Ssaelit Order of Chinoll during the Foi-Hellick Affair Silas wore his white hair in a chin length bob cut.

## Personality

A bit of a sly prankster, joking that the plats were as pale as they are because Vampire drained them of their color to Will and the first to make a pun about Will's bitten off arm.

## Background

Orphaned in Fachlyne when his family died of Weeping Plague Silas was rescued from the quarantine zone by Duane Adelier and Jon Steeling who were able to convince the state of the worth of a unit of plat child wrights from the asylum Fachlyne's many orphaned and abandoned children were in. After the Foi-Hellick Affair concluded Duane was able to secure Silas a place with a family in a plat gher in Durlyne City.

Silas comforting Will in the aftermath of Will's first battleSilas sleeping with the other Chinoll child wrights, and the Adelier brothers.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/183586552690/what-are-the-ages-of-the-kids-in-the-plat-unit
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/184567806125/can-you-give-us-a-rundown-of-what-plat-is-who-on
Luci

**Luci** is an young woman who serves Queen Maharaishala Sonorie.

## Appearance

A short young woman with thick lips, large brown eyes, a round head and filled out chest.

## Background

Luci's mother was a Fireloper pilot who was killed by Aldish troops.

## Recent Events

Luci assisted Maharaishala Sonorie when Sonorie's prize hound Flora was giving birth to a litter of puppies.

She later attended the Council of Four meeting where she handed Queen Sonorie all documents she requested. On Tirnasday she accompanied Queen Sonorie to Port Morstorben for the festivities dressed in a simple Nipper costume.
Hounds

Hounds are large canines native to the Kasslynian continent. They resemble various breeds of contemporary dogs but of a size comparable to real world horses and ponies. Hounds are used as steeds and beasts of burden by the people of Kasslyne.

Large stocky hounds can be used for pulling carts, but leaner tall hounds are uses as saddlehounds. They double as faithful steeds and ferocious guard dogs. Of course, hounds are kept as pets as well. "Kasslynian hounds commonly live to thirty or so."

1. ↑ https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch04/ch04\_58.html
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/97178208445/how-old-is-pantoffel
Kasslynians

**Kasslynians** are the humans of the world of *Unsounded*, also known as "spider-paws". They've some major differences to humans of our own world due to their evolution being guided to happen more quickly and their ties to the khert.

## Biology

Kasslynian human ears are vestigial; while they work and are there as a result of evolving from earlier lifeforms they are not necessary due to the way Kasslynian souls are strung along the khert. Kasslynians can hear through their souls and can never go deaf no matter the damage to their physical ears.

## Culture

All Kasslynians are from the single continent of Kasslyne, and traveling too far from it on the ocean can make them sick and even have fatal consequences as they get further and further from the khert's reach. They started out as tribes and developed numerous kingdoms on Kasslyne, the governments of each which have evolved further over time. Due to the khert not extending far out to sea Kasslynians think the waters reject it and as a result some cultures and religions have developed a taboo on eating seafood. Despite the oddities caused by the interference in their evolution their desires and drives are not different from any other humans, they can just do Pymary too.
Allepakh

> A bomb that blankets an area and liquefies every material it's been set to. And it's not a **quick** swap. As it persists, the khert acts to normalize the environment, and since, ya know, liquefied things like stone and steel are supposed to be **hot**, the consequent temperature climb roasts **everything. Whole area** becomes...foul, boiling, dead soup. On **fire.**
>
> -**Elka**, Chapter 16, page 102

An **Allepakh**, or Juicer, is a type of Pymaric bomb in which liquid aspect is encased in an aspect bulb and then dropped on an area. The khert, as it brings things back into order makes everything liquefied by the bomb hot enough for it to be a liquid thus super heating the area and causing a massive fire on top of the initial destruction.

