History Characters / HereticalEdgeStrangers

* FateWorseThanDeath: The original purpose of the Blood Plague was to permanently enslave all Akharu to the will of the Vestil. The watered down version they actually got paralyzes them.

* NoNameGiven: "Grandfather" obviously isn't his real name, it's just what how he introduces himself [[spoiler: to humans]]. Other members of his species only refer to him as a traitor.

* InspectorJavert: He's highly suspicious of [[spoiler: Flick and Shiori]] for being Heretics, before they actually do anything.

* EveryoneHasStandards: He doesn't like Flick, but more or less decides to leaves her alone after learning about all the shit she has to deal with. He later speaks up in her defense after [[spoiler: Lemuel's pack's assault on Wonderland]] at least partially because he can taste her horrified reaction.

* NominalHero: Seth pretty firmly on the side of the protagonists, but only becuase it's where his family is. He's still a largely amoral dick, at one point admitting flat out that he's only saving a group of humans because [[spoiler: Shiori]] would be upset if he didn't, and would be fine with letting them die otherwise.

** Gold: Flick, [[spoiler: her mother]], and Gaia Sinclaire.

** Bronze: Haiden Moon, Tristan Moon.

* HiredGuns: Twister works as a mercenary, generally not working without payment. That said, she mostly limits her contracts to bodyguard gigs, and sends at least part of her pay to her child.

[[folder: Lemuel]]

A werewolf who lives with his pack in the jungle beneath Eden's Garden. He's not quite a Nocen, but still a huge bastard. At least as far as Heretics are concerned.

* CruelMercy: [[spoiler: Rather than killing her, Lemuel turns a wounded and virtually helpless Roxa Pittman into a werewolf and leaves her for dead, thinking that even if she survives all the jungle monsters around, she'll still spend her life being hunted by the people who were supposed to be her allies.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: It's pretty obvious that Lemuel has reasons to hate Heretics (which is why he's not listed as a Nocen at the moment). But the sheer vindictive pleasure he takes in hurting a wounded and virtually helpless Heretic student who has yet to actually do anything makes it hard to view him as anything but the monster the Heretics assume he is.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Roxa kills him after he mistakenly assumes that she'd go down to an attack that would have killed a normal werewolf.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Round Two with Roxa doesn't go very well for him.]]
* {{Sadist}}: At least as far as Heretics are concerned.
* ScaryBlackMan

[[folder: Valentine]]

A werewolf in Lemuel's pack. He looks kind of like David Spade.

* DidntSeeThatComing: He's quite surprised when an opponent of his pulls out a silver knife. To be fair, said opponent didn't have one until [[ItMakesSenseInContext a monkey brought it out]].
* {{Sadist}}: Valentine is the type of guy who gets excited at the notion of crippling a prisoner he knows will heal and survive.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: He spend his fight with [[spoiler: Flick]] assuming it won't take him much effort to win.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He's killed [[spoiler: by Flick]] soon after his introduction.

[[folder: Fezzik]]

An enormous Samoan man who's real name is Rangi, but only answers to [[Film/ThePrincessBride Fezzik]]. He's part of Mateo's pack.

* TheBigGuy
* DoNotCallMePaul: Prefers Fezzik to Rangi.
* {{Geek}}: He's named himself after Wrestling/AndreTheGiant's character from Film/ThePrincessBride and is a huge StarTrek fan.
* NiceGuy

[[folder: Lesedi]]

A black South African woman in her early twenties and part of Mateo's pack.

* CoolShades: She wears a pair of sunglasses with shades that match her hair.
* TheNicknamer: A habit of hers. She calls Fezzik "[[IronicNickname Shorty]]" and a new recruit ([[spoiler:Roxa]]) "Pup."
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She dyes her hair purple.

[[folder: Franklin Corson]]

A pale, red haired man in his early twenties who was born in Texas.

* LastNameBasis: Nobody calls him by his first name, just Corson.

[[folder: Hasty]]

Real name Nicole, Hasty is a Colombian woman in her late twenties and another werewolf in Mateo's pack.

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* LeeroyJenkins: She's quickly noted to have a tendency to act without thinking.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Nobody really calls her by her actual name.

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For Nocen, Strangers that actually are as evil as Heretics say they all are, go [[Characters/HereticalEdgeNocen here.

For the Seosten Empire and their minions, go [[Characters/HereticalEdgeSeostenEmpire here.]]

Seosten and their minions have their own page [[Characters/HereticalEdgeSeostenEmpire here.]]

Seosten and their minions have their own page [[Characters\HereticalEdgeSeostenEmpire here.]]

The Strangers themselves all have unique names to describe their own species and cultures, but those that live on earth use a different term to distinguish themselves from the [[WeirdnessCensor Bystander Effect]] afflicted humans: Alter. This is short for "alternative from human." They also have a term to describe Alters that really are monsters: Nocen. It's a latin word that means "wicked" or "evil."

Make no mistake, most Nocen are every bit as bad as Heretics claim all Alters are. The rest are even worse.

[[WMG: Nocen]]

[[folder: Ammon]]

Ammon is a young [[HalfHumanHybrid half human, half something]] boy with a CompellingVoice, absolutely no conscious, and a desire to find and do "interesting" things. [[spoiler: On top of being half-human, his father also made him into a Heretic.]]

He's also Flick's half-brother.

* AbusiveParents: Generally speaking, Ammon's father spoils the living hell out of him. Right up until Ammon disobeys him. There's a reason his father is pretty much the only person Ammon is afraid of.
** [[spoiler: Fossor turned him into a Heretic through an old method. By burying him alive while bathed in the blood of an Alter.]] Please note that Ammon was eight years old in his introduction, which means he was eight years old ''at the very most'' when his father did this to him. It was probably a lot earlier than that.
* AmbiguousInnocence: Let's not sugarcoat it, Ammon is a SerialKiller. He's just as much of a monster as Crossroads claims all Strangers are. But with an upbringing like his, what else could you expect? He legitimately doesn't know any better because he's never had the chance to be anything ''but'' a monster. [[spoiler: On top of that, it's later implied that his inability to feel emotions like sadness or guilt isn't natural, but the result of something Fossor did to his head.]]
* CainAndAbel: Ammon is a rare evil Abel, but only insofar as he doesn't want to outright ''kill'' his sister. He just wants to torture her. Because he's pretty sure he likes her.
* ChildByRape: Possibly. The circumstances behind the disappearance of Joselyn Chambers are unknown when Ammon first shows up. [[spoiler: Later revelations make it very clear that this is the case.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: This is what Ammon does to the people he ''likes.'' People he doesn't like get off comparatively easy.
* CompellingVoice: Any command he gives after saying "My name is Ammon" will be followed.
* CreepyChild: To put it mildly.
* DidntSeeThatComing: His response to people who [[spoiler: are unaffected by his CompellingVoice]] is usually to freeze up in shock. He never sees it coming and doesn't know how to react.
* EnfantTerrible
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: ''At all.'' As hard as Ammon tries, he seriously can't wrap his head around concepts like empathy and altruism in any way. He can't even understand why his sister is never happy to see him.
* EvilUncle: [[spoiler: To Koren Fellows. He's very happy to find another relative that his father ''hasn't'' forbidden him from seeing.]]
* {{Foil}}: To Flick. Ammon serves as an example of what Flick might have become if [[spoiler: Fossor had abducted her instead of Joselyn.]]
* FreudianExcuse: Ammon has a whole slew of these. He's ''seriously'' messed up in the head.
** His father is a mass murdering psychopath that alternates between spoiling and scaring the living hell out of him.
** His mind control powers make it extremely difficult for him to see people as anything other than tools or toys, exacerbating his already extreme (and possibly unnatural) sociopathy.
** [[spoiler: His mother is his father's slave, magically compelled to obey his every order. As Joselyn and Fossor are the only real behavioral examples he's ever had, he thinks this is normal.]]
** [[spoiler: He's grown up watching his father, an immortal necromancer, casually play with the laws of life and death. As far as Ammon is concerned, there's no real difference between his mind slaves and Fossor's zombie servants. As a result, he thinks absolutely nothing about killing people.]]
** And finally, [[spoiler: Fossor did ''something'' to him that changed him into... well, you should have a pretty good picture by now.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: He's upset that Flick cares about other people like Avalon and Shiori more than him.
* HealingHands: In sharp contrast to the rest of of his powers, Ammon is capable of healing other people's injuries. Unfortunately, he mostly uses this ability to keep torturing people after they've reached their limit.
* HealingFactor: Potent enough that falling face first into concrete from three stories up doesn't really bother him. He doesn't heal immediately, but he barely reacts when he finishes.
* HumanPet: He considers his mind slaves to be his pets and counts Flick as one of them. She's his sister after all. In his mind, that means she belongs to him.
* ItsAllAboutMe: To an extreme degree. Ammon is totally incapable of understanding that people other than him matter. Exemplified when he calls Flick a bad sister for not helping him [[ColdBloodedTorture figure out if he likes her or not]] and then "forgives" her for ruining his "game" by stopping him from murdering a bunch of people.
--> '''Flick''': What about the innocent people you hurt and kill? You destroy lives, Ammon.
--> '''Ammon''': They're not me.
* KidsAreCruel: Extremely cruel.
* LackOfEmpathy: A textbook case. He's physically incapable of feeling anything for anyone, and seems confused when Flick confronts him with how many lives he's destroyed. Some of his comments in Arc 5 suggest that Ammon is aware of this issue and resents it, which plays a large part in why he's constantly doing terrible things to people, in an effort to try and ''feel'' something.
* LonelyRichKid: Once you strip away the sociopathy, sadism, and insanity, Ammon is basically this.
* LongLostRelative: He's ecstatic to learn that he has an older sister and almost immediately disobeys his father to set off on a cross country road trip to find her. [[spoiler: Seller is one of their ancestors.]]
** [[spoiler: He and Flick also have older twin siblings born in the sixties, Wyatt Rendall and Abigail Fellows, as well as a niece, Abigail's daughter Koren.]]
* MeaningfulName: Ammon is a name from the bible that means "the son of my people." [[spoiler: One of the reasons Fossor gave him that name was to state his intention to use Ammon to rebuild his the society of his own race, which he enslaved, the way he thinks it should be.]]
* MoralMyopia: To an insane degree. Ammon's understanding of morality is based entirely on whether or not people are "nice" to him by doing anything and everything he tells them to. Anyone other than his father (the disciplinarian) who ''isn't'' nice to him is a "terrible, awful person" in his mind. He quite simply does not understand that people other than him matter.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: He purposefully doesn't tell his father that he met someone other than Flick who is immune to his powers when he infiltrated Crossroads because he doesn't want to be forbidden from seeing her. As a result, Koren and Abigail are at least temporarily safe from Fossor, although Koren is still in danger from Ammon himself.]]
* NoSell: [[spoiler: All of Ammon's blood relatives are immune to his CompellingVoice, and he in turn is immune to their powers.]]
* {{Sadist}}: Ammon thinks hurting people is "interesting."
* TheSociopath: He doesn't feel things. [[spoiler: This actually bothers him, as he really ''wants'' to. That's why his "games" are so brutal. He thinks causing pain to people he might like will help him feel things.]]
** [[spoiler: Later, it's implied that this isn't natural.]]
* SpoiledBrat
* SquishyWizard: His CompellingVoice is incredibly potent and can even bypass most Alter/Heretic-based forms of PsychicBlockDefense, but aside from his regeneration he's physically just a little kid with no combat training. Flick, who has only spent a couple of weeks learning to fight by the time they face off, pounds Ammon into the mat in a matter of seconds once she finally manages to get her hands on him.
* ThickerThanWater: Perhaps the closest thing Ammon has to a sense of morality is the understanding that "family is supposed to care about family." This largely translates to him believing that his family members other than his father are supposed to do whatever he says (like everyone else) and also makes him more likely to "forgive" them for disobeying (unlike everyone else).
* {{Tykebomb}}: He was intentionally raised to be the way he is.
** LaserGuidedTykebomb: Towards Denuvus.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler: According to his mother, at any rate. Joselyn claims that Ammon used to be a sweet boy before Fossor did something that turned him into... ''that''.]]
--> '''Joselyn''': [[spoiler: Ammon sweet before. Good boy. Fossor did something. Changed him. Broke him.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Pushes a teenage girl down an escalator shaft for no purpose but giggles in one of his interludes, after trying to force her to shove her younger brother ans another kid in, as if it needed to be pounded into the audience's brains even more that he's a messed-up {{Sadist}}. He also has zero issue torturing Flick to see if doing so would make him sad.

