Characters / The Spectral Chronicles

Here are the characters in The Spectral Chronicles.

The Forces of Good

The Champions of the Light

Demetrios

Introduced in Volume I

The main character of the book series. Having lived to be 100 years old, he became a ghost shortly thereafter. It was his founding of Ghost Wrestling that led to the reemergece of the supernatural. He currently lives in Kinardas City as General of the Stone Cutters. As befitting his ancestral princely status (see below), he is very brave and kind, albeit perhaps a bit eager to rush into battle.

• Atlantis: It turns out that Demetrios was the last Prince of Atlantis before the continent's tragic descent into the ocean.
• Back from the Dead: How he became a ghost.
• Battle Couple: With Lily.
• Big Eater: As Marissa puts it, "Thanks a lot. You just ate an entire month's worth of groceries in an hour."
• Cool Sword / Ancestral Weapon: Dragon Claw.
• Happily Married: To Lily.
• The Hero
• Kid Hero: As a ghost, Demetrios gets to be 18 forever, in a manner of speaking.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: He unfortunately lost the memories of his previous life upon becoming a ghost, though his past slowly gets pieced together.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Demetrios panics over the idea of sending his brother Samuel to hell when he was alive. However, he assures him that he fought his way out of hell just as he once did, and can now go to Heaven.
• The Paladin: He used to be one when he was the Prince of Atlantis. In Volume V, the spirits of King Honorius and Queen Rosetis grant him the power to become one again to fight against the Illuminati.
• Power Up Full Color Change: When he becomes a paladin again, his armor changes from red to platinum; his cape changes to fiery red as well.
• Shapeshifting: A brief list of the forms Demetrios has assumed during the story:
  • An African bull elephant
  • A white Arabian stallion
  • A sea serpent
  • A phoenix (no, not that Phoenix)
  • A chimpanzee
  • A crocodile
  • A demonic knight
  • A demonic version of himself
  • Utahraptor and Tyrannosaurus rex
  • And last but not least, a red dragon
• Supernaturally Young Parent: Since he's a ghost and no longer ages.

Moon Shadow

Introduced in Volume I

The horse Demetrios rode when he was a kid, a black mustang stallion. He and Lily were the only ones he would allow on his back. He was reborn as a Pegasus and once again serves as Demetrios's loyal mount.

• Amplified Animal Aptitude: He understands Demetrios very well, and quite a few times neighs in agreement with him.
• Big Damn Heroes: Also serves as Moon Shadow's Moment of Awesome: he swoops in and severely beats up Theodore, the Brotherhood's last surviving guard.
• Cool Horse / Pegasus
• Meaningful Name: He has a black coat except for a white stripe on the center of his face.
• Reincarnation: How he gained his wings and came to Demetrios's aid.

Captain John "Max" Stelling

Introduced in Volume I

• Combat Pragmatist: While Demetrios, Mothman, and Aristotle are melee-oriented, Max provides ranged support with his guns.
• Cool Sword: He takes the sword Gram for himself after Michael is freed from the Illuminati.
• Dragon Rider: He rides on the Stone Cutters' red dragons, named Talon.
• Face Death with Dignity: When Mephistopheles' mutants invade America, he is prepared to do this. Until Demetrios shows up.
• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: The first one in the series.
• The Lancer
• Lightning Gun: Which he named Kara, after the Valkyrie.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy
• The Rival: Max considers Anna to be this. They warm up towards the end, though.

Mothman

Introduced in Volume I

• Defector from Decadence: Though he was never loyal to Mephistopheles to begin with.
• Gentle Giant
• Killed Off for Real
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Mothman was unfairly kidnapped by Mephistopheles to be one of his soldiers, and turns out to be a lot nicer and more honorable than the urban legends would have you think.
• Public Domain Character
• Winged Humanoid

Aristotle

Introduced in Volume I

• Big Damn Heroes: He's the one who breaks Demetrios and Kurt out of Mephistopheles' dungeon.
• Curtains Match the Window: Sort of. While his fur is black, his eyes are dark brown.
• Defector from Decadence
• I Know Karate: Part of his training as a spy.
• Line-of-Sight Name: He takes his name from one of the books Mephistopheles has in his office.
• Shout-Out: Since he's a talking chimpanzee with a Greco-Roman sounding name, he can be considered an homage to Planet of the Apes.
• The Strategist: He tends to be more cautious than the eager Demetrios.
• Talking Animal: Because of Mephistopheles's experiments on him.
• Wham Episode: Melissa kills him.

