Evelyn and Elizabeth - Shared Story Characters

- **Beroul:** A lictor, a tartarean entity from the universe of Gnosis which is created when a human is blessed with incredible power and authority by an Archon (an abstract manifestation of one of the concepts underlying human cognition and reality at large). Lictors are masters of reality and the human mind, allowing them to freely traverse the multiverse and perform world-ending feats of magic and summoning. Beroul is one of the most powerful entities in the setting and is currently directing his agents in pursuit of Elizabeth Ashwood.

- **Poppy Ryder:** The latest of Elizabeth’s exes. An infernal mage who moonlighted as a Kimolia bounty hunter in order to observe Elizabeth and to determine whether she’d changed in the years since Poppy left her for being a self-pitying wreck of a person. At first, she behaved in a hostile manner to Elizabeth, capturing her and sending her to a personal land of torment in Purgatory to suffer for all of her life’s regrets. However, after seeing how Elizabeth persevered throughout her nightmare, and eventually helped to get both herself and Evelyn out of Hell, Poppy’s opinion of her shifted. Poppy is in control of a private military company consisting of various classes of demon, each of which would be considered an eldritch horror capable of crushing the minds and bodies of swathes of humans on their own. In addition, she has a direct link to the wellspring of power that fuels the Infernus, the Black Sun, which grants her both raw power and technique that are second to none within the setting and also ensures that when she dies, she is nearly immediately reincarnated as a very-lesser-demon, with her demonic nature growing more apparent with each revival.

- **The Raven / Elizabeth’s Doppelganger:** A manifestation of Elizabeth’s past trauma, which accompanied her in Hell in order to try to keep her suffering within Purgatory. When its attempts to break down her psyche failed, it turned to active violence. It demonstrated similar, if not superior thaumaturgical potential to Elizabeth herself, repeatedly beating her down until a moment of determination allowed Elizabeth to dispel the entity. Technically, it was never physically overcome.

- **Eidolon:** A powerful reality bender which fully consumed The Obelisk and used its powers to transform much of England into an alternate reality resembling a surreal depiction of purgatory. It was able to instantly ‘load’ previous versions of its body when it was injured, rendering it effectively immortal. However, its ability to override others’ personalities also meant that it had a reciprocal weakness to those with the willpower to resist it and attack its mind with the link established by its powers. Ultimately deprived of a will to live by Evelyn and killed.

- **Cheers for the Beginning:** A mass of fused bodies and flesh which was highly mobile and hostile. It proved itself to be capable of assimilating other anomalies and people into itself, gaining the abilities of Jacob Elway and using them to abet itself in its hunting behaviour. It is completely immune to small-arms fire, was able to casually absorb magical attacks with no visible damage, and has been suggested by Aegis personnel to be functionally immortal and impossible to incapacitate. Its ability to gain the abilities of everything that it consumes is of particular concern; its position on this list is conservative, based on the powers that it has demonstrated in the RP so far. It could easily have been higher in the past, or become higher later on.

- **The Obelisk:** A large stone which was able to read the minds of people in a wide radius and used their desires to manifest an idealised version of reality for them. It exhibited the ability to warp reality, travel through time, rewrite personalities, and generate completely new people in order to maintain the integrity of its illusory world. In spite of its incredible reality-bending powers, its desires were easily subverted by an equally determined rival in the form of Simon O’Rourke. Ultimately consumed by Eidolon.

- **Vergil Cesarino:** A rich mob boss who could set a point in time as a save point, and return to that point automatically whenever he was killed, or at will. Doing so would heal all of his wounds, barring some minor scarring. With this ability, he was effectively immortal and precognitive. However, Evelyn was able to trick him into placing a save-point inside a locked room which would shortly fill with toxic gas. After centuries spent inside trying to leave, only to die to the gas each time, Cesarino’s body became a highly durable pile of muscle and scar tissue, transforming him into an agile monster with nearly infinite knowledge of the future. Defeated by Evelyn, who injected herself with his cerebrospinal fluid in order to retain memories across successive time loops, allowing her to deadlock him for several years of combat until eventually, she leveraged his obsession with her to convince him to become her pet.