[[folder: Fahsteth]]

Fahsteth is a notorious member of the [[ThreateningShark shark-like]] Akheilosan race. He is extremely dangerous and extremely evil.

* {{Cyborg}}: Other than money, Fahsteth is often paid in "enhancements." At this point he's probably more of a machine than an Akheilosan.
* TheDreaded: Hearing his name instantly makes Seller get serious.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Shows up in the third interlude quite some time before he actually enters the story.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler: Avalon cuts off the lower half of his body (and all the upgrades he had stored inside).]]
* HiredGuns: He usually works as a mercenary.
* ImAHumanitarian: He gleefully tries to eat an eleven year old girl when he needs to replenish his strength, pausing only to lament that he didn't have enough time to enjoy his meal. Other Akheilosans appear to enjoy eating humans as well.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler: He was hired to murder a young Hannah Owens in such a way that would leave her looking like a random victim. And evem befor ethat, he's the one who murdered her mother and made it look like DeathByChildbirth]]
* MasterPoisoner: Definitely. His skill with poison is good enough that even the Seosten will hire him for assassinations.
* NothingPersonal: Quick to drop this line to justify his actions, though he quickly transitions to ItsPersonal [[spoiler: when Avalon disagrees and attacks him]]. He seems to actually mean it too, if his reaction to Fossor using the same excuse on him is any indication.
** PoisonedWeapons: His blades are coated with an incredibly deadly (and very painful) poison.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: He has several rows of shark-like teeth.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Controls animal predators. ''All'' predators.
* ThreateningShark
* VillainousFriendship: Calling the two friends might be pushing it, but Fahsteth has a pretty easy rapport going with Fossor.
* WouldHurtAChild
* YouAreNumberSix: "Fah-steth" means thirty-seven in an ancient language from a planet he was imprisoned on. The same prison Fossor, aka Fah-Seur, spent seventeen years in.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: Mother, actually. He killed Avalon's when she was born.]]

[[folder: Reggie Owens]]

Reggie Owens was an ordinary alcoholic who violently abused his young daughter Hannah until one day when he was mortally wounded by Fahsteth and subsequently left for dead by the Heretics who knew what he'd been doing to Hannah. He survived long enough to be saved by a passing vampire, who shared some blood with him to save his life. Now he's a vampire. And unlike the other vampires on this page, he's actually evil.

* AbusiveParents: He regularly beat and berated his daughter for the first eleven years of her life until she was saved from him.
* TheAlcoholic
* ArchnemesisDad: To Hannah Owens, [[spoiler: who changed her name to Avalon Sinclaire.]]
* OffingTheOffspring: He tracks his daughter down roughly a year and tries to kill her.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Hannah and Seller have ''no idea'' how he keeps tracking her down year after year. [[spoiler: It's later implied that Professor Tangle's lover is giving him her location.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: He was "nudged" into hating his daughter enough to abuse her by the people who killed his wife. They later turned him into a vampire to finish the job.]]

[[folder: Fossor]]

--> ''I will not be prevented from doing as I please.''

Fossor is an ancient and undeniably evil [[TheNecromancer Necromancer]] with a well deserved reputation as TheDreaded. He's dangerous enough that he ''alone'' justifies a lot of Crossroads' xenophobia against Strangers. The pre-Crossroads Heretics actually went so far as to try and banish him from earth rather than actually deal with him. It didn't work. Today even centuries old Heretics like Seller and Ruthers hesitate to so much as speak his name.

[[spoiler: He's responsible for the disappearance of Flick's mother, having kidnapped her in 2007. His intended target was actually ''Felicity'', but he thought it would be fun to restore Joselyn's memories of her life as a Heretic [[{{Sadist}} so she would understand what he was doing]] and she convinced him to [[TakeMeInstead Take Her Instead]]. [[ChildByRape He fathered Ammon on her]] in the time since, and still intends to come back for Felicity as soon as possible.]]

* AbusiveParents: His son is terrified of making him angry. [[spoiler: He also did ''something'' to Ammon that turned him into the sociopath serial killer he is today. This may or may not have been after he turned the kid into a Heretic by burying him alive with the blood of an Alter.]]
* TheArchmage: Fossor is known as a Necromancer for good reason, but he doesn't limit himself to controlling the dead. He's gone out of his way to learn many other forms of magic.
* BadassBoast: He has a habit of making these calmly or even casually to tell or remind someone what he's capable of and how foolish it is to think he can be beaten.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: [[spoiler: He caused TheBlackDeath.]]
** That event also had a noticeable impact in shaping the story's AlternateHistory. [[spoiler: There was a time when the Heretics who would eventually lead Crossroads were willing to trust Alters in desperate situations. Fossor's betrayal and subsequent launch of TheBlackDeath is one of the main reasons they've remained so xenophobic for so long.]]
* BerserkButton: Don't try to tell Fossor what to do. He'll take it personally. When the Heretics tried to curse him to stay off earth, his response was to base himself there out of spite.
** Disobedience is another of his buttons. He really doesn't like being disobeyed.
* BigBadEnsemble: Possibly the Biggest Bad of the setting as a whole. Definitely the BB to his own race, as he conquered their homeworld and farms it for ghosts that turn into ashes he can step on; and to the Meregan, who he pushed to the brink of extinction in order to use their giant corpses. [[spoiler: Unquestionably one of Flick's greatest enemies.]]
* ControlFreak
* {{Curse}}: He can only walk on earth by stepping on the ashes of his enemies.
* TheDreaded: Fossor's reputation is earned and formidable enough that even someone as old and experienced as Seller will avoid saying his name out loud if he can help it. It only takes one encounter to leave Flick terrified of him.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Making a joke about his ancient curse and then laughing at the suggestion that he could ever run out of enemies.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: ''Had'' loved ones. A young Fossor genuinely loved his mother and sister. But they've been dead and gone for thousands of years.
* EvilGloating: His introduction in a nutshell. He shows up at the end of one chapter and spends the next gloating until he leaves.
* EvilPlan: [[spoiler: The details are still unclear, but he's planning on using Joselyn to wipe out every Crossroads and Eden's Garden Heretic in existence, save (presumably) Joselyn and her children.]]
* ExactWords: Very much the type of guy who concerns himself with the letter of an agreement over the spirit. [[spoiler: Case in point: the deal he made with Joselyn was to leave her child alone in exchange for her servitude and obedience in all things. But it only applies as long as Felicity is Joselyn's ''child''. He can and fully intends to take her like he originally planned once she's an adult.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Fossor looks and sounds more like a children's dentist than a necromancer. That just makes him creepier in the face of how ''fucking evil he is.'' He's really good at the act, to the point where he can even [[TwinkleInTheEye make his eye twinkle]].
* FreudianExcuse: Subverted. His interlude looks like it's going to take this route at first when you see what happened after his mother's death. But then he [[spoiler: murders his sister to make her "immortal" (turn her into a zombie)]], making it clear that he was pretty messed up in the head from the beginning.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Fossor, the ancient necromancer who conquers planets and wipes out entire species, began life as Merakeul, the average son of a farmer.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Smokes cigarettes.
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: A habit of his. He likes to plan attacks on what should be special days for an added level of "fun." [[spoiler: He goes out of his way to have his "chat" with Flick on her seventeenth birthday. Months later, he has Ammon control her childhood friend and babysitter Scott Utell to commit suicide in front of her on Christmas Eve.]]
* INeedYouStronger: [[spoiler: The stronger Flick is when Fossor takes her, the more fun he'll have breaking her. One of the reasons he warns her that he's coming is to give her the motivation to make herself as strong as possible.]]
* ItAmusedMe: Pretty much every move Fossor makes depends on how much it will amuse or intrigue him.
* ManipulativeBastard: His first major action on earth was when he took advantage of how the (pre-Crossroads) Heretics were dealing with a different threat to cause massive casualties. [[spoiler: To be specific, he convinced them to let him help and then betrayed them by unleashing TheBlackDeath on Europe.]]
** [[spoiler: During his chat with Flick he brings up damning details about her mother's history with Crossroads while leaving out important context in an effort to get her to distrust her teachers and superiors.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Fossor" is a word that was used by the early Christian church for gravediggers. The word most likely came from him, considering that he's been using it for thousands of years.
* MundaneUtility: His ghosts can serve as cigarette lighters. Seriously.s
* TheNecromancer: He's got an army of ghosts and zombies from multiple Alter races at his beck and call.
* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: [[spoiler: Having Ammon kill Scott reveals to Flick that he doesn't know as much about her situation as he would like her to think, as he had no idea that Scott is a pooka.]]
* OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: [[spoiler: He wants to rebuild his people's society under his direction, and for various reasons has decided that he wants to use Joselyn Atherby and her daughter to do it.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Fossor is powerful enough that he can legitimately be called a one man extinction event, fully capable of wiping out races and destroying civilizations on his own.
* PsychopathicManchild: He's downright obsessed with having his way and being able to do whatever he wants.
* {{Sadist}}: Takes great pleasure in hurting and scaring people. [[spoiler: He restored Joselyn's memories specifically so she would recognize him and realize what he would do to Felicity if he took her, and he's highly amused by Flick's emotional distress when he tells her this a decade later.]]
* StalkerWithACrush / StalkerWithoutACrush: [[spoiler: Towards Flick]]. He's been keeping track of her for over half her life, although it's hard to say exactly when his desire for her started to constitute a VillainousCrush as opposed to wanting to use her to hurt others.
* StartOfDarkness: A nine year old Mera discovered his necromantic abilities during his mother's funeral, when he attempted to prevent her ghost from moving on and was stopped by a priest and his father. Seven years later, he tried to [[spoiler: make his sister "immortal" by turning her into a zombie]], only to be stopped by his father before he could finish. He spent the next seventeen years in one of the worst prisons on the planet. When he finally escaped, he decided that he was never going to let anyone stop him from doing what he wanted again.
* TakeOverTheWorld: According to WordOfGod, he's already taken over his homeworld.
* TermsOfEndangerment: Has a habit of saying "my dear," to women. [[spoiler: He also repeatedly calls Flick his "prize."]]
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: When Flick sees him for the first time, she's surprised by how utterly ''normal'' he looks. Nothing about his appearance suggests that he's anything other than an ordinary, friendly man.
* VillainousFriendship: They're not quite "friends," but Fossor has a relatively cordial relationship with Fahsteth, an old prison mate from his youth.
* VillainsNeverLie: Flick quickly pegs him as the kind of guy that enjoys hurting people with the truth.
* VillainTakesAnInterest: Fossor finds himself intrigued by Flick soon after learning about her [[spoiler: back when she was a young child]].
* WeHaveReserves: He sacrifices his ghosts at the drop of the hat because he has a ''lot'' of them on top of a steady supply to replenish his losses.
* WhatTheHellHero: Fossor appears to enjoy calling out Heretics on their less savory actions. [[spoiler: This is one of the reasons he wanted to kidnap Felicity in the first place. He thought it would be "poetic" to take the innocent child of the revolutionary the Heretic leaders [[KickTheDog crossed]] [[MoralMyopia so]] [[WouldHarmAChild many]] [[IHaveYourWife lines]] to stop and turn her into a weapon against them.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: He relished the thought of kidnapping Joselyn Atherby's seven year old daughter and raising her to be his servant and weapon.]]
* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: When Fossor gives someone a command, he's giving them a choice. Obey, or be punished for disobeying.
* YouAreNumberSix: "Fah-Seur" simply means "thirty-four," in an old language from Fossor's homeworld. It was the number given to Merakeul when he was imprisoned as a teenager.

[[folder: The Hiding Man]]

A mysterious Stranger responsible for a string of disappearances seven years before the story begins, leaving only black roses behind. Koren Fellows encountered him when she was ten.

