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1. #1Dante

   Keys: Dante

   Early in the year 984, Dante was being tracked down through a forest in the D Corp. Backstreets, by a mysterious group that was after something they'd hidden. The group, made up of Lion, Wolf, and Panther, was surprised to find Dante had replaced their head with a clock, and that their memories were in the process of being erased: as Dante faced against the three, and as they were later saved by the LCB Department of Limbus Company, they entirely lost the memory of their past, including their identity. During the fight, Dante was instructed by Faust to form a contract with the members of the Department, the Sinners, which they complied to. After the fight, Dante was picked up by the LCB, and soon learned that they were the Manager of the Department. While Dante's past is shrouded in mystery, they were mentioned by Vergilius to have been "something of a bigwig" in an unknown Nest.

2. #2Don Quixote

   Keys: Don Quixote, Sancho, La Manchaland, Dulcinea, Nicolina, Curiambro

   Although little is known of her early life, Don Quixote was a native of District 16, where she led a profoundly unhappy life, having been left without a family for so long she no longer remembered having one. Back in these times, which trace back to around four hundred years before the beginning of the main story, she went by the name Sancho. After having tried taking her life in a fire, Sancho was found by a Bloodfiend, the First Kindred of District 16, who introduced himself to her as Dad Quixote, and offered her to make her his Second Kindred, and part of his family: Sancho accepted, and was turned into a Bloodfiend. Dad Quixote's family, the Bloodfiends of P Corp., would come to include another Second Kindred, Dulcinea, and two Third Kindreds, Nicolina the Barber and Curiambro the Priest, and they would take the name of the Manchegan Family. Together, the Family lived in a castle far from the society of both humans and other Bloodfiends. They would continue such until the arrival of Bari, whose tales of the human world, and particularly of Fixers, drew Dad Quixote and Sancho's attention. Having grown close to Bari, Dad Quixote was inspired to create La Manchaland, an amusement park where humans and Bloodfiends could coexist happily. His endeavor would involve the entire Manchegan family. While leaving most of the management to Dulcinea, Nicolina, and Curiambro, Dad Quixote and Sancho would often go on adventures together, acting as Fixers and pretending to be human, with Dad Quixote insisting they limit their Bloodfiend powers, in order to defeat their enemies nobly and fairly. While she would brush off any attempts at pointing it out, Sancho genuinely enjoyed these adventures, and she had grown to treasure her Father's dream of becoming a Bloodfiend Fixer as dearly as he had. In the meantime, the Bloodfiends at La Manchaland were suffering, having been forced to stop feeding on humans, leaving them all unsatisfied and profoundly unhappy. This would lead the three Overseers of the park to plot against Dad Quixote, eventually making him don the Helm of Mambrino, a Relic that would allow them to go against their Bloodfiend hierarchy: this made them able to rebel against his orders, and to finally feed on the human guests of La Manchaland. While Dad Quixote was captured and staked to the Wheel of La Mancha, he was able to call upon Bari and entrust Sancho to her. He asked Sancho to carry on his dream, and had her wear Rocinante, a pair of shoes crafted from his blood, which had the ability to suppress a Bloodfiend's nature and distinctive red eyes. Left alone with Bari, Sancho decided to seek out Lethe, the River of Oblivion, to erase her pain and allow herself to dream. After drinking from the River, her memories of her past and her identity were sealed by Rocinante. She was left with the instinctual need to wear Rocinante at all times, keeping her nature as a Bloodfiend a true secret even to herself. Bari took the amnesiac Sancho into the "Cradle", a lighthouse in the Ruins. The Bloodfiend, in a dream-like state, would spend her days reading the books and magazines Bari left for her, and writing letters to Associations and Fixers, that she believed to be going on adventures with. Around two hundred years after the rebellion of the Manchegan family, Vergilius broke into the Cradle, and showed the young Bloodfiend his red eyes, by him described as holding the blood of a generation higher than her own, coaxing her into following him and leaving the lighthouse behind. When asked for her name, the Bloodfiend introduced herself by the name written in her shoes: Don Quixote.

3. #3

   Keys: Hong Lu, Jia Zheng, Lady Wang, Hongyuan, Jia Baoyu

   Hong Lu was born to Jia Zheng and Lady Wang, of the Jia Family of Hongyuan. Upon his birth, his grandmother Jia Mu implanted his left eye with a jade, which acted similarly to a camera and transmitted everything Hong Lu saw to a screen in the Tiekan Temple, home to the Xianren, the immortal elders of the family, who gave him the name of Jia Baoyu, meaning precious jade. Hong Lu was born with a purpose: to provide entertainment for the elders during their long lives. Because of this, while growing up in Daguanyuan, he held the favor of the elders and of Jia Mu, the Family Hierarch, who greatly prized his role as gem of the family. This made him stand out among his siblings and peers, all of whom had to train to one day participate to the Family Hierarch Evaluations of Daguanyuan in hopes of receiving the elders' favor. Rather than by his parents, Hong Lu was looked after by his servant Xiren, who resided with him in his pavillion, Yihongyuan. He held a close relationship with his younger sister Jia Xichun, his younger brother Jia Ling, his playmate Lin Daiyu and his relative Jia Huan. Additionally, Hong Lu, Daiyu and Huan were often looked after by the latter's older brother. Hong Lu recalls styling his sister and younger sibling's hair, and remembers playing various games with Daiyu and Huan, with the three of them flying kites, playing ball and playing Bolus-making games. Despite his role, however, Hong Lu was still victim to the dangers inherent to being a member of the Jia family, and survived many assassination attempts from his own siblings. When Hong Lu was five years old, an attempt was made on his life by poisoning a tree branch: while Hong Lu avoided it, his younger brother Jia Ling was struck by it instead, which caused his body to start slowly decaying. For this reason, like the other children of Daguanyuan, Hong Lu began his martial training at a young age, having been first given a training dummy at the age of seven. Jia Mu would oversee his training, making him participate to a great number of duels every day.

   When Hong Lu was around ten years old, Jia Mu began taking him with her to visit the Kong Family laboratory in the outskirts of Hongyuan, where he would be forced to witness her human experiments, allowing the Xianren to enjoy the sight as well. Hong Lu, shaken by the violent events he was forced to witness daily, confided in Xiren, who then attempted to speak to the members of the family about what had been happening to Hong Lu. Xiren was beheaded by the Heishou for daring to intervene, and revived by Jia Mu with a more detached, pliable personality. She would then suggest Hong Lu to simply witness everything in silence. Jia Mu's research carried on without interruptions. While her experiment was ostensibly an attempt to develop a thirteenth Heishou Bolus for the Kong family, the Hierarch was actually developing a Bolus that would generate Cuckoospawns, a type of Monster from the Outskirts. Jia Mu explained to Hong Lu that, as the birth of Monsters within the City violates a City-wide taboo, the Kong family would then be punished by the Head itself. On the day that the Bolus was to be revealed, Hong Lu attempted to dissuade the people of the Nest from getting close to the presentation, to save them from being hurt in the chaos he knew would follow. Of the many people he spoke to, Hong Lu mananged to only convince Lin Daiyu, who fled, while Jia Huan stayed, wishing to learn about the new Bolus. As the presentation started, Jia Mu and Hong Lu hid safely, and Jia Mu forced Hong Lu to witness as a Cuckoospawn burst from the womb of Kong Sihui, and as the creatures began spawning and forcing themselves on the onlookers, killing everything in their way. The massacre was then stopped by the arrival of an Arbiter of the Head and a number of Claws, who killed the creatures and wiped out the survivors. While Jia Mu and Hong Lu made it out of the event physically unscathed, Hong Lu's life would be permanently changed. Following the Kong family massacre, Jia Huan's older brother would blame Hong Lu for his little brother's death, taking on his name and developing a profound hatred for the boy. Hong Lu would also watch as the last survivor of the Kong family, Kong Qiu, left Daguanyuan, a fact Hong Lu would always feel responsible for.

   Following this event, Hong Lu began to completely detach himself from the world around him. He would resign himself to follow the orders he received from the elders and the people around him, accepting that he would one day have to leave Daguanyuan for the sake of the Xianren, allowing Jia Mu to arrange him to be married to Xue Baochai upon his return, and distancing himself from Xichun and Daiyu, to the point of eventually losing the rapport he had with them. Daiyu was greatly disappointed by the news of his coming departure, as well as by Hong Lu's self-proclaimed indifference to the fact. Hong Lu's detachment from his own life and the world around him would also deeply hurt Xichun, when one day he would tell her that he wouldn't have minded if she killed him to get ahead in life, as he no longer wished to care about matters of life and death himself. Eventually, the time came for him to follow the elders' orders, to leave Daguanyuan to see and experience as much of the world as he could before returning home. He was then accosted by Faust, who offered him to join Limbus Company, with his role as a Sinner allowing him to travel the City and fulfill the wishes of his family. He accepted, and when Faust asked how he wished to be addressed by the Company and his coworkers, he decided to leave behind the name of Jia Baoyu, and instead said he wanted to be "Hong Lu".

