Name: Gareth Emmanuel Poe

Nicknames:  none

Age:  17

Bio:  Gareth is a quiet, introverted boy who seems forever pre-occupied with something or another, drifting through life with his eyes and mind elsewhere. He is well built, but doesn’t exercise much, yet is still abnormally strong for his age (or any age, for that matter). Other than this, his only real distinguishing feature is that he is being trained in his dreams by a powerful, otherworldly entity in order that he might fulfill some un-specified heroic destiny.  Gareth remains entirely unaware of this in his waking life, but since his training began, he has become something of a magnet for trouble…

Name: "The Trainer"

Nicknames: erm, yeah, The Trainer

Age: A lot longer than the universe has existed

Bio: The Trainer is less a person than a concept. It appears as a grey shrouded man in a strange realm it calls the ‘gym’. It embodies a powerful, multi universe spanning force known to itself as heroism. It exists utterly outside time, space and matter, in a further dimension that *is* it in more ways than not. The trainer appeared to Gareth in a dream and offered to show him the ropes, as it were, of becoming a hero, which Gareth accepted. The Trainer says it is entirely shaped by Gareth’s conceptions of what it should look like and how it should act, though this doesn’t explain why it seems to take so much pleasure in assortedly crushing, exploding, toppling and stabbing him in a variety of creative ways.

Name: Sanyiel D’Tyriona

Nicknames: San, Alien boy

Age: 11

Bio: Probably the oddest thing to turn up on earth in a few million years, Sanyiel hails from what seems to be another reality entirely. He was born, fully grown, as the product of a powerful enmity between two individuals from the part of the cosmos from which he hails. While that phenomenon is not uncommon there, Such creatures (known as Ivrid) usually don’t last long. Sanyiel managed to stabilize his form by splitting the conflicting essences that make him up and binding them into two swords- Aiglo and Choran. Despite being literally made of hatred, Sanyiel is timid, self-effacing and friendly, though he is inclined to occasional fits of instability. He appears to possess a number of seemingly magical abilities, notably the ability to understand and learn any language in moments, and the ability to change his shape. Sanyiel’s surname is merely a note of where he came into being, Tyriona.

Name: Anne Smith

Nicknames: none

Age: 17

Bio: Anne is a tall, raven haired girl of Scandinavian descent. Driven and serious, she rarely smiles and when she does crack a joke, it’s usually black or scathing humor. Despite this, she is well liked by both students and staff at Ashville high and is a senior (prefect) there. Anne met Gareth while they were both still very young and due to circumstance the two have formed an inseparable bond. Gareth helped Anne overcome her demons and in turn, Anne has looked out for him ever since, guiding him around the pitfalls he fails to see. Anne lives with her father and younger brother Jacob and practices several forms of martial arts to an extremely high standard, training at Ashville gym almost every day.

Name: Jack Alfred Cooper

Nicknames: Koops

Age: 16

Bio: Jack is a bit of a wild card, shortish and weedy to appearances, he’s nevertheless a bottle of energy, both physical and mental. Highly intelligent, Jack has a knack for science inherited from his father, particularly physics and chemistry. Since his parents are rarely home, Jack spends much of his time at Gareth’s house, and the two boys share an almost brother-like attachment to each other. Jack is rarely seen without his trench coat, a hand-me-down from his grandfather, and his red carry case, which holds enough chemicals and materials to blow up most of the city.

Name: Joel Blanche

Nicknames: Joey

Age: 16

Bio: Bio:  Joel is a soft-spoken girl of French descent who looks up to Anne as a mentor and good friend. She’s the nephew of Perry, the owner of Ashville Gym and regularly trains there alongside Anne, though she’s nowhere near as fit and competent. Despite first appearances, like all inhabitants of Ashville, Joel is remarkably self assured and streetwise for her age and can even be cocky at times. She’s much more forthright than Anne and can be quite a tease if she has a mind to do so.

