People

The DragonsSentient, telepathic, willful and like to play, very precocious like ten year olds, except in battle, when they become serious.  They can breathe fire.  They chose their companions.  They are shaped like dragons and hided and maned like horses.  They are very long-lived and extremely hard to kill, though it can be done.  They were created by the First Ones and are pursuing the evolutionary path that will return them to them. 

Puff - Golden, blue eyed dragon - Julian's Dragon

IoneKalket's Dragon  On Aaru.

Cola Green eyed, Red haired Marc's Dragon  (Ivy and Igor are her kids).  On Aaru.

QuinnViolet Eyed Dinah's Dragon, on Aaru.

Kaliewas Mach'Maelcom's Dragon  Speaks for dragons on all matters related to the First Ones.  On Aaru.

Jelly  Free dragon.  On Aaru.

Briony  Malachi’s dragon, in residence at the Villa d’Medici and the mother of Carmie and Nicki.  She has dark blue eyes and sable hair.

Carmie  Nicco’s dragon and living at the Villa d’Medici.  He is pitch black with cobalt blue eyes.

Nicki  Has chosen Carmine of Italy as her companion.  She lives at the Villa d’Medici and is a glistening white with cobalt blue eyes.

Devlin  Morrigan’s dragon.  He is silver with black eyes and is currently on Aaru.

The AwakenedHumans who have undergone a stress/severe trauma driven transformation usually triggered by the bone deep need to save someone they love from something life threatening or equally awful.  (Or have been born to one or more Awakened parents) have the –pathic gifts (or being aware), including telepathy, empathy, teleportation plus the ability to create something by visualizing it (emergent). They also usually have another gift, such as healing (ex. Baylee), channeler (ex. Stephen), a higher degree of Empathy (ex. The Lady Liliana, now missing), Recording (ex. Adam), Finding (ex. Liam), etc. (called being gifted). Immortal…can’t die of natural causes but can be killed.

The ListenersA subset of the Awakened who also have the ability to ‘hear’ the emergence of a New One. Stephen is their leader. As a group they are powerful politically, but are relatively small in numbers. Not all with the ability to Listen work as Listeners or have even been trained as one. Stephen hand picks his teams, always.  Some live at the Refuge, most at Home. All Listeners have the full range of Awakened gifts. They are Awakened, aware, emergent and gifted. They are all deeply loyal to Stephen and hostile towards the Council because of past actions and current stance toward them and Stephen.

The ExiledA subset of the Awakened who refused to sign the Covenants when they were first drafted. Also now including those who have rejected it since. Tabitha and Eli are exiled, who refused to sign the Covenants when they were drafted.

The Never Found  Awakened who are as the name implies.

The Old Ones  A race that evolved first, very fast and sometime prior to humans.  It is through interbreeding with humans that the Awakened emerged.  Most are dead as they killed each other off during a long period of genocidal in-fighting for power.

The RenegadeThose who violated the Covenants to such a degree they were stripped of all their Awakened powers (or rather blocked, since there’s a storyline in that) and then ejected from Home back to earth.

The MixedA subset of the Awakened who are children of a mating between an Awakened parent and a non Awakened parent. Some have some or all of the awakened gifts and some have none.

The First Ones  Ancient sentient race, primogenitors of all others.

The Star Lords Races who, with the First Ones, rule the non-created universes.

Earth Kin A race of beings created by the Earth Masters so that the spirits of all things would be named and known.

Earth Masters  Known as the Holy Ones, the creators and protectors of all that is.

The Silka  A mysterious race, known only as hints in the oldest tales.  A race of dreamers whose dreams become reality; it is they who have created the Rift in their dreams and they who maintain it.

Organizations

Kenget'Ster(Celtic:  Star Warrior) head by the MacCoun is also a star roving and trading house and an off shoot from millennia ago, of House Sere'Ster.  They instigated incidents so the Sere'Ster would declare the vendetta, leaving them the choice of whole house or single combat.

Siol'Ster (Celtic (vaguely): Star Seed or those who seed the stars with life) Headed by the Siolastre (Dinah) who trade in genes (their sigil: miniature star system whose center was the symbol for infinity overlain by the helix.)

Sere'Ster  (Celtic: Star Wanderer) Headed by the Mael'com and also gene traders

Weru'Ster  -  (Celtic:  Far Star)  Trading House of the unimensional worlds and the only one located on the Rim  (Sigil:  a field of vectors overlaid by a shooting star, extending beyond the vectors)

Maro'Ster(Celtic: War Star)  headed by the McBain, suppliers of munitions across the known worlds

Ano'Ster(Celtic: Any Star) headed by the McKendrick who trade in everything as a part of their explorer's license

Braka'Ster(Celtic: Rich Star)  headed by the MacDautry who trade in portable wealth...currency, gems, paper, whatever was small and worth a lot.

