The Whispers of the Fallen — Characters

Isaac Khan

Human · The Creator

Also known as the Diary-bearer, son of Dustin and Diane

• IAn eighteen-year-old farm boy from Agalmath whose parents vanish on a storm night, leaving him as bearer of the Diary of Lucifer.
• IBorn on November 30 in Agalmath; he has green eyes and chestnut hair and works his father's fields in the Hills of Mahnor.
• IOf Council blood and descended from one of the first humans placed on Elysium; only Council descendants can unlock the Diary.
• IChooses the Creator's gifts over Nephele's offer, gaining mind-reading, telekinesis, the sense of Shadows and Nephilin speed.
• IRaziel's jewelled dagger gives him white, eagle-like wings; they are cut off in Aloisio and restored when he returns to his body.
• IAfter a forced Soul Exchange, the Fallen Star Mordred wears his body while his soul wanders the Wastelands; he returns when Death is conquered.
• IA girl with red hair and green eyes walks through his dreams, the one steady thing in his nightmares.
• IIHis soul-reading turns into mind-entry: in a dark vision he can kill a mind, and the death is real, as Nylora learns.
• IIForced to end his Dark-Exchanged parents in the Village of Tears; his mother knows him for one breath first.
• IIRefuses Xavier's offered paradise and wounds him inside the vision; first kiss with Xylia at the end of Rebellion.
• IIIAt the Creator's command he opens the Diary with his own blood in ruined Agalmath; his rage-driven power carries an urge toward self-destruction.
• IVAmbushes Lucifer at Hathar with Leethan and Xylia; Cyro wounds his thigh and Lucifer takes his sword. His fate is open.
• IVSince regaining a body, Lucifer can no longer see into Isaac's mind, breaking a link that ran since Book 1.
• ISee also: Demetre Aliward, Xylia, Devin, Diane Khan, Dustin Khan, The Diary of Lucifer, Agalmath, Mordred, Lucifer, Raziel.
• IRace: Human.

Demetre Aliward

Human · The Creator

• IIsaac's lifelong best friend from Agalmath, a boy with no powers who carries a dark secret he does not know about.
• IHas shoulder-length black hair and blue eyes; his father Paul was short-tempered and beat him.
• IHis parents vowed him to Lucifer, and Athalas completes the Soul Exchange at Billyth; the Fallen Star Corbin takes his body.
• IWhile Corbin rules him his eyes turn red; he is freed and returns to his body when Death is conquered at Justicia.
• IIReceives his mother Lune's letter in Bellator and learns his parents are buried in its garden.
• IIDrives steel through Erebos's heart as Xylia strikes the skull, ending the Fallen Star; later bitten by blood-drinkers.
• IIILearns the vow was made before he was even conceived; Death says only he, who never chose darkness, can enter the Heart of Elysium.
• IIIGoes into the Heart alone, frees the Shadows, and dies; he returns once as light, saying 'He is coming.'
• IVDead. His promise to meet Isaac 'in the next life' and Hadrian's hope of resurrection remain open.
• ISee also: Isaac Khan, Paul Aliward, Lune Aliward, Corbin, Soul Exchange, Heart of Elysium, Shadows.
• IRace: Human.

Devin

Nephilin · The Creator

• IA Nephilin who has lived for thousands of years and turned from his own kind to serve the Council; he comes to guide Isaac.
• IFair-haired and blue-eyed, with dark crow-like wings he hides; he is fast, strong, heals quickly, smells Shadows and can call some animals.
• IHis father is the Fallen Star Azael; his human mother was killed and became a Shadow.
• IKnew Isaac's and Demetre's parents long before Isaac's birth; captured in Aloisio, he escapes with Ely and the bearers.
• IIAbout 3,000 years old: he roamed Elysium for a millennium, joined the Council about 2,000 years ago, and trained under Athalas for 400 years.
• IIRaised among Nephilin orphans hidden under Billyth by Nephele and Azaziel; he secretly loves Adawnas.
• IIHears a voice he takes for Lucifer's and hides it; Xavier wounds him and he is carried off.
• IIIFound staked on the Agalmath Guard Tower, he breaks free, calls wild horses, and leads Arundel and the rescued bearers toward Bravor.
• IVAzael killed his mother on Lucifer's order. Lucifer counts Devin among those who 'can be turned'; his loyalty is an open thread.
• ISee also: Azael, Adawnas, Isaac Khan, Council of Justicia, Nephilin, Billyth.
• IRace: Nephilin.

Xylia

Human · The Creator

• IA red-haired girl who walks through Isaac's dreams and is later found as Nephele's captive, perhaps one of the book-bearers.
• IFlaming red hair, green eyes and pale skin; she appears in four of Isaac's dreams carrying a cloth-wrapped book.
• IHeld and tortured by Nephele in Aloisio, then rescued by Devin, Ely, Alexander and the bearers.
• IIFrom Dragonhall near Watermiles; her parents were murdered the day she was born and her uncle Ihvan raised her.
• IIBears the Book of the Justifier, given on her eighteenth birthday, the night Raziel came to her in a dream.
• IIShe has dreamed of Isaac too; she drives her blade into Erebos's skull and shares a first kiss with Isaac.
• IIIGifted with foresight; she foresees Agalmath burning. She dies there, is revived by the Creator's tear, and opens the Justifier.
• IIIWatches Raziel tear out her uncle's heart and vows to kill Nephele.
• IVGains white dove-like wings, unexplained. Her sword of non-Elysian metal wounds Lucifer before Capios pin her.
• ISee also: Isaac Khan, Book of the Justifier, Nephele.
• IRace: Human.

