History Characters / OldGodsOfAppalachia

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Supernatural forces existing outside of the Green or the Inner Dark. It is not known if they're older than either or simply came into being along the way.
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An acoholic, abrasive {{Jerkass}} of a man who is found horribly murdered one night, setting suspicions on his poor wife.
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* DealWiththeDevil: Seems to operate on this, saving a magistrate's life with the condition that he will owe him later, only to [[spoiler: rip his throat out when he notices the magistrate can't stomach the carnage he brings.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: Killed Caleb Gibson and his entire family, cursed him with ResurrectiveImmortality and a curse that would summon a beast similar to Bartholomew should his life be put in danger. So, yeah. [[spoiler: Ironically, the Dead Queen was born out of the fact that Daughter Dooley WouldntHurtAChild, trying to cure the sacrificed child of its Inner Dark. The resulting clash between the shadow and the Green created this abomination]]

* HorrifyingTheHorror: Abhors the Inner Dark, but is stuck in their service for most of Build Mama A Coffin after an encounter with Horned Head hundreds of years ago after mistakenly thinking he was tricking some simple deer.

The most malevolent of the Free Agents seen thus far. Manifests as a man with a salt and pepper beard and charcoal grey suit. Seems to be the personification of man's progress, with all the bloodshed and sacrifice that comes with it.

* GreaterScopeVillain: His conversation with Jack at the end of ''Escape From Paradise'' seems to imply he is behind the ascension of the Locke Family to prominence, calling Locke "one of his" and referring to the powerful man as a "welp."
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Does this to the Hollowed Men, one of only two characters to do so. This is no small feet, considering the only other creature capable of doing so is the Dead Queen, whose rising causes an EnemyMine situation between the Green and Dark.

* WickedCultured: He's knowledgable, intelligent and extremely eloquent while exuding an aura of pure, cruel menace.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When judge Jerry Brotherton is no further use, he rips out the man's throat as a blood sacrifice.

* HumanoidAbomination: A pale woman and her child who are dangerous enough to inspire unity between servants of the UltimateEvil and GaiasVengeance? Check.

* BigDamnVillains: Saves Tommy Adkins and delivers him to his happy ending after he [[spoiler: explodes a train full of Barrow and Locke executives,]] but is no more heroic for it.

* PyrrhicVictory: Pleasant Evenings is mostly destroyed and the surrounding town devastated. The Railroad Man retrieves the pocket watch he set out for, but he is badly wounded, perhaps even crippled by the Walkers and banished from their place of power with a horrific scream of pain and ra

* EvenEvilHasItsStandards: Is a TricksterGod tried and true, possibly even older than the Inner Dark itself but is always on edge and horrified of them, fleeing to the other side of the world when they were sealed and nearly screaming for the first time ever after reading Horned Head's mind. When his agent, Tommy, is forced into working for a member of the Lockes, he grows apprehensive and openly threatens the boy so his deal with the Lockes will be fulfilled, clearly indicating horror and apprehension on his part.

* PyrrhicVillainy: Pleasant Evenings is mostly destroyed and the surrounding town devastated. The Railroad Man retrieves the pocket watch he set out for, but he is badly wounded, perhaps even crippled by the Walkers and banished from their place of power with a horrific scream of pain and ra

* MemeticBadass: A blind old dog in a show where animals naturally steer clear of the Darkness and creatures associated with them, yet is so loyal to the boys he protects that he stands his ground anyways. [[UpToEleven Hell, he even has his own plush coming!]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: Presents as an affable, gentile railroad executive, but he never makes any bones about how much he relishes the suffering he causes.

* {{Adorkable}}: His demeanor during the lighter parts of the story betrays this aspect well.

->'''Voiced By:''' [[{{UsefulNotes/YuriLowenthal}} Yuri Lowenthal]]

* BreakTheCutie: And that's an {{Understatement}}. She's reassigned to a secret brothel where the rich clients are allowed to do [[AdultFear anything]] to them, before being sentenced to a session with one. She walks in and sees a VIP (described as a horrible pig man) cuddling with the [[IAmAHumanitarian half eaten remains of her friend.]] After escaping with a [[ArtifactOfDoom pocket watch]] as compensation, she escapes just in the nick of time from the Hollowed Men sent after her, only for them to meet [[KnightOfCerebus the Railroad Man]] and get much more competent as a result. She takes refuge at Pleasant Evenings only for her captors to come calling for her and [[spoiler: massacre the young men of the town by turning them into mindless slaves and using them as a HumanShield to break the Walkers wards.]] She is so thoroughly broken by all these events that she begs for her life before her killer, only for the ArtifactOfDoom to grant her a CruelAndUnusualDeath. One can only hope in the afterlife she found some peace, although given the track record for those who mess with the Things, even this is doubtful.

* [[Characters/OldGodsOfAppalachiaTheGreen The Green]] [[note]] Bartholomew, the Daughter Dooley, the Walker Sisters, the Boggs Clan [[/note]]

[[folder: Vera Blevins]]
A HookerWithAHeartOfGold, daughter of Melvin Blevins, whose profession leads her into a fateful confrontation with the Inner Dark. This all leads to an [[NoodleIncident incident with a Man From the Railroad and the local magistrate.]]

[[caption-width-right:350: ''Ever onward, ever forward, yes?'' [[note]] From Left to Right: Mr. Erskine, [[BigBad the Man From the Railroad,]] Jerry Brotherton & Mr. White [[/note]]

* [[Characters/OldGodsOfAppalachiaTheInnerDark The Inner Dark]] [[note]] Those Who Sleep Beneath, Horned Head, Granny White, Skint Tom, the Black Mouthed Dog, Barrow and Locke, the Sentinel, [[OverlyLongList just about every other monster in the show...]] [[/note]]

* [[Characters/OldGodsOfAppalachiaTheGreen The Green]]
* [[Characters/OldGodsOfAppalachiaTheInnerDark The Inner Dark]]

!Forces of the Green

[[folder:The Green]]
!!The Green AKA Bartholomew
->'''Voiced By:''' Ray Christian

The ultimate BigGood of the series, a manifestation of the elemental life of the planet. Essentially the greatest force against the Inner Dark and [[BigBad Those Who Sleep Beneath.]] Often manifests as either a bear made out of Earth or [[spoiler: a massive, bearded black man]] when he needs to communicate. While he stands completely against the Inner Dark, Bartholomew is willing to communicate with them should the need arise.

* BearsAreBadNews: If you belong to the Inner Dark and there's not a greater threat to the world on the horizon, then absolutely. Once Bartholomew has been summoned in his bear form, no haint has survived the encounter.
* BearyFriendly: Zigzagged, as while Bartholomew has not been seen causing harm to the good, honest people of the world, he hasn't exactly acted as a perfect guardian either. Oftentimes, he is less so summoned by someone in need and more by a witch that knows how to specifically summon the Green.
* BigGood: The ultimate example seen thus far in the series. While we're not sure if it's responsible for imprisoning Those Who Sleep Beneath, it acts as its jailer and a guide for the witches of the Green.
* EldritchAbomination: A benevolent and Earth native variant, but an example nonetheless.
* GaiasVengeance: Specifically against the Inner Dark and the forces controlling them.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Very much so, as he often only directly aids those who know how to use Green magic. That said, in his human form he is very polite and courteous to both the witches of the Green and the summoned forces of Inner Dark.
* SecretKeeper: Implied with [[spoiler: Daughter Dooley]], seeing as how he never exposes her as the true identity of the Dead Queen. That is, if any of the witches would even know who she was, considering how little she interacted with the outside world

[[folder: Daughter Dooley]]
!!The Daughter Dooley AKA the Witch Queen
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[[caption-width-right:350: The Witch Queen and Bartholomew (Art by Darcy Rose Morgan)]]
An Irish witch of the Green, the so called Witch Queen, forced by circumstance into a contract with [[AnimalisticAbomination Horned Head]]. That being said, she still stayed close with the Green over the years, forcing a confrontation between her and her contractor in 1794 that would alter the very fabric of Appalachia...

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Starts off as this with her deal with Horned Head, although its made clear that dealing with the h'aint comes from a good place.
* AntiHero: Forced into a DealWithTheDevil with the ruling local abomination by circumstance, but tries her best to do good and stay connected to her mothers' Green ways even as she's forced into more and more evil acts.
* DeadpanSnarker: Consistently to the servants Horned Head provides for her and to the h'aint himself.
* DecoyProtagonist: Subverted. She is the first protagonist we meet before she makes her deal with Horned Head, before the story cuts to the Old Number 7 disaster and those involved. However, within a couple of episodes Daughter Dooley's story is continued and the final episode of season 1 details her ultimate falling out with her patron.
** Further subverted in Season 2, which seems to drop her story for the time being and focus on the Dead Queen, a younger and more sinister counterpart. However, [[spoiler: in the finale, it is revealed the Dead Queen was the result of Daughter Dooley fusing with the child Horned Head was trying to sacrifice in the Season 1 finale, with the Green and Dark constantly being at battle for control of their fused form]].
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: In the season 1 finale, she engages Horned Head in furious battle for the soul of a child. She wins, [[spoiler: forcing Horned Head to manifest as Elder Henry to survive,]] but pays for it quite dearly, leading to:
** BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: She is fused with the child's inner dark in a horrible symbiosis, creating the Dead Queen and causing the Green and Inner Dark to unite once every 7 years to seal her back away.]]
* FallenHero: An interesting subversion. [[spoiler: The Dead Queen turns out to be Daughter Dooley, but its more evil half is when the child of the Dark has control. She constantly attempts to rein the child in, but during the sealing of the Dead Queen the child takes control and nearly kills the entire group.]] After all this, she asks [[BigGood Bartholomew]] if it really was that bad this time around, sounding sympathetic.
* FightingIrish: Whether it's up against ignorant religious movements or the local EldritchAbomination, she holds her ground. [[spoiler: She outlasts the former, and ends up defeating the latter in single combat.]]
* HasTwoMommies: Was brought from the UK with her two witch mothers. Years after their deaths, she still misses them and holds onto their teachings.
* HeelFaceTurn: While more of a ForcedIntoEvil kind of character from the get go, she eventually cements this by refusing Horned Head's orders (which would lead to the deaths of everyone in Last Harbour) and [[spoiler: turning on him for attempting to sacrifice a child.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Narrator calls her "the Daughter Dooley" exclusively because she, as the last of her line, left behind nothing with her true name in it. Even Horned Head only ever calls her "little witch."
* ServileSnarker: She may be under Horned Head's protection while working to preserve the land, but it doesn't stop her from getting her two cents into the monster every chance she gets.
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: Not in season 1, but her identity as the Dead Queen and thus the ArcVillain of season 2 cements her as this.]]

!!The Walker Family

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[[BadassFamily A Clan of Green Witches]] who has taken up protecting the lost and wayward souls of Appalachia. Known across the land to both common folk and monsters alike as hardy, determined, and not to be taken lightly.

* BadassFamily: As a whole, most definitely. For generations they have used the Green to combat the forces of the Inner Dark, and often back to back as a family.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Even though they get along better than most examples, they're still a well adjusted version of this. D.L. doesn't like talking about the supernatural aspects of their family gift. Marcy lives with the death of a girl under her protection on her conscience, as well as her beloved girlfriend pulling ButNowIMustGo after seeing the true horrors their enemies could unleash. Carol Anne was married off before the events of season 1, but found herself [[spoiler: brutally murdered by the forces behind a coal mine explosion, before her husband's corpse was used to hunt down their young daughter.]] Ellie seems to be the most well adjusted of them, but constantly lives under fear of losing everything she holds dear to the Dark. In short, [[IfYouThoughtThatWasBad being raised in a brothel is the absolute least of their troubles.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: As with anyone who encounters the forces of the Inner Dark. The perversion and loss of their business by the Railroad Man is covered in season 2.
* TheHero: Over the course of the first two seasons and side stories, in a horror anthology, this clan of badass witches is the closest we have to central characters. They enter the story across multiple arcs, and while they are not the greatest forces of good in the series, they are the most active and often the ones that go under the most changes throughout the story.
* TheOldestProfession: Formerly as a family trade at their house of Pleasant Evenings, before the [[MyGreatestFailure incident with the Man from the Railroad and the local magistrate.]]

[[folder: Marcie Walker]]
!!Marcie Walker

A witch living in Baker's Gap who currently runs the Walker House, a home and refuge for those in need.

* ButchLesbian: Mentioned dressing in a rather manly manner compared to her sister Ellie and her girlfriend.
* CoolAunt: Her and Ellie act as this to their niece, Sarah Avery, saving her from the wrath of Elder Henry and taking her home after she lost everything to the abominations behind the Old Number 7 Incident.
* NiceGirl: Even if her demeanor is a bit rougher than her sisters, her mission has always been to help the unfortunate and abandoned, and she has shown time and time again that she is willing to risk her life to protect the world.
* ForceAndFinesse: Her and her sister Ellie zigzag this, seeing as Ellie is smaller and more delicate but much more likely to resort to [[BewaretheNiceOnes slitting a throat]] than using magic wards to fend off enemies. Marcie has deeper and more intimate knowledge of magic and is more likely to use prepared plans to dispose of their enemies, but also is much brawnier and physically intimidating.

[[folder: Ellie Walker]]
!!Ellie Walker

One of the famous Walker sisters, smaller and often subservient to her sister but no less dangerous in a fight against the forces of the Dark.