- **Violet Addaway:** A metahuman with the ability to control the flow of time within herself and others around her. She could accelerate herself to move far faster than anyone else around her, speed up her perception of time, or even stop time altogether for short periods of time. She could also cause anything she touched to massively accelerate or decelerate through time, causing iron to oxidise in fast-forward and release huge amounts of heat, or decelerate her enemies’ nerve signals so that they would become paralysed. She could also travel back in time, inverting causality for herself and coexisting with versions of herself from her past, thus duplicating herself across timelines and predestining many aspects of her own personal timeline, thus weaponising fate against her enemies. However, this predestination could also be turned against her, and she was also an unremarkable person physically speaking when deprived of her powers. Killed by Elizabeth in an Aegis facility after being forced under duress to help the witch rescue the Thaumarch, Alexandria Ashwood.

- **Heather Hudson Hailey:** A metahuman and Abigail whose ability was to simulate the next few minutes of time within her own mind with 100% precision, allowing her to see what effects her actions would have upon her immediate circumstances. However, she relied on this ability too much, to the point where once she had a fight planned out in her head, she would just close her eyes and let muscle memory play out on her behalf, meaning that it was possible to tell whether someone was in a simulation or not by paying attention to whether she was looking at her surroundings intently (in which case it was a simulation, and she was making a plan) or had her eyes closed (in which case it was reality). Killed by Evelyn, who exploited this to trick her into believing that Evelyn would behave one way in the simulation, while actually intending on behaving another way in the real world, allowing her to land a fatal blow.

- **Mr. Nobody:** A reanimated corpse found inside a hospital, powered by Aegis technology and utilised by Kimolia as an assassin. Mr. Nobody was a reanimated metahuman with the involuntary ability to instantly wipe someone’s memories of his existence if they were to look at him then look away again, or hear him then stop hearing him. He was accompanied and moved by a nanite swarm, which could burrow through concrete and eat flesh. Killed by Elizabeth Ashwood using an MRI machine which deactivated the swarm long enough for her to get close to him and cut his heart out.

- **The Singing Butcher:** A machine which has an aura of Cogito (dangerous memetic hazards) which compel people to throw themselves or each other into the machine. When this occurs, it grinds up its victim and releases a soothing music that improves work ethic and subordination to authority. At close range, the music leads to obsessive, devotional behaviour towards the machine, allowing it to rapidly amass a cult of thousands. Last seen in an Aegis facility, where a guard deliberately activated the machine with his own body in an attempt to kill Elizabeth and Violet Addaway by incapacitating them in the presence of Cheers for the Beginning.

- **The Nightmare Lamp:** A lantern which when lit, casts shadows which resemble monsters and demons armed with axes. These shadows are capable of interacting physically with the shadows of objects and people in their environment, effectively making them invisible monsters with the sole intent of subjecting people to vile forms of torture before executing them in gruesome ways. These shadows can interact with people, but people cannot interact with the shadows, making them impossible to resist, attack, trap, or kill. The lantern itself is indestructible and if obscured by a heavy object, will tear whatever is covering it into pieces. It is also capable of casting a single large shadow and levitating, effectively placing itself at the heart of a massive shadow beast that, for the brief duration that it was active, tore apart an Aegis facility and also exhibited the same physical indestructibility and intangibility as the core anomaly itself. Last seen in an Aegis facility, where it teamed up with Cheers for the Beginning to fight Elizabeth, Violet Addaway, and another abnormality with the appearance of a bounty hunter.

- **Trench-59:** Capable of spreading a bubble of psionic energy which compels humans to give birth to mutated fetuses and take care of them until exsanguinating. Would have converted a substantial portion of Europe into a womb-like organ if it hadn't been killed first. It ranks fairly low on this scale because in spite of the incredible destructive potential that it holds, it is unable to defend itself from even very basic attacks and mentally resistant individuals. Ultimately tranquilised and remanded into custody by Evelyn.

- **Yurika:** One of Elizabeth’s exes. A nun who learned to use abyssal magic to negate the very existence of people, objects, and ideas in a specific radius around her. This form of offensive magic was impossible to resist or outrun and made her one of Elizabeth’s most dangerous and tenacious hunters, against whom there were no real practicable offensive or defensive options. Ultimately killed by a counterhex.

