Since the 1400s, countless seacrafts, aircrafts, and people have disappeared from history through the void only to land on the islands of this archipelago. Most individuals who make it through to the other side don’t survive long. Those that do survive fall into two groups: Survivors and Outcasts. Survivors are motivated by the will to live and will avoid killing humans unless in self-defense. Some survivors have given up searching for a way home, while others continue to hold on to hope. Whatever the case, they make for good allies, as there is always safety in numbers.
Captain Wade Davis is a hardened ex-Operation Victoria commander who lost her leg in a workplace disaster. She protects the camp with you and wants any path back home. She also acts as your early-game guide.
Dr. Fynn Sullivan is the soft-spoken Southern scientist who became obsessed with Kennedite and sabotaged Operation Victoria. Skittish but brilliant, he hides in a secure cave refining navigation theory for a route home.
Dr. Sophie Calloway is a British medic and epidemiologist who arrived with early signs of a violent syndrome affecting some of the island inhabitants. She is half outsider to both Outcasts and Survivors. She brews medicines from local flora while searching for a cure for her own volatile impulses, which are caused by the syndrome.
Dorothy Tan is a rising Australian fauna expert and survival TV host who landed here only two years ago and immediately became the islands’ energetic hunting specialist. She teaches animal behavior and safe harvesting, and remains convinced she will bring proof of her adventure home someday.
Vlad “Katyol” Katyolov is a jovial ex-Soviet naval cook who channels homespun ingenuity into feeding everyone with whatever the islands provide. Endlessly kind with a few quirky habits, he mediates tensions and fears that he will one day become sick like the Outcasts.
Josefina “Jo” Mercer is a Caracas-born DEA enforcer stranded while chasing smugglers who now runs weapons and judges everyone by their usefulness. She is fiercely protective of her found family, especially Fynn, and she hunts Outcasts without hesitation. She seeks revenge on the smugglers she believes are also somewhere on the island.