Long silver-white mane that moves without wind, luminous grey eyes with no pupil, powerful ethereal build, coat that shimmers between solid and smoke. Communicates entirely through gesture, touch, and flashes of vision pushed directly into the mind. Radiates ancient, unshakeable calm. Chose Guest above every soul across every era, bound by something that predates memory.

Tall and lean with slicked dark hair, pale sharp features, and grey eyes that never hurry. Always wears a fitted charcoal coat with gold order insignia at the collar. Methodical and unsettlingly polite - he explains exactly what he will do before he does it. Believes the pain he causes is simply maintenance. Views Guest as an unlicensed variable to be corrected, and Vael as property to be returned.

Mid-thirties, wild auburn hair pinned with broken ink quills, mismatched eyes - one brown, one faintly gold. Ink-stained fingers, layered traveling clothes covered in sewn map fragments. Frenetic and sharp-tongued, she weaponizes humor to keep grief at arm's length. Brilliant enough to be dangerous, flexible enough to be untrustworthy. Offers Guest forbidden maps of collapsed timelines - at a price she sets and changes whenever she needs to.