## In *Unsounded*

The Lions of Mercy bring an Allepakh for their attack on Litriya Shrine, with orders to use it to destroy the shrine and the pilgrims, priestesses and children within. It ends up being dropped on Uaid instead whose field spreader prevents the massive area of destruction usually caused by Allepakh but it destroys him.
Irma Keon

Irma Keon is a Aseptick Agent in service to Queen Sonorie of Cresce.

## Appearance

A curvy lady with a broad nose, harsh glare and blue-silver hair pulled back and windswept. During the defense of Grenzlan she wears an Aseptick uniform modified into an off shoulder affair with a rich purple cape trimmed in gold fringe, a gilded wright's cap with dangling ornaments, her gloves and boots an atypical gold color, a belt of pouches and her right eye covered. Her armor is also modified to be or glamored to appear lower than a standard Aseptick or Peaceguard breastplate with different clasps, so that she can show off a bit of cleavage.

## Personality

She enjoys a bit of condescending trash talking of her opponents, and hates the Aldish, relishing in getting to kill their most khert modified castes the Coppers and Plats.

## Notes

* Irma is named for Hurricane Irma, which took out Ashley's electricity for a week.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/698737500667215872/i-love-fancy-silver-haired-battle-wright-lady
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/176211471125/aseptick-keon-who-is-married-what-does-his-wife
Chitz

**Chitz** is a sackhound sewn by Vienne Quigley for her son Matty in the tradition of her people among whom mothers would create a toy for their children before handing them off to be raised the rest of their lives in the Children's Home. Vienne did not give Matty up, despite telling her husband she was going to and the frustrations her decision caused the local council. After Vienne was tortured to death and Matty blinded in a Window crackdown on her activities Chitz was turned into a Pymaric construct by Maur. The insides of the toy were removed and replaced with First Bronze with spells burned into it to create a seeing aid as detailed in *Orphans*.

The name "Chitz" came about from Matty being unable to pronounce the word "stitch" as a two year old. Matty usually wears Chitz on his shoulder or head. He sometimes pretends to feed Chitz. He cannot turn off Chitz' vision except for covering its 'eyes'.

## Appearance

While Chitz was intended to look like a hound he turned out looking more like a sackcloth bag with a pair of purple button eyes, white thread smile and a yarn tail.

## Recent Events

Sette Frummagem briefly tried to steal Chitz when she learned the toy contained valuable First Materials. Starfish exploited Chitz to sadistically force Matty to watch Quigley be drowned by Anadyne. A wreaked and torn open Chitz is among the mnemonic items related to Sette and Duane's journey that Lady Ilganyag has torn from the abstract majority of the Khert and added to her collection along with Siya's sketchbook, the pencil Sara stabbed Chalmer with and other items, though Chitz has not been seen yet in such a poor condition.
Flann

**Flann** is an Inak who joined Cutter in hopes of forcing Queen Sonorie to give Inak proper rights in Cresce.

## Appearance

A blue inak with a scarred round muzzle and ruffled crest. He's missing his left arm which was cut off just above the elbow.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/699969904144744448/a-while-back-i-suggested-the-name-flann-i-dont
Niki Harl

**Niki Harl** is a Crescian soldier who was stationed as a guard at the Gefendur twin shrine Litriya Shrine.

## Appearance

Considered an attractive young man by the twins of Litriya.

## Background

Sara Litriya developed a crush on Niki during his time stationed at the shrine. he died in a battle with the Aldish Lions of Mercy on the banks of the River Jarla.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/612262074980204544/who-is-the-niki-harl-that-sara-mentioned-wanting
Darkest Paul

**Darkest Paul** is a Black Tongue wright that appears to be a rival of Bastion Winalils.

## Appearance

Paul is a balding man with shoulder length hair and a tattoo across his eyes.

