being the Narrator; I have many personalities. My most prominent one stands to be Alexander Cussack.
A scientist that is set on exploring Aether; devoid of feeling. He was responsible (in my campaign) for a great deal of the Aether exposure to many regions, causing the violent mutations of certain people/animals/ and even things. Now, he roams around trying to find a fix to the Aether problem, with only a little girl by his side by the name of Cassandra Lawrence.
How I act him out as I steampunk it out in cons:
Always curious on everything. Does not understand feelings. Very literal. Proud of his work (as an Alchemist). Brings many vials of rejuvenation(in Tephra, it’d be push pots) and one large vial of… well… he won’t say.

When I devised my company persona, I wanted someone who was a team player. Not a grand stander or a leader, just someone who knew their place and did their job. He wound up grandstanding (as you’ll see below) but other than that, I’m pretty satisfied with him…myself…whatever.

Garrett Dampf was born to a minor noble family in Evangless, nobility in the sense that his family owned land and had a quartet of vassal families under them. The head of the Dampf family, Sir Norman Dampf, passed down the ancestral sword skills to Garrett, who practiced them with the fervor of having no other diversions in life save schooling.

The Civil War rolled around and the Dampfs were quickly established as a militarist family due to Norman’s dim views of the far-away central government and his career service some decades prior. Garrett was swept up in the saber rattling and speech making until the time came to act. A tour of royalists forces came around the Dampf lands and camped there for the night, never suspecting that the small plots and impoverished manor would still be in residence.

Norman took the fight to the loyalists. He was quickly captured and hung as a traitor whilst the rest of the family looked on. Garrett, only 18 at the time, was secreted away by the family man-at-arm, one Sir Mithras, and taken away to the capital to stay with Mithras’s kin, loyalists who welcomed their long-gone cousin and his charge with open arms.

Garrett was enrolled in public school to complete his piecemeal education to date before moving quickly on to applying to the Royal Evanglessian Tactica Scholam at the age of 19. In 839 the Civil War ended and Dampf drove himself out of the university with an excessive debt to the local pubs and a hideous attendance record. His grandfather’s basket hilt claymore was his sole possession save a set of ragged clothing.

He fought his way through bookies and hired thugs, earning a reputation as a notorious brawler in the gutters of the capital. He killed for a ticket to Solari, making the acquaintance of one Mr. Dreyfus. Dreyfus, seeing the value of such a skilled if unrefined man-at-arms, took Dampf into his entourage and introduced him with time to the rest of the company known as Cracked Monocle.

During his time with Cracked Monocle, Dampf became more than proficient at dismantling automaton enemies due to their increasing and widespread use. He had his family blade reforged to be stronger and capable of shearing through the grinding tangle of clockwork. He also learned to ride – a steam-powered aircycle he took as spoil from a mad doctor who had pioneered a fleet of the devices and was bent on integrating them with brain works.

Dampf worked off his gift of a new life by saving Dreyfus from attempted assassination twice before indenturing himself to the captain of the allied vessel the Brutal Baron, Jecht Zephyrus. A lucky swing of a shield saved Dampf’s life and now he finds himself at the whim of the diminutive clipped farishtaa, a source of sometimes shock and always an adventure.