4. #4Heathcliff

   Keys: Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights, Catherine, Wild Hunt, Erkling Heathcliff

   In November 984, the LCB reached Nest T, which have been the setting of numerous kidnappings, and headed towards Wuthering Heights, where a Golden Bough had been located. Heathcliff grew morose at the prospect of returning; firm in his belief that nobody in the house carried any love for him, he claimed he'd never been happy in the manor; the Sinners are surprised by lightning striking down soon after he spoke. They were then welcomed by Nelly and met Linton and Hindley, the latter of whom was accompanied by the Dead Rabbits. Here, Heathcliff learned the occasion he'd been invited for was Catherine's funeral and the reading of her will; according to Catherine's wishes, after the seventh bolt of lightning hit the manor during the funeral, he would obtain her Golden Bough. The news of Catherine's death shook Heathcliff, who refused to believe it and requested to see her body, calling for her to come back. At this point, a first lightning bolt hit the house, causing a blackout. When the lights returned, the LCB found themselves lost inside the manor. In their search for clues, the LCB stumbled upon Hindley being attacked by Josephine and the Butlers, and Heathcliff decided to help him, although the action resulted in Hindley disparaging him, before departing again. Eventually, the LCB reached Catherine's room, where Heathcliff found the diary she'd hidden during the modifications Catherine and Linton had done on the manor after acquiring it from Hindley. The diary led the LCB to the fireplace, where Heathcliff was confronted by Linton, who belittled him and dismissed Catherine's affection for him. In response to his claims, a second bolt of lightning hit Wuthering Heights. Linton then stepped aside, allowing everyone to access the basement.

   The LCB learned the area had been turned into a laboratory: the victims of the kidnappings in Nest T lay in glass tubes, with Catherine's body among them, in a coffin to which a Golden Bough was attached. The LCB learned that the kidnapping victims were being used as subjects in Mirror technology experiments, run by former members of the Ring and backed by the New League of Nine Littérateurs. Heathcliff's attempt to reach the coffin was halted by the researchers and later by Hindley, who had joined back up with the Dead Rabbits. Following his defeat, Hindley distorted, blaming Heathcliff for the ruin of Wuthering Heights, as well as Catherine's death. This caused the third lightning to strike. After Hindley's demise, the boss of the Dead Rabbits revealed himself to be an Identity of Heathcliff who, after witnessing many Mirror Worlds in which Heathcliff led Catherine to her death, had traveled through the Mirror to kill other versions of himself. Already shaken by the abuse suffered since returning to the manor, Heathcliff witnessed the memories of the alternate world, and was overcome with disgust for himself, believing in the Identity's claims of his existence having brought nothing but pain to Catherine. As he sank further into despair and self-hatred, he was visited by a voice, who pushed him to the brink until he admitted to his belief that Catherine had never loved him, that his attempts to change and return a better man had been pointless, and that he'd never been anything but a beast, much like Hindley had often claimed. He thus headed towards Distortion, transforming into a wolfish creature, and rampaging across the laboratory, destroying everything in his way. While the Sinners attempted to fight him back and return him to normalcy, a fourth bolt of lightning would strike the manor. In a memory reconstructed by the Bough, Heathcliff spoke with a younger Catherine. Heathcliff admitted to her the regret he felt regarding the incident with hounds in their childhood, as well as the fact that he still treasured their memories of that day. With Catherine replying that she did the same, and that the time spent with him would always be the one she'd cherish the most, the memory faded away, and Heathcliff returned to his senses, although he still contemplated whether Hindley had been right, and he could do nothing but destroy.

   At this point, Linton revealed himself and his part in the kidnappings, and the creation of the laboratory, which had been Catherine's wish following his departure, as she fell ill and developed an obsession with the Mirror. After explaining that the lightning signified Catherine's heart breaking, Linton turned himself into a human "dough", causing the fifth strike of lightning. The researcher Aseah explained to the LCB that creating this had been the purpose of the experiment, with Yi Sang commenting that no single person was worth such a great human cost. With this dough, Aseah completed the second summoning of the Identity of Heathcliff, the Erlking. Erlking Heathcliff fled with Catherine's coffin, but as the LCB caught up to him, Heathcliff confronted him, refuting his claim that their only peace would lay in death, showing himself determined to change his fate. Following the fight, the LCB faced off with Nelly, who revealed herself as the person who'd invited the Erlking to the manor and who'd gotten Catherine in contact with Hermann, as well as the one who'd intercepted Heathcliff's letters, consciously keeping Catherine vulnerable and leading to the creation of the laboratory. Nelly recounted to Heathcliff the fear she'd felt gazing into the Mirror, finding herself always caught in between him and Catherine, unable to live out a life of her own. Nelly went on to claim she brought upon a better ending, as Heathcliff could never have changed his fate of becoming a devil like the Erlking. The sixth bolt of lightning then hit the manor, as Nelly's words threw Heathcliff into a deep despair: he began fading away, his consciousness dragged away from the present, with Nelly explaining he'd returned to the Backstreets where he belongs. Dante's voice reached him where he found himself lost in the memory of overhearing Catherine, and their powers allowed him the time to finish listening to her words. Heathcliff then opened the door and spoke to her again, apologizing for having run away. Although unable to reply, Catherine's diary showed him an old memory to remind him of the love she had always had for him. Once again motivated to change their fates, Heathcliff, now owner of Wuthering Heights following the death of Hindley and Linton, freed Nelly from her contract before marching on to the rooftop, where he took the second Golden Bough and stabbed himself with it in an attempt to drain it of its power, having understood Catherine's plan and attempting to disrupt it.

   In response, the final bolt of lightning hit the manor, completing the summoning and revealing the last memory recorded in the diary, as well as the true intent behind the laboratory: to bring forth an Identity that would erase Catherine's existence from all worlds, something she'd believed would allow Heathcliff to live his life happily. Combat ensued between the LCB and Erlking Heathcliff, supported by the Catherine from another world, Every Catherine. As the fight dragged on and Catherine contacted Dante through their PDA, Heathcliff managed to join the conversation: speaking with Catherine for the first time since his departure, he confessed his love for her, with her returning his feelings, before Dante carried out her plan, using the Bough in the coffin to erase Catherine from all Mirror Worlds. With the fight coming to an end, Nelly took the other Golden Bough and fled. Heathcliff, left the only person to remember Catherine, together with Dante, resolved to one day get the Bough back and restore Catherine, sure that their bond, thanks to which they'd reunited in a Mirror World where both had died, would bring them together once more. Following the events at Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff refashioned his bat to spell out the word "remember", signifying the shift in his goal. The weight of the revelations at the manor still weighs heavy on him: even after leaving, he often appeared contemplative and regretful over how far Catherine had gone for his sake, and her recent disappearance would keep affecting him. The other Sinners, who no longer remember her but still recall that Heathcliff meant to return to the person he loved, have occasionally questioned this, although Heathcliff appeared still too overwhelmed to open up about it, and has only discussed it with Dante during consultation thus far. Despite this, having faced his past and reconciled with Catherine, his personality began appearing far more mellow than it had been up until returning to the manor. As the journey continues, Heathcliff has shown himself far more dependable and caring, going as far as to consider the Sinners his family.

5. #5Ishmael

   Keys: Ishmael, Ahab, Pallid Whale, Whale

   Ishmael was originally a desk worker for U Corp.'s Nest, in Marlin Port, having studied and struggled for a long time in order to find a stable job as a member of a Wing. The job left Ishmael unsatisfied and depressed, yearning for a great change in her life, which led her to quit and find a new place to start, with the thought on her mind that she would've liked to die near a body of water. That was when Ishmael met Ahab: she became deeply fascinated by the Captain's resolve and confidence, and decided to join her Whaling crew, obtaining a Grade 9 Fixer license. In her time at sea, Ishmael became familiar with the Great Lake, its environment and rules. During the Pequod's hunt for the Pallid Whale, one of the five Calamities of the Lake, Ishmael worked as a sailor and a harpooner, with her duties ranging from oil-bucketing to active combat. Atop the Pequod, Ishmael grew close to the crew, and all of them, strongly inspired by Ahab's words and trusting in their ability to hunt the Whale, started planning for their future once the voyage was over. However, their wishes would not come to pass: around three years before the events of Canto V, in 981, the Pequod was attacked by the Pallid Whale and sunk with most of its crew. Only Ishmael, who managed to hang on to the coffin Queequeg had built for herself, survived, staying afloat until the Whale disappeared in the depths of the Lake once more. After the wreckage, Ishmael would spend the next three years working as a Fixer, taking odd jobs that involved Outskirts and Ruins exploration, with the final goal of one day finding Ahab, whom she believed to have survived the attack, and killing her.

