Human Age Definition: Adult is over the age of 19, Youth age 13 to 18, able to work and quit school to learn a trade, Child age 12 and under.
Samuel Peter MacLachlan: MC
Sam’s Family
Gideon MacLachlan: Sam’s Brother, owner Each Ranch
Euan Pollok: Sam’s Brother-in-law
Ruth MacLachlan Pollok: Sam’s sister
Sam’s Lance
“Bull” Harald Fisher: Sam’s companion
Tom: Thomas Schultz: Sam’s companion
Alex Bartholomew Chalmers: Sam’s companion
Gunner: James Halprin: Sam’s companion, deceased
Each Ranch workers
Ian: Ranch Hand
Frazier: Ranch Hand
Toothpick: Motseske :Blackfoot: Ranch hand
5 Ranch Hands
2 women cooking and cleaning
Un-named Survivors at Each Ranch
New widow age 37 and her 5 children age 3 to 14
Orphan girl age 12
young man age 17
young man of 18 with his wife 19 and baby under 1 year
People that are part of the group for Refuge or Sam’s Troop
Jessica Brigit Dadann
Shay Dowling: US Army, recruited by Jessica
Widow Nessa Hayes: Shay’s sister
Imogen Dowling: Shay’s sister
Eamon Nolan: PFC retired US Cavalry: widower
Vada O’Toole Nolan: Taken up on the 21st. Wife of Eamon
Gale Sammon: Local builder: Newly wed: brought by Jesssica
Lana Sammon: Wife of Gale: Newly weds under 2 years married
Casey Walsh: Farmer: brought by Jessica
Gittan Wash: Wife, mother, farmer: Brought by Jessica
Sachihiro, Raakel, Nadir and Wade: the Children of Casy and Gittan.
Wilhelm Lieb: Corporal USMC 2nd Samoan Civil War
Mary Lieb: Grand daughter Wilhelm
Olak Gee: Youth rescued on recruitment mission.
Gary Ulmer: age 15 rescued by ranch hands, apprentice blacksmith/armorer
Moses Moon: Sgt 3rd Pioneer Battalion, USMC Ret.
Francis Eldritch: Sgt First Pioneer Battalion of Engineers, Mounted, Ret.
Alfred Ulmer: ist LT US Army artillery
Ernst Ulmer: Son of Alfred
9 unnamed adult males
9 unnamed adult females
2 unnamed youths male
4 unnamed youths female
1 unnamed child male
6 unnamed children female.
Stevensville
Father Hugh: Priest at St. Joseph’s in Stevensville
Pastor John Dawsen: Stevensville Methodist Church
Doc Diedrich: Dr Stevensville
Torrence: Saloon owner in Stevensville
Charles Jackson: Hardware store owner Stevensville
Widow McArther: Stevensville: burned a man’s face with a slap
Frank Bohn: Imogen suitor
House of Worship Stevensville
St Joseph’s Catholic Church
Stevensville Methodist Church
Stevensville Brudergemenine: Unity of Brethren of Stevensville or more commonly Moravian Church of Stevensville.
Meier Farm
Fieke Meier: Mother
Gerwin Meier: Husband Deceased
Erwin Meier: Son
Wastl Meier: Son
Astrid Meier: Daughter
Alburna Meier: Taken the 21st
Falk Meier: Taken the 21st
Corvallis
Marco Serrano Capt. 163rd US Cavalry Ret. commanding a ten man scout unit.
Jesper Cantin: Mayor
Cade Lanier: Major 15th Infantry Battalion US Army Ret.
Hamilton
Capt. Vadik Borg USMC Ret. Commanding town
1st Sgt Shirl Young USMC Ret. 2nd in Command
This reads less like a cast list and more like a quiet act of worldbuilding in itself. The way you catalogue people, places, and mythos gives the sense of a frontier society being counted because survival depends on knowing who is still standing. I really liked how the mundane details, ranch hands, widows, children, horses, dogs, sit right alongside gods, spirits, and creatures without any tonal whiplash. It makes the supernatural feel lived-in rather than decorative, like it’s always been part of the land and people just learned to name it differently over time. The repeated notes of loss, especially who was taken and who remains, quietly shape the emotional weight of the setting without ever spelling it out. One thing I’m genuinely curious about: as the story moves forward, do you see this document becoming something the characters themselves would conceptually keep or reference in-world, or is it meant to stay purely for the reader as a way to feel the scale and cost of the world as it grows??