Frankenstein (The Original? 100 Years Old? Himself? Byron? Shelley?) - hero?
Nemo (Sindbad? Dread Pirate Roberts? Prince Dakkar?) - dies?
Robur (Pedro de Vargas? Phileas Fogg? Capt. Sir Hugh Tregillis?) - dies?
The Traveler (Prester John? Walking Stewart? Sherlock Holmes? The Time Traveler?) -villain?
The Wild Man (Tarzan? Korak? Tor? David Innes? John Carter? The Mucker?) - antihero?
Queen of Venus: Hadazsp, Empress of the Cloud Cities of Earth & Venus - villainess? love?
High-King: Kaddej Kh'arzh, War-Wizard of the Giant-Angels, Blue Men of Mars - antihero?
Ant-Queen: Lady Selene of the Moonfolk, Ant-Men of the Phantom Planet - big bad end boss?
Dark Stranger: Ambassador-Assassin of the Green Folk of Lilith, Neith and Volund - ?
Note: All have an obsession with longevity, reanimation, disguise, intrigue and forbidden knowledge on the bleeding edge of alchemy and science, magic and technology, metaphysics and engineering.
Note: What starts as Gothic horror mixed with Verne-esque steampunk and Wellsian scientifiction is filtered through Stevenson/Doyle penny dreadful action-adventure and transmogrified into Burroughs-like sword-and-sandal-planet-blaster interplanetary intrigue and science-fantasy-meets-space-opera, to create an alternate solar system of inhabited planets, with a shared, secret, hidden history of ancient terror, unholy monstrosities and unspeakable abominations.
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