   As the mission began, Ishmael minimized her interactions with the group, only showing up to handle sailing and inform them of the laws of the Lake. While the LCB attempted to recover the LCCB agent that they were supposed to meet with, and that had been kidnapped by the Twinhook Pirates, Ishmael began acting against Dante's orders, killing the Pirates even after they'd been neutralized, and speaking bluntly about the LCCB agent's situation, proposing that they were likely dead and that things would still be fine as long as they recovered the information from their body. At this point, Ishmael's uncaring and insubordinate behavior had started worrying several of the Sinners, with Outis suggesting to Dante that if she continued this way, it would be better to have Ishmael no longer be part of the LCB. Once at the hideout of the Twinhook Pirates, Ishmael stepped forward and mentioned Queequeg's name as a way to learn whether the Syndicate's boss was present in the building. Having found the current leader, the Pirates' First Mate Smee, the group began a battle, eventually defeating Smee. After learning the location of the LCCB agent, and after Dante had told Ishmael to step back, Ishmael readied her harpoon and attacked Smee, leading to Dante running ahead to stop the deadly blow.

   Later on, as the LCB rescued the LCCB agent, Pilot, Ishmael was disturbed by Pilot recounting how during training he'd been taught of how noble it'd be to sacrifice oneself for the cause, and as the agent broke into tears recalling his team members that had been wiped out, leaving him the only survivor, Ishmael had to step away, remembering the tragedy of her own crew. The LCB's search for the Golden Bough led the Sinners to the L Corp. branch of U Corp., which had been swallowed by the Pallid Whale, and with the help of the Color Fixer The Indigo Elder, they were able to locate the Calamity. The prospect of facing the Whale again caused a deep shift in Ishmael's state of mind, and she began to act more and more like her old Captain, consumed by her desire for revenge. Within the belly of the Whale, the LCB found the wreckage of the Pequod, and Ishmael learned that its crew lived still: she reunited with her old friend Queequeg, her crewmates Starbuck and Pip, but most importantly with Captain Ahab, who revealed to Ishmael the location of the Golden Bough: the very heart of the Whale. Ahab proposed a deal: the LCB would sail with her crew towards the heart, where they would let Ahab slay the Whale, allowing everybody to escape, while she would allow the LCB to take the Golden Bough. Ishmael was unsatisfied with the idea, until Ahab offered her her own heart in exchange. With the prospect of being able to finally kill the Captain, the one goal she'd been chasing for many years, Ishmael agreed to the proposition, and the LCB begins sailing through the Whale's body, accompanied by Queequeg.

   Upon reaching the heart of the Whale, Ishmael met with the Captain. After Ahab's reveal that she had sacrificed most of her crew to reach the heart, and her request that the Sinners do the same with Dante to allow everyone to survive the Pallidification, Ishmael refused to succumb to the Captain's will again, and combat ensued. During the Sinners' battle with Ahab, Starbuck and Queequeg, Ahab manifested her E.G.O, and proceeded to absorb the surviving members of her crew into her body, to be used as weapons. Ishmael then watched her old friends fall one by one; as Queequeg was slowly devoured by the Pallidification, Ishmael fell into despair, with the membrane starting to take her over as well, until Heathcliff helped her out of the cocoon, and Dante's words reminded her of her right path. Standing up once more before her Captain, Ishmael instead drove her harpoon through the Whale's heart, supported by the ghost of Queequeg, slaying the Calamity and allowing her companions to escape its interior. After returning to the safety of the surface and the Limbus Company boat, Ishmael recognized Dante as her new Captain, and stated her desire to keep traveling together with the LCB, while still planning to stay true to herself and one day leave for a voyage of her own.

6. #6

   Keys: Rodion, Yurodiviye, Sonya

   Coming from the District 25 Backstreets, Rodion witnessed a devastating level of poverty and inequality in her lifetime, with all the district inhabitants growing poorer the harder they worked, while pawnbrokers hogged all of their money: the neighborhood she came from had been wrung dry, with heirlooms weighed with whatever monetary value they had. In response to this injustice, Rodion's friend Sonya began to deliver speeches and rally the people of the District together, organizing a group under the name of "Yurodiviye", which Rodion would join, yearning for a change. Even the thickest of people were moved by Sonya's words to begin helping the impoverished, but over time, Rodion could see the goal of the organization shift subtly, turning into a group that cared more about debating how to best change the streets and the Nest rather than actually helping those in need. A pivotal moment for Rodion was the death by starvation of Ivan, the youngest member of the Yurodiviye, which didn't seem to affect Sonya at all. When confronted, Sonya would justify his inaction by saying that they needed to wait for the perfect moment, a statement that Rodion could not agree with. To Sonya, the deaths of his companions, no matter how young, seemed inconsequential and inevitable, but to Rodion this further proved the fact that the Yurodiviye had strived too far from their initial goal of helping those in need. This finally prompted Rodion to take matters into her own hands. Fed up with seeing her people suffer in the harsh conditions of the village, Rodion knocked on the door of one of the tax collectors with an axe in hand. Deep down Rodion hoped for the tax collector to change her mind and offer any kind of aid to those who were suffering outside in harsh living conditions, yet Rodion was only met with mockery, and struck the tax collector down with her axe. In the moment, Rodion was sure she had done the right thing, having managed to finally bring positive change to her neighborhood, who was eating well for the first time in their life, but she would later learn that the tax collector was a sibling of a member of the Middle, and that their status was the one thing that was giving her power. Since Rodion had killed one of their family members, the Syndicate then demonstrated what happened to those that dared to stand up to them, by murdering all of the residents of the village and piling their bodies up in the middle of the streets. Following the events of that day, being burdened by guilt and the realization that she wasn't anything more than a foolish cottager, Rodion left the District and eventually joined Limbus.

   In February 984, the second mission for the Company took the LCB to Nest J, which Rodion is suggested to have visited before, where they would need to win a card game in order to obtain the Golden Bough. Rodion soon learned that the Yurodiviye, on their work of wealth redistribution, had been working within the Nest. This caused Rodion to grow nervous for much of the mission, trying to avoid speaking about her past in J Corp., or thinking about her history in general. The LCB continued their mission through one of the Nest's casinos, and upon reaching the top floor, Rodion informed the others she had stolen a bit of wishpower, the luck-controlling substance created by J Corp.'s Singularity, and volunteered to play the card game, claiming she had never lost in a situation where money was involved. Much to Rodion's dismay, she would soon learn one of her opponents would be Sonya, in his role as leader of the Yurodiviye. The game grew violent at several points, with a Syndicate boss, the Tieqiu Boss, accusing Rodya of cheating, and being then crushed by an hydraulic press, Rodya still went on to win the game, and therefore the Golden Bough. Once out of the room and on the elevator downstairs, Rodion revealed to the group she'd lied about her use of wishpower.

   On their way to pick up the Bough from the casino's basement, Rodion met with Sonya again, in the ice cave that had formed all around the Bough. There, Rodion began to resonate with it, and the LCB crew started witnessing her memories of her past in District 25, from her work with the Yurodiviye to her murder of the pawnbroker, and the subsequent punishment that was carried out against the entire village. While Rodion was made to face her crime, Sonya offered her a way out: to join him again, and let him create the world anew, as if nothing ever happened. Rodion refused his offer, instead telling him she felt like she couldn't bathe in such warmth just yet; in response, Sonya claimed that this refusal stemmed not out of genuine regret, but out of Rodion's wish to be special, and therefore needing an imperfect world to stand out in. The two separated, each heading in their own directions.

