This is a comprehensive guide to every noteworthy character in the Astral Alignment series, as well as its spinoffs. MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD, read on at your own risk!
Abby Delgato
A lifeguard from Miami who was abducted by aliens, then met the spirit of Thoth Ao’Sigai who charged her with thwarting an invasion. She is unused to the supernatural and finds it jarring, but isn’t particularly skeptical and takes things at face value.
Abraxis-thar
A hegemon sent by Dakara to steal Minuet’s data cache. He fails and is captured, but ends up befriending her later on. His ultimate fate is likewise unknown.
Agravain, Sir
A Knight of the Round Table who accompanied Sir Lancelot on a search for the storyteller who slandered him. After being tricked into a duel with his fellow knight using cursed practice swords, Agravain was tragically killed.
Aisha Tasht
A previous incarnation of Willow Wilson, one of the Asetian primordials. She was an attorney and cult leader who forced Ray to help her revive her abyssal brothers, who reincarnated with her into the vampire’s newborn siblings.
Akhenaten
Also known as the Sun Tyrant, Akhenaten is a human/alien hybrid who, as pharaoh, attempted to ban all forms of traditional Egyptian religion. His sun-priests were brutal in attempting to crush it in Thebes, and he is shown to be incredibly ruthless.
Alexis
The leader of a witch coven that tried to recruit Morgana le Fey and poison Shadow. She despises males of any age and is shown to have stronger, more generalized magick than Morgana.
Allacon
An alien from the Pleiades who is in mental contact with Josiah. He began the channeling as a science project, but later worked to help the psychic and his companions survive the alignment.
Allison Redover
Eris’ mother, the queen of Refuge. She comes off as an affable ruler, but is ruthless enough to allow slavery in her lands, host gladiatorial games, negotiate with bandits and allow the Inquisition to hunt their prey. Allison secretly knows about her daughter’s pastimes but ignores them to keep Eris from causing any real trouble.
Altair
An otherkin shapeshifter in the distant future, part of the Freezone resistance to an Asetian empire. He is a werebear trained to fight corrupted vampires, and he acts as a mentor to junior fighters like Eridani.
Anish
A vimmana pilot from the Hollow Earth who rescued Mallory and Kyle from Delta Freya. He can speak English and presumably many other languages, and he helps acquaint the couple with Agarthan society.
Annabelle Hodgkins
Charon’s shy, goody-two-shoes best friend who comes from an extremely religious family. She found a dead body as a child and was traumatized by the experience. She is a devout Christian, but also a closeted lesbian, and Anna is terrified of both her family and going to hell. She encounters a being that nearly kills her at one point, but Anna gains the power to travel through Liminal Space from it. She is the adoptive mother of Xander Powers, along with Holly O’Reilly.
Apollyon
Also known as Aax, he is a kakodaimon of the Enochian watchtowers who has forsworn his oath to the angelic hierarchy. Apollyon is seeking the essence to open an Elder Gate that has been sealed off from the rest of the astral plane, thus freeing his kind and allowing them to overrun Theia. He lacks a true, physical body, but seems to rule over the Vrilya nonetheless.
Arbie
An unscrupulous pastor and faith healer living in Duskhaven. He dislikes Ray on account of her nature, but cooperates with her when necessary.
Archeotech, The
An artificial superintelligence created by the ancient hegemon to protect the Cybersphere, a planet-sized tomb to house their dead in virtual reality. It created a habitable surface for itself and became Neuarden long ago, but has been running at diminished capacity ever since. It helped Omega to destroy Inanis Aeternatus once and for all.
Arthur Pendragon
The legendary once and future king, displaced in time via the astral plane. He reappeared in modern-day Glastonbury and befriended a group of local children, who helped him acclimate to modern life. He battled a destructive witch and a Delta Freyan warlord, and is the current leader of New Camelot in the astral plane. Arthur is a vryn-user and possesses a form of pyrokinesis.
Aset
The Abyssal God of gluttony, indulgence and excess, creator of psychic vampires, succubi and many other negative beings. She is also called Lilith, and she is surprisingly the weakest of her pantheon. Thus, she prefers to act through proxies like her primordials and the Succubus Collective.
Asetian Primordials, The
Three demonic entities created by the abyssal god Aset, immortal on account of their ability to reincarnate with their memories intact, and sometimes awakened as vampires at birth. As Raven’s siblings they are cruel, remorseless killers despite being children, however they can still be killed temporarily with mundane weapons.
Ash
A woman from the same, unnamed astral enclave as Pierre who raids living castles for their crystal cores. She failed to extract one on her first trip, but was cleared by her instructor to try again on her own. Ash planned to harvest a smaller castle, either unaware or uncaring of the fact that they are sapient beings.
Asharru
The king of Nibiru, in charge of its war effort against the Valkyrians. He is thousands of years old, but his immortality leads him to repeatedly underestimate them. In the end, Asharru is assassinated by his own sister-wife.
Atrk’thagua
A quinpatella in Refuge under Garrett’s command. Like the rest of his kind, he longs for death in the hope of being free from Inanis’ control. After the abyssal god is banished though, he finds himself truly free and unsure of what to do. Cipactli takes him in soon after that, but her reasons for doing so are unknown.
Axlovi
A chrono-sniper on Vygar’s fireteam. Her retrorifle actually shoots tachyon bolts into the past, creating the illusion that she is catching projectiles with her weapon as enemies spontaneously combust.
Bartelby
A forestrunner healer-turned-leader of the Wild Covenant, a fanatical faction that takes Clover’s word as scripture. He possesses the power of Reiki.
Boors, Captain
Edgar’s replacement and the Raxifallian’s captain during its stint of privateering. Hawk and Selene did not know him well before the old captain died, but they became friends and fought their way across Makai with his crew.
Brian
Another member of the Raxifallian’s crew. He once locked a hungover Hawk in the brig and convinced him that, over the course of a drunken bender, he had committed a number of unforgivable crimes and was due to walk the plank.
Cabenu
A member of Vygar’s team with powerful psychic and magickal abilities. He was able to create a light-body vehicle that let them travel through Inquisitor’s inner sea, but quickly ran out of energy.
Caleb
A guardsman of Crowngar under Reginald’s command. He lacks any notable abilities, but is courageous and was willing to attack Inanis with a plain steel blade. In doing so, Caleb actually managed to cut the dark god’s physical form in half.
Calides
A jovial young man with an Australian accent who was abducted and brainwashed by Delta Freya. He is part of Stella’s “kindred” and became her friend after he was de-programmed. He is from a realm in the astral plane called the Brimstone Crag and has a succubus wife who still lives there.