- **Catherine Amy Vidicer, “Avery Fames”:** A metahuman with the ability to instantly degrade anything she touches at a physical, conceptual, or spiritual level. The latter application was able to induce an incurable disease in Elizabeth that would have killed her within minutes if she hadn’t received medical attention and managed to kill Vidicer before the disease could progress. Vidicer demonstrated the ability to disguise herself as anyone, avoid detection even in crowded environments, completely annihilate Evelyn and Elizabeth in hand-to-hand combat, and used her ability in creative ways, such as by breaking the bonds within calcium to transform it into toxic chlorine gas and an explosive quantity of hydrogen. She was renowned as one of the most lethal hitmen in Albion, and managed to beat Evelyn and Elizabeth three times each (one time, when they were together) before being taken down. Killed aboard an airship in Albion.

- **Ezekiel Lame:** An Abigail and metahuman whose ability was to instantly exchange places with someone else if they were to attack or restrain him, whether indirectly or directly. This meant that he was effectively impossible to injure or capture, as he would just immediately swap places with his assailants before their attacks could make contact. However, attacks affecting both the attacker and the target would affect him as normal. Killed by Evelyn, who impaled both of them on a wooden stake, only to receive immediate medical attention from Elizabeth while Lame was left to bleed out on the floor.

- **Daniel Manford:** A famous and highly respected Abigail and metahuman with the power to control concrete shrapnel, forming structures and even bodies out of the material in order to fight. His powers, though simple, were incredibly forceful and allowed him to brute-force most confrontations. His rank places him among the most powerful metahumans in Albion (not accounting for esoteric abilities), even if the fact that he leads a team of three other Abigails with powers of their own is ignored. Last seen in Albion, where he helped to shelter Alexandria Ashwood from Kimolia after being rescued from her VTOL crash site.

- **Lauren:** One of Elizabeth’s exes. An agile and highly skilled assassin with a terminal disease that was going to kill her within a few months of her last meeting with Elizabeth. Her magical ability revolved around luck manipulation, allowing her to string together coincidences that could kill dozens of enemies at once, or cause her to achieve completely improbable objectives with relative ease. The fact that her power had no obvious counters made it nearly impossible for anyone to hurt her, let alone overcome her natural athleticism and physical abilities. Ultimately killed by Evelyn, who exploited the fact that her magic relied on specific taboos and cues (e.g. “don’t walk under a ladder or you’ll have bad luck for seven years”, and “a black cat crossing your path is bad luck”) to operate to reduce her luck and then shoot her.

- **Jacob Elway:** A metahuman and an Abigail sent to capture Alexandria Ashwood. His ability was to increase or decrease friction within an area. Increasing friction could immobilise someone, or it could cause their body to suffer massive lacerations and increases and temperature if they attempted to move, causing them to turn into boiling bloody slurry if they were to even raise a finger at him. It was potent enough to shred bullets before they could reach his skin, even when fired at point blank range. However, it could not protect him from psionic or energy-based attacks. Killed by an anomaly in an Aegis facility while paralysed by a psionic attack.

- **Human Packaging Machine:** A mechanical spider with hundreds of mechanised limbs designed to surgically reorganise humans into still-living slabs of skinless meat and then package them within plastic wrap for later boxing and consumption by its ‘customers’. The machine was able to induce cannibalistic behaviour in Violet Addaway via its aura of Cogito and slaughtered several Abigails and dozens of heavily armed Aegis personnel. Later killed by Elizabeth and Addaway.

- **Hex:** A reaver from Albion, a biologically and cybernetically enhanced supersoldier with incredible reflexes, strength, weaponry, and skill. She was part of the rescue operation for Alexandria Ashwood after her VTOL was shot down in-transit to her palace. Hex’s abilities were sufficient to give her a significant advantage in combat against an anomalously enhanced Elizabeth, Evelyn, and another concrete-manipulating metahuman all at the same time. However, her tremendous combat abilities were ultimately overcome through a combination of ingenuity and sheer tenacity on the part of her opponents. Left for dead in Albion’s undercity.

- **Carlos Dolloway:** A geometry-manipulating mage, and one of Elizabeth’s exes. His ability to change gravity and the dimensions of the world around him made the fight against him feel completely surreal, and totally disoriented his opponents. However, it only took one person closing their eyes and working on intuition to break through his defences and take him down. This lack of caution, and the nearly nonexistent combat applicability of his ability (besides sending people into space or falling to their deaths, which was simply not possible in an enclosed building) made him fairly simple to overcome, even if he posed a substantial danger to the group in the meantime.

