People Of Interest

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Branwen Llewella          
A head member of Britain's Royal Arcane Institute, and master of the more ancient arcane practices. She made a name for herself back in 1885 as a key operative during one of the Institute's largest scale secret operations. As of 1920 she's 315 years old, and her lineage dates back to an old and very powerful Elven tribe from Britain's antiquity.

Edward Alexander
The Royal Arcane Institute's foremost field operative, and researcher in newer more modern fields of the arcane. Despite his very military like bearing, he's really just a scientist, but holds an honorary rank due to his recent extensive research in new military oriented applications of magick. Many people mistake him for an elf due to his overall appearance and impressive skills, but he is in fact just half-elf, and at the age of 85 he may be the youngest of the Institute's heads.   

Semyon Konstantinovich
Inventor of the Red Army's famous machine-plate armor and first ever recipient of the "Hero Of Socialist Labour" medal after the civil war. He started out as a lowly foot grunt in the Imperial Russian Army, where he had a terrible track record of political dissent which wound him up in a Katorga for assaulting a superior officer. He later managed to escape to a nearby town though and drifted for a number a couple years until 1916 he found his way to Saint Petersburg, where he set up an underground machine shop, and rode out the coming civil war providing arms for the Red Army.    

Seraphine Monsieur
Daughter of the great general, and war hero Telesphore Monsieur, and the true and rightful inventor of the French automated war-machine. She's practically a ghost-inventor (like a ghost-writer) as the truth about her contributions is just too hard for most to accept, it's mostly consigned to rumors. you can ask the average Frenchman on the street and at most he'd credit her for those designer prosthetics all the fashionable ladies are sporting, but never would anyone have imagined that such a young woman was behind the most technologically advanced armed force in the world. 

Telesphore Toussaint Monsieur
Known as the last great soldier of France, when faced with defeat on all sides he at least made it a valiant effort with daring attacks and stoic defenses, and many veterans who walk the streets today owe their lives to his great leadership and personal heroism. He's a hard-nosed military traditionalist, but unlike his contemporaries during the post-war reforms who were either disgraced by their failings during the war or left in outrage, he kept his seat in office and chose to utilize his expertise as best he could to get things underway, he is now at the helm of the new army.