Due to the ever-increasing size and scale of the story, I thought a glossary would be useful to help keep track of everything. Listed here are brief descriptions of characters, places of interest, and the various odds-and-ends of the world they live in. Still under-construction, but this will have spoilers for the Prologue (Episodes 1 - 4), with very minor spoilers (such as the existence and allegiances of certain characters) for Episode 5 and beyond.
Character List
NEW ENGLAND
By the sword we seek peace. A quiet peace under liberty.
Consisting of the same six states from the former United States, New England has had a turbulent fifty-year history, from the Presidential Restoration that founded it to its peak following the Upstate War and its defeat in the First American War.
West Narragansett Technical Academy
Class 2-C
Isaac Spallacio
Power: The Eightfold Fist (Supercharged Fist and Ability to Produce Clones)
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 1 – The Funeral
On the border of medium height to tall, usually with messy brown hair, generally wakes up ready to take on the day, always ready to lend a hand to someone in need. Determined to never give up or never give in, though that can make him a little stubborn, especially when any of his pet peeves (Slovenliness, Piper, alleged violations of alleged social norms) are involved. Loves life, though he’s na?ve to it in a certain way, as many of his ideals, including several school-learned ones, don’t always hold up in reality. The brawn.
Unlocks Class 2 during his fight with Mackenzie during the Combat Simulation featured in Episode 5.
Audrey Adzinoki
Power: Accelerate cell growth of plants
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 1 – The Funeral
Medium height, medium blonde hair, you’ll never find a happier girl. Audrey is fun personified, always enjoying the small moments in life, a perpetual smile on her face...until she reaches a breaking point. But when those points come, her friends will be there for her, since she’ll always be there for them. Not the most academically-gifted student, but she always tries her best. Scatterbrained, but she always means well. The heart.
Hibiscus Reed
Power: The Domino Sword (Sound wave manipulation)
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 1 – The Funeral
Short, unkempt brown hair, dour and sour, plain and dry. Reed wants a lot of things, or maybe really just one thing in particular – some vaguely defined sense of freedom she continually finds to be just out of reach. Of course, she has little motivation to do any reaching anyways, spending most of her time bumming around with her friends or getting high, sometimes both at the same time. Has a nasty habit of lying and scheming that generally blows up in her face at the worst time. The brain (though she’d tell you she’s all three).
Mackenzie (Something)
Power: Can emit radar waves
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 2 - The Sewer
Tall, long blonde hair, the Class Rep for Class 2-C. Can be seen as authoritarian, both in her management style and in her political beliefs. But she does care for her class and especially for Lynn, her best friend.
Lynn Falls
Power: Super Speed (Though Not Quite)
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 2 - The Sewer
Short, blonde with a blue streak in her hair, a nice and pleasant girl. She generally goes along her merry way in life, but her occasional empty-headedness can land her in trouble. Does better with taking orders than giving them. May or may not be in love with Reed.
Unlocks Class 2 during her fight with Hikari of the Sect of Steel featured in Episode 6.
Alfie Coonan
Power: Turning Red Can shoot fire out of his fingers a la a flamethrower
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 1 - The Funeral
Daniel “Dan” Turner
Power: Can emit gas from his palm
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 3 - The Ring Dings
Medium height, sandy hair, laidback personality. Always ready with a sarcastic comment, Dan is Isaac's best guy friend (yes, he has those).
Demetrius Diakos
Lionel Coleridge
Power: Earth Manipulation
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 3 - The Ring Dings
Short and nasally-voiced, Coleridge's crotchetiness can only be matched by his inflated ego that compensates for a whole load of self-doubt. He regularly falls in love with any girl who makes eye contact and friendly conversation with him.
Barbara “Babs” Muran
Piper Piper
Power: Platinum Disco (Can emit blinding lights)
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 1 - The Funeral
A childhood friend of Isaac's who attends the Academy. A nice girl, but she has little sense of self-control, indoor voice, and personal space.
Oksana Nazarov
Power: Snake Manipulation
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 4 – The Microwave
Short, mousy brown hair, a perpetual lack of emotion on her face. Had an odd childhood involving Russian “population movements” and atomic warfare before ending up in New England. A special friend may or may not be there for her in times of trouble.
Class 2-B
Ryan Leekman
Power: Can rearrange the mass in his body
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 3 - The Ring Dings
Isaac's training partner.
Marie
A member of the Revere Gang.
Mallory
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 4 - The Microwave
A member of the Revere Gang. She can control friction coefficients, enabling her to slide across rough ground as if it were smooth ice.
Samuel Murray
A member of the Revere Gang.
