Characters
- Emma Ravenhearst - A teacher from Iowa who travelled to Blackpool, England to continue her teaching career. There she met Charles Dalimar, who fell in love with her. He asked her hand in marriage but she refused. Because of that, Charles slowly poisoned Emma to death and imprisoned her soul by burying her body within the manor. In this game she briefly assists you at the start and is last spotted carrying Rose and her girls away from the manor as it burns into the ground.
- Rose Somerset - Emma's nursemaid and mother of Gwendolyn and Charlotte Somerset. She was kidnapped and imprisoned under the Manor by Charles after the murder of Emma Ravenhearst. He later forced himself upon her, leading to the conception of Victor (a letter to Emma reveals this late in the adventure). Her soul was bound to a contraption used to keep Charles's body and Emma's soul alive. Her tormented soul is hidden in a secret alcove near the underground docking area of the "Rose" section in the basement.
- Gwendolyn and Charlotte Somerset - The twin daughters of Rose Somerset. Like their mother, they were also kidnapped and imprisoned. After an unsuccessful attempt to escape, their souls were also bound to Charles' device, they were kept in a large gingerbread cottage at the end of the "Twins" section in the basement.
- Victor Dalimar - Charles Dalimar's equally mad son as well as the biological son of Rose. An elderly aged man who is very cranky, he is the housekeeper of Ravenhearst and guards it from anyone who trespasses the manor. In the end he escapes using a time machine and returns to 1895. The launch and the player's dismantling of Charles's immortality device ignites a conflagration that destroys Ravenheast Manor and all of the Dalimar's evil works... or does it?
- Charles Dalimar - The main antagonist of the Ravenhearst storyline. In the first chapter of the saga, Charles was desperately in love with Emma Ravenhearst, he proposed to Emma Ravenhearst but was turned down. He made a second attempt by building Ravenhearst Manor but was yet again refused. Driven to madness, he began poisoning Emma to keep her close, hiring Rose Somerset as her nursemaid, but when the poison eventually killed Emma, Charles kidnapped Rose and her children for assistance building his spirit-warming device, then killing them to use their souls to power the machine and keep himself and Emma immortal. Charles later forced himself on Rose, leading to the conceiving of Victor Dalimar.
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