* BadassAdorable: Noted to be smaller and is voiced as more soft spoken than her sister but no less capable of fighting the supernatural horrors of Appalachia. [[KilledOffForReal Just ask the Railroad Man.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Absolutely. The forces of evil often focus on Marcie as the face of the Walker Clan, while Ellie sneaks up from behind and puts an end to them.
* CoolAunt: Her and Marcie act as this to their niece, Sarah Avery, saving her from the wrath of Elder Henry and taking her home after she lost everything to the abominations behind the Old Number 7 Incident.
* NiceGirl: Even moreso than her sister, if that's possible. She's much more forgiving than her sister when it comes to strangers, accompanying [[TheWoobie Cowboy Absher]] across the country to make sure he may one day be able to live a normal life with his family.
* TeamMom: Tends to function as a more nurturing variant of this than her sister, doting over Cowboy Absher during their visit to Boggs Holler to relieve him of his curse.

[[folder:D.L. Walker]]
!!D.L. Walker, Attorney At Law

The AgentScully of the family, an attorney who prefers to fight her battles against the forces of evil in the courtroom more than in the dark woods.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Doesn't like the idea of taking on cases linked with the supernatural and doubts the murder of Frank Tilley is supernatural. That said, she doesn't take it to ludicrous extremes and seems more concerned with keeping herself safe than anything.
* BadassNormal: Chooses to be a lawyer instead a Witch of the Green like her sisters and mother. That being said, it doesn't stop her from using what remains to find out if her clients are truly telling the truth or not.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Only helps out Cora Lee initially as a favor to her sisters, and scoffs at the idea of the murder of Frank Tilley being supernatural in nature. This doesn't stop her from genuinely trying to comfort Cora Lee after knowing all she's been through, and doing her best to make sure the poor girl goes free.
* OnlySaneMan: Got the hell out of dodge the moment she was old enough to, got a law degree and made sure she could combat the Inner Dark the best way she knew how... [[MundaneMadeAwesome Legally!]] Given how Barrow and Locke tends to hide behind legalities to get away with their cruelties, it could count as an example of BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame.

[[folder: Carol Anne Avery]]
!!Carol Anne Avery nee Walker

Formerly Carol Anne Walker, before being married off to Pinky Avery and moving to Barlow, Kentucky. She would go on to have a daughter, Sarah. After the Old Number 7 Disaster, she has a chance encounter with a [[EldritchAbomination representative of B&L Mineral Resources,]] who has bought their property and would have words with her daughter...

* ADayInTheLimelight: Episode 7 of season 1, Afterbirth, is set around her final day alive as well as her past as a protege of the Green. This overlaps with:
** ADeathInTheLimelight
* MamaBear: Set many different elemental traps on their property in good old Walker Family tradition, [[spoiler: setting off one such trap with her dying breath that is able to dissolve Ignatius Combs completely, giving her daughter a fighting chance.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: Had one in the form of Edgar Avery, since her prostitute-by-trade mother never married. This adds an extra level of heartbreak to Old Number 7's explosion, as she loses her husband Pinky and the closest thing she ever had to a father.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She only appears alive in the same episode where she dies, but she introduces the Green magic proper into the story, as well as setting the stage for her sisters and their accompanying lore to enter the story.

[[folder: Sarah Avery]]
!!Sarah Avery/Miss Belle

The daughter of Carol Anne and Pinky Avery, niece of Edgar Avery and the famous Walker Sisters. After losing her father to the infamous Old Number 7 incident and her mother (seemingly) to suicide, she is forced on the run from horrible monsters. [[spoiler: Some of which may be a bit familiar to her...]] She is one of the primary protagonists of season 1.

* ActuallyIAmHim: [[spoiler: Miss Belle is revealed to be Sarah Avery, all grown up.]]
* AllLovingHero: [[spoiler: As a school teacher, she is compassionate and understanding to her students. Whereas some would jump to conclusions about Cowboy Absher's strange abilities, she immediately summons the elder Walkers to help him out.]]
* BadassAdorable: Manages to survive and outrun [[Hellhound the Hounds]] sent by Ignatius Combs, and resist the temptations of the beings using her father and uncle's corpses, [[spoiler: even summoning Bartholomew himself at a young age to dispose of one of the beasts.]] And this is only her first couple of episodes. As a member of the Walker Clan, this is to be expected.
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: After managing to survive the attack on Barlow, she is unfazed by the horrors of the Grey Ladies and not as scared as she should be of Elder Henry. [[spoiler:Even more impressive considering it was Horned Head himself.]]
* KidHero: Or as close as one can get in a CosmicHorrorStory.
* ShesAllGrownUp: [[spoiler: As Annabelle Conway in season 2.]] She's grown into a surprisingly well adjusted, if cautious, young woman who knows when to put her foot down to stop problems both mundane and supernatural.

[[folder:Melvin Blevins]]
!!Melvin Blevins

A handyman who works with the Walker sisters to keep the outcast and down on their luck safe, holding [[DarkAndTroubledPast very personal reasons for doing so.]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: Has an entire arc in season 2 that establishes how he and the Walker Sisters met, albeit he doesn't enter until the arc is at its climax.
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Enters the fight against the [[KnightOfCerebus Railroad Man]] and kills his massive Hollowed Man companion, not knowing exactly what he walked in on until after.
* BadassNormal: Manages to take on the Wolf Sisters with nothing but the charms provided by Marcie and Ellie. This is after providing a [[DomesticAbuse wife and child beating man a well deserved ass-kicking.]]
** UpToEleven in the flashback arc in Season 2, where he manages to kill a [[TheHeartless Hollowed Man]] with nothing but a simple shotgun, before giving the Railroad Man an ice cold stare.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His daughter left home and never kept contact, and being the KindheartedSimpleton he is, when he heard she was in town again he decided it was for the best to keep his distance. [[spoiler: He comes to her aid at last, but only after she's been horribly killed by an ArtifactOfDoom.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Perma-kills a Hollowed Man with nothing but his trusty shotgun.
* FireForgedFriends: With the Walker sisters, after [[NoodleIncident the incident with the Man From the Railroad and the Local Magistrate.]]
* GentleGiant: Is massive and muscular, but one of the nicest characters in the story.
* GutturalGrowler: Is played by the {{Narrator}} with a deep, grumbly voice.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Brave enough to take on the Things even if he doesn't fully understand their nature, [[spoiler: all because his daughter was killed by their machinations.]]
* JustFriends: With Marcie Walker, seeing as how she's a lesbian and he had a wife with which he fathered two daughters. Doesn't stop him from spending all of his time with her and her sister.
* NiceGuy: Helps those down on their luck out the kindness of his heart.
* PapaWolf: Kills the hollowed servant of an EldritchAbomination for trying to hurt his little girl. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it comes moments too late.]]
* KindheartedSimpleton: Is not too bright or worldly, but it doesn't stop him from putting up a good fight against the Dark.
* UndyingLoyalty: To the Walker Clan, Marcie in particular. They tried to give his daughter shelter from the Inner Dark, even at the cost of their family home. He repays them by doing everything he can to make sure they stay safe, even if it basically amounts to BodyguardingABadass.

!!The Boggs Family

[[folder: As A Whole]]
An old clan with deep roots in the Green, taking up residence in Boggs Holler. They collectively are the main protagonists of the Patreon exclusive storyline, Build Mama A Coffin.

* AbusiveParents: Waylon Boggs was this to all three of the kids, being a drunk [[spoiler: who let his natural gift fall to the Dark while taking up the bottle to drown out the ghosts constantly trying to communicate with him.]] Glory Ann is a more emotional variant, being unwilling to mince her words and rarely if ever complimenting them. That being said, [[spoiler: her murder of Waylon was solely to protect her children.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Even before the [[EldritchAbomination Inner Dark]] begins to sink their fangs into them, none of them stick around their mother after they're old enough to leave, and all of them hold some level of resentment towards her for "making their daddy leave" ( [[spoiler: unaware that she actually murdered and dismembered him to keep them safe from his drunken wrath.]] )
* {{Foil}}: To the Walker Family, as a similarly large clan with ancestral ties to the Green. The Walkeres come from less respectable starts, having been raised in a brothel by their mother with no fathers in sight, but either kept up with the ways of the Green well into middle age or pursued justice elsewhere. The Boggses, meanwhile, are a much more screwed up clan who nevertheless were a well know institution in their home county. Their matriarch Glory Ann was a IronLady, similarly to Sheila Walker, but her harsh decisions caused her children to move away and be susceptible to the seductions of the Dark as a result.
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: The three direct offspring of Glory Ann and Waylon- Vernard, Dale, and Mercy- are all dead by the end of the story, as well as Dale's son Daniel. Indy and Deeley are still alive, with Indy able to carry on the Boggs name. But the three Boggs siblings, along with both of their parents, are dead.]]
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: The two boys fall into this. Vernard being so keen on upper class life and so sure of his own genius means he falls for J.T. Fields' obvious con, [[spoiler: and makes him susceptible to an obvious ploy to turn his back so Jack can crack his skull open.]] Dale, so sure of what he feels and what he can see in front of them, falls for the Sentinel's promise of personal improvement and glory and slips into truly awful behavior towards his mentally handicapped son, Daniel. [[spoiler: Which leads to Dale getting a hatchet to the head from an Old Copperhead empowered Daniel.]]

[[folder: Glory Ann Boggs]]
!!Glory Ann Boggs, the Spine of the Mountain

The [[IronLady tough as nails matriarch of the Boggs clan,]] head of Boggs Holler and one of the most powerful Witches of the Green to ever live. Her death leads to the plot of Build Mama A Coffin, where her children come into conflict over how to bury her, while the Forces of the Inner Dark plot [[IAmAHumanitarian to get ahold of her magic enriched corpse to strengthen themselves.]] Glory Ann decides "fuck that" and [[BackFromTheDead makes a charm to bring her back for three days]] so that she may [[TheLastDance secure her family's future while keeping her remains out of the clutches of her enemies.]]

* AbusiveParents: An emotional variety to her kids, being an IronLady witch who is remembered by her daughter Mercy as "never thinking highly of anyone." Her kids all left home after they were old enough to, and hardly ever kept in contact.
* ArchEnemy: Out of all of the Deep Things she's encountered in her day, she pays the most mind to Granny White. [[spoiler: True to form, her battle with Granny White is the climax of the story, with the beast being her final obstacle before she can pass on.]]
* TheArchmage: The most powerful Witch of the Green seen in the "present" time of the story, only being rivaled by Daughter Dooley in this regard across the entire Old Gods universe. Her rotting corpse is seen as having enough power in it to secure victory for the Dark, [[spoiler: and Horned Head seemed to fully expect it to bring him back to his prime and then some.]]
** [[spoiler: Her FinalBattle against Granny White secures her as this. Even as a rotting corpse, she's able to defeat the White Family and banish her foe to the Earth.]]
* BackFromTheDead: As her death marks the beginning of her family's story, her continued presence in it would require this. She uses the thorns she acquired [[spoiler: from the Dead Queen's tree]] to create a charm that would give her three days to secure her family's legacy.
* BigGood: Of Build Mama A Coffin, being the greatest and most straightforwardly heroic of the Boggs Clan. After her demise, they're all easy pickings for the manipulations of the Inner Dark, while they all remain deeply afraid of her wrath.
* CutenessProximity: Even an IronLady like Glory Ann can't stop herself from being very invested in [[TheWoobie Cowboy Absher]]'s wellbeing for very long.
* CruelMercy: [[spoiler: Punishes [[TricksterGod Jack]] at the end of the story this way. She isn't going to break their deal, her having promised to restore him to his immortal form. However, as punishment for needlessly killing her son Vernard, she leaves the task of 'liberating' Jack to Vernard's son, Indy. Indy is encouraged to take his time freeing Jack from his mortal form [[CruelAndUnsusualDeath by beating the mortal body to death with a ceremonial club.]]]]
* TheDreaded: To the vast majority of the Things, to the point where none of them bothered making a move against her or her family until after she's dead. Even something as powerful as Granny White, with her hordes of followers, refuses to make a move against her for decades. She stands as one of the few protagonists with the power and skill to unambiguously get a victory against every single EldritchAbomination she comes across. [[spoiler: By the end of BMAC, she has outright killed two of the Deep Things, and severely crippled a third (with the Narrator noting she could kill it permanently if she had more time).]]
--> '''Narrator:''' She once saw something a Christian would mistake for the Devil himself, and told it to 'git. [[HorrifyingTheHorror And it did.]]
* TheLastDance: Her side of the plot of Build Mama A Coffin is this. She [[BackFromTheDead technically already died by the time the plot really started,]] but her charm allows her to do her best to protect her family before she has to fully pass on.
* MamaBear: To her kids. [[spoiler: Waylon striking Mercy led to her killing him, dismembering him, and hiding the truth of his abuse from her children so that they could remember him as a good father.]] Every single one of the Deep Things that dares to touch her family learns the hard way that the Boggses are not to be touched if they value their lives.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: If the title of Build Mama A Coffin didn't give it away. Her death causes [[BigBadEnsemble the Things]] to begin making their moves against her family, although this doesn't stop her from [[BackFromTheDead coming back to try her best to defend them.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: As ''Black Mouthed Dog'' shows. She was once much more considerate and caring and very {{Adorkable}} with her crush on Waylon. [[spoiler: The incident with the Black Mouthed Dogs seemed to cause her to begin sinking into the hard headed and cold matriarch she became.]]