Name: Rachel Donovan

Nicknames: Key-RYN, Kyrin

Age: 15

Bio: Kyrin is half freak accident, half miraculous discovery and entirely adorable. Though the scientists who birthed her still don’t fully understand what she is or how she exists, she seems to have been formed from a hitherto-unknown genetic pattern incorporating many times the chromosomal data of human DNA. This lattice seems to be super-evolutionary in that Kyrin, other than having eyes that are sensitive to bright light, is at once slender and short, tiny for her age in fact, but equally she is remarkably strong, has senses significantly greater than the average human, heals remarkably quickly and has an astonishingly efficient metabolism. She’s not overly intelligent compared with her father(s) but is perceptive and her instincts are more often than not dead on. She’s also curious, friendly and very social, liking nothing more than to cuddle up to someone. Her creators theorize that this is because part of the genetic material used in her creation was leonine, giving her both a highly social instinct and many rather obvious feline features.

Name: Tarah Delawny

Nicknames: None

Age: 15

Bio: Tarah was abandoned at birth by her parents due to damage to her brain that left her legs limp and gangrenous and her mind reclusive. She was adopted in a rare show of compassion by the chief scientist of GCI, Aldous Windsor, who recognized something strange in the girl’s eyes. Her legs were amputated shortly after birth and while she has been confined to a wheelchair for her whole life, the damage to her brain proved far more beneficial than initially anticipated. Though somewhat autistic, Tarah is savant, possessing a photographic memory and the ability to create systems and circuits as if she were twiddling her fingers. Windsor quickly put her to work at GCI, even as a child, and she has rarely seen the sky since, devoting herself to perfecting a machine that will allow her to walk.

Name: Herbet Norman

Nicknames: Norm

Age: 63

Bio: Norman calls himself a ‘Field Researcher’ for ISEC, the international scientific ethics committee. He feels secret agent is somewhat too provocative. Needless to say, he’s somewhat of an eccentric and prefers flannel shirts and vests to the espionage standard suit.  He went to university with Damien and holds a PHD in similar fields, but since then has taken a radically different path. While somewhat strange and unpredictable, Norm has unwavering moral vigour and compassion, complemented by a knack for teaching people things, making them feel uncomfortable and setting them on fire, not necessarily in that order


Name: Damien Cooper

Nicknames: none

Age: 58

Bio: Damien Cooper is a talented Biochemist working for Genesis Corporation International (usually referred to as GCI) a company specializing in cutting edge research on biotech, genetic research, robotics and AI. Damien is a hard working, firm man who is slow to anger and has a deep Christian faith. As his name suggests, he’s also Jack’s father, though he has rarely had the time to bring up, let alone see his son.

Name: Saul Ivanos Karamazov

Nicknames: Eagle Omega, Ender.

Age: 43

Bio: Saul spent his childhood in hardship and enlisted in the Russian army as soon as he was able. He proved a competent and stony soldier and quickly made his way into the elite ranks of the Russian Spetznatz. When his unit uncovered an Olympus outpost in the Urals, most were killed but Saul and a couple of his fellow soldiers were spared and recruited into the military wing of Olympus. The same traits that had made him a stellar commando soon elevated him into the ranks of the elite Eagles of Olympus. Despite the brutal training of the Russian army, Saul has never lost his compassion towards those who suffer and is remarkably perceptive and surprisingly thoughtful.

Name: Alice Dyan

Nicknames: Eagle Lambda, Desert Ninja

Age: 33

Bio: Eagle Lambda is one of the most active of the Eagle Corps of Olympus. She is a dedicated and ruthless hunter who works closely with Eagle Pi, specialising in assassinations where disguising a killing is unnecessary. Sharp as the weapons she wields, Lambda is an icy and formidable soldier, ruthless in the execution of her duty and unforgiving of others

Name: Erasmus Christakos

Nicknames: Eagle Pi

Age: 72

Bio: One of the oldest serving members of Olympus, Pi has not dulled with age. He is still a keen agent and masterful marksman, though perhaps the former serves him better than the latter. The ranged component of Olympus' loud assassination team, Pi's hotheaded nature tempered with decades of experience serves a perfect foil to Lambda's cold strength