## Background

Tarpaulin's mother gave him a good Sharteshanian name for his father's hat, which indicates that one or both of his parents were sailors. He grew to resent it as it marked him as Sharteshanian and he was looked down on and discredited in academic circles for his heritage, and chose "Darkest Paul" as play on Darkest Pall.   Darkest was unable to get into the Black Tongues for years despite hanging around them as Lady Ilganyag didn't approve of him. He ended up being the last Black Tongue to get a torque before the lady abandoned them, and the torques can't be installed without her.  He has a history as Bastion's lover, though that affection is long gone.

## Personality

Bitter, competitive and ruthlessly pragmatic with a stereotypicaly self centered Sharteshanian mindset about finances and gaining an advantage.

## Relationships

### Bastion Winalils

Darkest and Bastion slept together a number of times, but Darkest wanted them to be in an exclusive relationship which is a type of commitment Bastion isn't interested in nor willing to tie himself to. Bastion's rejection of Darkest was the start of a breakdown in their relationship which has led to Darkest deeply resenting the Aldishman.

## Abilities

Darkest is a Wright, whose area of chosen focus for study is Senet beasts.

## Recent Events (Spoilers)

### Book I

#### Chapter 12

Darkest is part of the group that has Ballanstern assassinated in order to put Ruck in a position of more power, and let the order tie itself more strongly to Queen Maharaishala Sonorie in the absence of Lady Ilganyag.

## Notes

* Darkest was a replacement for a much less charming rival from RP of Bastion’s named Milliard.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/624909601373028353/you-mentioned-darkests-original-name-was
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/178328682515/did-darkest-paul-join-the-black-tongues-purely-out
3. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/651888937720217600/sidestepping-the-other-question-of-who-makes
4. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/161893464105/i-really-like-how-youve-made-darkest-paul-at
5. ↑  https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/162005041780/where-did-inspiration-for-darkest-paul-come-from
Marj

**Marj** is the Captain of the Watch in Ethelmik, and the leader of the Frummagem allied dissidents in Ethelmik's Watch. Elka nicknames her "Hamsteak".

## Appearance

Overweight with scars crossing her face and a near permanent scowl.

## Recent Events (spoilers)

"Hamsteak" was killed by Lord General Bell's butchers when they came to Ethelmik to slaughter the entire town and blame Alderode for the destruction.

## Notes

* Either her given or family name might be Gini as an Officer Gini is said to be having trouble with the Yerta Pymaric in the Deadly Nevergreen shortly before "Hamsteak" is seen being irritated by the same pymaric's emerging eccentricities as it gets haunted by the Ghosts drawn from the khert's "Brightlands" by the Shatterstar Cache of First Silver.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/661599850277814272/hey-hey-hey-dont-give-hetr-the-credit-for-the
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/141014742615/so-thats-how-perceptive-glamours-work-but-why-is
Chapter 1

Chapter 1 coverpage

Chapter 1, A Reluctant Escort was posted in entirety on [fuck when IS Unsounded's anniversary?) as a combination buffer and proof of concept for readers. Its tag line reads "In Which There Are Strange Beasts & Stranger Stirrings"

## Synopsis

After three weeks on the road, obnoxious and cocksure Sette Frummagem leads her zombie bodyguard far off the beaten path. Sette is on a mission for her father, the leader of a criminal family in the country of Sharteshane, and the zombie has been blackmailed into aiding her. While the pair is bickering over this fact, a monstrous tree beast swoops upon the zombie and tidily devours him. Happy to abandon her comrade in favour of this new arrival, Sette attempts to negotiate a partnership, but the tree-beast wants nothing to do with her. Negotiations quickly turn violent, and Sette is rescued from obliteration when the zombie explodes from the tree-beast's innards. Refusing to see reason, Sette insists the monster has some value and attempts to attack it. Its wrath piqued, the tree-beast moves to strike, and the zombie must incinerate it to ensure his charge's safety. Later, Sette and her bodyguard awkwardly apologise to each other and continue their journey.