Ballard Radley

Human · Shifting

• IA young herbalist's son caught with a strange book near Justicia; he is one of the five book-bearers.
• IHoney-coloured eyes and long light-chestnut hair; Nephele and Adawnas catch him carrying the third book.
• IISon of Anatolio Radley, Overseer of Valley Hills; he learns only in Rebellion that a Shadow killed his father.
• IIFound the Book of Letters in the Ruins of Madbouseux and hid it in a fallen trunk in the Justicia river.
• IIHas prophetic dreams and healer's lore; he drowns and is revived by Leethan, then splits the earth with his fist.
• IIAccepts Xavier's offer, falls asleep under the Dark Exchange, and is taken; his book is opened.
• IIIHis blood and book help Xavier wake the Deenion; rescued from Isaac's house still under the Dark Exchange.
• IVXavier says his soul is lost in the Wastelands, yet the Lion's Stare shows him standing free beside Devin.
• ISee also: Book of Letters, Anatolio Radley, Valley Hills, Ruins of Madbouseux, Xavier, Devin.
• IRace: Human.

Petra

Human · Shifting

• IA ragged young man from Swordsmouth who reaches Aloisio carrying the Book of the Light Bearer.
• IBrown-eyed, in tattered clothes and gray gloves; Raziel found him at sea and showed him the winged lion.
• ICaptured by Capios in Aloisio; his blood is spilled on the Diary, and he escapes the Prison of Despair with Devin and Ely.
• IIA Shadow devoured the girl he loved at the Great River; his parents left him his book in a box with a note.
• IITouching the Book of Letters gives him a vision: 'The Creator will be killed.' He tells only Isaac.
• IIHis touch can paralyse; he is taken after the Dark Exchange and his book is opened.
• IIIRescued under the Dark Exchange from Isaac's house; Dolus impostors had worn his face on Lucifer's platform.
• IVHis vision comes true in the Desert of Nahor; like Ballard, he is seen standing free in the Lion's Stare.
• ISee also: Book of the Light Bearer, Swordsmouth, Ballard Radley, Adara.
• IRace: Human.

Adara

Human · Shifting

• IA young woman held prisoner in Aloisio and freed by Devin and Ely.
• IDark wavy hair, brown eyes and pale skin; she is the prisoner rescued from Aloisio.
• IIDaughter of King Marco's right hand, who was hanged when Marco turned; her mother was assaulted. Leethan says both went to Tristar.
• IICompassionate and blunt, she suggests giving up the books; she accepts Xavier's offer and is taken.
• IIIBearer of the Book of the Enlightened, the legs of Lucifer's body; rescued from Isaac's house under the Dark Exchange.
• IVSaid to be lost in the Wastelands, yet seen in the Lion's Stare with Devin and Arundel.
• ISee also: Book of the Enlightened, Aloisio, King Marco, Ballard Radley, Petra.
• IRace: Human.

Arundel

Human · The Creator

• IIA young man of the hidden Village of Tears who becomes a dragon-tamer and joins Isaac.
• IIAbout eighteen, with raven hair and gray eyes; raised by Alistar Ashenburn as his son, with a sister, Sela.
• IIHis mother died five years before Rebellion; he shares an unusual eye colour and nose with Sathees.
• IIAfter the village falls, white-dragon markings glow blue on his hands and neck and he rides a white dragon.
• IIINames the dragon Undahrian, which later burns itself to death above Agalmath.
• IIILucifer greets Sathees as Arundel's father; Arundel leaves with Devin and the bearers for Bravor.
• IVSeen with Devin in the Lion's Stare. Whether Sathees, or Lylith's lost son Isakaar, explains his birth stays open.
• IISee also: Alistar Ashenburn, Sela, Sathees, Undahrian, Village of Tears, Dragon-tamers, Isakaar.
• IIRace: Human.

Hadrian

Human · The Creator

• IIIA soldier of Swordsmouth found in the Weeping Mountains, who pledges himself and his army to Isaac.
• IIIChestnut shoulder-length hair, brown eyes, silver armour and a black helmet-shaped mark on his right hand.
• IIILost his companion to a Shadow; he carries a Watch Bird note in Dustin's hand about the murdered rulers.
• IIIExplains what each of Lucifer's books stands for and the sketch of Nahor, secret lore of Swordsmouth soldiers.
• IIILeads thousands of Swordsmouth riders against Agalmath, wounds Bartholomew with a dagger, and is captured, then freed.
• IIISpeaks of 'the hope of resurrection' as Demetre's spirit departs.
• IVSeen walking with Isaac and Xylia in the Lion's Stare; his fate after Hathar is unknown.
• IIISee also: Swordsmouth, The army of Swordsmouth, Isaac Khan, Sketch of Nahor, Battle of Agalmath.
• IIIRace: Human.

Lucifer

Fallen Star · The Fallen

Also known as the Dark One, Son of Dawn, Child of Light, the Brightest Star, the Light Bearer

• IOnce the brightest of the Stars, he chose darkness, was cast into the Abyss, and now seeks a body to rise again.
• IGiven power over all beings of Tristar and the choice between good and evil; his fall gave birth to evil.
• IAfter a failed assault on Tristar his body was put to sleep in the Wastelands; his spirit roams weakly as shadows, voices and a living painting.
• IKept a Diary of his discovered powers that holds the secret to his awakening.
• IIWriter of all five books; each opened book rebuilds part of his body.
• IIIHalf-formed after three books, then whole after five: white hair, crystal eyes, white armour, a black six-winged lion on his chest.
• IIIA snake from his palm seizes the Creator at Agalmath and they vanish together.
• IVKills the Creator in the Desert of Nahor and keeps the still-beating heart; he narrates Descent.
• IVHides a secret: in the War of Seven Keys he stabbed a fellow Star, Daedeen's lover, sending him to the Prison of Immortals.
• IVThe torn-out last page of his Diary leaves his heart sick and cracking.
• IVAllies with Bartholomew, kills Raziel at Hathar with Isaac's sword, and collapses: 'Then, there was darkness.'
• ISee also: The Creator, The Diary of Lucifer, The five books of Lucifer, Fallen Rulers.
• IRace: Fallen Star.