Name: Unknown

Nicknames: Zeus

Age: 59

Bio: The leader of Olympus, Zeus is the master of a network of paramilitary and financial forces that span the world, acting as a cruel but efficient scalpel to cut away spreading growths of instability. Olympus is not a force for good, only for preventing critical turmoil from arising. Like all who have born the title, Zeus is intelligent, calculating and incredibly powerful. Certainly not a man to cross, and simply knowing he exists is tantamount to that...

Name: Sebastian Lemancez

Nicknames: Bastian, Lord of Ashville High

Age: 17

Bio: A ruthless and dominating bully, Sebastian is the undisputed master of Ashville highschool. Somehow he manages to keep pretty much the entire student body under his heel while most of the teachers think he’s a saint. Sebastian revels in power and hates it being disputed and will usually go to huge lengths to crack down on anyone who stands up to him, though he does have his own twisted sense of honor, inherited from his predecessors. He is usually accompanied by at least two cronies, the most notable of whom are Beater and Biter

Name: Carter Vale

Nicknames: Beater

Age: 18

Bio: Big, strong and no smarter than the proverbial brick, Beater lives up to his name admirably and muscles around anyone who Sebastian tells him to. It’s legend that he repeated years twice just to stay around the head bully, but most students joke (privately) that it’s fairly likely he didn’t do it on purpose.

Name: Saran Paolin

Nicknames: Biter

Age: 17

Bio: Not the sort of boy you want to cross, Saran is a mafia hitman in miniature. Sneering, cruel, arrogant and generally about as friendly as a spitting cobra, Biter is the kick in the balls to Beater’s punch in the face. He is, however, surprisingly loyal to Sebastian and will go out of his way to severely damage anyone he catches speaking ill of his ‘boss’

Name: Jacob Smith

Nicknames: Jay

Age: 12

Bio: Jacob is Anne’s younger brother. He grew up never knowing his mother and hence the trauma and suffering of his sister. As a result he sees himself as something of a crutch for Anne at her weakest moments, somewhat correctly in fact. The siblings care for each other deeply and Anne is very protective of Jacob. Jacob himself probably doesn’t need caring for. Having spent his entire life in Ashville, he’s confident, quick on his feet and won’t take crap he doesn’t deserve.

Name: Jean-Pierre Israel

Nicknames: Perry

Age: 26

Bio: Jean Pierre came to Ashville with his family from France. He served in the military for a brief, uneventful term before returning to Ashville to found his own gym. Being right in the heart of Ashville has given Perry quite a compassionate, helpful mien, quite opposite to the rest of his family. His niece, Joel, has taken quite a liking to him and takes after him in more ways than one. Perry runs regular fitness classes for all comers at his gym and personally trains a few people he takes a liking to, Anne being one of these.

Name: Lilith

Nicknames: Unknown

Age: Unknown, potentially thousands of years

Bio: Lilith is Sanyiel's 'mother', one of the two beings whose enmity caused the nacent Ivrid to come into being. She is an ancient tyrant of the Daem, a species native to the 'thousand worlds'. Like all her kind, she can control incredible amounts of energy, a practice learned to allow the species to fly on worlds other than their gaseous homelands. Fey, cruel and full of ancient pride, she is the very image of a demon queen, and quite probably the seed from which legends of such beings sprung on earth. Like most experienced Daem, she can shapeshift fluently and understand almost any language without effort.

Name: Ralael

Nicknames: Ral

Age: Unknown, 10-15 years

Bio: Ralael is one of Lilith's biological children, a young Daem. Like all his kind he can shapeshift, but with nowhere near the fluency of his mother, so he wears a robe and mask when human shaped. Enthusiastic and fierce, he is an archetypical Daem, eager to please his mother and inculcated with a deep loathing for his erstwhile 'brother' Sanyiel