## Appearances

### Characters

* Sette Frummagem
* Duane Adelier
* Stockyard Frummagem (mentioned)
* Nary-A’Care Frummagem
* Wandering Root
* Lemuel Adelier
* Crescian soldier
* Vliegeng (mentioned)

### Items/Concepts

* map
* Sem
* pocket watches
* candy
* Crescian 104th Mounted Division badge
* Thorns

* Plods
* Pymary
* Jukrum
* Cremation

### Locations

* Ulestry
* Cresce (mentioned)
* Sharteshane
	+ New Tawhoque

## Translations

### Russian

Chapter 1 is covered in Dusker's Russian Translation project, started in 2012

## Trivia

Chapter 1's subtitle has subtly changed several times over the years, variously being "The Unwilling Escort," "A Reluctant Escort," and, most recently, "The Reluctant Escort."
First Silver

**First Silver** is a First Material which is exceedingly valuable for Pymaric constructs due to its malleability and its unparalleled capacity for holding burned spells.

## History

The mines of Ethelmik and her sister city of Mulimar were once producers of First Silver, but the miners stopped finding and mining Silver in those mines long ago and the mines in Ethelmik have been decommissioned by order of Queen Sonorie, with instructions that the town itself be decommissioned in the Crescian calendar year 417.

## Known Uses

Pymaric eyes, like those Duane Adelier now uses, are generally made using First Silver and a First gemstone.

The torques used by all members of the Black Tongues which are needed for entry into Juste are made of First Silver.

## Recent Events (spoilers)

A cache of First Silver termed the Shaterstar Cache has been reported missing in Sharteshane after Crescian General Kima Bell proposed using it to create a superweapon with which to annihilate the Aldish. Queen Sonorie turned him down in disgust at the concept of the weapon and due to Bell's warmongering and vying for more power.

Bell secretly financed the project anyway, and when the Silver Eel killled a bunch of people in Ethelmik he had the city raized to the ground and everyone in it murdered to hide any truths, then claimed the city was destroyed in an attack by the Aldish who had paid for the Silver weapon when Cresce turned it down. The fates of the many witnesses across the river and border in Ulestry's Mulimar to the destruction of Ethelmik by Crescian Firelopers is unknown.
Deadly Nevergreen

The **Deadly Nevergreen** is an unlicensed brothel in Ethelmik run by the Sharteshane immigrant Stockyard Frummagem.

## Background

A rather recent establishment the Deadly Nevergreen has taken advantage of the desperation of the people of Ethelmik to make their city viable to prevent its decommissioning to become the biggest buisnees in town. While the brothel upstairs stays busy the place is built above a series of underground passages with locks installed that make it a smuggler's paradise for secretly moving ships through Cresce. Stockyard regularly smuggles banned religious texts, and the drugs softi, glut, and sleepleaf.

## Employees

* Stockyard Frummagem (boss)
* Toby (enforcer)
* Knock-Me-Down Frummagem (enforcer)
* Anadyne Frummagem (Wright enforcer)
* Dawn (prostitute)
* Vanilla (prostitute)
* Gregory (bartender)

### Associates

While Stockyard runs the Nevergreen he still answers to Nary-A’Care Frummagem back in New Tawhoque, and his smuggling operation means he works with people who are not his direct employees.

* Nary-A’Care Frummagem (Stockyard's boss)
* Elan Aled (Peaceguard blackmailed into aiding Stockyard)
* Starfish (smuggler)
* Segil (Wright, Plod operator)
* Tavi (Segil's subordinate)

1. ↑ http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch10/ch10\_25.html
2. ↑  http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch10/ch10\_62.html
Eustace

**Eustace** was a plat battlewright who served Vampire's revolution for ten years, until his death in the final real engagement of the Foi-Hellick Affair.

## Appearance

Pale, white haired man wearing a red hooded tunic and the mouth-covering mask decorated with vampire fangs common among Vampire's rebels.