[[spoiler: He's a Fomorian left stranded on Earth after most of his race was sealed off from earth, and has spent the ensuing century hiding from Heretical attention and working to undo the enchantment that keeps his people away.]]
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: His attack on Koren and her neighbors seven years ago was engineered to make Crossroads more likely to accept Joselyn Atherby's granddaughter as a student.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: He wears a half-decayed organic mask, uses real eyes as security cameras, and remakes Koren's mother's heart so it needs to be manually pumped while also adding living booby traps. And that's not even getting into what he did to make the decoy Hiding Man.]]
* CallingCard: The only clue he left behind was a black rose at most of his crime scenes.
* CollectiveIdentity: [[spoiler: The Hiding Man is two individuals: An ordinary human warped into a monster and the Fomorian that created and controlled him.]]
* DeadpersonImpersonation: He takes the guise of [[spoiler: Koren's father]], erasing all memories of the original so no one can uncover his ruse.
* DidntSeeThatComing: He spent a solid decade searching for [[spoiler: Joselyn Atherby or one of her children]] for his purposes before he [[spoiler: found Abigail and Koren]], at which point he had to spent another seven years waiting for the right opportunity. As a result, he's understandably surprised when another one ([[spoiler:Flick]]) drops right into his lap.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's mildly offended by the suggestion that he would ever work with a creature like Fossor, although he's only marginally better at best.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He psychologically tortures children for hours but acts almost like a normal person.
* HumanShield: [[spoiler: He connects several babies to himself that will die if he's harmed.]]
* KilledOffscreen: By the time of the main story his case is considered resolved. [[spoiler: This is because the Heretics blamed his actions on a human he warped into a monster in order to act as a decoy.]] [[spoiler: This happens again when Nevada kills the real culprit.]]
* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: To creature thought to be The Hiding Man.]]
* MrExposition: He knows quite a bit about the history of both humanity in general and Heretics in particular. And he's almost eager to share that knowledge. [[spoiler: Understandable, as its the first opportunity for conversation he's had in over a century.]]
* NoNameGiven: He never provides a name for himself. His alias comes from what a terrified child called him.
* NothingIsScarier: We only ever see him from a Bystander's perspective, which means any time we would have seen what he looks like the narrative jumps right past it. Played again when the main characters are reading the case file, we never get any description on what he was or what he did to his victims. [[spoiler: And once more when they meet him in person, where very little detail is given about his actual appearance.]]
* {{Sadist}}: Based on what little we see of him, he appears to enjoy ''scaring the shit'' out of his victims. He apparently spent a fair amount of time screwing with Koren's head for kicks, although since we see this from her [[{{Muggle}} Bystander]] perspective, there's a lot we don't see.
* TheScapegoat: [[spoiler: The Hiding Man found and killed by Heretics was a decoy created by the stranded Fomorian to throw them off his trail.]]
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: He plays on several of these stereotypes, like tapping on the window and hiding in the closet, to terrify his victims.
* ThisCannotBe: He can't imagine that anyone is capable of getting the better of him. When it happens, his reaction is shock and disbelief.
* UnPerson: One of his victims was completely removed from the memories of other Bystanders, making his true body count impossible to know for certain.
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: The decoy Hiding Man that he created. He was once a human before being twisted by the stranded Fomorian. Whatever the end result was, it was so inhuman that it triggered the Bystander Effect and even the Heretics that killed it didn't notice anything off.]]
* VillainTeleportation: He has some method of teleportation, though we never see it.
* WouldHurtAChild: Most of his victims were children. [[spoiler: And as seen under HumanShield, he considers the lives of infants to be a worthwhile price to pace for his own safety.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Great Evil]]

A mysterious being that's been on earth since at least the fourteenth century. Very little is known about it, but it has had a huge role in shaping Virginia Dare's life.

* AndYourLittleDogToo: Slaughtered the friends and family of Virginia Dare when she was a child solely to hurt her.
* EvilerThanThou: May or may not be on the receiving end of this from Fossor. It was the Great Evil that convinced ancient Heretics to team up with Fossor, who promptly used the opportunity to launch the BlackDeath. Whether or not this prevented the Evil from achieving its goals at the time is unknown.
* EvilOverlord: Apparently. It commands multitude of monsters that it used to attack and wipe out the original settlers of Roanoke, all in the name of using the blood of the first English child born in the Americas to destroy the world.
* GodzillaThreshold: This Evil was enough of a threat to convince the Pre-Crossroads Heretics to team up with a necromancer to combat it, a decision that promptly raised the Threshold even higher.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: It broke off most of its efforts to capture Dare when she joined Crossroads, apparently unwilling to openly antagonize the organization.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: Virginia Dare has been targeted by the Great Evil for her entire life. For some reason, it wants to use her to destroy earth.
* TheGhost: As of this writing (when the most recent chapter was 24-04), the Great Evil has only been mentioned, and sporadically at that.

[[folder: Denuvus]]
A legendary Nocen hated and feared by Alters and Heretics alike. Denuvus is - or was - supposedly an Alter that used a Djinni to merge their body with a Reaper's, granting them abilities similar to a Heretic. But their most dangerous ability is a CompellingVoice, a power that allows Denuvus to take control of anyone who hears their introduction.

Sound familiar?

Some of those who know of him suspect that Ammon's powers were derived from Denuvus's blood, a suspicion that's seemingly confirmed when Flick learns that a vial of it was stolen in 2015.

* AxCrazy: She clearly wasn't all there in the head as far back as 1615.
* CompellingVoice
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: Started life as a human being. WordOfGod states that she and her sister Theda were originally natural Vestil-Heretics.
* TheDreaded: A boogeyman to Heretics and Alters.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: It would seem that Denuvus genuinely loved her sister enough that she counted as a great sacrifice needed to cast a particularly powerful bit of magic.
* TheRival: To Fossor. She used the residual magic of the curse the Heretics set on him to create a Djinni, he later used her blood [[spoiler: to turn his half-human son Ammon into a Heretic]]. They don't get along very well.
* SamusIsAGirl: Most assume that Denuvus is a man, but she's actually a woman.
* ShroudedInMyth: To the point where influential Alters like the Septs aren't even sure if he exists. They dont' even know that she's a woman.
* SiblingMurder: Denuvus murdered her twin sister Theda [[spoiler: in order to turn her corpse into a Djinni. That Djinni eventually became Nevada.]]
* [[ThatThingIsNotMyChild That Thing Is Not My Sister]]: It annoys her when the [[spoiler: Djinn]] she created out of her sister's corpse initially refers to itself as Theda.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: One of the things that makes her so dangerous to Alters is that there's nothing to suggest she's not a normal Alter. She doesn't have a Stranger sense that alerts them of what she is like Heretics do.

[[folder: Truman Hyde]]

An Aswang, a kind of shapeshifter that feeds on human children. He's currently disguised as a High School teacher.

His wife and daughter were killed by Heretics.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Nobody can really fault him for wanting revenge against Heretics, but his methods of pursuing that vengeance turn him into the monster they think he is.
* HughMann: Yeah, "Truman Hyde" is not his real name.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Decided that the best way to stop Heretics from killing Alters was to [[spoiler: slaughter as many human families as possible in retaliation.]]
* WhatAnIdiot: His plan was never going to work, and he was stupid to think it would.
* WouldHurtAChild: Oh yeah. He has no problem [[ImAHumanitarian eating]] or [[spoiler: massacring]] innocent Bystanders.

[[folder:Hangmen]]
Not all Reapers are content to feed off of nearby deaths. Some discover that they can make their own food by killing humans or are simply driven mad by the amount of stolen memories. Either way, the result is a Hangman, a Reaper serial killer that constantly seeks victims to feed its hunger.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The only type of Alter to be inherently evil. Hangmen are defined by being super-powered serial killers.
* AscendedToCarnivorism: In a sense. They eat the same thing they've always eaten, but they've learned that they can make their own food through killing rather than waiting around for deaths.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: They're sometimes referred to as Hangman Demons.
* SerialKiller: They're constantly looking for more humans to kill.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The more they kill, the more memories and powers they gain. Eventually the stolen memories begin to overwhelm their own and drive them mad.

[[WMG: Akharu/Vampires]]

[[folder: Akharu In General]]
Called Vampires by Heretics, the Akharu are an ancient warrior race seeking a cure for the Blood Plauge inflicted upon their race by their mortal enemies, the Vestil. All Akharu possess SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, SuperSenses, and {{Immortality}}. The blood plague forces them to replace their cursed blood by drinking that of other creatures. They can also share blood with human beings, which turns said humans into Akharu-hybrids with all the same powers on top of an added weakness to sunlight.

* AdultFear: A species wide one. While Akharu who were alive when the blood plague was cast are still free of Vestil control, purebloods born ''after'' that point get the full package: total slavery to the Vestil.
* TheAgeless: Vampires can be killed, but their immortality is complete enough that it's ''really'' hard.
* CursedWithAwesome: ''Human'' vampires are this. They can't survive the sunlight anymore, but they also get kickass superpowers and an immunity to the [[WeirdnessCensor Bystander Effect]].
* DaywalkingVampire: Pureblood Akharu are unaffected by sunlight. None of them understand why human vampires are killed by it.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The original purpose of the Blood Plague was to permanently enslave all Akharu to the will of the Vestil. The watered down version they actually got paralyzes them.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The primary form of Akharu reproduction at this point, because half-Akharu babies like Asenath are free of the curse unless they choose to become vampires later on.
* HumanAliens
* OurVampiresAreDifferent
* TheUndead: Averted. Heretics assume that vampires are undead when in reality they're [[{{Immortality}} immortal.]]

[[folder: Tiras]]

A pureblood Akharu warrior who was one of the explorers that found earth after millenia of searching for a cure to the blood plague. There he met Jiao, a dying Chinese woman who he saved by turning her into a human vampire. They soon had a daughter they named Asenath. In 1803, when Asenath was eight, Tiras was forced to return to his homeworld to once again combat the Vestil, who were preparing another curse that would wipe out everyone that had Akharu blood (which by then included Jiao and Asenath). He promised to return as soon as possible.

* DisappearedDad
* InterspeciesRomance: With Jiao.
* IShallReturn: He promised Senny that he would return when the Vestil were stopped, even if it took him a thousand years. So far it's taken him more than two hundred years.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Specifically, the Vestil. [[spoiler: But Tiras has also been on the receiving end of this message, from Virginia Dare.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: He left his family to stop the Vestil from wiping out all who had Akharu blood, promising that he'd be back as soon as possible. He made that promise in 1803 and still hasn't returned.
* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler: To Virginia Dare, who he trained and raised for a decade. She considers him her second father.]]

[[folder: Asenath]]

The half-human, half-Akharu daughter of Jiao and Tiras born in 1795. Asenath took her father's blood to become a vampire when she was around twenty years old and has spent the time since traveling, helping people, getting Journalism degrees from various universities, [[spoiler: and was part of Joselyn Atherby's revolution for decades before it was ended]].

