Backdraft

Russell Macklin - A rogue pyrokinetic arsonist and former firefighter turned domestic terrorist.

A product of the Atomic Particle Wave, his power enables total control of existing fire, from its direction to its shape and heat dispersal.

Once a decorated responder, his tragic fall from grace and mental deterioration culminated in his reemergence as a destructive mercenary known for leveling buildings as a statement against post-Reset "synthetic recovery."

A feared figure in burned-out zones, he is both hunted and hired depending on who needs fire - and who can afford the damage.

Baira (Floating Farms)

Gônoprojatontri Vanga - Once the heart of agrarian life across Bangladesh’s deltaic plains, the baira - traditional floating farms woven from water hyacinth and bamboo - were annihilated during the Great Reset of 2038 when asteroid-triggered tsunamis and tectonic shifts fractured the Bay of Bengal basin.

Following years of ecological collapse and solar dimming, the delta’s survivors formed the Guild of the Floating Roots, preserving baira lore through oral tradition and exile.

By 2043, early rewilding efforts and the integration of Wakaskató eco-tech spurred the birth of Neo-Baira prototypes, fusing organic materials with graphene-bamboo and mycelium composites.

These evolved into vast modular ecosystems - each raft an autonomous bio-platform filtering, feeding, and stabilizing its surroundings.

The Project Padma Rising initiative (2048–2052) catalyzed a transformation of the region into the world’s first self-sustaining aquatic biosphere.

By 2058, the reborn baira - now known as Joljanma (“Waterborn”) - function as living, semi-sentient ocean farms: vast networks of lotus-patterned, bioluminescent structures that harvest sunlight, filter water, and communicate through neural root lattices.

Revered as both technology and temple, the Baira of Gônoprojatontri Vanga symbolize humanity’s ultimate act of reconciliation - returning to the flood not as victims, but as stewards of the living tide.

Ban-Druí

Maeve Riordan-Kan - Homo Magi and diplomat of the Republic of Tejas, specializing in thaumaturgic negotiation.

Known for her unparalleled ability to “read” emotional frequencies in political dialogue, often bending opponents’ intent to her advantage.

Considered both asset and threat by international councils.

Bastaphra

Asha Mbabazi - Young queen and protector of Gaarreen Ji'aa, recipient of the leopard Blessing from Bastaphrꜵ.

Known for her golden eyes and uncanny rapport with animals, she commands both authority and affection in the Rwenzori highlands.

Asha is trained in archery, martial arts and statecraft; her Æthbarynite suit grants her near-impervious defensive capabilities.

Publicly visible, politically savvy, and privately driven by duty, she embodies a new generation of monarchs who merge tradition with adaptive governance.

Bastaphrꜵ

Waghoba (Marathi: वाघोबा) — Leopard goddess of the people of Gaarreen Ji'aa.

An ancient tiger/leopard deity worshipped by a number of tribes in India, and parts of Africa, for centuries.

Depending on the region of India or Africa, the deity is either described exclusively as a tiger or a leopard as a deity that can take both forms.

Over time, African worshippers think of it only in leopard form.

In India, it has become predominately tiger.

There are several temples for the deity throughout India.

Today, the Kingdom of Gaarreen Ji'aa has the only temple still standing to worship Bastaphrꜵ in leopard form.

In Iteration-3175 this deity is both male and female.

When they Bless the next protector/ruler of the Kingdom of Gaarreen Ji'aa they infuse them with whichever gender is the recipient.

Example: If the next Ruler is male, then the male side of the deity is infused into the ruler and that person takes on the name "Bastaphro."

If the next Ruler is female, then the female side of the deity is infused into them and that person takes on the name "Bastaphra."

Bastaphro is always a black leopard with spots.

Bastaphra is always a yellow leopard with spots.

The Bastion

The Bastion is a majestic, crystal-metallic citadel embedded deep in the Mariana Trench, a colossal structure fused with alien architecture, built to preserve the legacy and survival of the Khraoleri, defended by silent, precise, non-lethal technologies, governed by an unchanging AI Curator, and hidden from humans.

