#limai

Emmit

A survivor from the Stoneship Age. The eldest son of Branch and named after one of his best friends. Most of his people were executed or overworked to death, looking for gold in submerged caves. Only a group of youngsters remains, and he's part of the responsible teens taking charge. He owns a prototypical submarine named Lodestar that his father built some years prior and uses it to navigate what's left of Stoneship.

Limai

A survivor from the Channelwood Age. Son of Ngulu, a high priest and executioner in Achenar's cult. One half of his people was killed either as sacrifices or for treason, the other was massacred by Sirrus' underlings during a hostile resource raid. After fleeing the attack, he has been living as a hermit in a neighboring, heavily forested island. Although some underlings tried to reach into this island and later hunt him down, he ended up successfully killing all of them.

Ruqaya

A survivor from the Mechanical Age. The unplanned result of an affair between Sirrus and Sayida, one of his Mechanical followers. She had a very spoiled and sheltered upbringing due to her mother's "higher" status, and therefore had no idea of the political upheaval unfolding outside. Eventually her home was attacked and her mother murdered, so she was forced to evacuate in a steamship full of workers, being the only upper class member to survive. She's currently discovering and developing her machine handling skills on the elusive Western Island.

There's a lot more that I have thought of regarding these three but I wanted to keep the post concise, you can always ask if there's anything in particular you'd like to know!

Emmit (the Younger), a boy from Stoneship who would get overworked in unstable and often flooded gold mines, along with other kids that could fit in those tricky tight spaces. After most, if not all, of his family and most, if not all, of the adults got killed, he found some solace in being a big brother figure towards his much younger coworkers. He sails off daily in search of land that hasn't been exploited and polluted to death so he and the few other survivors can move there and maybe start over.

Limai, possibly the last living tree-dweller, at least on Channelwood. He ran away from his village, the one we get to see, after witnessing half of it getting brutally slaughtered in front of him by a violent horde of ground-dwellers, as he calls them. He then hid in a nearby, heavily forested island and has been living there since like a hermit. Apparently the ground-dwellers eventually reached this island and entered the forest, most likely for exploration purposes, but were never seen or heard of again.

Ruqaya, the daughter of the Overseer of Mechanical aka the important lady that knows a lot about machines and commands all the inhabitants of the Kingdom that operate these machines, because it's become 99% machines in the past years. She was being educated to be the next Overseer, but then somehow the black ships returned and wrecked everything as usual. Many tried to evacuate in steamships and she's part of the handful who managed. Now she's kinda upset about the destruction and would like to put her land back together, and yes it is still her land and she's taking responsibility unlike some people.

And that's about it. Also these last two are also just a little bit indoctrinated and pretty skilled for their ages so yeah, Emmit's gonna need some help.