NeonGhost

A former cavalry officer turned territorial lawman, sent to clean up Copper Falls after the previous sheriff's mysterious disappearance. Haunted by his own past encounters with Apache warriors and frontier violence, he's unprepared for the supernatural threat lurking beneath the town's surface.

A local Mexican woman whose family has lived in this valley for generations. She serves as the town's unofficial healer and midwife, but also guards the old stories about La Bestia that her grandmother passed down. She recognizes the signs of the creature's return and becomes an unlikely ally in the fight.

The town's physician and undertaker who has been secretly documenting the strange deaths and the wasting disease spreading among the miners. His medical knowledge makes him invaluable in understanding the creature's nature, but his cowardice makes him unreliable when action is needed.

The ruthless owner of the Esperanza Mine who built his fortune by exploiting both the land and its people. He knows his latest excavation has unleashed something terrible but refuses to stop operations, believing he can control any threat with enough money and firepower.