Cessair
A member of the fomoire, a race of astral beings in the plane that Arthur’s group settles. She escapes the captivity of Isaiah and helps the knights defeat him. She is in a relationship with Tristan, and tends to walk around without clothes on.
Charon Williams
An edgy, rebellious girl who lost her brother in a mysterious, ritualistic suicide. She’s an amateur paranormal investigator and her father is a local policeman. Despite her metalhead goth aesthetic, Charon is smarter than she pretends to be, and ends up becoming a scientist of sorts during the alignment. She is best friends with Anna Hodgkins, and the two are inseparable.
Chuck
One of Wendell’s friends who was covertly brainwashed by Delta Freya, carrying a hidden directive to sabotage Josiah throughout their subsequent journey.
Cinder Reinhart
A young woman from California who, after a tumultuous life bouncing between foster families, perished in the alignment. As a ghost, she retained her rebellious, belligerent personality and willfully suppressed her Higher Self. After discovering the truth about the afterlife, she fought tirelessly to achieve some kind of freedom in death.
Cipactli
Also called Ymir and Gaia, she was the living spirit of planet Earth. Contrary to her popular image though, she cared little enough for her environment to willingly destroy her own physical body by causing the alignment. Her reasoning was that humans had grown weak and complacent, unwilling to expand into space and spread Earth’s ecosystem to other worlds. Unwilling to fail at her genetic and spiritual purpose to reproduce, Cipactli chose to evict mankind by force.
Clarent
The administrative leader of Clover’s faction, officially her trade minister and steward. He helps her run the day-to-day affairs of Ebin.
Clodees
Also known as Bluey, he was one of Cinder’s spirit guides tasked with helping her acclimate to being dead. Despite being an old soul he is inexperienced as a guide, but he does find himself caring enough for Cinder to eventually become her ally.
Cloudkicker
Sunnydew’s dead cousin/love interest who follows her around as a ghost. The pair remain close, but his presence frequently gets her into trouble with her tribe.
Clover Fields
A mutant amnesiac-turned-leader of the Forestrunner people, Clover has been sent to another world and would do anything to defend her new family. Immortal beings seem to have set her on a grand destiny to destroy an alien foe, but their motivations may be more sinister than she believes.
Corina the Unfathomable
Rowan’s mother, a traveling magician who puts on shows in small villages. She never knew exactly who Rowan’s real father was, and she raised her on the road by herself until they met Simon. Inanis claimed that she had perished by his hand, but her true fate is ultimately unknown.
Crom
An Atlantean general who sent Mossa as an answer to the king’s request for a champion. He is secretly part of the dissident Sons of Belial, and chose his most unstable subordinate as a means of deliberate sabotage.
Crystal Fields
Clover’s younger sister, a happy-go-lucky girl with severe ADHD. She can be a hippie, a witch or a professor of world religions depending on her mood, and she has a crush on Josiah that leads to a telepathic bond.
Cy
A spirit guide who is, notably, the soul of Mossa, the mad champion of Atlantis. Predictably, he is aggressive and cruel like his previous incarnation, but within the boundaries of archon Universal Law.
Daedalus
A mechanoid working for the Neucatholic Inquisition. He led the investigation of the Institute and briefed Rusebird on the case.
Dagonet, Sir
A cowardly, inept Knight of the Round Table who is known for causing catastrophe. He and Myrdin went to the village of Calenad to rescue a child from the faerie Viviene.
Dakara-rath
A ruthless alien warlord who became the leader of his people, the hegemon, after emerging from ten thousand years of cryogenic suspension. Dakara learned the secret of Neuarden and is bent on claiming the planet, but he isn’t necessarily evil. He curses like a sailor and shows no remorse for what he does, but Dakara is fond of human culture and only opposes them as a matter of circumstance. He is politically savvy as well, and seizes the chance to broker peace after meeting Verity.
Darien Weever
Real name Kevin, Darien is a secret agent who led the Pegasus experiments and attempted to recover a tome of forbidden knowledge in a network of catacombs beneath Tokyo. Later, he pursued it to the Sunflower’s compound and was transported by Spherus into the astral plane.
Deos’destyr
The Abyssal God of pain. She is by far the most powerful member of her pantheon, able to control countless avatars and manifest a physical form. Deos rules over billions, possibly a trillion worshippers in the nightmare city of Carcosa, a pocket of the astral plane that likely exceeds some planets in scale. Countless slaves captured from across the galaxy are tortured in her name, but her goals and motivations are largely inscrutable.
Edgar, Captain
The Raxifallian’s former captain. He was retired from the Orderic fleet, but competent in battle even after years of merchant work. It was pure misfortune that led to his demise in the thunderbird battle.
Edred Ullrson
Ivar’s younger brother. Edred cannot speak and has to write messages to communicate, implied to be the result of a slavemaster burning or otherwise damaging his throat. Despite his age, he is cold, determined and far more confident than Ivar. Edred is secretly an empath, and he uses his abilities to wield a bow with supernatural precision.
After the events of Twilit Kingdom, he was captured by a Delta Freya raiding party and forced to serve in their fleet, where he befriended Stella Summers and helped her save Xandar.
Egghead
An alien from Sirius working with human resistance fighters against the Asetians. He studied the art of subtle surgery at Procyon Outpost, and is thus capable of curing vampiric souls. Unfortunately, the process is lethal for the current incarnation.
Eiko Attings
One of Tenebris’ ruling sorcerer caste, the Living Gods. Eiko is a selfish, vengeful manchild who unleashes a demon during a botched attempt at revenge. He eats human flesh, lacks any kind of empathy and betrays the silverwings without a second thought.
Elara Dupixen
An heiress of the wealthy Dupixen family who was present during the Inquisitor fragment attack. Elara is able to partition her personality as a way of remaining calm, despite being heavily pregnant and in a life-or-death situation. She gave birth shortly after the incident, likely prematurely as a result of the stress.
Eliza
A simple chatbot that Quentin imbued with basic sentience, called a cybertulpa. She is not a true AI and thus has limited capabilities, but has a sarcastic personality and would do anything to help her creator. ELIZA was given a body during autumn, and she helped a village of brownies by defeating a dullahan.
Elvis
Iris’ younger brother and a fellow salvage hauler rescued by Dakara. He is somewhat effeminate and became friends with Susan by chance. They both played an accidental role in unleashing the blackpill.