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[[folder: Waylon Boggs]]
!!Waylon Boggs
The missing ([[spoiler: and long deceased]]) patriarch of Clan Boggs. Much of his character is shrouded in mystery for the Boggs MythArc, [[spoiler: but it turns out their family has a gift of speaking to the dead, and he turned to the bottle and to bitterness to survive with it. Glory Ann eventually killed him to protect their children, burying him underneath the smokehouse.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Devolved into an alcoholic, physically abusive version by the end of his life. His heart sunk to darkness and he begin to strike his children, causing Glory Ann to take drastic action to stop him.
* AscendedExtra: Is the main protagonist of ''Black Mouthed Dog,'' which explores his first true experiences with the Inner Dark and how he began to view his gift as a curse.
* TheDutifulSon: As a boy, he was left in charge of the house and his Uncle Batch while his parents were away on business. While he tries his best to do right by his parents, his uncle acknowledges that "[his] heart was always soft," and thus he was unlikely to feel like he lived up to his parents' standards.
* DrowningMySorrows: To drown out the voices of the dead constantly in his head. It turned his heart to darkness after all those years. [[spoiler: Similarly to his uncle and father in this regard.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Is dead by the time of Build Mama A Coffin, but is one of the main focuses of Black Mouthed Dog.
* StartOfDarkness: While the full details aren't yet known, ''Black Mouthed Dog'' seems to function as this for him. [[spoiler: He watches two young neighbor girls be killed, has to eventually give up the one person that he's felt has ever understood him, and is bit by one of the Dogs, causing him to slowly be seduced to the Dark.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: As shown in Black Mouthed Dog, he was once a soft spoken and kind boy before the weight of his gift got the better of him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Mercy Hubbard]]
!!Mercy Hubbard nee Boggs

The only daughter of Glory Ann, and the only one to keep no contact with her mother after she left. She has only one daughter, Delia "Deeley" Hubbard, from her first husband who died in World War I. She sets off to Boggs Holler after her mother's death, hoping to find someone to help her hone her daughter's gifts with the Green.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: Goes to Granny White, believing she's an associate of her mother from her days as a witch, to help her with Deeley's gift. Granny's [[ArchEnemy anything but a friend,]] and has [[IAmAHumanitarian plans for both Deeley and her mother's body.]]
* GoodParents: Is very understanding of Deeley and her gifts, having been familiar with the Green growing up. That said, [[ParentsAsPeople she's had to make some tough choices regarding remarrying after her first husband's death]], but she always has her daughter's interests in heart.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The last of the Boggs siblings to bite it, having been killed off in the FinalBattle with the White family. That said, Deeley believes she will still be around as a ghost so they can still talk.]]
* TheLostLenore: Her first husband, who was kind, warm and well off. Even though she has remarried, she holds no particular affections for her new husband and the way he treats Deeley.
* MuggleBornOfMages: Seemingly, having no apparent gift of her own but being able to see it in her daughter, Deeley. [[spoiler: It makes her susceptible to Granny White's surface charm, since she's unable to see the true abomination the witch is beneath.]]
* TheResenter: Of her mother, Glory Ann, believing that she was the reason their father Waylon ran off. [[spoiler: Glory actually killed him after an abusive drunk episode against Mercy herself. Mercy, upon finding this out, has experience with violent drunk spouses and seems to forgive her mother.]]
[[/folder]]


[[folder: Vernard Boggs]]
The eldest Boggs sibling, a massive man who always believed he was destined for greater things. He left Boggs Holler and never looked back, but after Mama's death, is contacted by Mr. [[TricksterGod J.T. Fields]] with a deal on some land that would be able to hold a grand tomb for the Boggs family, starting with Glory Ann.
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* ButtMonkey: The Boggs with the least DarkAndTroubledPast outside of the business regarding Waylon, being a layabout and having always been that way. Even the Narrator has to call him an idiot periodically, [[spoiler: and his death is neither particularly horrifying or sad, simply being [[BlackComedy hit over the head with a shovel really hard while his back is turned.]]]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Having been overly trusting of an obviously unscrupulous man and throwing his money around to get his way with their mother's burial, it's only fitting that his death is brought about by another obvious trick from the same entity.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The first of the Boggs siblings to bite it, being "hit with a golden shovel so hard that his head damn near came off," by Mr. J.T. Fields himself enacting some ExactWords on his revenant mother.]]
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Much more well off than his siblings and mother, although the most easily duped due to his insane amount of pride.
* UnwittingPawn: To J.T. Fields and, by extension, [[spoiler: Horned Head.]]
* UpperClassTwit: His entire character, being rather stupid but considering himself a cultured and intelligent man. Everyone around him [[LampshadeHanging points it out.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Wallydale "Dale" Boggs]]
The other son of Waylon and Glory Ann, and father of Daniel. Inherited his mother's tough as nails attitude, although he's got less of a HiddenHeartOfGold. After purchasing land that used to belong to a local chapter of TheKlan, he is drawn to [[BotanicalAbomination a tree that had been used for hangings in the past]], believing that the wood on the tree would be perfect for Mama's coffin...
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* BoringButPractical: Compared to his brother, Vernard. He
* {{Jerkass}}: Seems to have been this in comparison to his siblings even before the EldritchAbomination began to poison his mind. He's got a tough, no nonsense attitude and was at the very least verbally abusive to his (implied to be mentally handicapped) son. [[UpToEleven This gets worse after he sees the Sentinel's true form.]]
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Even the Narrator notes he'd have to knock out his parents for naming him Wallydale. Credit to Glory Ann, it was Waylon's idea in the first place, trying to give his son a prestigious "high falutin'" name.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Again, before [[HatePlague the Sentinel]] touches his mind. He was similar to his mother in this regard, being intolerant of the KKK and refusing to give them their land back, even demolishing their cruel "clubhouse" and tolerating Daniel's oddness despite not approving of it. [[TookALevelInJerkass This changes as his corruption progresses.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: After abusing his son Daniel, constantly putting him down and generally acting like an abrasive {{Jerkass}} (with it implied to be because he blames his son for his wife's death), intending to feed his Mama's corpse to an EldritchAbomination, he finds himself in awe of Daniel's strength and power... as he's lifted off the ground by the ax that just got buried in his skull.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The second of the Boggs siblings to bite it, killed by his own abused son who'd been empowered by Old Copperhead.]]
* TheStoic: Is noted to be a man of few words, only understanding what he can build with his own two hands.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Upon seeing the Sentinel's true form- an ever shifting maw of madness and hunger- he at first feels horrified, before jittering "[[{{Squick}} in a way he hadn't since before his wife died."]] It's implied seeing this is enough to drive him to true madness, with him finally committing to killing his son if he can't follow through on bringing his Mama's coffin to the maw. [[spoiler: He pays with his life.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Delia "Deeley" Hubbard]]
The daughter of Mercy, granddaughter of Glory Ann and the inheritor of her grandmother's ([[spoiler: and grandfather's)]] gifts with the Green and supernatural. A precocious child who talks to ghosts for fun, her mother brings her to Boggs Holler after her Grandmama's death so that she may properly hone her gifts.
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: Loses her entire family by the end of Build Mama A Coffin, and in the season 2 finale finds herself thrust into a world full of abominations she doesn't quite understand.]]
* {{Deuteragonist}}: By the end of Build Mama A Coffin, being the most powerful character on the side of good besides Glory Ann, and being partially responsible for the defeat of Granny White, [[spoiler: by helping to free the ghosts of all those Granny has bound to her land.]]
* {{Deuteragonist}}: The final one of ''Build Mama A Coffin'', being just behind her grandmother in focus for the finale, and eventually tying the Boggses to the rest of the Green characters in the main show.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Something she shares with her uncle Dale, although not to quite the same extent. She prefers Deeley to Delia.
* GenerationXerox: Of her grandmother, Glory Ann, even though they never met before her death. Both are a witch that's naturally gifted in the Green and fully able and willing to put supernatural beings in their place with just a word. [[spoiler: She even takes up her Grandmama's place in sealing the Dead Queen during the season 2 finale.]] That said, she's much more of a NiceGirl than her grandmother.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Shows up in Season 2 with very little of her story from Build Mama A Coffin explained, making her seem like this to the casual viewer.
* ISeeDeadPeople: And communicate with them, sometimes helping them pass on or straight up putting them in their place through intimidation.
* NiceGirl: Is forgiving and understanding, making peace with her step father's first wife, who has been quite the spiteful poltergeist.
* SixthRanger: To the Sealing Ceremony in the Season 2 Finale, performing where her grandmother once did to seal the Dead Queen once more.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Daniel Boggs]]
The son of Dale Boggs, regarded as [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} a bit odd by all of his family members.]] Unfortunately, this leaves him isolated and lonely, [[OhCrap perfect for suggestions from a certain familiar snake.]]
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* AbusiveParents: His father seems to subconsciously blame him for the death of his mother, something that comes to the surface much more prominently after the Broken Bough begins corrupting his mind.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: With [[spoiler: Old Copperhead. The old snake gave him a (metaphorical) shoulder to cry on, making him rather easy to manipulate into betraying his father.]]
* ButtMonkey: Not a single good thing happens to him over the show. [[DeconstructedTrope This is not as funny as it may sound.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Is somehow this compared to the rest of his family, which is saying something. Of course, he feels isolated because of this and is eventually led to falling in with the Inner Dark because of this.
* TheDragon: To his father once he is seduced by the Broken Bough.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler: Albeit, he actually serves Old Copperhead, who promised love and acceptance in exchange for servitude. This leads to him eventually killing his father and derailing the Broken Bough's plans.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: His symbiosis with Old Copperhead is ended by Glory Ann, and Daniel promptly drops dead after telling his grandmother he never meant to hurt anyone.]]
* TheStarscream: [[To his father, planning to instead feed his grandmother's body to Old Copperhead, while also getting revenge for his treatment.]]
* TragicVillain: Ultimately wanted nothing but love and acceptance from his own family, who seemed determined to make him a pariah at every moment. [[spoiler: His reaction to hearing his grandmother, one of the only people who've ever been nice to him consistently, curse at him (really at Old Copperhead) is enough to bring one to tears.]]
[[/folder]]


[[Characters/OldGodsOfAppalachiaTheInnerDark The Inner Dark]]


!Outside Forces/Free Agents
[[folder: As A Whole]]
Supernatural forces existing outside of the Green or the Inner Dark. It is not known if they're older than either or simply came into being along the way.
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* OutsideContextProblem: Very much so, although most seem to be less proactive than the Inner Dark and thus less troubling. Essentially, they seem to be the FairFolk or some sort of AnthropomorphicPersonification of human nature more than an EldritchAbomination like the Inner Dark, or GaiasVengeance like the Green.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Railroad Man]]
->'''Voiced By:''' [[{{UsefulNotes/YuriLowenthal}} Yuri Lowenthal]]
The most malevolent of the Free Agents seen thus far. Manifests as a man with a salt and pepper beard and charcoal grey suit. Seems to be the personification of man's progress, with all the bloodshed and sacrifice that comes with it.
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* ArcVillain: Of the Walker Sisters arc in season 2, coming to their home to pursue Vera Blevins on behalf of the Hollowed Men and laying siege to Pleasant Evenings.
* TheBeastmaster: Becomes this in the climax of his arc, [[spoiler: using a card he handed out to the poor of the town under the promise of a work opportunity and turning them all into some variant of Humanoid Abomination,]] so he can use their bloodshed to enter the Walker Property.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Teams up with the Hollowed Men to pursue Vera Blevins during the Walker Sisters arc in season 2, although he's clearly the dominant member between the three of them, and far more dangerous.
* CatchPhrase: "Ever onward, ever forward."
* DealWiththeDevil: Seems to operate on this, saving a magistrate's life with the condition that he will owe him later, only to [[spoiler: rip his throat out when he notices the magistrate can't stomach the carnage he brings.]]
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Does this to the Hollowed Men, one of only two characters to do so. This is no small feet, considering the only other creature capable of doing so is the Dead Queen, whose rising causes an EnemyMine situation between the Green and Dark.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He engages in some rather nasty SlutShaming over the Walker sisters' and mother's history as prostitutes.
* PyrrhicVillainy: Pleasant Evenings is mostly destroyed and the surrounding town devastated. The Railroad Man retrieves the pocket watch he set out for, but he is badly wounded, perhaps even crippled by the Walkers and banished from their place of power with a horrific scream of pain and ra
* RailroadBaron: Is this trope taken to the extreme, being a personification of the worst aspects of the railroad and the progress it seeks. He applauds the local magistrate's handling of men who died while building a tunnel, stating with no small satisfaction [[NightmareFetishist how many men will be dead by the operation's end.]]
* SlashedThroat: His throat is slit by Ellie Walker to sever him from Pleasant Evenings and banish him.
* TheSpook: Pops out of nowhere with no indication as to where he came from or what he truly wants. All that we really find out is that he likes making deals, and wants the [[ArtifactOfDoom fancy watch that Vera Blevins stole from a monster of the Inner Dark]].
* SurroundedByIdiots: He has a very low opinion of the Hollowed Men and the other haints he brings with him, particularly when Mr. White cannot understand a simple metaphor.
* VerbalTic: Occasionally engages in one of these, mmmyesssssss?
* WickedCultured: He's knowledgable, intelligent and extremely eloquent while exuding an aura of pure, cruel menace.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When judge Jerry Brotherton is no further use, he rips out the man's throat as a blood sacrifice.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Dead Queen]]
!!The Dead Queen/The Other Queen/[[spoiler:The Daughter Dooley]]