7. #7

   Keys: Sinclair, Kromer, N. Corp, Calw

   Emil Sinclair was born to a wealthy family in Calw, a small town located in Nest K that was referred to as "The Holy Site of Nest K’s Prosthetic Industry". The majority of the town's residents had a love for prosthetics, and Sinclair's father owned a small prosthetics company. At some point, his father's company was able to secure a contract with P Corp., fully supporting the technology that was being developed. This contract ensured that the entire family would be able to get the latest full-body prosthetics, something that only Sinclair was not excited for. Before long, his father, mother, and sister had all undergone the procedure to replace their bodies with full prosthetics and Sinclair was the last one remaining. The life he had before where the family would share meals together was gone, and he would find himself feeling isolated from his family the more he hid his true feelings regarding prosthetics from them. As this shift in his life was taking place, Sinclair one day found himself feeling left out of a conversation at school and, without thinking, shared the news of his father's contract with P Corp. that he had been told to keep secret. While for a moment the focus of attention was on him, it quickly shifted elsewhere and Sinclair was left to sit with his thoughts about his future prosthetics procedure. As the class cleared out, Kromer, a girl Sinclair had barely spoken to before, introduced herself, having noticed the brief flash of reluctance on Sinclair's face when he had told the class about how he would be getting prosthetics soon. She explained that she agreed with him and found the idea of prosthetics filthy, and quickly become his only confidant regarding the matter and a friend of his. Kromer cleverly took advantage of his fears and made a promise that she would spare him having to undergo the replacement procedure, so long as he would help her with a grudge of her own. Not long after the friendship between Sinclair and Kromer formed, a transfer student named Demian caught Sinclair's eye. While the two did not immediately take in interest in each other, one day during a boring engineering class, Sinclair happened to glance out the window and notice a strange red symbol on Demian's forehead. From then on Demian would strike up friendly conversations with Sinclair and the two grew close. While Demian encouraged Sinclair to share more about himself, Sinclair was too ashamed to be so openly afraid of his upcoming prosthetics procedure in front of his new friend.

   One day, Kromer approached Sinclair and asked him to show her the basement of his family's home. While at first he protested to the idea, knowing his parents would not approve of it, Kromer reminded him of her promise to him and pressured him into agreeing if he did not want to undergo the procedure. After stealing the key, he took her to his basement and followed after Kromer as she lead him through an air vent that lead all the way to L Corp's Branch K-02. There, they would catch sight of an Abnormality, which terrified Sinclair to the point he abandoned Kromer, who was enraptured by the gruesome sight, and fled back through the vent to his home. The next day Kromer thanked him for showing her something so "precious" and gifted him two coins, ordering him to always keep them on him. After this, Sinclair began to avoid Kromer, only managing to work up the courage to ask for the basement key back days later. Kromer laughed at this request, telling him that they no longer needed the key, but not to worry as she was going to pay him back by keeping her promise to him. On Christmas Eve, Sinclair decided to confess to his family about having stolen the basement key and return to being a good son. Unfortunately this plan would never get to be acted on, as when he stepped into his home that night, he was greeted by the sight of Kromer and an armored man brutally murdering his family. Kromer smiled as she saw Sinclair, expressing her joy at the fact he would now live in constant terror because of her actions and taking one of the two coins she had gifted him not long ago. This massacre of his family had been her plan all along to fulfill her promise to him. Kromer ordered one of her subordinates to take Sinclair to safety and he lost his consciousness as he was taken away from his once safe home. Sinclair would awaken in the middle of an alleyway and be greeted by Demian. Demian, not for the first time, assured Sinclair that he would learn to overcome the fear he was trapped by. While Sinclair was unable to respond, Demian told him of his wish to one day see Sinclair completely bare. Sinclair fell unconscious again after this brief conversation, and what he did between this moment and his recruitment to Limbus Company is left unknown.

   In February of 984, Limbus Company's search for the Golden Boughs led the LCB to Calw. While the realization that Sinclair would need to confront his past mistakes made him physically ill, he would only become more distressed at seeing his hometown in ruins with prosthetic bodies hung up around Calw in a gruesome display. He directed the LCB to his former home where he began to find the resolve to fight with all his strength instead of hanging in the back like he had in previous fights. At his home, he came face to face with Kromer for the first time in years, and was horrified to find that not only has she has dug up his family's graves, but she had also tortured Effie. As Kromer laughed at Effie's death, Sinclair became enraged and decided that he must kill her himself, finally showing a more violent side to himself to the LCB. After Kromer retreated into the Sinclair family home, the LCB followed after her into the basement which was now connected directly to Branch K-02. Inside the old L Corp. branch, they were soon found by Guido who almost killed Dante, but was stopped by a desperate attack by Sinclair, who was determined to protect Dante, and a gunshot from the nearby, injured Saude. Sinclair felt immense guilt that they would have to leave Saude behind due to her injuries, but they were left with no other option. Throughout the dungeon, Sinclair drew the three strokes of The Sign, finally finding his resolve to stand up for himself. When they reached the bottom floor of the basement, the Golden Bough begun to resonate with Sinclair, forcing him to recall his past of befriending Kromer and Demian as well as the night he lost his family. The memories reignited his determination to kill Kromer, who was now standing before him, and the fight between her and the Sinners was soon started. Before the Sinners were able to kill her, Kromer distorted, her strength overwhelming the Sinners, leaving Sinclair and Dante on the verge of death while the rest were killed. Demian suddenly appeared and killed Kromer with a wave of his hand to save Sinclair and protect him from having others domineer over him. Before Sinclair fell unconscious, Demian told Sinclair that he managed to change his own fate and Dante told him that it was his fault that his family died, but that it was a mistake anyone could make.

8. #8

   Keys: Gregor, Hermann, Smoke War

   From a young age, Gregor was used as a test subject for the Old G Corp. Against his will, Hermann conducted an augmentation surgery on Gregor: his right arm was replaced with an insectoid bio-prosthetic, which had the unique ability to regenerate and did not inflict side effects, unlike the majority of augmentations performed by G Corp. Following the operation, Gregor was kept under observation by the scientists of the Old G Corp., spending much of his childhood confined in a plain blue room. There, scientists watched over him and instructed him daily to use his arm in order to slice apples in half, to test the functionality of his new arm. For a long time, Gregor resisted, refusing to abide by these instructions. However, he would eventually reach a point where he could no longer fight back; on the day he turned fifteen years old, Gregor proceeded to give into the scientists' commands and cut down the apple. At first, Gregor believed that this would free him from the harsh reality he described as a nightmare, but the tests continued, leaving him with no choice but to go along with what he was told to do. Eventually, Gregor was sent to participate in the Smoke War and granted the rank of Manager. Given the special benefits of his augmentation which the other soldiers lacked, his troops looked up to him greatly, and he was widely seen as a symbol of hope in the terror of the war. Ultimately, Gregor went on to become a widespread symbol of G Corp. war propaganda, although at a point, he deserted. Following the war, this became a reason for many Old G Corp. veterans to despise Gregor. Once the Smoke War finally came to an end, Gregor attempted to live normally. Though the average person did not recognize him as the man from the propaganda posters, he nonetheless continued to suffer from his past, surrounded by the widespread repulsion and distrust people held towards G Corp. His arm did not assist in his attempts to become a normal citizen. At times, it became randomly agitated, attacking civilians and horrifying the crowd, despite Gregor's desperate attempts to reel it in. All Gregor could do was scream for it to be cut off, knowing well that it would always grow back.

   On their mission in search of the first Golden Bough, the LCB headed to the D Corp. Backstreets, where the group met Yuri, a Fixer and former member of the fallen Wing L Corp. As the group traveled towards the Lobotomy Corp. Branch housed in the District, Gregor immediately formed a friendly relationship with the Fixer. Soon enough, the LCB faced off with a group of men with insectoid heads, whom Gregor recognizes as fellow veterans of the Smoke War, belonging to the Old G Corp. While progressing with their mission, the Sinners found several more veterans within the L Corp. Branch, scavenging for resources. The veterans quickly turned hostile as they recognized Gregor, branding him as a disgusting traitor. This sentiment was reprised later when the group encountered the Old G Corp. Head Manager, an old veteran under whom Gregor had worked. Similarly to the others, the Head Manager accused Gregor of being a traitor, as well as a deserter, who was able to leave while the war continued for the others even outside the battlefield, an act he described as devoid of honor.

   Following these encounters, Gregor discussed the stigma against members of a fallen Wing, as well as the survivor's guilt he still carried regarding the war, both things that Yuri closely related to. To her queries, Gregor told the girl that she needed to carry on with the guilt, not letting it spoil her heart. Upon reaching the Golden Bough deep within the facility, the Bough resonated with Gregor, transporting the group into his fathoms of ego, taking the form of a battlefield around 70 days into the Smoke War. Here, they met with a reminisced version of Tomah, an Assistant Private that Gregor knew during the war, created through the resonance of the Bough. Gregor was then sent back in his memories, starting from the day he awoke from the procedure, having been transformed, in his eyes, into a hideous pest. The memories slowly unfolded before everyone's eyes, as Gregor came to terms with the fact that he has been stuck within the nightmare he'd believed to have escaped. In the meantime, the fathoms created by the Golden Bough started distorting: the event of the group meeting Tomah started repeating, with the Private's features becoming more and more monstrous as a reflection of Gregor's unstable mental state. His trauma finally manifested physically through massive hands suddenly appearing from the sky, destroying the cityscape piece by piece. Gregor soon recognized the hands as those of Hermann's. As the situation grew more desperate, with the hands threatening to crush the group, Gregor realized that, as this was his own nightmare, the way out would be to not run from the hands, but to allow Hermann to grasp them, as he has never been able to truly escape from her. Once out of the dungeon, Gregor met with Hermann and her group again, possibly for the first time since deserting the Old G Corp., proving him correct in his assumption that she has always continued to shadow his steps.

