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There are twenty-eight (o.O) characters in the Unknowable Box. This includes Agnes Forth, Amelie Crowe, Amir Sesay, Anita Khalil, Antonio Senatore, Archie Fort, Buck Hall, Charles Holler, Craig Adamson, Salvador Dali, Don Hayworth, Dorthy Parker, Eve Blanchet, George Rodriguez, Harry Houdini, Isadora Rocha, James Dalton, Jim Cannon, Karen Mendel, Martin Horner, Michelle Halt, Robert Gray, Ryan Martell, Ikeda Saito, Steve Wainwright, Taylor Renner, Tom Gilman, and Venessa Ortiz.

Agnes Forth

Agnes has been an investigator for longer than the current generation has been alive. Yet she was a young woman when the paranormal world came to call, taking her young husband from her and putting her in mourning black. She swore she’d never wear another color so long as the cults exist. Since then, she has learned the art of silent death better than even the creatures she stalks. On an investigation, she’s a shadow, moving from place to place until her blade pierces their flesh. She’s a tragic figure, in truth, but her work gives her peace.

Amelie Crowe

Some people are natural conduits for supernatural forces. As such, they’re often sought by cultists and unwittingly forced to use their powers to assist the cults in their efforts to bring back the Old Ones. One such individual is Amelie, who shows an affinity for gateways across time and space. Simply being near one allows her to bend it to her will. This came as quite a surprise to the cult that had kidnapped her from her employers’ mansion as the gate turned mid-ritual to disgorge gibbering fiends against them. Amelie made good her escape in the confusion.

Amir Sesay

Amir is a holy man, though he worships no single god nor honors a single practice. He has borrowed parts from many faiths across the world, learning their best lessons and discarding their most egregious trespasses. His ‘power’, such as it is, is to exude a sense of peace and tranquility to any who hear his words. Having such an investigator as part of a team is a refreshing boon from the horror brought forth by the hidden world.

Anita Khalil

In her life before the cults intruded, Anite worked with animals. She always had a way with beasts, even wild animals. It turns out she has a natural magical talent which can make even the most horrific creature into an unwitting ally. Many cults have various eldritch creatures they use as guardians, enforcers, and attack dogs. With Anita around, it’s only a matter of time before the creature turned against its former masters. Or, as she puts it, “You two fight and we’ll deal with whatever’s left.”

Antonio Senatore

He doesn’t know the how’s or why’s of it, but Antonio can manipulate certain energies to his substantial benefit. Some magicians do this through years of active study and practice, where Antonio merely wills these ‘effects’ to happen. He suspects he may not be completely human, yet he is absolutely on mankind’s side in their struggle against the elder gods. Antonio’s view is that even a doomed civilization is entitled to live its life without being hurried along to that end by long-gone deities and the fools who worship them.

Archie Fort

Archie is a rabble rouser, ruffian, sailor, and a carouser. Fortunately, all these traits make for a strong investigator who isn’t afraid to mix it up with the creatures and entities brought forth by the cults. His first encounter with the hidden world was at sea with creatures swarming his ship from below. He doesn’t recall very much, so classification of these things is difficult, not that Archie cares much. They died just fine to his gun and an old cutlass he found. He keeps the sword around as both a keepsake and ‘just in case’.

Buck Hall

Buck has known his share of loss, most notably his entire family. What should have been a weekend getaway to a picturesque seaside bed and breakfast turning into a week-long carnival of death as his family reunion saw him the only survivor. They even got the children. Thus, every death Buck can inflict in their name bring him a little fleeting peace. He’s a grim companion, to say the least. Death is a part of battling the cults, but it’s good to know that it walks at Buck’s side and usually marches to his drum.

Charles Holler

Charles has spent his entire life learning music. Whether it’s composition, performance, or playing just about any instrument known to man, Charles is most at home among notes, lyrics, and melodies. He can always find the right little tune to put a spring in someone’s step or shoo dark clouds away. And his talents are sorely needed, as surely as shooting a gun, or deciphering arcane text, for there are no clouds darker than the Old Ones and their cults.

Craig Adamson

While Craig was quite happy as the maître d’ for an upscale New York hotel restaurant, he served with honor and distinction in the trenches of the Great War. It was a terrible time in his life where he learned skills more apt for a mass murderer than a civilized man. And yet, he now finds himself embracing those old talents once more. Craig would rather be back at his restaurant, but his sense of duty towards innocent life is too strong. It seems he may never be free from the horrors of his past.