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[[EvilCounterpart The other queen in Appalachia]], and much more villainous than her older counterpart. Legend says she was a girl impregnated at a young age before being murdered, and can be seen wandering with her child between the world of life and death. She comes upon a young Caleb Gibson, and bestows a [[KissOfDeath small kiss]] on the young boy, setting in motion the events of season 2...
[[spoiler: And there is much more to her than meets the eye. She is dangerous enough to cause an EnemyMine between both h'aints and the Witches of the Green, and is actually a result of a clash between the Green and Inner Dark.]]
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* TheBeastmaster: In the finale of season 2, she summons hordes of beasts to stop those trying to renew the seal, [[spoiler: with one such horde obliterating Skint Tom.]]
* BigBad: Of Season 2. She is the cause of Cowboy's uniquely incurable curse, as well as being the saint worshipped by Good Mother Ministries. She is bad enough to cause cooperation between the [[ArchEnemy forever opposed]] forces of the Dark and the Green, and engages in a face off against a group trying to re-seal her in the season finale.
* TheDreaded: Oh yes. The Narrator states both the Inner Dark and the witches of the Green fear her rising the way Church folk fear the goddamned Rapture. [[spoiler: Sealing her is important enough that Bartholomew himself manifests to make sure a crew capable of doing so is assembled.]]
* FinalBoss: Of Season 2, [[spoiler: or rather, the baby that Daughter Dooley tried to save, seeing as its destructive shadow is the force behind the Dead Queen's horrible behavior.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: A pale woman and her child who are dangerous enough to inspire unity between servants of the UltimateEvil and GaiasVengeance? Check.
* InstantDeathRadius: Those who touch her find themselves little better than a pile of dust. Those who she decides to give a kiss don't get off so easy...
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The Dead Queen is a result of this. [[spoiler: Daughter Dooley fighting for her life to defeat Horned Head in single combat to save the baby he wanted to sacrifice results in the baby's inner shadow clashing with her Green. In turn, they are stuck in symbiosis as the Dead Queen, with the child craving death and destruction while Dooley attempts to restrain it.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about who she REALLY is without getting into extremely spoileriffic territory.
* WhamLine: "So, old friend, how bad was it?" [[spoiler: Said in a distinctive, familiar Irish accent.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Killed Caleb Gibson and his entire family, cursed him with ResurrectiveImmortality and a curse that would summon a beast similar to Bartholomew should his life be put in danger. So, yeah. [[spoiler: Ironically, the Dead Queen was born out of the fact that Daughter Dooley WouldntHurtAChild, trying to cure the sacrificed child of its Inner Dark. The resulting clash between the shadow and the Green created this abomination]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: J.T. Fields/Jack]]
!!Mr. J.T. Fields of Dorchester/Jack

[[TricksterGod A trickster as old as Appalachia itself]] who likes making deals with folks down on their luck, said deals often turning out to have more to them than meets the eye.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Seems to operate on this, being motivated purely in his interactions by if something benefits him or is "profitable."
* BullyingADragon: Some folks he scammed their land out of show up looking to pick a fight with him. He invokes [[DealWithTheDevil an old deal their Papa made with him long ago to get their crops growing again.]] [[OhCrap They promptly go on their merry way.]]
* TheChessmaster: Seems to be in some sort of LongGame against B&L, if not the Inner Dark on the whole.
* CompositeCharacter: A combination of the Jack that jumped over the Candlestick and climbed into the sky and slayed the Giant. Naturally, his chores for Tommy Fields in paying off his debt to him all invoke different parts of both legends.
* DealWithTheDevil: Loves to strike these with folks down on their luck, turning them into pawns that will either perform chores for or be used as spies. [[spoiler: Even spying on one as dangerous as Nathaniel Locke himself.]]
* EvenEvilHasItsStandards: Is a TricksterGod tried and true, possibly even older than the Inner Dark itself but is always on edge and horrified of them, fleeing to the other side of the world when they were sealed and nearly screaming for the first time ever after reading Horned Head's mind. When his agent, Tommy, is forced into working for a member of the Lockes, he grows apprehensive and openly threatens the boy so his deal with the Lockes will be fulfilled, clearly indicating horror and apprehension on his part.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Abhors the Inner Dark, but is stuck in their service for most of Build Mama A Coffin after an encounter with Horned Head hundreds of years ago after mistakenly thinking he was tricking some simple deer.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Is said to be the same Jack who jumped over the candle stick AND the Jack from {{Literature/Jack and the Beanstalk}}.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Was called upon by the [[BigGood the Light that sealed the Old Things]] to be the warden of their prison, but Jack couldn't be bothered with the responsibility and promptly fled to the other side of the world until the mountains of Appalachia were done forming.
* TimeAbyss: Is noted to be as old as Appalachia.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Boy]]
!!The Boy
A Free Agent who manifests as a boy with a man's voice, although the age of the form seems to fluctuate. Acts as a spirit of vengeance for all the little boys killed in the name of progress.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: Is one for child labor and exploitation, acting as punishment that many employers of that time would not receive today.
* CreepyChild: A child with the voice of a man out to punish the sinful.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Actually, yes. He only punishes those cruel enough to exploit children to the point of their deaths. While he may be driven by rage and hate, no innocents actually suffer by his hand. This alone gives him a better track record than pretty much every supernatural character not associated with the Green.
* VengefulGhost: Punishes all those who exploit and hurt children.
* VocalDissonance: Noted when he speaks in the voice of a full grown man.
[[/folder]]

!Normal Folks
[[folder: As A Whole]]
[[AffectionateNickname The Family.]] The normal folk of Appalachia who, on the whole, are just trying to do their best with what they've got. It just so happens that they're smack dab in the middle of a CosmicHorrorStory, and can hardly ever catch a break.
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* DescentIntoAddiction: [[AuthorAvatar The Narrator]] implies that all Appalachians are aware of the AwfulTruth, and deal with the pain of this knowledge with medication.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Usually the case unless they're saved by Witches of the Green. Expected, considering they're normal people who find themselves fighting against [[EldritchAbomination eldritch horrors.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Those whose dying bodies are puppeted by the Things are said to find no peace in death.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: So people know that the establishment is controlled by a GodOfEvil. They know their employers are some variation of HumanoidAbomination even BEFORE they see [[YouHaveFailedMe to those who failed them.]] They know those who control the Appalachian region are evil. So what do they do? Does someone [[RebelLeader lead a fierce resistance against them?]] Do they revolt en masse and get the word out, leading to a BrokenMasquerade? [[ThisLoserIsYou Nope.]] They go to work day after day, collect their paychecks, and hope that if they lick the boots of their masters long enough, then [[HumansAreBastards they'll get promoted]] (although the viewers know this, at best, leads to abominations like the Hollowed Men). They slowly succumb to addiction outside of work, haunted by the things they've done in the name of pay, but they're unwilling to act to change it, lest their livelihoods be put on the line.
** That being said, there are occasional moments where either [[ChildrenAreInnocent a child's sense of justice]] or [[PapaWolf parental]] [[MamaBear instincts]] come in and allow humans to stand up to the Eldritch Horrors before them and try their best to [[HumansAreSpecial make a difference.]]
* ThisLoserIsYou: Generally, when faced with the evils of the Things, the normal folk of Appalachia cave and make a deal, or end up horribly, horribly scarred from the experience.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Cletus Garvin]]
A pastor in Barlow, Kentucky who made a DealWithTheDevil to prolong his own life. In exchange the [[HearingVoices Voices From the Mines]] would get invocation and sacrifice.
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of a SinisterMinister in a CosmicHorrorStory. Yes, he leads a ReligionOfEvil that makes sacrifices to the Old Gods of Appalachia in exchange for extended life. Yes, he bares some responsibility for the Old Number 7 Disaster. Yes, he's implied to be a racist, too. But his deal with the Things came from a place of wanting his family to be taken care of, and the devolution into a CorruptChurch comes from a slow perversion of their Christian values out of necessity moreso than any divine vision.
* DirtyCoward: Deep down implied to be this, being unwilling to die and being willing to sacrifice the lives of the scabs working Old Number 7 to do so.
* PapaWolf: For all his character flaws, he is redeemed by this. Seeing his sons injured and killed by Old Number 7 leads to a furious invocation on his part that ends in failure. It leads to him turning away from the Things, and to his death.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Seemingly. He finally turns away from the Things after they refuse to save his sons. Their response? Brutally kill and possess his entire family, before doing away with him.
* SinisterMinister: Sort of. The narration goes out of its way to show his line of thinking before he makes a deal with the Things, and he tries his best to stay true to his Christian values even as he's [[OfferingsToTheGods sacrificing animals to them.]] However, it's still implied he bares some responsibility for the Old Number 7 Disaster with his corruption of the church.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Things got what they wanted out of Old Number 7, and brutally slaughtered him and his entire family afterwards.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Caleb Gibson/Cowboy Absher]]
A small boy who has an unfortunate encounter with [[WalkingWasteland the Dead Queen]], leading to the loss of his entire family. He is later found by Floyd Absher and taken in, adopting the name Cowboy Absher. After a chance encounter with a h'aint in the woods, he becomes acquainted with the Walker Family.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: The Springtime In Boggs Holler trilogy acts as this, detailing efforts to finally rid him of his curse.
* BotanicalAbomination: Not him, [[spoiler: but his curse is represented as this. Glory Anne has to manually undo the vines constraining him to the Dead Queens tree, and while she can't undo all of them, she hopes that he will one day be strong enough to undo them himself.]]
* CursedWithAwesome: In some aspects. He can see the true nature of Things on the fly, such as the White clan or the Thing That Was Not Daddy, and if they bother to even try to strike him a corruption of the Green manifests and tears them apart. If he's killed, he'll just pop up a couple of hours later no worse for wear. However...
** BlessedWithSuck: Ultimately, his curse is this. He can see the death of everything he turns his eye to, even his loved ones, cannot digest any food, and his corrupted guardian will kill everyone around it that's not him. This all plays into his nature as [[TheBait a trap set by the Dead Queen,]] as any h'aints that are seen through by a young boy will take the opportunity to try to strike and kill him and be obliterated, but if its triggered when there's no h'aints around, it'll [[KillTheOnesYouLove kill anyone else around him.]]
** Subverted after his [[spoiler: visit with Glory Anne Boggs. She is able to undo the constriction on his ability to eat and take away his ability to see the deaths of those around him. It seems like he may still have his ResurrectiveImmortality for the time being, but Glory Anne hopes that someday his strength will grow enough where he can break the bonds on his own.]]
* TheCutie: Everyone who meets Cowboy seems to instantly fall in love with him and want to protect him at all costs. Even Glory Anne Boggs, who is noted to be somewhat cold at that phase in her life and weary of all those who have the stench of the Dark on them, eventually caves in and admits she'd do anything to protect him, saying he's "just a baby."
* NiceGuy: Is this to everyone he meets, being soft spoken and shy but all around sweet. The nastiest he's ever gotten is using his forbidden knowledge powers to tell a relentless bully that his Daddy died a coward. [[BigBrotherInstinct Out of a desire to protect Floyd from the bully.]]
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Is cursed with this by a kiss from the Dead Queen, who wishes to use the corrupted Green within him to cause mass death and destruction.
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Another aspect of his curse. He can see the death of every non-supernatural being he turns his eye to. It also makes him good at digging up a DarkSecret or two on the fly.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His visit with the Dead Queen leads to the Walkers getting involved with her resealing, leading directly to the events of the season 2 finale. Furthermore [[spoiler: Glory Anne Boggs trying to undo his curse leads to her attaining some thorns from the Dead Queen's tree, leading up to the events of Build Mama a Coffin.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Vera Blevins]]
A HookerWithAHeartOfGold, daughter of Melvin Blevins, whose profession leads her into a fateful confrontation with the Inner Dark. This all leads to an [[NoodleIncident incident with a Man From the Railroad and the local magistrate.]]
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* BadassNormal: Manages to escape an AnimalisticAbomination who's very heavily implied to be a [[KnightOfCerebus VIP from B&L]], and evade the Hollowed Men long enough to make it to [[BadassFamily the Walker Sisters and Pleasant Evenings.]]
** However this is deconstructed slightly, in that her normalcy means she lacks proper context for many of the supernatural goings-on in Appalachia. [[spoiler: Meaning she doesn't realize the pocket watch her enemies are after is actually an ArtifactOfDoom.
* BreakTheCutie: And that's an {{Understatement}}. She's reassigned to a secret brothel where the rich clients are allowed to do [[AdultFear anything]] to them, before being sentenced to a session with one. She walks in and sees a VIP (described as a horrible pig man) cuddling with the [[IAmAHumanitarian half eaten remains of her friend.]] After escaping with a [[ArtifactOfDoom pocket watch]] as compensation, she escapes just in the nick of time from the Hollowed Men sent after her, only for them to meet [[KnightOfCerebus the Railroad Man]] and get much more competent as a result. She takes refuge at Pleasant Evenings only for her captors to come calling for her and [[spoiler: massacre the young men of the town by turning them into mindless slaves and using them as a HumanShield to break the Walkers wards.]] She is so thoroughly broken by all these events that she begs for her life before her killer, only for the ArtifactOfDoom to grant her a CruelAndUnusualDeath. One can only hope in the afterlife she found some peace, although given the track record for those who mess with the Things, even this is doubtful.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Is killed by the pocket watch she steals from the VIP, being aged to death in mere moments. The Hollowed Man even says that the pocket watch bestows a death far worse than any he could hope to. What's worse, [[spoiler: it's mere moments before her daddy shows up to save her.]]
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Absolutely. She took up TheOldestProfession to make her own way in Appalachia so she doesn't have to be a burden on her family, but from all accounts seems like a NiceGirl who doesn't want those taking refuge at Pleasant Evenings to die on her account.
* TheLostLenore: A daughter variant to her father, Melvin, even before her death. He had the reassurance of knowing his other daughter was married off to a loving husband, while Vera went into TheOldestProfession. Her death, moments before he arrived to save her, motivates him to help others down on their luck like [[ResurrectiveImmortality Cowboy]] or [[TragicVillain the Wolf Sisters.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: After her encounter with [[IAmAHumanitarian the VIP]], she becomes this, terrified for her life constantly. This is entirely justified, considering the power and influence of B&L. However, the thing that ultimately dooms her is choosing to use the railroad, catching the attention of a certain entity who concerns itself with the goings on of the Railroad.
* TooDumbToLive: Not too dumb, per say. But she was uninformed and naive, touching the pocket watch continuously while trying to beg for her life against a Hollowed Man even once it begins to age her to death. She becomes hysterical in her begging when the Hollowed Man refuses to touch the watch, giving it time to age her into dust.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Frank Tilley]]
An acoholic, abrasive {{Jerkass}} of a man who is found horribly murdered one night, setting suspicions on his poor wife.
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* AssholeVictim: No one's particularly upset by his death, regardless of how horrible it was. Furthermore, the sheriff is implied to give up all investigation into the murder due to the fact that there is a MASSIVE number of people who would want him dead.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Is brutally murdered by [[WalkingWasteland the Dead Queen]] [[spoiler: after his wife prays for his demise with a church of her worshippers.]] His head is found completely detached from his body, or what's left of it. [[AssholeVictim No one really cares.]]
* DomesticAbuse: Gave out a metric crapton of it to his poor small wife, to the point where people at church openly gawked at whatever bruises and injuries she may be sporting that week.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Cora Lee Tilley]]
[[TheWoobie Frank Tilley's wife,]] who finds herself in legal trouble after her husband turns up dead and dismembered.
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!Forces of The Inner Dark

!!The Darkness Beneath the Mountains

A terrifying group of [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] who live to serve [[BigBad Those Who Sleep Beneath]]. These monsters roam Appalachia, fulfilling a variety of functions such as devouring fear, consuming flesh, or sacrificing to their dark masters. Not the cause of everything paranormal in the story, but the reason the show is a CosmicHorrorStory.

