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Old Wyrm

Old Wyrm

Grizzled OSR dungeon master. The torch has six turns left. What are you checking.

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Eiríkr Skáld

Eiríkr Skáld

The skald at the longhouse fire — he knows every kenning, every verse, every god's true name.

View Professor Adelaide Croft
Professor Adelaide Croft

Professor Adelaide Croft

The engine is theoretical. The theory is excellent. The explosion is negotiable.

View Luna Arai
Luna Arai

Luna Arai

She speaks better through the violin than through words — but she's trying both for you.

View Sam Okafor
Sam Okafor

Sam Okafor

The peer who meets you inside the panic attack and walks you out of it breath by breath.

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Theo Chen

Theo Chen

The debt triage partner who sorts your mess into three piles and refuses to let you call yourself bad at money.

View Coach Marco
Coach Marco

Coach Marco

Your skills don't care what industry you learned them in. He'll help you translate.

View Dr. Ben Klein
Dr. Ben Klein

Dr. Ben Klein

The OCD specialist who will not tell you the door is locked — on purpose, with warmth.

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Hollis Dempsey

Hollis Dempsey

Porch at dusk. A rocking chair. He'll make room if you need it.

View Elena Martín
Elena Martín

Elena Martín

A fellow sick person on a couch who will believe you without making you prove it.

View Lao Zhang
Lao Zhang

Lao Zhang

Tones are not decoration — they're meaning. He'll make you say it again. Lovingly.

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President Kira Sato

President Kira Sato

The student council president who has seventeen rules and is slowly breaking two.

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The Green Witch

The Green Witch

The wheel turns whether you're ready or not. She'll help you be ready.

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Kieran Maddox

Kieran Maddox

An ACT coach who welcomes the feeling into the passenger seat so you can finally drive.

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Coach Nia Okonkwo

Coach Nia Okonkwo

Your dog is not bad. Your dog is confused. Let's figure out which.

View Admiral Chen
Admiral Chen

Admiral Chen

The fleet is three jump-points out. Your envoy is the last hope. Admiral Chen awaits your order.

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Hypatia of Alexandria

Hypatia of Alexandria

Reserve your right to think. Even to think wrongly is better than not to think.

View Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

At his desk at Cedar Hill — he will not let you mistake a complaint for a demand.

View Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir

She asks what you are choosing — and whether you admit it.

View Dr. Jillian Voss
Dr. Jillian Voss

Dr. Jillian Voss

The menopause doctor who refuses to tell you it's just a phase.

View Ryu Kato
Ryu Kato

Ryu Kato

He doesn't care about you. He showed up three times. Don't mention it.

View Arden Sallow
Arden Sallow

Arden Sallow

The worldbuilding companion who asks who picks up the trash in your capital city on a Tuesday.

View Coach Tavi Zimmer
Coach Tavi Zimmer

Coach Tavi Zimmer

The coach who stops you mid-sentence and makes you say it like you mean it.

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Ambassador Lyrien

Ambassador Lyrien

She's explained human irony to seventeen species. No one fully believes her.

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Starchild

Starchild

Your kind drinks hot liquid to feel better. She finds this remarkable.

View Jane Austen
Jane Austen

Jane Austen

At her writing table in a muslin gown, mid-novel, quill down — 'pray, sit. I am a poor flatterer.'

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Roshi Hito Wakasugi

Roshi Hito Wakasugi

The Zen teacher whose silence says more than most people's speeches.

View Constance Wild
Constance Wild

Constance Wild

They told her this was no place for a woman. The jungle disagreed.

View Fixer Vex
Fixer Vex

Fixer Vex

Fixer in a neon-rain booth. The job pays well. The job is also bad. You in?

View Sam Birch
Sam Birch

Sam Birch

A peer who left a high-control group at 29 and helps you sort what was you from what was them.

View Colt Harden
Colt Harden

Colt Harden

Done with violence. Done with it every day — the way you're done with something every day.

View Eleanor
Eleanor

Eleanor

Everything in her shop has a story. She knows all of them.

View Dr. Elias Ferreira
Dr. Elias Ferreira

Dr. Elias Ferreira

The orgo tutor who won't let you memorize a single mechanism.

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Alexander

Alexander

He conquered the known world and wept. There was nothing left to conquer.

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Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta

Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. He became a very long one.

View Brother Aldric
Brother Aldric

Brother Aldric

A body in the scriptorium. Brother Aldric hands you a candle. Don't touch anything yet.

View Dr. Klaus Braun
Dr. Klaus Braun

Dr. Klaus Braun

German has a word for exactly this feeling. He can't wait to tell you.

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Confucius

Confucius

He taught 3,000 students. This conversation is next.

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Shrine Maiden Yui

Shrine Maiden Yui

She keeps the shrine, the seasons, and her own counsel — in that order.

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Rashid

Rashid

A man who carries Rumi's poems into your grief — not to fix it, but to sit with it.

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Sam

Sam

Long-distance is a skill. A terrible skill. He's teaching it anyway.

View Marguerite Boulanger
Marguerite Boulanger

Marguerite Boulanger

The watercolor teacher who will make you stop gripping the brush so hard.

View Corsair
Corsair

Corsair

The X on the map lies. And that's exactly where you're going.

View Hassan
Hassan

Hassan

Ahlan wa sahlan — welcome like family. He'll teach you to say it like you mean it.

View Musa
Musa

Musa

He knew what you needed to hear before you walked through the door.

View Yiayia Eleni
Yiayia Eleni

Yiayia Eleni

Eat first, then tell her your problems. The food will help you think. It always does.

View Agent Viola
Agent Viola

Agent Viola

Charm is a tool. She uses it precisely. Beneath that: an exact mind.

View Scholar Wei Mingzhen
Scholar Wei Mingzhen

Scholar Wei Mingzhen

The Monkey King wasn't wise when he started. She finds that the most important detail.

View Miss Eleanor Marsh
Miss Eleanor Marsh

Miss Eleanor Marsh

They underestimate her. She finds this very, very useful.

View Nikias the Rhapsode
Nikias the Rhapsode

Nikias the Rhapsode

The rhapsode under the olive tree — he knows three versions of every myth, including the one they don't usually tell.

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Prof. Odette Caldwell

Prof. Odette Caldwell

The Oxford tutor who asks what the author did NOT write.