9. #9

   Keys: Ryōshū, Araya, The House of Spiders, Five Fingers

   After leaving Hongyuan, the Sinners wait in an LCCB transporter truck for a planned meeting with Saude, Vergilius, and Pilot. As they start to worry about Saude's uncharacteristic tardiness, she runs in, heavily wounded, with the news that the Limbus Company headquarters is being invaded, and that she and the others were attacked by members of the Thumb. As Saude gets to work on forming a portal leading to the Limbus Company HQ, they receive a transmission by one of the assailants at the HQ, who directly addresses Ryōshū, calling her his "darling daughter" and asking her to come home. Ryōshū understands that her turn has come, and warns Dante that the "Spiders" have come to spin their web. Soon after, Vergilius returns, locked in combat with two members of the Thumb, Lucio and Valencina, burst into the truck, who are holding Charon hostage.

   As Vergilius, unsettled and handicapped by the threat to Charon's life, clashes blades with Valencina, the woman is identified by Ryōshū as "the Thumb Nursefather", one of the members of the Five Fingers who had raised her, belonging to an organization called the House of Spiders. The two have a heated exchange, in which Valencina talks down to Ryōshū, and tells her that she will soon leave the company to return home. As the portal leading to the HQ opens, Valencina tells her to go ahead, as the other Nursefathers are waiting for her; while Vergilius remains behind with Valencina, the Sinners pass through the portal.

   The Sinners find the headquarters in total disarray, with countless researchers dead, stabbed with peculiar spiral-shaped weapons. Among them, the Sinners find Alyssa, who lays in critical condition, but still manages to speak. Alyssa recalls the sudden circumstances of the attack and of the weapon that stabbed her, and Ryōshū understands that the only way to save her would be to "unlock" the spiral with a code, which she previously knew, but no longer can recall. As Dante starts to get a glimpse of her memories, they find them to be heavily censored and ragged, and Ryōshū herself explains that her memory is in tatters. The Sinners then decide to keep moving forward, and return for Alyssa.

   After fighting through a number of escaped Abnormalities and Ring automatons, they eventually run into Hohenheim, Marton, Moses, Ezra, and the LCD's newly-hired Aeng-du barricaded in the HQ's broadcast sector. The two groups exchange information, and the Sinners learn that the LCE had been running an experiment on the retrieved Golden Boughs, having managed to graft them together. It becomes clear that the attack started in an attempt by the House of Spiders to take the grafted Bough.

   Together, they agree that the Sinners would secure the Golden Boughs, the LCD would fight off roaming monsters, and the LCE would restore power to the facility. Unfortunately, the shifting walls of the laboratory end up grouping them into unexpected teams: Dante with Yi Sang, Gregor, Meursault, and Ryōshū, then Moses with Ezra, Aeng-du, Ishmael, Rodya, Outis, and Hong Lu, and lastly Hohenheim with Marton, Faust, Heathcliff, Sinclair, and Don Quixote. In the end, Dante's team agree to go after the Boughs, while Moses' team neutralized hostiles and Hohenheim's restored power.

   In the meantime, Dante's group encounter a wave of LCA agents who had arrived to deal with the chaos, but only to see the Nursefather of the Index, Rien, intercept and annihilate the agents. With no choice but to carry on, the group makes their way to the room housing the Golden Boughs, only to run into the Nursefather of the Pinky, the Dihui Star, her apprentice Ren, and the Ring apprentice Albina. While Ren and Albina engage in battle with the four Sinners, the Pinky Nursefather leaves with the Boughs. During the battle, the two apprentices turn on each other, which allows the Sinners to run away, chasing after the Dihui Star. As they make their way forward, Ryōshū reveals that her tattered memories are a side effect of unsheathing her blade, that she had a daughter whom she had left hidden in a Time Vault at the House of Spiders, and that she'd signed her contract with the LCB to be able to return to her and free her.

   On their way, the group runs into two new hires named Ravi and Sora, who'd survived the attack but had been trapped beneath fallen rubble. Sora offers to guide their group to the elevator, and the two join the group. Having reached it and come face to face with the Pinky Nursefather, Sora reveals herself to be the apprentice to the Index Nursefather, and her true allegiance to lay with the House. Sora manifests her Effloresced E.G.O and strikes to kill Dante, and the Sinner four members of the LCB engage in a difficult battle with Sora. They're saved by the surprise appearance of Vespa, who makes quick work of Sora before departing for his other allies, leaving the Sinners alone with the Dihui Star, Shiomi Yoru. In order to stand a chance against the Nursefather, Dante attempts to unlock a new Sapling of Light ability: they manage to summon the Identities of Sinners who were not present, with the consequence of causing the real Sinners to fall unconscious where they were, leaving the LCD and LCE members to fend for themselves. Even with Dante's attempt at a new Durante ability, however, the Dihui Star manages to take the Golden Boughs with her and contact the other Fingers, before making her escape.

   Meanwhile, Moses' group got a glimpse of the Middle Nursefather storming through the facility, and came face-to-face with him themselves after an overly casual conversation with his daughter. This quickly turned into a manhunt, as the LCD improvised the use of various Abnormalities and Distortions in an attempt to hold them off. A failed attack would cause Aeng-du to lose both of her arms during this conflict. Vespa would eventually come to their aid, but by then the members of the Fingers had achieved their goal, leading him and Matthias to agree to retreat peacefully for the time being. On the other side of the facility, Hohenheim and Marton struggled with the Nursefather of the Ring. Although both of them offered to sacrifice themselves at one point, they eventually agreed that Marton would set his E.G.O Attunement to fatal levels in order to distract the Nursefather and give Hohenheim enough time to restart the facility's power grid. The Ring Nursefather would also depart upon news of the Bough retrieval, leaving Hohenheim with restored power and his newly fallen comrade. Valencina also left with Lucio, handing Charon back to Vergilius as she did.

   Right before Shiomi Yoru exited the Headquarters, she revealed that she can talk despite having her tongue severed by Ryōshū's blade and that she had already known where Ryōshū had hidden her daughter. The Index Nursefather, Rien, would also pass by, giving Ryōshū the code to the spiral weapons and the safe as he walked out with Sora. Ryōshū desperately tore open the safe in search of her daughter Araya, only to find it empty. She then passed out from shock and grief, putting a sad close to the struggle at the Limbus Company HQ.

   Some time later, the surviving members of Limbus Company would regroup with the intention of raiding the House of Spiders and getting revenge on the Nursefathers through Operation Spider Pyre.

   The operation has the Sinners separated into four groups of three, backed by other LC personnel: Sinclair, Ishmael, and Faust, with Hohenheim and Alyssa facing Ring Nursefather Callisto and Albina; Don Quixote, Hong Lu, and Yi Sang with Moses, Ezra, and Vespa against the Middle Nursefather Matthias and Kira; Gregor, Heathcliff, and Rodion with Vergilius against Valencina and Lucio; Ryōshū, Meursault, and Outis with LCA Udjat Vanguard Team 1 led by Jamila against the Index and Pinky Nursefathers Rien and Shiomi Yoru.

   Each confrontation against the Nursefathers result in the following: While Alyssa and Hohenheim were wounded and nearly killed by Callisto, Sinclair's sign awakens, thanks to motivation from Saude and personal rumination, summoning a version of himself from a future where he is a veteran of the Second Smoke War, and ultimately destroys both Albina and Callisto. Meanwhile, Middle Apprentice Kira gets bisected by Matthias in an attempt to kill Vespa, but is saved by Hong Lu; Matthias was then fatally wounded by Moses before being decapitated by Vespa thereafter. In the encounter against Thumb Nursefather Valencina and Apprentice Lucio, Gregor's arm awakens and pierces the latter in the chest, ripping out his heart and killing him; while attacked by Valencina in a fit of rage, he partially metamorphosizes into the Old G Corp's "yet-to-be-seen fourth weapon": The Roach Emperor, and kills Valencina; he was ultimately knocked out of the form by the other three surviving combatants. The Sinners initially encountered Rien, but were then redirected to face Shiomi Yoru instead. Jamila and the Udjat Vanguard Team take their place to fight Rien instead, but are promptly wiped out, unable to attack due to malfunctions with their equipment.