Wheaton
Fire Sister
Ice Sister
Class 3-A
Clayton Wesley
Power: Wind Manipulation
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 1 - The Funeral
Tall, sandy hair, relaxed and as cool as a cucumber. Clayton is the strongest user in the school. He's a bit of an airhead, which ties nicely with his ability to manipulate the wind.
Hanai Hanaki
Power: Lava Manipulation
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 1 - The Funeral
Medium height, stocky, bowl cut, thick-framed glasses. He's one of the strongest users in the school and works to keep the Rddhi users there disciplined and focused. Won't admit it anybody, but he has a crush on Esther.
Class 1-D
Esther Adzinoki
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 1 – The Funeral
Power: N/A (Just a genius)
Tall, long black hair, beautiful, the smartest girl in the school. Too bad she has problems with connecting with anyone in the school. Always shy, Esther is much more comfortable around her books than she is with people, because people don’t fit into neat little boxes like her facts do. Highly loyal to Chairman Stockham, the man who got her out of poverty (which can make her forget about the sister who got her through poverty). A fun fact about her is that sometimes, lying in bed late at night, she feels a little lonely, which makes no sense since being alone is so much better, right? (Sometimes she also wishes the Central Powers won World War I, but that’s a story for another time).
Louise Walsh
First Introduced: Season, 1 Episode 4 - The Microwave
Power: N/A
A student who mans the Academy’s front desk.
Claire Walsh
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 4 - The Microwave
Power: N/A
Local basketball phenom.
Staff
Chairman Josiah Stockham
Frank Shokahu
Power: Zodiac Wheel (Can take on the attributes of the animals in the Chinese Zodiac)
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 1 – The Funeral
Isaac's mellow history teacher that turns out to be the top operative for the Academy's Rddhi program and its field work.
Shunji Mogami
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 1 - The Funeral
The Academy's nurse. She's a friendly attractive according to Audrey.
Erica Essex
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 3 - The Ring Dings
Tall, blonde, dangerously attractive rather than friendly attractive according to Audrey. She's the head of the Academy Support Department, making her the head researcher and top scientist at the school.
Iyeguda
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 3 - The Ring Dings
The head of the Technical Servicemen, the Academy intelligence unit.
Pond Free Corps
Ian
First Introduced: Season 1, Interautumnal Interlude
A soldier and Academy alum now serving as the Principal of the Elizabeth Pond Vocational School. He's also the head of the Pond Free Corps, the Academy's new paramilitary.
Bandana
Jon
Stolen novel; please report.
The guard for the Academy jail cell row.
Osip
Power: Fire Manipulation
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 5 - The Boxtops
A soldier and Academy alumni who returns to the Pond to aid the organization of the Academy's paramilitary. He had a connection with Essex in the past. Maybe it'll help him in the future.
It doesn't because, during Episode 5, he meets his untimely demise when he comes across the Alchemist and Tityos while they're infiltrating the Cabot Shopping Center.
Lukas
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 5 - The Boxtops
Osip's friend from the Academy who works as a mercenary for the Academy.
Presidential Administration
President Sullivan Pulaski
Secretary of State Gabriel Easton
Secretary of War Otto Dietrich
State Police
Chief Ezekiel Amien
Colonel Symanski
Oswald
Deborah Freeman
Army
14th Division, Dog Company
Colonel James Vanderbilt
Lieutenant Carl Colombo
Private Loper
Private Axelman
Champlain Army
General Marco
Military Police
Elizabeth Pond
Captain Jacob Kelb
Sergeant Nikolai Dimitrij
Fore River
Captain Firmino
Navy
Rear Admiral Charles “Chuck” Zivkovic
Cambridge University
Middle School
Bramble Reed
The Institute
High School
Frances Nolan
Regina Miad
Corporations
Dunn Corporation
Morris Dunn
Squanto Bank
The largest bank in New England, with heavy ties to both Cambridge and the Institute.
Media
Chuck Banner
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 3 - The Ring Dings
The friendly voice of New England, Chuck Banner is the country's main news anchor on the News at 9, run the New England Broadcasting Corporation. Reed would tell you that NEBC is state-owned and Chuck is little more than a propaganda mouthpiece...but goddamn does he have a smooth voice.
Dan O’Leary
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 3 - The Ring Dings
Chuck's co-host on the News at Nine.
Second Restorationists
The Alchemist
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 3 - The Ring Dings
Dressed in his white trenchcoat with two medals on the chest, the Alchemist is the mysterious figure leading the Second Restorationists. He's apparently interested in the cultivation of people and the country; perhaps the two are intertwined. Perhaps he'd like to make them the same thing.
