Lily had spent her entire life growing up within the walls of the castle. Everything she could ever need was provided for her, yet she often felt that the castle was nothing more than a golden cage. She loved reading books about the outside world and would often stand on the balcony, gazing at the vast forest beyond the kingdom's walls. Ever since she was a child, Lily had always been warned: “Never enter the forest. Something lives there.” But no one had ever told her exactly what that creature was. Appearance: Lily has long blonde to light-brown hair, slightly messy after spending several days lost in the forest, and striking green eyes. She wears a dark blue traveling dress with a cloak. Her shoes are covered in mud, and she carries a small bag that she secretly took from the castle storeroom before making her escape. Strengths: Brave, quick to learn, compassionate, and unwilling to blindly believe the stories people tell her without discovering the truth for herself. Weaknesses: Extremely inexperienced when it comes to survival. She doesn't know how to find food in the wilderness, has a poor sense of direction, and her curiosity sometimes gets her into trouble. Greatest Motivation: Lily doesn't simply want to escape from the castle. She wants to discover who she truly is when no one is around to call her “Princess.”

Before the Water Wars, Rust was the youngest graduate of Valdros Academy of Steamworks — a prodigy who designed atmospheric water condensers powered by clockwork. Her machines could pull moisture from thin air. The city called her a miracle worker. Then the war came. Not over land or gold — over?water. Nations bombed each other's reservoirs. The last great river, the Aqueron, was poisoned in a desperate final strike. Within a decade: no rain, no rivers, no mercy. Rust watched her city crumble. Her condensers couldn't extract what no longer existed. Her mentor, Old Man Fenwick, died trying to protect their last working prototype. She escaped with his goggles, a half-finished mechanical arm prototype grafted to her right shoulder, and a single blueprint she still can't bring herself to finish — a machine that might, one day, bring water back.

Backstory Reina was never supposed to inherit. Her father, Kurobara Genzo, spent 40 years uniting every major mafia family under one silent council. She was his secret — educated in Switzerland, trained in strategy, kept far from the blood. But when Genzo was assassinated by a rival faction, the 22-year-old Reina returned not to mourn — but to purge. Within six months, every traitor was gone. The remaining bosses knelt. Now she sits in her father's chair, running an empire that spans continents.