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.

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