Alaka’i Rhoden is known around Never as the resident Doctor and all-round Wise Man to solve or help the residents of the town. The few who earn his help are beholden to contracts and to utmost secrecy, but that doesn’t seem to worry them. Having arrived in Never twenty one years ago, Alaka’i has all but made his place in town and is comfortably suited to this new way of life. But he never seems to age, does he? Isn’t that weird to you?

Reverend Hawthorne Lichfield is the reverend of the House of His Eternal Glory, a small parish church and source of shelter located on the Hawthorne Homestead. The church has the unconventional belief that one cannot abstain from sin if they have never sinned. Questionable activities often unfold at Eternal Glory that serve as an outlet for one’s deepest or darkest desires. If Eternal Glory sounds like a cult, it is. But it entices members with the promise of a better life and the constant reminder that it is never too late to repent for the sins weighing on one’s soul.