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Ewilan's Quest and Ewilan's Worlds Main Characters
Camille Duciel/Ewilan 'Gil Sayan
The protagonist of Quete and Mondes. A 14 year old Camille Duciel has a Traumatic Superpower Awakening when she's almost hit by a truck, transporting her to the land of Gwendavalir. She alone may be the key to saving Gwendavalir from the Ts'Lich threat and saving her parents.
- Abusive Parents: In contrast with the Boulangers, who raised Mathieu in a happy environment, the Duciels always resented having to take Ewilan in after her intended guardians died and abused her.
- Badass in Distress: Ewilan is normally capable of reality warping. Nonetheless, she's caught off guard and kidnapped almost immediately in Les Mondes D'Ewilan.
- Disappeared Dad: Both her real parents are missing, sealed away by Ts'Lich magic.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Camille's golden hair immediately denotes her as a good person.
- Missing Mom: Both her real parents are missing, sealed away by Ts'Lich magic.
- Reality Warper: As part of her extremely powerful Imagination abilities.
- Story-Breaker Power: Ewilan's powers are such that they often have to be stopped in some way to maintain the story's tension, either with the excuse that she's in a location that does not permit her to access Imagination or her mental state or health is so poor that she's prevented from solving everything with it.
- Traumatic Haircut: She has her head shaved when she's captured and experimented on by the PSI Institute.
- The Unchosen One: While Camille was very powerful, she was initially tasked with finding her brother Akiro, who was thought to be more powerful than she would be. When he refuses the call, she goes back and is accepted as the only candidate able to save the Sentinels.
- Weaksauce Weakness: For all her power, she cannot create food or water. This is because if she tried, she'd either have to create food that eventually disappears, meaning its nutrients would also disappear, or create indestructible food, which would be unable to be digested.
Salim Condo
Ewilan's Muggle Best Friend who is accidentally transported with her into Gwendavalir. Given his unstable home life and attachment to Camille, he doesn't mind tagging along for the ride.
- Parental Abandonment: His parents didn't even notice he disappeared when Camille accidentally brought him to Gwendalavir. They similarly don't notice when he disappears a second time.
- Tagalong Kid: At first. Before he took any levels in badass, he was nothing but Camille's Muggle Best Friend.
- Took a Level in Badass: He goes from the Tagalong Kid to a wolf Metamorph and a fully trained Marchombre.
- Voluntary Shapeshifter: In Mondes once he learns to control his ability to wolf Metamorph.
Edwin 'Til Illan
The Ace. Edwin is the most experienced and battle-hardened General Badass in Gwendalavir. He was close friends with the 'Gil Sayans and joins Camille in rescuing her parents.
- Badass Family: His father was a badass in his prime, he's a badass, and his sister is quickly catching up to him. He marries fellow badass Ellana and his son, Destan, is implied to have become a badass at the end of Les Ames Croisees.
- Defrosting Ice King: He starts the series cold and aloof and while he mostly remains that way, he's given moments of warmth towards the party under his icy stoic exterior.
- Fighter, Mage, Thief: The Fighter to Duom's Mage and Ellana's Thief.
- General Badass: He's the General of Gwendalavir's armies.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Edwin comes off as a jerkass at first, attempting to get the party to disband due to his belief that a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits accompanying Ewilan is holding the quest back. It takes Ewilan running away to get him to realize he was wrong and begin defrosting into a nicer man.
- Love Makes You Crazy: After he believes Ellana was killed, he retreats into himself. His internal monologue says that while he'll live long enough to save and raise his kidnapped son, he died with Ellana.
- Perpetual Frowner: Lampshaded by Salim when he wonders if Edwin ever smiles.
- Rank Scales with Asskicking: The General over all of Gwendalavir's forces and the only man at the start of the series to have killed a Ts'Lich without the use of Illustration.
- The Stoic: It takes a lot to ruffle Edwin's feathers.
- Team Dad: He's called the Team Dad by Ewilan and Salim.
Ellana Caldin
The protagonist of the Marchombres series. A Marchombre who takes an interest in Camille and joins the group. She becomes Salim's mentor after he witnesses her using a Dangerous Forbidden Technique.
- Action Mom: As of Ellana: The Prophecy, when she has a child with Edwin.
- Affirmative Action Girl: She's the only woman besides Ewilan in the party for the first two books and has many a feminist line to use against anyone doubting her capabilities.