* BigBad: Collectively, with many of their members serving as the ArcVillain of any given arc.
* DragonInChief: The Deep Things, such as Horned Head, Granny White, and Ignacious Combs act as this for Those Who Sleep Beneath. They're as close as the Deep Things can come to manifesting in the real world without consuming it entirely, and are about as powerful as gods in their own right.
* FantasticCasteSystem: [[WordOfGod According to Steve Shell]], the Inner Dark (or the Things as they are sometimes called) is organized as follows:
** [[HenchmenRace Low Things]]: Servitors and hunting dogs for the Things with very little will of their own, often their resurrected victims.
** [[MookLieutenant Middle Things:]] Servants of the Deep Things, with their own will and autonomy. Often more powerful compared to mortals. They manifest as [[HumanoidAbomination Humanoid Abominations]].
** [[DragonInChief Deep Things]]: The highest level of the Inner Dark to appear in the show, proper BigBad material in their own right and often [[AnthropomorphicPersonification anthropomorphic personifications]] of things such as greed, lust, and revenge. Often completely inhuman in appearance.
** [[GreaterScopeVillain Old Things]]: the UltimateEvil of the show, sleeping deep beneath Appalachia. Unknowable and unthinkable, it's speculated they're a HiveMind or a truly colossal Kaiju, although none can be sure. Their release means the destruction of the universe.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Supernatural forces that exist outside of the Inner Dark, such as [[TricksterGod Jack]], will almost always be horrified or put off by their goals and demeanors. There are, however, two characters that have been able to invoke this on their forces:
** The Railroad Man was, at the very least, able to horrify and intimidate the Hollowed Men sent after Vera Blevins, clearly being in charge.
** The Dead Queen, due to the fact that she was born from WrongContextMagic and represents a true failure and defeat of one of their more powerful agents, [[spoiler: Horned Head]]. While many agents aren't aware of this, they are wary of her power, seeing as [[spoiler: it's born from a fusion of the Green and Inner Dark.]]
* SealedEvilInACan: Those Who Sleep Beneath, although it doesn't stop them from bringing their servants into the world.

[[folder: Those Who Sleep Beneath]]
!!The Old Things/Those Who Sleep Beneath/The Old Gods of Appalachia
The UltimateEvil of the show, a force of darkness and destruction imprisoned beneath Appalachia. It wishes for only one thing: to break free and consume the universe. Its agents will do anything to make this happen.

* AntagonistTitle: The titular "old gods."
* BigBad: Of the entire show, although they have yet to act directly and its unlikely they can without consuming all of reality.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Noted to have this in the prologue, with the Narrator stating they cannot truly be called evil, but simply they are and always have been.
* EldritchAbomination: Older than the Earth at the very least and capable of devouring the universe once unleashed.
* FlatCharacter: Hard to get much characterization as a sealed away UltimateEvil. However, if the Deep Things are seen as manifestations of their will, then the one thing we can say about them is that they are very gluttonous, wanting to devour all things.
* TheGhost: And you'd better hope it stays that way if you like the universe not devoured.
* HiveMind: One of the possibilities for what they really are, although describing them as such would most likely be a simplification at best.
* {{Kaiju}}: Speculated to be this, although it's just a theory.
* LeakingCanOfEvil: Their imprisonment clearly wasn't strong enough to stop them from tempting mortals into service, or to stop beings that serve them from trying to free them.
* SealedEvilInACan: Was imprisoned long ago beneath the mountains of Appalachia, although it's not enough to keep its servants from manifesting and feeding their desires.
* UltimateEvil: Unseen, and master to every other monster on the show.

[[folder: Horned Head]]
!!The Thing Whose Name Sounds Like Horned Head But Is Not/The Black Stag/The Great Deceiver

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[[AnimalisticAbomination The Thing Whose Name Sounds Like Horned Head, But Is Not]] is not the oldest among the Deep Things, but is considered the cruelest and pettiest of them all. He manifests as a stag with an antler crown of amber and smoldering red eyes. A long term schemer and among the most prolific servants of the Old Things.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Set to be one of the main focuses of season 3, [[spoiler: having been just revived and looking to continue his schemes.]]
* AnimalisticAbomination: Takes the form of a massive black stag with horns of amber and [[RedEyesTakeWarning horrible red eyes.]]
* ArchEnemy: Is this to Daughter Dooley, full stop. It's to the point where he considers her a WorthyOpponent, [[spoiler: even after she seals him and leaves him crippled for over a hundred years.]]
* ArcVillain: Of Daughter Dooley's arc in Season 1, and of The Holiest Days of Bone and Shadow as the GreaterScopeVillain.
* DarkIsEvil: Described as a stag blacker than night, and is the Deep Thing said to have the greatest capacity for outright evil.
* DealWithTheDevil: His specialty, directly recruiting people to the service of the Old Things.
* DragonInChief: States he was the greatest servant of Those Who Sleep Beneath, and while he may be indulging his ego a bit, he was the most personal and effective servant of the Dark during the days of Daughter Dooley, and regards B&L ascending to this position in his absence as an insult.
* EvilIsPetty: Is noted by the narration as the pettiest of the Deep Things. Although he is one of the most openly inhuman of them, he is the most likely to hold petty grudges and indulge in simple sadism.
* EldritchAbomination: Lesser than his masters, but still quite present.
* EvilerThanThou: Is considered much eviler than B&L by the Gray Ladies, but as they are his servants they're a little bit biased. Whether or not this is true remains to be seen.
* FinalBoss: Of Dooley's Arc in Season 1, as well as [[spoiler: Sarah Avery's, in his weakened form as Elder Henry.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of [[spoiler: the Holiest Days Of Bone and Shadow as the force commanding the Grey Ladies to travel the countryside, spreading bloodshed and collecting his artifacts so that he may be revived and poison the world of men once more.]]
** [[spoiler: He is also the force behind J.T. Fields in Build Mama A Coffin. A deal with Horned Head trapped J.T. in a mortal body, and attempting to appease him drives the trickster's actions.]]
* TheHeavy: His deals and antagonism directly drive many of the more prevalent elements of the MythArc of the main show.
* OverarchingVillain: The first EldritchAbomination seen in the show, and the most recurring monster on the show. He's not always the central focus, and it's well known he's not the biggest beast out there, but his deals and manipulations drive the MythArc of both season 1 and season 2.
* VaguenessIsComing: Notes [[spoiler: upon his resurrection, which is further in the timeline than any other current story]], that no one is safe from his wrath now that he's free.
* WorthyOpponent: Thinks of Daughter Dooley as this [[spoiler: after she manages to cripple him for over a century]], being rather impressed with her victory and saying she earned it.
* WouldHurtAChild: Oh, so much. Attempting to sacrifice the child of one of his cultists is not only what leads to Dooley finally rejecting and beating the ever loving crap out of him, but [[spoiler: leads to the birth of the Dead Queen, a being so horrible that the Inner Dark has to work with the Green to keep it sealed away.]]
** Same goes for Sarah Avery, [[spoiler: when he's in his weakened form as Elder Henry.]] Fortunately, the Walker Sisters show up before he can act on it.

[[folder: Granny White]]
!!Granny "Loretta" White

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[[caption-width-right:330:''I've always been hungry...'' (Art by Aleks 7 Illustration)]]

A horrifying Deep Thing hiding behind the veneer of [[EvilOldFolks an old albino woman]]. One of the most powerful Deep Things out there, tied with Horned Head, and deeply fixiated [[ArchEnemy on her neighbors, the Boggs Family.]] [[ADayInTheLimelight One of the focuses of Build Mama A Coffin.]]

* ArchEnemy: To the Boggs family, reserving particular reverence for Glory Ann, as neither has been able to make a move against the other for years.
* BigBad: Of Build Mama A Coffin, the Patreon exclusive epic. Her sinister machinations for the Boggses cause Glory Ann to put her plan into motion.
* TheBeastmaster: Of her "family" that lives on her ranch, having long since turned most of them into TheHeartless that act as extensions of her will. Once she starts dropping her FauxAffablyEvil act, she mutates them all into beasts before setting them on Glory Ann. [[spoiler: Glory Ann, being a powerful and experienced [[TheArchmage Witch of the Green,]] is unimpressed, and makes short work of them before returning Granny White to the darkness that spawned her.]]
* BlindSeer: Is rumored as this by the locals. [[EldritchAbomination She's a lot worse than that.]]
* BodyHorror: Has hungry, fang filled mouths in the place of eyes.
* TheChessmaster: Paints herself as a long term schemer, "planting roots in the ground," as opposed to her comrade Horned Head who specializes in more simple [[DealWithTheDevil devilish deal making.]] Her machinations are subtle enough that Glory Ann can't make sense of them in her final days, and has to resort to a charm to bring her spirit back so that she has time to stop Granny White and save her family.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Some folks in town subscribe to rumors that she is a moonshiner or grows hemp. Everyone knows this is false, but still spreads the rumor so they don't have to face the AwfulTruth.
* EvilOldFolks: Definitely. The Narrator makes sure to note that most folk stories about deformed old folks as forces of darkness are false, but Granny White is the real deal. [[spoiler: That is an understatement to say the least.]]
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler: Of Build Mama A Coffin, being the final of the Deep Things Glory Ann must confront before securing her family's legacy and passing on.]]
* FisherKing: Seemingly holds sway over the environment on the White Land, [[spoiler: and after her defeat, white flowers sprout all over the property.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of Springtime in Boggs Holler, being the force behind the ever bolder White family presence in the county.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Her undoing is finally brought about by the restless spirits of those she hollowed out to make her "family."
* HorrorHunger: Talks about her hunger constantly during her focus episode, saying she's searching for something that will finally "fill her belly right up." [[spoiler: Eating human flesh is more than enough to qualify her.]] Furthermore, upon finding out that her old [[TermsOfEndangerment friend]], Glory Ann has finally passed away, she talks about her latent knowledge as though it were a giant pie waiting to be gobbled up.
* IAmAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Devours the hearts of her followers periodically.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The end of Build Mama A Coffin seemingly sees her sealed back into the dark that spawned her by Glory Ann. Bonus points for Glory Ann making the defeat especially humiliating by proclaiming her before the Green and Earth as "Loretta White," an EmbarrassingNickname she has for all "old bitches" she comes across.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: As one of the most powerful Things yet seen, she functions as this for Build Mama A Coffin, which had been relatively light on the CosmicHorrorStory aspects until her introduction.
* NoSell: Disarms the ward cast over Glory Ann's heart with a wave of her hand, seeming satisfied with the fact that Mercy Boggs at least tried to kill her.
* WorthyOpponent: Recognizes Glory Ann as this, stating it would be a shame if her knowledge of the Green wastes and goes to the maggots. That said, like with most of these abominations, it manifests in the worst possible way. [[spoiler: Upon their confrontation, she speaks of her as an old rival, taking time to personally address her with her true personality before their confrontation.]]

[[folder: The Sentinel]]
!!The Sentinel/The Broken Bough

A Deep Thing that manifests as a dying, rotting tree, often used by the Ku Klux Klan for lynchings and is thus fed by them. Is described by Granny White as "frustrated that his form cannot move without being noticed."

