Lady Withrington, Dowager Lich
The widow of an antiquarian who ran the Unnatural Society. Turned to necromancy after her husband died to preserve her claim on his fortune. Funds expeditions for powerful and interesting artifacts but is a dilettante, easily bamboozled by fakes.

Wardson Gumpter, Nouveau Riche Merchant
Gumpter House has established itself as the trade authority at the city docks over the last ten years, ruthlessly consolidating smaller trade houses. Wardson was born poor and clawed his way up, giving him a keen and skeptical eye. His son, Wardson II (“Wardie”) however…

Herbert Van Lyke, 4th Marquis of Cofferdam
A staid and traditional aristocrat of limited interests and intelligence, and a keen big game hunter. Still haunted by the decades-old debauchery of his cousin, the infamous 3rd Marquis or “Masochist Marquis” and bristles at any mention of that era.