Character Background Series

Midge Coppersnap - The Urchin

"I know every locked door in this city… and every back way out."

"You run. I get paid. You fight… I still get paid. Either way, you end up bleeding."

"I carry the names of the fallen. Not in a book. In my scars."

"When your feet know the deck like your heartbeat, the sea ain't so scary. It's what’s beneath her you should fear."

"Time is a spiral, and I’ve spent a century indexing its knots."

"No gods, no kings — just coin, current, and cannon."

"The stars don’t care where you come from. But they’ll always point where you need to go."

"Power is not inherited. It is remembered. And I have not forgotten what waits below."

"The light is not mine to wield. Only to bear — even when it burns."

"All things grow from silence. Even gods."

"I can forge a blade, a bargain, or a bureaucracy — which one do you need broken today?"

"I don't fight for glory. I fight because the roar silences the rest."