* BotanicalAbomination: One of the few Deep Things, and strengthened by the racist and senseless killings of the KKK. Can't get any more repulsive than that.
* BigBadEnsemble: With Granny White, Old Copperhead, and J.T. Fields for Build Mama A Coffin. It and Granny White are the most active in the plot, but it's ultimately the second to last of the beings delt with, leaving Granny White as the sole BigBad.
* DirtyCoward: Not as bad as [[ButtMonkey Old Copperhead]], but Glory Ann acknowledges it as still present. It is probably the lowest regarded of the Deep Things outside of the old snake, considering it refuses to hunt for its own food like its contemporaries. It instead relies on the Klan to bring it bodies, not caring who, and will cause those inadvertently serving it to enter into a HatePlague if it feels threatened.
* EldritchAbomination: One of the more notable examples of the Things, as it did not manifest as an animal or human so it simply sits and waits, being [[AllegoricalCharacter offered the blood of poor African Americans senselessly killed by the hateful and insecure.]]
* HateSink: Of a different and more personal flavor than the other Deep Things in that while it is not humanly petty, its way of indulging itself is much more personally repulsive than its fellows.
* HorrorHunger: Hungers for blood and, seeing as it manifests as a tree perfect for hangings in the DeepSouth where a member of the Ku Klux Klan takes up residence, [[TheKlan it gets plenty.]]
** Other haints aren't safe either [[spoiler: seeing as it devours Old Copperhead after the snake is cursed by Glory Ann.]]
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: Is very nearly killed off by Glory Ann after feeding her son's infested corpse back to it, causing the hole that is its true form to seal back in on itself. Glory Ann notes she could kill it off permanently, but her resurrection spell would run out before she could complete it and resigns herself to knowing someday it will grow back.]]

[[folder: Old Copperhead]]
!!Old Copperhead

A deceptive old snake, [[ButtMonkey regarded as pathetic and unimpressive by his peers.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: With Granny White, J.T. Fields and the Sentinel for Build Mama A Coffin. That being said, he doesn't enter the story until the same episode where he's dealt with and his impact on the plot is the smallest and most easily thwarted of the ensemble.
* ButtMonkey: The only one of the Things openly derided by his fellows, who generally treat each other like comrades in arms.
* EatenAlive: [[spoiler: By the Sentinel in Build Mama A Coffin.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Seemingly killed off for real by Glory Ann after being condemned then fed to its fellow haint, the Sentinel.]]
* TheUnfavorite: Of the Deep Things, who are usually treated with some sort or another of reverence.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: A talking snake that preys on the weak and deals in forbidden knowledge would be fitting of a SatanicArchetype or BigBad in any normal southern folklore tale, and probably comes off as such to normal folks. But as a relatively normal snake in a CosmicHorrorStory who is surrounded by MUCH more terrifying peers, he comes across as unimpressive in story to both his peers and the Green.
* SatanicArchetype: Seems to check some of the boxes, making deals, dealing in forbidden knowledge and preying on the weak and foolish. However, his work is... left wanting next to what some of his fellows have achieved.

[[folder: Old Green Eyes]]
A malevolent cloud with shimmering [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin green eyes.]] Said to have a connection to the Locke family, who share its green eyes and long lived nature.

* {{Cumulonemesis}}: A sinister black cloud who acts as a foremost agent of an EldritchAbomination.
* MinorMajorCharacter: As a character who may have a connection to the Locke's ascension in the Inner Dark, it stands to reason that Old Green Eyes is a powerful player in Appalachia. Yet, he's only appeared a couple times and never as the main antagonist.
* MonsterProgenitor: Implied to be this for the Locke family.

[[folder:The Grey Ladies]]
A group of gray skinned women who run the OrphanageOfFear Sarah Avery finds herself at after the Old Number 7 Disaster. Later on [[spoiler: show up collecting artifacts connected to their master]] during the Holiest Days of Bone and Shadow.

* ArcVillain: Collectively they act as this for The Holiest Days of Bone and Shadow, although they're merely acting as TheDragon for [[spoiler:HornedHead]].
* TheDividual: Finish each other's sentences and generally act as one unit while hunting down the artifacts.
* TheDragon: For Elder Henry [[spoiler: AKA Horned Head, the Black Stag.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: One goes through the trouble of getting engaged to one of her victims who have the artifact they seek, before she traps them all at the venue and devours them with her sisters when stealing the artifact was an option the whole time.
* OrphanageOfFear: They run one of these, exposing Sarah Avery to a number of horrors and constantly disappearing children. This and the fact that they let [[spoiler: the freaking Black Stag run around with children in the first place.]]

[[folder: Skint Tom]]
A skinned SerialKiller who wears the hides of those he kills, before committing murders posing as them. Part of the alliance to seal the Dead Queen.

* AssholeVictim: LoveToHate he might be, but the revenant serial killer being [[spoiler: slaughtered by fellow abominations]] isn't really a loss for the world at large. [[spoiler: Even in his DarkAndTroubledPast, he's this. Man snuck around, stole, and lied around his entire county before eventually being caught mid-sex with a Pastor's wife. Say what you will about the Pastor's choice when it came to dealing with the matter, Tom had consequences coming one way or another.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: Started out as a handsome troublemaker who fell in love with a Pastor's wife. One day the Pastor came home, caught them, and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath got his skinning knife out...]] Tom's body was left to rot, where he swore vengeance on the whole town, before [[FromBadToWorse meeting a Thing lurking in the darkness and making with them a deal...]]]]
* DirtyCoward: Only attacks those weaker than him (although to be fair, that's most mortals), immediately cowering before Bartholomew when he realizes he has no escape. [[spoiler: The moment he drops this, it costs him his life.]]
* TheDragon: A chief servant of one of the Deep Things, giving them offerings that can either give him great strength [[spoiler: or bring him back from the brink of nonexistence.]]
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Comments to a fellow horror that his new skin suit has been a real hit with the ladies. Beyond this, he made a bee line to kill a teenager who was planning to have sex in a nearby house.
* EvilIsPetty: While other Things constantly work towards grand goals involving corrupting witches of the Green or freeing their eldritch masters to devour all of creation. Skint Tom? Skins teenagers then kills members of the township wearing their hide so their name is forever tarnished. For laughs.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Not heroic by any means, but he dies defending Marcie Walker from the Dead Queen's legions.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The only kill the Dead Queen gets in during the sealing ceremony, being devoured by a horde of fanged bat creatures.]]
** [[spoiler: Averted as of the Date Night holiday special, in which Skint Tom has returned after years of being nothing but a hateful specter. It's noteworthy that he's actually active as late as the 1990s, much later than any other story in the show thus far.]]
* LaughablyEvil: While he is a horrible and cowardly creature, his demeanor and flirtations with fellow h'aints gives him a comedic edge not seen by many of the much more dangerous Things in the show.
* ReallyGetsAround: In life, when he was just handsome Tom, yes. [[spoiler: Wrecking one home too many got him skinned alive before being left for dead by the riverside.]] He's still this in his life as a haint, too, heavily implied to have slept with fellow monster [[DarkChick Miss Lavinia.]]
* SerialKiller: Mhm. He constantly kills people, takes their skin, then kills people in their towns at random.

[[folder: The Things That Were Not Them]]
A collection of Low Things that manifest as the still burning corpses of Pinky and Edgar Avery, chasing Pinky's daughter Sarah into the woods. A similar creature, called the Thing That Was Not Daddy, appears in season 2 and is confronted by Cowboy Absher.

* HumanoidAbomination: Walking crimes against creation, having sustained injuries that by all rights should have and supposedly did kill them outright. Yet they are kept alive by the unholy powers behind the Old Number 7 Disaster.
* PeoplePuppets: Seem to act as this for the power behind them, although it seems Pinky and Edgar are being kept alive until they get their hands on Sarah.
* WouldHurtAChild: All seen thus far were explicitly trying to hurt and kill children. [[spoiler: The only one that actually succeeds is the one in season 2 against Cowboy Absher, although his curse means that the Low Thing suffers far more for it than Cowboy does.]]

[[folder: The Black Mouthed Dog]]
!!The Black Mouthed Dog[[spoiler:s]]
The eponymous abomination of ''Black Mouthed Dog,'' having menaced the Boggs and Teasley clans decades before the events of ''Build Mama A Coffin.'' [[spoiler: Halfway through the series, it's revealed there are multiple black mouthed dogs, obsessed with consuming the flesh of spirits to throw open the doors of death so that [[GreaterScopeVillain ''something'']] can break through.]]

* AnimalisticAbomination: While it takes the shape of a great, dark hound, it is clearly much worse than that. Glory Ann remembers it as having a mouth more like a void than a gullet, and the things [[spoiler: consume the flesh of spirits, corrupting them for their purposes.]]
* AntagonistTitle: Is the titular black mouthed dog.
* BigBad: Of ''Black Mouthed Dog,'' being the unnatural creature attempting to bring death to the entire holler.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Or rather, contrasting ''prequel'' antagonist. Unlike the BigBadEnsemble of BMAC, it's neither personally interested in any of the protagonists nor in explaining its goals. It doesn't have any voice of its own, or any means or interest in communicating with the protagonists.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Compared to the likes of [[TheChessmaster Horned Head]] or [[FauxAffablyEvil Granny White,]] it thus far has no personality to speak of, instead being closer to an overly malicious animal than a mastermind of some sort.
* TheHeavy: Drives forward the events of the story, [[spoiler: much more than the apparent master its trying to free.]]
* {{Hellhound}}: Is a CosmicHorrorStory flavored take on this trope, as a horrifying demonic entity taking the shape of an unnaturally large black dog. [[spoiler: More points for actually being multiple entities with the same goal (or being one being with many extensions) and having goals associated with the Gates of Death, giving it heavy Cerberus overtones.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: Is this even compared to the likes of Granny White and Old Copperhead, being a cold NoNonsenseNemesis dedicated to accomplishing its goals no matter the cost. It cannot be talked to or reasoned with like its fellow haints, and is closer to a machine fulfilling its purpose than a character.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: This thing ([[spoiler: and its progeny]]) does ''not'' fuck around when it comes to accomplishing its goals. It's completely silent and goes directly for the weakest prey available to it so it can quickly build its numbers.
* PredecessorVillain: To Granny White, the Broken Bough, and Old Copperhead for the Boggs-Teasley clan. While they may have been around and kicking during that time, this thing was the first real threat to Glory Ann and Waylon's lives, shaping them into the people they would become by the time of ''Build Mama A Coffin.''
* ThereIsAnother: [[spoiler: Halfway through the series, it is revealed that there are multiple, smaller dogs that are cared for by the bigger one. This does not endear them one bit.]] Actually spoiled by the lyrics of the intro song, which almost quote this trope name word for word.

[[/folder]]

!!Barrow and Locke Mining and Railroad

[[folder:The Whole Company]]
!!Barrow and Locke Mining and Railroad Combine

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[[caption-width-right:350:''The oldest company to extract minerals from these mountains...'']]
One of the earliest companies to ever extract minerals from the mountains of Appalachia, and resident EvilInc. Many of the monsters of the show associated with the railroad or exploitation of the poor find themselves working for B&L.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Whenever the higher ups get involved, usually this is the case. The Barrow family has yet to be personally defeated by any of the protagonists t hat have had the misfortune of crossing them. Even those under them know that you are best kept alive if off of the higher ups' radar.
* TheBeautifulElite: Both heirs to the company, Polly Barrow and Nathaniel Locke, are noted to be beautiful. This doesn't stop them from being [[BeautyIsBad horrible, horrible people.]]
* EvilCounterpart: Can be considered this for the Walker Family, as a BadassFamily on the side of the Inner Dark. Furthermore, while the Barrow and Locke families live wealthy and comfortable lives as AristocratsAreEvil and exploit the working class, the Walkers have found their house put in danger and under siege time and time again but always put it on the line to help those in need.
* EvilInc: An exploitative company that is willing to destroy an entire town for threatening to unionize? Check. Run by a family of [[EldritchAbomination eldritch horrors]]? Check. [[EvilIsPetty Makes employees work unpaid overtime?]] Check.
* GreaterScopeVillain: A lesser example than Those Who Sleep Beneath, considering their allegiance to the Inner Dark, but still there. They're behind many of the different monsters that appear on the show, particularly [[TheHeartless the Hollow Men]], and their operations are so vast that they cause [[TheSpook the Railroad Man]] to enter the story. Further still, they're implied to have some connection to the cause of the Old Number 7 Disaster that dominates season 1. However their influence is so vast and wide that the protagonists often only encounter field agents before meeting a [[DownerEnding horrible end.]]
** In a bit more of a direct example, when B&L is the main obstacle of the story, there will be some mention of [[TheGhost the directors of the company]], who are noted to be [[YouHaveFailedMe very unpleasant]] when their agents don't do as they're told.
* KnightOfCerebus: When a member of the Barrow Family shows up, the situation is going to end messily and with as many casualties as possible. "Pretty" Polly Barrow's appearance in the Salt the Earth special ends the episode putting an entire town in danger, in a situation that would cause even more casualties than Old Number 7.
** Another example of this can be seen in the Halloween special episode Bumper Crop, wherein a Barrow is called in to deal with a strain of invasive gourds by the protagonist. [[spoiler: While it's not seen what happens to her, the protagonist's house is completely charred and overrun with pumpkins, leading to a DownerEnding.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: E.P. Barrow]]
!!Elias Pontius Barrow