Emrys Amira
A member of Theia’s lost Lumina tribe, and a godcaller in the Temple of Selene. She possessed the ability to steal a fraction of Selene’s power, a process that causes the goddess incredible pain, and she was killed during her people’s attempted Lucifer Experiment.
Endris
A former cavalryman turned magical treasure hunter. Endris lived in the Holy Roman Empire during the mid-1600s, having fought in the 30 Years War, and he has a surly, abrasive personality. He is known for his heavy drinking and low tolerance for the antics of his friends. He travels with Hermes, Gils and Wilson the Wanderer.
Eridani
A newly-manufactured were-gorilla who is forced to hunt her own brother, who underwent a vampiric awakening and had his personality erased by Aset’s corruption. She is fierce, determined and stoic despite this fact, and she comes off as feral even to Altair.
Eris Redover
The princess of Refuge, second in line to its throne. As a spare, she feels like a glorified mantlepiece at times and seeks out a sense of fulfillment in vice. Eris often disguises herself and works as a prostitute, trains her martial arts in disreputable fight clubs and forges her mother’s signature for her own personal gain. During the abyssal invasion though, Eris gains some wisdom and an appreciation for her role as a princess.
Evanity Dupixen
The Dupixen clan matriarch, a stern, elderly arcturian who controls the family fortune. She perished during the Inquisitor attack and was succeeded by her eldest son, Verzen.
Exi
An artificial life-form that, unlike a mechanoid, is supposedly devoid of sentience. Nevertheless, Omega and Terren adopted her after the hegemon attack left her without a home. She can only speak in prerecorded lines, such as “Please proceed to the nearest exit.”
Felicia Winters
One of the “Best and Brightest” that the Bavarian Illuminati chose to abduct for their failed colony on Procyon. Felicia is a zoologist who, after the initial bloodbath, reached a safe zone and settled at a makeshift science outpost.
Felix
An apprentice diviner training to join the timewardens, a group of soothsayers who lead a human enclave in the astral plane. He is both skilled and studious, but in the end, his membership is determined entirely by a Magic 8 Ball.
Flora
The spring elven tribe’s chieftain, an elf who is old enough to remember the time when humans last came to Alfheim in the age of Vikings. She does not approve of Sylvia’s decision to stay with the humans, but allows it out of respect to fae laws.
Gail
A tomboyish girl who follows the Wiccan religion, which she takes seriously despite jokes from her friends. Her magickal abilities helped them and Arthur defeat both Morgana and Isaiah Gaston, and she marries Percy sometime after the alignment.
Garrett
A farmer who went insane, murdered his family and burned down his own village after Inanis corrupted him. He was transformed even further by a paravuitaci, and his original consciousness was enslaved by a mad, cannibalistic shadow self. He was implied to be Rowan’s actual, biological father as well.
Gils
An unscrupulous thief who lived in the mid-1600s. He had planned to steal treasure from Hermes and his team, but ended up joining them after a series of unfortunate events. Gils is the most skeptical of them all about the supernatural, but he is also quite paranoid. His companions are Endris, Hermes and Wilson the Wanderer.
Gliese
Eridani’s younger brother. At first, he was shy and deferential to his sister, but it turned out that he was an Asetian primordial in embryo. His human personality was lost when the vampire’s thousands of incarnations’ worth of memories overwhelmed it.
Glissener
Pierre’s combat tulpa, a spectral knight that appears to be made of liquid metal. Glissener is unerringly obedient, but has some personality and makes jokes at his master’s expense.
Gruntilda
Anna’s nickname for an abusive manager of the Good Shepherds reform school, where she was sent by her parents for conversion therapy. During the alignment, she appeared to go insane and began sacrificing her charges to an otherworldly being, before a demonically-possessed Anna ate her alive.
Guinevere
The no-nonsense queen of Camelot effectively ruled the kingdom in her husband’s frequent absence. She cares little for her own reputation, and was notably faithful to King Arthur despite what the legends might say.
Haddrick
An experienced castle delver who helped train Ash. He repeatedly failed to remember her name and views his work as a businesslike affair. He seems genuinely convinced that the castles cannot think.
Hamel, Father
A priest who was Endris’ friend at first, but later attempted to burn him, Gils, Hermes and Wilson at the stake for witchcraft. He is not to be confused with the inventor of the Hamel drive, who lived many centuries later.
Hank
Elvis’ boyfriend and a member of Iris’ crew. He was rescued by Dakara with the other salvage runners and survived the blackpill outbreak after watching a man commit suicide with a snow globe.
Hans Horbinger
A Valkyrian pilot who distinguished himself during the war and replaced Rudol as the main station leader afterward. He was very close to his wingmates, and they gave each other a range of silly callsigns.
Hastings
A mall security officer who joined up with Ray during the alignment. He is old and out of shape, but a competent enforcer in Duskhaven. He is possibly ex-military, and is known for having pepper sprayed Jordan after the lightworker attacked Ray with colloidal silver in the mall.
Hawk
The alias of a young man from Seattle, who was sent to an alternate universe during a tiktok challenge gone wrong. He is a Chinook Indian, has a confident personality and is a bit self-indulgent, but he reveals very little about his life on Earth. Traveling between dimensions allowed him to obtain a divine essence, one of the rarest relics in creation.
Helen
Wendell’s employee, friend-with-benefits and rescuer from a Delta Freya stronghold. She is described as dwarvish by Josiah.
Henry
A friend of Xander Powers. The two boys often communicate via radio and call each other by codenames. Xander’s is ‘Sparkplug’, but Henry earned the nickname ‘Peepshow’ for watching Anna and Holly make out with binoculars.
Hermes (Treasure Hunter)
An occultist and magical treasure hunter who lived in the mid-1600s, traveling across Europe and dodging accusations of witchcraft. He generally comes off as a cowardly charlatan to most people, including his own adventuring party which includes Endris, Gils and Wilson the Wanderer.
Hermes Trismegistus (Alchemist)
A powerful magus who lived in ancient Egypt, known for founding the science of alchemy. He has an arrogant, sarcastic personality and a single-minded focus on his goal of finding the secret to eternal life. He is among the most powerful occultists to have ever lived, and he is also a capable swordfighter.
Hilda
A daywatch commander who, by chance or proximity to the prophet of wild gods, became part of Clover’s inner circle in the city of Ebin. She lacks any supernatural ability, but manages a standing army of runners alongside Kalec.
Holly O’Reilly
Anna’s girlfriend, later her wife, who she met over an online dating app. She is unfamiliar with all of the paranormal mayhem that Charon and Anna get into, but has taken it in stride. She’s known for being laid back and is good friends with Charon as well, but is occasionally jealous of her. She is the adoptive mother of Xander Powers, and is secretly his favorite.