Brann'Ster(Manx: Star Dreamers) headed by the MacAshlish, a defunct house (supposedly) with no descendants left and the gene line lost.  (Sigil:  star system, enclosed by a sphere.  The sphere itself is pierced by radiating vectors originating from the symbol for infinity positioned within the center of the star system.)

COBRA- Combined Baronial Alliance - mostly feudal lord types who have private armies, lots of money and control many of the major space lanes and space ports. Brutal and efficient Current head is Bahnderad, the worst of the bunch.  There are reformers among them but have to walk carefully.

Syndicate –Interstellar Mafia - they trade in drugs and slaves and high value items and luxuries, smuggling many of them.

Hodrancurrent CEO and head of Sutta

Sutta- pleasure world - on a moon orbiting Utern - casino and other dens of iniquity including a lot of really nasty places for those with very perverted taste. Still, most folks don't see that so it is the place were everyone in the Rim eventually shows up for vacation.     Blown up by Marc and Dinah

Guild of Traders - to the world an entirely loosely organized bunch of traders, who argue and bicker and compete against one another for contracts. Many Traders run illegal stuff, or highly dubious stuff.

Guild of Thieves and Assassins They accept contracts to steal and assassinate. 

Guild of Prostitutes A trade union that provides benefits, educations and protection to those who sell sex.

Guild of Accountants They keep everyone’s books.

Guild of Beggars  An organization that licenses beggars.

Guild of Spies  and Intelligenciers The James Bond union.

The Guild of Demons, Ghouls and GoblinsThe guild of the denizens of hell who live on the surface.  Membership is mandatory for any hellion on the surface longer than a week.

The Committee for Integration(CFI) An organization whose sole purpose is to pursue the long range goal of the integration of all varieties of life (Awakened, talented, Magical, Vamp, Elf, Fairy, Were…you name it) into society, They pursue that goal by sponsoring and supporting Integration Projects proposed by members or a non member with the ear of the Committee.

Mage’s Magistrate Court  (MMC)  Unimensional court that adjudicates all cases involving magic or talent that aren’t assigned to the Ghouls, Goblins and Demons court.

College of the Supernatural (CS)  A college within the Unimensional University that studies the entire range of the supernatural and paranormal.

Unimensional University (UU)  The premier university of the Unimensional Worlds.  Admission is highly competitive.

The Ministry for Kanly and DuelloMinistry responsible for managing and monitoring all officially sanctions vendettas and duels headed by Kevin C'Tal.

The UU College of Law College where all law is taught related to the paranormal, and the supernatural as well as mundane law. 

College of Exorcists and Demonologists  (E&D)  College where exorcism and demons are studied, and exorcists are trained.

Warrior Monk MonasteriesSt. Azael (College of Warfare and Martial Arts). St. Michael (Law School and College there), Radziel (Mages trained there), and Haniel (Healers trained there)

The UU Center for Ghost/Ghoul/Demon (GGD) law(within the UU College of Law)

The Ghost Detective Agency  The detective agency owned and operated by Lang, Langton and Azria.

Worlds, Places and Locations

The RefugeLocated in the Blue Ridge Mountains in West Virginia. A valley, including a monastery and associated buildings (whose official title is The Archabbey of Our Lady of Refuge of the Blue Ridge; (the Archabbey status makes them, canonically, a diocese unto themselves and answerable only to Rome.), the Listener House of Studies and associated buildings, the ruins of Lily/Richard’s house and The Compound (sometimes called the village).

Dinah’s PlaceA large Victorian at Virginia Beach owned by Dinah and now managed by Mabel that is a hotel and boardinghouse. It is located on the beach and has a liquor license.

The Unimensional Worlds  A polity of worlds and peoples spanning the known and unknown universes and dimensions.

The Rim  The wild, wild west of the unimensional worlds

The Rift  The boundary of the unimensional worlds beyond which is the uncreated universe and home of the first ones and the Star Lords

Caer Kista  Fortress/clan enclave where Malec'Malecom lives and is the site of the House Sere'Ster, on the planet Amran.

Utern  - typical rim world with large spaceport, only difference being it has Sutta orbiting it.

Sutta - moon - pleasure world.  The resort was blown up by Marc and Dinah

Margas-   in recent history, and in the bloody past of the Rim has been associated with some very bad stuff - namely destruction of worlds on no provocation and Margas is used to frighten children and threaten adults.  The Barons frequently leave 'evidence' blaming Margas for their own atrocities. The Margassans has always let anyone blame Margas as it will, because they want mostly to be left alone, and if everyone is afraid of them that works for them.  Paxx is a friend of the Margassans but wouldn't admit that anywhere. He and other members of the Guild of Traders work regularly for them

Finistere - home of Weru'Ster  Caer Berna

Pensa - home to the Red Limit Bar, Guild hang out. If you wanna hire a trader, an assassin,  whatever, here's the place to find them.  Pensa's planetary police don't go into the port area - that'd be bad for business.

Silka  Home planet of a race know as the Silka.