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Her Marchombre power. While not dangerous to use, she's not meant to show it off to non-Marchombres and even threatens to kill Salim after he witnesses it unless he agrees to become a Marchombre as well. Later averted when her power becomes an open secret among the group, with her simply pretending not to hear if someone brings it up. It helps that the first rule of being a Marchombre involves living "freely", which lends to certain rules being up to the specific Marchombre's interpretation.
- Fighter, Mage, Thief: The Thief to Edwin's Fighter and Duom's Mage.
- The Mentor: To Salim, who becomes her Marchombre apprentice.
- Ninja: Befitting a Marchombre (Shadowalker), Ellana is a more stealthy combatant and wears all black.
- Waif-Fu: Ellana is described as a small, slender woman and fights primarily with knives and martial arts skills.
Bjorn 'Wil Wayard
Initially a Small Name, Big Ego Knight Errant, Camille inadvertently saved Bjorn's life after drawing the attention of a Ts'Lich he was engaged in battle with. He joins the group out of gratitude and a genuine desire to find his purpose in life, growing into a true knight in the process.
- The Big Guy: Him and Maniel are both the big guys of the group.
- Boisterous Bruiser: He's the most likely to joke around and smile, as well as very likely to kick someone's ass.
- Butt-Monkey: He starts off as one. He was in the process of getting his ass kicked by a Ts'Lich in his first appearance, Edwin kicks his ass effortlessly after he doubts the man's character, and he's the butt of many, many jokes. However, as he becomes a greater badass he loses a great deal of his butt monkeyness, though he never stops being comic relief.
- Can't Catch Up: Downplayed. While he never reaches the sheer acclaim Edwin gains, once he realizes it and makes his peace with that he shows he is also an absolute badass in several different encounters.
- General Badass: He ends up succeeding Edwin as the head of Gwendalavir's forces after Edwin retires.
- Idle Rich: The 'Wil Wayard family as a whole are idle rich. Bjorn set out to kill a Ts'Lich looking for a purpose in life.
- Took a Level in Badass: While he was never weak per se, he started out vastly outmatched by Edwin and unprepared to battle the Ts'Lich he sought out. This changes over the course of the series, where he becomes much more competent as a result of gaining actual experience in the field.
Maniel
A quiet knight who joined the quest at Edwin's behest, Maniel is slowly fleshed out into a stoic badass. He pledges himself to serve the 'Gil Sayan family at the end of Quete.
- The Berserker: In Mondes he gains the ability to become one to protect any threat against the 'Gil Sayan family whom he is pledged to.
- The Big Guy: Him and Bjorn are both the big guys of the group.
- Empowered Badass Normal: After pledging to serve the 'Gil Sayan family Maniel becomes an Empowered Badass Normal via Dangerous Forbidden Technique.
- Heroic RRoD: He burns his life force to save Ewilan from the PSI institute, getting captured in her stead. He's left barely alive after his assault on their fortress and enters a coma.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He shows up at the last moment to save Ewilan and the rest of the group from Ahmour, throwing himself into Imagination and taking it with him.
- The Quiet One: Contrasting with Bjorn's Boisterous Bruiser personality, Maniel is a much more quiet soul, who saves dialogue for well thought-through remarks. Him suddenly acting rash and impulsively in Mondes shows how utterly serious Ewilan's state is.
- Those Two Guys: When he's first introduced he was introduced with another knight, Hans, and the two were treated as interchangeable dividuals. After Hans dies in the first book of Quete Maniel was given more personality and Character Development evolving him out of this trope.
Master Duom 'Nil Erg
Camille's mentor in the art of Illustration. He tests and trained several generations of Illustrators before the Ts'Liches imprisoned the Sentinels and blocked off Imagination.
- Fighter, Mage, Thief: The Mage to Edwin's Fighter and Ellana's Thief.
- Grumpy Old Man: Downplayed, but Duom does his fair share of complaining on the road, mostly due to his old bones causing him trouble.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: While Duom is usually a comic relief character due to both his age and lesser Imagination proficiency than Ewilan, he manages to prove his mettle when the party is in true danger.
- Team Dad: A variant. Ewilan and Salim joke that he's the "Team Grandpa".
Chiam Vite
A Fael who becomes indebted to Ellana after challenging her to a mountain descending contest and losing.