Greek Pantheon
Tytos
Power: Earth Manipulation
First Appearance: Season 1, Episode 5 - “The Boxtops”
Alcyone
Power: Psychic Fishing Rod
First Appearance: Season 1, Episode 5 - “The Boxtops”
Nordic Pantheon
Sif
Other
Harriet Jones
Roman Julian
Stefano
Shannen
The Mob
The European Mob Consortium is a loose alliance of various organized criminal outfits within Narragansett that have been forced to hang together, lest they all hang separately, as the dynamic, well-connected, and drug-peddling revolutionary groups threaten to push them out of the city altogether.
Abdyl
Lumaj
Other
Revere Gang
Marty
A member of the Revere Gang. The driver of the group. He also guards the door to Babs' officer.
Martinez
A member of the Revere Gang. He used to box with Isaac and still works as a janitor for the Pond school system in his off-time.
Coyotes
Gregory Spallacio
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 5 - The Boxtops
Isaac's older brother. He was a researcher at Wampanoag College before being drafted...but perhaps he received his draft notice for looking too closely into the secrets of the country. He has his own secret plan for the country, of course - and he requires Isaac for it, whether his younger brother is willing or not.
Coyote Pete
Coyote Joe
Elizabeth Pond Civilians
Derek Domino
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 4 - "The Microwave"
An old warrior monk kung-fu guy in a yellow jumpsuit with a star-shaped cross on his cheek. Derek Domino is legendary for aiding the Presidential Restoration that founded modern New England - just don't ask him about it. He was the original wielder of Reed's sword that still bears his name.
Dave
Dave of Dave’s VHS Rentals store. “One of the nicest guys in the world. Determined. A real warrior who just happens to operate a VHS rental store instead of fighting bad guys.” - Reed
Pavel
First Appearance - Season 1, Episode 4 - "The Microwave"
First mentioned in Episode 3, he's the former owner of a convenience store that was shut down by the Pond due to health violations. He then works at a deli and runs into Shokahu during the State Police raid of Episode 4. After the deli is shut down due to the raid (and health violations), Isaac encounters him as a delivery driver in Episode 6.
Father Rufus
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 4 - The Microwave
The main priest at the Church of Saint Anthony of Kiev in downtown Elizabeth Pond.
Yasuhiro Beskov
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 4 - The Microwave
A Wampanoag College professor forced on the run due to his anti-government views. He was Gregory Spallacio's teacher and gave him a few ideas on how to change their world.
Assassinated by the State Police during their raid on Elizabeth Pond.
Esra
First Introduced: Season 1, Episode 4 - The Microwave
Assassinated by the State Police during their raid on Elizabeth Pond.
Miscellaneous
Chili Dog Man
First Appearance: Season 1, Episode 4 - The Funeral
A mysterious vendor of chili dog and chili-dog related products who has a tendency to show up in times of trouble to give words of wisdom.
NEW YORK
Government
President Seamus Murphy
Senator Chester Colfax
Finley
Caribbean Expeditionary Force
General Donovan Asenov
Maxwell Haywell
Dermot
Fitzpatrick
Panama
Jackson
INTERNATIONAL
Germany
Kanazawa
First Appearance: Season 1, Episode 6 - The Tree Plot
First mentioned in Episode 4, Kanazawa is a photographer who took many iconic photos in Belarus during the European Exchange that can now be found all over the world, including New England school textbooks.
Suga
First Appearance: Season 1, Episode 6 - The Tree Plot
First mentioned in Episode 4, Suga is an aging kung fu star who was forced to flee with his wife, Kanazawa, from the Pan-Asian League when he made some wrong comments at the wrong time. He now resides in Berlin where's he a star in the German film industry.
Historical
Presidential Restoration
Viola Reed
Power: Sound-based spoon-boning
Hibiscus Reed's great-aunt. She was close with Derek Domino during the Presidential Restoration, and unfortunately passed away during the final assault on Quinsigamond. She casts a long shadow over the current era - namely, that Hibiscus Reed's family expects her to surpass her great aunt in talent.
Arthur Reed
The leader of the Presidential Restoration and the first President of New England. Assassinated a few years into his administration.
Theo
A friend of Derek Domino's during the Restoration.
After the Restoration, Theo led an uprising against the new Arthur Reed regime in the aptly named Theodite Rebellion. He perished during it, but one of his followers assassinated Arthur afterwards.
Quinetucket Years
New England Minister of War Malcolm
Claudius
President Tompkins of New York
PLACES OF INTEREST
Narragansett
The capital of New England and home to the majority of our characters. It's a sprawling city built atop the ruins of both Old Boston and New Boston. Some areas feature cutting-edge technology where citizens live luxurious lives; other areas are rundown, crumbling ruins where the poor eke out a meager existence.
Elizabeth Pond
Kenji Station
Isaac and Audrey's station in the south-central part of the district.
Tsukishima Station
The station for the Academy in the western part of the district.
Manabi Station
The station for the northwestern part of the district. The area was previously in dire straits; it's currently being renovated to serve as housing for the Dunn Electric Factory.
