Wyvern Detachment Series: Additional Voices
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Wyvern Detachment is an original fantasy series I’m producing for YouTube — a mix of audio dramas and lore videos The world is called Thalia. Think “Edwardian-style fantasy” — technology around the 1890s to early 1900s, horses are far more common than automobiles, airships in the sky, firearms alongside swords and magic. The aesthetic sits somewhere between Bioshock Infinite, The Witcher, and Fullmetal Alchemist. The tone is generally dark-ish but never hopeless — there’s genuine warmth, humor, and love woven through the horror and the court intrigue.
"Belle Epoque" can also be applied to this setting too.
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So, Alverith Tyvan is the “Chosen One” archetype, I know — your Luke Skywalkers, your Aangs, your Links... but I think I’ve made him rather distinct, in his own way. He is the major linchpin in a world-ending conspiracy; without him, no “paradise on earth” according to those that caused his existence in the first place. He doesn’t know where he’s actually from — he thinks he’s a Slymouthian human orphan raised in a prestigious military academy. His earliest memory only goes back to age ten. The truth is much worse than you can imagine.
Big "protagonist" energy.
Early on, he’s arrogant. Properly arrogant — sharp-tongued, dismissive, a bit of a prince. He’s the guy who looks at your swordwork and tells you a twelve-year-old cadet could do better, and he genuinely thinks he’s being charming when he says it. But even at his most pompous, there’s a softness he can’t quite hide. He loves fishing, keeps a journal full of surprisingly beautiful sketches and eloquent handwriting, and has this naturalist’s fascination with the world around him. The first real crack in the princely facade is him letting his companion Valdal — a halfling inventor he initially looked down on — look through that journal.
Later after he finds out about his true nature, he really starts getting existential and views himself as an abomination that who just borrowed everything about himself from his... past iteration.
He genuinely comes to love the people around him, but promises of power and to really fix things really start getting into his head. How long will it be until he starts viewing his friends at tools?
He would sound posh, but not absurdly so. He can be a smart alec sometimes, and loves poking at Valdal and Franziska especially. I'd also think Welsh could work with him too.
- aristocratic british
- british (posh)
- british
- welsh
- male adult
- male young adult
You're skinny for a halfling val, I'd assumed you were all lazy little layabouts (To his friend, valdal)
I'd assume the one above is very much like a fisherman...Endlessly patient, casting out into the dark... Not knowing what comes back.
That's it? That's all I am? Everything was... Orchestrated for me? (sad)
Franziska Heissen is Wyvern Detachment's sharpshooter, bounty huntress, and the person most likely to roast you so hard you question your life choices. She’s from Hestlune, a mountainous town in central Dratzembourg — which is the Germanic/Norse-flavored feline empire in this world. All Dratzembourgians or Tunn-Folk are cat-people to some degree: she’s got violet feline eyes, sharp teeth, cat ears, a tail, and an uncanny grace. She’s also drop-dead gorgeous and knows exactly how to weaponize that.
She’s 52 years old but looks early twenties — that’s her species. Her backstory is a proper gut-punch. She lost her little brother Hubert to a devastating plague and barely survived it herself. Her mother didn’t die from the plague — she went mad from the grief. When her mother was taken away, Franziska burned their house down with Hubert’s body still inside, because victims of this particular plague can sometimes reanimate as undead creatures, and she absolutely refused to let that happen to her brother.
She was a teenager. She was arrested, then funneled into the Fregil Shieldmaidens — a ceremonial militia of young women who protect sacred sites and ancestral grounds.
There, her skill caught the eye of Colonel Ahmund Koltin, who mentored her into an elite markswoman and assassin. Their relationship soured when Koltin started targeting civilians during a campaign. She disobeyed, they fought, he won, he spared her — but promised to kill her if they met again. That was the last compassion he had left. His shadow still lingers over her conscience.
She doesn't act like it, but she genuinely cares for her compatriots, and is deathly afraid of losing Tyvan especially, as she has feelings for him, despite appearing to hate his guts.
She of course would sound German, Swiss German, or Austrian, A Scandinavian take on her voice might be cool too!
A reminder that she is a deeply complex, troubled, but at the end of the day, good person, despite her unpleasantness from time to time. Femme fatale sharpshooter, amateur pyromancer, bounty huntress and gunslinger with a penchant for writing incomprehensible poetry in a mix of three languages she knows, secretly wants to join a circus, and sleeps with her hands outstretched to her dead brother.
- female young adult
- generic german
- standard german
- german
- scandinavian
- austrian
- female adult
- northern european
Wonderful, another cave. I love darkness and things that smell like they died three centuries ago... you first, little mouse (Sarcastic then sing-song)
"Ailfdraak" suits you, Alverith. Pretty, slippery, never know which end will bite you... Don't look so pleased with yourself, I was insulting you. (Smug then flustered)
Let's go around the tombstones... They... They used to be someone's... (Her reverence for the dead on full display)
Harumi is a woman of an undisclosed age from a far eastern nation called Mizume, she's one of the few real glimpses of "The East" you get to see in my setting. She is a field commander and skilled tactician and swordswoman working for Governor Veltris kurr, a well intentioned man who became a tyrant from trying to save the isles he governed over from catastrophe.
She stays because she is paid well, but has some honor. She refused to starve civilians into submission, earning Kurr's ire and respect. She doesn't reveal much about her past until a point in book 4. She did the right thing once, but was punished severely for it. She divides most people she meets into "Worthy" and "Refuse" she finds Wyvern Detachment worthy, but a job's a job, Kurr has told her they must die, a shame, as she is somewhat of a fan of their exploits.
She is somewhat obsessed with the story of Tuuli, the blind supernatural swordswoman in the detachment, and sees the young lady's redemption as something that she could've gone through. The world was to unkind to Tuuli, and yet Tuuli tries to be better, this genuinely confuses Harumi.
She is kind, rather, was kind, until she decided "What is goodness useful for anyway? They will hate you no matter what you do."
Her voice, I'd imagine is silky with edge, even-toned in either a North American sounding accent, or something more Japanese, the culture Mizume is of course inspired by.
- american (northeast)
- japanese
- general north american english
- female adult
- american
- female young adult
*You are a fascinating creature, little sparrow. It is a a shame you must die."
“You cannot use eldra? In a way, that makes you worthy. You don’t need help from some invisible presence.”
“The kind one. And yet you’ve a spine of iron and a loyal heart. I’ll feel much more than I normally do when I cut you down.”
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