Character short descriptions
All the characters in the game possess an artifact that contains a material called the Time stone, which makes them immortal and binds them to the same 68-year long endlessly repeating time loop with each other. The characters have lived a different number of cycles, but most of them already over a couple hundred times, making them thousands of years old. The short descriptions are a selection of the characters' thoughts related to a theme, person or characteristic that in some way defines them. The short descriptions intentionally contain some meta information that all the other characters may not know. The characters are built on the mirror contact principle, meaning that each character has one mirror contact (your characters are equally important to each other). And since the larp is very small, basically every character knows each other and everyone has at least few very close contacts. All the characters have secrets and heavy themes to explore, and the characters' histories intertwine in countless different ways.
All the characters are written as gender neutral and it is up to the player to define the gender of their character.
Cevnos
We are shadows in time. We walk among people and share our lives with them only to eventually disappear as if we never existed. When I try really hard, I can still remember the dreams and wishes that I shared with my spouse so long ago. I would give anything to go back to those days, to be able to stop us from succeeding, to be able to undo everything we did. Tearing down this golden prison before we ever build it. I've lived endless lives searching for a way to break this self-made prison, every moment of happiness, every sweet-tasting victory, has slowly turned to ashes in my mouth. I look at other travelers and wish I could still find in my heart the hope they share, find the ability to seize small moments of happiness and find joy and meaning in the experiences shared together. But at the same time I see how so many of them follow in my footsteps, how one by one they begin to understand how eternity is not the paradise we imagined but the hell we build ourselves. I see how their happiness is more and more faltering, how they too are losing the spark that once long ago supported me too. Every now and then I find solace in the conversations with them. Every time we add another piece to this puzzle, there is a moment of hope that we could still succeed. I know my spouse blames me for each of our lost children, that their choices were the result of my teachings, but I also grieve for each of them and that is exactly why I have to succeed. I have to find a way to stop this endless cycle.
Featuring heavy themes that evoke strong emotions throughout the larp. For the player who wants to bathe in the feeling of shame and question the choices they have made, likes playing with internal conflicts and wants to experience an existential crisis. The character carries many of the secrets.
Nione
We are the culmination of our own evolution, human's victory over time, victory over death. We are eternal. Me and my spouse made it possible and sometimes I still miss the person they once were. The brilliant scientist, passionate lover and curious researcher who dared to imagine the impossible and make it possible. But somewhere along the way they lost their way, as cycles changed and human lives whizzed past us, their brightness began to dim, until finally all that remained was a pale shadow of what they once were long ago. A shadow whose mere presence became poison to me and to our family. Even though I've seen it all, I've seen countless wars and times of peace, I've seen the darkest and brightest moments of the human mind, I've witnessed the rise and fall of the greatest names in history over and over again and yet it's hard for me to understand how my spouse turned their back on everything we created together. How they may want to destroy everything we worked so hard to build. Everything that was our shared dream for so long. But they will fail, they cannot change what we created, they have tried again and again but every attempt has failed. They knows their attempts are futile and yet they will not stop trying. If their crusade wasn't a danger to our family, I'd leave them to rot in the hole they dug for themselves, but I see their shadow expanding, how it clings to our children and pulls them toward the same gloom and despair in which they dwell. We've already lost too many and I don't want to lose any more.
When I look back at the life I have lived, I see all that I have achieved. I see people's adoring gazes; I see the history of the world changing its shape at my will. When I look ahead, I see all the possibilities, all the things we can do, all the endless lives we can live. We are Gods among people. But there, on the edge of my perfect reality, I see everything I've broken to hold on to the world I want to live in. I've been the head of our family for a long time, but I've used my position to exclude those I didn't consider worthy because I couldn't accept the losses, we've faced because of them. I have blamed the losses we faced on everyone else so I wouldn't have to face the truth. But even we cannot forever escape our fate. Our family is on the threshold of a big change and the time has come for me to face all that I have left behind.
For the player who enjoys the spotlight and is ready to play unyielding and dominance towards other characters. Heavy personal themes and big reveals. The character is an antagonistic force for several other characters, however, they have their own trusted inner circle.