[[spoiler: She's set on Ammon's trail by the mother of one of his victims and catches up to him on the same night he makes his move against Flick. After Flick's traumatic encounter with Fossor, she promises to help her deal with him in any way she can. For the time being, that means protecting Lincoln Chambers from Fossor, Ammon, or anyone else that might seek to harm him.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Enters the story proper by busting in through a window and saving Flick from Ammon.]]
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instict]]: Asenath hasn't seen her younger sister since Reathma was a baby, but still remembers her scent and drops everything to speak to and comfort her when they reunite.
* CoolBigSis: To her half-sister when they meet again. [[spoiler: And to Columbus, because being Shiori's brother makes him Senny's brother too.]]
* DaddysGirl: Even though she hasn't seen him in over two hundred years, Asenath loves her father deeply and eagerly awaits his return.
* DodgeTheBullet: Even at extremely close range, Asenath is simply too fast for guns to be useful.
* EmbarrassingNickname: When Twister calls her "ol'Assy."
* FakeMemories: [[spoiler: Asenath's memories of the decades she spent in Joselyn Atherby's revolution have been erased or censored by the spell that wiped Joselyn from general knowledge.]]
* FireForgedFriends: [[spoiler: With Flick.]]
* FriendlyAddressPrivileges: Her friends and family call her Senny.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire
* GenreSavvy: Asenath quickly guesses that the odd RecurringDreams she and Twister start having are actually memories they can't quite recall, [[spoiler: and that meeting Flick is what set them off.]]
** Secretly replaced much of the kitchen knives in a client's home with silver in case werewolves attacked.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Asenath is one of the nicest, most heroic characters in the story. That doesn't stop her from eating unrepentant criminals. [[spoiler: Or stabbing a nine year old SerialKiller in the chest. AmbiguousInnocence or not, she has every intention of killing Ammon for what he's done.]]
* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Justified. Asenath waited until she was a young adult to take her father's blood and become a vampire.
* LethalChef: Asenath can't cook. At all. In her own words, she doesn't get along well with stoves.
--> '''Twister''': Or toasters, microwaves, blenders, those little toy ovens that make brownies with a light bulb...
* LivingForeverIsAwesome / WhoWantsToLiveForever: While Asenath mostly enjoys her immortality, she exhibits signs of both these tropes. On one hand, she's amazed by all the wondrous things she's seen over her long life and can't wait to one day tell her father about everything he missed. On the other hand, she's tired of outliving her friends.
* LongLostRelative: Asenath has a much younger half-sister named Reathma who their mother gave up for adoption. [[spoiler: But she has no idea that Reathma was recruited by Crossroads under her new name, Shiori Porter.]]
** [[spoiler: Virginia Dare could also be counted as Senny's sister, as her father Tiras was Dare's ParentalSubstitute.]]
* NoodleIncident: She met Seller in Texas once. She claims that he still owes her for whatever happened and he'd rather not talk about it.
* OccultDetective: She spends a fair amount of her time investigating supernatural occurances on behalf of those who can't help themselves. She mentions that she's earned journalism degrees from three separate universities over the past century as a way of keeping her detective skills up in a changing world.
* RecurringDreams: [[spoiler: Soon after meeting Flick, Asenath begins remembering her time with Joselyn's revolution in her dreams.]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She's over two hundred years old.
* SpeedBlitz: How she fights. Anyone without a countermeasure of some sort has no chance against her.
* VampiresAreRich
--> ''You think I’ve been around for a couple hundred years without having a pretty damn sizable savings account or two?''
* WeHelpTheHelpless: It doesn't matter to Asenath if you're a kidnapped boy in need of rescue, a grieving mother who needs justice for your murdered daughter, [[spoiler: or a teenage Heretic who just had your entire world turned upside down]]. She'll help you. It's what she does.

[[folder: Jiao]]

A Chinese woman Tiras met in the eighteenth century. She was on the verge of death when he saved her by sharing some Akharu blood with her, turning her into a vampire. They went on to have a daughter, Asenath.

Jiao later had another daughter with a different man over two hundred years later in 2000. She gave her younger child, Reathma, up for adoption for her protection, going so far as to have the man she entrusted Reathma to change her name ([[spoiler:to Shiori]]) before placing her in the foster care system.

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Not really, because she's a 200+ year old vampire who appears to be in her twenties. But this trope comes into play because her daughters look close enough to her age that they look more like her sisters than her children.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: She's basically vampire [[VideoGame/TombRaider Lara Croft]].
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Asenath describes her as being quiet, dignified, polite, and soft-spoken.
--> '''Asenath''': She doesn’t talk while she fights, she doesn’t mock them, she just… she’s a quiet force of nature.
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Jiao has enemies (such as Heretics) that wouldn't hesitate to hurt her child to get to her, which is why she gave Reathma up for adoption. She was so worried about the possibility that Reathma would get hurt that she had her renamed to erase anything that could possibly link them.
** [[spoiler: Turns out to not precisely be her enemies she was worried about. The actual threat was that Reathma might be kidnapped to be used as a pawn in power games among Chinese Heretics.]]
* DrinkingContest: She can drink a troll under the table.
* GiveHimANormalLife
* GunKata: Asenath explicitly compares her mother's gunplay to ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''.
* GunsAkimbo: She typically fights with a pair of pistols.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Tiras. Also with whoever fathered Reathma. Jiao was born human, but she's a vampire now while Reathma's father is human.
* {{Polyamory}}: She loves Reathma's father just as deeply as Asenath's.
* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler: Not only was Gaia able to ascertain Shiori's biological relatives in spite of the steps Jaio took to hide that information, she had Shiori recruited specifically because she's part-Alter. This could easily place Shiori in the very danger Jiao sought to protect her from.]]
** [[spoiler: As it turns out, getting recruited by Crossroads is actually very good protection from what she was worried about.]]

[[WMG: Meregan]]

[[folder: The Meregan In General]]
The Meregan are a race on the brink of extinction. Their world was once the home of a thriving, peaceful civilization. Now it's a ruined wasteland, and all that's left of them lives on a single spaceship originally meant for exploration.

* BreakTheCutie: A species wide example.
* GentleGiant: Most Meregan are this, as they usually grow to be around nine or ten feet tall and tend to be peaceful.
* PacifismBackfire: The Meregan were a highly peaceful society that was totally unprepared for a threat like [[{{Necromancer}} Fossor]], who nearly wiped them out.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Many Meregan have bright hair colors.
* WideEyedIdealist: The surviving Meregan are still alive because they were on-board Binsayeac, which means "Friend-Finder." It's purpose was to seek out other races and worlds and form an intergalactic community.

[[folder: Gavant]]

Gavant is a Meregan, an Alter race capable of space travel. They grow to be around nine feet tall. He appears to be a leader, or at least an influential member, of his people. [[spoiler: And he's a good friend of Flick's mother.]]

* AFriendInNeed: Is always willing to help his friends, even when he has problems of his own to deal with. He tries to help Tristan Moon while his people are in the middle of a crisis [[spoiler: and immediately promises to help save Joselyn from Fossor when he hears what happened (while still facing the same crisis)]].
* BerserkButton: Fossor. He pushed the Meregan people to the brink of extinction to obtain their corpses. [[spoiler: Gavant is furious to learn what happened to Joselyn.]]
* BoldExplorer: Gavant and his crew were exploring space before they were called back to their homeworld to help fight Fossor. [[spoiler: By the time they made it back, he had already destroyed their civilization.]]

* MrExposition: Very knowledgeable, and is much more comfortable explaining things to people than he is threatening them. [[spoiler: He quickly falls into this role when Flick and Shiori wake him up]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: What does Gavant do when he finds strange humans in his ship after being woken up from long-sleep? Calmly give them the chance to explain themselves, that's what. Although he keeps weapons trained on them, just in case. [[spoiler: It helps that they're there because of a beacon meant to call for "Friend-Joselyn Atherby."]]
** And what does he do when a strange child appears on his world? Tries to send him back home of course! Then when it doesn't work, Gavant provides a safe place for Tristan to live while they work to figure out the problem.
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: He hasn't quite mastered English, but he's perfectly and consistently intelligible.
* TakenForGranite: The Meregan have a method of inducing "long-sleep" that turns people into statues for long periods of time. It's mostly used when traveling in space.

[[folder: Purin]]

Another Meregan, specifically their "master of explore," (the guy in charge of recon). He maintains the K’lecnahn vehicles the Meregan use to travel.

* NiceGuy: Very friendly, and laughs off getting knocked around a bit when he was a statue.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His hair is a deep bronze color.

[[folder: Alecra]]

A female Meregan who maintains their ships beacon technology, what they use for communication and teleportation.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is green.

[[folder: Dis]]

Purin's son, one of the Meregan children taken by Nicholas Petan .

* TranslatorBuddy: He speaks for the other children, apparently having a greater mastery of English than the rest (or maybe he's the only one with a translator).

[[WMG: Werewolves]]

[[folder: Werewolves In General]]

Werewolves don't appear to have much of a society beyond arranging themselves in packs, which run themselves differently depending on what pack you're talking about.

* HealingFactor: A very fast and effective one.
* KryptoniteFactor: Wounds dealt to werewolves by [[SilverBullet silver weapons]] will not heal right away.
* LongLived: According to WordOfGod, werewolves can live to be around 150-200 years.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: ''Heretical Edge'' werewolves are pretty standard, for the most part. Wolf transformation? Check. Vulnerable to silver? Check. A single bite won't turn someone into a werewolf, though, as they have to consciously choose to infect someone else.
* PainfulTransformation: The very first time a new werewolf transforms is ''excruciating.''
* SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism: Werewolves have three forms: Human, wolf, and wolf-man hybrid.
* SuperStrength: After killing one, Flick becomes strong enough to lift 1000 pounds.

[[folder: Mateo Dias]]

Mateo is a Colombian werewolf who leads a small pack in Bogota, the nation's capital. [[spoiler: He's also Sean Gerardo's uncle. Not by blood, but because he's in a long and committed with relation with Sean's biological uncle, Sebastian Gerardo.]]

[[spoiler: He later brings Roxa Pittman into his pack after Lemuel turns her into a werewolf and she's forced to leave Crossroads.]]

* BadassGay
* CoolUncle: [[spoiler: To Sean. Not by blood, but he and Sebastian are close enough that they might as well be.]]
* CureYourGays: Mateo was the victim of a group of crusaders that saw it as their duty to "cure" sinners and transform them into werewolves.
* TheDogBitesBack: Escaped the aforementioned crusaders after convincing them he had been "cured" and then ripping his recruiter's throat out when they turned him.
* OlderThanTheyLook: He looks like he's in his early thirties, but he's about twice that.
* PapaWolf: One day when his nephew was a kid, Mateo found him about to be tortured by a gang who had mistaken him for someone's brother. Mateo promptly went wolf and tore into the bastards.
* SupremeChef: Mateo makes some of the best food you will ever eat.
* YouAreNotAlone: [[spoiler: He's brought in by Gaia and Seller to help Roxa Pittman after she gets turned into a werewolf. He immediately offers her a place in his home and with his pack.]]

[[folder: Lemuel]]

A werewolf who lives with his pack in the jungle beneath Eden's Garden. He's not quite a Nocen, but still a huge bastard. At least as far as Heretics are concerned.

* CruelMercy: [[spoiler: Rather than killing her, Lemuel turns a wounded and virtually helpless Roxa Pittman into a werewolf and leaves her for dead, thinking that even if she survives all the jungle monsters around, she'll still spend her life being hunted by the people who were supposed to be her allies.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: It's pretty obvious that Lemuel has reasons to hate Heretics (which is why he's not listed as a Nocen at the moment). But the sheer vindictive pleasure he takes in hurting a wounded and virtually helpless Heretic student who has yet to actually do anything makes it hard to view him as anything but the monster the Heretics assume he is.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Roxa kills him after he mistakenly assumes that she'd go down to an attack that would have killed a normal werewolf.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Round Two with Roxa doesn't go very well for him.]]
* {{Sadist}}: At least as far as Heretics are concerned.
* ScaryBlackMan

[[folder: Valentine]]

A werewolf in Lemuel's pack. He looks kind of like David Spade.

* DidntSeeThatComing: He's quite surprised when an opponent of his pulls out a silver knife. To be fair, said opponent didn't have one until [[ItMakesSenseInContext a monkey brought it out]].
* {{Sadist}}: Valentine is the type of guy who gets excited at the notion of crippling a prisoner he knows will heal and survive.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: He spend his fight with [[spoiler: Flick]] assuming it won't take him much effort to win.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He's killed [[spoiler: by Flick]] soon after his introduction.

[[folder: Fezzik]]

An enormous Samoan man who's real name is Rangi, but only answers to [[Film/ThePrincessBride Fezzik]]. He's part of Mateo's pack.

* TheBigGuy
* DoNotCallMePaul: Prefers Fezzik to Rangi.
* {{Geek}}: He's named himself after Wrestling/AndreTheGiant's character from Film/ThePrincessBride and is a huge StarTrek fan.
* NiceGuy

[[folder: Lesedi]]

A black South African woman in her early twenties and part of Mateo's pack.

* CoolShades: She wears a pair of sunglasses with shades that match her hair.
* TheNicknamer: A habit of hers. She calls Fezzik "[[IronicNickname Shorty]]" and a new recruit ([[spoiler:Roxa]]) "Pup."
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She dyes her hair purple.

[[folder: Franklin Corson]]

A pale, red haired man in his early twenties who was born in Texas.

* LastNameBasis: Nobody calls him by his first name, just Corson.

