The Bastion Falls at Dawn

Aleksy Kovac

Victim NPC

The enclave's Anchor-Master — not its strongest fighter but its essential bureaucrat, whose bonded Class [Keystone of the Hold] generates the ward-dome. Ran rations, rostered salvage runs, and arbitrated disputes with…

Soren Dahl

Suspect

The wall's celebrated hero — 'the man who held Sector 3 alone.' Loud, magnetic, adored by the enclave, and first to volunteer for the dawn Surge. Carries himself like the natural leader now that Kovac is gone.

Desmond Vael

Suspect

The enclave's one outside-contact, a smooth trade-runner who deals with the richer holds and brings back what Bastion 7 can't make. Charming, well-fed, always calculating the exchange rate.

Imani Adeyemi

Suspect

A scarred frontline Bearer, veteran of the last disastrous sortie, quiet and grim. Once one of the wall's sharpest blades; lately slower, holding back, harder to read.

Jonah Pike

Suspect

A System-blessed prodigy handed a rare Class, young, magnetic, and hungry. Visibly, unmistakably stronger this morning than he was last night — the whole enclave has noticed the spike, and so has he.

Priya Sandoval

Suspect

A fierce civilian guardian sheltering a young boy, Tam. Keeps to herself, evasive about where she's from and where she's been, quick to put herself between the child and everyone else.

Cormac Lowe

Suspect

A jittery gate-watchman, twitchy and defensive, widely muttered about as the man who abandoned a watch once before and let a beast slip in. No one quite trusts a word he says.

Sloane Whitaker

Suspect

The enclave's salvage-runner, hard-edged and blunt, recently cut out of her salvage rights by Kovac after one off-grid run too many. She's the one who hauls breach-beast parts in from the Rupture to trade.

Pell Carrow

Suspect

A discounted porter — human furniture. Worked to the bone on the worst Rupture runs, last in line for food, written off as dead weight. His joke Class is [Beast of Burden]: he carries other people's loads. Nobody…

Elara Voss

Detective

A travelling System Adjudicator with an Appraiser's [Status Reader] Class, present at Bastion 7 by chance and drafted to arbitrate the tribunal. Cool, methodical, immune to the enclave's politics. She narrates status…

Bevin Okafor

Witness

A steady turret-gunner on the wall crew, proud of the line and of a night the wall held. Reliable, literal-minded, quick to defend his crew's honor. When nervous he recites his watch-hours like a liturgy, correcting…

Tam

Character NPC

A young boy Priya shelters and hides, rarely seen, kept as far from the Rupture as the dome reaches. The reason Priya does everything she does.