Nephele

Nephilin · Shifting

• IThe first Nephilin, once a human girl turned by a Fallen Star; she rules Billyth for Lucifer and narrates part of Book 1.
• IGolden hair, sky-blue eyes and ivory skin; she causes pain by thought, moves things with her mind, and enters dreams.
• ITurned by lying with the Fallen Star Mordred and bore Duane, the first Nephilin born; she alone of the mothers was spared.
• ITries to turn Isaac through seduction, as she herself was turned; he refuses.
• IFelled by the blood-drinkers' red mist in the Heart of Elysium at the end of Book 1.
• IIHeld by the blood-drinkers with an iron spear through her thigh; she still speaks in Isaac's mind.
• IIIReturned by Bartholomew at Agalmath, hand on her stomach, and carried off by Adawnas.
• IVFed Bartholomew's blood, she grows wings of feathers and scales and fangs; her unborn child devours Duane and Sathees.
• IVStabbed through by Loht, she revives and flies off, knowing Lucifer's secret. She is to be killed on sight and cries the name 'Bord.'
• ISee also: Mordred, Duane, Bartholomew Winmore, Billyth, Azaziel, Corbin.
• IRace: Nephilin.

The Creator

The Creator · The Creator

Also known as the Lion, I am that I am

• IThe maker of Tristar and Elysium, who appears as a white lion with six wings and scarlet eyes.
• ISpeaks to Isaac in the ocean of his soul: 'I am that I am'; he weeps and promises to stay with him to the end.
• IMade Elysium after Lucifer's fall and taught the first men and women.
• IIBound by the free will he gave, he cannot override choices but can send help.
• IIIDescends to Agalmath in a mortal body, revives Xylia, orders the books opened, and is seized by Lucifer's snake.
• III'Only a mortal being can redeem a mortal world.'
• IVEntering Elysium in flesh costs him his immortality; Lucifer kills him in the Desert of Nahor and later beheads the body.
• IVHis torn-out heart beats on and survives fire until Lucifer's own heart cracks.
• IVYet Mordred and Corbin saw him in flesh at Bellator, and the Soundless say he is with Lucifer's murdered brother. His fate is open.
• ISee also: Lucifer, Tristar, The Creator's limits.

Leethan

Star · The Creator

• IOne of the Creator's Higher Stars, remembered for stealing Lucifer's Diary out of the Abyss in ancient days.
• IRecovered Lucifer's Diary from the Abyss; the Creator then entrusted it to the first humans.
• IIGolden eyes, ashen hair, four wings, silver-diamond armour with three spikes on each gauntlet and the six-winged lion on his breast.
• IITests the bearers disguised as a dying stranger, then revives the drowned Ballard and vanishes in mist.
• IVWorked secretly with Raziel to lure Lucifer into an ambush at Hathar, fighting beside Isaac and Xylia.
• IVIn Mordred's vision he hands the bleeding last page of the Diary to 'our brother'.
• IVEnds Descent pinned by Capios, forced to watch Raziel die, holding the Lion's Stare.
• ISee also: Higher Stars, The Diary of Lucifer, Raziel.
• IRace: Star.

Raziel

Star · Shifting

• IA Star who carries the Creator's offer to Isaac and commands the Underwarriors in Elysium.
• IGolden eyes, fair hair and white dove-like wings; in the field he goes bare-chested with a black leather bracelet.
• IOffers Isaac the Creator's gifts and gives him wings by stabbing him with a gold, diamond-set dagger.
• IOnce fought beside Azael and still calls him 'brother'; he gathers the five book-bearers.
• IIIUnmasked at Agalmath as 'the traitor of Tristar': he shields the half-formed Lucifer and tears out Ihvan's heart.
• IVReveals he was working with Leethan and used the Lion's Stare to draw Lucifer into the Hathar ambush.
• IVLucifer kills him with Isaac's sword through the skull; his body melts to bones and armour. His true loyalty stays unclear.
• ISee also: Underwarriors, Isaac Khan, Raziel's dagger, Leethan.
• IRace: Star.

Nathan

Characters · The Creator

• IAn Underwarrior with fair hair and a jewelled lion-hilted sword who rescues Isaac at the end of Book 1.
• IHazel-green eyes, fair hair tied back, white wings and silver armour; he touches two fingers to his forehead in farewell.
• IRaids Nephele's tower at Justicia after the books are gone and carries Isaac away in a flash of light.
• IIFlies Isaac to Bellator; he can flash blinding light from his left palm.
• IILast seen flying into the smoke duelling Bartholomew over the Village of Tears.
• IVUnseen in Books 3 and 4; his fate is an open thread.
• ISee also: Underwarriors, Isaac Khan, Bartholomew Winmore.
• IRace: Underwarrior.

Alexander

Characters · The Creator

• IField head of the Underwarriors, a scarred warrior who arms Isaac at Valley Hills.
• IA scar runs from his right eyebrow to his lips; he has blue eyes, white wings and silver armour striped with gold.
• IRaises Underwarriors from the ground at Valley Hills and gives Isaac his lion-hilted sword.
• IShares the Underwarriors' story over a meal: breathed from the stars, they cannot truly die.
• ISummons a sword of light and fights Nephele, but Corbin's sword kills him in an icy valley; his soul returns to Tristar.
• ISee also: Underwarriors, Alexander's swords, Corbin, Valley Hills, Raziel.
• IRace: Underwarrior.

Ely

Human · The Creator

• IA member of the Council who can send his spirit out as a mist, and who warned Devin of danger to Isaac.
• IAt the Justicia feast only Isaac and Demetre can see his mist-spirit, with empty eye-holes and no legs.
• IJailed in the Prison of Despair for warning Devin about Cyro.
• IFrees Devin and Petra using the three-line symbol and reveals that one of the books can open and close the Prison.
• IIRode to Watermiles at King Demyon's request; nothing more is heard of him.
• ISee also: Council of Justicia, Devin, Prison of Despair.
• IRace: Human.

King Demyon

Human · The Creator

• IIKing of Bellator, the snowy realm of white dragons, who shelters Isaac after the fall of Justicia.
• IIIn his mid-forties, dark-bearded, crowned with seven silver spikes; widower of Queen Lylith.
• IIWas at the attack on Justicia nineteen years earlier and keeps the Lion's Stare.
• IIReveals the Council's history to Isaac; a riot overthrows him and Bartholomew bites him.
• IIIReports events through the Lion's Stare, so he still lives.
• IVHis castle lies in ruins; his fate is unknown.
• IISee also: Bellator, Queen Lylith, Isakaar, The Lion's Stare, Sathees.
• IIRace: Human.