[[folder: Hasty]]

Real name Nicole, Hasty is a Colombian woman in her late twenties and another werewolf in Mateo's pack.

* LeeroyJenkins: She's quickly noted to have a tendency to act without thinking.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Nobody really calls her by her actual name.

[[WMG: Seosten]]

[[folder: Seosten In General]]

The Seosten are an ancient Alter race old that rules an inter-dimensional empire. They're one of the two most powerful forces in the universe, matched only by their hated rivals, the Fomorians.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: The Seosten Empire is an extremely oppressive, racist regime that enslaves every "lesser" race they find. Even so, almost everyone agrees the Fomorians are even worse.
* ApeShallNeverKillApe: The Seosten government is very reluctant to kill individual Seosten, even in the case of treason. There aren't a lot of them, so they prefer to keep criminals and traitors alive as often as possible.
* BerserkButton: They absolutely freak out if someone manages to turn their trademark possession ability against them,
* DemonicPossession: Their signature power. Seosten can possess a body and control it. [[spoiler: Only [[HalfHumanHybrids part-Alter humans are immune, because possessing one is fatal to Seosten]].]]
* FantasticCasteSystem: Their society is divided into the Seraphim, who rule; and the Choir, who serve.
* FantasticRacism: It's pretty common for Seosten to look down on anything that isn't one of them.
* LightIsNotGood: It really isn't.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: It's implied that the Seosten are the origin of the idea of angels, what with their ethereal beauty and commonly ending their names with "-iel."
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: The Seosten created the [[WeirdnessCensor Bystander Effect]] to keep humanity isolated and under control. They later possessed a man named Hieronymus Bosch and used him to build the Heretical Edge and found Crossroads for the same purpose.]]
* MemoryTropes: Memory Magic is a specialty of theirs. They can modify the memories of their victims. [[spoiler: They also created the Bystander Effect.]]
* ScaryDogmaticAliens
* SlaveMooks: The Seosten maintain armies and camps of Alter slaves to do their bidding.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Non-Seosten troops and subordinates who don't follow orders successfully tend to have a low survival rate. Many are more afraid of failing their orders than being killed by enemies. 

[[folder: Sariel [[spoiler: Moon]]]]

A former Seostenic infiltrator who abandoned her people to marry a human she had fallen in love with. [[spoiler: An Eden's Garden Heretic named Haiden, to be exact. They went on to have twin children, Vanessa and Tristan]]. Her former colleagues later found her and attempted to retrieve her, which didn't end particularly well for anybody. [[spoiler: She gave birth to a pure-Seosten child she named Tabbris within a couple of years.]]

* AndroclesLion: Her decision to not enslave and eventually protect [[spoiler: Larissa Mason]] rewarded Sariel years later when she needed help while looking for her family.
** [[spoiler: And choosing to secretly protect Flick by having her made immune to possession payed off big years later when she played a key role in reuniting Tristan and Vanessa and started throwing a major wrench into the Seosten's plans.]]
* BabyFactory: [[spoiler: Her fate after being sent back to her people. She was imprisoned as a traitor and artifically inseminated to produce children. This is how Tabbris was born.]]
* BeingGoodSucks: The universe has shat on Sariel HARD ever since she defected. She spent twenty-one happy hears with her husband, then her family was scattered across the universe, [[spoiler: she was shipped off to Kushiel's Baby Factory, she had to give away her third child to save her from being raised as a Seosten soldier]], she wound up accentially tossing Larissa into Seosten space to save her from a Fomorian [[spoiler: ruining her plan to get back to Earth]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Sariel is one of the only Seosten we see with a conscience and empathy for non-Seosten. She's also their best infiltrator and a nightmare in combat.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Sariel stopped using the standard Seosten method of taking constant and complete control of her hosts in the late seventeenth century. Her comrades saw this as strange, but she was the best infiltrator they had before and after the switch, so no one stopped her.
* FallenAngel: In the sense that she abandoned her angelic race.
* GodGuise: She played the Greco-Roman goddess Artemis/Diana in ancient times. [[spoiler: She chose the surname "Moon" as a reference to that time.]]
* GoingNative: After spending thousands of years living among humans, Sariel grew to like and want to join them.
* HappilyMarried: She ''was.'' But her former comrades decided that this wouldn't do.
* HeelFaceTurn: Sariel wasn't always the saintly MamaBear we know and love. She used to be the best covert operative on the Seosten payroll, and it took her thousands of years to work up the courage to defect after realizing the Seosten were in the wrong.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Sariel can put a pebble through a helmet slit. At thirty feet. At night. In the rain. With enough force to bounce around inside the helmet and armor and kill her target instantly. Oh, and she's even better with a bow.
* InterspeciesRomance: With a human [[spoiler: and former Eden's Garden Heretic]]. They were HappilyMarried with [[UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn twins.]]
* MamaBear: Oh yes. It was in her job description as Artemis, and in the present she's defected, attempted suicide, offered up her own life [[spoiler: and willingly given up any hope of seeing her own daughter]] all to protect one child or another.
* [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou Mommy Had A Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: It wasn't her decision in the case of Vanessa and Tristan. Banishment spells are nasty like that. [[spoiler: But for Tabbris, Sariel banished her daughter to the other side of the universe (Earth) so she wouldn't be raised as just another Seosten soldier. Also to keep Flick safe. She had multiple plans to enable some degree of contact, but those all fell through when the Fomorian attacked Larissa.]]
* NobleDemon: Post transition to hands off possession at the latest to when Sariel finally worked up her courage to [[OptOut leave]]. She was still an[[ScaryDogmaticAliens operative of the Seosten]] but taking the effort to not completely dominate her unknowing hosts lives. And going by the fact that it was in her job description as Artemis, she always had a soft spot for children - to the point that it was one of the final straws.
* ParentalAbandonment: She and her husband were forcibly separated from their children and each other when they were sucked into a interdimensional portal and scattered across multiple words. [[spoiler: Only Vanessa remained on earth]].
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Ends up semi-intentionally throwing a pretty impressive one into her former colleague's mission when she has Larissa Mason make Felicity Chambers immune to Seosten Possession.]]
* ThemeTwinNaming: Averted. She's had twin children, but did not give them similar sounding names. [[spoiler: She did, however, inspire the naming of Sarah and Sandoval Mason.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: Bows.

[[folder: Puriel]]

A loyal Seosten who has been running infiltration operations on earth for thousands of years. He's Sariel's former superior, and the one sent to retrieve her for re-education from earth only to end up getting sucked into an inter-dimensional portal.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Puriel found the stories the Greeks came up with to be entertaining, yet has totally failed to learn anything about the [[PrideBeforeAFall dangers of hubris]] or the [[SelfFulfillingProphecy folly of trying to prevent prophecies]] from them.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Cannot remotely figure why Sariel and Apollo do what they do.
** He tried to shame Apollo/Lucifer by casting him as the Devil. It didn't remotely work, because he didn't have the slightest clue who he was dealing with.
* FantasticRacism: He views humans as filthy savages.
* GodGuise: Masqueraded as Zeus/Jupiter in ancient times.
* {{Jerkass}}: He calls Sariel's family (which includes young children) "a lie" to their faces.

[[folder: Apollo]]

Another Seostenic renegade. Apollo was once an agent and infiltrator like Sariel and Puriel, but abandoned them thousands of years ago to enjoy life. He's well known among the Seosten as a traitor.

As of this writing, Apollo hasn't actually appeared in story. All this information comes from WordOfGod.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The other good adult Seosten we know of. Like his self-proclaimed sister Sariel, Apollo is incredibly powerful and dangerously competent.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Troll. Slacker. Goofball. Three thousand year old renegade spy/commando. Just because he's usually playing around doesn't mean he isn't really dangerous when he isn't playing around.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: [[spoiler: This is a man who signed a note to his nephew and niece requesting a meeting to talk about saving their mother with 'Uncle Satan'. This is also a man who casually wiped out a Heretic kill team just so the Alters he saved could deliver that note to Gabriel Prossor and he would give it to the Moon twins. This is also a man who should have had no way of knowing where said twins would be, where Gabriel Prossor would be or where said refugees would be attacked, but knew anyway. Apollo is a goofball, a troll, a slacker and a loose cannon, but he's also devastatingly competent when he cares about something.]]
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler: Planted a magic EMP bomb and forced teleportation spell in Raduerial's cybernetic spine before he left so he could have one free getaway. This ends up being used by Tabbris.]]
* DefectorFromDecadence: Inverted. He defected ''to'' decadence. But he defected ''from'' a despotic empire of slavers, so it's still a step up.
** [[spoiler: He's also been running various anti-Seosten schemes on the side while goofing off.]]
* FallenAngel: For the same reason as Sariel, only he did it centuries earlier.
* GodGuise: He pretended to be the god Apollo. Hence the name.
* HonoraryUncle: [[spoiler: To Sariel's children.]]
* LikeBrotherAndSister: His relationship with Sariel, who pretended to be Artemis. At least according to him. Sariel herself doesn't see things the same way.
* MeaningfulRename: Abandoned his original name in favor of the one he used to interact with humans.
* PropagandaMachine: Before he left, Apollo's job was to spread propaganda about the Seosten "gods." Which basically means that he made up a lot of Greek Mythology.
* {{Satan}}: Apollo's original Seosten name is Lucifer, Apollo was the bringer of light, so Puriel thought that by associating that title with the ultimate evil he could shame Apollo into returning. It didn't work, of course.
* SatanIsGood: Well yeah. He's a defector from an evil cross-dimensional empire.
* SymbioticPossession: In contrast to the direct possession practiced by the majority of Seosten, Apollo only possesses willing hosts who like seeking out thrills as much as he does. He helps them go beyond human limits and frees them from the [[WeirdnessCensor Bystander Effect]] in exchange.
* ThrillSeeker: Apollo spends most of his time looking for the next thrill, doing crazy {{Film/XXX}}-esque stunts.
* {{Troll}}: All those less-than-flattering stories about the various Olympian gods? That was just Apollo using his position to screw with his colleagues. He thought it was hilarious to spread stories that painted Zeus as a voracious sex hound to annoy the uptight Puriel, or cast Aphrodite and Eros as mother and son when Jophiel and Paschar don't get along.
** The ones about Apollo? He made them up too, because they provided excellent cover for mocking the rest and he finds them amusing.
* {{Turncoat}}: Infamous among the Seosten for his treason.

[[folder: Manakel]]

A Seosten operative comparable to Puriel in rank. He's currently on assignment on Earth [[spoiler: to gain access to Hieronymus Bosch's Blood Vault before any Heretics do]], although we don't know who he's possessing.

* BadBoss: Implied when his partner Charmeine cows an arguing subordinate by invoking Manakel's name.
* GodGuise: He played Hades in ancient times.
* OvertOperative: Manakel is more used to leading and bossing slaves around openly, so he has some difficulty adjusting to an infiltration mission.
* TheJailer: Was given responsibility over Sariel at one point in her imprisonment.
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: He's a driving force in TheConspiracy to murder Avalon.]]
* TheMole: One of his main jobs, basically.

[[folder: Charmeine]]

Manakel's partner. She's working with him on earth [[spoiler: to gain access to Bosch's blood vault]].

[[spoiler: Killed by Felicity Chambers in New York Minutemen 27-05.]]