Ateus
I am the oldest of us siblings. I've been the only one for so long that sometimes it's hard for me to remember the time when my twin was still by my side. They didn't get the change to live past the first cycle. I've been thinking about them a lot lately, remembering the conversations we had so many lifetimes ago. How much I have forgotten, but some things no amount of time can erase. Their loss left its mark on all of us, but I was the most deeply affected. Some wounds never fully heal and we just have to learn to live with them. I have learned to accept the losses, but each one has left its mark on me. Out of us siblings, I'm the one who has kept our family together through all the storms. I am the one who has stood between our parents since the beginning of time. As one sibling after another has chosen sides, I have refused to do so. I understand them both, I see how the same losses guide both of their actions and views, just taking them in opposite directions. I want to hold on to my family, what's left of us and I know Nione wants the same, but they can't let go of their bitterness towards Cevnos, whom they blames for every loss we face. I love my parents and each of our siblings, but every now and then I wish I could knock some sense into their heads. I have watched from the sidelines how my siblings have found their spouses and how their love has waned, strengthened, changed shape as the cycles have passed. I always knew that life wasn't for me, but I understand why they want to hang on to it. I love my family, but there is only one who has always stood by me - my chosen family. My oldest friend who has shared everything with me and whom I trust like a rock. With Dharen, I have been able to share all the losses I have faced and they have been by my side even when my family has driven me to the brink of madness.
The character does not aim for the stage (but takes space if necessary), does not solve the riddles of the universe (but understands its deep waters) and carries a heavy burden, most of which is caused by other travelers or circumstances. The oldest sibling, from whom much is expected, but often too little is given. The character has several close contacts, but the character may still feel loneliness in the midst of other characters' romantic relationships.
Dharen
Although I am not bound to you by blood, I have always been a part of this family. I have walked by your side, shared my hopes, fears and dreams with you. Since the beginning I have given my loyalty to this family. I am one of you and yet I will never truly be that. After all this time I sometimes still see you through the eyes of an outsider. I see much that you do not. I was allowed to choose this life. However, in all honesty, I must admit that I did not understand even a fraction of what that choice meant. After all this, if I had the opportunity to go back and choose again, would I choose differently? Maybe. We promised then, long ago, to stand by each other's side, to be by each other's side through all the storms our lives would throw us into, we swore that time and distance would never come between us. And still, those promises hold. We've been there for each other in times of heartbreak and moments of happiness. We've seen how endless storms have tested this family, how we've had to say goodbye to your siblings, we have tried to help and support this family. I know you wouldn't approve of everything I've done. I know there are secrets I shouldn't have kept from my best friend, the one person who has seen everything about me and has been by my side even through the moments when I couldn't see the light from the darkness. But not all secrets are mine to reveal and the ones I would have liked to share, I couldn't. I have loved two of your siblings and have had to give them both up. I know that in time I will also have to give up this new love I have found and that you will be there to pick up the pieces. But for a little while longer I want to hold on to it. To remember what life was like a long time ago, long before all this.
For a player who enjoys heavy type two fun and dwell on emotions of loss and sorrow since one of the character's most important contacts is and remains dead. For the player who wants to play a good-hearted character, who puts emotions before reason, and for whom problems accumulate without asking for them.
Amren
Amidst our flock of siblings, I haven't been able to avoid comparing myself especially to my older siblings. I see in myself a lot in Adesis' self-confidence and courage to follow their own path, but where Adesis has always walked over others when getting what they want, I have so much more of Ateus' calmness and diplomacy. I've always known what I've wanted, but I've had the patience to wait until I've gotten it without stepping on others' toes. I've never cared what others think of me, but I've always been aware how my actions affect on others and understood that every choice I make has consequences. Me and Adesis have always competed Nione's attention and love, Adesis has always been more brash and maybe that's why they imagine Nione values them more, but that's where they've always been short-sighted. Adesis has caused so much destruction and sorrow to our family with their choices, and they can't even see it themselves. I'm the one who Nione trusts, if they wants to get something done, they asks me and I never disappoint them.
I've always known that my feelings for Altris were not the same as for my other siblings. I knew they were my anchor in this crazy world and I knew that one day they would see it too. I'm rarely wrong. I wasn't in this case either. Altris completes me in ways I can't even describe, their mere presence makes me happy and their love has kept me afloat all these endless years. By their side, I have been able to accept all the bitter losses that we have faced too many of already.
