Dearly Beloved — Players

Roderick Pater, groom, scientist, and possibly alchemist of love and matter
Osfero, his haunted butler, brooding with terrible patience
Countisia, his demonic maid, for whom a sentence is a scalpel
Belios, his deformed assistant, stitched of whispers and rumors
Silvus Bartletome, his ancient mentor, of glacial heart and colder thought
Banberry, his friend, a hedonist-jester of metaphysical appetites
Evie Collette, his student, a vicious flame in lulling innocence

Cleya Clearmont, the bride as cipher of a thousand masks
Glendarme, her father, a splintered weapons-maker of trauma and lust
Madrigola, her grandmother, Matriarch of Secrets, dressed in sharp words
Audalade, her great-aunt, the Prophetess of Repetition, trapped in an echo
Cedgwick, her brother, a bonfire on a matchstick

Vera Theodora, a detective, a cracked compass, smoke
Herabella, the former lady Pater, with the allure of a poisonous perfume

The Priest, with a foot in the grave and a hand on the abyss