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Closer to white hair than blonde, but still.
* DemonicPossession: She's good at it too. Good enough to fool even the loved ones of her victims.
* DisproportionateRetribution: She makes a point of repaying anyone who crosses her one-hundred fold.
* EvilIsPetty: Very much so. Her reaction to being insulted by [[spoiler: Columbus]] is to threaten to systematically destroy [[spoiler: Shiori's]] life until she's satisfied by his begging her not to.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Good at keeping her disdain for humans hidden under a veneer of friendliness while on assignment.
* GenderBender: She's a female Seosten who has been ordered to possess a male body at least once. [[spoiler: Columbus Porter, to be exact.]] Appears to be a habit of hers, as she only considers possessing men when discussing what would happen if her current host dies.
* GenreBlind: A moment of pure BondVillainStupidity on Charmeine's part gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] to her face and she doesn't take the hint.
* GodGuise: Charmeine was Nemesis, the goddess of revenge in Myth/ClassicalMythology.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: She's possessing Columbus in order to help kill Avalon, and is later ordered to keep an eye on Flick as well.]]
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Charmeine seems to think so. When a problem pops up, her first instinct is usually to kill something. Jophiel mentions having to repeatedly remind her that killing a specific target would do more harm than good.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: One rushed decision to skip a precaution against eavesdroppers on Charmeine's part is enough to let Flick overhear her talking about her mission and subsequently start rooting her and her comrades out.]]
* OutOfCharacterAlert: [[spoiler: Her Columbus impersonation is good enough to fool Shiori (at least while she's distracted by her own problems), but she repeatedly slips up when Flick makes references to Columbus' [[{{ComicBook/Cyclops}} favorite superhero]] that fly over her head. Unfortunately she corrects herself fast enough that Flick doesn't even notice.]]
* OvertOperative: Long-term infiltration missions aren't Charmeine's forte. WordOfGod states that she's more used to quicker missions, specifically assassinations. [[spoiler: She drops her act and outright kidnaps Flick when she realizes that she's been compromised.]]
* RevengeBeforeReason: A serious flaw of hers. If she feels she's been crossed, she ''will'' try to pay it back, no matter how much of a risk that means taking.
* {{Sadist}}: Big time. Charmeine could easily keep her hosts unconscious and unaware. Instead she lets them know everything that is happening so she can enjoy their misery.
** [[spoiler: This ultimately gets her killed, as Flick's team was only to survive facing her because she was toying with them.]]
* SmugSnake: Charmeine looks down on basically everyone that isn't on her side and takes pleasure in tormenting her hosts. [[spoiler: The attitude starts to fall flat when she fails to notice that Flick is on to her, then comes back in full force when she eventually figures it out.]]
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Tries to Avert this by arguing to simply kill Flick [[spoiler: when it's made clear that she's immune to Seosten possession and magic]], but is overruled by both Manakel and their superiors.
** Ironically, she falls victim to this trope on her own when she finally has Flick at her mercy and changes her own plan [[spoiler: to immediately send Flick to Seosten space]] in favor of punishing her for all the trouble she's caused.

[[folder: Paschar]]

A Seosten that specializes in using [[LovePotion Love Potions]].

* GodGuise: He played Eros/Cupid in ancient times and still makes regular use of [[LovePotion "Love" Potions]] that induce obsessive feelings in their targets.
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: He's responsible for basically every bad thing that ever happened to Avalon before she came to Crossroads. Her mother's death, Fahsteths' attack, her father's vampirism, and Torv's rape attempt were all his ideas.]]

[[folder: Jophiel]]
Another high-ranking Seosten. [[spoiler: She's possessing Elisabet of the Crossroads Committee in something of an atypical arrangement.]]

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: While she's fully complicit in all Seosten operations she oversees on earth ([[spoiler:including the attempts to murder Avalon]]), Jophiel comes across as slightly better than most of her colleagues and subordinates by lacking their overt FantasticRacism and cruelty. [[spoiler: She and Elisabet also believe the Seosten should uplift humanity to fight the Fomorians rather than control them.]]
* AmbiguouslyBi: She's only shown to be in a long and committed relationship with a woman. But as she played Aphrodite once upon a time, it's possible that she's attracted to men as well.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Jophiel goes WAY out of her way to keep up appearances, even when she's been using the same cover for so long she could slowly phase out those habits and no one would bat an eye. [[spoiler: It has nothing to do with appearances and everything to do with what Elisabet wants to spend time doing.]]
* CrazyPrepared: Jophiel goes so far as to secretly attend her host's descendant's middle school plays in her spare time. All in the name of keeping up illusions. [[spoiler: And also because she wants to let said host see her descendant's plays.]]
* FantasticRacism: Jophiel's lack of this is part what makes her so much more dangerous than other infiltrators like Charmeine. She's much less likely to understimate her enemies. [[spoiler: And it allowed her to recruit her lover, giving her an incredibly powerful asset.]]
* {{Foil}}: To Sariel. [[spoiler: Both Seosten women fell in love with a human, but Jophiel doesn't doubt their people's methods as strongly as Sariel. So while Sariel ran off with Haiden, Jophiel ''recruited'' Elisabet instead.]]
** Also to Gaia Sinclaire. [[spoiler: They're both [[InternalReformist Internal Reformists]] who believe their faction's methods do more harm than good.]]
** To other infiltrators as well, as noted in the FantasticRacism entry. It's arguably to the point of SanityHasAdvantages.
* GodGuise: Portrayed Aphrodite/Venus in ancient times.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: A Seosten infiltrator that sits on the Crossroads Committee.]]
* MostCommonSuperpower: Noted to be very buxom.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Jophiel outranks and gives orders to most of the Seosten that are more direct threats.
* MysteriousProtector: [[spoiler: The full extent of what she's done is unknown, but Jophiel has been preventing her people from harming Sariel's daughter Vanessa Moon since the family was split up and does the same for Tristan when he arrives. She approves of human/Seosten relationships and wants to see what human-Seosten hybrids are capable of.]]
* SadlyMythtaken: Paschar (Eros/Cupid) is not Jophiel's son, Radueriel (Hepheastus/Vulcan) is not her husband, and the Seosten who played Ares is not her lover (he's Radueriel's lover).
* UnholyMatrimony: She may be a despotic KnightTemplar dedicated to the enslavement of humanity and any other non-Seosten species, but Jophiel truly and genuinely loves her partner, who loves her back. [[spoiler: The fact that said partner is the Heretic she's supposed to be controlling complicates things.]]

[[folder: Radueriel]]
A Seosten engineer and inventor, [[spoiler: and the true creator of the Heretical Edge]]

* AffablyEvil: Radueriel is surprisingly nice and polite a set of captive Heretics, offering [[spoiler: Flick]] sincere congratulations [[spoiler: for killing Charmeine]] and planning to put them in perfectly livable quarters instead of cells. Torturous experiments aside, he intended to make their time with him outside his lab as pleasant as possible.
* {{Cyborg}}: His right arm and one of his legs are mechanical. There's at least one weapon, an ArmCannon, built into them.
* GodGuise: Hephaestus was his role in the Classical pantheon.
* MadScientist: According to Sariel, his experiments are almost as bad as the things the Fomorians do.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Tricked Geta into believing the Alters he saw around his brother were responsible for Caracalla's desire to assassinate him when they were actually trying to protect him.]]
* MinionMaster: Radueriel "upgrades" his non-Seosten subordinates to allow him to take direct control of their bodies. [[spoiler: It functions as an effective countermeasure to anyone who tries to possess them.]]

[[folder: Kushiel]]
The Seosten who portrayed Hera/Juno in ancient Greece and Rome. Her current assignment is to combat the Seosten's birthrate issues.

* BabyFactory: Only 10% of Seosten pregnancies are successful. Kushiel's responsibilty is to produce children, which she does by artificially inseminating Seosten criminals and traitors as often as possible. If a child doesn't make it to term, the mother is immediately impregnated again. If a child is born, the baby is taken from the mother, who is immediately impregnated again. Rinse and repeat over and over again. [[spoiler: That's how Sariel gave birth to Tabbris.]]
* GodGuise: WordOfGod notes that Apollo didn't have to exaggerate Hera's vindictive personality when spreading propaganda about her.
* HateSink: Was mentioned in a single paragraph. The entire fanbase immediately decided she had to die painfully. In-universe, it seems everyone who knows about her and isn't a monster hates her.
* UnholyMatrimony: While many of the familial and marital relationships between the Olympians were fictional, Kushiel and Puriel (who played Zeus) are actually married.

[[folder: Amatiel]]
The Seosten who played Hermes. Very little is known about him.

* StealthExpert: So good that Manakel and Charmeine have no clue where he is.

[[folder: Ivak]]

Not a Seosten, but an Alter that has made a life for himself running parts of their bureaucracy.

* DirtyCoward: He's quick to give up whatever he knows to to stay alive.
* TheQuisling: Has no problem working for the despotic Seosten if it means his comfort.

[[folder: Lies]]

Lies is a handicapped Seosten whose possession power comes with a serious flaw. Once she takes control of someone, she's stuck there until the host dies. For this reason, her treatment at the hands of her people has been... less than ideal. [[spoiler: She is currently possessing the Eden's Garden Heretics Pace. All the personality related tropes on her entry apply to Lies.]]

* {{Animorphism}}: She seems to have a fondness for possessing werewolves. [[spoiler: She used her previous werewolf-body to turn Pace before possessing her so she could keep being one.]]
* AxCrazy
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Don't let her ditzy antics fool you, she's deadly.
* HandicappedBadass: By her people's standards, at any rate. Her disability arguably makes her more dangerous, because her victims are trapped with her until they die.
* NoNameGiven: "Lies" is not actually her name. She doesn't actually ''have'' a name. The Seosten use their language's word for lies to refer to all their children born with her specific possession-related disability without naming any of them. The English word for lies is simply what she calls herself.
* {{Sadist}}: Apparently thinks her hosts' pain is hilarious. While being tortured in a previous host body she kept trying to egg the tormentors on.
* TragicVillain: Why is Lies so crazy? Because her bosses casually abuse her and there's nothing she can do about it, and she broke. It was either snap and start enjoying it or just shut down.

[[WMG: Fomorians]]

[[folder: In General]]

The Fomorians are another inter-dimensional powerhouse on par with the Seosten, their most hated enemy. They're bio-engineers that field armies their monstrous creations. They tried to invade earth in the late nineteenth century, at roughly the same time as the beginning of the UsefulNotes/SpanishAmericanWar. It lasted a few years until Gaia Sinclaire, working with an independent Heretic named Joshua [[spoiler: Atherby]], managed to seal them off from earth [[HeroicSacrifice at the cost of Joshua's life]].

[[spoiler: The human race as a whole is one of their experiments, designed to be capable of taking on the traits of other races and interbreeding with them. They want the human race back.]]

* AncientAliens: [[spoiler: They created the human race, and a traitor brought them to earth.]]
* BioAugmentation: They tend to augment both themselves and their victims.
* BodyHorror: The only term that can adequately describe what they do to their "experiments."
* FantasticRacism: Played with. The Fomorians think human beings (and their abilities to take on traits of and interbreed with other races) are ''awesome.'' But they still look down on humanity, considering them tools to be used.
* NamedByDemocracy: They don't actually call themselves Fomorians, that's just a name the Seosten gave them. But even other Alters use it to refer to them, and the Fomorians themselves [[SureWhyNot don't seem to have any problem with the name]]. The Fomorians of Irish myth are based off of them, and humans THINK we named them after those myths.
* OrganicTechnology
* SlaveRace: [[spoiler: Not them, but humanity was created to serve as their slave army.]]

[[folder: Grandfather]]

"Grandfather" is a traitor to the Fomorians who stole some early biological prototypes many thousands of years ago and destroyed all the data that led to their creation. He is hated and reviled by his people to this day.

* BadassGrandpa: He's extremely old[[spoiler: and metaphorically a grandfather to the entire human race]]. WordOfGod has some choice words about how powerful he is.
--> Fighting Grandfather is basically like when you're a little toddler and you 'fight' your father until he picks you up, spins you around a bunch, and then sets you down so that you stumble off dizzily. He thinks you're adorable for trying your best, and the way your little fists swing around makes him want to hug and cuddle you.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: [[spoiler: ''All'' of human history happened because the traitor brought the earliest humans to earth.]]
* DefectorFromDecadence: Abandoned their people to save some early experimental subjects.
* DotingGrandparent: [[spoiler: He adores humanity and will fuss over any human he meets.]]
* GeniusDitz: He's a friendly goof that really wanted to give one of his projects thirteen fingers (across two hands) and momentarily forgets that his colleagues settled on ten.
* GeniusBruiser: See the above entry on his personal power. Now consider that the entire plot comes back to people fighting over who controls his greatest invention as a weapons scientist.
* HeelFaceTurn: Used to be a Fomorian weapons scientist.
* NoNameGiven: "Grandfather" obviously isn't his real name, it's just what how he introduces himself [[spoiler: to humans]]. Other members of his species only refer to him as a traitor.
* ParentalSubstitute: Apparently to Bastet, who he named.
* {{Turncoat}}: The first Fomorian we meet speaks of him with pure hatred.
* TimeAbyss: Literally older than "natural" animal life on Earth. [[spoiler: Because he made it.]]