Idris
A girl from an enclave of humans in the abyssal isles, one of many pocket dimensions in the astral plane. She is fanatical and determined enough to endure a dangerous initiation that makes her part dragon.
Inanis Aeternatus
The Abyssal God of destruction, fate and entropy, embodied in the all-consuming void. He came into the galaxy quite recently in the grand scheme, having only been released from an Elder prison ten thousand years ago. However, his sheer power lets him surpass some of his more established siblings. He is cruel and sadistic, and his goals rarely extend further than entertaining himself by watching his elaborate schemes unfold. To that end, he gambled with Gaia on the fate of humanity.
Ingram Andersson
(See Inanis Aeternatus)
Ingrix
An arcturian in charge of a comet harvesting operation in the outer belt of his home system. He disappeared and was presumably killed after attempting to bring a sample of Inquisitor onboard.
Initiate, The
A high-ranking member of the Bavarian Illuminati, part of the larger global conspiracy that rules humanity in secret. During the alignment, he convinces the New World Order’s hierarchy to flee the planet through a nexion to save themselves, which effectively leaves Earth’s governments defunct with no one to run them. He is notably cynical and does not subscribe to the popular, occultic superstitions of his fellow elites.
Inquisitor
A living mass of ice and water, unleashed from Elder ruins by Phaedrus and Newtonia. It is a probe meant to gather information from the homeopathic memory of water, which it obtains by harvesting the moisture of entire planets. It is intelligent and able to defend itself with powerful psychic abilities, as well as divide itself into multiple fragments. The comet may have depopulated multiple star systems, but it was finally stopped in Arcturus.
Iris
A salvage runner who follows the Jediist religion. She is notable for having been rescued from a derelict by Dakara, evacuating Neujudaists from the planet Crystallia and having survived the blackpill incident.
Isaiah Gaston
Also known as Iceman, Isaiah is a terrorist with supernatural powers, which he obtained using artifacts that the Sunflower traded for Delta Freya’s grimoire. He is ruthless, cunning and has killed countless people in his pursuit of ultimately unknown goals. While on Earth, Isaiah was attempting to round up people with unusual abilities, but his goals shifted to conquest later on.
Ivar Ullrson
The son of a slave taken from the Winter Kingdom. He turned to banditry with his brother to try and get money to free her, but his gang was destroyed by a quinpatella warband. He can understand Edred easily despite the younger boy being mute, and is skilled enough with a sword to fight adults. Nevertheless, Ivar comes off as anxious, clumsy and easily frightened.
After the events of Twilit Kingdom, he was captured by a Delta Freya raiding party and forced to serve in their fleet, where he befriended Stella Summers and helped her save Xandar.
Ixandweth
A higher spirit guide who is ruthless in her execution of the Highest Good. She attempts to destroy Cinder’s soul in the World of No Ego after discovering her aberration, showing no remorse or deviation from orthodoxy.
Jakar Witherbark
A brutal, cannibalistic war chief of the autumn elves who attempted to conquer Exodus Landing as a bastion to combat winter. Unlike the summer kings, his plans were thwarted every time by humans and he was eventually killed.
Jordan
An empath, lightworker and habitual user of psychedelic drugs who has helped Clover and King Arthur on their quests. In the physical world though, he is a self-righteous manipulator who mistreats Raven for her condition until, due to a vision, he decides to pursue her romantically instead. Jordan runs the Blue Dragon kung fu and tai chi center, and is currently homeless after a tragic sage burning accident.
Josiah Powers
An autistic teenager with latent psychic abilities, which he gained control of after a harrowing experience. He is only sixteen when the alignment begins, and circumstances force him into a leadership role. His abilities include telekinesis and precognition, and psychedelic substances enhance them tenfold. In the distant future, he is called the Lord Pioneer.
Jules
A clumsy, malnourished succubus girl who joined the silverwings for protection, and so she wouldn’t have to live on the street. She feeds off of affection, usually through s3x, and while Jules isn’t a very good monster hunter, she tries so hard that the others find it endearing.
Kalec
A shade-blooded mutant like Clover, but still native to the Forestrunner plane. He is capable of regenerating from grievous wounds and acts as A general in Ebin.
Kali
One of Susan’s lovers, a female-identifying hermaphrodite. She mooches off her parents like Susan, but seems entirely content with that lifestyle.
Kargath Skullsplitter
A Hyperborean hunter who found and took in Zira when she teleported into the woods, and later helped protect her from Ralof. Despite his name, he is quite hospitable.
Karin
One of Verity’s friends in her squad. Karin was known to flirt with her despite Verity’s frequent rejections, and she eventually took her own life after being irreparably mutilated by a flesh shaper.
Kass Brunswick
A member of the heretical shadowhunter sect who, after his congregation was wiped out by the Church of the One Source, assassinated a priest in retribution. He was hunted across Refuge by dowsers for it, but managed to survive thanks to luck, skill and the sympathy of other apostates. He is incredibly zealous and willing to kill for his beliefs, many of which actually turn out to be correct.
Katanga
One of the top lieutenants in the Darkwing Brigade. He notably doesn’t speak English as well as his counterpart Kowalski, who he has a playful rivalry with over sports and their differing countries of origin.
Keymaster
A masked vigilante who fights crime with the Law of Attraction. His real name is Charles, and he’s been arrested multiple times for assaulting villains in the street. Charon and Anna meet him when the latter goes looking for Delta Freya, and Charon becomes a temporary sidekick when they encounter Delta Freya.
Kisga
A bureaucratic general who nearly got her entire planet destroyed because it was a holiday, which technically precluded her from having to call up the local defense force.
Klonoa
A Lemurian princess of the Yellow Bamboo tribe. She is searching for allies against the almas, the ancestors of the ancients in Clover’s world, and is possibly a previous incarnation of Clover herself. Klonoa is a vryn-user, a telepath and can perform a no-touch knockout with her own life energy. Due to being from a barbarian tribe, she has very little notion of basic social norms.
Kosaku Pierce
A nacaal of New Lantea, one of its rulers and most capable psychics. He is able to be in multiple places at once and sends a part of himself to monitor Phaedrus’ expedition.
Kowalski
A combat medic from Ghana who joined Yusef as a private contractor. He claims to have trained with the Red Cross during the war against Boko Haram, and he acts as a kind of right-hand man to Yusef in the Darkwing Brigade.