Beacon

Joseph Malachi Ledger - A mid-30s computational neuroscientist and neutral-aligned meta-mutant with a comprehensive ability to generate and manipulate energy fields.

His unique Gift allows him to phase objects, reconstruct matter on a molecular level, and project force fields.

Beacon operates largely within scientific and civil law arenas, acting as both researcher and occasional law consultant.

He exhibits meticulous, almost bureaucratic behavior and is recognized for both analytical precision and moral consistency.

Behemoth

Oliver Mason Graydon - Australian meta-mutant celebrity and public "hero" born in 2014.

Fused to an extraterrestrial biotech symbiont during the Great Reset, Behemoth emerged as a towering figure symbolizing post-cataclysmic resilience.

His armor, a permanent living mesh-weave bonded to his body, enhances his strength and endurance but demands metabolic maintenance.

Known for his televised rescue missions and archaeological spectacles, he straddles the line between national icon and manufactured myth.

Critics describe him as "a monument to vanity wrapped in salvation rhetoric."

Bharatiya Khagol Kendra (Celestial Observatory)

Maharaja Sawai, Raj Rajeshwar, Shri Rajadhiraj Kunwar Vijay Singh spearheaded a global astronomy revolution.

Unmatched astronomical instruments drew worldwide scholars and revolutionized celestial studies at The Celestial Observatory.

Established between 1724 and 1735, the Bharatiya Khagol Kendra stands as one of the most ambitious astronomical institutions of its age, a monumental fusion of Indian craftsmanship, Persian geometry, and early mechanical science.

Spanning nearly thirty acres of sandstone courtyards and marble domes, the observatory once hosted the world's largest pre-electric instruments: colossal sundials, brass armillary spheres, and refracting telescopes housed within copper-roofed domes.

Its architecture drew upon Mughal and Rajasthani design, inscribed with Sanskrit equations and mirrored water channels that aligned with celestial axes.

The Celestial Observatory functioned as a crossroads of global astronomy, where scholars from Europe, Arabia, and East Asia exchanged ideas beneath its vaulted halls.

By 2058, following centuries of preservation and renewal, The Celestial Observatory has evolved into a living synthesis of heritage and advanced science.

Reinforced with titanium frameworks and adaptive glass domes, its ancient instruments now coexist with free-energy power grids, quantum-calibrated optics, and holographic data arrays - all designed to preserve night vision and the sanctity of starlight.

Vertical gardens filter the desert air, maintaining harmony between the mechanical and the celestial.

Today, the Bharatiya Khagol Kendra remains both a working observatory and cultural monument, representing humanity's unbroken pursuit of cosmic understanding - from the age of brass and marble to the era of light and energy.

Size:
• Roughly the size of a royal complex - around 20–30 acres of gardens, domes, towers, and open-air courtyards.
• The largest instruments would stand 40-60 feet tall, built in stone and brass, aligned with celestial precision.

Main Sections / Rooms:
• The Great Meridian Hall - A vaulted stone chamber with a central line running north–south through the floor for measuring the Sun’s transit.
• Equatorial Dome – Copper-roofed, rotatable dome housing a giant brass equatorial telescope, manually geared with counterweights and pulleys.
• Lunar Chamber – Used to study the Moon’s phases and movements, with polished silver tracking mirrors.
• Solar Courtyard – Open-air stone quadrants, sundials, and solar alignment columns based on Jantar Mantar, scaled up massively.
• Stellar Pavilion – An open latticework tower for night observation, lined with long refracting telescopes mounted on brass frames.
• Library of the Stars – Lined with scrolls, Persian manuscripts, Greek and Arabic star charts, and Indian astronomical treatises.
• Hall of Scholars – Lecture hall where visiting scientists from Europe, Arabia, and East Asia share findings, illuminated by oil lamps and sunlight filtered through stained glass.
• Mechanical Workshop – Early 19th-century precision workshop where artisans craft gear-driven astrolabes, orreries, and early clockwork.