[[WMG: Wonderland Alters]]

[[folder: Buddy System]]
A troll that functions as the first line of defense for Wonderland, a hidden community of peaceful Alters.

* TheBigGuy: About eight and a half feet tall, and heavily muscled. He's a troll, what would you expect?
* DumbMuscle: He's not very bright.
* FunetikAksent: Buddy's got a Russian accent that inserts "Z's" into his dialogue.
* GentleGiant: Has a chipper, upbeat voice even while he carries a broken off telephone pole with a spike driven through it.
* NiceGuy: He's really friendly towards people that aren't enemies. Even Heretics, as long as someone he trusts vouches for them.
* RummageSaleReject: His clothes are way too small for him.

[[folder: Quing]]

A Lavinsi who works as Buddy's partner in security at Wonderland. He holds a grudge against Heretics for the deaths of his family, but he's willing to let them be if ordered to.

* KnifeNut: He carries a lot of bladed weapons.
* InspectorJavert: He's highly suspicious of [[spoiler: Flick and Shiori]] for being Heretics, before they actually do anything.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Will follow the orders of the Sept above his own misgivings, even if that means letting Heretics walk around.
* SherlockScan: A standard power of Lavinsi. They're highly adept at reading body language.
* SuperSenses: He has the extraordinary eyesight of all Lavinsi. X-ray vision, telescopic, thermal, the works.
* YouKilledMyFather: Quing lost most of his family, including his son, to Heretics.

[[folder: Namythiet]]

A Heaphestical Pixie, currently the student of Seth Dozeran.

* TheApprentice: To Seth Dozeran. Many see this arrangement as his idea of a joke, but Namythiet herself goes all out.
* CoolSword: A tiny one she calls "Cataclysm." She's tinkered with it.
* GadgeteerGenius: It's kind of her thing as a Heaphestical Pixie. Most pixies are attuned to nature, Namythiet's attuned to technology. Look no further than the van she tricked out with ballistae and [[BiggerOnTheInside an apartment]].
* GenkiGirl
* WideEyedIdealist

[[folder: Clubber]]

Namythiet's animal companion, an emerald tiger kitten.

* CuteKitten: He's adorable.

[[WMG: The Septs]]

[[folder: Calvin]]

A [[DreamStealer Bebarlang]] who recently inherited his position after his father's death. [[spoiler: He's also Flick's old boss, the one she busted for dealing drugs]].

* DreamStealer: As a Bebarlang, Cal feeds off the psychic energy given off by people's dreams. Or drug based hallucinations.
** EmotionEater: Strong emotions (typically fear) make the dreams taste better.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He doesn't like Flick, but more or less decides to leaves her alone after learning about all the shit she has to deal with. He later speaks up in her defense after [[spoiler: Lemuel's pack's assault on Wonderland]] at least partially because he can taste her horrified reaction.
* {{Jerkass}}: Calvin isn't a Nocen, but he is an asshole.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections
* SmallNameBigEgo: Before coming in to take his father's position, Cal owned a large chunk of businesses in a small town. He liked playing bigshot while he was there.
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: Wants a pat on the back for feeding off relatively harmless drug trips instead of causing people nightmares.

[[folder: Seth Dozeran]]

A human vampire who was originally turned by Tiras around the time of the American Revolution. He's the current Tie-Breaker of the Septs.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Big time. He can kill multiple werewolves with little effort.
* BrutalHonesty: Very blunt when telling Flick and Shiori how much Alters fear Heretics like them.
* TheDreaded: A bunch of revenge-maddened werewolves would rather flee than face him after he kills three of their packmates.
* HonoraryUncle: He describes himself as being "practically family" to Asenath, mostly to mess with her. [[spoiler: He also alternates between describing Shiori as a little sister and a niece.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Seth's not the most pleasant person in the world.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Nonetheless manages to treat Namythiet [[spoiler:and Shiori]] with kindness.
* JerkassHasAPoint: The point he raises to his colleagues against [[spoiler: allying with Flick]], that doing so could attract dangerous attention, is entirely valid.
* NominalHero: Seth pretty firmly on the side of the protagonists, but only becuase it's where his family is. He's still a largely amoral dick, at one point admitting flat out that he's only saving a group of humans because [[spoiler: Shiori]] would be upset if he didn't, and would be fine with letting them die otherwise.
** Also ties into PragmaticHero. He's eager to [[spoiler: weaken Alter beasts so Shiori can kill them for their powers]].
* OhCrap: Has a marvelously understated one of these when he has an unexpected encounter with Gabriel Prosser.
* {{Troll}}: He likes messing with people, especially Asenath, who doesn't appreciate it.

[[folder: Kimper]]
A gnome. Holds a particularly dislike for Heretics.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: He's by far the sept that that's most resistant to opening contact with possibly friendly Heretics.

[[folder: Limnoreia]]
A Nereid who seems to have personally encountered Fossor at some point.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Limnoreia speaks of Fossor as though she's encountered him personally. She obviously did not enjoy the experience.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler: The seeds of Joselyn Atherby's revolution were planted when Joselyn overheard a very young Limnoreia and her friends fleeing from mobsters while her team killed their wearbear protector in 1919.]]
* TrueBlueFemininity: She's blue, and noted to be quite beautiful.

[[folder: Fennicus]]
A Centaur Sept.

* CallASmeerpARabbit: Slightly mundane example, Fennicus has a habit of using horse terminology to refer to humans, like when he refers to Flick's "dam."
* GutturalGrowler: Flick thinks he sounds like he's auditioning to play Batman.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's quick to dismiss the possibility that [[spoiler: Flick and Shiori]] are trying to engage the Septs' compassion by pointing out that such a plan would require their superiors to believe the Septs are capable of compassion.

[[folder: Strav]]
A Granakin, an Alter race with rock like skin, kind of like [[Comicbook/FantasticFour The Thing]].

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* RockMonster: Not a monster, but the same basic concept.

[[folder: Xi]]
A Rakshasa Sept.

* AntiquatedLinguistics: Refers to Doxer, a black man, as being "of the Moors."
* CatFolk
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

[[WMG: Other Alters]]

[[folder: Twister]]

A pooka, a type of Stranger that can shapeshift into various animals. Twister's default form is that of an eleven year old girl with fox ears and a tail. She works as a bodyguard and is an old friend of Asenath's, [[spoiler: who hires her to protect Lincoln Chambers in the daylight hours. She was also a part of his wife Joselyn's revolution before it was ended.]]

She's also known as Esevene.

* BearsAreBadNews: Can transform into a bear.
* FakeMemories: [[spoiler: As a former member of Joselyn Atherby's revolution, a lot of Twister's memories have been modified by the spell that [[UnPerson Un-Personed]] Joselyn.]]
* GenreSavvy: Realizes that she and Asenath are being affected by Heretical Magic when they both start having weirdly realistic RecurringDreams.
* HiredGuns: Twister works as a mercenary, generally not working without payment. That said, she mostly limits her contracts to bodyguard gigs, and sends at least part of her pay to her child.
* OlderThanTheyLook / YoungerThanTheyLook: Twister is both at the same time. She was born in the early twentieth century. But the way her immortality works is that when she dies, she gets a new, biologically nine year old body with all her memories remaining in the back of her head. When her body is biologically eleven, that means it's actually only two years old while her total lifespans add up to 107. Confused yet?
* RecurringDreams: [[spoiler: Soon after meeting Flick, some of Twister's memories of her time with Joselyn's revolution start coming back when she's sleeping.]]
* ResurrectiveImmortality: When a pooka dies, they resurrect in a younger body. Twister starts over at the biological age of nine.
* SupernaturallyYoungParent: Gave birth to a son in one of her previous lives. She sends some of her earnings to him.
* SupremeChef: Over the course of her life, Twister has studied cooking under three world famous chefs. Flick compares her cooking to her post-stranger killing reaction.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Twister is a pooka, meaning that she can shapeshift into a number of animal forms.

[[folder: Choo]]
A "baby" Jekren that Shiori kept as a pet after her team killed his larger selves. He lives in the jungle outside Crossroads, protected by a privacy generator, where Shiori brings him food.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: He has some distinctively dog-like mannerisms.
* FullBoarAction: Averted. His larger selves were vicious but he's a harmless and playful baby.

[[folder: Salten]]
Salten is a Peryton, an Alter-animal that's like a pegasus, only it's a deer with wings instead of a horse. He was raised primarily by Hannah Owens at Eden's Garden and is now being cared for by Seller in her absence.

* ActionPet: He and Hannah used to "wrestle" when he was a fawn and she was thirteen.
* [[ABoyAndHisX A Girl and Her Peryton]]: Seller describes Salten and Hannah as having been more like siblings than mistress and steed. He misses her.
* OnlyTheChosenMayRide: He's selective about who gets to ride him. Mostly Hannah.

[[folder: Bastet]]

A [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human, half-Reaper]] woman that lives with the Fomorian known as Grandfather. Her Reaper kill-aura is gold.

* AllYourPowersCombined: Ancient Reaper Hybrid. It comes with the territory. Known powers include forced teleportation, umbrakinesis, super speed and super strength and more.
* TheArchmage: Considers her mastery of magic to be on par with Grandfather's knowledge of genetics.
* BerserkButton: She gets very irritated when people call her a Heretic. She does not like being compared to indiscriminate murderers.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Her hair is a blue as her eyes.
* GoodIsNotNice: She's not the most personable woman. After saving a group of Alter children she notes to herself that she isn't capable of comforting them or helping them grieve.
* HumanMomNonHumanDad: Human mother, Reaper father.
* IcyBlueEyes
* KarmicDeath: Likes to inflict these when making a point. For instance, forcing her enemies to kill each other or killing them with their own weapons.
* MistakenIdentity: Those within Crossroads are quick to attribute her actions to [[spoiler: Joselyn]] when she kills eleven Heretics to protect Alter children.
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Her Reaper heritage allows her to sense when people around her are near death.
* OneWomanArmy: Is able to butcher numerous veteran Heretics trivially while holding back much of her power. When fighting all out she's on the same order of power as Fossor, the literal One Man Extinction Level Event.
* ParentalAbandonment: Was young enough that her parents didn't even have the chance to name her when she was separated from them.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: She draws out her CurbstompBattle of a group of Heretics to make them feel the same kind of fear and terror they inflicted on all the Alters they had just finished massacring before she massacres them in turn.
* UndeathlyPallor: Her skin is almost as white as snow.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair

[[folder: Sonoma]]

A Native American werecrow who has a history with Grandfather and Bastet.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Were-creatures usually only live two or three times longer than humans, but Sonoma is in the neighborhood of five-hundred years old.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Her were-ism led to her father Liwanu seeking help from a "witch" (Bastet) who crafts the Ring of Anuk-Ite with Grandfather for her.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Fetch]]
A mercenary shapeshifter who works for the Seosten. It's unknown if Fetch is their name or the name of their species.