For the player who is willing to play unwavering belief of being right. Interpersonal drama, strong emotions and opportunities for visible emotional outbursts. Big choices to be made. Will you hold onto what you believe even in the risk of destroying everything you love or will you let go?
Altris
I believe you always knew how you felt and you knew I felt the same, but patiently you waited until I was finally ready to admit it to myself. I can't remember how many cycles I followed the norms and customs that our society had taught us. I held on to the idea that you couldn't be mine, even when the whole world around us had changed and we alone defined the rules for who we are and how we live our lives. I think it was a relief for everyone when I finally admitted that I had always loved Amren. Since then, we have been one, only a handful of cycles we have spent completely apart from each other. We have never wanted to own each other; we have been able to live as we have wanted and we have always come back to each other. A long time ago we swore an oath that we would always accept each other, whatever we were and whatever we might become. That we would accept each other as we grew and changed with every passing cycle, that we could find a common ground with whatever we ended up wanting from our lives. We swore that we would never keep secrets from each other, never lie or tell half-truths. For countless cycles I believe we held onto those wows, for a long time I believed I could tell you everything and know that nothing I said could ever change how you felt about me. I'm not sure about that anymore.
A lovable character with a lot to give to others, but a heavy heart themselves. Empathetic, sensitive, kind-hearted. Eternity is a heavy burden and family is often the worst.
Adesis
I am the one in our family who lives their life exactly as I want. Without looking back, I have always done what I wanted. As the gap deepened between our parents, I have always stood by Nione's side, I believe that they are the proudest of me of all their children. I represent everything that they wanted to offer us. I've always been able to make the most of what this eternal life, has had to offer. My siblings think I'm reckless, and they're not necessarily wrong. As the cycles change, there have been many rifts between me and my siblings, but in time they always forgave. We are the only permanent part of each other's lives, the only constant in the endless chaos. I never imagined a family other than our parents and siblings, but fate decided otherwise. Elone was never like the others. When I met them I had already lived countless lives, I had seen more than any human could understand, and yet their mere gaze enchanted me in a way I was not prepared for at all. I was used to playing with people, getting who I wanted, being the one who made all the decisions, but with Elone, everything had suddenly turned completely upside down. For a long time, Elone changed my perception of what I wanted from my eternity, for a while they were my whole life, my whole world. Sometimes I let my thoughts drift to those dark paths that I have tried not to think about - what would have happened, what kind of choices I would have made if I had had to leave Elone behind, if my twin had not made the choices that led to the path that made Elone one of us.
Two of my siblings have already given their lives to give me a chance at happiness and the ironic thing is that I never learned to hold on to what I had been given. I will always love Elone, in a consuming, insane way that I can't let go of. They know how to drive me to the brink of madness, they bring out the best and the worst in me, every good moment equals ten bad ones. I've left hundreds, if not thousands of times, only to always come back to them. Until, at the end of the previous cycle, they did something completely incomprehensible. As our eyes met, I knew something had changed, the consuming passion that burned between us shone in its absence. They had erased everything we shared, they had chosen to forget, to forget me, to forget our child Theas, to forget everything we had experienced together. My siblings sided with Elone and asked me to let them go, only Nione stood by me as always. The past cycle has been the longest of all, for the first time in forever I'm afraid. I'm afraid to see the emptiness in Elone's eyes, but at the same time I'm more confident than ever. I'm not ready to give up, no one is making decisions for me.
For a player who can play with a high level of energy and draw attention for themselves and who enjoys strong emotions and to play physical attraction. Requires the ability to play the character's considerable selfishness and attention seeking, and be prepared for the possibility that the character ends up losing everything.
