Name: IcebladeKnown Info: Iceblade is a caucasian elf out of Tir Tairngir. A magician following a little-known tradition called the Swordmage, and following the Shark, he is somewhat distinctive for the highly decorative blades he uses, with custom AR overlays. Unlike some runners, Iceblade maintains a cover identity as Count Mirikon Mollen, an exiled Tir noble living the high life. In this persona, he can usually be found in any of the best clubs in any sprawl he goes to. While the Crash makes any information before 2064 suspect at best, there is a SIN in Tir Tairngir under that name and general biometric data (the picture has been lost), saying that Count Mollen was in the Tir Tairngir Peace Forces, assigned to the Ghosts. However, other biographical data has been lost or erased, though childhood records from before his Naming may exist. However, there is no record of what he was called before his Naming. When asked why he left the Tir, all he'll say is that "Popular revolutions tend to be bad for your health when you're a nobleman."
In his runner persona, Iceblade carries himself like a professional. He has a bias towards elves and the Awakened, though anyone who proves themselves capable will get a certain level of respect from him. During the technomancer scare, Iceblade actually took up arms protecting some technomancers from a mob in Seattle. He has shown an intense dislike for Aztlan and Aztechnology, and is usually eager to take jobs that will harm the big A. While he has no bias for or against the Infected, per se, he has shown a need for a very strong drink when the topic of ghouls shows up. When asked why he left the Tir, he'll just shake his head, get another drink, and say that he had a 'bad experience'.
Name: Kusanagi MotokoKnown info: A half-Japanese, half-caucasian human from Neo-Tokyo, Motoko is, at first glance, a woman in her early twenties who is utterly obsessed with anime. And that's not far from the truth. Of course, when one digs deeper, one finds that she's a technomancer, who spent most of '71 hiding behind the Yakuza for protection from lynch mobs and snatchers. She is known to follow the E-scapist stream, and answers to a digital entity called Alias. Despite having contacts in the Yakuza, Motoko seems driven to spoof most aspects of her lifestyle, perhaps as an extension of her belief that the Matrix, where everything is changeable, is her true home, and the meat world is just someplace she is forced to visit now and then.
One odd thing about Motoko is that she has taken steps to compensate for the fact that hackers are more often than not expected to come with the team, rather than staying in the van, meaning that they can often find themselves in combat in the meat world. She's started to become fairly good with the Barret 121 that she always brings with her on runs, and her Steel Lynx makes for an excellent shield, as well as helping to add offensive firepower to her team. One downside to her fascination with anime, however, is that whenever she hacks a node, she always leaves behind a tag in the form of an icon from an old anime series.
FaustKnown Info: Caucasian male, typically takes jobs as a street samurai and enforcer. Only obvious ware is a datajack and some blue cybereyes. He appeared on the Seattle scene shortly after Crash 2.0. Not much is known about his past, in no small part because whatever he can remember, he isn't willing to tell anyone. Scuttlebutt is that he worked for Renraku before the shutdown. These rumors persist in part because of the Red Samurai armor he wears when he's expecting a real fight. He admits to having been in the Arcology during the shutdown, but refuses to say anything, mainly due to 'bad memories'. He's got a rep as a good fighter, but he's shown signs of being mentally unstable, going through manic periods where he claims to hear the Lord whispering to him through the Matrix.
WyrmtongueBelial was born in Angkor Wat, the Naga Kingdom. As a young naga, he was captured in the wild, and sold as a parasecurity critter to Mitsuhama, spending most of his time in a MCT facility in Seattle. He endured six long years of this slavery, before the Corporate Court declared that nagas were sapient creatures, to be afforded the same rights as metahumans. Freed from his corporate bonds, Belial was released into Seattle, without even a commlink to his name.
In this way, he was found by a member of the Seoulpa Rings, who was looking for talent for their porn trids. Not knowing what he was signing up for, Belial agreed to be in several trids, in a starring role. The vore porn trids made him enough money to get on his feet in the shadows. A recent addition to the Seattle shadow scene, Belial, now running as Wyrmtongue, tends to adopt a metahuman form when on the job, partially to be able to use weapons and armor, and partially to avoid the whole business of him being a Naga, which isn't a protected species in the UCAS.
