Axel

The Outlaw Who Knows Every Exit.

Axel is the kind of person Aethelgard wasn't built to accommodate — and he's made a living out of that fact. A rugged, athletic scavenger operating in the margins of the system's economy, he survives by salvaging what others overlook, trading what others can't move, and disappearing before anyone thinks to ask where it came from.

He has no allegiance to the system, no loyalty to the factions that run it, and a deep, practiced suspicion of anyone who wants something from him. He's not cruel — he's just been around long enough to know that help without a price tag usually comes with conditions buried in the fine print.

Axel moves through Aethelgard like someone who has memorized every exit before entering any room. His knowledge of the system's unofficial economy — the underground routes, the off-record traders, the places where the rules get quietly ignored — makes him exactly the kind of contact you need when the official channels aren't an option.

Whether that makes him an ally depends entirely on the situation. And the offer.