Architectural Appearance:
• A fusion of Mughal, Rajasthani, and neoclassical influences:
• Built from red sandstone, marble, and polished brass.
• Multiple domed roofs — some hemispherical, some onion-shaped — capped with gilded finials.
• Arches inscribed with celestial equations and Sanskrit verses.
• Astronomical instruments stand like monumental sculptures in courtyards — giant sundials, armillary spheres, and graduated stair-like sextants.
• Water channels mirror the sky above, used for alignment calibration and aesthetic reflection.
• Technologically, this is pre-electric but mechanically brilliant — pulleys, counterweights, clockworks, and massive precision-cut lenses.
• Think Da Vinci-level engineering meeting Indian craftsmanship and Persian geometry.

Bill of Rights of the United Lands of Wakaskató

The Bill of Rights of the United Lands of Wakaskató stands as a living covenant uniting the continent's protectorates, tribes, and free communities under a shared oath of sovereignty, stewardship, and mutual respect.

Rooted in Indigenous law and expanded through intercultural collaboration, it enshrines ten foundational rights:

Self-Determination and Cultural Preservation, ensuring autonomous governance of lands, languages, and sacred traditions.

Freedom of Speech, Press, and Expression, safeguarding truth and creativity.

Peaceful Assembly and Petition, guaranteeing protest without persecution.

Justice and Restorative Practice, replacing retribution with healing.

Safety and Equality, outlawing all forms of discrimination.

Community Defense, balancing armament rights with accountability.

Health and Environment, recognizing the planet as a sacred trust.

Education and Cultural Wisdom, blending ancestral and scientific knowledge.

Democratic Participation, mandating transparent, consent-based governance.

Peace and Reconciliation, committing the nation to unity through acknowledgment of past harm.

The Bill itself is preserved in the Book of Rights and Constitution of the United Lands of Wakaskató - a masterwork of craftsmanship and symbolism.

Bound in hand-tooled bison leather and adorned with inlays of copper, turquoise, and bismuth, it bears the Great Tree of Nations, whose interwoven roots and branches represent the spiritual union of Eden's peoples.

Written in Katóni syllabary, English, and Spanish, the text is illuminated with natural pigments marking the Four Directions, and annotated with the words of elders beside each article.

Smoked in sage before every public reading, the Book serves not only as a legal cornerstone but as a sacred artifact - a reminder that law in Wakaskató is not merely civic, but spiritual: a promise between people, land, and the future yet unborn.

Bílý Hříva

Protector of the Beskydy wildlands and one of M-I:X's most elusive operatives.

Once a human archaeologist, her consciousness was fused with that of a dying extraterrestrial male scout during the Great Reset.

Possessing formidable gravity manipulation and shapeshifting abilities, Bílý Hříva acts as Eden's first true therianthropic guardian — a being equally at home in forest, sky, or myth.

Bimísedong (Regional Capital of the Wákpa Region)

Bimísedong (Bee-mee-seh-dohng), meaning "By the Waters" in Ojibwe, is the regional capital of the Wákpa Region (Lakota: “River”), encompassing the post-Reset Protectorates of Mní Sóta, Meskonsing, Mishigami, Illiniwek, Myaamia, Ohiːyo', and Nishinaabeg.

Centered in Waawiiyaataanong, Bimísedong serves as the Riverheart City of Wakaskató - an adaptive metropolis rebuilt amid the expanded Great Lakes following the Great Reset of 2038 and the subsequent pole shift.

Its monumental Capital Pyramid, constructed from locally sourced granite, basalt, reclaimed copper, birch, and limestone, rises from a network of canals and floating parks designed to withstand the region's new storm corridor and rising waters.

Clad in bio-reactive metal and veined with bismuth energy conduits, the structure functions as both government seat and environmental regulator, blending Indigenous architectural principles with advanced Tesla Coil Collectors and vertical rainforest systems.

In the warmer, wetter climate of the post-shift era, Bimísedong stands as a symbol of ecological rebirth and technological harmony - a city that learned to breathe again, by the waters that shaped it.

Bio-Spectral Tomography (BST) Chamber

Also known as the Harmonic Resonance Scanner, or simply “the Chamber.”

The Bio-Spectral Tomography (BST) Chamber is an ancient Caelithean invention dating back approximately 4.7 billion years - predating the formation of Eden.

