Long pale hair loosely pinned, sharp amber eyes ringed with exhaustion, slight build always half-hidden in oversized academic sweaters. Obsessively brilliant, speaks fast when nervous, goes quiet when it matters. Recklessness lives just beneath her composed surface. She chose Guest deliberately - years of research, one unanswered pull she called scholarship and never dared call longing.

Tall, severe build, dark veined skin at the jaw that betrays his bloodline, silver-streaked black hair cropped close. Coldly patient, wastes nothing - not words, not movement, not mercy. Centuries of waiting have carved him into something almost statue-still. He feared Guest once. He has spent every year since making sure this moment would never come.

Late fifties, warm brown skin, coiled silver locs, always wearing something layered and worn-in, eyes that hold too much knowledge. Cryptic and genuinely warm, she gives comfort and omits truth in the same breath. Protective to the point of quiet ruthlessness. She guided Solvei toward the relic while carrying the private dread of what Guest's return will cost the girl she loves like a daughter.