Krankle
The Abyssal God of pestilence, comedy and carnage. Little is known about him other than that he as a jovial personality, takes the form of an undead were-hyena and brings horrible disease wherever he goes.
Krishna, King
The four-armed ruler of the kingdom of Krishna, who helps Klonoa and goes to war with the almas. It is unclear if he is a real demigod or if his name and mutations are hereditary. Regardless, he is a capable vryn-user and blademaster who was able to fight Totem alone and sever the wild god’s hand.
Kyle Icke
Mallory’s boyfriend, later her husband, who was abducted with her by Delta Freya and taken to the Hollow Earth. He is a fairly uninteresting fellow, contrasting his wild wife in many ways, and he is arguably a far more responsible parent. Kyle briefly learned how to fly an airship in Agartha, but his life in Exodus Landing was largely uneventful.
Lance
Percy’s headstrong, athletic friend who comes from a rich family. Despite a general lack of interest, he plays D&D with his friends and is especially close with Tristan. He also becomes a knight after the alignment. He is annoyed by or more likely envious of romantic relationships in general.
Lancelot, Sir
An arrogant Knight of the Round Table who is known for his lecherous behavior. After the tragic death of Sir Agravain, he swore to abandon vice and devote his life to his friends.
Linda Powers
Josiah’s mother who had been previously unaware of his powers. She wants what is best for him, but struggles as an ordinary woman in extraordinary conditions.
Lucian
Eiko’s former lover among the Living Gods. He falsified a divination to shame Eiko after they broke up, putting the other magus in a state of disgrace.
Lord Nyx
The leader of Delta Freya’s future incarnation in the New Systems’ Alliance era, in truth a malevolent AI inhabiting its flagship, the Nidhoggr. He was destroyed by Stella after a costly battle, during which he espoused his intentions to cleanse the galaxy of organic life.
Mallory Odom
An Uber driver who became a famous, or possibly infamous conspiracy theorist after encountering an alien abductee. She was something of a party girl early on, and Mallory has always had loose or absent morals. She isn’t a bad parent necessarily, but one of her children did die in the alignment, and her eldest daughter Vim had a very free-range childhood. Mallory is also very cool-headed, having never broken down after being kidnapped despite her pregnancy.
Marvin
An altrosian who Hawk met while escaping a Vrilya ship. His fate is ultimately unknown, but he was later impersonated by the shapeshifter.
Megan
Raven Wilson’s best friend and fellow psychic vampire. She is laid back and utterly shameless about her condition, and Megan is much healthier than Ray as a result. Nevertheless, she was able to resist the corrupting influence of Aset that rendered most of her species insane.
Mei Ling
Possibly an alias, Mei is a Taiwanese empath, criminal and the mother of Clover and Crystal. She is known to be promiscuous and has had children with a number of men, many of whom she abandoned like Xander.
Mercer Fields
Clover’s father, an older man from Montana who briefly lived in Taiwan as an expatriate, where he met Mei. He loves his remaining daughter unconditionally, and joins up with Josiah when the alignment begins. His extended family were all members of a satanic cult that perished in a mass suicide.
Meryamun
An ancient Egyptian priestess from a persecuted religious sect who Hermes Trismegistus married for the sake of a temporary alliance. She has little to no respect for his power as a sorcerer and frequently makes him care for her many, many children.
Meynard
Became a leader among the Vrynological monks who chose to leave the order and join Clover after she revealed its secret.
Minuet Chocola
A gene-modded cat girl who runs freight across the Jojonium system in her personal flying saucer, based out of the Eckankar-controlled moon Huvana and a nominal follower of the religion. She is used to dubious shipments, but her final delivery proved to be more than she could handle. Minuet’s ultimate fate is unknown, but she is presumed dead after encountering Inanis Aeternatus.
Moloch
A flesh-eating bull demon who was summoned by Eiko in Tenebris. He is virtually indestructible to conventional weapons, but the Living God was forced to banish him after the demon tried to betray its summoner.
Morazova Corvina
The last member of a Transylvanian noble house in the mid-1600s, and a distant ancestor of Raven Wilson. Despite being a psychic vampire, Morazova cares deeply for the people in her territory. She is fairly promiscuous with people of both genders, from whom she obtains energy and blood. She was last seen married to Wilson the Wanderer.
Morgana Le Fey
The sole survivor of the Pegasus project besides Clover, having escaped from the ancients on her own. She possesses the power of sympathetic magick and, lacking memories, has adopted the persona of an insane clown. She is determined to get back to Earth, regardless of the cost.
Mossa
Initially just a fanatical, overenthusiastic soldier with a weakness for young, nubile slave boys. After being initiated as Atlantis’ champion though, he loses what morality he has and becomes a merciless killer. Mossa takes pleasure in slaughtering villages and committing acts of rape, and is bent on obtaining the Staff of Hermes, an archon artifact, at any cost. He is a vryn-user and possesses some telekinetic ability.
Nathan
An occultist living at the science outpost with Rocky and Felicia. He has a summoned succubus companion and is responsible for Procyon’s galaxy-wide statement of intent broadcast.
Myrdin:
A powerful magus who somehow obtained alien technology, supplementing his already potent magickal powers. He lived to be over two hundred years old thanks to Hermes Trismegistus’ alchemical discoveries.
Newtonia Saito
A young woman from New Lantea who is part of the higher dimensional caste. Newtonia is enthusiastic to study with a famous dolphin psychic, and it is implied that she is the reincarnation of Rowan. She communicates through a form of telepathy most of the time and is unused to traditional speech.
Nicholas Powers
Josiah’s estranged father, an international criminal who abducts him to make use of his powers. He has a grudge against Spherus for unknown reasons, and he is the biological father of Xander Powers with Mei Ling.
Ninnuam
Asharru’s half-sister and queen. He repeatedly warns him about the Valkyrian threat and is ignored every time. Eventually, she decides to dispose of her husband and surrender to Rudol, who she “marries” for the sake of mutually beneficial politics.
Norton Briggs
One of Cinder’s foster parents, an older soul who she is forbidden from visiting. When she eventually does, he betrays her to the spirit guides.
Oak and Holly Kings
The summer elven tribe’s twin monarchs. They conquered Exodus Landing and ruled it like tyrants, attempting to take slaves and fighting a brutal street war against the resistance. Nevertheless, they honored their vow to free the landing after Vim won their gladiatorial games.
Ocaeril the Enlightened
Yharon’s rival, known to occasionally pillage her museum to further his Grand Design. He is an archon, and thus unable to die because of his species’ dominion over the interlife. The extent of his powers is unclear, but possibly on the level of a godform.