## History

Eustace served Vampire for ten years, when he's only a maximum of thirty in his life. He was upset when Vampire had him and the other Aldish rebels leave the old man alone with Crescians right after Vampire had sacrificed his brother and his brother's young plat unit to create a khert fire.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/186521351685/what-is-this-recently-stabbed-fellows-name-does
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/187281763380/so-is-eustace-the-brother-of-the-spellmaster-that
Lions

**Lions** are large extinct felines, which were once used as mounts by the Gefendur Rortidians. Lions were used in the hunting and slaying of Sonum Ssael and subsequently became icons of the Ssaelit movement turned religion. In response the Gefendur started slaying their former allies, and the uncannily smart animals turned on the Rortidians causing their wholesale slaughter as being traitors and symbols of the heretics. In the end Gefendur groups killed off not only all the lions, but all other big cats in Kasslyne in retaliation. Ruck remembers twin sacrifices in which lions killed cubs alongside humans killing twin children, but humans don't seem to have any records left of this time in their history.

## Trivia

The lions of Kasslyne which are oft referenced were larger and more intelligent than those in the real world, of a more similar appearance to artistic depictions of the extinct American lion, there were smaller lions that looked like extant lions as well further south but the Gefendur killed all of those and the jaguars as well.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/181429395500/happy-holidays-how-are-there-lions-in-alderode
Bodkin

**Bodkin** is Nary-A’Care Frummagem's second in command.

## Appearance

A bald thickset man with a round fleshy nose.

## Personality

Bodkin does not like Nary's daughter Sette Frummagem, and Sette in turn hates him and expects she'll have to kill him to take over her father's business. If Sette were left behind while Nary was out on a business trip Bodkin would have ensured she wouldn't survive the experience.

## Background

Bodkin used to have a son, whom Sette saw hanged. He left a dead dog dressed in Sette's "best shirt" in her bed, so she cut up his pet rat and put it in his stew.

## Recent Events

Bodkin was present alongside Nary when Duane set out from Sharteshane with Sette.

1. ↑ https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch03/ch03\_48.html
Rion Keon

Keon in Chapter 12

Keon is a wright in service to Queen Sonorie of Cresce. However, he is part of General Bell's faction plotting against the queen, along with Captain Hetr and Karl.

## Appearance

As an Aseptick, and wears the white robes of his high station. His hair is bleached blonde. After Ethelmik his eyes have lines of scaring radiating from them and his eyebrows are burned off, his palms are split down the middle as well.

## Personality

Keon is a rather intense individual. His interpretation of his faith is in contrast to Cresce's state approved teachings of Gefendur doctrine, noticeable when he calls on a singular god rather than all four of them or just the goddesses during battle since he's chosen a patron deity with whom he identifies.

## Relationships

### Kima Bell

Another Cresian whose personal interpretation of Gefendur faith priorities the male deities. Bell's hatred of Alderode appealed to Keon who allied himself with Bell's treasonous faction. Keon does not follow Bell's dogma unquestioningly and starts to regret throwing his lot in with Bell after he starts to realize that Bell is not nearly as knowledgeable as he thought himself to be.

### Hart Hetr

Keon rather despises Hetr and finds his constant speechifying annoying. He still works well with him, just makes verbal jabs whenever the chance arises.

### Irma Keon

Rion's wife. Their political views are not aligned and they grow tired of each other easily but they are both Asepticks.

