Characters

Mercy:

• Brief background and purpose: The main protagonist. A scum born to a Baron and a witch that was abandoned as a child and raised by the Descent's leader (Sir Claude) to avenge those that were unfairly treated in the past. Her main purpose is to assassinate the new ruler to the country's throne, Varen's son, Van.
• Personality: She believes in justice however, due to her past upbringing and the way she had been raised in the rebel camp, her opinions are often a biased viewpoint, warped to believe that humans are always the ones who require aid, and that they are the ones that are innocent. This is as they are the species that is being despised, and she on the other hand, had been abandoned by the wiccans (despite also being part of them) when she was younger and feels that all witches are cold heartless creatures. That being said, she is harsh and merciless to anyone whom she feels does not deserve her pity or attention, and paranoid of people with powers. In addition, she is mostly also calm and composed, and is stubborn in the way she thinks. 
• Looks: Average, with reddish brown hair slightly past her shoulders and dark brown eyes that is slightly almond in shape. She has a slim yet muscular physique due to her upbringing and training, and is 5 ft 4 in height. Not memorable by sight.

Van:

• Brief background and purpose: The main antagonist (or appears to be as of now) and son of Varen, the previous ruthless ruler of Roschworth. As the son of the ruler, he was trained to lead the country under an iron fist, the same way his father had. However, Van had other plans of what he wanted. When his father died under a sudden circumstance, he was finally given the freedom he dreamed of, and left most of the decision making and ruling to his father's most faithful consorts.  
• Personality: Scheming, untrustworthy, ruthless like his father had been. Is often paranoid that someone might try and do him in. And thus changes his direct personal attendants and maids monthly so as to not let anyone know too much about him and use it against him. (These jobs are often done by scums as well as they would then have no magical advantages over him.) Unreserved and a bit haughty in his demeanor. Slightly enigmatic.
• Looks: Has dark brown hair that is cropped slightly below his ears, with a slight stubble across his face, bright green coloured eyes with a hint of silver that becomes a lot more apparent when he uses his powers. Is lean and around the height of 6 ft (taller than most wiccan, that are about 5 ft' 10). Bears the mark of a wiccan on his chest. (In the later parts of the story, his hair will be longer, to his chin.)

Brayton:

• Brief background and purpose: Son of Claude, leader of the rebel group Descent that aims to get rid of the ruling wiccans. Lost his mother to the wiccans at the age of 3 when they accused her of theft. Was the person who found Mercy when she was abandoned and persuaded his father to take her in. Grows up to be second in command to his father and fully believes in his mission of overthrowing the main ruler - Van.
• Personality: Like Mercy, feels particularly biased towards all scum, and while he has the tendency to be more bitter, withdrawn and vengeful, he is often gullible and trusting around them. Hateful of wiccans, he believes them to be evil creatures, and that they ought to 'rot in the pits of Uralak', the bottom levels of the Roschworth dungeons, which is said to be the scariest place in the kingdom. He is  generally more serious by nature, though impulsive.
• Looks: Has slightly wavy brown hair that falls to his chin, brown eyes, and is clean shaven. Also has a lean built, around the height of 6 ft. Is more cordial and sincere looking, and has sometimes been described to own the graceful, regal look of a prince.

Ria:

• Brief background and purpose: Daughter of Claude's best friend, and likes Brayton. Has always looked up to him ever since he tried to take care of her as a kid at the age of 6, and rescued her from her plight as a slave. Is thus often paired up with Brayton by the elders and said to be a match made by the love spirits. It is suspected however that the feelings are only one sided. Supervises the mission alongside Brayton under Claude's instructions.
• Personality: Sarcastic, resilient, and generally tries to follow in Brayton's shoes when it comes to dealing with people. ('All friends of Brayton, is a friend of mine, and all enemies of Brayton? You're dead.) Like most of the Descent, is merciless, and quick on her feet. Has the tendency to go insane sometimes however, especially when someone reminds her of her past. (Burn her with witch fire.)
• Looks: Long blond hair that is wavy, up to her waist, sharp features, and gray eyes. Has a lithe slim built as well, around the height of 5 ft' 8. Bears scars on her back as proof of her nasty past when the wiccans punished her.

Claude: 

• Brief background and purpose: Ruler of the Descent, and plays a foster father figure to Mercy and the rest of the clan's teens. Having lost his family to the wiccans, he sets up the group to fight for the ill-treated scum. When his wife is later taken away to be imprisoned in Uralak, for stealing, he decides to turn his shelter into a training center to take down those in power, in revenge for what they've done to him.
• Personality: Harsh, firm, commanding, wise in his ways. He is more often open to his people, outspoken about his ideals and his visions, though he has the tendency to hide his true intentions behind his actions from even his son. Is very driven, though as a result, it makes him narrow-minded. He is willing to do anything, just to attain the right results.
• Looks: Tall, broad and muscular. With dark brown hair (nearly black) cropped to his ears and brown eyes. Has a short stubble across his face, that is only kept when he is in a good mood.

Sif:

• Brief background and purpose: An elder from the Descent. Having lived in the time period before Varen ascended the throne of Roschworth, where humans still weld power, he feels unjust over the treatment his people are being subjected to, and thus joins the Descent in order to educate the new members and youths about Roschworth past, and ensure that the future generations of humans are taught to read and write. 
• Personality: Insightful having seen much in his lifetime before joining the Descent. He is also said to be patient, frequently needing to deal with the newly recruited apprentices. However, like most other scums, he is prejudiced against the witches. 
• Looks: Wizened, with wrinkly skin, and unkempt straggly white-grey hair that reaches to his neck. Is extremely pale, having cooped himself up in the taverns for the past thirty years. He also has a lean and frail physique, a trait displayed by most scums, especially the old, in the Descent.

Freida: 

• Brief background and purpose: The matron entrusted with the job of hiring the king's personal maids and training them before sending them to serve the king. While she is also a wiccan, her powers are rather minute, and in certain instances, can even be considered powerless. She only managed to attain the high post of a matron as a result of her father's high position in the wiccan court, and through her faith and worship of King Varen.
• Personality: Having endured several hardships since young, being a near powerless witch, she grew up mostly hating herself, believing herself to be useless. She thus translates her bad history with the other wiccans by torturing the maids she trains. Despite the fact that she is mostly ill-treated by her own people, she has a blind devotion and faith to the wiccan court, and worships King Varen, the first wiccan to rule Roschworth, for she feels that he reinstated wiccans to their rightful power.
• Looks: Has a plump figure, with long blonde hair that she often braids up, so as to show her witch mark that is displayed prominently at the back of her neck. This serves as a reminder to other wiccans that while she may not be as powerful as them, she does have wiccan blood, which makes her just as 'noble' as them. She has thin lips and slightly large green eyes which are widely spaced apart.