Benevolent Lodge of Mystery

Benevolent Lodge of Mystery / Mentor

Finnian Varnsworth II, known as Commander, built the Benevolent Lodge of Mystery from old military discipline and a refusal to ignore what others dismiss as superstition. A decorated Geistatts veteran, he turned from battlefield command to supernatural investigation, leading his lodge against hauntings, occult threats, and dangers polite society would rather name coincidence. His danger sense gives him only moments of warning, but Finnian has spent a lifetime making moments count. Outdated or not, he is still watching the dark.

Benevolent Lodge of Mystery / Weapon Master

Theadora du Montclair, known as Cutlass, left aristocratic comfort behind for locked windows, moonlit rooftops, and duels worth remembering. An elven swashbuckler of the Benevolent Lodge of Mystery, she brings charm and unpredictability to the group’s investigations, especially when noble doors need opening from the wrong side. Her shapeshifting makes her a natural infiltrator, though she rarely lingers in any borrowed face. To Theadora, identity is a tool, freedom is the prize, and every secret has a weak point.

Benevolent Lodge of Mystery / Supernatural Senses

Had a meeting with my supervisor and she said that when she pulled my data this morning she realized that the tracker that has been being used in my monthly meetings was set up incorrectly so that since she took over my numbers have been wrong And I basically was like “Well it’s obviously not your fault, since you’re…

Benevolent Lodge of Mystery / Necromancy (Gravespeaking)

Norman Shankswell is a Geistatts gravespeaker and Benevolent Lodge investigator who reads hauntings, old violence, and the dead as evidence.

Benevolent Lodge of Mystery / Technopathy

Vala Gearsprocket, known as Toolbox, is a gnome artificer and cryptotechnologist of the Benevolent Lodge of Mystery, where unsolved hauntings meet field-tested machinery. Brilliant, eccentric, and Chaotic Good, she began building constructs in childhood and never stopped improving them. Her Witchborn technogenius lets her create small animated companions, repair equipment under pressure, and deploy “Mystery Machine” devices that turn investigation into controlled chaos. Within the Lodge, Vala provides the technological edge that ghost stories rarely expect. Some of her constructs behave beyond their design, but she insists that is only a problem after the case is solved.