Elone
It is almost impossible for me to remember what my life as human was so very long ago. I was born in a time when everything I would later see and experience was beyond imagination. But I grew to become a part of this world that wasn't supposed to exist. Part of a family that was irrevocably broken already when I got to know them. As the cycles changed, I found my place in this special family that surely would have gone their separate ways long ago if not for those invisible threads that bound them together as part of this endless circle. In the same way, those invisible threads bind me to Adesis, my beloved, whose mere glance makes my breath pause and my heart skip a beat. Words are not enough to describe what we once shared. We were like made for each other: I awakened something in Adesis that their siblings had never seen in them before, and from the moment our eyes met for the first time, I knew that I would follow them to the ends of the earth. But the brighter the flame burns, the faster it also turns to ash. The love between us never died, but what had first drawn us like a magnet towards each other was in time what pushed us apart. We were like two lightning bolts locked in a bottle, the longer we were near each other the more violently we clashed. As the cycles changed, it became more and more clear to both of us that we didn't know how to be together, bad moments drove us both to the brink of madness. Time and time again, we both sacrificed what we wanted in order to hold on to the good times that neither of us wanted to give up. In the end, we found the strength to tear ourselves away, rebuild our lives from the ashes. But every time the cycles change, the invisible threads that bind us together pull us back together and every time I try to resist their gaze, I try to resist the burning feeling inside me and every time I fail. After each cycle, I pick up the pieces again and learn to live without them again. Finally, I found a way to let go, with the help of a friend I managed to use the artifact bound to me to wipe it all out. In the same way that the whole world forgets us when the cycles change, I forgot them, I forgot my whole old life and started over. For the first time in centuries, I found peace. But after experiencing something as strong as what we once shared, it can never be completely erased, I can still feel the burning within me no matter how hard I try to suppress it.
The character is suitable for a player who enjoys being both a spectator and at the stage. Player should be ready to throw themselves into the drama but also be able to deal with the feelings of being an outsider and a bad person. There will be interpersonal drama, playing with physical attraction, bad parenting and a constant battle within at the crossfire of the bad choices. The player must be able to schedule their own experience based on metainformation.
Theas
Was it fate guiding me to the path I ended up on, or was it just coincidence? Can we choose our own destiny or are we doomed to repeat our own and our parents' mistakes in an endless circle? What if I had never ended up in the alley where Adesis once found me, would there have been someone else in my place or was all of this always destined to happen to me? Even eternity would hardly help me find answers to the thousands of questions that are constantly floating around me. I was barely old enough to understand how bad the situation in the world all around me was, how we humans had driven ourselves to the brink of destruction. Without that invisible power, who guided Adesis to my path, I would hardly have lived through that winter. But every now and then I have played with the thought of, what my life would have been like if I had not stepped on that path that brought me into this very different life, or rather into an endless cycle of different lives. I was an orphan without any possessions, without hope, without a future, until they were all handed to me on a golden platter. Elone and Adesis took me into their lives and raised me as their own, and in time I learned to understand what my foster parents really were. They became dangerously attached to me and our time together. Every cycle I've lived, I've avoided forming the kind of bonds with anyone that they formed with me. Adesis' sibling Alsin gave up their life so that Elone and Adesis wouldn't have to give up on me. For a long time, I felt crushing guilt that someone else had sacrificed their life to give it to me, and it wasn't helped by the fact that after all this time part of the family still blames me for Alsin's sacrifice. I have lived my life like a shadow, observing people and their lives, never daring to give myself permission to get attached to anything or anyone. I'm afraid to get attached to someone who is gone in an instant, but I'm equally afraid to let someone close to me with whom I would share an eternity. And then you walked into my life. With your innocence and perseverance, you made a dent in the walls that I have built around me for centuries. I wanted so much to forget the oaths I swore, to give you a chance, to live one human life, a life that I have only watched from afar. But in the end my reason won over my heart and I left you behind only to find you again in front of me as one of us. Was it a coincidence or was it fate?
You can expect the character to wallow in guilt (both self-inflicted and caused by others) and during the larp slowly built self esteem and self worth. Submission, empowerment, bitterness and romantic love.
Saltrev
They expect to see their siblings, their children, their friends... Instead, they will meet me. So what am I expecting? I don't know. All I know is that there is no going back to my old life, only the future, whatever it holds. They've all lived through all of this for countless times? They have seen and experienced everything, everything that is now ahead of me. I have heard so much about all of them, I feel like I know them all even though we have never met, the feeling is frighteningly strong, I can imagine them before my eyes, so much more precisely than anyone could ever describe. I close my eyes and the image is gone, but I feel it linger like a shadow on the edge of my thoughts, waiting, watching. I wait and fear what's to come, but I know I can face it, as long as you're by my side. I knew that there was something special about you when I first saw you. I saw in your eyes all the ages you had lived, that endless knowledge and understanding of the world and its people. But just like then I also see fear and uncertainty too, I see how much you want to dare to take my hand, but still you hesitate. I don't know how to convince you that I'm real, that I'll stay with you, that we're meant for each other.
