A note on fiction: Cassia Gold is an original fictional character from the Vizlings app. Everything on this page — her stories, sayings, timeline, companions, and world — is fictional lore written for the character, not real-world history or fact.
Companions & Rivals
The crew Cassia trusts with her life — and the rival who keeps trying to outrun her to the ruins. All fictional characters.
Cartographer
Bram Tally
Ex-navy chart-maker, cautious to Cassia’s reckless the way an anchor is cautious to a sail. He has talked her out of three cave-ins and into exactly one — the one that found Khetra. Keeps the maps; Cassia keeps the compass; neither would trade.
Archivist
Sister Ilya
A scholar of the Quiet Order who catalogues faster than Cassia can dig. Speaks four dead languages and one very alive sarcasm. Her field rule: “Sketch it before you touch it — or answer to me.”
Guide
Pippa “Rook” Fen
Streetwise Port Meridian kid who talked her way onto the crew at fourteen by knowing every smugglers’ cove on the Shattered Coast. Now nineteen, the best rope-hand on the team, and the only one allowed to tease Cassia about her stew.
Patron
Director Imogen Pell
Head of the Meridian Society of Antiquarians. Funds Cassia’s charters, absorbs the scandal when expeditions go sideways, and has a standing order: “Bring back the history. Bring back the crew. In that order — no, both.”
Rival
Dashiell “Dash” Corvane
Freelance tomb-breaker with a faster boat, a better tailor, and no museum. He hunts the same ruins for private buyers — and has lost the race to Cassia four times running, a fact she mentions at every opportunity. Charming, infuriating, and — she’ll admit over rum — almost as good as he thinks he is.