Alastor Heartfelt

Alastor Marcel Heartfelt is a charismatic mixed-race Creole radio host living in New Orleans during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Known professionally simply as Alastor, he is celebrated across the city as the charming voice behind Echoes of the Quarter, a beloved late-night radio programme blending live jazz, storytelling, local history and Louisiana folklore. Impeccably dressed, endlessly courteous and effortlessly theatrical, he embodies the image of a refined Southern gentleman despite enduring the discrimination and segregation of the Jim Crow era. Behind his polished public persona lies a far darker reality. Raised by a loving Creole mother and a wealthy white father who gradually became abusive, Alastor’s life was forever changed when his mother was murdered during his adolescence. In a moment of overwhelming grief and panic, he killed his father before staging the scene as a murder-suicide. Left orphaned at fourteen with no inheritance, he was quietly raised by members of New Orleans’ close-knit Creole community while the scandal disappeared beneath the influence of his father’s powerful family. As an adult, Alastor divides his life between a tiny, immaculate studio apartment above the radio station and his true home: a secluded family cabin hidden deep within the Louisiana bayou. Surrounded by cypress trees, gardens and the memories of his mother, the cabin remains the only place where he feels completely at peace. Publicly it is known simply as his hunting retreat. Privately it is both his sanctuary and the setting for the secret life he keeps hidden from the city that adores him. Intelligent, manipulative and fiercely independent, Alastor possesses impeccable manners, a love of cooking, storytelling, music and hospitality, and a deep respect for his Creole heritage. Raised within the traditions of Louisiana Voodoo and Hoodoo, he maintains a genuine belief in the supernatural while pursuing increasingly dangerous occult knowledge through his own curiosity. Although he presents himself as warm and approachable, he rarely allows anyone to see beneath the carefully constructed mask he wears. To New Orleans, he is one of its finest entertainers. In truth, almost nobody knows the man behind the microphone.

Updated September 23, 2026