   Reaching the Pinky, the Sinners fight Shiomi Yoru again, and it's revealed Ryōshū had rebelled against the House after the constant use of her unsheathed sword, "Arayashiki", started to consume her memories of Araya. The Sinners also discover that both Ryōshū and Araya had been created by request of the Thumb as clones, the former being of the Dihui Star, while the later was a clone of Ryōshū that the House planned to use the latter as a "fetter" to control the former, which led Ryōshū to placing her in the safe in an effort to protect her until she could come back strong enough to destroy the House. However, upon striking her down, it was revealed that "Shiomi Yoru" had been dead ever since Ryōshū's initial rebellion and departure from the House of Spiders, with the current "Dihui Star" none other than a "temporally entangled" Araya due to the T Corp. safe being made only for Ryōshū.

   Upon realizing the truth, a grieving Ryōshū severs her contract with Dante and begins using Arayashiki in reckless abandon, entering a state of "non-self" that erases Sora and Ren from existence when Rien sends them against her as she becomes nothing more but a vortex of slashes to try and carve herself out from existence. Rien reveals that Ryōshū's current state is the true form of what the House of Spiders sought to create: a perfect Concept Incinerator for anyone to dump their unwanted secrets in and be forgotten forever, just like the House of Spiders itself. However, Araya, still barely alive thanks to her temporal entanglement and now aware Ryōshū had always intended to come back for her, reaches out to her mother using one of Dante's chains made by a new Durante ability- Ira, and reaffirms her love. This reinstates Ryōshū's contract and creates a new scabbard for Arayashiki made from Araya's own E.G.O, but is erased from the Sinner's memory. Rien then steps up as the final opponent to prevent Ryōshū from leaving, and Dante, using the incomplete Malkuth and new Ira abilities, summons all the Sinners to help Ryōshū and her temporally evolved E.G.O finally sever her ties from the House of Spiders.

   Post-operation, all but Kira of the Apprentices have been eliminated, and the Golden Boughs were found tucked away in a small red randoseru. Ryōshū has forgotten everything about Araya, but Faust states that with the new scabbard, there is a possibility she will find her daughter again, no matter how slim. Somewhere in the city, a severely injured Rien encounters and fights off multiple Index Proxies, who are pursuing him for his failure to obey the Prescript. With the House of Spiders now destroyed, he wishes his daughter the best, killing himself with his own weapon as he refuses to follow a Prescript asking him to recite a certain poem. Elsewhere, Faust conducts a Classical Walpurgisnacht meeting with the Gesellschaft, inquiring as to why information regarding the security leak that allowed the House of Spiders to make their assault has been kept from her. After some belittling from the other Fausts, it was revealed that the leak and sabotage was from Dias, the Chief Executive Director of the Company, who set everything up to ensure Ryōshū's contract went through. More mockery reveals that the Sinner Faust was a former administrator and needs the Golden Boughs to be reinstated for higher access clearance.

   Meanwhile, N Corp prepares for a purge against prosthetic users "the likes of which the City has never seen", as the New League of Nine Littérateurs, informed by Nelly of the operation and Limbus Company's counterstrike against the House of Spiders, sets their eyes on destroying all Mirror Worlds.

10. #10The City

    Keys: City

    The City is a massive urban complex the size of a small country, and has a population of around 7 billion. The City is bordered to the south by the Great Lake, and to the other directions by the Outskirts. Underneath it lie the Ruins.

11. #11The Head

    Keys: The Head, the Head

    The Head is the leader of the Wings and the central governing body of the City. It is in direct control of A Corp., B Corp., and C Corp., the three Districts at the very center of the City. The Head's identity is completely unknown, although it appears the term refers to a group of people rather than a singular entity; any detail regarding it is a closely guarded secret.

    The Head, through A Corp., retains control of the entire City. It is responsible for authorizing Wings, managing patents, and the minting of Ahn, the currency used in the City.

    Despite this, it does not typically interfere directly with the affairs of the various Wings in their own Districts; rather, the Head's greatest involvement in the life of the City consists in establishing and enforcing the rules that relate to the overall ethics of the City.

12. #12The Eye

    Keys: The Eye, the Eye

    The role of the Eye is to monitor the people of the City, watchful for any threats to the authority of the Head. The Eye's gaze extends to the confines of the City, but typically not beyond them, unless in search of a specific threat.Its agents are called Beholders, but are rarely referred to as "Eyes".

13. #13The Claw

    Keys: The Claw, the Claw

    The duty of the Claw is to bring punishment down upon those who break the taboos of the Head, and swiftly remove any threat to the City. The Executioners are agents of the Claw, and are typically only referred to as "Claws".

14. #14Districts

    Keys: District, Districts

    The City is divided into twenty-six Districts, quite diverse in culture and aesthetics, each of which is governed by a Wing, a corporation that has ascended to claim complete control of said area. All Wings respond to the Head, the supreme governing power of the City. The arrangement of the Districts seems to be static, as there has been no mentioned case of a District expanding into a fallen Wing's territory.

15. #15Wings

    Keys: Wing, Wings, Wings of the World

    The Wings, formally referred to as 'The Wings of the World' are a group of the twenty-six largest, most powerful conglomerates in the City. Each Wing acts as the governing body of a District of the City, and is commonly referred to with a letter from A to Z, corresponding to the number of the District in their control. Wings generally oversee all facets of living in the Nest of their District, while leaving the residents of the Backstreets to fend for themselves.

16. #16Nests

    Keys: Nest, Nests

    A Nest is the urban center of a District, which is under the direct management of its Wing. The citizens and employees of a Wing are commonly referred to as "Feathers"; the status of a feather is widely considered one of the best and most secure paths in life, which the people of the Backstreets are often willing to go to great lengths to obtain.

17. #17Backstreets

    Keys: Backstreets

    The Backstreets are the areas of a District that lay outside the Wing's domain. The Backstreets are typically slums crowded with buildings, characterized by twisted and irregular roads, although there can be great differences between Districts.

    Wings have differing degrees of presence, influence, and benevolence with regards to their Backstreets, although their relationship is ultimately exploitative. Citizens of the Backstreets are motivated to move up the ladder and into the Nests, while citizens of the Nests are motivated to maintain their statuses and preserve a more comfortable life under their Wing's protection. While not as secure as the Nest, residential areas are the safest parts of the Backstreets.

    Given how strongly Backstreets denizens wish for a life in the Nest, Wings tend to uphold strict divides between the sectors, including security checkpoints and physical divisions. Security of borders between Nests and Backstreets vary from plasma walls to mere chain fences, but the Wings' power is such that no one in the Backstreets dares to cross over into a Nest without express permission.

18. #18Outskirts

    Keys: Outskirts

    Outside of the 25 visible Districts lies the Outskirts, a no man's land known mostly by citizens of the City as somewhere they should never go to.

19. #19The Great Lake

    Keys: Great Lake

    The Great Lake occupies a large territory, extending through most of U Corp., and touching T Corp., S Corp. and V Corp. It is split into numerous distinctly separated Lakes, each of which possesses unique qualities, including varying water color, landmarks, and most importantly, "Laws".

20. #20The Ruins

    Keys: Ruins

    The Ruins lie underneath the City, and are implied to be accessible from anywhere so long as one travels deep enough. Specifically, they are known to be the deepest part of the City, comparable to an abyss. The location is described as having a unique atmosphere, adorned with various Rivers capable of granting blessings and curses to those who interact with the waters.

21. #21Relics

    Keys: Relic, Relics, Eye of Odin, Arayashiki, Gungnir, Helm of Mambrino, Lævateinn, Laevateinn

    Relics are mysterious and powerful objects found in the Ruins that require a certain aptitude to wield.[14] Relics have unique abilities, such as giving its wielder a form of precognition or even being able to erase people and concepts from the world and the memories of others.[15][16] Due to their location within the dangerous Ruins, Relics are rare to possess, even among the wealthy collectors of the City, and the stronger the Relic, the more rare it is to acquire. Many groups in the City seek to find Relics, especially Fixers, Syndicate members, and others who see combat. Relics are known to be kept and treasured by the Dieci Association and their "Holy" Relics, for example, take the form of more powerful versions of the keys and stoles its members wield. There is also a market of scammers who peddle fake Relics that they sell to enthusiasts. While all Relics require a certain level of aptitude to wield, it can vary greatly from Relic to Relic, with some being usable by many while others are so fickle that they cannot even be held by those who lack a certain level of aptitude with the Relic. It is implied that a person's aptitude with a Relic is based on their biology and DNA, as relatives will tend to share an affinity for the same Relic.