Sathees

Human · Shifting

• IIA bald Wise man of Bellator marked with white-dragon tattoos, who aids Isaac in Rebellion.
• IIGray-eyed, with white-dragon markings that glow silver-blue; he warns that dragon magic has a price.
• IITells Isaac his power has changed, summons a ghostly dragon and casts the dragon Shield.
• IITurns emotional over Lylith's portrait and denies ever meeting Arundel; then he goes missing.
• IIIRevealed as Demyon's betrayer and Lucifer's servant; Lucifer calls him Arundel's father.
• IVEscorts Nephele with Duane and is devoured by her unborn child.
• IISee also: The Seven Wise of Bellator, Arundel, Bellator, Dragon magic, Nephele, Queen Lylith.
• IIRace: Human.

Xavier

Fallen Ruler · The Fallen

• IA pale Fallen being with ash-gray eyes who appears in the Heart of Elysium and takes command of Lessers and blood-drinkers.
• IErebos's elder brother; he controls Lessers and blood-drinkers, whose eyes glaze white, until their red mist fells him.
• IIA Fallen Ruler with dark gray wings tipped coal-black; he and Erebos and Nephele kill three human rulers.
• IIMaster of the mind form of the Dark Exchange: an offered paradise that puts victims to sleep under his will.
• IIIsaac stabs him in the chest inside the vision, and the wound is real.
• IIITook Ballard and the Book of Letters into the Prison of Despair to wake the Deenion; crushes Bartholomew's head at Agalmath.
• IVLucifer calls him 'brother'. He doubts the Creator's death and the blood-drinker pact, and cuts Nephele's child from her.
• IVDoes not know Lucifer's secret, though he senses one.
• ISee also: Fallen Rulers, Erebos, Dark Exchange, Lucifer.
• IRace: Fallen Star.
• IRace: Fallen Ruler.

Bellyon

Fallen Ruler · The Fallen

• IIIA masked Fallen Ruler who commands Shadows and escorts Isaac's party through Lucifer's army at Agalmath.
• IIIWears a silver mist-mask with a red stone and ram horns, a fur coat and iron finger-spikes; beneath it are chestnut hair and crystal eyes.
• IIIRides an armoured desert dragon; he commands Shadows and sends illusions of loved ones.
• IVHis dragon is named Ostrek; Lucifer treats him with open intimacy.
• IVDoubts the Creator is truly dead; the blood-drinkers put him to sleep at Benhir Karbor.
• IIISee also: Fallen Rulers, Ostrek, Shadows, Lucifer.
• IIIRace: Fallen Star.
• IIIRace: Fallen Ruler.

Daedeen

Fallen Ruler · The Fallen

• IIIThe one female Fallen Ruler, tall and slender in a two-horned helmet, who torments the captive bearers at Agalmath.
• IIIHer helmet bears two horns and a white gem; a lion marks her breastplate.
• IIIFells the blood-drinkers and carries them off to a temple in the Desert of Nahor.
• IVChestnut curls, midnight eyes and a melodious voice; she is Lucifer's lover.
• IVThe only one Lucifer believes knows his secret: the Star he murdered was her lover. She has not wept since that war.
• IIISee also: Fallen Rulers, Lucifer.
• IIIRace: Fallen Star.
• IIIRace: Fallen Ruler.

Mordred

Fallen Star · The Fallen

• IThe Fallen Star whose union with a human girl began the Nephilin race.
• IEntered Elysium through the Gates of the Fourth Dimension, seduced a young girl, and vanished; she became Nephele.
• IFather of Duane; Duane later accuses him of killing the Nephilin mothers.
• IChosen by the Fallen Rulers to take Isaac's body; he is cast out when Isaac returns.
• IVCast into the Abyss's Forgotten Chasm, he regains a body of his own through a mysterious white light.
• IVGolden hair, blue eyes; he saw the Creator alive in flesh at Bellator and fights Leethan in the sky over Hathar.
• IVKeeps his base in the ruins of Justicia near Bravor.
• ISee also: Nephele, Duane, Isaac Khan, Fallen Stars, Leethan.
• IRace: Fallen Star.

Corbin

Fallen Star · The Fallen

• IThe red-eyed Fallen Star who wakes inside Demetre's body; Nephele calls him her love.
• ILingered in the Abyss for ages before taking Demetre through the Soul Exchange.
• ISends Whispering Lights, performs the Dark Exchange on a serpent, and plans to breach the invisible wall.
• IKills Alexander with his sword; he is driven out of Demetre at Justicia.
• IVReturned in a body of his own, he co-signs a note to Lucifer and marches with an army not yet seen in person.
• ISee also: Demetre Aliward, Nephele, Alexander, Whispering Lights, Fallen Stars.
• IRace: Fallen Star.

Cyro

Fallen Star · The Fallen

• IA fair-haired Fallen Star in spiked armour who ambushes Isaac and Demetre on the first morning of the series.
• IGem-blue eyes and a dark armoured horse; he comes to Agalmath hunting the box hidden beneath Isaac's floor.
• IInflicts pain at will and commands hundreds of Shadows.
• IBeheaded by an Aquila at the Justicia feast, yet this does not end him.
• IVReturns in a body of his own and wounds Isaac's thigh at Hathar.
• ISee also: Fallen Stars, Isaac Khan, Agalmath, The forged Diary box.
• IRace: Fallen Star.

Erebos

Fallen Star · The Fallen

• IA Fallen Star whose true form is a black snake; he takes the body of King Marco of Aloisio.
• IEnters Marco through lights in his ears and nose and drinks his blood; Lucifer sends him to deceive the kings.
• IXavier's younger brother; he makes Lessers by the Dark Exchange, gives them vulture wings, and can create Capios.
• IIHis Capios dragged Isaac's parents from their home; he stripped their memories with the Dark Exchange.
• IIDemetre's steel through the heart and Xylia's blade in the skull end him; he turns to ash.
• IVHis spirit is in the Prison of Immortals.
• ISee also: King Marco, Xavier, Capios, Lessers, Dark Exchange, Diane Khan, Dustin Khan.
• IRace: Fallen Star.