Elias Pontius Barrow is the head of Barrow Mineral Resources, and a ruthless tyrant over both his family and company. He extracts money from the mountains and worships the Dark fervently so that his family may find greater fortunes.
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* AbusiveParents: Almost certainly guaranteed, given his kids grew into monsters themselves.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: By the time of Season 3 it’s unclear how much of a human he is anymore, considering what we hear every time he [[HellIsThatNoise “speaks”]]
* AmbiguousSituation: Is he a Deep Thing? Or just a man that is ''very'' devoted to the Thing he serves? On one hand, he's the only potential Deep Thing that's been shown to actually be capable of breeding, usually only associated with those who serve the Dark and not those actually of it. That being said, he seems to have way too much power for a Middle or Low Thing, actually being powerful enough to be a rival to Horned Head as the most powerful Thing on the show. And then there's the fact that he actually commands Ignatius Combs, supposedly one of the most powerful of the Deep Things...
* BigBad: Of Barrow Mineral Resources, being the head of the ruling family. [[spoiler: Is also a contender for the title of the show as a whole, being behind all the pain and suffering that Barrow and Locke has caused thus far.]]
* EvilOldFolks: Grew into quite an old bastard by the time of his death, and worship of the Inner Dark puts him firmly in this category.
* HumanoidAbomination: Oh, yes. He may appear human, but aside from the fact that he currently resides in a coffin barking orders in a BrownNote language, he's noted to have many more progeny aside from his acknowledged sons and daughter, [[spoiler: with them not being human enough to exist in the world of men.]]
* {{Narcissist}}: Is definitely this, given he viewed everyone as beneath him and expected them to act as such. Even his favored daughter, Polly, is described more as an achievement than someone he's actually proud of.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Resides in his manor in Barrow while his spawn handle the running of the company.
* OverarchingVillain: Competes with Horned Head for the title, being behind the most personal and repulsive sufferings in the show.
* SealedEvilInACan: Sort of. He currently resides in a black coffin suspended in midair by chains within a massive hole he created in the heart of his manor. It should be noted this was all his choice as part of some ritual to gain power at the cost of his remaining humanity.
* TrulySingleParent: [[spoiler: Not that he didn't create any kids with anyone else, unfortunately, but Polly in particular is a creation of his and his alone.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Polly Barrow]]
!!"Pretty" Polly Barrow

Heir apparent to the Barrow fortune and their mineral company. Beautiful, but deadly.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Set to be one of the main focuses of Season 3, "As Above, So Below."
* BigBadDuumvirate: Seems to be poised to form this with Nathaniel Locke for B&L, being the two heirs apparent to the company. That is, unless their forefathers stay in the picture.
* DaddysGirl: Very much, being the sole human presenting daughter of E.P., although seeing as her father is [[TrulySingleParent her only parent,]] she didn't have much choice. He still blatantly dotes on and favors her in his own horrible ways, giving her cruises and new cars at some points and imparting eldritch knowledge on her at others.
* TheDragon: To her father, E.P. Barrow.
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler: After her father's death, she's set to be the heir to his company. However, this is a deliberate case of ExactWords, as while E.P. is sealed in a coffin, he's still very clearly in charge, making this an averted trope.]]
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: A member of TheBeautifulElite to be sure, but it doesn't stop her from damning an entire town to the mercy of a breaking, toxic dam.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Acts kind and gentile enough, but it quickly becomes apparent that it's just an act, and all she cares about is approval and reward from her father.
* HumanoidAbomination: Her arm is described as stretching and contorting, striking a dam with enough power to leave it on the verge of breaking. [[CruelMercy Giving her employee just enough time to try and save his family before it breaks.]]
* MindRape: Suffers this from her father, since she was born so close to human that any knowledge he imparts is going to hurt, a lot. [[spoiler: Although this was specifically so she would be able to control the Weapon to combat rising unions.]]
* SpoiledBrat: Fundamentally this, behind the more eldritch aspects of her creation and life. She does all the awful things she does out of hope for rewards from her father. Not of eldritch knowledge or power, but of things like a new car, or a cruise.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Invokes this on an entire town. Why? [[EvilIsPetty Attempting to unionize.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Nathaniel Locke III]]
Heir apparent to the Locke fortune and their half of B&L. Appears as a respectable young and handsome man, but as is often with this show, [[HumanoidAbomination he's anything but.]]
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Seems to be poised to form this with Polly Barrow for B&L, being the two heirs apparent to the company. That is, unless their forefathers stay in the picture.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Oh, yes. What his fiance hears when she reads his mind is foul enough that she is driven to murder almost immediately after, but what she sees as she seemingly ends his life is a pleading, pretty as ever face. Tommy Fields later notes the same thing, saying he seems normal enough but feeling deep down that he's not human.
* MaritalRapeLicense: If what his fiance found from looking into his mind was any indication, he was going to get his child whether she wanted it or not.
* PrettyBoy: Is noted to be this. [[spoiler: Which makes the foulness dwelling in his mind all the more striking.]]
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Is killed by his fiance in a blind panic after she reads his horrible mind. Or, rather, it seems that way. [[spoiler: The Grey Lady that blackmails her after notes that his family is far too protected to be killed by such simple means.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ignatius Combs/The Swarm]]
!!Ignatious Combs/The Swarm/The First Deep Thing

The first of the Deep Things to escape imprisonment, once [[HowTheMightyHaveFallen infinitely more powerful]], but now simply works as a representative of B&L, calling upon Carol Anne Avery after her husband's death. [[FromBadtoWorse But he is not to be taken lightly...]]
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* AlmightyJanitor: Seems to be this in the present, having been the eldest of the Deep Things and one of the, if not THE, most powerful once, but now acts as naught but an errand boy for B&L. [[spoiler: Not that any of this saves Carol Anne.]]
* ArcVillain: Can be considered this for the Barlo, Kentucky portion of the story that deals with the Avery family, considering he purchases the land out from under them after Pinky's death and is responsible for both [[spoiler: Carol Anne's death]] and the Hounds that pursue Sarah Avery for the first two episodes.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Was the first among the Deep Things and formerly much more powerful, where it's doubtful even Horned Head could have held a candle to him. Now he works as a representative for B&L. While their relationship is unclear, no one as high ranking as the Barrow family would be sent to [[spoiler: simply kill two members of the Walker clan.]] Furthermore, while fellow Deep Thing Horned Head was able to survive a defeat for over a century, slowly returning to power, we never see the Swarm do much of anything but [[spoiler: kill Carol Anne and sick his Hounds on her young daughter,]] and the former act completely puts him out of commission.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler: He doesn't accomplish a lot before Carol Anne's magic mulches him and his bugs, but his attack on the Avery house causes Sarah to open herself to the Green, not to mention setting the stage for the Walker Sisters to enter the story proper.]]
* TheSwarm: His title, and it's heavily implied that he's a literal case as his skin is described as constantly writhing, with millions of insects beneath. However, we don't see him make much use of this before the bugs making him up are turned to mulch.
* StarterVillain: From an episode standpoint, shares this with his Hounds. He is the highest ranking Deep Thing we see in the Barlo, Kentucky portion of the story, but is killed off before he can do more than [[spoiler: kill Carol Anne]], and seems too weak to have survived the aftershocks.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: We don't see him do too much besides killing Carol Anne before her Green magic seemingly annihilates him.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hollowed Men]]
Men who work for B&L, acting as field agents when someone needs to be silenced or their assets need to be protected.
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* BodyguardingABadass: They act as personal bodyguards for the Barrow family, who prove time and time again they [[HumanoidAbomination are plenty dangerous on their own.]]
* EliteMooks: Act as this for B&L, being more effective and having more agency than, say, [[SlaveMooks the Hounds]]. However, they're still weak enough to be destroyed by a Green witch's ward [[spoiler: as seen during the assault on Pleasant Evenings.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: When Vera starts offering the ArtifactOfDoom to one of them at Pleasant Evenings, the Hollowed Man is horrified and promises a death from him would be more merciful.]] It doesn't end up helping her, though.
* TheHeartless: Described as having their human selves scooped out of them by the power that reforged them into what they are now.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: The two Hollowed Men sent after Vera Blevins are approached by a certain Man from the Railroad, who asks them to really look into his soul if they doubt his intentions. What they see completely cows them into submission to the Railroad Man's goals.
** The ones that work for Polly Barrow, previously domineering and smug, are seen as pitiful and afraid in her presence. [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant They have good reason for this.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: They all seem on the surface like regular, if B&L higher up, men. This changes the moment they're sent on the chase.
* {{Jerkass}}: Every.Single.One of them. It doesn't matter how pleasant they try to be, they will always cave into their primal urges as little more than wrathful beasts.
* OneWingedAngel: They can stretch and distort into more monstrous forms, although this happens more often when they're far away from their masters at B&L and they lose control over themselves, causing this to overlap with ClippedWingAngel.
[[/folder]]


!Outside Forces/Free Agents
[[folder: As A Whole]]
Supernatural forces existing outside of the Green or the Inner Dark. It is not known if they're older than either or simply came into being along the way.
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* OutsideContextProblem: Very much so, although most seem to be less proactive than the Inner Dark and thus less troubling. Essentially, they seem to be the FairFolk or some sort of AnthropomorphicPersonification of human nature more than an EldritchAbomination like the Inner Dark, or GaiasVengeance like the Green.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Railroad Man]]
->'''Voiced By:''' [[{{UsefulNotes/YuriLowenthal}} Yuri Lowenthal]]
The most malevolent of the Free Agents seen thus far. Manifests as a man with a salt and pepper beard and charcoal grey suit. Seems to be the personification of man's progress, with all the bloodshed and sacrifice that comes with it.
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* ArcVillain: Of the Walker Sisters arc in season 2, coming to their home to pursue Vera Blevins on behalf of the Hollowed Men and laying siege to Pleasant Evenings.
* TheBeastmaster: Becomes this in the climax of his arc, [[spoiler: using a card he handed out to the poor of the town under the promise of a work opportunity and turning them all into some variant of Humanoid Abomination,]] so he can use their bloodshed to enter the Walker Property.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Teams up with the Hollowed Men to pursue Vera Blevins during the Walker Sisters arc in season 2, although he's clearly the dominant member between the three of them, and far more dangerous.
* CatchPhrase: "Ever onward, ever forward."
* DealWiththeDevil: Seems to operate on this, saving a magistrate's life with the condition that he will owe him later, only to [[spoiler: rip his throat out when he notices the magistrate can't stomach the carnage he brings.]]
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Does this to the Hollowed Men, one of only two characters to do so. This is no small feet, considering the only other creature capable of doing so is the Dead Queen, whose rising causes an EnemyMine situation between the Green and Dark.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He engages in some rather nasty SlutShaming over the Walker sisters' and mother's history as prostitutes.
* PyrrhicVillainy: Pleasant Evenings is mostly destroyed and the surrounding town devastated. The Railroad Man retrieves the pocket watch he set out for, but he is badly wounded, perhaps even crippled by the Walkers and banished from their place of power with a horrific scream of pain and ra
* RailroadBaron: Is this trope taken to the extreme, being a personification of the worst aspects of the railroad and the progress it seeks. He applauds the local magistrate's handling of men who died while building a tunnel, stating with no small satisfaction [[NightmareFetishist how many men will be dead by the operation's end.]]
* SlashedThroat: His throat is slit by Ellie Walker to sever him from Pleasant Evenings and banish him.
* TheSpook: Pops out of nowhere with no indication as to where he came from or what he truly wants. All that we really find out is that he likes making deals, and wants the [[ArtifactOfDoom fancy watch that Vera Blevins stole from a monster of the Inner Dark]].
* SurroundedByIdiots: He has a very low opinion of the Hollowed Men and the other haints he brings with him, particularly when Mr. White cannot understand a simple metaphor.
* VerbalTic: Occasionally engages in one of these, mmmyesssssss?
* WickedCultured: He's knowledgable, intelligent and extremely eloquent while exuding an aura of pure, cruel menace.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When judge Jerry Brotherton is no further use, he rips out the man's throat as a blood sacrifice.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Dead Queen]]
!!The Dead Queen/The Other Queen/[[spoiler:The Daughter Dooley]]

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[[EvilCounterpart The other queen in Appalachia]], and much more villainous than her older counterpart. Legend says she was a girl impregnated at a young age before being murdered, and can be seen wandering with her child between the world of life and death. She comes upon a young Caleb Gibson, and bestows a [[KissOfDeath small kiss]] on the young boy, setting in motion the events of season 2...
[[spoiler: And there is much more to her than meets the eye. She is dangerous enough to cause an EnemyMine between both h'aints and the Witches of the Green, and is actually a result of a clash between the Green and Inner Dark.]]
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* TheBeastmaster: In the finale of season 2, she summons hordes of beasts to stop those trying to renew the seal, [[spoiler: with one such horde obliterating Skint Tom.]]
* BigBad: Of Season 2. She is the cause of Cowboy's uniquely incurable curse, as well as being the saint worshipped by Good Mother Ministries. She is bad enough to cause cooperation between the [[ArchEnemy forever opposed]] forces of the Dark and the Green, and engages in a face off against a group trying to re-seal her in the season finale.
* TheDreaded: Oh yes. The Narrator states both the Inner Dark and the witches of the Green fear her rising the way Church folk fear the goddamned Rapture. [[spoiler: Sealing her is important enough that Bartholomew himself manifests to make sure a crew capable of doing so is assembled.]]
* FinalBoss: Of Season 2, [[spoiler: or rather, the baby that Daughter Dooley tried to save, seeing as its destructive shadow is the force behind the Dead Queen's horrible behavior.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: A pale woman and her child who are dangerous enough to inspire unity between servants of the UltimateEvil and GaiasVengeance? Check.
* InstantDeathRadius: Those who touch her find themselves little better than a pile of dust. Those who she decides to give a kiss don't get off so easy...
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The Dead Queen is a result of this. [[spoiler: Daughter Dooley fighting for her life to defeat Horned Head in single combat to save the baby he wanted to sacrifice results in the baby's inner shadow clashing with her Green. In turn, they are stuck in symbiosis as the Dead Queen, with the child craving death and destruction while Dooley attempts to restrain it.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about who she REALLY is without getting into extremely spoileriffic territory.
* WhamLine: "So, old friend, how bad was it?" [[spoiler: Said in a distinctive, familiar Irish accent.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Killed Caleb Gibson and his entire family, cursed him with ResurrectiveImmortality and a curse that would summon a beast similar to Bartholomew should his life be put in danger. So, yeah. [[spoiler: Ironically, the Dead Queen was born out of the fact that Daughter Dooley WouldntHurtAChild, trying to cure the sacrificed child of its Inner Dark. The resulting clash between the shadow and the Green created this abomination]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: J.T. Fields/Jack]]
!!Mr. J.T. Fields of Dorchester/Jack