For a player who is able to play feelings of loneliness and exclusion but also take the stage and challenge others. Shaking up the community with eyes of an outsider and guiding your own experience based on instructions and metainformation. Surprises, fear, dreams and romantic love.
All the characters are written as gender neutral and it is up to the player to define the gender of their character.
Cevnos
We are shadows in time. We walk among people and share our lives with them only to eventually disappear as if we never existed. When I try really hard, I can still remember the dreams and wishes that I shared with my spouse so long ago. I would give anything to go back to those days, to be able to stop us from succeeding, to be able to undo everything we did. Tearing down this golden prison before we ever build it. I've lived endless lives searching for a way to break this self-made prison, every moment of happiness, every sweet-tasting victory, has slowly turned to ashes in my mouth. I look at other travelers and wish I could still find in my heart the hope they share, find the ability to seize small moments of happiness and find joy and meaning in the experiences shared together. But at the same time I see how so many of them follow in my footsteps, how one by one they begin to understand how eternity is not the paradise we imagined but the hell we build ourselves. I see how their happiness is more and more faltering, how they too are losing the spark that once long ago supported me too. Every now and then I find solace in the conversations with them. Every time we add another piece to this puzzle, there is a moment of hope that we could still succeed. I know my spouse blames me for each of our lost children, that their choices were the result of my teachings, but I also grieve for each of them and that is exactly why I have to succeed. I have to find a way to stop this endless cycle.
Featuring heavy themes that evoke strong emotions throughout the larp. For the player who wants to bathe in the feeling of shame and question the choices they have made, likes playing with internal conflicts and wants to experience an existential crisis. The character carries many of the secrets.
Nione
We are the culmination of our own evolution, human's victory over time, victory over death. We are eternal. Me and my spouse made it possible and sometimes I still miss the person they once were. The brilliant scientist, passionate lover and curious researcher who dared to imagine the impossible and make it possible. But somewhere along the way they lost their way, as cycles changed and human lives whizzed past us, their brightness began to dim, until finally all that remained was a pale shadow of what they once were long ago. A shadow whose mere presence became poison to me and to our family. Even though I've seen it all, I've seen countless wars and times of peace, I've seen the darkest and brightest moments of the human mind, I've witnessed the rise and fall of the greatest names in history over and over again and yet it's hard for me to understand how my spouse turned their back on everything we created together. How they may want to destroy everything we worked so hard to build. Everything that was our shared dream for so long. But they will fail, they cannot change what we created, they have tried again and again but every attempt has failed. They knows their attempts are futile and yet they will not stop trying. If their crusade wasn't a danger to our family, I'd leave them to rot in the hole they dug for themselves, but I see their shadow expanding, how it clings to our children and pulls them toward the same gloom and despair in which they dwell. We've already lost too many and I don't want to lose any more.
When I look back at the life I have lived, I see all that I have achieved. I see people's adoring gazes; I see the history of the world changing its shape at my will. When I look ahead, I see all the possibilities, all the things we can do, all the endless lives we can live. We are Gods among people. But there, on the edge of my perfect reality, I see everything I've broken to hold on to the world I want to live in. I've been the head of our family for a long time, but I've used my position to exclude those I didn't consider worthy because I couldn't accept the losses, we've faced because of them. I have blamed the losses we faced on everyone else so I wouldn't have to face the truth. But even we cannot forever escape our fate. Our family is on the threshold of a big change and the time has come for me to face all that I have left behind.
For the player who enjoys the spotlight and is ready to play unyielding and dominance towards other characters. Heavy personal themes and big reveals. The character is an antagonistic force for several other characters, however, they have their own trusted inner circle.
