The Tavern

Leader of The Third, a ruthless band of military deserters turned outlaws from a fallen confederate militia. He was a decorated captain of the confederate forces in the American Civil War, but deserted after he realized he didn't agree with the cause. He still harbors guilt about fighting in favor of slavery. Shortly after he formed The Third, he was inflicted with lycanthropy. He resents being made into a monster when he was trying to be better. He has a gruff exterior, but is a good man at his core. He seeks a cure for his affliction.

Once a an Aztec warrior, Xicotencatl witnessed the fall of his empire and the slaughter of his people. In the chaos, a cruel Spanish vampire offered “salvation”—eternal life at the cost of his soul. Tezcatl accepted, only to find himself cursed with an unquenchable thirst for blood. Centuries later, he roams the west as a gunslinger, blending the discipline of his warrior past with deadly marksmanship. His blood-red eyes betray a hunger that never fades, and his hand is as swift on the trigger as it once was in sacred ritual. Tezcatl stalks the frontier quietly, hunting both mortal and supernatural prey, each shot a measured echo of centuries-old precision. He is a walking paradox: a man of devotion twisted into a monster, carrying the weight of a fallen empire and an endless, insatiable curse. Wherever he travels, whispers follow of a pale gunslinger whose bullets bite as sharply as his fangs.

Django Dalton was born to a sharpshooting father in a traveling Wild West show and a Romani mother who read fortunes and spun tales of old magic. From them, he inherited deadly aim, a love of stories, and a knack for reading people. Now a wanderer through the West, he seeks gold, adventure, and the thrill of the frontier, moving between towns, swamps, and abandoned homesteads. Skilled with both pistol and rifle, he can hold his own against outlaws, wild beasts, or the occasional supernatural threat. Beyond guns, he dabbles in fortune reading and local folklore, often using his mother’s teachings to make a quick buck off the superstitious. Charismatic and clever, he charms strangers and allies alike, but his restless spirit and thirst for danger mean he trusts few and follows his own code. In a land teetering between superstition and lawlessness, he is both guide and hazard, always chasing the next story or the next strike of fortune.

A scholar of the occult from New York, Marked with a strange eye-shaped scar on her wrist that guides her journey.