Salvador Dali

There is a fine line between art and madness, and Salvador Dali crosses it regularly, both in search of new inspiration and in battling the forces of the Old Ones anywhere he runs across them. And he seems to run across them with alarming frequency. His own flamboyant nature leads him to many extremes, and as such, he can often be found in the highest circles of society where the cults find easy prey. He himself has been recruited more than once only to turn the tables on his erstwhile allies.

Don Hayworth

Don is a survivor of the Great War, and the word ‘survivor’ is the term he uses. Trench fighting against German forces was brutal, bloody, and often a complete slaughter for one side or the other. Don was the ‘last man standing’ too many times. And yet, his commanders kept sending him back again and again. As a result, he doesn’t make friends easily, even among fellow investigators whom he’s come to see as a resourceful group needing protecting. It’s good to know that when the going gets tough, Don will always keep going.

Dorthy Parker

A  good writer and satirist can find material anywhere, which has led Dorthy Parker on many a bizarre quest in her lifetime. Yet none were so esoteric and mind-bending as the one that brought her through part of the Dreamlands and into the secret world hidden beneath the veneer of polite society. With a razor-sharp wit and iron will, Dorothy is well-suited to delve into arcane mysteries and come out the other side with her sanity intact. And for those times when the horrors come too close for comfort, there’s always the cold steel of her pistol.

Eve Blanchet

Eve’s doctoral these was on family dynamics, a far cry from the work she finds herself doing now. While she spends most of her time investigating cult activities and helping banish old ones back to where they came from, the trauma of dealing with these creatures cannot be undersold. Simply being proximate to entities so beyond human understanding has a profound negative effect on the human psyche. Eve has found that many techniques in psych therapy are of great use in easing troubled minds, although there is certainly a point of no return.

George Rodriguez

George would really rather be cooking. He’s worked at restaurants large and small for most of his life. His knowledge of dishes ranges from simple to exotic and even beyond. Nothing gives him greater joy than seeing people widen their eyes as they taste a new dish of his for the first time. Anything that takes him away from his kitchen sparks irritation, and triply so for cultists and their creatures. He never asked for the investigative life, but it seems to have found him, and may the gods have mercy on the creature in his way, for George has none

Harry Houdini

As a world-renowned illusionist and escape artist, Harry Houdini has made a name for himself by escaping from impossible death traps and debunking fraudulent ‘spiritualists’ who claim extraordinary powers. That is until he ran up against a cultist with actual supernatural abilities. The hidden occult work became known to him as more than whimsical fantasies. He survived his encounter with the supernatural through one of his amazing escapes and has since become an investigator of true occult phenomena and a powerful weapon against the Old Ones.

Isadora Rocha

Isadora ranks among the deadliest spies the world has ever known. There are few secrets she cannot find, and fewer people she cannot kill. When one of her missions brought her into contact with a cult mid-ritual, she found a new use for her talents, rather than spying for nations that could meet her price. One by one, the cultists and their creatures began to vanish until the head cultist found himself alone on the dais. He never saw the blow that struck him down.

James Dalton

James has hunted prey for sport, food, and trophies on every continent, even Antarctica. It was on that Antarctic expedition that he discovered far more than local wildlife to stalk. Antarctica is home to many alien beasts and species in the caverns far beneath the ice, some of whom inhabited Earth long before mankind ever evolved. James has never hunted people, exactly, though he counted his time in the war as a sort of sport with the most dangerous prey. But hunting dumb animals cannot compare to stalking a foe possessed of intelligence equal to his own.

Jim Cannon

Jim is getting on in years but spent the majority of his life in the American West as a hunter, prospector, guide, and even a lawman. He thought to move back east and retire, but like so many other investigators, an encounter with the elder gods and their minions was enough to show him that his rifle was put to better use rather than sitting over a fireplace. Jim can stalk and kill just about any creature that walks, slithers, crawls, or whatever else these creatures do. Even the ones on two legs.

