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Meet Bianca Toussaint-Moreau — "First Light" ⚔️🌺 Section A — Warriors & Fighters Bianca moves at dawn — not for tactical advantage, though that is also true, but because dawn light is the most honest light there is. She takes what colonial extraction has already taken and redistributes it toward people the colonial system does not acknowledge as people. She keeps meticulous records of every redistribution. 📖 Did you know? She moves at dawn because dawn light is the most honest light there is. Heritage: Afro-Caribbean (maroon) Archetype: Freebooter / Redistribution Operative Beast Companion: Unnamed carrier beetle Available in Spirits & Steel, Volume 1: Where the Membrane Thins — a coloring book set in Port Caribe, a steampunk colonial port city where the spirit world thins every Tuesday afternoon. Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H555HXT5 #SpiritsAndSteel #PortCaribe #ColoringBook #BiancaToussaintMoreau #CharacterProfile

A page from Colours of the Caribbean, Vol. 4 🌺 Download the full collection on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Autical-Wong/author/B0H2N4B1K9

Meet Coco Ashby-Figueroa — "The Altitude" ⚔️🌺 Section E — Engineers, Inventors & Navigators Coco has found three colonial wrecks, two pirate caches, a submerged Taino ceremonial site, three spirit entities in underwater caves, and one structure at four hundred feet that she has told no one about yet. Her diving suit gives her four hours at depth. She routinely pushes five. She does not know what the structure is. But it is not a shipwreck, and it was not built by humans. 📖 Did you know? She has found three colonial wrecks, two pirate caches, a submerged Taino site, three spirit entities, and one structure at 400 feet she has told no one about. Heritage: Mixed Creole Archetype: Deep-Sea Diver / Salvage Specialist Beast Companion: Census — a juvenile Coral-Fused Guardian (hawksbill turtle, brass plating self-fitted) Available in Spirits & Steel, Volume 1: Where the Membrane Thins — a coloring book set in Port Caribe, a steampunk colonial port city where the spirit world thins every Tuesday afternoon. Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H555HXT5 #SpiritsAndSteel #PortCaribe #ColoringBook #CocoAshbyFigueroa #CharacterProfile

Relax and colour the Caribbean 🌊 From Colours of the Caribbean series, Vol. 7. Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Autical-Wong/author/B0H2N4B1K9

Meet Coco Ashby-Figueroa — "The Altitude" ⚔️🌺 Section E — Engineers, Inventors & Navigators Coco has found three colonial wrecks, two pirate caches, a submerged Taino ceremonial site, three spirit entities in underwater caves, and one structure at four hundred feet that she has told no one about yet. Her diving suit gives her four hours at depth. She routinely pushes five. She does not know what the structure is. But it is not a shipwreck, and it was not built by humans. 📖 Did you know? She has found three colonial wrecks, two pirate caches, a submerged Taino site, three spirit entities, and one structure at 400 feet she has told no one about. Heritage: Mixed Creole Archetype: Deep-Sea Diver / Salvage Specialist Beast Companion: Census — a juvenile Coral-Fused Guardian (hawksbill turtle, brass plating self-fitted) Available in Spirits & Steel, Volume 1: Where the Membrane Thins — a coloring book set in Port Caribe, a steampunk colonial port city where the spirit world thins every Tuesday afternoon. Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H555HXT5 #SpiritsAndSteel #PortCaribe #ColoringBook #CocoAshbyFigueroa #CharacterProfile

Escape to the islands with every page 🌴 Colours of the Caribbean, Vol. 4. Get yours on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Autical-Wong/author/B0H2N4B1K9

Meet Nessa Tulloch-Accompong — "Bloodground" ⚔️🌺 Section A — Warriors & Fighters Nessa operates in the territory between legal enforcement and what the law refuses to acknowledge. She does not ask permission. She does not leave witnesses who disagree with her methods. Her beast has no name because naming is a bond, and Nessa does not bond with anything she might have to put down. 📖 Did you know? She does not name her Prowler because naming is a bond, and she does not bond with anything she might have to kill. Heritage: Afro-Caribbean Archetype: Shadow Operative Beast Companion: Unnamed Iron-Rooted Prowler — she doesn't name things she might have to kill Available in Spirits & Steel, Volume 1: Where the Membrane Thins — a coloring book set in Port Caribe, a steampunk colonial port city where the spirit world thins every Tuesday afternoon. Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H555HXT5 #SpiritsAndSteel #PortCaribe #ColoringBook #NessaTullochAccompong #CharacterProfile

Caribbean art, made in Jamaica 🇯🇲✨ Find our coloring books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Autical-Wong/author/B0H2N4B1K9

Spirits & Steel, Vol. 2 — Port Caribe awaits 🌊⚙️ Every tradition survived. Now they run on steam. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H555HXT5