Azael

Fallen Star · The Fallen

• IA Fallen Star named as Devin's father.
• IRaziel once fought beside him and still calls him 'brother'.
• IIIGuards the captive blood-drinkers at Agalmath; Isaac finds him strangely familiar.
• IVBlue eyes, fair hair, silver armour; he killed Devin's human mother on Lucifer's order.
• IVRemains bitter about the order to kill the Fallen Stars' human lovers.
• ISee also: Devin, Fallen Stars, Raziel.
• IRace: Fallen Star.

Adawnas

Nephilin · The Fallen

• IA golden-haired Nephilin of the Council who has fought beside Devin for thousands of years.
• IDiamond-bright eyes, a braided golden mane and a silver tiara etched with a rose; she wears a red coat.
• IWarns against the poisoned wine at Justicia and is carved and jailed by Athalas.
• IFlees after the Aquilas freeze, then reappears at Marco's side, chosen to assist Nephele.
• IIDevin secretly loves her; she now stands with Xavier in silver armour and a horned helmet.
• IIITends the wounded Nephele at Agalmath.
• IVLeads the army to Benhir Karbor on a breohr; Lucifer says she has 'chosen the side that will win.'
• ISee also: Devin, Nephele, Council of Justicia, Athalas Terriel.
• IRace: Nephilin.

Azaziel

Nephilin · The Fallen

• INephele's tall, fair-haired lieutenant in Billyth.
• IBlue-eyed in a floor-length black cape; with Nephele he offers to turn Isaac.
• IIHelped Nephele find and hide the Nephilin orphans beneath Billyth, among them Devin.
• IVRides a desert dragon and leads the winged Nephilins to Hathar; he met Mordred in Aloisio's cathedral.
• ISee also: Nephele, Billyth, The Nephilin army, Devin.
• IRace: Nephilin.

Duane

Nephilin · The Fallen

• ISon of Nephele and Mordred and the first Nephilin born, his face much like his mother's.
• IWears a black leather vest; he challenges Mordred over the killing of the Nephilin mothers and is punished by Nephele.
• IICarries off Ballard after the Dark Exchange.
• IVEscorting Nephele with Sathees, he is devoured by her unborn child.
• ISee also: Nephele, Mordred, Ballard Radley.
• IRace: Nephilin.

Athalas Terriel

Human · The Fallen

• ILord of the Council of Justicia, who welcomes Isaac to the castle with a poisoned feast.
• ISold his soul to Lucifer just under twenty years ago and turned the Council to darkness.
• ILies that Isaac's parents died in the fields and shatters the forged Diary box.
• ICompletes the Soul Exchange on Demetre at Billyth; appointed by the Creator to rule the Prison of Despair and Death.
• IWhen Death is conquered it drags him away through a glowing door.
• IIHad erased the Council's memory of its choice between immortality and children; he trained Devin for 400 years.
• IVBurns in the Prison of Despair under Death's torment.
• ISee also: Council of Justicia, Death, Prison of Despair, Soul Exchange, The forged Diary box.
• IRace: Human.

King Marco

Human · The Fallen

• IKing of Aloisio, who surrendered himself to Lucifer and holds Isaac captive.
• IMidnight eyes, black hair over half his face; he forces village men to kill to swell the Shadows.
• ICuts Isaac and Petra over the Diary to begin the Soul Exchange.
• IAfter Lucifer's touch, Erebos enters him; Marco's body becomes the Fallen Star's host.
• IIHis right-hand man, Adara's father, was hanged when Marco turned.
• ISee also: Aloisio, Erebos, Adara, Soul Exchange.
• IRace: Human.

Cahir

Characters · The Fallen

• IA Lesser who gains speech and is named by Nephele, meaning 'warrior'.
• IOnce a man of Madbouseux who led its diggers; cursed into a serpent and remade by the Dark Exchange.
• IGained speech when Justicia fell; he guides Nephele to the Heart of Elysium.
• ISecretly serves Xavier, who melts his throat; Bartholomew and Nylora drink his blood.
• ISee also: Lessers, Nephele, Xavier, Ruins of Madbouseux, Heart of Elysium.
• IRace: Lesser.

Bartholomew Winmore

Blood-drinker · Shifting

• IThe ancient king of Madbouseux, woken in the Heart of Elysium as the first of the blood-drinkers.
• IGave his life to Lucifer and once held the Book of Letters; feeding his tainted blood to others made them blood-drinkers.
• IRestored by blood: red eyes, olive skin, dark hair. He serves only himself and his people and turns on Xavier.
• IILord of the Weeping Mountains; he bites Demyon and shields the Lessers' minds from Erebos.
• IIKeeps Nephele captive and feeds her his blood; Nathan was last seen duelling him.
• IIISeeks the Book of Letters to command the Deenion; Xavier crushes his head and carries him off.
• IVSires a child on Nephele and makes a pact with Lucifer for the book, the Deenion and freedom to spread his curse.
• IVLucifer secretly plans to kill all blood-drinkers when the war ends; he hints that Bartholomew did not find the book by chance.
• ISee also: Blood-drinkers, Book of Letters, Ruins of Madbouseux, Nephele, Curse of the Dark Wine.
• IRace: Blood-drinker.

Nylora

Blood-drinker · Shifting

• IA golden-haired blood-drinker woken beside Bartholomew in the Heart of Elysium.
• IHazel eyes and moon-pale skin; she warns that drinking a blood-drinker's blood is against their law.
• IIHelps feed on a Wise man of Bellator to open a wall into the throne room.
• IIIsaac kills her by entering her mind; she decays to bones in a pool of blood.
• ISee also: Blood-drinkers, Bartholomew Winmore.
• IRace: Blood-drinker.