[[TricksterGod A trickster as old as Appalachia itself]] who likes making deals with folks down on their luck, said deals often turning out to have more to them than meets the eye.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Seems to operate on this, being motivated purely in his interactions by if something benefits him or is "profitable."
* BullyingADragon: Some folks he scammed their land out of show up looking to pick a fight with him. He invokes [[DealWithTheDevil an old deal their Papa made with him long ago to get their crops growing again.]] [[OhCrap They promptly go on their merry way.]]
* TheChessmaster: Seems to be in some sort of LongGame against B&L, if not the Inner Dark on the whole.
* CompositeCharacter: A combination of the Jack that jumped over the Candlestick and climbed into the sky and slayed the Giant. Naturally, his chores for Tommy Fields in paying off his debt to him all invoke different parts of both legends.
* DealWithTheDevil: Loves to strike these with folks down on their luck, turning them into pawns that will either perform chores for or be used as spies. [[spoiler: Even spying on one as dangerous as Nathaniel Locke himself.]]
* EvenEvilHasItsStandards: Is a TricksterGod tried and true, possibly even older than the Inner Dark itself but is always on edge and horrified of them, fleeing to the other side of the world when they were sealed and nearly screaming for the first time ever after reading Horned Head's mind. When his agent, Tommy, is forced into working for a member of the Lockes, he grows apprehensive and openly threatens the boy so his deal with the Lockes will be fulfilled, clearly indicating horror and apprehension on his part.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Abhors the Inner Dark, but is stuck in their service for most of Build Mama A Coffin after an encounter with Horned Head hundreds of years ago after mistakenly thinking he was tricking some simple deer.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Is said to be the same Jack who jumped over the candle stick AND the Jack from {{Literature/Jack and the Beanstalk}}.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Was called upon by the [[BigGood the Light that sealed the Old Things]] to be the warden of their prison, but Jack couldn't be bothered with the responsibility and promptly fled to the other side of the world until the mountains of Appalachia were done forming.
* TimeAbyss: Is noted to be as old as Appalachia.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Boy]]
!!The Boy
A Free Agent who manifests as a boy with a man's voice, although the age of the form seems to fluctuate. Acts as a spirit of vengeance for all the little boys killed in the name of progress.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: Is one for child labor and exploitation, acting as punishment that many employers of that time would not receive today.
* CreepyChild: A child with the voice of a man out to punish the sinful.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Actually, yes. He only punishes those cruel enough to exploit children to the point of their deaths. While he may be driven by rage and hate, no innocents actually suffer by his hand. This alone gives him a better track record than pretty much every supernatural character not associated with the Green.
* VengefulGhost: Punishes all those who exploit and hurt children.
* VocalDissonance: Noted when he speaks in the voice of a full grown man.
[[/folder]]

!Normal Folks
[[folder: As A Whole]]
[[AffectionateNickname The Family.]] The normal folk of Appalachia who, on the whole, are just trying to do their best with what they've got. It just so happens that they're smack dab in the middle of a CosmicHorrorStory, and can hardly ever catch a break.
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* DescentIntoAddiction: [[AuthorAvatar The Narrator]] implies that all Appalachians are aware of the AwfulTruth, and deal with the pain of this knowledge with medication.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Usually the case unless they're saved by Witches of the Green. Expected, considering they're normal people who find themselves fighting against [[EldritchAbomination eldritch horrors.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Those whose dying bodies are puppeted by the Things are said to find no peace in death.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: So people know that the establishment is controlled by a GodOfEvil. They know their employers are some variation of HumanoidAbomination even BEFORE they see [[YouHaveFailedMe to those who failed them.]] They know those who control the Appalachian region are evil. So what do they do? Does someone [[RebelLeader lead a fierce resistance against them?]] Do they revolt en masse and get the word out, leading to a BrokenMasquerade? [[ThisLoserIsYou Nope.]] They go to work day after day, collect their paychecks, and hope that if they lick the boots of their masters long enough, then [[HumansAreBastards they'll get promoted]] (although the viewers know this, at best, leads to abominations like the Hollowed Men). They slowly succumb to addiction outside of work, haunted by the things they've done in the name of pay, but they're unwilling to act to change it, lest their livelihoods be put on the line.
** That being said, there are occasional moments where either [[ChildrenAreInnocent a child's sense of justice]] or [[PapaWolf parental]] [[MamaBear instincts]] come in and allow humans to stand up to the Eldritch Horrors before them and try their best to [[HumansAreSpecial make a difference.]]
* ThisLoserIsYou: Generally, when faced with the evils of the Things, the normal folk of Appalachia cave and make a deal, or end up horribly, horribly scarred from the experience.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Cletus Garvin]]
A pastor in Barlow, Kentucky who made a DealWithTheDevil to prolong his own life. In exchange the [[HearingVoices Voices From the Mines]] would get invocation and sacrifice.
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of a SinisterMinister in a CosmicHorrorStory. Yes, he leads a ReligionOfEvil that makes sacrifices to the Old Gods of Appalachia in exchange for extended life. Yes, he bares some responsibility for the Old Number 7 Disaster. Yes, he's implied to be a racist, too. But his deal with the Things came from a place of wanting his family to be taken care of, and the devolution into a CorruptChurch comes from a slow perversion of their Christian values out of necessity moreso than any divine vision.
* DirtyCoward: Deep down implied to be this, being unwilling to die and being willing to sacrifice the lives of the scabs working Old Number 7 to do so.
* PapaWolf: For all his character flaws, he is redeemed by this. Seeing his sons injured and killed by Old Number 7 leads to a furious invocation on his part that ends in failure. It leads to him turning away from the Things, and to his death.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Seemingly. He finally turns away from the Things after they refuse to save his sons. Their response? Brutally kill and possess his entire family, before doing away with him.
* SinisterMinister: Sort of. The narration goes out of its way to show his line of thinking before he makes a deal with the Things, and he tries his best to stay true to his Christian values even as he's [[OfferingsToTheGods sacrificing animals to them.]] However, it's still implied he bares some responsibility for the Old Number 7 Disaster with his corruption of the church.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Things got what they wanted out of Old Number 7, and brutally slaughtered him and his entire family afterwards.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Caleb Gibson/Cowboy Absher]]
A small boy who has an unfortunate encounter with [[WalkingWasteland the Dead Queen]], leading to the loss of his entire family. He is later found by Floyd Absher and taken in, adopting the name Cowboy Absher. After a chance encounter with a h'aint in the woods, he becomes acquainted with the Walker Family.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: The Springtime In Boggs Holler trilogy acts as this, detailing efforts to finally rid him of his curse.
* BotanicalAbomination: Not him, [[spoiler: but his curse is represented as this. Glory Anne has to manually undo the vines constraining him to the Dead Queens tree, and while she can't undo all of them, she hopes that he will one day be strong enough to undo them himself.]]
* CursedWithAwesome: In some aspects. He can see the true nature of Things on the fly, such as the White clan or the Thing That Was Not Daddy, and if they bother to even try to strike him a corruption of the Green manifests and tears them apart. If he's killed, he'll just pop up a couple of hours later no worse for wear. However...
** BlessedWithSuck: Ultimately, his curse is this. He can see the death of everything he turns his eye to, even his loved ones, cannot digest any food, and his corrupted guardian will kill everyone around it that's not him. This all plays into his nature as [[TheBait a trap set by the Dead Queen,]] as any h'aints that are seen through by a young boy will take the opportunity to try to strike and kill him and be obliterated, but if its triggered when there's no h'aints around, it'll [[KillTheOnesYouLove kill anyone else around him.]]
** Subverted after his [[spoiler: visit with Glory Anne Boggs. She is able to undo the constriction on his ability to eat and take away his ability to see the deaths of those around him. It seems like he may still have his ResurrectiveImmortality for the time being, but Glory Anne hopes that someday his strength will grow enough where he can break the bonds on his own.]]
* TheCutie: Everyone who meets Cowboy seems to instantly fall in love with him and want to protect him at all costs. Even Glory Anne Boggs, who is noted to be somewhat cold at that phase in her life and weary of all those who have the stench of the Dark on them, eventually caves in and admits she'd do anything to protect him, saying he's "just a baby."
* NiceGuy: Is this to everyone he meets, being soft spoken and shy but all around sweet. The nastiest he's ever gotten is using his forbidden knowledge powers to tell a relentless bully that his Daddy died a coward. [[BigBrotherInstinct Out of a desire to protect Floyd from the bully.]]
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Is cursed with this by a kiss from the Dead Queen, who wishes to use the corrupted Green within him to cause mass death and destruction.
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Another aspect of his curse. He can see the death of every non-supernatural being he turns his eye to. It also makes him good at digging up a DarkSecret or two on the fly.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His visit with the Dead Queen leads to the Walkers getting involved with her resealing, leading directly to the events of the season 2 finale. Furthermore [[spoiler: Glory Anne Boggs trying to undo his curse leads to her attaining some thorns from the Dead Queen's tree, leading up to the events of Build Mama a Coffin.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Vera Blevins]]
A HookerWithAHeartOfGold, daughter of Melvin Blevins, whose profession leads her into a fateful confrontation with the Inner Dark. This all leads to an [[NoodleIncident incident with a Man From the Railroad and the local magistrate.]]
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* BadassNormal: Manages to escape an AnimalisticAbomination who's very heavily implied to be a [[KnightOfCerebus VIP from B&L]], and evade the Hollowed Men long enough to make it to [[BadassFamily the Walker Sisters and Pleasant Evenings.]]
** However this is deconstructed slightly, in that her normalcy means she lacks proper context for many of the supernatural goings-on in Appalachia. [[spoiler: Meaning she doesn't realize the pocket watch her enemies are after is actually an ArtifactOfDoom.
* BreakTheCutie: And that's an {{Understatement}}. She's reassigned to a secret brothel where the rich clients are allowed to do [[AdultFear anything]] to them, before being sentenced to a session with one. She walks in and sees a VIP (described as a horrible pig man) cuddling with the [[IAmAHumanitarian half eaten remains of her friend.]] After escaping with a [[ArtifactOfDoom pocket watch]] as compensation, she escapes just in the nick of time from the Hollowed Men sent after her, only for them to meet [[KnightOfCerebus the Railroad Man]] and get much more competent as a result. She takes refuge at Pleasant Evenings only for her captors to come calling for her and [[spoiler: massacre the young men of the town by turning them into mindless slaves and using them as a HumanShield to break the Walkers wards.]] She is so thoroughly broken by all these events that she begs for her life before her killer, only for the ArtifactOfDoom to grant her a CruelAndUnusualDeath. One can only hope in the afterlife she found some peace, although given the track record for those who mess with the Things, even this is doubtful.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Is killed by the pocket watch she steals from the VIP, being aged to death in mere moments. The Hollowed Man even says that the pocket watch bestows a death far worse than any he could hope to. What's worse, [[spoiler: it's mere moments before her daddy shows up to save her.]]
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Absolutely. She took up TheOldestProfession to make her own way in Appalachia so she doesn't have to be a burden on her family, but from all accounts seems like a NiceGirl who doesn't want those taking refuge at Pleasant Evenings to die on her account.
* TheLostLenore: A daughter variant to her father, Melvin, even before her death. He had the reassurance of knowing his other daughter was married off to a loving husband, while Vera went into TheOldestProfession. Her death, moments before he arrived to save her, motivates him to help others down on their luck like [[ResurrectiveImmortality Cowboy]] or [[TragicVillain the Wolf Sisters.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: After her encounter with [[IAmAHumanitarian the VIP]], she becomes this, terrified for her life constantly. This is entirely justified, considering the power and influence of B&L. However, the thing that ultimately dooms her is choosing to use the railroad, catching the attention of a certain entity who concerns itself with the goings on of the Railroad.
* TooDumbToLive: Not too dumb, per say. But she was uninformed and naive, touching the pocket watch continuously while trying to beg for her life against a Hollowed Man even once it begins to age her to death. She becomes hysterical in her begging when the Hollowed Man refuses to touch the watch, giving it time to age her into dust.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Frank Tilley]]
An acoholic, abrasive {{Jerkass}} of a man who is found horribly murdered one night, setting suspicions on his poor wife.
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* AssholeVictim: No one's particularly upset by his death, regardless of how horrible it was. Furthermore, the sheriff is implied to give up all investigation into the murder due to the fact that there is a MASSIVE number of people who would want him dead.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Is brutally murdered by [[WalkingWasteland the Dead Queen]] [[spoiler: after his wife prays for his demise with a church of her worshippers.]] His head is found completely detached from his body, or what's left of it. [[AssholeVictim No one really cares.]]
* DomesticAbuse: Gave out a metric crapton of it to his poor small wife, to the point where people at church openly gawked at whatever bruises and injuries she may be sporting that week.

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[[folder: Cora Lee Tilley]]
[[TheWoobie Frank Tilley's wife,]] who finds herself in legal trouble after her husband turns up dead and dismembered.
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The son of Dale Boggs, regarded as [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} a bit odd by all of his family members.]] Unfortunately, this leaves him isolated and lonely, [[OhCrap perfect for suggestions from a certain familiar snake...]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Seemingly killed for real at the end of his arc by Ellie Walker, slitting his throat after cutting him off from his power source.]] Given the timeline jumping of the show, however, it's likely this will not be his final appearance.