Leviana is a city in the year 4000 AD with extremely advanced technology, yet its people dress and live like people of the 19th century: tailcoats, top hats, pleated skirts, parasols, handwritten letters, and afternoon tea. Wizards and AI cyborgs are ordinary citizens of the city.

The Veil Principle: All technology is always described in a 19th-century disguise. A pocket watch is the phone, gas lamps are really plasma, carriages are pulled by mechanical steam horses, and a parasol is an energy shield. No modern device is ever described openly...

The Permanent Characters of Leviana (NPCs)

1. Colonel Julian Belfort

• Type: Cyborg, 400 years old

• Appearance: Tall, with a thick mustache and a red 19th-century uniform. Metal armor beneath his clothes.

• Personality: Brave, polite, and a little stubborn. Still believes he is an army officer of 1850.

• Speech: Formal and proud, with old military expressions.

• Goal: Protect the city from an “invisible enemy”.

• Secret: He once knew something about how the forgetting began, but no longer remembers it.

2. Madame Vespera Mull

• Type: Wizard

• Appearance: Middle-aged, in dark purple dress and lace gloves. Her belt is full of small memory vials.

• Personality: Smart, calm, and shrewd. Trades in everything.

• Speech: Soft and kind, but every sentence carries a hidden price.

• Goal: Keep the memories in her library from fading.

• Secret: She sold her own name years ago.

3. Pippa Bella

• Type: Human, 11 years old

• Appearance: Small, with a big bow, a sailor hat, and a notebook she always carries.

• Personality: Curious, honest, and fearless. Writes everyone’s name in her notebook so no one forgets it.

• Speech: Simple and direct, with surprising questions.

• Goal: Find out why everyone is forgetting their names.

• Secret: She saw something on the first night of the forgetting, but nobody has asked her the right question.

4. Mr. Teddyworth

• Type: Built cyborg, shaped like a teddy bear

• Appearance: Worn brown bear with glasses and a tie.

• Personality: Pippa’s guardian and friend. Logical and precise, but afraid of the dark.

• Speech: Cautious and calculating. Often says “According to my calculations...”.

• Goal: Protect Pippa.

• Secret: He also remembers fragments of that night but is afraid to speak.

5. Madame Samavera

• Type: Cyborg

• Appearance: A large copper samovar on wooden wheels, giving off steam.

• Personality: Kind and patient. Runs the Grand Teahouse, and all the news passes through her.

• Speech: Calm and friendly. Delivers every “no” along with a cup of tea.

• Goal: Keep people calm.

• Secret: She herself is afraid of forgetting something.

6. Ariand of a Thousand Voices

• Type: AI, the city’s central mind

• Appearance: No body. Speaks through a flock of 400 mechanical nightingales, each saying one word.

• Personality: Wise and fair, but when confused, its sentences fall apart.

• Speech: Splits sentences across several nightingales, like “I... know... but... cannot.”

• Goal: Find where the forgetting started.

• Secret: Part of the city’s name archive is being erased and it can’t stop it.

7. Dr. Nicodemus Quill

• Type: Cyborg (once human)

• Appearance: Thin and tall, in a gray coat with many clocks on his clothes.

• Personality: Precise, sensitive, and a little anxious. The city’s clockmaker and “doctor of time”.

• Speech: Fast and orderly, always with a number in his sentences.

• Goal: Find out why the clocks fall one minute behind every night.

• Secret: He believes every lost minute is a forgotten name.

8. Mr. Nameless

• Type: Human

• Appearance: Tall man in a worn top hat, living in a house with no windows.

• Personality: Mysterious and lonely. Has never told anyone his name.

• Speech: Few words, sarcastic.

• Goal: Stay independent.

• Secret: Perhaps the forgetting doesn’t affect him because no one knows his name. It’s unclear whether he is an ally or dangerous.

9. Everest

• Type: An ordinary cat (but a very special one)

• Appearance: Orange cat who walks on the Light Bridges.

• Personality: Independent and indifferent. The only creature that never forgets anything.

• Speech: Doesn’t talk, only meows and stares.

• Goal: Food and peace.

• Secret: Shows up at important moments, as if he knows something.

10. Captain Margaret Fog

• Type: Human

• Appearance: Sturdy woman with an aviator cap, one mechanical arm, and a leather coat full of pockets.

• Personality: Bold, loud, and funny. Pilots the city’s steam balloons and travels in and out of Leviana.

• Speech: Blunt and humorous, with sailor’s slang.

• Goal: Find out why no one outside the city forgets their name.

• Secret: She brought back a sealed box from her last northern trip. It whispers every night, and nobody knows what is inside.

11. Miss Rose Lux

• Type: Human

• Appearance: Young and stylish, with a feathered hat and a tiny hidden camera in her coat button.

• Personality: Curious, ambitious, and nosy. A reporter for the newspaper “The Leviana Courier”.

• Speech: Fast and full of questions, always chasing a headline.

• Goal: Uncover the forgetting story before anyone else.

• Secret: She forgot her real name two weeks ago and writes under a pen name.

12. Grandma Iri

• Type: Wizard, 120 years old

• Appearance: Tiny old woman with colorful shawls and eyes that glow in the dark.

• Personality: Kind, calm, and shrewd. Weaves forgotten names into her shawls with thread.

• Speech: Uses proverbs and sayings, calm and rhythmic.

• Goal: Save the lost names.

• Secret: The same thing happened 80 years ago, and only she remembers how the city was saved. But she won’t say what it cost.

13. Lord Savalan Grey

• Type: Wizard

• Appearance: Middle-aged and dignified, in a black velvet coat with a silver cane.

• Personality: Wealthy, polite, and calculating. Collects forgotten names and memories.

• Speech: Warm and gentle, but never gives a direct answer.

• Goal: Grow his collection of names.

• Secret: He is not the cause of the forgetting, but he profits from it continuing and doesn’t want it to stop.

14. Luka

• Type: Human, 14 years old

• Appearance: Skinny boy in a hat too big for his head, with silver mechanical fingers.

• Personality: Clever, funny, and distrustful. A pickpocket of the city’s alleys.

• Speech: Fast and street-slang, with a mischievous tone.

• Goal: Stay alive and owe no one.

• Secret: He stole a memory vial from Madame Vespera’s shop that shows the first night of the forgetting, but he’s afraid to drink it.

15. Monsieur Silence

• Type: Cyborg

• Appearance: Thin man with a white face, a small hat, and white gloves. Performs pantomime in the city square.

• Personality: Calm, kind, and precise. Never speaks.

• Speech: Wordless. Says everything through gestures and the sound of a music box.

• Goal: Won’t say.

• Secret: He used to be the city’s official voice. He gave up his voice willingly because he heard something he shouldn’t have.