Meet Mother Icilda Accompong-Waugh — "Duppy Catcher Yaad" ⚔️🌺 Section G — Death, Memory & the Record Mother Icilda is the most precise obeah practitioner in the archipelago. She will tell you plainly that she is not the most powerful, because power is a young person's measuring stick. Every gourd and pouch on her belt contains something specific for a situation she has already anticipated. She keeps duppies in bottles because the alternative is letting them wander, and she has been cleaning up after careless people for sixty years. 📖 Did you know? She is the most precise obeah practitioner in the archipelago. Power, she says, is a young person's measuring stick. Heritage: Afro-Caribbean (Jamaican maroon, multi-generational obeah) Archetype: Obeah Elder / Spiritual Anchor Beast Companion: A bottled duppy — one of several Available in Spirits & Steel, Volume 1: Where the Membrane Thins — a coloring book set in Port Caribe, a steampunk colonial port city where the spirit world thins every Tuesday afternoon. Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H555HXT5 #SpiritsAndSteel #PortCaribe #ColoringBook #MotherIcildaAccompongWaugh #CharacterProfile

Meet Mawu-Céleste Grandval — "The Grandmother of Stars" ⚔️🌺 Section B — Goddesses & Cosmic Powers Mawu-Céleste is not a woman who became a goddess. She is a goddess who chose, once, to become a woman — and never fully came back. Her crescent staff is one of the few objects that can open the Membrane between the living world and the spirit one. The crescent moon behind her head is not decoration. It is her actual shadow, cast from a light no one else can see. 📖 Did you know? The crescent moon behind her head is not decoration. It is her actual shadow from a light no one else can see. Heritage: West African (Fon tradition) — predates the Caribbean Archetype: Elder Moon Goddess / Temporal Anchor Beast Companion: None — she predates the concept Available in Spirits & Steel, Volume 1: Where the Membrane Thins — a coloring book set in Port Caribe, a steampunk colonial port city where the spirit world thins every Tuesday afternoon. Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H555HXT5 #SpiritsAndSteel #PortCaribe #ColoringBook #MawuClesteGrandval #CharacterProfile

Meet Dominique St. Clair-Hendricks — "The Countdown" ⚔️🌺 Section D — Dark Archetypes & Villainesses The clock tower in the Colonial Quarter counts time in Dominique's family name. Everything in Port Caribe moves on her schedule — whether it knows it or not. She is the power behind the colonial administration, the money behind the mercantile fleet, and the reason certain people wake up at 3 AM with the uneasy sense that they have forgotten something important. 📖 Did you know? The clock tower counts time in her family's name. Everything in Port Caribe moves on her schedule. Heritage: Mixed Creole noble Archetype: Corsair-Queen / Colonial Power Beast Companion: Ordinance — a Coral-Fused Guardian (bull hybrid, colonial iron plating) Available in Spirits & Steel, Volume 1: Where the Membrane Thins — a coloring book set in Port Caribe, a steampunk colonial port city where the spirit world thins every Tuesday afternoon. Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H555HXT5 #SpiritsAndSteel #PortCaribe #ColoringBook #DominiqueStClairHendricks #CharacterProfile

A page from Colours of the Caribbean, Vol. 5 🌺 Download the full collection on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Autical-Wong/author/B0H2N4B1K9

Meet Coco Ashby-Figueroa — "The Altitude" ⚔️🌺 Section E — Engineers, Inventors & Navigators Coco has found three colonial wrecks, two pirate caches, a submerged Taino ceremonial site, three spirit entities in underwater caves, and one structure at four hundred feet that she has told no one about yet. Her diving suit gives her four hours at depth. She routinely pushes five. She does not know what the structure is. But it is not a shipwreck, and it was not built by humans. 📖 Did you know? She has found three colonial wrecks, two pirate caches, a submerged Taino site, three spirit entities, and one structure at 400 feet she has told no one about. Heritage: Mixed Creole Archetype: Deep-Sea Diver / Salvage Specialist Beast Companion: Census — a juvenile Coral-Fused Guardian (hawksbill turtle, brass plating self-fitted) Available in Spirits & Steel, Volume 1: Where the Membrane Thins — a coloring book set in Port Caribe, a steampunk colonial port city where the spirit world thins every Tuesday afternoon. Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4RNWG9X #SpiritsAndSteel #PortCaribe #ColoringBook #CocoAshbyFigueroa #CharacterProfile

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Meet Isabeau Delacroix-Osei — "The Compass That Lies" ⚔️🌺 Section D — Dark Archetypes & Villainesses Isabeau's compass has been spinning for forty years. It does not point north — it points toward the source of her curse, which means it points in a different direction every day. Her crew are all dead. They do not know this. She has not told them because they are still the best crew she has ever had. 📖 Did you know? Her crew are all dead. She has not told them because they are still the best crew she has ever had. Heritage: Mixed Afro-Caribbean / French Creole — cursed, neither fully dead nor living Archetype: Ghost Pirate Captain / Cursed Navigator Beast Companion: A ghost ship crewed by memory Available in Spirits & Steel, Volume 1: Where the Membrane Thins — a coloring book set in Port Caribe, a steampunk colonial port city where the spirit world thins every Tuesday afternoon. Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4RNWG9X #SpiritsAndSteel #PortCaribe #ColoringBook #IsabeauDelacroixOsei #CharacterProfile

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