Fate Core System

### Second

Creator: Leonard Balsera, Brien Engard, Jeremy Keller, Ryan Macklin & Mike Olson

## **Setting**

This source material offers a variety of guidelines for creating specific worlds and characters, but mentions several specific individuals in examples to explain these regulations and guidelines:

* Amanda: the main storyteller and game master used in the examples.
* Anna: competes with Cynere for the theft of the Jewel of Aetheria, she is a thief and a barrister, but also secretly a member of the Sun and Moon Society, who oppose the Cult of Tranquility.
* Arc'yeth: a demon lord leading the Circle of Thirteen.
* Asahandra: a demon princess.
* Barathar: the Smuggler Queen of the Sindral Reach, she is the captain of the ship Death Dealer and fell in love with Carris, whom she had kidnapped.
* Becky: an anthropomorphic squirrel mechanic.
* Berthold: a translator.
* Brace Jovannich: the original owner of Brace Jovannich's Dueling Pistol, he is the most feared, most respected gunfighter of Aedeann.
* Carris Bornhold: was captured by Barathar, then fell in love with her and after her passing has vowed to become the Smuggler King of the Sindral Reach.
* Corathia: stole from Cynere in the past.
* Cynere: a rogue who is secretly Barathar's sister and gets Soul-Burned by Arc'yeth.
* Dammar: shares Lucas' respect.
* Don Giovanni: a member of the mafia.
* Drisban: a member of the Scarlet Twenty, the elite guards of Antharus.
* Duke Orsin: is supposedly woefully overconfident.
* Edmund: was involved in a blood feud.
* Fafhrd: a character from a book series.
* General Ephon: the leader of an army that hired Landon to help overthrow the Red Emperor.
* Gorlok the Demon-Blooded: a half-demon warrior.
* The Gray Mouser: a character from a book series.
* Hollister: Barathar's lieutenant in Sindral Reach.
* Joe Steel: the Best Mechanic for a Thousand Miles.
* Hugo the Charitable: a lieutenant in the Scar Triad.
* Kale Westal: a shop owner in Riverton.
* Karlon-Kar: an ancient god of destruction.
* Landon Darkwood: a martial artist and former Disciple of the Ivory Shroud.
* Lanthus: an arbiter who seeks to destroy Zird.
* Lenny: one of the players, portraying Landon Darkwood.
* Lily: one of the players, portraying Cynere.
* Lord Bornhold of Varendep: an ally of Landon, Cynere and Zird, but after they rescued his son Carris from Barathar.
* Lord Wynthrep: a lord in the east.
* Lucas the Magic Cop: from "Ancestral Affairs".
* Nikolai: a contact and ally of Landon, Zird and Cynere.
* Og the Strong: one of Barathar's main enforcers.
* Old Finn: a member of the town militia and Landon's mentor.
* Pight: a corrupt barrister working for Lanthus.
* The Primarch: the leader of the Cult of Tranquility.
* The Red Emperor: a ruler who is being opposed by General Ephon.
* Ryan: one of the players, portraying Zird the Arcane.
* Simon the Cyber-Ape: originally from "Chrome City", he is a cybernetically enhanced, anthropomorphic ape.
* Sir Hanley: a knight.
* The Skull-King: a king from the north.
* Sujan: the Spirit of Warding, he has it in for Lucas.
* Tan'shael: a minor demon and the right hand of Arc'yeth in the Circle of Thirteen.
* Teran the Swift: an old nemesis of Zird, Landon & Cynere, who has been hired by Barathar.
* Tremendor: a giant of the Northern Wastes.
* Vokus Skortch: a member of the Collegia Arcana and rival of Zird's.
* Zird the Arcane: a spellcaster and member of the Collegia Arcana.