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* KillAndReplace: Their MO. Fetch can take time to copy someone's identity and powers very thoroughly. But they have to kill the victim to get the full package. [[spoiler: This Fetch does it to Paul Calburn.]]
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: By Avalon.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Averted. Manakel believes Fetch is too valuable to be killed or even punished over failures.
[[/folder]]

[[WMG: Other Alter Species]]

[[folder:Akheilosan]]
A race that resembles a human-shark hybrid.
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* ImAHumanitarian: Both Akheilosans seen so far have expressed a desire to eat their adversary.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: They tend to have a ''lot'' of teeth.
* ThreateningShark
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Amaroks]]
Gigantic wolves with immense stamina and durability.
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* TheNeedless: To a degree. They need one hour of sleep at the most and never get tired.
* NoSell: To just about everything, including sniper fire directly to the eyes and attempted impalement.
* SuperStrength: They're extremely strong, even taking their size into account.
* SuperToughness: Most attacks don't do much more than annoy them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Blemmye]]
A race of savage creatures that live in the jungle surrounding Eden's Garden.
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* {{Cephalothorax}}: They lack heads, while two eyes and a vertical mouth cover the front of their torsos.
* BladeOnAStick: They're quite fond of spears.
* FullFrontalAssault: None of them wear clothes and they're apparently "heavily endowed". Flick is not happy about this.
* InTheBack: They're not above trying to stab you from behind before you even realize they're there.
* OverlyLongTongue: Two of them, which they use to drag foes into their many teeth.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Chamrosh]]
A cousin of the griffin, chamrosh are a mix of birds and dogs.
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* MixAndMatchCritters: Half bird and half dog.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Daesimalo]]
An aggressive species of monkey-demons.
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* ManiacMonkeys: They get vicious if you rile them up.
* WallCrawl: They walk on walls and ceilings like its the floor.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Djinni]]
A race of Alters capable of altering or creating objects.
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* OurGeniesAreDifferent: They can only create physical objects or alter existing ones rather than the nigh unlimited power of most portrayals. If it's a particularly large item or change, it requires physical contact with the target.
* SlaveRace: Most Djinni are bound to a master, trading hands like property.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: They can change their own appearance at will. One speculates that this is because of the overlap between their "objects only" power limit and the slave nature of their race.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Besides the aforementioned limits on their power, all changes they make are temporary unless they've been claimed by a master.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Harabeold]]
A race of small goblin-like creatures that can transform into living dust devils.
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* ElementalShapeshifter: A limited form. They can turn into vertical columns of swirling sand, granting them incredible speed and maneuverability.
* MultiarmedAndDangerous: They have four arms.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Harpies]]
Human-bird creatures capable of manipulating creatures through their blood.
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* BloodMagic: If they get some of your blood they can do some nasty things to you.
* {{Flight}}: They have bat-like wings they use to fly.
* HitAndRunTactics: They prefer to hit targets quickly, get some blood, and withdraw. Given their magic, that's usually enough to end the fight.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Heretics]]
Ordinary humans that were significantly changed through exposure to Alter blood. While they were once rare, organizations like Crossroads and Eden's Garden now manufacture them through diluted sources utilizing Reaper blood. Despite this, most Heretics still consider themselves human and dedicate themselves to eradicating all other Alters.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: When Heretics kill other Alters, they briefly glow with a brightly colored aura that only other Heretics can see. [[spoiler: The color denotes which Reaper or Hangman the Heretic is connected to.]] Colors we've seen (as well as the Heretics who have them) include:
** Gold: Flick, [[spoiler: her mother]], and Gaia Sinclaire.
** Pale Green: Avalon Sinclaire.
** Red: Shiori Porter
** White: Columbus Porter.
** Pink: Sands, Scout, and Larissa Mason.
** Bronze: Haiden Moon, Tristan Moon.
** Pale yellow: Stephen Kinder.
** Orange: Paul Calburn.
* ComboPlatterPowers: The reason they're so feared by other Alters. Against any other Alter you know what you're up against, but Heretics could have any number and combination of powers.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Many of the powers they get are useful only in niche situations but can become deadly with the right preparation and access to the type of equipment Heretics have. Others are useless in direct combat but extremely useful in other situations.
* KillEmAll: The prevalent attitude of Heretics against Alters.
* PowerCopying: Heretics made from Reaper blood gain the abilities of anything they kill. A species of Alter may give different powers to different individuals, but the same individual will almost always get the same power from the same species.
* SuperPrototype: Originally Heretics were created by exposing a human to Alter blood and burying them. The powers awarded varied depending on the Alter used but they were more numerous and powerful than the powers initially awarded to modern Heretics. This came at the drawback that, unless the Alter used was a Reaper, they wouldn't be able to get any more powers than what they originally got.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Despite their crusade against Alters, most Heretics consider themselves human.
* WasOnceAMan: All were once humans before being exposed to some Alter catalyst that gave them their powers.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jekren]]
Large boar-like creatures that spit lightning and spawn smaller versions of themselves upon death.
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* AsteroidsMonster: Though limited to one spawn at a time.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Rather than one set of large organs, they have many smaller sets which are located ''inside'' their bones. The large organ cavity instead holds a large sack containing a smaller copy of themselves. As they grow, so too does the copy. Once the copy reaches the size the original was it creates its own smaller copy. This process repeats with no known limit, creating a living matryoshka doll.
* BornAgainImmortality: Despite appearances, they don't have this. Each "layer" is its own entity, with the smaller version contained within a completely separate creature.
* BreathWeapon: They shoot blasts of lightning.
* ChestBurster: How the smaller versions emerge.
* FullBoarAction: They can grow to immense proportions, enough to trample trees with ease.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Knockengerwicht]]
Zombie-goblins that can possess inanimate objects.
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* DemonicPossession: They possess inanimate objects, moving them if they're small enough and hiding inside them if not.
* InSeriesNickname: Flick calls them skeleblineist, short for skeleton-goblin-poltergeists.
* IntangibleMan: A variant. They can move easily inside of any object they possess but they can't phase through attacks.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They're rotting flesh and bone but also their own species, not some other creature raised from the dead.
* {{Poltergeist}}: They're the source of these stories.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lavinsi]]
Lavisni are humanoid avians with extraordinary vision abilities.
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* InfraredXRayCamera: They can see thermal signatures, which stacks with their ability to se through walls.
* LivingLieDetector: They're so good at reading body language they were once believed to be telepathic.
* XRayVision: One of their powers.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Peridles]]
Large hairy insects that live in large swarms. Crossroads keeps a supply of them, allowing new students to kill one as practice.
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* HealingFactor: Their primary ability and the reason Crossroads lets every new initiate kill one.
* TheSwarm: One peridle, not a problem. Two peridles, still not a problem. Hundreds of them, covering every wall, leaping at you from every angle? Then you have a problem.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Reapers]]

The Reapers are a highly secretive Alter race capable of absorbing the memories of those who die in their presence. Or, if they're responsible for the death, they also get the abilities and powers of said victim. Those that indulge this secondary ability are called Hangman Demons instead of Reapers.

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* TheAssimilator: Just like Heretics, Reapers absorb powers and abilities from those they kill ([[spoiler:this is because the Heretic version of the ability is derived from the Reapers]]). Unlike Crossroads and Eden's Garden Heretics, Reapers also absorb the memories of those they kill.
* TheDreaded: Absolutely no one wants to make Reapers as a whole angry at them.
* DyingRace: There were never very many of them, and Heretic attention has caused their numbers to dwindle further.
* GeneticMemory: The standard use of the absorption ability is to pass memories from parent to child.
* TheGhost: No Reapers have yet been seen in the story.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: A Reaper who kills too often will eventually be overwhelmed by their memories of their victims, which is why Hangmen Demons are classified differently than Reapers and tend to be a lot crazier.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Relukun]]
A race of tree people.
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* WhenTreesAttack: They look like people made of wood.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Revenants]]
Phantoms that possess dead bodies, turning them into deadly monsters.
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* AchillesHeel: Outside of a body, they don't have most of the advantages that make them so dangerous.
* AntiMagic: Most spells bounce right off them when they're in a body.
* DeadlyUpgrade: The bodies they possess disintegrate after only a few hours, leaving the revenant vulnerable.
* DemonicPossession: Limited to dead bodies.
* DyingRace: There's very few of them left on Earth and that number is constantly shrinking. Very few people are upset over the potential extinction of the super-zombie making ghosts.
* FeelsNoPain: Their host bodies feel no pain, though they themselves may or may not have such an immunity.
* SuperToughness: Their host bodies are very hard to damage.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Theriangelos]]
Creatures created through Heretic magic to act as messengers and spies.
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* AnimalEyeSpy: One of their primary uses.
* Animal Motifs: Each theriangelos takes the form of a specific animal determined by which created it. It's not known for sure whether the form they take means something about the creator, but that doesn't stop people from using it as ammunition.
* SummonMagic: Essentially how they're created.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Trolls]]
Large powerful beings with a number of abilities dedicated to making them hard to kill.
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* AdaptiveAbility: They can adapt to any environment, up to and including the void of space.
* HealingFactor: Trolls regenerate from wounds extremely quickly.
* SuperStrength: A full grown troll can lug a telephone pole around like a baseball bat.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vestil]]
The ancient race that cursed the Akharu to win the war on their shared world.

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* FinalSolution: After thousands of years, they're still trying to wipe out the Akharu. And not just the pure Akharu, but anyone with Akharu blood.
* TheGhost: No Vestil have yet been seen in the story.
* WitchSpecies: They're very, very good at magic.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zombies]]
Dead bodies animated with magic.
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* NamedByDemocracy: They don't actually call themselves Fomorians, that's just a name that was given to them after beings from human myths. But even other Alters and Seosten infiltrators use it to refer to them, and the Fomorians themselves [[SureWhyNot don't seem to have any problem with the name]].

* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: The Seosten created the [[WeirdnessCensor Bystander Effect]] to keep humanity isolated and under control. They later possessed a man named Hieronymus IBosch and used him to build the Heretical Edge and found Crossroads for the same purpose.]]

* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: The Seosten created the [[WeirdnessCensor Bystander Effect]] to keep humanity isolated and under control. They later possessed a man named Hieronymus Bosch and used him to build the Heretical Edge and found Crossroads for the same purpose.]]

** To other infiltrators as well, as noted in the FantasticRacism entry.

* {{Seers}}: Is a rather potent precognitive according to Cerulean. [[spoiler: Notably, he arranged for Haiden and Sariel to meet.]]

* SanityHasAdvantages: She's the only loyal Seosten Earthside known to not have some kind of massive psychological issue. She's also the most dangerous by far, [[spoiler: given that she has a committee member outright working for her and the heroes have no clue she even exists.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: Pushes a little girl down an escalator shaft for no purpose but giggles in one of his interludes, as if it needed to be pounded into the audience's brains even more that he's a messed-up {{Sadist}}. He also has zero issue torturing Flick to see if doing so would make him sad.

* LackOfEmpathy

[[folder: Sariel Moon]]

[[folder: Sariel [[spoiler: Moon]]]]

* BabyFactory: [[spoiler: Her fate after being sent back to her people. She was imprisoned as a traitor and was artifically inseminated to produce children. This how Tabbris was born.]]
* BeingGoodSucks: The universe has shat on Sariel HARD ever since she defected. She had a happy decade or so with Haiden, then her family was scattered across the universe, [[spoiler: she was shipped off to Kushiel's Baby Factory, she had to give away her third child to save her from being raised as a Seosten soldier]], she wound up accentially tossing Larissa into Seosten space to save her from a Fomorian [[spoiler: ruining her plan to get back to Earth]].

* NobleDemon: Post transition to hands off possession at the latest to when Sariel finally worked up her courage to [[OptOut leave]]. She was still an[[ScaryDogmaticAliens operative of the Seosten]] but taking the effort to not completely dominate her unknowing hosts lives.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Seosten troops and subordinates who don't follow orders successfully tend to have a low survival rate. Many are more afraid of failing their orders than being killed by enemies.

* BeingGoodSucks: The universe has shat on Sariel, HARD ever since she defected. She had a happy decade or so with Haiden, then her family was scattered across the universe, [[spoiler: she was shipped off to Kushiel's Baby Factory, she had to give away her third child to save her from being raised as a Seosten soldier]], she wound up accentially tossing Larissa into Seosten space to save her from a Fomorian [[spoiler: ruining her plan to get back to Earth]].

* TheArchmage: Considers her mastery of magic to be on par with Grandfather's knowledge of genetics

* [[spoiler: BunnyEarsLawyer: Played with but really. Word of God has Sariel as the best infiltrator of the Seosten before she went rogue, and she did so by just tagging along without doing anything if she didn't have to. Most other Seosten saw the practice as strange at best, to outright detrimental at worst.]]

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Jophiel goes WAY out of her way to keep up appearances, even when she's been using the same cover for so long she could slowly phase out those habits and no one would bat an eye. [[spoiler: It has nothing to do with appearances and everything to do with what Elizabet wants to spend time doing.]]

* MamaBear: Oh yes. It was in her job description as Artemis, and in present she's defected, attempted suicide, offered up her own life [[spoiler: and willingly given up any hope of seeing her own daughter]] all to protect one child or another.

* [[spoiler: BunnyEarsLawyer: Played with but really. Word of God has Sariel as the *best* infiltrator of the Seosten, and she did so by just tagging along without doing anything if she didn't have to. Most other Seosten saw the practice as strange at best, to outright detrimental at worst.]]