ARK: CHARACTERS//
THE MAGISTERS
TRU ARNEAU
MAGISTRA: TELEPATH SCHOOL + THERAPATH SCHOOL
TRU HAS BEEN CALLED THE MOST POWERFUL TELEPATH SINCE THE RETURN. She is a Second-Blessed: a wielder of two Gifts. She was trained by one of the greatest masters of her generation, Dolfus Licinius. A brilliant student with an unyielding sense of justice, she cannot forgive herself for failing to protect those she loves. She cannot forgive Deng Se'eva for betraying the Authority and her friendship. No cost is too high, no wall too thick, to keep her from ending his life with her own two hands.
LINUS CALLED ANONYMA
MAGISTER: ELEMENTALIST SCHOOL
A GENTLE SOUL WHO CONSIDERS TRU A SISTER. He is the only full-time member of Tru's once-burgeoning taskforce, and stays on to look after her. Faithful and true, he possesses wisdom beyond his years and has protected Tru from herself more than once. Some think he is weak because of his calm disposition and peaceful eyes, but they are wrong. From his arms flow fire and lightning, and few wield the elements with such skill, grace, and power.
SYRIO VARTEGA
ARCH MAGISTER OF THE MAGISTERIAL AUTHORITY: KINETIC SCHOOL + TELEKINETIC SCHOOL
FEW STRIKE SUCH AN IMPOSING FIGURE OR POSSESS SUCH A COMMANDING PRESENCE AS ARCH MAGISTER VARTEGA. Until Deng Se'eva was discovered, he was the most prodigious living Kinetic. Vartega developed a trademark fighting style that combined his powerful physical Kinesis with his legendary aptitude for Telekinesis. With staff in hands, Vartega moves with the strength and ferocity of a hurricane. He leads the Authority as the head of the Quorum. Many in the province of Iustinia despise him, for it was he who discovered Deng Se'eva in the Antipodes six years ago, he who brought the murderer to the halls of the Cathedral, he who trained him to be a weapon. When Vartega chose to train Se'eva, he sewed the wind, but the World reaped the whirlwind.
CERINTH MERARI
MAGISTER: KINETIC SCHOOL + ISKUOID SCHOOL
THE FORMER APPRENTICE OF ARCH MAGISTER VARTEGA, Cerinth serves with distinction in the Authority, using his highly-developed physical Gifts and combat prowess to defend the Authority and take the fight to any who oppose it. He is recruited to Tru's taskforce to assist her and Linus in hunting down Se'eva. Witty and brooding, Cerinth has pledged uncompromising allegiance to the Authority, yet he still knows, along with Tru, that if they're going to stop Se'eva, rules are going to have to be broken.
SHOJI CALLED ANONYMA
ADEPT: TELEKINETIC SCHOOL
SHOJI IS A TALENTED TWELVE-YEAR-OLD TELEKINETIC AND ONE OF TRU'S STUDENTS. The two have developed an unusually strong bond since class started. Shoji has many questions about the Tumult, and seeks Tru outside of class to get answers.
JEK TAHNG
HIGH MAGISTER: ISKUOID SCHOOL
JEK TAHNG IS THE OLDEST LIVING HUMAN. A supremely Gifted Iskuoid, he has lived over two centuries, and even spent his first decades of life aboard the World Ark. Only Jek remembers life during the Exile. Sprightly and jovial, he serves on the Quorum and functions as a voice of temperance when the younger High Magisters lose perspective. As a close friend and former mentor to Dolfus Licinius, Jek has a strong desire to guide and counsel Tru and to be her advocate in the Quorum.
DOLFUS LICINIUS
HIGH MAGISTER: TELEPATH SCHOOL
UNTIL LICINIUS DISCOVERED TRU, HE WAS WITHOUT QUESTION THE WORLD'S MOST GIFTED TELEPATH. Sensing the child's power, he knew she must leave her family and train at the Cathedral Academy in order to protect her mind from the madness that would engulf her without training. Knowing she would be a key player in the Authority's future, he took her as his apprentice when she came of age six years later, teaching her to turn her mind into both a shield and a weapon. As a friend to many on the Quorum, including Syrio Vartega and Jek Tahng, he served with distinction for most of his life. But things changed when he met Deng Se'eva six years ago.
THE WESTERNERS
LARO SADOLETO
PROFESSIONAL CROOK
FOLK MIGHT DESCRIBE LARO AS "ROUGH AROUND THE EDGES," AND THEY'D BE RIGHT. After leaving New Earth twenty-five years ago, he took up salvaging, smuggling, theft, bounty hunting, and whatever else he could to make some bloody good coin and keep himself swimming in fine spirits. When Laro decides it's time to make it big and go after the Magisterial fugitive, Deng Se'eva, he gets a lot more than he bargained for.
SYLVESTER PROVO
PROFESSIONAL CROOK
LARO'S BEST MATE AND A HELL OF A SHOT, Laro sometimes wonders if he's got a bit of Kinesis running through him. As a fellow greaser, Sylvester's worked with Laro for years doing all sorts of jobs to keep the coin flowing. He dreams of making it big so he can be a kingpin in the Antipodes's criminal underbelly. His plans change when he joins up with Laro to go after Deng Se'eva.
SEVEN
TELEPATH
A MYSTERIOUS WOMAN LARO MEETS. She seeks to use Laro for her own ends, but he soon discovers she is working for a very dangerous employer.
DENG SE'EVA
TELEKINETIC + KINETIC + ELEMENTALIST
RIGHTLY CALLED A PRODIGY. He wields three Gifts: Telekinesis, Kinesis, and Elementalism. Not only does he wield them, but he wields them at degrees few other Gifted could ever attain to. No one in history could boast such claims, and Syrio Vartega, knowing the teen-aged orphan could not be left alone, brought him from the Antipodes to the Cathedral Academy to train. But there was a darkness within the boy, something no one, not even the Authority's greatest Telepath, Dolfus Licinius, could sense. Se'eva was a ticking time bomb. When the bomb exploded, he left seven people dead. Two years later, 700 Iustinian civilians were dead, too. Since then he's vanished and no one - not even Tru Arneau - has been able to find him. Some believe he's disappeared and won't be seen again. But Tru knows betters. He's plotting. Something big is coming, and it's going to wash over New Earth like that first, titanic tidal wave that decimated the World 1,000 years ago.