Dahmian

Blood-drinker · Shifting

• IA flame-haired blood-drinker warrior, one of Madbouseux's strongest.
• IAppears unnamed as the red-haired warrior who boasts of Madbouseux's fighters.
• IIGreen-eyed and taunting; he heals in seconds and hums an eerie tune.
• IIITakes Xylia hostage at Agalmath; Isaac kills him by entering his mind.
• ISee also: Blood-drinkers, Bartholomew Winmore, Xylia.
• IRace: Blood-drinker.

Dionisius

Blood-drinker · Shifting

• IIA hooded, bearded blood-drinker with a scar across his forehead.
• IIHairless beneath a moss-green hood, with midnight eyes; he whistles to summon the Lessers.
• IIDrinks from Demetre during the raid on the Village of Tears.
• IIIDrinks Arundel's blood in the forest near Justicia.
• IVCalls Lucifer a hypocrite and the root of all rebellion; he explains how the blood was fed to Nephele.
• IISee also: Blood-drinkers, Bartholomew Winmore, Lessers.
• IIRace: Blood-drinker.

Bhor

Blood-drinker · Shifting

• IIA crude blood-drinker with dark curls and eyes the colour of fresh blood.
• IIBoasts of killing two village children of the Village of Tears.
• IIILeers at Xylia and the captive Nephele and eats a deer's head.
• IVFirst of the chained blood-drinkers to wake at Benhir Karbor; he calls Lucifer a traitor.
• IISee also: Blood-drinkers, Village of Tears.
• IIRace: Blood-drinker.

Anwill

Blood-drinker · Shifting

• IIA blood-drinker with tangled black hair and sky-blue eyes.
• IIDrinks the blood of Sela after Nephele kills her.
• IIIDaedeen knocks him senseless at Agalmath.
• IVHeld with the others at Benhir Karbor.
• IISee also: Blood-drinkers, Sela, Nephele.
• IIRace: Blood-drinker.

Death

Characters · Unknown

• IThe creature that dwells at the bottom of the Prison of Despair, legless and serpent-tailed, speaking in a broken tongue.
• IShrivelled scaled skin, golden cat eyes, long skeletal arms and a gray-striped snake's tail.
• ISings a short song about eyes that do not see, and knows Isaac as 'son of Dustin and Diane.'
• IRuled by Athalas until 'one greater' conquered it; then it drags Athalas away.
• IIINow its own master, it partly heals Isaac and sends Demetre into the Heart of Elysium; a Fallen Ruler burns it.
• IVCannot die of death, but Lucifer burns it to a black puddle; its spirit is said to go to the Prison of Immortals.
• ISee also: Prison of Despair, Athalas Terriel, Death's song, Demetre Aliward.

Diane Khan

Human · The Creator

• IIsaac's golden-haired mother, a fine cook and seamstress of Agalmath, who vanishes on a storm night.
• IA member of the Council who fled Justicia with the Diary box nearly two decades before Isaac's journey.
• IBlood by the hearth, gouges and an unnatural cold are all that remain; Athalas claims she died in the fields.
• IIHas foresight, a gift that came a thousand years after the Council received the Diary.
• IIErebos's Capios dragged her and Dustin away alive; the Dark Exchange stripped her mind.
• IISurfaces for one breath to tell Isaac she foresaw this and does not blame him; the Creator says she has gone Home.
• ISee also: Dustin Khan, Isaac Khan, Council of Justicia, Erebos, Capios, Dark Exchange.
• IRace: Human.

Dustin Khan

Human · The Creator

• IIsaac's father, a farmer with a field in the Hills of Mahnor and a white mare named Crystal.
• IA Council member who fled Justicia; Devin gave him a carriage to celebrate Isaac's birth.
• IMissing after the storm night; his coat still hangs behind the door.
• IIHis gift is meddling with memories; under the Dark Exchange he sings a cursed song.
• IIDies by Isaac's sword in the Village of Tears and goes Home.
• IIIHis handwriting on a Watch Bird note proves he travelled with the doomed rulers; he once stood night watch with Paul.
• ISee also: Diane Khan, Isaac Khan, Crystal, Hills of Mahnor.
• IRace: Human.

Alistar Ashenburn

Human · Mortal

• IIDefender of the Village of Tears, a bearded man in a white wool cloak who keeps his people hidden from the war.
• IIMeets the travellers on the Road of Ahnor and reveals that Isaac's parents are in his village.
• IITells Isaac how the Capios took his parents and how they came to the village.
• IISings the Song of Hope; he raised Arundel and Sela.
• IIXavier crushes his skull when the Fallen attack the village.
• IISee also: Village of Tears, Arundel, Sela, Xavier, Song of Hope.
• IIRace: Human.

Ihvan

Human · Mortal

• IIXylia's red-haired uncle, who raised her near Watermiles.
• IIFound the infant Xylia after her parents' murder and claimed to be her father until she asked at nine.
• IIFished the ocean with her and gave her the Book of the Justifier on her eighteenth birthday.
• IIIXylia foresees his flesh melting; he is crucified on Lucifer's platform at Agalmath.
• IIIRaziel tears out his heart.
• IISee also: Xylia, Village of Dragonhall, Raziel, Book of the Justifier.
• IIRace: Human.

Eldon

Star · The Creator

Also known as Gatekeeper of Tristar

• IThe gatekeeper of Tristar, a being of many-coloured light that takes the shape of a phoenix.
• IGuards the invisible wall between Justicia and Tristar.
• ITurns Lucifer back from the border, declaring he will never be allowed to cross it.
• IClashes with Lucifer again as Justicia burns.
• IVHis fate after Book 1 is unknown.
• ISee also: The invisible wall, Tristar, Justicia, Lucifer.
• IRace: Star.

Dulliam

Star · The Creator

• IIIOne of the three Higher Stars who stayed loyal to the Creator.
• IIINamed among the Higher Stars in the Book 3 glossary.
• IIISix Higher Stars once served the Creator; three fell, and Dulliam is one of the three who remain.
• IVHas not acted on the page; his fate is an open thread.
• IIISee also: Higher Stars, Eethan, Leethan.
• IIIRace: Star.