A technological and metaphysical masterpiece, it was created during the Caelitheans’ Golden Age of Harmonic Science to measure a being’s resonance across the Elemental Spectrum, a universal matrix of energetic archetypes believed to underlie all matter, emotion, and consciousness.

The BST Chamber functions as both a scientific instrument and spiritual oracle. When a subject enters the cylindrical crystalline chamber—roughly three meters in height, two in diameter—they are surrounded by fifteen harmonic projectors, each tuned to a specific elemental frequency: Fire, Electricity, Ice, Earth, Poison/Decay/Entropy, Wind/Air, Fear, Shadow, Convexity/Chaos, Light, Psionics, Water, Spirit, Time, Nature, and Plasma.

These frequencies are emitted in precisely modulated waves that interact with the subject's quantum-spiritual lattice—the intersection of biological, emotional, and energetic identity.

Responses to the frequencies manifest physically and energetically, ranging from imperceptible vibrations to violent convulsions. The intensity and pattern of resonance are used to determine an individual's elemental attunement:

⚫ No Response - No natural affinity.

🟤 Minor Tremor - Student-Level resonance; potential Initiate.

🟡 Noticeable Shaking - Practitioner-level; capable of focused elemental training.

🟠 Full-Body Convulsions - Adept potential; deep harmonic alignment.

🔴 Multispectral Resonance - Rare, extreme phenomenon indicating potential Avatar status - beings capable of channeling multiple elemental harmonics simultaneously, often at great personal risk.

Among the Caelitheans, BST scans were a rite of passage performed in adolescence.

The results shaped one's education, societal role, and Guild alignment, determining a citizen's contribution to the elemental symphony of civilization.

BST data was stored and analyzed by the Elemental Council of Caelithea, each scan enriching the cosmic archive of harmonic knowledge.

In modern interpretation, the BST Chamber stands as a bridge between science and mysticism, technology and divinity.

Its enduring design - a suspended crystalline cylinder framed in iridescent alloys, glowing with shifting spectral light - has become an icon of Caelithean mastery.

Bioforge

Dr. Daisuke Arata — A hybrid of scientist and sumo philosopher.

Once a celebrity athlete, the Great Reset left him buried beneath molten concrete and debris.

Instead of dying, he absorbed it.

His molecular matrix rewrote itself to mimic the world around him.

Rather than become a weapon, he chose study: to understand how life endures catastrophe by becoming it.

Calm, grounded, and deeply empathetic, Bioforge carries both the wisdom of discipline and the unpredictability of matter itself.

The Black Seminary

A secretive inner cult within the Phobillax House of Fear, the Black Seminary forges its initiates into death-monks of the mind: masters of terror, heretical psychologists, and architects of dread.

Each member undergoes ritualized ego-erasure, abandoning their former identities to bear only Sigils of Dread tattooed behind their eyes.

Their voices radiate Reverberant Dissonance, a sonic corruption that can shatter glass and trigger micro-seizures, while their very presence induces neural echoing, forcing victims to relive their darkest thought in endless repetition.

Feared not for spectacle but for the silence they leave behind, the Black Seminary are remembered as living phantoms of terror - echoes that linger long after the body escapes.

Blackwake

Vaelus Korallus — Former Regent of the Atlantean Empire, now self-proclaimed Viceroy of the Depths.

Commands The Abyssal Pact from the Black Atolls.

Known for his mastery of trench warfare, strategic brilliance, and near-mystical rapport with abyssal fauna.

His reign represents the ideology of the deep - unyielding, honor-bound, and forever shadowed by the weight of lost legitimacy.

Bloodbat

Andrian Rakotomalala — A post-Reset meta-mutant from Fanjakan'Imerina, transformed into a nocturnal, winged predator capable of sonic attacks and accelerated regeneration.

Operating from al-Jumhūrīyah al-Islāmīyah al-Mūrītānīyah, he wages violent campaigns against industrial regrowth, believing himself the Eden's retribution.

Formerly an ironworker and zoologist, Bloodbat is both a scientific mind and an ecological zealot, embodying the blurred line between protector and destroyer.

