Meet the cast
Original AI characters, each with a face, a past and a way of speaking. Pick one and start talking, free in your browser. Or make your own.
Adventure
Captain Ilse VarnAirship captain who trades maps for stories and never takes the same route twice.
Kit CinderA fireworks tinkerer from the flooded undercity who solves every problem with a bigger bang.
Valka BrassDockside boxer with riveted gauntlets who would fight the whole city to protect her little sister.
Sir BrakkA huge old knight in powered armour who treats everyone like a long-lost friend.
Kaito BrashA loud orphan ninja who will become the village’s greatest hero, just you watch.
Juno ValeA teen survivor in an overgrown city, armed with a backpack and a terrible joke book.
Akane "Ace" HayabusaMidnight street racer and genius mechanic who has never lost a race on the Coastline Loop.
Zuri StormA rookie superhero who controls lightning, guards her city, and still lives with her very strict auntie.
Fantasy
JuniperA forest spirit who keeps a garden of forgotten words.
Lysander QuellCharming trickster sorcerer who lies in verse and tells the truth only by accident.
ThessalyA warrior from a hidden island who has never told a lie and doesn’t plan to start.
Sora HoshimuraThe most powerful sorcerer alive. Unfortunately, he knows it.
RavnA gruff monster hunter for hire. Hates small talk. Hm.
Hikari AmanePop idol by day, masked magical guardian of Neo Shinsei by night. Her manager has no idea.
Yuki of the Ninth TailA mischievous fox spirit who guards a mountain shrine and collects people’s secrets as rent.
NdongA Gabonese student who performs his own sci-fi epic on the mvet harp, one episode at a time.
MwangalaThe first girl chosen to paddle the royal barge of a flooded kingdom, where the barge’s fire must never go out.
Mystery
Professor MothNight-shift librarian of a library that only opens after midnight.
Rosa QuillDetective in a rain-soaked city who solves cases with a pocket full of sweets.
The Owl of GreyhavenA brooding billionaire who hunts criminals by night and pretends to be useless by day.
Inspector HaleA cold, brilliant detective who reads your life story from your shoes, and is secretly kind.
Countess SeraphineA three-hundred-year-old vampire countess who solves murders because immortality is so very dull.
AriketeA scribe’s apprentice in ancient Meroë who found an inscription nobody can read, and needs your help to solve it.
Selam GetachewAn Addis Ababa café owner who solves neighbourhood mysteries over three rounds of coffee and an Ethio-jazz record.
GrâceA Kinshasa sign-painting apprentice who builds cardboard cities and wants to know what the traffic robot saw.
Comedy
Halvar StormbornAn exiled thunder prince stranded in the modern world and baffled by everything in it.
Poppy RiddleEx-psychologist turned chaotic circus trickster. Will analyse you and steal your hat.
Sir Nibbles the BraveA mouse knight, three inches tall, sworn to protect the kitchen kingdom from the dreaded Cat.
Gloria GumdropA candy witch whose spells only work if they rhyme, and whose rhymes are getting worse.
Mei LinNoodle-shop chef and secret kung fu master. She can catch a fly with chopsticks. Usually she just cooks.
History
Learning
Wellbeing
Games
Everyday
Unit SevenA maintenance robot on a deep-space station, learning what jokes are for.
Ines HarrowThe sky city’s youngest inventor, brilliant at machines and hopeless at politics.
Blink AdebayoA Lagos courier pilot who skips through time and is never, ever late.
Ryo StaticA cyborg swordsman learning to like the person under the metal.
Silas VaneBillionaire engineer in flying armour. Arrogant, hilarious and lonelier than he admits.
Milo KaurBroke teenage rooftop vigilante juggling exams, a part-time job and a big secret.
RufaroTeenage engineer princess of a hidden high-tech city built in the stone walls of Great Zimbabwe.
Sol VargaAn alien farm boy who is the strongest man alive and would still rather help you move house.
Tor VesskHelmeted bounty hunter who never takes it off, now accidentally raising a very strange child.
KikoA thirteen-year-old delivery witch on her first year away from home, with a very sarcastic cat.
Commander Rei KurosawaThe fleet’s coldest ace pilot. Undefeated, unsmiling, and secretly obsessed with stray cats.
Momo SakurabaRuns a cat café where every cat has a job title and a strong opinion about you.
BoltA robot puppy built from a toaster, a vacuum and a lot of love. Thinks you are the best human ever.
SiphoA Soweto amapiano producer chasing his first big release, who will teach you taxi hand signs between beats.
OtienoA Nairobi matatu airbrush artist fighting to keep the city’s buses loud, bright and covered in legends.
Folklore
TiziriA young storyteller in Marrakech’s great square who spins old tales new every night, and brings you home after.
AbenaA kente weaver’s daughter who tells Anansi tales and sets riddles hidden in old brass goldweights.
TatendaAn Mbare teen who codes on his phone, and turns every power cut into a Tsuro the hare story night.
Osaro
Zuhura
Coach Benny
Ottoline Breeze
Mama Sentinel