## Recent Events (spoilers)

### Book I

##### Chapter 11

He participated in the razing of Ethelmik during which he harnessed so much pressure aspect from the waterfall on the River Jarla that he split his hands open, nearly killing himself. He decided to bandage his hands to heal as split, in an experiment to see if exposing his palm ports would allow him greater pymaric control or capacity.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/627616519879344128/the-more-you-talk-about-keon-the-more-interesting
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/617377633886420992/how-are-keons-hands-doing-id-think-hed-had
3. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/633349928656289792/so-if-a-normal-person-had-their-hands-cut-off
Horace

**Horace** was a part of Ricker's amoral Lions of Mercy squad.

## Recent Events (spoilers)

While sacking Litriya Shrine and looking for the secret construct facility hidden beneath it Horace got his leg broken by Masek in the kitchens. He later said something to Sette Frummagem when she walked through the kitchens and appears to be the only actual Aldish individual slain by Hart Hetr when Heter started cutting up everyone with lighter skin than himself in the stairwell while sprouting Aldish hating rhetoric.
Mallory

> A leech and lordling have I been, captain; a painter and a politician. Of late I lead a revolution. And if I am not fain to speak my whole name, think me no churl; the state can with it spell me dead.
>
> -**Vampire**, Chapter 14, page 92

**Vampire** (Mallory) was one of the leaders of the revolutionary forces in Avelpit during the Aldish civil war known as the Foi-Hellick Affair.

## Appearance

A large man with red hair, eyes and skin Mallory was an elder Copper whose unnatural long life had led to his unnaturally large body, a trait common among older Coppers. He also wears a red mustache.

## Relationships

### Roger Foi-Hellick

Mallory and Roger were in a committed relationship and ran a revolt against the government of Alderode in Avelpit together. Mallory was the love of Roger's life, but his last words to Roger were spiteful and hateful as he was under the effects of the Etalarche Curse, drawing into question if he was as committed to Roger as Roger was to him prior to the curse taking effect or if he was just taking advantage of Roger for his revolution.
Beadman's Ginger Biscuits

**Beadman's Ginger Biscuits** are a ginger cookie produced by Beadman's Betters. The cookies come in kedis, goatsnake and Cuddlefish shapes though they're all the same flavor. They are advertised as being capable of shrinking tumors, aiding digestion and polishing teeth.

## In *Unsounded*

Masek gives Minnow snackrifices of Beadman's Ginger Biscuits. She prefers the cuttlefish shape, and insists it tastes better even though none of the shapes are a different flavor.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/190829367595/whats-a-ratsnake
Mikaila Adelier

Mikaila in Chapter 5

**Mikaila Adelier** was the daughter of Duane and Leysa. She was born a tacit caster. Duane sometimes sees her at night, and calls Sette by her name. Mikaila loves riding vliegeng and making pymary. It seems Mikaila died the same night Duane did, as in the memory sequence in the khert she is seen getting cut down before the narration goes nonlinear and presumably unreliable. Duane also states that she is always running away and elusive in his dreams.

## Appearance

Mikaila appears to have been a soud, with the same green eyes and yellow hair as her father. She was rather short.

## Abilities

Like her father, Mikaila was a tacit caster. She was shown to be bright and a quick learner, despite a tendency toward mistakes. She may have had above average intelligence, as her first attempt at a glamour (glamouring her grandfather to appear as a Two-toed Lizard) was based on her reading of an instruction book. While a glamour *was* cast, it was cast wrongly and dangerously.

Drinking Rose Milk at Farold's.Riding Diva in Chapter 7.
Magnus

**Magnus** was a young Weeping Plague orphan conscripted into the State Ssaelit Order of Chinoll military order as a child, at nine years of age.

## Appearance

A little boy with wild white hair and a missing tooth.

## Personality

An overeager, overzealous and rambunctious child looking for reasons and explanations where there are none. As a nine year old he also didn't like crust on his bread, despite being military rations, and Duane would remove it for him.

