The sociable and clever Randy Kinkaid spends his afterlife nursing a broken heart like a bottle of liquor, trying to forget that he’s dead. A few decades back, he made a name for himself as Riviera King, vigilante sharpshooter, spending years hustling frontier towns in a rivalry scheme with his other half. When the jig was up and they were found, his lover shot him with his own gun, and Randy watched him murdered. He’s sure he’ll finally find the object that his spirit is tied to, here in Never.
Jericho Moore
Veteran of the Civil War and once one of the most feared outlaws this side of the Mississippi, Jericho Moore earned his freedom in blood and gunpowder. But after years of violence and blood, Jericho put down his banditry in exchange for a badge. Now a newly-christened lawman of New Mexico’s own Never, Moore dedicates his violent talents towards protecting lives instead of taking them…all in the hopes he can bury the ghosts of his violent past in the meantime.
Washington K. Zhao
Washington K. Zhao is a lost New Yorker trying to make a life for himself out West. He is painfully out of place and is in search of community and belonging. Humble, quiet, and meek, he can be easily overlooked, but he is loving and passionate man below his cold and distant exterior and somber expression.
Lucille Blackburn
Lucille Blackburn is a striking woman with a commanding presence that can’t be ignored. She runs the Grand Victoria Opera House, a lavish venue that attracts the town’s wealthiest and most influential citizens. Beneath her polished, sophisticated exterior, however, lies a dark secret: Lucille is secretly a lesser demon, sent to the mortal realm with the task of coaxing wayward spirits toward damnation.
Instead, she’s become far more invested in cultivating her own life of indulgence and luxury. Her days are filled with lavish dinners, opulent dresses, and flirtations with the town’s elite. She thrives in the sensual pleasures of life, pursuing carnality and indulgence with abandon, rarely thinking twice about the consequences of her actions.
While she keeps up appearances as a refined businesswoman, managing the Opera House with impeccable taste and charm, Lucille’s true focus is on satisfying her own desires. The spirits she was meant to guide or claim are more of an afterthought to her — When they cross her path, it’s just another opportunity for amusement, not duty. In Never, she’s made herself untouchable, using her beauty, wit, and power to maintain her position as one of the town’s most alluring figures, even as her true nature waits, hidden, just beneath the surface.
Esperanza de la Rosa-Castano
Naive yet spirited, with roots in a war-torn Mexico shaped by factions like the Villistas and Carrancistas. She came to the strange, haunting frontier town of Never, renting a room above the inn with coin she barely keeps hold of—often earned through patchwork medical help or odd jobs.
She’s immature, emotionally impulsive, and out of her depth, but not without determination. Her upbringing in a fragmented post-revolutionary environment gave her survival instincts but little preparation for the mystical or political games of Never. Her clothes tend to reflect her practical, humble background—layered skirts, scuffed boots, and mementos from home like a woven sash or saint’s charm.
Moses Ward
Moses Ward was born in a small village outside of Stockholm, the son of a “healer” (read: Witch), who raised Moses alone after his father was crushed by a fallen horse cart. Moses grew up learning the ways of the elements, developing a natural affinity for controlling wind, fire, and water. He trained in metalwork as a young man, but the growing promise of the industrial age called to him. In his twenties, he left Sweden for England, seeking opportunities with the expanding railway system.
There, he met Willem Brandt, a Dutch-born witch with similar talents and an unquenchable thirst for adventure. The two became inseparable, their bond deepening as they shared their magical knowledge. Together, they unknowingly formed a coven–two immigrant witches in a land that wasn’t ready for them. The British witches drove them out. With few options left, Moses and Willem journeyed west, hearing whispers of a town called Never, promised to be a haven for those like them, hidden away from prying eyes.
Clara Klein
Never’s teacher, Clara Klein, is a woman whose life has been marked by a stereotypical rich upbringing, rife with neglect, and a lot of tragedy. Her late fiancé was supposed to be her way out but, with his passing, she found she had to escape his memory. She bounced around for four years, trying to find a place that felt like home, before finally landing in Never around ten years ago.
Esmadora de la Muerta
The Lady of Death
A witch of whispered legend, Esmedora walks the shadowed line between life and the grave. With her three spectral wolfhounds ever at her side, she tends the dead with ritual precision and an unearthly grace. Feared and respected, she is a keeper of secrets and a mistress of embalming—her presence an omen, her touch a final mercy.
Teddy Runes
Life on the road without any true sustenance has made Teddy weak in terms of power; his one saving grace is that he’s skilled enough with the inner turmoils of man, and made enough at the progression of society that he can find himself an in anywhere a hired hand is needed.
Having found himself running with the Bad Hand Gang, better known as those schmucks around the Buffalo Heart gambling din; Teddy’s mood has hit an all time high. That is, since the destruction of his original home. To most people, he’s a man of mystery and secrets, never giving his real name and constantly changing the topic away from where he came.
Elias Frey
Eli Frey is a lesser demon, and the former thrall of one more powerful. He started in his demon’s service as a wooden puppet carved from a blood-soaked tree. He was willful, wild and disobedient, but a horrific rebellion cost him everything, from his wooden body to his sense of self. His punishment was to be carved into a new kind of puppet, one made of flesh and desperate servitude. And so, he comes to Never weak and alone, and looking for a new master to kneel to.