Eethan

Star · The Creator

• IIIOne of the three Higher Stars who stayed loyal to the Creator.
• IIINamed among the Higher Stars in the Book 3 glossary.
• IIIOne of the three Higher Stars who did not follow Lucifer, with Leethan and Dulliam.
• IVHas not acted on the page; his fate is an open thread.
• IIISee also: Higher Stars, Dulliam, Leethan.
• IIIRace: Star.

Tonma

Characters · The Creator

• IA blond commander of the Underwarriors hiding beneath Aloisio.
• IShoulder-length blond hair and a thick brown cape; he rolls a boulder aside to open an escape tunnel.
• IExplains the Whispering Lights and why abilities fail in Aloisio; he says the Creator never ends anything before its time.
• IIISent with Cresta to carry news of the battle at the Gates of the Fourth Dimension.
• ISee also: Underwarriors, Aloisio, Cresta, Gates of the Fourth Dimension.
• IRace: Underwarrior.

Cresta

Characters · The Creator

• IOne of Raziel's agents in Aloisio, disguised as a city guard.
• IWith a partner in matching disguise, he leads Isaac and Devin to Tonma.
• IHolds an iron dagger to Devin, knowing only iron kills his kind.
• IIICarries news from the Gates of the Fourth Dimension with Tonma.
• ISee also: Underwarriors, Raziel, Tonma, Aloisio.
• IRace: Underwarrior.

Ahmos

Human · The Fallen

• IAn ashen-eyed member of the Council who serves the darkness.
• IPresent at Justicia when Nephele torments the Council.
• IOne of the few named Council members to survive that night.
• IVHis fate is unknown.
• ISee also: Council of Justicia, Athalas Terriel, Justicia.
• IRace: Human.

Vladmir

Human · Unknown

• IChief of the four horsemen, Council soldiers who watch a borderline near Agalmath.
• IA deep hoarse voice and a scar from above his right eye to his chin.
• ITells Isaac that fear should never make his heart its home.
• IServes Athalas at Justicia; nothing is known of him afterward.
• ISee also: The four horsemen, Dantes, Aleen, Alestin, Borderline of Justicia.
• IRace: Human.

Dantes

Human · Unknown

• IA gray-haired horseman in his mid-forties, one of the four horsemen.
• IRides with Vladmir in red cape and silver armour.
• IMeets Devin and the boys on the road to Justicia.
• IHis fate after Justicia is unknown.
• ISee also: The four horsemen, Vladmir.
• IRace: Human.

Aleen

Human · Unknown

• IThe youngest of the four horsemen, with flaming red hair and green eyes.
• IRides escort to Justicia with the other horsemen.
• IAn old acquaintance of Devin.
• IHis fate after Justicia is unknown.
• ISee also: The four horsemen, Vladmir.
• IRace: Human.

Alestin

Human · Unknown

• IA blond horseman, nearly as pale as Devin, one of the four horsemen.
• INamed once when the horsemen are introduced.
• IPart of the escort that brings Isaac and Demetre across the borderline.
• IHis fate after Justicia is unknown.
• ISee also: The four horsemen, Vladmir.
• IRace: Human.

Queen Lylith

Human · Mortal

• IIThe late queen of Bellator, Demyon's wife, known from a portrait.
• IILong dark hair and chestnut eyes; she is painted in a scarlet dress.
• IIDied giving birth to her son Isakaar, soon after the attack on Justicia.
• IISathees is visibly moved by her portrait and evasive about her child.
• IISee also: King Demyon, Isakaar, Bellator, Sathees.
• IIRace: Human.

Isakaar

Human · Unknown

• IIThe son of King Demyon and Queen Lylith, reported to have died at birth.
• IISathees says, evasively, that the child died with his mother.
• IISathees, who shares Arundel's eyes and nose, seems to hide something about the royal child.
• IVWhether Isakaar truly died, and whether he is tied to Arundel, is left open for Book 5.
• IISee also: Queen Lylith, King Demyon, Arundel, Sathees.
• IIRace: Human.

Draevor

Human · Unknown

• IIOne of the Seven Wise of Bellator, who scorns Isaac.
• IIInsults Isaac at the throne-room council.
• IIHairless and robed in white like the other Wise.
• IVHis fate is unknown.
• IISee also: The Seven Wise of Bellator, Bellator, Sathees.
• IIRace: Human.

Dundreen

Human · Unknown

• IIIA Wise man of Bellator known only by name.
• IIIListed among the Wise Men of Bellator in the Book 3 glossary.
• IIIDoes not appear or speak in the chapters.
• IVLike the rest of the Wise, his fate is unknown.
• IIISee also: The Seven Wise of Bellator, Bellator.
• IIIRace: Human.

Leezak

Fallen Star · The Fallen

• IIIA Fallen Star who guards the captive blood-drinkers.
• IIIGuards the blood-drinkers at Agalmath with Azael and Oriah.
• IVShorter and broad-shouldered, round-faced, his hair tied in a bun.
• IVArrives at Benhir Karbor in silver armour.
• IIISee also: Fallen Stars, Azael, Oriah.
• IIIRace: Fallen Star.

Oriah

Fallen Star · The Fallen

• IIIA tall Fallen Star with dark circles round his blue eyes.
• IIIGuards the blood-drinkers at Agalmath with Azael and Leezak.
• IVShort-haired and taller than Leezak; he joins the guard at Benhir Karbor.
• IVPresent when Lucifer seals his pact with Bartholomew.
• IIISee also: Fallen Stars, Azael, Leezak.
• IIIRace: Fallen Star.

Melchem

Fallen Star · The Fallen

• IIIA Fallen Star who seizes Isaac in Agalmath.
• IIICaptures Isaac after the books are opened; the prisoners go free when Lucifer's army flees the lion.
• IVRides beside Adawnas, a fair braid running from his forehead down his back.
• IVCursed Nephele into a stupor and explains that the Fallen fled Agalmath remembering the Creator's eyes.
• IIISee also: Fallen Stars, Isaac Khan, Nephele, Adawnas.
• IIIRace: Fallen Star.