- **Caitlin Wandmarcher, “September”:** A high-ranking Aegis field operative. Aegis’ modus operandi is survival and negotiation rather than containment and destruction, meaning that September specialises in keeping herself alive and others safe, rather than eliminating threats. As such, she places somewhat low on this list, in spite of the fact that she is of theoretically superior rank to Hex, and is in fact her rival in other versions of the Gnosis verse.

- **Reagan Ivers:** An Abigail and a metahuman who could change the strength of chemical bonds in proximity to himself, causing certain objects to harden or soften. He could also change the binding energy of molecules, rendering some reactions highly unfavourable or extremely favourable, leading to spontaneous explosions or the inability of an explosive powder to detonate. His ability even allowed him to pervert the metabolic reactions within the human body, causing people to effectively asphyxiate or starve within seconds in spite of having access to oxygen and food. This ability, though powerful, affected both himself and his target, meaning that for the most part, he was forced to use less immediately lethal variants of his ability. Defeated by Elizabeth aboard an airship in Albion.

- **Oskar:** One of Elizabeth’s exes. A powerful spatial mage who could use his ability to teleport, transform short distances into massive berths of space, or reduce kilometres of distance into spaces that could be traversed with a single step. His ability, while very powerful, had few combat applications and did little to save him from Elizabeth’s other exes when they came for her life.

- **Santiago Drake:** A metahuman who could control air currents. Was in charge of protecting Vergil Cesarino. His ability could generate powerful explosions, rupture an individual’s organs, and throw around entire buildings without issue. Killed in a surprise attack by Evelyn, who infiltrated the security team and shot him when he came to check on Vergil Cesarino, whom Evelyn was in the process of tricking into a room full of poison gas.

- **Edgar:** One of Elizabeth’s exes. A muscle mage who used magic to increase his body’s size and enhance his strength and speed. In spite of this extremely specific application of magic, he also showed a decent level of cunning, such as when he used a cannon to ambush Elizabeth with a slime which would harden like concrete around her body. However, the cannon ended up hitting another one of her exes instead. Ultimately killed in combat by Elizabeth, The Saekis, and several accomplices.

- **Akio Ishikawa:** An Abigail and a metahuman who could make plants grow and control the direction of their growth. This relatively simple ability was surprisingly versatile, as he could use to produce toxins and canopies that could both serve as traps and defensive nets. However, his plants remained highly vulnerable to flames, while he himself had no especial combat abilities. Defeated by Elizabeth aboard an airship in Albion.

- **Rolo O’Rourke:** The leader of Elizabeth Ashwood’s personal security detail. Though he later inherited the powers of The Obelisk, Rolo never used them to any significant extent, meaning that only his basic combat abilities may be considered on this list. Ultimately killed by Evelyn, whose desire to escape the scenario that The Obelisk had trapped them in was greater than his desire to perpetuate the town’s love of him.

- **Doctor Akihiro Nagaoka:** A South Han scientist who was obsessed with the Saeki family and maintained test tubes containing genetic clones of various members of the bloodline, alongside the corpses of the Saeki twins’ mother and father. By consuming foetuses containing Saeki genetic material, he was able to gain their abilities, as well as improve his own physical condition substantially. However, his inexperience and original state of frailty made him an easy man to overcome. Killed by Ryuju Saeki and Evelyn in a South Han research facility.

- **Hell Creatures:** Including the Hellish Bogbeast, a tar-riddled skeletal centipede; dozens of avian soul-consuming predators; and various other lesser demons which appeared in Purgatory to stop Elizabeth and Evelyn from escaping. These entities are not true demons but are instead warped, contorted human souls which were originally interred within Purgatory, meaning that their provenance is technically entirely human. However, each of them demonstrated tremendously elevated physical abilities, pain tolerance, and aggression, well in excess of that which should be achievable by normal people.

- **Han Paladins:** Cybernetically enhanced Han officers with heavy weapons such as shields, rifles, and shotguns. Defeated through joint-action of Evelyn, Elizabeth, the Saeki Twins, and a number of other armed collaborators in the course of rescuing hostages and recovering intelligence from a Han-occupied research facility.

- **Jim Saethris:** A metahuman with regenerative abilities. Evelyn and the Saeki twins were able to incapacitate and kill him very easily.