- Driven to Suicide: In Fael fashion, after Erlys dies he returns with her body to the Fael forests, vowing he'll kill himself once her body is laid to rest. We never see him again.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Chiam begins as a haughty, racist jerkass, but has his heart in the right place and softens towards the party as time progresses.
- Pride Before a Fall: His first moment in the series has him boasting about his superiority as a Fael over humans. He immediately loses a climbing contest to Ellana and is forced into her service for a year.
Artis Valpierre
A Healer monk who lived on the fringes of society, he is forcibly told to join Camille's group in their quest to save the Sentinels. Artis is a pacifist and somewhat sexist, making him an awkward addition to the party's dynamics.
- Actual Pacifist: He refuses to fight or harm others for any reason, even to save his own life.
- Covert Pervert: Ellana accuses him of being one when he's constantly embarrassed by her lack of shame in wearing fanservicey attire. Artis can only blush in response.
- Healing Hands: He possesses the ability to heal others with nothing more than his hands and prayer.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He gives his life to save to save Mathieu from Yalissan Fiyr.
Mathieu Boulanger/Akiro 'Gil Sayan
Camille's long lost brother. He was thought to be a more powerful Illustrator than her, but in truth can only practice Teleport Spam.
- Jerkass: Zigzagged. He starts as a self-absorbed jerk when we first meet him, but he has a Jerkass Realization and tries to be more humble. However, he still has plenty of jerkass moments after that that he gets called out on, requiring him to be humbled over and over again.
- Love at First Sight: He immediately fell for Siam the second he first met her.
- My God, What Have I Done?: As soon as Ewilan leaves he realizes what a terrible mistake he's made and once she returns, he begs to go with her.
- Non-Action Guy: He's one of the few men in the group who possesses few fighting abilities, making up for it with Teleport Spam.
- Refusal of the Call: He rejects Ewilan's plea for him to return to Gwendalavir, being content with his life as Mathieu.
- Relationship Revolving Door: He and Siam have a tumultuous off-again-on-again relationship. As of Ellana: The Prophecy, they've broken up, seemingly for good.
- Teleport Spam: Unlike his sister Ewilan, his only power is to teleport and he has little perception of the realm of Imagination, even if he uses it as part of his abilities.
Siam 'Til Illan
Edwin's Bratty Half-Pint sister, who joins the party late in the Quete series. She is a prodigy in fighting, but she is impulsive and has an insatiable bloodlust.
- Best Her to Bed Her: Siam is only interested in men who can fight her. While she dates Mathieu for a while, who is a Non-Action Guy, the two break up and she was instantly more attracted to Yalissan Fiyr and Rhous Ingnam. Ellana even muses that Siam and Rhous would be a perfect match if Rhous was a few decades younger.
- Blood Knight: She has an insatiable bloodlust and will to fight.
- Bratty Half-Pint: In comparison to her brother Edwin. While she is a fearsome warrior, Siam is also a teenager and has an insatiable love for battle and no regard for her own safety or plans, making her come across as a bit bratty.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Siam immediately takes a liking to Thul leader Rhous Ingnam. The two are decades apart in age.
- Relationship Revolving Door: She and Mathieu have a tumultuous off-again-on-again relationship. As of Ellana: The Prophecy, they've broken up, seemingly for good.
- Sixth Ranger: She joins late in the Quete series.
- Token Evil Teammate: Downplayed, as she is more of an Anti-Hero than evil, but Siam is the least heroic of the crew and is motivated almost entirely by her bloodlust. In Les Mondes D'Ewilan, she is attracted to Yalissan Fiyr and he nearly convinces her to pull a Heel–Face Turn. Siam only rejects him after he butchers Artis Valpierre in cold blood.
Illian
A child adopted by Ewilan in Mondes from the same government facility Ewilan was imprisoned in.
- The Antichrist: He's the Cult of Ahmour's chosen one, meant to tear a hole in reality and summon Ahmour into the world.
- Bad Powers, Good People: He has the ability to force people to obey his verbal commands, but is otherwise a straight example of Children Are Innocent.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: The Cult of Ahmour brainwashed him long ago. The closer he gets to their members the more his natural personality is suppressed.
- Power Incontinence: Due to his massive power and lack of training, he sometimes commands people involuntarily, such as when he accidentally prevents Ewilan from moving or breathing when he wants her to let him hug her.
- Precocious Crush: He makes no secret of wanting to marry Ewilan some day. She just laughs along.
- Weaksauce Weakness: His power relies on being able to speak a command. The moment he's gagged he becomes harmless.