Dunn Electric Factory
A new power-generating in the northwestern part of the district. Construction is underway by Episode 4; the project finishes ahead of schedule in Episode 6.
Revere Arcade
An old arcade located near Manabi Station that currently serves as the headquarters for Babs and her Revere Gang.
Furukuwa Station
Mackenzie and Lynn's station in the northern part of the district.
Matsuzaki Station
The station that serves the heart of Elizabeth Pond - the downtown commercial area.
Cabot Shopping Center
The anchor of the downtown Elizabeth Pond commercial area. Its hotel is used to house Stefano of the Restorationists after he is taken prisoner in Episode 3.
During the State Police raid of Episode 4, State Police officers raid the Shopping Center, looting it and setting fire to it. It's their way of striking back against the symbols of wealth created by Rddhi-plutocracy.
In Episode 5, the Alchemist and his acolyte Tityos infiltrate the Shopping Center to silence Stefano, killing Osip and other mercenaries in the process. They then smash their way out of there.
Russet
The nicest non-Rddhi-academy-controlled district in Narragansett. Ruled by Captain Kepler of the Russet Military Police, it's home to negotiations between the Academy and State Police in Episode 6 after the tensions created by the raid in Episode 4.
Waban
Kendall Bridge
Neponset
Financial District
Golden Dome
Palmer Beach
Fore River
The Institute/Palmer Beach's labor district. It's a rundown, dirty area of the city, with most of its inhabitants employed in Institute-owned factories or the Fore River Naval Yard. The Fore River Military Police under Captain Firmino rules the district; he certainly makes a lot of money out of it.
Acushnet
The second-largest city in New England, located on the southern coast in the Bay of Buzzards. The stronghold of the Reeds, it was once a coastal city-state before becoming the driving force behind the Presidential Restoration that founded modern New England. It's the southern terminal of the Acushnet-Saguenay Railroad, the main rail line in New England.
Androscoggin
The third-largest city in New England, located in central New Hampshire. It’s a massive, overpolluted, overcrowded industrial city flooded with rural migrants, with the governing Androscoggin Military Police just barely able to keep a lid on everything. The Acushnet-Saguenay Railroad runs right through the city.
Machigonne
The sixth-largest city in New England, located in southeastern Maine. A spur line out of the Acushnet-Saguenay Railroad connects Machingonne to the main network at Androscoggin.
Quinsigamond
Located to the west of Narragansett, Quinsigamond was the seat of the most powerful city-state in New England until it was overthrown in the Presidential Restoration. Hanai hails from here.
Quinetucket
Located to the west of Quinsigamond, Quinetucket was home to the assembly that drafted a new, democratic instution for the new republican government of New England following the First American War. The Quinetucket Administration, as this republic came to be known, was named for the city where its constitution was drafted.
TECHNOLOGY
Fleece Tape
An experimental tape that, when wrapped around muscles, can simultaneously loosen and strengthen them. Overuse can lead to the tearing of muscles. Tomasz uses it in his fight against Babs in Episode 6.
MEDIA
Film
Heavy Traffic
A film that definitely isn't Rush Hour. A classic pre-Unleashing buddy comedy that helps bring Isaac and Reed back together after their spat at the Domino Dojo in Episode 4.
Of Limes and Lemons
The newest hit of the Berlin film industry. Aging kung fu star Suga stars as a detective who lets his fists do the talking. Filmed in color, but since Narragansett only has one color theater, it didn't too so hot in the overseas box office.
One Week in Vienna
Two Weeks in Vienna
Won "Participant" at the 2218 Berlin Film Exposition.
Visions de Lyon
One of Reed's favorite films. In Nazi-occupied France, a young woman must choose her own path while caught in a love triangle.
Japanimation
I Just Wanted to Live a Normal Teenage Life, But Instead, the Whole School District’s in Love With Me!
The epitome of trash taste 2020s anime, according both Isaac and Reed. An average, everyday Japanese high school student runs the gauntlet of a harem-turned-love dodecahedron that includes his sister, classmates, and the typical terminally-ill hyper girl. It's soullessness gives it soul.
My Little Sister and I Couldn’t Have Possibly Been Reincarnated as Modern Day Spirit Hunters
The second-greatest Japanimation of all time, according to both Isaac and Reed. The main character, Takibi, and his little sister, Yuki, are reincarnated thirty years into the future, as Japan faces a crossroads of destiny. Complicating matters are evil spirits wreaking havoc across the country, led by a mysterious man named Yuji. Other characters include Takibi’s childhood friend, Chikyu (both Isaac and Reed’s favorite, who, of course, doesn’t win Takibi’s heart) and Yasashi, a memorable one-episode peasant girl (though she does reappear in the manga apparently).