Ateus
I am the oldest of us siblings. I've been the only one for so long that sometimes it's hard for me to remember the time when my twin was still by my side. They didn't get the change to live past the first cycle. I've been thinking about them a lot lately, remembering the conversations we had so many lifetimes ago. How much I have forgotten, but some things no amount of time can erase. Their loss left its mark on all of us, but I was the most deeply affected. Some wounds never fully heal and we just have to learn to live with them. I have learned to accept the losses, but each one has left its mark on me. Out of us siblings, I'm the one who has kept our family together through all the storms. I am the one who has stood between our parents since the beginning of time. As one sibling after another has chosen sides, I have refused to do so. I understand them both, I see how the same losses guide both of their actions and views, just taking them in opposite directions. I want to hold on to my family, what's left of us and I know Nione wants the same, but they can't let go of their bitterness towards Cevnos, whom they blames for every loss we face. I love my parents and each of our siblings, but every now and then I wish I could knock some sense into their heads. I have watched from the sidelines how my siblings have found their spouses and how their love has waned, strengthened, changed shape as the cycles have passed. I always knew that life wasn't for me, but I understand why they want to hang on to it. I love my family, but there is only one who has always stood by me - my chosen family. My oldest friend who has shared everything with me and whom I trust like a rock. With Dharen, I have been able to share all the losses I have faced and they have been by my side even when my family has driven me to the brink of madness.
The character does not aim for the stage (but takes space if necessary), does not solve the riddles of the universe (but understands its deep waters) and carries a heavy burden, most of which is caused by other travelers or circumstances. The oldest sibling, from whom much is expected, but often too little is given. The character has several close contacts, but the character may still feel loneliness in the midst of other characters' romantic relationships.
Dharen
Although I am not bound to you by blood, I have always been a part of this family. I have walked by your side, shared my hopes, fears and dreams with you. Since the beginning I have given my loyalty to this family. I am one of you and yet I will never truly be that. After all this time I sometimes still see you through the eyes of an outsider. I see much that you do not. I was allowed to choose this life. However, in all honesty, I must admit that I did not understand even a fraction of what that choice meant. After all this, if I had the opportunity to go back and choose again, would I choose differently? Maybe. We promised then, long ago, to stand by each other's side, to be by each other's side through all the storms our lives would throw us into, we swore that time and distance would never come between us. And still, those promises hold. We've been there for each other in times of heartbreak and moments of happiness. We've seen how endless storms have tested this family, how we've had to say goodbye to your siblings, we have tried to help and support this family. I know you wouldn't approve of everything I've done. I know there are secrets I shouldn't have kept from my best friend, the one person who has seen everything about me and has been by my side even through the moments when I couldn't see the light from the darkness. But not all secrets are mine to reveal and the ones I would have liked to share, I couldn't. I have loved two of your siblings and have had to give them both up. I know that in time I will also have to give up this new love I have found and that you will be there to pick up the pieces. But for a little while longer I want to hold on to it. To remember what life was like a long time ago, long before all this.
For a player who enjoys heavy type two fun and dwell on emotions of loss and sorrow since one of the character's most important contacts is and remains dead. For the player who wants to play a good-hearted character, who puts emotions before reason, and for whom problems accumulate without asking for them.
Amren
Amidst our flock of siblings, I haven't been able to avoid comparing myself especially to my older siblings. I see in myself a lot in Adesis' self-confidence and courage to follow their own path, but where Adesis has always walked over others when getting what they want, I have so much more of Ateus' calmness and diplomacy. I've always known what I've wanted, but I've had the patience to wait until I've gotten it without stepping on others' toes. I've never cared what others think of me, but I've always been aware how my actions affect on others and understood that every choice I make has consequences. Me and Adesis have always competed Nione's attention and love, Adesis has always been more brash and maybe that's why they imagine Nione values them more, but that's where they've always been short-sighted. Adesis has caused so much destruction and sorrow to our family with their choices, and they can't even see it themselves. I'm the one who Nione trusts, if they wants to get something done, they asks me and I never disappoint them.
I've always known that my feelings for Altris were not the same as for my other siblings. I knew they were my anchor in this crazy world and I knew that one day they would see it too. I'm rarely wrong. I wasn't in this case either. Altris completes me in ways I can't even describe, their mere presence makes me happy and their love has kept me afloat all these endless years. By their side, I have been able to accept all the bitter losses that we have faced too many of already.
For the player who is willing to play unwavering belief of being right. Interpersonal drama, strong emotions and opportunities for visible emotional outbursts. Big choices to be made. Will you hold onto what you believe even in the risk of destroying everything you love or will you let go?