Ewilan's Quest and Ewilan's Worlds Other Characters
Elea 'Ril Morienval
The main antagonist of both Quete and Mondes. Elea was a former Sentinel who betrayed her duty to watch over the Ts'Liches and made a pact with them to destroy Elicia and Altan 'Gil Sayan. However, she was betrayed by the Ts'Liches and sealed in stone, requiring her to call to Camille for help.
She returns in Mondes and kidnaps and experiments on Ewilan, causing the events of that book to unfold.
- Arch-Enemy: She is Ewilan's most personal enemy and the Big Bad both.
- Broken Bird: She's revealed to be one in Mondes. Elea was an ambitious, albeit normal person until Altan emotionally manipulated her, abandoned her, and allowed her baby to die. After that she became completely disillusioned with humanity and wanted to see the world destroyed in any way possible.
- Disney Death: She dies by being forced to fall into a portal to Imagination.
- Love Makes You Evil: Or rather, being abandoned after her affair with Altan did.
- Mad Scientist: In Mondes. She kidnaps Ewilan, Illian, and several other children with psychic abilities and experiments on them for unknown purposes.
- Woman Scorned: She lost her sanity completely after Altan abandoned her and her child, and she miscarried her daughter. She loathes Ewilan specifically because she sees her as the reason her own child is dead.
- Xanatos Speed Chess: She always has a new plan, no matter how the heroes manage to beat her or how little time she's given to act on it.
Erlys
Chiam Vite's fiancee and honorary Cool Big Sis to Ewilan.
Merwyn 'Ril Avalon
The legendary Merlin himself, who rallied humanity against the initial Ts'Lich threat and started the war for liberty against them. Merwyn was so overwhelmingly skilled in the art of Illustration he forced the Ts'Liches to do the unthinkable to stop him; Illustrate a living being.
- Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: Played With in that he's created the plane in a desperate attempt to one day bring back his wife and soulmate Vivyan.
- Beyond the Impossible: His hope is that if he breaks enough of Imagination's laws by creating Avalon, he'll one day be able to recreate Vivyan, something that should be impossible in-universe.
- Big Good: During the first war with the Ts'Liches he served as humanity's greatest and most powerful hope against them. He also intervenes in Ewilan's duel to save her life.
- Love Makes You Crazy: Merwyn has sealed himself away and flat out made himself immortal in his unending quest to find a way to recreate Vivyan, ignoring all other responsibilities and dangers as not being his problem anymore.
- Reality Warper: As an Illustrator, he is one, but he goes even beyond the rest of the Illustrators by creating Avalon, an entire Pocket Dimension.
Vivyan 'Ril Avalon
Merwyn's Lost Lenore, a being created to be the most beautiful woman in existence to Honey Trap Merwyn. Merwyn was aware of the danger, but unable to stop himself falling in love with her. He broke the Ts'Liches' hold on her, but she was doomed to disappear as an impermanent Illustration. Merwyn seeks to recreate her through the creation of Avalon, which he theorizes will one day force her to return.
- Adaptational Heroism: She's based on the real-life myth of Vivian, who learned from Merlin only to steal his magic and seal him inside a giant tree.note The Vivyan of Gwendalavir was saved from having to harm Merwyn and genuinely loved him before she died.
- Artificial Human: The only example of one in the series as creating another living being is deemed to be Beyond the Impossible, though Merwyn is trying his hardest.
- Honey Trap: She was created to be one, but she was freed from Ts'Lich control and became Merwyn's wife instead.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: She simply disappeared one day, leading to Merwyn's present state.
The Shadowalkers' Pact
Jilano
Ellana's Marchombre master and close friend.
Destan UNMARKED SPOILERS
Ellana and Edwin's child. Destan is the "child of prophecy", said to decide the fate of the battle between Order and Chaos.
- The Chosen One: Of the Chaos Mercenaries. Subverted when it turns out that kidnapping him sealed their doom.
- Distressed Dude: His kidnapping sets off the plot of Ellana: The Prophecy.
- Hostage MacGuffin: Him being kidnapped kicks off the plot of Ellana: The Prophecy, bringing a myriad of factions together to bring him back. He otherwise can't contribute much to the plot, given that he's a baby.
The Other
Nathan
Shae
Bartélémy
Elio
Eryn
A mysterious girl who appears to Elio in the Builders' Sanctuary.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: As a very young child, she doesn't understand what's going on in the world around her and simply takes things at face value.