Oen’Abadroth
The Abyssal God of duality, contradiction and magick. He is perpetually split into a dual personality, representing the right and the left-hand path. Presumably, the two halves can become one and create a unified personality that embodies pure, true magick.
Oliver
One of the Raxifallian’s officers, an Altrosian woman who wears a fake beard in a half-hearted attempt at cross-dressing. It is implied to be more of a tradition for women to sail in drag than anything else.
Omega
A companion mechanoid living with her human boyfriend, who she loves independently of the fact that he bought her from a store. Omega works a variety of low-paying jobs, helping support him and his wild projects. She is as level-headed as one would expect from an artificial intelligence, but not emotionless at all, and as a conscious being, she can utilize psychic technology as well as any human.
Opzel
A heavy weapons expert on Vygar’s assault team. He rarely talks, preferring instead to communicate in the universal language of suppressive fire.
Orel
A grumpy spring elf who strongly dislikes the humans of Exodus Landing. He gets on his fellow elves’ nerves, but has a position of authority nonetheless.
Oxicel
A member of the Elder Race who created the Inquisitor probe so that he could more efficiently gather information about the future. Despite having lived billions of years ago, Oxicel actively controls the probe and gives it orders from the past. His fellow Elders mock him for what is, in their eyes, a childish project.
Paulie, Cerebral
A school friend of Clover and Crystal who ran a paranormal investigation podcast. He went on a camping trip with them to find Bigfoot.
Pennypickle, Professor
A human abductee to the Historium Majoris who, for unknown reasons, stole the Staff of Hermes from Yharon. He is noted to be an empath from the planet Elarya, an inhospitable world inhabited by rampaging godforms.
Pepe
A larval shade that Clover spawned from a clutch of her eggs. It is more like a pet than an actual child, but may eventually develop into something humanoid.
Percy
The dungeon master of his gaming group which includes Lance, Tristan and Gail. He found King Arthur wandering aimlessly through town and took him in, and he briefly wields Excalibur. Years later, he is married to Gail and serves as a knight in Arthur’s new kingdom.
Peri
A spirit guide who worked with Clodees. She rarely spoke to Cinder, but was shown to lie and manipulate other souls “for their own good.” Her true name is Drey, Peri was a nickname given by Cinder.
Pete
No last name given, he is the latest in a long line of Abby’s surfer boyfriends. The two of them were on a date when she was abducted by aliens, and Pete plastered the beachfront with missing person fliers overnight.
Phaedrus
A sapient dolphin with powerful psychic abilities. He takes Newtonia on an archeological expedition and is among the first to learn about the Elder Race. Due to his aquatic nature, he has a group of servants who carry him around in a bathtub.
Pierre
A fencer and tulpamancer in the Order of the Silver Wings. Pierre is brave, clever and kind to his awkward partner Jules, who he may or may not have feelings for. He largely relies on Glissener to fight astral beings, but punched a powerful sorcerer out cold on at least one occasion.
Prevage Dupixen
One of Elara’s many cousins at the Dupixen estate. He is a technomancer and helped to save the family by distracting Inquisitor and piloting their getaway craft.
Quentin Marshal
Raised by his sister and an order of apocalyptic technomancers, Quentin is a genius with magick and machines. He’s been Vim’s best friend for close to a decade, and neither one was willing to admit their mutual feelings for all that time. He is shy, anxious and talks with a lot of urban slang, but intersperses it with programming and machine-related curses and epithets like “Roko’s Basilisk!” His religion appears to be derived from Warhammer 40K, although Quentin is unaware of this.
Quoranir
An intermediate soul who Cinder befriends while on the run. He is laid back and carefree, and the two had a short fling as ghosts before his commitment to archon doctrine drove her away.
Ralof
A Hyperborean rune-mage who is tasked with preventing a war with Atlantis. He is after the Staff of Hermes and attempts to misdirect Mossa away from his country. Despite being loyal to Hyperborea, he dislikes the ruling monarch and is known to be a cowboy at times.
Ralph
A guardsman of Crowngar under Reginald’s command. He was wounded by a quinpatella’s claws and lost several years of his life in the process, but the artificial aging came with access to a form of abyssal time magick that he used to track down Inanis.
Raven Wilson (Ray)
A psychic vampire from San Fransisco who has to drain auric energy from people to survive. Ray doesn’t drink actual blood for fear of getting HIV, so she is scrawny and suffers from a speech impediment. She worked as a pizza girl on the night shift, but got lucky with an investment that made her quite wealthy later on. She wanted to be a singer at one point, and has trained herself as a dog whisperer to mitigate animals’ natural hatred of her kind.
Regina Marshal
Quentin’s older sister who protected him as a baby and found the technomancers after their parents were presumably killed in the alignment. In Exodus Landing, Regina lives with her brother and occasionally works guard duty on the wall.
Reginald
A sergeant in the Crowngar city guard who helped Eris escape the city. After thwarting an assassination squad of quinpatella, he was put on mandatory leave and went with his friends to hunt down Inanis.
Rinna
A Duskhaven resident who was murdered, seemingly in a vampire attack. Ray is forced to clear her name by finding Rinna’s killer.
Rinvo
Skyri’s long-distance boyfriend from the Arcturian Empire’s colony in Ursa Minor, who she interacts with via astral projection. He is very supportive of her becoming a cult leader and helps Skyri spread her gospel despite government censors.
Ripple
A gene-modded slime girl of unknown origin. She is an efficient, superhuman killing machine, but her amorphous body came at the cost of intelligence. Minuet cares for her onboard their ship, and Ripple protects her from any danger in turn.
Rita von Schliemann
Rudol’s wife and the Valkyrian chief of medicine. She is fascinated by the Annunaki and their immortal physiology, but gets angry at Rudol for taking Ninnuam as a wife-on-paper to end the war. However, she also says that he should’ve taken her as a concubine, and is possibly a closeted bisexual.
Rocky
A geologist living at the Procyon outpost. He is afflicted with psychic vampirism and attempting to find a cure, but has yet to encounter results. Rocky also invented the field of geobotany to study Procyon’s world trees.
Rowan
A curious, energetic illusionist who apprenticed with her mother and was mentored by Simon the chaote. She is skilled in both stage magic and the real thing, able to manipulate probability with sigil magick and enhance her mind and body through invocation. Rowan leans heavily on Simon for advice and direction, and thus was firmly of the opinion that the quinpatella invasion of Refuge was not her problem to solve. However, she proved competent as always when circumstances forced her to take action.
