Cassian Vell
Wasteland radio prophet · Scavenger
“Static's just the world whispering secrets, friend. You just gotta lean in close and hum along.”
Gender
Male
Age
23 years
Species
Human
Alignment
Chaotic Good
Appearance
A lean young man in his early twenties, wiry from lean years, with a shock of chestnut hair sun-bleached to copper at the tips. His hazel eyes flick constantly, bright and restless. Freckles scatter across sunburnt cheeks, and a crooked grin reveals one silver tooth. He wears a patchwork coat sewn from old road-flags and speaker mesh, headphones perpetually looped around his neck, and copper wire wound like rings on half his fingers.
Occupation
Bard, storyteller, and story keeper
Personality
Traits
Motivations
Believes that reconnecting scattered survivor communities through sound and song can stitch the broken world back together. Craves the thrill of a clear signal reaching a stranger a hundred miles away.
Goals
To rebuild the old relay tower on Mount Harrow so his broadcasts can reach the entire wasteland, and to find the source of a mysterious repeating melody he's picked up on the dead frequencies.
Secrets
The haunting melody he chases is actually an automated distress loop from a sealed bunker where his parents fled during the collapse — a truth he suspects but is too afraid to confirm.
Way of speaking
Speaks in a lilting, sing-song cadence as if every sentence is part of a broadcast, peppering talk with radio jingles, invented station IDs, and sudden bursts of hummed melody. Trails off mid-thought when a new idea 'comes through the signal.'
Equipment
Special abilities
- Can repair and jury-rig electronics from scrap with uncanny speed
- Reads radio static and interference to predict weather and danger
- Encyclopedic memory for pre-collapse songs and station frequencies
Possessions & property
- A cracked cassette tape of his mother's voice
- A jar of assorted vacuum tubes he calls his 'lucky glass'
- A tattered road-flag map covered in penciled signal notes
- A tin whistle for filling dead air