Rooted Character Guide

The Rooted (Groundlings)

Jax

Male. Tall, lean build, posture straight from years of climbing. Dark brown hair, persistently unkempt. Green eyes (anomalous for Rooted population; Skyblood trait). Late teens. Raised in Ashgrove by Dren and Essie. Climber. Rope worker. Action-oriented, dry humor, protective instinct. [note: first subject logged in subroutine 9-halvex. echo partition. undeletable.]

Essie

Female. Adoptive mother to Jax. Named the child. Caregiver. Maintained household stability. High resilience. Warm but watchful.

Dren

Male. Adoptive father to Jax. Broad-handed, work-worn. Climber and teacher. Quiet authority, communicated as much in silence as in speech. Work discipline, patience.

Elder Sya

Female. Old and small. Voice capable of commanding a room. Walks with a cane. One tap silences all present. Village elder. Keeper of memory. Born before Year Zero and carried into the scattering as a child. One of the last living links to the Firstbound and the world before Halidom. Authorized belonging before others did. Withheld information for protective purposes. [note: pattern match. protective silence.]

Zinn

Male. Broad-shouldered, bigger than Jax. Quick mouth, quicker grin. Oldest of four siblings. Close companion to Jax. Irreverent. High recall. Adaptive problem-solver. Frequent disorder. Late teens. Appetite disproportionate to output. [note: no metric for this. logging anyway.]

Jules

Female. Eight years old. Hazel eyes. Youngest sibling in Zinn's household. Observant. Pattern-sensitive. Artistic inclination noted. Identified sixty-degree suspension geometry from watching fruit basket ropes.

Webb

Male. Veteran scaffold climber. Long-line worker. Broad build typical of heavy-rig crews. Fall event exposed structural failure already in progress.

Henri

Male. Rope-loom master. Skilled manual memory. Hands that knew fiber by touch. Early verbal acknowledgment of civic failure.

Toma

Male. Elder. Carries a fishing rod more often than a title. First ground-born Council representative. Low speech frequency. High positional steadiness.

Tether

Ashgrove canine. Work animal. High communal integration.