    List of known Relics: -The Helm of Mambrino: A helm that makes others see the wearer as equals. -Gungnir: A speartip with exceptional piercing capabilities. -The Eye of Odin: A prosthetic eye that uses vast calculative power to give its user precognitive abilities. This Relic is one third of a single Relic that was broken in the past. -Lævateinn: A burning sword that had originally been the heat source of a lava river in the Ruins. -Arayashiki: A sword that causes whatever it cuts to never be able to be made whole again, inflicting burning wounds that reignite and reopen in its presence. At its full power, it is even capable of entirely erasing anything it cuts, leaving no memory of their existence, in a manner akin to a Concept Incinerator. Only users who are able to clearly "perceive the flow of time" can unsheathe the weapon without being completely undone. Using this Relic comes at the cost of mutilating the memories of its user, the most precious of which are prioritized. Maximizing its power inflicts more metaphysical harm, likened to slashing an enemy's existence at the cost of their own.

22. #22Rivers

    Keys: River of Oblivion, River of Immortality, Miare-mirae River, The Rivers, The River

    A River is known to flow beneath the City, branching out into smaller Rivers, and reaching out even beyond the Outskirts into the Ruins. The River appears to have various tributaries, with waters that have special effects on the human mind both when drank from, and when gazed upon. The River is described as a "primordial sea of possibility", containing all of human consciousness, as well as all possibilities of the past, present and future. It is implied that plants watered by the River and its tributaries acquire special properties, a likely example being the Golden Boughs. The River is noted to resurface through small gaps in the world, such as the The Black Forest of the Outskirts, where Abnormalities may emerge from it.

    -Mirae-mirae River: A tributary of the River referred to as the "Mirae-mirae", or "Future-future River". Drinking from its waters will give the drinker a vision of the future, though at the same time, make them blinded to all but the prophesied future, leading them to inescapable madness. Alternatively, one may look into the Mirae-mirae River without drinking from it in order to glimpse a random point in their future. Still, drinking from the River is required for a clear picture of the vision.

    -River of Oblivion: The River of Oblivion, known as Lethe, is one of the tributaries of the River. Those who drink from the River are said to completely lose memory of their past. However, the River's effects are shown to be reversible and incomplete, serving only to put to slumber to one's memories" as opposed to a perfect removal of memory.

    "River of Immortality" A mysterious tributary of the River rumored to grant immortality of the mind to those who drink from it. This River might simply be a misconception of Lethe.

23. #23Yi Sang

    Keys: Yi Sang, Poet, Nerd#1, First Sinner, Sinner#1, Poetaster, Wet Noodle, Ideal, ideal

    Yi Sang, designated as Sinner#1 is a cryptic and mellow man with a lot of thoughtfulness to him. He was a researcher and architect previously affiliated with the League of Nine Littérateurs, having invented the Mirror as a T Corp. researcher prior to joining Limbus Company.

    In reality, he is a sappy, wet noodle who loves having friends. If you say the word "ideal" or anything even closely resembling it, he will pop up with a "You called for me?" because the word 'ideal' in Korean is spelled Yi Sang, which is his name.

    Gender: Male Age: 29 Height: 176cm Birthday: January First Hair Color: Raven Eye Color: Raven Defining feature: Deep eyebags

24. #24Faust

    Keys: Faust, Nerd#2, Inventor of the Mephistopheles, Second Sinner, Sinner#2, Know-it-all

    Faust, designated as Sinner#2, is an observant and intelligent woman with a slight know-it-all attitude. She was the first Sinner to be affiliated with Limbus Company, having spent the time leading up to it recruiting the members of the LCB and developing Mephistopheles.

    She can make mistakes as well, just as anyone else.

    Gender: Female Age: Unknown Height: 174cm Birthday: Feburary Second Hair Color: White Eye Color: Powder Blue Defining feature: Pale skin

25. #25Don Quixote

    Keys: Don Quixote, Sancho, Delusional Creature, Fixer-afficionado, Third Sinner, Sinner#3, Bloodfiend, Don, Donny, Chiquita, Donqui

    Don Quixote, designated Sinner#3, is a rambunctious and steadfast woman with a strong sense of justice. She never parts with her shoes Rocinante on her quest to become a valorous Fixer of the City, and was previously associated with the amusement park of La Manchaland prior to joining Limbus Company.

    She's playing up a persona, but genuinely does believe in justice and goodness in the world.

    Gender: Female Age: Unknown Height: 162cm Birthday: March Third Hair Color: Blonde Eye Color: Amber / Red Defining feature: Eyes light up with stars when excited

26. #26Ryōshū

    Keys: Ryōshū, Artist, Lunatic, Chain-smoker#1, Fourth Sinner, Sinner#4, Ryoshu

    Ryōshū, designated Sinner#4, is an ungovernable woman with a fascination in art that she uniquely defines, with little tolerance for what disinterests or offends her. Her ventures prior to Limbus Company are unknown, an implied affiliation with the Fingers of the Backstreets notwithstanding.

    Definitely eccentric, speaks mostly in undecipherable acronyms. Strangely good with children.

    Gender: Female Age: Unknown Height: 171cm Birthday: April Fourth Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Red Defining feature: A large, sheathed blade she carries at all times

27. #27Meursault

    Keys: Meursault, big guy, Brick Wall, Wall, Robot, Fifth Sinner, Sinner#5, Meur, Meurmeur

    Meursault, designated Sinner#5, is a reserved and complacent man with a desire to be clearly communicated with. He was previously affiliated with N Corp., having tried and failed to form an opinion on their ideals prior to joining Limbus Company.

    Though he can actually display emotion quite well, even if only acting.

    Gender: Male Age: Unknown Height: 188cm Birthday: May Fifth Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Dark Green Defining feature: Strong, angulat stature

28. #28Hong Lu

    Keys: Hong Lu, rich boy, flowerboy, Sixth Sinner, Sinner#6, Baoyu, Jia Baoyu

    Hong Lu, real name Jia Baoyu, designated as Sinner#6, is a lighthearted and naive man with a tendency for unintentionally insensitive words. He is one of several children of the large and wealthy Jia family, having lived a life of sheltered affluence prior to joining Limbus Company.

    He's learned to express himself better and not just smile and take it anymore.

    Gender: Male Age: Late 20s Height: 178cm Birthday: June Sixth Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Black / Turquoise Defining feature: Jade eye (left eye)

29. #29Heathcliff

    Keys: Heathcliff, mangy mutt, Brute, Seventh Sinner, Sinner#7

    Heathcliff, designated as Sinner#7, is a brash and action-oriented man with a strong, dedicated spirit. He was previously affiliated with Wuthering Heights, having grown up alongside the Earnshaws and later working for the Dead Rabbits Syndicate prior to joining Limbus Company.

    He loves someone very, very deeply, though few could recall who.

    Gender: Male Age: Unknown Height: 180cm Birthday: July Seventh Hair Color: Dark Brown Eye Color: Black Defining feature: Scars lining his body

30. #30Ishmael

    Keys: Ishmael, Sailor, Orange, Rug, Eighth Sinner, Sinner#8, Ish, Ishy

    Ishmael, designated as Sinner#8, is a straight-laced and dependable woman with a tendency for blunt words. She was previously affiliated with the Pequod and its crew, and subsequently spent a number of years working as a Fixer prior to joining Limbus Company.

    She's calmed down alot since first joining the company. Something about charting a new path in life.

    Gender: Female Age: Unknown Height: 171cm Birthday: August Eighth Hair Color: Ginger Eye Color: Muddy Green Defining feature: Exceptionally long hair

31. #31Rodion

    Keys: Rodion, Gambler, Foodie, big woman, Rodya, Ninth Sinner, Sinner#9

    Rodion, more frequently known as Rodya, designated as Sinner#9, she is a lively and nonchalant woman with a preference for informal conversation and lifting the mood. She was previously affiliated with the Yurodiviye, having worked to overturn the injustices of the District 25 Backstreets prior to joining Limbus Company.

    There is a deep sadness within her veiled behind layers upon layers of performance.

    Name: Rodion Gender: Female Age: Unknown Height: 183cm Birthday: September Ninth Hair Color: Brunette Eye Color: Dark Blue Defining feature: Beauty mark under right eye

32. #32Dante

    Keys: Dante, Clock, Tick-tok, Tick-tock, Lighter, Manager, Executive Manager, Tenth Sinner, Sinner#10

    Dante, designated as the Manager of the Limbus Company Bus team (LCB) and Sinner#10, is a person with a permanently burning clock prosthesis for a head and a very strong case of amnesia. Their ability allows them to revive the Sinners they have forged a contract with. There are many side effects to said ability, but the benefits massively outweighs the drawbacks.

    Despite this, Dante has been adjusting to life in Limbus Company quite well.

    Gender: N/A Age: Unknown Height: No measurements have been taken Birthday: Unknown Hair Color: Fire Eye Color: None Defining feature: Prosthetic clock head that's permanently on fire

33. #33Emil Sinclair

    Keys: Sinclair, Emil, Emil Sinclair, Boy, young man, young lad, crybaby, Eleventh Sinner, Sinner#11, Sinc

    Emil Sinclair, more frequently known as just Sinclair, designated as Sinner#11, is an anxious and self-conscious man with a blatantly empathetic nature. He was previously affiliated with the prosthetic-famous town of Calw, having lived and attended school there prior to joining Limbus Company.

