Tall, dark, and imposing in his presence, Nathaniel Blackwood is a furnishing undertaker who has taken over his role in the family business and is currently on a venture to further solidify their enterprise’s name in the professional London scene.
Jacob Smith
More widely known as Mr Forsythe, Jacob Smith is an illegitimate son of the late Marquess of Sligo, a medium, a performer, and a charlatan. Utilising his knack for acting, he targets wealthier relatives of recently departed and strives to make them depart with their fortunes as well. A person of dubious morality, he is out for himself and his closest associates. Jacob is determined to make his séances more popular while not getting caught.
Rhett Fitzroy
The Duke of Grafton is the best friend and worst enemy one could ever have. He is married to the love of his life, but that does not prevent him from considering other options within reason. He is a precocious man who loves roses, politics, and fencing. The Duke is willing to offer his expertise in all three, often picking and choosing his battles on the last two without provocation.
Sila Nanuq
Sila is a quiet and intimidating figure at first glance. He is a gentle giant for the most part. Sila is an artist who wants to create, make friends, and find a greater sense of community. Sila will fight to protect the people he loves, even if he might not stand up for himself.
Peter Scrymgeour
The famed concert pianist and unidentical “twin” brother of the Earl of Dundee. Always roving for creative peers, musical students, enemies, and lovers. None of these are mutually exclusive.
Maggie Gladwin
Maggie is a maid who is usually sweet ray of country sunshine. However, she returns to London under a cloudy sky. Will the clouds clear for her or are there more storms on the horizon?
Amira St. Clair
Antiquities dealer & smuggler/Governess
Early-mid 30s · Ciswoman
Played by Chelsey
FC: Tuppence Middleton
FC: Tuppence Middleton
Mrs. Alice Johnson-Riley is an unassuming governess recently arrived from Boston. Looking to start over with a new life, she seeks employment with a respectable family, with impeccable references from New York. And it all looks perfectly ordinary on paper, does it not? A flawless referral delivered by a thirty-six-year-old woman with freckled skin and eyes a bewitching shade of hazel-green. A woman whose father named her Amira Hanım Andrews Al-Rashid, after his wife died shortly after bringing the tiny little girl into the world ahead of her time. A woman who certainly spent her time as a governess in her twenties — but whose current interests lie in providences that wax poetical. By law or by hand, ancient mysteries mixed up in recent tragedies, and the combination creates a woman with a singular agenda: find out who killed her family.
Adella Sturridge
The Countess of Ripon is a fast friend of anyone who will suffer her company and an annoyance of those of the in-crowd who would rather she keep to herself.
Zelda Rhodes
There are two Zeldas: The public-facing academic, known for her depth of knowledge, fierce independence, and dedication to feminism; and the meticulously-private sexual “deviant” who would rather spend her free time at a masked bacchanal than pursue the more traditional forms of romance. Sharp, confident and more than a little stubborn, she’s never felt the need to reconcile these two parts of her identity, nor to prove the worth of either. To know her is to love her, but good luck in getting to know her, or in getting her to acknowledge more than friendship.
Tansy Robarts
The daughter of a wealthy gentry banker and bright in every sense of the word, Tansy skewered her own reputation to save her younger sister’s and embarked upon a chapter she never could have fathomed. After traveling the world as a companion and being encouraged toward independent thinking, she finds herself now back in the mire of polite society. Well over the bridge into spinsterhood, her family refuses to allow her to live alone. Is the answer to find a man desperate enough to marry her, remain with her parents, or some other, less-obvious option?