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Since the Azure Rain series has so many characters, don’t be surprised if they aren’t all listed. The Main Four is Exactly What It Says on the Tin and Supporting Characters consist of recurring characters who aren’t the main four (Keida, Naesa, etc.).

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     Main Four 

Baltan

“Absolutely not.”

A former investigator of murders. Baltan generally tends to be irritable, hates change, and wants to lead as simple a life as possible, having gotten his fill of adventure years ago. Or so he tells himself. As a child prodigy and more or less genius, Baltan is the ‘brains’ of the group.


  • Character Development: He starts out being very self-centered and thinking only in terms of how others’ decisions inconvenience him. He has a strong tendency to put his ideas above those of others. He softens a little bit over time but he still keeps up his Jerk with a Heart of Gold routine and is more skeptical and cynical than Eureka.
  • Epiphany Therapy: Eureka breaks him out of his Heroic BSoD by telling him that he will never consider Baltan useless
  • Eyepatch of Power: Averted. Not only is the eyepatch not related to his combat ability, but his other eye is also blind and he is therefore no longer the great marksman he was. He just wears the eyepatch because he thinks that it probably looks cool and that his fake eye, which doesn’t move, probably looks creepy.
  • Flat-Earth Atheist: He doesn’t believe in Kreor or any other religion, even though he is well aware that the Azures are probably something slightly supernatural
  • The Gunslinger: Baltan is usually pretty practical with his use of guns and tends to try to conserve ammo, but every now and then he does throw in a trick shot or something equally cool for the fun of it.
  • The Skeptic: When he discovers that Selkess is trying to resurrect a god, he doesn’t think it’s possible to do so, but knows that that won’t stop him from trying.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: As part of his character development, he gradually comes to understand others’ feelings and needs better and even occasionally put them ahead of his own. He doesn’t entirely give up his Jerkass tendencies but he does start to outwardly show a greater level of caring for those around him.

Eureka

“Feels like old times, doesn’t it?”

Baltan’s good-natured and kind ex-investigative partner. Despite his massive size and intimidating appearance, he loves cute things and animals and is generally seen as a benevolent caretaker. He’s also an excellent cook and usually gives very good advice, though he generally doesn’t take the lead position himself. His size and strength lead him to being more the ‘brawn’ of the group, though ‘heart’ definitely wouldn’t be unfitting.


  • Beware the Nice Ones: Roughly eight feet tall, well over three hundred pounds of muscle plus super strength, claws, and fangs. Don’t piss him off.
  • Forgot Flanders Could Do That: Due to his generally more peaceful nature and tendency to care for all living things, it’s a bit of a shock when he does show off his strength and ability to kill pretty much anything
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a lot of scars due to his previous line of work, but the most notable goes from above his right eyebrow to the left side of his chin. He got it from his father when he was banished from Kwoltan Gera
  • The Heart: Though Azzie also has some tendencies of The Heart, Eureka is mainly the one keeping the rest of the group together. When he is out of commission for a few days after being shot, Baltan and Azzie both get depressed and the former barely eats anything. If he had been any less okay than he ended up being it could have been a Despair Event Horizon for both of them which is saying a lot given that nearly every character in Azure Rain has a Dark and Troubled Past
  • Lightning Bruiser: At first you’d think that Kwoltan Gera Azures would be slow since they’re so big. Nope.
  • Mistaken for Gay: His love of cooking, cute things, small animals lead some characters to think he’s gay. It’s actually his much more masculine twin who is gay.

Azurite/Azzie

“Missed you.”

A young boy taken in by Eureka and Baltan early in Azure Rain. Though shy and withdrawn at first he quickly takes to his new surroundings and generally helps to keep the mood light in tense situations. He’s small but not a pushover and will defend the people he cares about no matter what.


  • Break the Cutie: Averted; thus far all attempts to do so—and there have been many—have failed.
  • Cat Boy: He has white cat ears and displays some cat-like behavior, like darting after sudden movement or flashy objects. These seem to be things he does voluntarily, not reflexes.
  • Genki Boy: Despite the amount of horrible things that have happened to him for the majority of his life, he still manages to be rather upbeat and cheery.
  • Mommy Issues: Subverted. His adopted mother who raised him to believe she was his birth mother was incredibly abusive but he doesn’t brood on this for too long.
  • My Instincts Are Showing: Azzie does this more frequently than the other characters due to being younger and thus having less self-control. It does seem intentional at least most of the time though.
    • More specifically, he likes to pounce on Lleuwellyn’s tail whenever he twitches it, among other cat-like behaviors and responses to sudden movements and lights

Lleuwellyn

“I’ll see what I can do but I’m not promising anything.”

The former medic of Illdresil Gera, he’s rather quiet and aloof but does obviously care about those around him. His place in the family is more or less being the Cool Big Brother to Azzie (despite is otherwise antisocial behavior he is NOT an Aloof Big Brother) and giving Baltan a hard time.