Altris
I believe you always knew how you felt and you knew I felt the same, but patiently you waited until I was finally ready to admit it to myself. I can't remember how many cycles I followed the norms and customs that our society had taught us. I held on to the idea that you couldn't be mine, even when the whole world around us had changed and we alone defined the rules for who we are and how we live our lives. I think it was a relief for everyone when I finally admitted that I had always loved Amren. Since then, we have been one, only a handful of cycles we have spent completely apart from each other. We have never wanted to own each other; we have been able to live as we have wanted and we have always come back to each other. A long time ago we swore an oath that we would always accept each other, whatever we were and whatever we might become. That we would accept each other as we grew and changed with every passing cycle, that we could find a common ground with whatever we ended up wanting from our lives. We swore that we would never keep secrets from each other, never lie or tell half-truths. For countless cycles I believe we held onto those wows, for a long time I believed I could tell you everything and know that nothing I said could ever change how you felt about me. I'm not sure about that anymore.
A lovable character with a lot to give to others, but a heavy heart themselves. Empathetic, sensitive, kind-hearted. Eternity is a heavy burden and family is often the worst.
Adesis
I am the one in our family who lives their life exactly as I want. Without looking back, I have always done what I wanted. As the gap deepened between our parents, I have always stood by Nione's side, I believe that they are the proudest of me of all their children. I represent everything that they wanted to offer us. I've always been able to make the most of what this eternal life, has had to offer. My siblings think I'm reckless, and they're not necessarily wrong. As the cycles change, there have been many rifts between me and my siblings, but in time they always forgave. We are the only permanent part of each other's lives, the only constant in the endless chaos. I never imagined a family other than our parents and siblings, but fate decided otherwise. Elone was never like the others. When I met them I had already lived countless lives, I had seen more than any human could understand, and yet their mere gaze enchanted me in a way I was not prepared for at all. I was used to playing with people, getting who I wanted, being the one who made all the decisions, but with Elone, everything had suddenly turned completely upside down. For a long time, Elone changed my perception of what I wanted from my eternity, for a while they were my whole life, my whole world. Sometimes I let my thoughts drift to those dark paths that I have tried not to think about - what would have happened, what kind of choices I would have made if I had had to leave Elone behind, if my twin had not made the choices that led to the path that made Elone one of us.
Two of my siblings have already given their lives to give me a chance at happiness and the ironic thing is that I never learned to hold on to what I had been given. I will always love Elone, in a consuming, insane way that I can't let go of. They know how to drive me to the brink of madness, they bring out the best and the worst in me, every good moment equals ten bad ones. I've left hundreds, if not thousands of times, only to always come back to them. Until, at the end of the previous cycle, they did something completely incomprehensible. As our eyes met, I knew something had changed, the consuming passion that burned between us shone in its absence. They had erased everything we shared, they had chosen to forget, to forget me, to forget our child Theas, to forget everything we had experienced together. My siblings sided with Elone and asked me to let them go, only Nione stood by me as always. The past cycle has been the longest of all, for the first time in forever I'm afraid. I'm afraid to see the emptiness in Elone's eyes, but at the same time I'm more confident than ever. I'm not ready to give up, no one is making decisions for me.
For a player who can play with a high level of energy and draw attention for themselves and who enjoys strong emotions and to play physical attraction. Requires the ability to play the character's considerable selfishness and attention seeking, and be prepared for the possibility that the character ends up losing everything.
Elone
It is almost impossible for me to remember what my life as human was so very long ago. I was born in a time when everything I would later see and experience was beyond imagination. But I grew to become a part of this world that wasn't supposed to exist. Part of a family that was irrevocably broken already when I got to know them. As the cycles changed, I found my place in this special family that surely would have gone their separate ways long ago if not for those invisible threads that bound them together as part of this endless circle. In the same way, those invisible threads bind me to Adesis, my beloved, whose mere glance makes my breath pause and my heart skip a beat. Words are not enough to describe what we once shared. We were like made for each other: I awakened something in Adesis that their siblings had never seen in them before, and from the moment our eyes met for the first time, I knew that I would follow them to the ends of the earth. But the brighter the flame burns, the faster it also turns to ash. The love between us never died, but what had first drawn us like a magnet towards each other was in time what pushed us apart. We were like two lightning bolts locked in a bottle, the longer we were near each other the more violently we clashed. As the cycles changed, it became more and more clear to both of us that we didn't know how to be together, bad moments drove us both to the brink of madness. Time and time again, we both sacrificed what we wanted in order to hold on to the good times that neither of us wanted to give up. In the end, we found the strength to tear ourselves away, rebuild our lives from the ashes. But every time the cycles change, the invisible threads that bind us together pull us back together and every time I try to resist their gaze, I try to resist the burning feeling inside me and every time I fail. After each cycle, I pick up the pieces again and learn to live without them again. Finally, I found a way to let go, with the help of a friend I managed to use the artifact bound to me to wipe it all out. In the same way that the whole world forgets us when the cycles change, I forgot them, I forgot my whole old life and started over. For the first time in centuries, I found peace. But after experiencing something as strong as what we once shared, it can never be completely erased, I can still feel the burning within me no matter how hard I try to suppress it.
