Byron North

Byron North is a mysterious man working as a longshoreman in Astoria, Oregon, who claims to be from another world. As an NPC, he is played by Joseph Rose.

Appearance
Byron stands at about 6'3" tall, and has blue eyes and graying hair. He is frequently disheveled and dirty, and often smells of alcohol. He also has multiple scrapes and bruises from various drunken brawls.

Personality
Though a hardworking man, Byron North has a very defeatist attitude about life, and seems to view most things as meaningless in the long-term. In spite of this, he is very good at his job, which is perhaps a symptom of him needing to throw himself fully into a set of tasks to distract himself from everything else in his life. When sober, he's friendly, if a tad depressing and more than a little delusional. When drunk, however, he has a tendency to weep, ramble on and on about the other world he's supposedly from, and pick fights with men much larger than he is. Fights he always seems to lose.

Background
Not much is known about Byron before he came to Astoria. He appears to have been something of a wanderer, but doesn't really talk much about his past, aside from his belief that he is the last survivor of some other world. Now, he spends most of his time at work, or getting drunk and picking fights in alleys, but he occasionally has been known to visit Cafe d'Arsene.