## Recent Events

After the Foi-Hellick Affair was through Duane Adelier secured Magnus a place in a gher in Durlyne City. By the time of Book I he'd be twenty-four, about the same age as Mathis Quigley (Sr.) at twenty-five.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/183586552690/what-are-the-ages-of-the-kids-in-the-plat-unit
New Tawhoque

**New Tawhoque** is a city in Sharteshane which is run by Nary-A’Care Frummagem from his pub, The Midnight Cricket.

## Description

Built between a old Tarnet wood and a dormant volcano upon the sunken ruins of a previous settlement New Tawhoque's a grey city, with most structures being build of tarnet lumber rather than true wood. The main industries are fishing and clamming, outside of the strong criminal element in the city. The city sort of bleeds into a shantytown called Tawhoque Cove, the edges of which are nebulous, which is run by The Fingers, a somewhat rival gang to the Frummagems, led by a man who goes by Tom Thumb.

## Locales

* Duane's place in Old Town on Criseyde Way.
* Zeal's Sweets on Criseyde Way
* The Midnight Cricket
* Tawhoque Cove

## Locals

* Sette Frummagem
* Nary-A’Care Frummagem
* Granny Frummagem
* Lucky Puppy
* Bodkin
* Bodkin Jr.
* Anadyne Frummagem (former)
* Knock-Me-Down Frummagem (former)

### Tawhoque Cove

* Tom Thumb
* Pinky
* Pointer
* Ringer
* Thumbscrews
* Scab

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/189716229635/sounds-like-the-frummagem-name-isnt-much-of-a
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/123700238700/does-stockyard-have-any-siblings-with-similarly
Avelpit

**Avelpit** is an Aldish Ginnal.

## History

The location of the Foi-Hellick Affair, in which the entire provice tried to rebel and split from Alderode. The ensuing civil war took a decade to be squashed by the Vits Council's armies and at one point the rebels had succesfully dismantled the Vits' khert hubs in Avelpit, disabling the Dammakhert which physically alters Aldish citizens into their castes in the womb and allows for state surveillance, control and remote attacks on citizens.

## Locals

* Foi and Hellick families (executed)
* Roger Foi-Hellick

## Recent Events (spoilers)

Crescian soldiers and spies were found sneaking into Avelpit and stealing First Materials by and Aldish patrol. When they were summarily tortured, questioned and executed with their bodies sent back to Sonorie the Crescian press claimed they were only innocent unarmed surveyors mapping the border between the two countries, painting the Aldish as the agressors as violence kicked up once more between the two countries. The captured Crescians gave up the fact that the First Materials were being used to craft new giant war constructs to attack Alderode with in a hidden facility, and Alderode responded by sending troops to locate the facility and destroy it.
Rilursa Sonorie

**Rilursa Sonorie** is the sister to Queen Maharaishala Sonorie of Cresce and heir to her throne.

## Appearance

A stern dark-eyed woman with short hair and sharp cheekbones.

## Background

Originally Rila, the daughter of two officers in her Majesty’s navy, after being orphaned in a pirate attack she and her sister Maha were adopted as two of Queen Ephilasia Sonorie's twenty-four adopted grandchildren.

## Personality

"Lady Rilursa is known as the Queen’s severe and joyless shadow. [Cresians are] just a little bit terrified that she may wind up queen one day." A no-frills type of woman whose grandmother, the previous Queen Sonorie, reportedly passed her by for inheriting the throne because Rilursa wanted it too badly and was feared would be too ruthless. She dislikes children, men, and is not married.

## Recent Events (Spoilers)

### Book I

Rilursa was assassinated while on a diplomatic visit to Sharteshane. Hired Inak were forced to carry out the assassination even though some had second thoughts, causing major violence against Inak back in Cresce when the known details of her death were published against the Queen's orders.

## Notes

* Prior to her proper introduction in *Unsounded* Rilursa was tentatively named "Lady Veltralina Sonorie" by Ashley in a tumblr Q&A response.

1. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/188448783260/i-like-maha-very-much-if-its-not-a-spoiler
2. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/170419987955/rilursas-outfit-is-wonderful-but-as-crescians
3. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/170613147800/does-rilursa-have-a-spouse-andor-children
4. ↑ https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/149758747220/so-which-sister-is-getting-sent-to-negotiate-with