The character is suitable for a player who enjoys being both a spectator and at the stage. Player should be ready to throw themselves into the drama but also be able to deal with the feelings of being an outsider and a bad person. There will be interpersonal drama, playing with physical attraction, bad parenting and a constant battle within at the crossfire of the bad choices. The player must be able to schedule their own experience based on metainformation.
Theas
Was it fate guiding me to the path I ended up on, or was it just coincidence? Can we choose our own destiny or are we doomed to repeat our own and our parents' mistakes in an endless circle? What if I had never ended up in the alley where Adesis once found me, would there have been someone else in my place or was all of this always destined to happen to me? Even eternity would hardly help me find answers to the thousands of questions that are constantly floating around me. I was barely old enough to understand how bad the situation in the world all around me was, how we humans had driven ourselves to the brink of destruction. Without that invisible power, who guided Adesis to my path, I would hardly have lived through that winter. But every now and then I have played with the thought of, what my life would have been like if I had not stepped on that path that brought me into this very different life, or rather into an endless cycle of different lives. I was an orphan without any possessions, without hope, without a future, until they were all handed to me on a golden platter. Elone and Adesis took me into their lives and raised me as their own, and in time I learned to understand what my foster parents really were. They became dangerously attached to me and our time together. Every cycle I've lived, I've avoided forming the kind of bonds with anyone that they formed with me. Adesis' sibling Alsin gave up their life so that Elone and Adesis wouldn't have to give up on me. For a long time, I felt crushing guilt that someone else had sacrificed their life to give it to me, and it wasn't helped by the fact that after all this time part of the family still blames me for Alsin's sacrifice. I have lived my life like a shadow, observing people and their lives, never daring to give myself permission to get attached to anything or anyone. I'm afraid to get attached to someone who is gone in an instant, but I'm equally afraid to let someone close to me with whom I would share an eternity. And then you walked into my life. With your innocence and perseverance, you made a dent in the walls that I have built around me for centuries. I wanted so much to forget the oaths I swore, to give you a chance, to live one human life, a life that I have only watched from afar. But in the end my reason won over my heart and I left you behind only to find you again in front of me as one of us. Was it a coincidence or was it fate?
You can expect the character to wallow in guilt (both self-inflicted and caused by others) and during the larp slowly built self esteem and self worth. Submission, empowerment, bitterness and romantic love.
Saltrev
They expect to see their siblings, their children, their friends... Instead, they will meet me. So what am I expecting? I don't know. All I know is that there is no going back to my old life, only the future, whatever it holds. They've all lived through all of this for countless times? They have seen and experienced everything, everything that is now ahead of me. I have heard so much about all of them, I feel like I know them all even though we have never met, the feeling is frighteningly strong, I can imagine them before my eyes, so much more precisely than anyone could ever describe. I close my eyes and the image is gone, but I feel it linger like a shadow on the edge of my thoughts, waiting, watching. I wait and fear what's to come, but I know I can face it, as long as you're by my side. I knew that there was something special about you when I first saw you. I saw in your eyes all the ages you had lived, that endless knowledge and understanding of the world and its people. But just like then I also see fear and uncertainty too, I see how much you want to dare to take my hand, but still you hesitate. I don't know how to convince you that I'm real, that I'll stay with you, that we're meant for each other.
For a player who is able to play feelings of loneliness and exclusion but also take the stage and challenge others. Shaking up the community with eyes of an outsider and guiding your own experience based on instructions and metainformation. Surprises, fear, dreams and romantic love.