- Reality Warper: Like her mother Ewilan, Eryn is a powerful Illustrator who can bend reality at will.
- Wrong Context Magic: Elio believes she's a fairy due to her possessing abilities he cannot comprehend. She's an Illustrator, but Illustration as an ability has been lost to the other Families.
Jalaab
The "Strength" of The Other. Jalaab is a being that seeks to destroy any enemies of The Other by brute force.
- The Brute: His only skill is being inhumanly strong. He lacks any of the manipulative qualities of his "siblings" and simply seeks to destroy.
Onju
The "Heart" of The Other, otherwise known as the Master of Storms. Onju is a being that manipulates the hearts of humans, using their fears and insecurities to gradually take control of them.
- Arc Villain: Of The Master of Storms, after which he is defeated for good.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Unlike the other pieces of The Other, which are blatant about who and what they are, Onju pretends to be a kind, sympathetic figure while luring humans to being possessed by him.
- The Corruption: Onju can share his power with others, but said power sways them more and more under his influence, allowing him to demonically possess them once the corruption fully takes hold.
- Deal with the Devil: How Onju's abilities work. He will empower a person, but the more they use these powers, the more influence Onju develops over them. At their final stage Onju can possess a person completely.
- Demonic Possession: Once a person lets Onju too far into their hearts, he can take possession of them.
- Gods Need Prayer Badly: Unlike his brothers, Onju requires discord within the people he shares his power with to exist. Once they all mend fences and refuse to let him in, he dies.
- Good Powers, Bad People: His main power is to grant abilities to others. However, Onju himself is a manipulative figure who corrupts people the more they use said powers.
- Manipulative Bastard: He lures people in with a Wounded Gazelle Gambit then attempts to corrupt their hearts to twist them into his pawns.
- More than Mind Control: Unlike Eqkter, who can simply brainwash others with his voice, a person has to invite Onju into their heart, requiring him to manipulate them first.
- Must Be Invited: Onju only has power over people who invite him in in one way or another.
- Super-Empowering: He possesses the ability to give others his powers, but using them makes them more and more vulnerable to his influence.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Unlike his brothers, Onju is defeated by mending fences and refusing him access to one's heart. When he has no influence over the hears of others, he melts away.
- Weather Manipulation: As the Master of Storms, Onju has the power to cause both literal storms through weather manipulation and to cause storms in the hearts of humans.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: He pretends to be blind to gain Nathan and Shae's sympathy and first begin corrupting them.
Eqkter
The "Soul" of The Other and the most powerful piece of it. Eqkter possesses the ability to corrupt the souls of humans simply by speaking to them.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: What happens to Eqkter's victims.
- Compelling Voice: Merely hearing Eqkter speak can give him control over a person's soul.
- Man of Wealth and Taste: Eqkter poses as a politician and lives the lavish lifestyle associated with it.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Eqkter is immune to conventional weapons, and even the Families' powers are mostly ineffective against him. Elio has to lure him into a field of completely indestructible Matter-Eating Grass to finally destroy him.
- Orcus on His Throne: Unlike his brothers, who directly target the protagonists, Eqkter is content to send others to do his dirty work.
- Scaled Up: Eqkter turns into a monstrous entity when he decides to finally dispose of Elio himself. He's finally defeated in this form.
Crossed Souls
Nawel Helianthas
- Defector from Decadence: She becomes one after choosing to become part of the Armor class rather than the Mage class she was being groomed for.
- Heel Realization: Nawel realizes what kind of horrible person she's been after the Cinder she ordered whipped for disrespecting her dies of her injuries.
- Jerkass: At first Nawel is supremely arrogant and classist. This begins to change after she inadvertently puts a Cinder to death for having gotten in her way.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Hearing the Cinder she ordered whipped dying of her wounds shakes Nawel to her core.
Ergail
The Crown Prince of AnkNor.- Small Role, Big Impact: He stops appearing halfway into the story, but him proposing to Nawel instead of Philia sets Nawel on the course of becoming an Armor.
Philia
Nawel and Ergail's Childhood Friend.Anthor Pern
Louha
- Dirty Old Woman: Louha is very appreciative of others' bodies and is one of the oldest Armors left.
- Really Gets Around: Louha has apparently had sex with a vast variety of people, including her fellow Armors. It's notable in that she's currently an scarred, battle rugged old woman yet still has plenty of admirers.
