Use desire, fear, and first move. Rules guidance begins in Chapter XIX: Universal Conversion Notes.
| NAME | ROLE | WANTS | FEARS | FIRST MOVE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arturo DeLuca | Governor or former governor; default Project Custodian | Turn Canula’s crisis into permanent personal power. | Proof that he coerced Resa or profited from trafficking. | If he remains active, invites the characters to dinner and offers exactly one thing they need; otherwise his remnant network retaliates. |
| Isabella DeLuca | Governor’s wife | Preserve the family and prevent Arturo’s worst choices from destroying them. | Public disgrace that leaves Marina unprotected. | Offers social access while quietly moving a witness. |
| Marina DeLuca | Inside source | Break the trafficking network and protect Lukas without becoming her father. | Being treated as a helpless daughter rather than an actor. | Provides a schedule, key, or guest list and asks the party not to use it yet. |
| Lorenzo Montoya | Inquisitor | Expose corruption, protect Valdegracia from its own abuses, and clear Melenko’s name. | False certainty and uncontrolled institutional violence. | Offers sanctuary in exchange for testimony he can defend. |
| Esteban Calderón | Admiral | Keep the island from becoming a foreign battlefield. | Orders that force him to choose crown loyalty over civilian survival. | Places a ship where it can prevent escalation, then asks why the party is making that impossible. |
| Edmund Lysander | Albion ambassador | Win advantage while keeping the flag clean. | Evidence that the delegation knowingly ordered the cut-off atrocities or cannot control its own field command. | Offers help through a truthful statement designed to hide a larger lie. |
| Helena Drake | Albion covert commander and delegation security liaison | Secure the Ear and break enemy command. | A battle she cannot end before it becomes public. | Identifies the party’s strongest operator, treats them as a professional equal, and withholds the scale of her field orders from Lysander. |
| Willem van der Zee | Stroomdijk envoy | Protect trade and keep the delegation above scandal. | A record that makes plausible deniability impossible. | Offers a legal compromise that quietly preserves the route. |
| Henrik Smit | Merchant leader | Keep the trafficking system profitable and invisible. | Survivors who can name buyers. | Moves people first, then burns paper. |
| Clara de Vries | Cultural attaché | Protect the network while maintaining a civilized public image. | Being forced to choose between Henrik and her status. | Turns a cultural event into surveillance. |
| Juliette Armand | Luminore attaché | Protect heritage and win legitimate cultural access. | Discovering that her own delegation will exploit what she saves. | Offers public support for one local protection. |
| Emilio Resa | Engineer | Save Elena and stop the Ear without pretending mastery. | Becoming the sole culprit for a system others funded. | Trades technical truth for protection. |
| Elena Resa | Witness and possible hostage | Survive, remember, and refuse to let others decide what her ordeal means. | Being hidden “for her safety” until she disappears from the story. | Names the visitor who revealed how the project was being controlled. |
| Lukas Van Rijn | Rebel leader | Break the route and keep Marina alive. | A victory that preserves the machinery of exploitation. | Offers a rescue operation, not an ideological speech. |
| Lucian Vega | Moon-affected captain | Protect Melenko or the Legacy Anchor and find another path for his crew. | The moment desperation makes sacrifice look reasonable. | Saves the wrong person for the right reason and demands a meeting. |
Arturo DeLuca
- ROLE
- Governor or former governor; default Project Custodian
- WANTS
- Turn Canula’s crisis into permanent personal power.
- FEARS
- Proof that he coerced Resa or profited from trafficking.
- FIRST MOVE
- If he remains active, invites the characters to dinner and offers exactly one thing they need; otherwise his remnant network retaliates.
Isabella DeLuca
- ROLE
- Governor’s wife
- WANTS
- Preserve the family and prevent Arturo’s worst choices from destroying them.
- FEARS
- Public disgrace that leaves Marina unprotected.
- FIRST MOVE
- Offers social access while quietly moving a witness.
Marina DeLuca
- ROLE
- Inside source
- WANTS
- Break the trafficking network and protect Lukas without becoming her father.
- FEARS
- Being treated as a helpless daughter rather than an actor.
- FIRST MOVE
- Provides a schedule, key, or guest list and asks the party not to use it yet.
Lorenzo Montoya
- ROLE
- Inquisitor
- WANTS
- Expose corruption, protect Valdegracia from its own abuses, and clear Melenko’s name.
- FEARS
- False certainty and uncontrolled institutional violence.
- FIRST MOVE
- Offers sanctuary in exchange for testimony he can defend.
Esteban Calderón
- ROLE
- Admiral
- WANTS
- Keep the island from becoming a foreign battlefield.
- FEARS
- Orders that force him to choose crown loyalty over civilian survival.
- FIRST MOVE
- Places a ship where it can prevent escalation, then asks why the party is making that impossible.
Edmund Lysander
- ROLE
- Albion ambassador
- WANTS
- Win advantage while keeping the flag clean.
- FEARS
- Evidence that the delegation knowingly ordered the cut-off atrocities or cannot control its own field command.
- FIRST MOVE
- Offers help through a truthful statement designed to hide a larger lie.
Helena Drake
- ROLE
- Albion covert commander and delegation security liaison
- WANTS
- Secure the Ear and break enemy command.
- FEARS
- A battle she cannot end before it becomes public.
- FIRST MOVE
- Identifies the party’s strongest operator, treats them as a professional equal, and withholds the scale of her field orders from Lysander.
Willem van der Zee
- ROLE
- Stroomdijk envoy
- WANTS
- Protect trade and keep the delegation above scandal.
- FEARS
- A record that makes plausible deniability impossible.
- FIRST MOVE
- Offers a legal compromise that quietly preserves the route.
Henrik Smit
- ROLE
- Merchant leader
- WANTS
- Keep the trafficking system profitable and invisible.
- FEARS
- Survivors who can name buyers.
- FIRST MOVE
- Moves people first, then burns paper.
Clara de Vries
- ROLE
- Cultural attaché
- WANTS
- Protect the network while maintaining a civilized public image.
- FEARS
- Being forced to choose between Henrik and her status.
- FIRST MOVE
- Turns a cultural event into surveillance.
Juliette Armand
- ROLE
- Luminore attaché
- WANTS
- Protect heritage and win legitimate cultural access.
- FEARS
- Discovering that her own delegation will exploit what she saves.
- FIRST MOVE
- Offers public support for one local protection.
Emilio Resa
- ROLE
- Engineer
- WANTS
- Save Elena and stop the Ear without pretending mastery.
- FEARS
- Becoming the sole culprit for a system others funded.
- FIRST MOVE
- Trades technical truth for protection.
Elena Resa
- ROLE
- Witness and possible hostage
- WANTS
- Survive, remember, and refuse to let others decide what her ordeal means.
- FEARS
- Being hidden “for her safety” until she disappears from the story.
- FIRST MOVE
- Names the visitor who revealed how the project was being controlled.
Lukas Van Rijn
- ROLE
- Rebel leader
- WANTS
- Break the route and keep Marina alive.
- FEARS
- A victory that preserves the machinery of exploitation.
- FIRST MOVE
- Offers a rescue operation, not an ideological speech.
Lucian Vega
- ROLE
- Moon-affected captain
- WANTS
- Protect Melenko or the Legacy Anchor and find another path for his crew.
- FEARS
- The moment desperation makes sacrifice look reasonable.
- FIRST MOVE
- Saves the wrong person for the right reason and demands a meeting.