  • Character Development: Starts off as cynical, semi-suicidal, and completely engrossed in his past since his village has never let him forget it or move on from it. He gets a lot better even just by the end of Azure Rain, now having a caring family and something to live for. He beomes slightly more playful and less cynical over time even though he still has a lot to work on to get over his past traumas.
  • Combat Medic: As with all members of Illdresil Gera, a kick from him can burst organs. He can also throw knives (though he doesn’t get to do so in Azure Rain) and is not shy of fighting.
  • Defrosting Ice Prince: More to Baltan than anyone else, as Lleuwellyn readily gets along with Eureka and Azzie but has a long-standing hatred of Easterners
  • Doesn't Like Guns: One of his first snide remarks to Baltan is that he thinks guns are cheap, skill-less weapons. His knife throwing, on the other hand…
  • Fantastic Racism: He makes a lot of assumptions about Baltan based on his race right away but seems to get somewhat better by the end of Azure Rain
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has one over his right eye that he’s very self-conscious about due to his tribe’s high standards of beauty. It also marks him as the main sacrifice to Kreor
  • Lightning Bruiser: You’d think the Illdresil Gera Azures willowy, slim frame and speed would mean they aren’t that physically strong. Nope. They ARE the weakest of the Azure races in terms of upper body strength, but their lower body strength is the strongest of the Azure races. A kick from one will make turn the target’s organs to goo if it lands right.
  • Straw Vegetarian: Subverted. Lleuwellyn only doesn’t eat meat because his body is incapable of digesting it. He would love to eat meat if he could.

     Supporting Characters 

Keida-Boitrat

“I have missed you every day, even after all these years.”

Eureka’s identical twin brother, he has spent his entire life in the tribe. He is generally quieter and more introspective than Eureka but can still assert himself and has proven to be a very effective leader when given the chance.


  • Character Focus: Crimson Lightning will most definitely feature a lot more of Keida’s perspective.
  • Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Though he doesn’t devolve quite as far as Hulkspeak when communicating in common language, Keida is a much more inspiring speaker in his native tongue.
  • I Have No Brother: He mostly tries to ignore Beialk’s existence and only very grudgingly interacts with him when he has to. This doesn’t have as drastic an effect on Beialk that it might have if they were closer in age, since Keida was already a warrior when he was born.
  • Nice Guy: Pretty apparent right after his introduction. When he notices that Baltan is upset he tries to talk to him even though he can’t speak common language well.

Shaeda-Ashail (Pond Foot)

Keida’s wife and mother to Naesa. While she normally chooses a more supportive role, she is by no means quiet or weak willed and is hailed as one of the best hunters Kwoltan Gera has to offer.


Naesa

“ I just wanted to prove that I can be as good a warrior as anyone else.”

Keida and Shaeda’s daughter. She’s very blunt and aggressive and comes off as rude, but also has [[Tsundere a sweeter side]]. She is very determined to prove herself as a loyal warrior, most likely because of the delay in her training caused by attending the boarding school in Vinez.


  • Ascended Extra: Becomes much more prominent in Crimson Lightning
  • Beneath the Mask: She presents herself as abrasive, condescending, rude, and ready to jump into battle at a moment’s notice; on the inside she is insecure about living up to her parents’ legacies (her mother as one of the best hunters, her father as one of the most respected warriors) and wants to be seen as a good, loyal warrior.
  • Daddy's Girl: She gets along better with Shaeda, who she is more like, but despite their squabbling she and Keida are quite close and God help you if you hurt her.
  • Handicapped Badass: In Azure Rain her legs are destroyed from the knee down. Crimson Lightning shows that she now has prosthetics but still needs a lot of physical therapy to catch up to the other apprentices
  • Pintsized Powerhouse: She’s smaller than normal but is just as strong as the other apprentices, which is to say, several times stronger than the average adult non-Azure male
  • Slap-Slap-Kiss: With Lleuwellyn, in a way. The first time they interact she makes fun of his fear of water and he basically tells her to go drown. In Crimson Lightning a few of their interactions seem like light hearted teasing/flirting.

Selkess

“It’s adorable how you talk as if you had a choice.”

A serial killer who targets children and the main villain of the book. The other members of the cult refer to him as ‘the messiah’. He loves playing mind games with people and setting them up to walk straight into traps, simply because he has left them no other option.


  • Card-Carrying Villain: It seems that he wasn’t in the past, but in Azure Rain? Oh yes. Complete with conveyor belt into meat grinder. You’ve got to be a special kind of evil to be the messiah of a cult of evil mooks.
    • His motives fall into the Destruction class, since the god he intends to resurrect would bring about the end of the world. It ups him from being a child killer to an Omnicidal Maniac.
  • The Determinator: Even after being thrashed by Eureka, kicked through bulletproof glass, and falling two stories, he still tries to kill Lleuwellyn.
    • And he was kicked by Lleuwellyn. TWICE. Word of God states that a kick from an Illdresil Gera Azure can easily shatter bone and liquefy organs.
  • Sanity Slippage: Has been slipping at a pretty fast rate throughout the entire book, if Eureka and Baltan’s observations of how he’s changed from their first encounter are anything to go by. Also in Lleuwellyn’s flashback dream he seemed a lot more merciful and remorseful about his actions

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