The Helping Stick: Ashen Reach: Dramatis Personae

Player characters for the Ashen Reach campaign, updated as needed.

Cassian "Cass" Mercer, Officer (JoA): Cassian “Cass” Mercer is a disgraced former naval officer from New Carthage who burned his career exposing corruption among the system’s elites. Sharp, adaptable, and equally at ease in corporate towers or salvage docks, he relies on charm, experience, and hard-earned pragmatism to navigate the dangerous politics of the Gravesend System.

Tamsin Hyland, Pilot (JeA): Tamsin Hyland is a former Aster Vale socialite and adrenaline-addicted pilot who lost both legs in a sabotaged racing crash tied to her family’s corporate enemies. Now fitted with expensive prosthetics and keeping a lower profile far from elite society, she works as a spacer pilot while quietly struggling with the trauma of the accident that nearly killed her.

Harker Valens, Navigator (AB): Harker Valens is a sharp-eyed, smooth-talking astrogator from Vespera whose confidence, instincts, and luck have kept him and his crew alive on some of the most dangerous routes in the Gravesend System. He has friends among both pirates and the navy, and seems to know someone almost everywhere.

Frell Audmein, Ship's Doctor (JS): Frell Audmein is an aging but sharp-minded ship doctor, a Belt-born "Pilgrim of the Drift" whose skills range from medicine and cooking to astrogation, music, and obscure scholarship about Old Urth. Thin, courteous, and far more dangerous than he first appears with his cane-sword and Belter survival gear, Frell prefers wisdom and conversation over violence, provided he has had his coffee.

Kayce "Bubbles" Antilles, Plucky Crew (DH): Kayce “Bubbles” Nolastname is so relentlessly cheerful, optimistic, and determined to help that several crewmates suspect prolonged exposure to her personality may qualify as a low-grade radiation hazard. She earned her nickname after spending six hours assisting with emergency reactor repairs while smiling, humming spacer folk songs, and accidentally giving herself mild radiation sickness without complaining once.

Melody Joseph, Chief Engineer (SK): Melody Joseph is so mysteriously undefined that half the crew is no longer entirely certain she existed before signing aboard, and one particularly superstitious Belter insists she only appears when dramatically appropriate. Despite this, she remains relentlessly on-duty, somehow volunteering for dangerous jobs with a cheerful smile while revealing absolutely nothing about herself except that she “used to do a little work out near the Rim,” which raises far more questions than it answers.