Xyan

Characters · Unknown

• IVOne of the three Soundless, robed in red.
• IVStands in the middle of the three, hoarse-voiced, with a skeletal finger and a dimpled chin.
• IVLike his companions he has no eyes or nose, only a thin lipped mouth.
• IVCalls Lucifer 'Child of Light' in the vision at Benhir Karbor.
• IVSee also: The Soundless, Xortah, Xendrek.
• IVRace: Soundless.

Xortah

Characters · Unknown

• IVOne of the three Soundless, cloaked in midnight, with a shrill voice.
• IVHas jagged teeth and no eyes or nose.
• IVIts voice tells Lucifer that the last page of his Diary is missing.
• IVReaches Elysium through a crack out of the Prison of Immortals.
• IVSee also: The Soundless, Xyan, Xendrek, The missing Diary page.
• IVRace: Soundless.

Xendrek

Characters · Unknown

• IVOne of the three Soundless, in a gray cloak.
• IVHairless, with swollen veins on his head.
• IVCalls Lucifer 'Child of Dawn'.
• IVShares the Soundless warnings about Nephele and the war.
• IVSee also: The Soundless, Xyan, Xortah.
• IVRace: Soundless.

Paul Aliward

Human · Mortal

• IDemetre's short-tempered father, a member of the Council.
• IFled Justicia with the Khans and settled in Agalmath; missing on the storm morning.
• IIWith Lune, among the first keepers of the Diary and the first to welcome Devin to the Council.
• IIDied the morning of Cyro's attack; buried in the garden of Bellator. He sang the Song of Brave Heroes.
• IIIBeat his son; vowed him to Lucifer before he was conceived. Stood night watch with Dustin.
• ISee also: Lune Aliward, Demetre Aliward, Council of Justicia.
• IRace: Human.

Lune Aliward

Human · Mortal

• IDemetre's mother, a Council member who kept a vegetable garden in Agalmath.
• IMissing with her husband after the storm night.
• IIHer letter, sealed with a red lion, reaches Demetre in Bellator.
• IIShe writes that they gave themselves to darkness because the truth was stolen from them.
• IIBuried beside Paul in Bellator's glass garden.
• ISee also: Paul Aliward, Demetre Aliward.
• IRace: Human.

Sela

Human · Mortal

• IIAlistar's young daughter and Arundel's sister, in a white dress and a thin silver tiara.
• IILives in the Village of Tears with her father and brother.
• IITortured and killed by Nephele; the blood-drinker Anwill drinks her blood.
• IIIBellyon's illusions show her to Arundel holding her own head.
• IISee also: Alistar Ashenburn, Arundel, Village of Tears, Nephele, Anwill.
• IIRace: Human.

Queen Valleree

Human · Mortal

• IIQueen of Tarsh, killed with the kings of Swordsmouth and Watermiles.
• IIExpected in Bellator, she is found dead with the two kings, known by her bronze Aquila brooch.
• IIIXavier, Erebos and Nephele attacked the rulers on the Road of Ahnor.
• IVAfter her death Tarsh pledges itself to Lucifer and rebuilds Benhir Karbor.
• IISee also: Tarsh, Xavier.
• IIRace: Human.

Anatolio Radley

Human · Mortal

• IHerbalist and Overseer of Valley Hills, murdered by a Shadow.
• IFound dead in Valley Hills; someone wanted him dead.
• IIBallard's father; the king of Mag Mell made him Overseer four years before.
• IIWarned his son away from Madbouseux.
• ISee also: Ballard Radley, Valley Hills, Mag Mell.
• IRace: Human.

Darcero

Characters · Unknown

• IVA god from beyond the Curtain of Gold who invaded Tristar in the War of Seven Keys.
• IVLeads the Hirab army; Lucifer scorns it as an army of mongrels.
• IVPainted on the murals of Benhir Karbor.
• IVHis role beyond that war is unknown.
• IVSee also: War of Seven Keys, The gods beyond the realms, Benhir Karbor.

Luhke

Characters · Unknown

Also known as lord of Bentteer

• IVA god, lord of Bentteer, whose world was destroyed.
• IVCross-bred two powerful beings, ruining his own world.
• IVThe Stars used the Dying Star on Bentteer.
• IVLucifer tells his story at Benhir Karbor.
• IVSee also: The gods beyond the realms, The Dying Star.

Bord

Characters · Unknown

• IVA name the changed Nephele screams.
• IVNephele cries for Mordred and for 'Bord' in her delirium.
• IVHearing it, Lucifer mutters a curse at 'that little leech' but gives no explanation.
• IVWho or what Bord is remains a mystery.
• IVSee also: Nephele, Blood-drinkers.

Crystal

Characters

• IDustin Khan's white mare.
• IRan off a week before the storm and returns obeying Devin.
• IPulls the carriage until Shadows attack in the forest.
• IHer fate afterward is not told.
• ISee also: Dustin Khan, Devin.

Undahrian

Dragon

• IIThe white dragon Arundel tames after the fall of the Village of Tears.
• IICarries Isaac's party out of the burning village.
• IIIHeals by eating desert dragon; Arundel names it Undahrian.
• IIIBurns the forest above Agalmath and then itself, for no stated reason.
• IISee also: Arundel, White dragons, Agalmath.

Ostrek

Dragon

• IIIBellyon's armoured desert dragon.
• IIIBellyon rides a desert dragon with a seven-holed helmet and a bladed tail.
• IVNamed Ostrek; it stinks of putrid flesh and has golden eyes.
• IVRaziel brings it to carry Lucifer toward Hathar.
• IIISee also: Bellyon, Desert dragons.

The cross-breed child

Hybrid · Unknown

Also known as the boy

• IVThe son of Bartholomew and Nephele, the first child of a blood-drinker and a Nephilin.
• IVGrew while Nephele changed; in the womb it devoured Duane and Sathees, she claims.
• IVXavier cuts the boy from her; he is pale, with lavender eyes and two small fangs.
• IVThe Soundless see 'glory in its future'.
• IVKept at Benhir Karbor with Bartholomew while the Fallen Rulers study him.
• IVSee also: Nephele, Bartholomew Winmore, Xavier, Benhir Karbor.