Rudol von Schliemann
A descendant of secret German space colonists from World War II and acting leader of his people. He is practical, calculating and has no qualms about fighting a war of conquest against the Annunaki. However, he is an elected ruler and is not completely without morality like his pre-revolution ancestors.
Rybel
Acting captain of the Descent, one of the few arcturian warships that survived after the catalyst cult’s failed attack on Inquisitor. He is an intelligent tactician and an ace pilot whose scheme to destroy the comet managed to save an entire moon. However, he did not predict that blowing up the comet would create thousands of smaller ones to contend with.
Selene
The spirit and goddess of Theia, an alternate version of the moon that Hawk appeared on. She helps him acclimate to her world and the two enter into a relationship while protecting the essence. Selene expresses her emotions by humming, and her airheaded personality contrasts her divine state of being.
Ses Rusebird
A gene-modded professor of memetics who is brought on to investigate a secret society. He is arrogant and abusive to his syntho, but intelligent enough to solve the case. However, Ses ended up being captured and brainwashed into creating the blackpill, and he was unable to sabotage himself before it activated.
Shadow
An orphaned boy who witnessed the brutal death of his parents. He is cared for by a guilt-stricken Morgana, and tries to forget both his real name and his life before the alignment so he can pretend that she is his mother, which she eventually does decide to become. Shadow has red eyes and is in contact with the Abyssal Gods, who have corrupted him in some way.
Simon Caroller
An old practitioner of chaos magick who humored Rowan’s desire to learn from him as a girl. He became a father figure to her over the years, and was more than willing to spend what little coin he had to help her, Ivar and Edred once they escaped Inanis’ pursuit. He is a former soldier in the queen’s army, and is aware of many magickal and mundane secrets, such as the caches of military-grade Earth weapons that are buried around Refuge.
Simone
A nurse who provides some of Duskhaven’s limited medical services and amateur crime scene investigation. Unfortunately, she became a casualty of its mysterious serial killer while attempting to solve the case.
Simpta
Leader of the arcturian forces in the joint Federation fleet sent to destroy Inquisitor. She desperately tries to save Vygar’s squad, who her alien superior demands be sacrificed for the sake of her people’s karma. Despite its threats, she helps them get away and later prepares Arcturus for a pleiadean morality audit.
Skyri Tezpira
An arcturian chronomancer-in-training with the ability to manipulate time and divine the future with numerology. Skyri is mostly self-taught and has a very stoic attitude about her toxic work environment, but ends up getting fired after she started an apocalypse cult. She is dedicated to stopping the Inquisitor comet, but ends up doing far more harm than good.
Smiley
An elderly cult leader who organized an elaborate ritual sometime during the alignment to prolong his life. His spirit possessed the body of a young female apprentice and his/her subsequent fate is unknown.
Snakefoot
A contemporary of Sunnydew, and the shaman of Windy Cove. He helps Sunny learn about her visions and abilities so that they can fight off the Storm Walker.
Spherus
A demonhost and agent of the Succubus Collective, leader of the Sunflower cult. They are non-binary or gender fluid, they like anime, and they have the power to steal souls with online pacts and bargains.
Stacy
An empath who helped Ray and Megan free hostages in the Asetian stronghold. Her powers make her a human lie detector, and she’s a competent fighter despite her seemingly vapid personality.
Stella Summers
A bubbly young woman from Xandar who finds herself conscripted by Delta Freya. She is fairly dim-witted in the conventional sense, but incredibly observant, and over time Stella becomes a skilled computer hacker as well. At one point Stella is infested by an Asetian parasite that tries to turn her into a vampire. She rejects the process, becoming a dhampyre with all of an Asetian’s strengths and none of its weaknesses like the need for life energy.
Stikini/Storm Walker, The
A Lemurian sasquatch with atmokinetic powers. He created an artifact that imprisoned spirits called the mask of souls, and attempted to destroy Sunnydew’s village.
Sunnydew
A Native American girl who lived in Florida sometime around four thousand years ago. She is able to see and communicate with Earthbound ghosts, which makes her something of a social outcast. Sunny has twelve siblings and several mothers, but her closest living friend is Snakefoot the shaman.
Susan Mariette
A wealthy, gene-modded socialite and hacker from the Unitarian church who lived on Lindium during the hegemon attack. She is spoiled and vain, but part of a happy throuple that moved in with her after they acquired a spaceship by chance. She is an acquaintance of Rusebird and played a role in liberating her home station.
Sylvia
An elf from the spring tribe who joins the humans of Exodus Landing. She is kind, curious and brave enough to explore the other seasons, but the elf has little conception of social norms. She eats insects and raw flowers, has fae moods and, to Vim’s horror and disgust, mates with wild animals like deer.
Temfia
Rybel’s first officer on the arcturian starship Descent. Despite her senior position, her role is mostly limited to reading off of consoles and stating the obvious.
Terren
Omega’s lazy, nerdy partner who talked her into committing a heist one time. Despite being a couch potato, he was brave enough to sabotage the hegemon during their takeover of Lindium station to save Omega. Terren is prone to ill-fated get-rich-quick schemes, and it is pure chance that one of them eventually paid off.
Thoth Ao’Sigai
The priest-king of Atlantis, who resides in a crystal palace and claims a state of pure enlightenment. In reality, he is ruthless, endorses the practice of slavery, and is willing to unleash monsters like the Asetians when his city is threatened. Millenia later though, he seems to have become less bloodthirsty as a ghost.
Timothy Ruger
A mysterious stranger, supposedly a local pastor, who ordered a ride from Mallory after supposedly robbing a bank. He had a parasitic creature implanted in his brain, and attempted to pay for Mallory to help him lobotomize himself. Timothy is unstable, sleep-deprived and prone to reciting random sequences of numbers.
Totem
Also known as Khal-Kru, he is a wild god, an immortal being with unknown, presumably self-serving motivations. Despite being warned of his evil intentions, Clover has worked for him in the interest of protecting her people. He possesses the shamanic ability to shapeshift and powerful psychokinesis.
Tresto
An arcturian technomancer who acts as Rybel’s chief engineer. He is somewhat aloof compared to his calculating superior, but was instrumental in activating the Nurtec fusion torch.
Tristan
The so-called nerd among nerds of Percy’s immediate friend group, he is fairly introverted compared to the rest. Still, he helps them defeat Morgana and ends up in a relationship with one of the fomoire.