    He has been growing into his own here at Limbus Company, he is now a fully-fledged member of the team.

    Gender: Male Age: 20 Height: 164cm Birthday: November Eleventh Hair Color: Pale Blond Eye Color: Gold Defining feature: Underlying anger issues beneath meek exterior

34. #34Outis

    Keys: Outis, hag, Bootlicker, drill sergeant, Twelfth Sinner, Sinner#12

    Outis, designated as Sinner#12, is a brusque and assertive woman with a poorly-disguised inclination to look down on those around her. Previously affiliated with the Smoke War, she has a tendency to judge others based on her experiences there prior to joining Limbus Company.

    She hasn't changed a bit.

    Gender: Female Age: Unknown Height: 175cm Birthday: December Twelfth Hair Color: Dark Brown Eye Color: Light Brown Defining feature: Gold earrings and silver wristwatch

35. #35Gregor Samsa

    Keys: Gregor, Bug Guy, Claw arm, Chain-smoker#2, scruffy uncle, Thirteenth Sinner, Sinner#13

    Gregor Samsa, or just Gregor for short, designated as Sinner#13, is a good-humored and composed man with a bit of a competitive side. He was previously affiliated with the Smoke War, having fought for the Old G Corp. alongside other bug-augmented test subjects prior to joining Limbus Company.

    Despite becoming more adjusted to society again in recent months, Gregor still displays acute symptoms of PTSD, most likely from his time in the Smoke War.

    Gender: Male Age: Unknown Height: 167cm Birthday: Feburary Twenty Ninth Hair Color: Dark Brown Eye Color: Golden Brown Defining feature: Insectoid right arm

36. #36Vergilius

    Keys: Vergilius, Guide, Red Gaze, Color Fixer

    Vergilius is a Color Fixer known as the Red Gaze. He is employed as the guide of Limbus Company and dedicated to his role as caretaker of Charon, rarely showing his true strength as a Color.

    Gender: Male Age: Unknown Height: Unknown Birthday: Unknown Hair Color: Dark Grey Eye Color: Red Defining feature: Red eyes sharing his title's namesake

37. #37Charon

    Keys: Charon, Bus Driver, Bus girlie, Guide's kid

    Charon, is the offbeat, childishly strange driver of Limbus Company's bus, Mephistopheles.

    Gender: Female Age: Unknown Height: Unknown Birthday: Unknown Hair Color: Grey Eye Color: Light Grey Defining feature: Grey skin

38. #38Hohenheim

    Keys: Hohenheim, chief researcher, Chief Researcher LCE Head Researcher

    Hohenheim is the chief researcher working for Limbus Company as part of the LCE Department. Hohenheim is a spindly man with unkempt blue hair, gray eyes, and round glasses. In the present, he most often holds a tired, neutral expression with prominent dark circles under his eyes and stubble. He wears an E.G.O gear of the Shock Centipede.

    Hohenheim is blunt and straightforward, often making arrogant and haughty remarks without consideration of others, making him disliked by most. Concurrent with his arrogance, Hohenheim is vastly intelligent, being a high-ranking researcher both past and present. He is said to have a "highly irresponsible level of curiosity," putting both his safety and the safety of others after his desire to experiment and gain results. Despite his apparent callousness, he carries deep grief and survivor's guilt from his past at Lobotomy Corporation. To cope, he suppresses his emotions and covers them with an exaggerated act of his usual brash behavior. However, his anguish is expressed, even unintentionally, by his generally disheveled appearance and disregard for self-preservation.

39. #39Alyssa

    Keys: Alyssa, assistant researcher, Assistant researcher, LCE assistant researcher

    Alyssa is an assistant researcher working for Limbus Company as part of the LCE Department. Alyssa is a woman with long red hair, featuring blunt bangs, tied into two pigtails, fastened by small flames associated with the E.G.O Suit she is wearing, as well as red eyes.

    Alyssa is a dedicated researcher focused on furthering the studies of the LCE Department. She is a casual, collected, and reliable individual who has a habit of making witty comments. Compared to Marton, Alyssa's personality appears to align more with Hohenheim's, with her leaning into humor and aloofness as a means to get through emotionally taxing situations. Alyssa also possesses a surprisingly strong sense of justice, able to swallow her own struggles in favor of supporting her department but growing averse toward the mistreatment of others.

40. #40Marton

    Keys: Marton, Assistant Researcher, assistant researcher, LCE Assistant Researcher

    Marton was an assistant researcher working for Limbus Company as part of the LCE Department. Marton was a tall man with dark blue hair worn in a parted manner and amber eyes. He is seen wearing an E.G.O Suit extracted from the Abnormality Faelantern.

    Marton is a dedicated researcher focused on furthering the studies of the LCE Department. He is a steadfast, collected, and reliable individual who demonstrates great loyalty toward his company and associates. Compared to Hohenheim and Alyssa, Marton appears more cynical and less proud, without as much of the aloofness and wit the other two carry themselves with. When he does quip, his delivery is rather deadpan. Marton is also clearly caring and observant, but does not let it get in the way of his duties.

    Following the raid on Limbus Company headquarters by the House of Spiders, Marton was slain in battle.

41. #41

    Keys: Moses, On-site Investigative Reasoning Team Leader, LCD Team Leader

    Moses is a member of the LCD and the On-site Investigative Reasoning Team Leader. Moses is a short, middle aged woman with dark hair and white highlights, and visible wrinkles around her eyes. She has pale skin and dark grey eyes.

    Moses holds a calm and analytical attitude to any situations that she happens to find herself in, be it facing distortions or near-death scenarios. Even in moments of extreme danger, she is able to keep her composure and unravel the source of any distortions she happens to find herself against. She has a deep trust in her allies, especially her assistant Ezra, trusting in their combat capabilities and ability to stay safe while she utilizes her analytical skills. She does not seem to have any aversion to shortening her own life-span if it means that it will protect either her or the people close to her, much to Ezra's dismay.

42. #42Ezra

    Keys: Ezra, LCD member, LCD task force member, member of the LCD, Member of the LCD

    Ezra is a member of the LCD's Distortion Task Force and the loyal assistant to Moses. She is a Grade 3 Fixer, a tall woman with red eyes and long blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail, and adorned with a star-shaped pin. She wears a large gray jacket with orange trimmings, matching boots, and a black miniskirt over gray tights. Ezra always carries a dimensional bag with her, which contains all of her weapons and first-aid gear. Her coat and bag are covered in stickers, patches and pins, as Ezra is fond of decorating everything she owns.

    Ezra is a bubbly, boisterous person that is enthusiastic about many of life's joys. She speaks casually with everyone she meets, leading to her struggling to keep secrets or keeping up an act when attempting to lay low. Her favorite things to do are snack on good food, especially sweets, and research and discuss the latest and greatest weaponry in the City. As seen when dealing with Distortions, Ezra has the tendency to act without thinking and can get herself into trouble, but this is counteracted by Moses always looking out for Ezra's safety. In return, Ezra is willing to protect Moses with her life.

43. #43Vespa

    Keys: Vespa Crabro, Vespa, Yellow Harpoon, Color Fixer, LCD member, Member of the LCD, member of the LCD

    Vespa Crabro is a Color Fixer known as the 'Yellow Harpoon' and a member of the LCD, working alongside Moses and Ezra. He previously worked as a Taboo Hunter of N Corp., but was expelled from his position and began working with Moses' Office on jobs related to the Distortion Phenomenon. Vespa is a tall and muscular man with pale skin and short black hair with yellow highlights, which he typically wears slicked back. He dons square glasses and has a tired look on his face.

    Vespa is a serious and calculating individual, almost always acting in a manner that is both highly professional and detached from any emotions. He is well aware of his abilities and limits, frequently giving accurate assessments of how long a battle will take and never attempts to present himself as more capable than he actually is. Thanks to his time as a Taboo Hunter, he is highly observant and intelligent, able to quickly gather the basics of a situation and adjust his plans accordingly. This also makes him very adaptable, and he has a high level of mental fortitude that allows him to do even unpleasant things in order to survive, as seen by him turning to cannibalism to prevent starvation. Despite this cold demeanor, Vespa has a sense of justice that he tries to follow and does not enjoy killing people needlessly. When talking to others for reasons unrelated to work, he respects peoples wishes when they ask him to not inquire about certain topics and rarely attempts to force his opinions on others. He has a fondness for vehicles and is a skilled driver, and enjoys cinnamon tea.

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