Angus Sliders - Characters

(If you want to imagine your own characters do not look at this page!)

By the way - Some character images on this page are stylized!

Max Calder (Raven)

6'1", lean, wiry, and athletic with a deep scar along his left jawbone.  Highly intelligent, capable of memorizing entire blueprints or decoding field ciphers in minutes.  Operates on a knife's edge - psychologically damaged from years of war, betrayal, and encounters with unexplained phenomena.  Exhibits symptoms of PTSD, insomnia, and temporal dissonance - periods where his perception of time is inconsistent or fractured.  Seen too much and trusts little because the past won’t stay where he left it.

Alicia Rayes (Artemis)

5'6" With a slender, lithe, dancer's frame and a marksman's posture.  Her Hazel-green eyes with flecks of gold can "see through people".  Small tattoo of an arrow just below her left collarbone.  Calculated, dangerously intelligent, and capable of blending seamlessly into any social stratum.  An instinctual ability to extract secrets and the truth.  Radiates a sense of control yet masks a fractured past and broken alliances.  Burdened by the knowledge that time can be weaponized.

Kim Philby

The embodiment of quiet treachery — an urbane, softly spoken Englishman concealing an iron loyalty to Moscow.  Educated at Westminster and Cambridge, he carried himself with the assurance of privilege, his charm disarming even the suspicious.  Within MI6, he was brilliant, reliable, a man born to the service.  Yet behind his calm blue eyes lay the cold precision of a true believer, a Soviet double agent who betrayed not out of greed, but Communist ideology — and never once looked back.

Nicholas Elliott

The archetype of the gentleman spy — urbane, loyal, and devastatingly competent beneath a veneer of effortless charm.  Born into privilege and educated at Eton and Cambridge, he embodied the quiet confidence of Britain’s old intelligence elite.  In MI6, he was trusted implicitly, a man who valued discretion above drama.  His friendship with Kim Philby would become both his greatest loyalty and his deepest wound — the betrayal that shattered not only their bond, but his faith in the Service itself.

James Angleton

The poet-spy of the Cold War — brilliant, paranoid, and perpetually entangled in his own web of suspicion. Educated at Yale, he blended literary intellect with ruthless intuition.  As CIA counter-intelligence chief, he saw deception everywhere — and often wasn’t wrong.  Cigarette in hand, eyes half-hidden behind smoke, he dissected loyalty like a surgeon studying disease.  To friends he was eccentric; to enemies, inscrutable.  To history, he remains America’s ghost within its own mirror.

Charles Fraser-Smith

The quiet craftsman behind British espionage’s most ingenious tools — his imagination armed a generation of spies.  He designed disguised radios, hollow shaving brushes, and escape kits for MI6 and the SOE, all with a twinkle of mischief and precision.  Polite, practical, and deeply secretive, he turned ordinary objects into miracles of deception — the invisible engineer of wartime cunning and model for Ian Fleming's Q’s understated brilliance.

Yuri Modin

the consummate Soviet intelligence officer — calm, cultured, and dangerously perceptive.  Fluent in English and irony, he moved through London society with the ease of a diplomat and the precision of a chess master.  As handler to the Cambridge spies, he dealt not in threats but understanding, wielding charm as effectively as control — the quiet conductor of Britain’s most elegant betrayal.

Malcolm Shaw (Hawthorne)

Once one of the architects of strategic recursion theory within the Bureau.  A gifted analyst, he was recruited after publishing a series of covert white papers on predictive quantum architecture.  Responsible for developing the early recursion containment model frameworks for Sliders, including Max Calder.  One of the few operatives who never slid himself - but understood the pathways better than anyone who had.

Elspeth Moreau (Orphea)

A woman carved from precision and silence — small in stature, but commanding through the chill of her composure.  Her eyes missed nothing, her movements deliberate, her voice as sharp as a scalpel.  As the leader of the Nameless Nine, she became its quiet conscience and occasional executioner, mastering secrets the way others mastered lies.  Her austere dress and immaculate posture were armor, concealing a mind built for strategy, a tragic past and a soul long since traded for certainty.

Seymour Finch (Strand)

An MI6 officer of rare subtlety — charming, exacting, and quietly manipulative.  Trained in counter-intelligence and tradecraft during the war, he learned early that information mattered more than allegiance, which was behind his move to the Bureau and then back to MI6, finishing up disguised as a baggage handler.  Equally fluent in truth and deception, he moves between loyalties like smoke — indispensable, untraceable, and never entirely on anyone’s side.

Victor Haldane (Axis)

Lean, sharp-featured, and utterly controlled — weighed every word before speaking.  Cool and calculating he gave nothing away.  Immaculate in dark pinstripes, he moved with the certainty of authority.  Not feared for cruelty, but for his flawless, unrelenting precision.

Cameron McLeod (Rift)

A slight, wiry Scotsman with grim, calculating eyes and a mind honed like a blade.  Quiet and spare in speech, he carried suspicion as naturally as breath.  A reluctant field man, he saw through everyone — not out of cynicism, but because experience had left him no choice.

Finlay Campbell

The picture of quiet authority — a broad, steady Scotsman with a banker’s calm and a soldier’s memory.  Ran his branch with precision and understated control.  Clients trusted his handshake and his staff feared his silence.