| Simple Template | Description | Book |
|---|---|---|
| Cocky Mob Hitman | Shoots first, not really here for anything else | CofD 119 |
| Excitable Munitions Expert | May be either anti- or pro-terrorism. | CofD 119 |
| Fanatical Cult Leader | Or anyone with dangerously loyal followers. | CofD 119 |
| Hard-Nosed Beat Cop | Long experienced and long past caring. | CofD 120 |
| Obsessed Demon Cultist | Someone who knows too much and trusts little. | CofD 120 |
| Slick Professional Grifter | Fast talker, fast thinker, knows the right people. | CofD 121 |
| World-Weary Private Eye | Should know better than to pry, but doesn't. | CofD 121 |
| Character | Description | Book |
| Benjamin Wayne Masters | Troubled missionary turned fervid cult leader preaching of a clockwork god. | CofD 240 |
| Dr. Henri Girard | Occult mechanist reaching across time to prevent his own mistakes from dooming the world. | CofD 241 |
| Joseph Moore | Theoretical physicist hollowed out and filled with the knowledge of a distant God. | CofD 243 |
| Margret Avery | Corporate administrator in charge of sacrificial human resources. | CofD 245 |
| Mark Wilson, "Truth" | Hacktivist pawn manipulated by an inhuman conspiracy. | CofD 246 |
| Melissa Charles | Witness to the God-Machine who keeps her head low and collects anomalous artifacts. | CofD 247 |
| Samuel Hackett | Military test subject programmed as a conspiratorial sleeper agent. | CofD 248 |
| Sarah Andrews | Gifted child endangered by her ability to perceive the workings of the God-Machine. | CofD 249 |
| Wesley Cote | Man folded across nonlinear time by inhuman forces to be molded as a killer. | CofD 250 |