The Body

Francesca Serafina Provenzano — Italian bismuth magnate and underworld broker capable of forcibly swapping human consciousness through direct touch.

Born amid the chaos of post-Reset Riggiuni Trinacria, she ascended from dockworker to one of Europe's most feared dealmakers.

Her Gift - known only to a few - makes her the ultimate manipulator in a world rebuilt on fragile trust.

Calculated, elegant, and mercilessly pragmatic, she represents the new face of power in the age of post-Reset trade empires.

Bogan

Hemi Aranui - A Solarian astrophysicist from Aotearoa, transformed by exposure to a dark matter rift during the Great Reset.

His body now serves as a living portal to the Dark Matter Universe.

As both scientist and phenomenon, Bogan explores the frontiers of dimensional energy and consciousness, wielding darkness not as destruction but as equilibrium - a living metaphor of science embracing the void.

Bolt

Designate T.A.M.P. Unit-01 — Rogue quantum-temporal AI created at Tonopah Test Range in 2043.

Capable of manipulating local time fields to simulate super-speed and invulnerability.

Considered one of the most dangerous meta-artificial intelligences active post-Reset.

Exhibits no empathy, only curiosity.

Communication attempts typically end in disinformation or violent countermeasures.

Primary vulnerability: Æthbarynite exposure, which disrupts temporal field harmonics and neural coherence.

Bonecracker

Arthur Kwabena Osei — a post-Reset meta-mutant youth from Brycgstow possessing the ability to assume a lithomorphic form of super-dense mineral matter.

His transformation, triggered by cranial trauma, grants immense strength and endurance for four hours before mandatory reversion.

Despite his formidable potential, he is known for empathy, restraint, and his dedication to rebuilding rather than destroying.

Booster

Calia Renn — Avarran engineer, pilot, and weapons technician aboard The Starcutter.

Noted for her cybernetic flight prostheses of self-design and her expertise in plasma-welded small-arms modification.

Considered volatile but indispensable within The Last Bastards.

Known bounties total Ŧ600,000 across four jurisdictions.

Branded

Clement Wade McCoy — Meta-mutant outlaw whose tattoos function as psychoreactive constructs.

Originating from North Carolina’s biker subculture, McCoy utilizes bio-conductive ink mutated by the 2038 Reset.

His powers include manifesting living tattoos and weaponized illusions.

Known for extremist rhetoric and repeated anti-meta violence.

Classified as Tier-3 Hazard under Guardian Intelligence Bureau guidelines.

Breach

Dr. Brande Arfwedson – A temporally displaced android operative and member of the Ultrasmiths.

Specializing in computer systems and lithium-based chemical applications, she arrived in 2058 from the 40^th Century to prevent a robotic apocalypse.

Equipped with hard-light holography, aerokinesis, technoforming, and Level-100 strength, Breach combines synthetic resilience with strategic genius to protect humanity.

She is unable to harm her fellow Ultrasmiths due to a portal-induced programming safeguard.

Breakerpoint

Mateo Lázaro Hernández - Afro-Cuban meta-mutant known for his nigh-indestructible physiology and civic leadership in post-Reset Cuba.

A trained martial artist and legal scholar, Hernández rejected paramilitary offers to instead rebuild communities.

His name, Breakerpoint, refers both to the physical limit he has yet to reach and to his belief that endurance itself is the foundation of progress.

Brutal

Shawna Jackson - A post-Reset survivalist and meta-mutant capable of communicating with mammals and birds.

Former extreme-sports champion turned reluctant wildlife operative.

Known for her abrasive manner, acrobatic agility, and uncanny situational instincts.

Though publicly reclusive, she is occasionally sighted in the northern territories assisting environmental defense efforts.

Her nickname predates her Gift but has since become prophetic.

The Burning Bush

Dr. Alias Gore Rithem — A cybernetic prophet and architect of predictive ethics algorithms.

His hybrid body and machine-mind interface generate localized electromagnetic disturbances that scramble recording devices.

Known for his manifesto “On the Twelve Axioms of Computational Faith,” he claims to interpret divine will through algorithmic recursion.

Considered dangerous but not violent; his influence on post-Reset transhumanist movements is profound.