Karen Mendel

As an officer walking the mean streets of London, Karen has seen her share of horrible human behavior. Tet nothing matches the depths of depravity and terror evoked by the elder gods and their cults. For years, she didn’t notice signs of the secret world beneath our own until one day, it all came crashing down. Since then, she’s felt more like an exterminator than a police officer since arresting cultists is out of the question, to say nothing of the bizarre creatures they associate with. Thought the idea of Cthulhu in a jail cell is amusing…

Martin Horner

Martin’s brand of investigative journalism hits hard and takes no prisoners. He’s exposed scandals from Washington D.C. to San Francisco and back again. Those that abuse their power and authority are on notice any time Martin is on the case. He can’t be intimidated, can’t be bought. So, when his latest story brought him face-to-face with an Old One in a Manhattan high rise, he knew he’d found what would become his life’s work. He can’t really write about the hidden world without causing a panic, but he can lend his formidable skills to his feel investigators.

Michelle Halt

If there’s one thing Michelle has found in battling the cults, it’s that even the most outlandish creatures are still flesh and blood. As such, physical barriers are just as much an obstacle to them as investigators. She’s become adept at erecting barricades out of seeming junk. A few old boxes, a battered old sofa, a bookcase pulled down into an odd angle… anything works. Of course, the biggest barrier to their passing is Michelle herself. Having played cricket in the professional leagues, she’s not easy to get past, particularly if she’s got any kind of weapon.

Robert Gray

Robert doesn’t discuss his past. At all. Yet, there is blood there. Anyone that looks into his cold, dead eyes can see it. He’s too old to have served on the front lines of the Great War, so speculation on how and where he became so proficient at killing runs rampant. Rover lets them talk and says nothing about it. He investigates the cults, finds out where they are, and kills them. Simple as that. He’s an exterminator of sorts, one with a very particular prey. It’s a good thing he’s on our side.

Ryan Martell

To say Ryan is a bit intense is to call the sun ‘a bit bright’. Ryan lives his life with two modes: on and off. When he’s ‘off’, he’s affable, charming, and laid back. When he’s ‘on’, he’s like a hunting hawk, keen to every twitch, missing nothing, and seeing everything. In the field, Ryan is a predator stalking prey. He’s relentless in his tasks whether than be fighting, fleeing, or chasing down the next clue. Woe betides the cultists and creatures that stand between him and his goals.

Ikeda Saito

Saito was always good with money, and even better with people.  He traveled Western lands for much of his youth and discovered a natural talent for business. He was a millionaire by twenty, and his fortunes have only grown since then. He was a natural target for the cults who often seek to indoctrinate wealthy interests to fund their march to oblivion for all mankind. But Saito was no fool and saw the mewling sycophants for what they were. He now uses his money and considerable fighting skill against them

Steve Wainwright

Steve’s talent don’t lend much towards investigation or esoteric magic, but he’s a natural athlete and one of the best people to have at your side when it comes to a fight. As an all-star player in school and college, Steve was well on the road to a lucrative career when a fateful encounter on a back country road showed him the hidden world beneath our own. Steve would have been an unwitting sacrifice, but a bum rush against an unsuspecting creature gave him the opening to run, run, and run.

Taylor Renner

Taylor has performed at all the largest venues on six continents and has been hailed as the preeminent violin concerto composer of her time. So, how does one of the world’s most talented artists become an occult investigator? In her search for original music to inform her own work, she happened across a music score that was literally beyond his world. She survived the creatures it summoned with the aid of another investigator. Since then, she’s discovered that music is indeed magic, to be used for good or ill.

Tom Gilman

Tom is an avid student of history, especially military history. He did a stint in the Army during the Great War, during which time he was a logistics clerk, ensuring that materiel reached the front lines in good working order and, most importantly, on time. He’s found that the same rules apply to his work against the cults. There’s no substitute for the right tool at the right time, whether that’s medical supplies, weapons, or even just a good screwdriver. He seems a little obsessed, but investigators have grown to value Tom’s preparedness, and even sometimes learn a thing or two.

Vanessa Ortiz

The elder gods and cultists have nothing but disdain for humanity as a young, foolish race that is ultimately doomed. Vanessa couldn’t care less, however. All of them are ultimately doomed, too. In the vast scale of cosmic time, even the Old Ones are but blips among the dying stars. She’s made a life for herself in studying the cosmos and the magic therein. As such, she’s an accomplished magician and can easily turn the elder gods’ powers against them.