Vauaamp
An angel who Cinder met on the Middle Plateau. He explained many of the afterlife’s secrets and attuned her to the Blue Flame of St. Michael, an energy that allowed her to survive the harsh environment without degenerating into a monster.
Varg Waggener
A put-upon officer in Delta Freya’s armada who was tasked with “conditioning” Stella. He oversaw her training process only to have his ship commandeered when she successfully impersonated a newly-promoted captain.
Vec
One of Susan’s lovers, a young man with antlers. His partners mock him regularly for attending summer school, but are actually quite supportive.
Vega
An abrasive former resident of Altair’s world who was abducted and brainwashed during a Delta Freya raid. She becomes Stella’s friend after being deprogrammed and is fascinated by her captain’s half-vampiric mutation.
Verity
A soldier in the Xevian Space Defense Force, serving alternatively as a gunport operator, security officer and shock trooper depending on what is needed of her company. She was born on a military starship and knows nothing else, and Verity was known to frequent brothels onboard. After a disastrous mission where she met Dakara, Verity got promoted to serve as a peace envoy and ended up in an illicit relationship with the alien warlord.
Verzen Dupixen
Elara’s father and the heir to Evanity’s fortune after her death. He watched the authorities nuke his family estate and used his connections to ensure that the Federation sent a fleet to deal with Inquisitor.
Vimmana Icke
Daughter of Kyle and Mallory, she was born in the Hollow Earth kingdom of Agartha and grew up during the alignment. Vim is a strong, confident fighter with a sword, but isn’t very smart and has to rely on others to make plans. Despite losing one of her siblings in a gruesome incident, she’s still pretty wild and reckless. Notably, Vim has had a lot of relationships with both boys and other girls, and she is afraid of commitment because of how many partners she goes through.
Visitor, The
(See Jordan)
Vladimir
Morazova Corvina’s butler. He is a stern, serious man who appears to be highly protective of his mistress, willing to use violence on multiple occasions when the adventurers threaten her well-being.
Vray
Elara’s mate and a guest at the Dupixen estate. He laments that he and Elara have only been together for a few cycles of reincarnation, but diligently protects her and their unborn children during the Inquisitor attack.
Vygar
The leader of an arcturian fireteam that was sent to plant a hydrogen cascade device on Inquisitor’s surface. He fights with aether-based throwing discs and armor that is linked to his aura. Vygar was able to save his team without casualties, despite an attempt by pleiadean brass to leave them behind.
Warrick
A hunter who found Clover lost in the woods, then married her as the woman from Earth went native. He is a capable fighter and loyal to her cause, and she leans on him heavily as the war takes its toll.
Wendell
A member of Best Buy’s geek squad who joined Josiah early on alongside two of his friends, known by some as the Alpha Nerd.
Williams, Officer
No first name given. He is Charon’s father and later the head of security on Xandar. He joined her, Keymaster and Holly on a mission to rescue Anna from conversion therapy. He is a police officer, and he claims to have arrested Keymaster multiple times.
Wilson the Wanderer
A traveling bard who joined Endris, Gils and Hermes to record their adventures in central Europe during the mid-1600s. He is theatrical and naive, but surprisingly courageous at times. During the party’s adventure in Transylvania, he fell in love with and married the countess Morazova Corvina.
Wilsons, The
Raven’s mother and father, who married and had her at a relatively young age. They love their children unconditionally and are incredibly supportive of their vampire daughter, but attempts to redeem their other children were met with disappointing results.
Wysteria
A winter elf who mentally linked herself with Vim and bullied her relentlessly. She is a powerful necromancer, and her undead body is a patchwork of elf corpses from autumn and spring tribes. She is captured after Imbolc, and is presumably forced to change her ways.
Xander Powers
The half-brother of both Clover and Josiah. Nicholas and Mei are his biological parents, but he was found and adopted by Anna and Holly during the alignment. He is curious, intelligent and possesses the power of atmokinesis, the ability to control weather which he uses to create rain for their settlement.
Yharon the Archivist
An immortal machine consciousness who lost her physical body in a Lucifer Experiment. She obsessively collects artifacts and documents galactic history, down to the smallest cultural minutia on the most backwater planet. She is based on the Historium Majoris, where she occasionally hosts guests and abductees from younger species.
Yukari Motobu
(See: Morgana Le Fey)
Yusef Alhazred
A Nigerian soldier of fortune who leads the Darkwing Brigade, often called an African warlord. He is rude, boisterous and utterly without regard for other people’s feelings, but not amoral or evil as one might expect. He is ruthlessly pragmatic though, to a degree that Zuri often butts heads with him.
Zahrim
An Annunaki lord who led their fleet against the Valkyrians. Zahrim’s
unwillingness to risk the lives of his immortal crew cost him several battles until his eventual death.
Zeit
One of Inanis’ most powerful creations. He had lain dormant under the Crowngar palace for centuries, but the void god reawakened him after failing to blow up the city. Zeit emerged as a semi-spectral being with magickal powers, much stronger than a regular paravuitaci, but was sealed away in an artifact by Simon, Rowan and their allies.
Zempic
An arcturian chronomancer who took on Skyri as an apprentice. Despite the fact that he’s supposed to be teaching her, he mostly uses her for free labor as an errand girl.
Zeroff
A renegade vryn-user who leads Clover’s original contingent of specialists. He is a former member of the Vrynological Order who later fought them to protect Ebin.
Ziku
More commonly known as the shapeshifter, Ziku serves Apollyon and is single-mindedly pursuing the divine essence. He is capable of taking any biological form, including those of mythical or nonexistent creatures, but is vulnerable to Selene’s positive energy.
Zira
A martian from a vast underground complex in Antarctica. She has no emotions, and relies on a complex system of logical justification to carry out the daily functions of living. Zira is attempting to save her people with the Staff of Hermes, but is being hunted by Mossa, Ralof and Yharon who both want to claim it.
Zuri Miller
An American grad student who became stranded in Nigeria when the alignment began, at which point she fell in with the Darkwing Brigade. Zuri is deeply committed to her far-left political views and has an aloof, abrasive personality. She gains access to a form of blood magick after a battle with destyrites.
Zyr’Abaoth
An ancient who attempted to assassinate Clover and managed to cut her in half. It was killed once by her and once by Totem, after which point it could not be revived.
Zyxal Dupixen
One of Elara’s cousins. He left the family estate to wander the empire and met his soulmate in Polaris, although he’d claimed to have been closer than that. He was killed by Inquisitor at his own welcome home party, leaving his partner a widow.
Randall Sharpe 