Lily

Mentioned in Volume I; introduced in Volume II

• Aerith and Bob: Before Demetrios and the rest of his friends started to live on Ahrinor Island, Lily was the only Stone Cutter with a human name.
• Angelic Beauty: She was already quite beautiful when she was mortal; becoming an angel added to it.
• Back from the Dead: How she became an angel.
• Battle Couple: With Demetrios.
• Costume Porn: Her outfits are described in loving detail.
• Doppelgänger Attack: In Volume V, while exploring the ruins of the palace in the Capital City of Atlantis, she finds a spell that allows her to fight her enemies this way. She becomes three separate beings: one for fire, one for earth, and one for water. It allows her to attack and heal more effectively, but she can't cast her Phoenix spell when she's divided up.
  • Differently Dressed Duplicates: The three beings she becomes are dressed to reflect their magical prowess: Fire wears white and red, Earth in earthy colors, and Water in mostly blue.
• The Fashionista
• Good Hurts Evil: Her Exorcism spell even gives Gigantoshamblers pause.
• Happily Married: To Demetrios.
• High-Class Gloves: She has quite a few pairs. She's a princess; it comes with the territory.
• Light 'em Up: Her main specialty of magic.
• The Medic: Thanks to Sastiana, her healing spells are quite superb.
• Magic Staff: She wields a staff during the Third War of the Stone Cutters.
• Panthera Awesome: Her mount is a vampire temple guardian that resembles a tiger.
• Playing with Fire: After awakening her Phoenix spell, she gains access to fire spells in addition to her holy ones, and some of them get combined.
• Princess Protagonist
• Shout-Out: Lily was created with the Disney Princesses in mind. Well except for the anti-demon powers. Although that may not be too far off...
  • In addition, in Volume III, she dresses up similarly to Angewomon and Jean Grey when she was Phoenix.
• Super Mode: She gets one after casting her Phoenix spell in Volume III. Her wings change from white to reddish-gold and her spells get stronger.
• Supernaturally Young Parent: She's an angel and thus doesn't look older than 24.
• There Is Another: Lily was also from Atlantis.

Anne-Marie Magaña

Introduced in Volume I

• Battle Couple: With Lynessa.
• Berserk Button: Anyone who threatens Lynessa or her children will soon feel the full fury of her magic powers.
• Chainmail Bikini: A much different version. Underneath her clothes, she wears a corset made of stainless steel plated with silver. It also has grooves that can glow magically with different colors depending on the magic she's casting or her mood.
• Characterization Marches On: In her introduction in The Sport of Ghost Wrestling, she is not eating any sweet treats. Now she is rarely seen without them.
• Chrome Champion: One of the new spells she gains in A Day of New Life allows her to temporarily turn her body into polished silver metal, increasing her defense and reflecting the power of her enemy's attacks back at them.
• Cool Big Sis: To Ruby.
• Fiery Redhead: Since she has strawberry blonde hair and fire magic is her favorite. Although she is a lot more easy-going than other characters of the trope; must be all that sugar she eats.
• Good Parents: She becomes one to Tharelaer.
• Happily Married: To Lynessa.
• High-Class Gloves: Like Lily, she has many pairs.
• Lipstick Lesbian: For Lynessa.
• Mama Bear: Definitely one in A Day of New Life, as Kurt finds out the hard way.
• Mask of Power: She gains the Mask of Vineta, a sorceress from the ancient days of Atlantis, in Volume V. It greatly increases her magic power and even gives her some new spells, while also concealing her vision as she wears it.
• Ms. Fanservice: She was a fashion model in her mortal life; being fanservice-y was pretty much her career. Especially since, as she described it in Dawn of a New Century, when she had photo shoots with other models, she would either touch or kiss them.
• Mundane Utility: She sometimes uses her fire magic to heat up her food.
• Pegasus: Lynessa gives her one of the Stone Cutters' zebra-striped flying horses, whom she named Agustin.
• Perpetual Smiler: She was used to smiling a lot during her modeling days. All that sugar she likes to eat probably helps too.
• Playing with Fire: While she is good at most types of magic, fire is her favorite.
  • Shock and Awe, An Ice Person, Making a Splash, & Dishing Out Dirt: When her fire spells can't work, her lightning, ice, water, and earth spells certainly make up for it. She also gains arcane magic in A Day of New Life.
• Power Gives You Wings: She gains a pair of wings made of arcane magic when she awakens the unicorn.
• Sweet Tooth: She liked sweet treats since she was a little girl. Much to her chagrin, though, she had to reduce her intake of them during her modeling days to maintain her eye-catching hourglass figure. Now that she's a ghost, she no longer has that limitation. To that end, she carries around all sorts of candy, snack cakes, and other such confections in her large but still fashionable purse.
• Verbal Tic: Since they rode on the Rovos Rail in From Oslo to Kinardas, she and Lynessa have a tendency to speak in a Victorian/Edwardian style, often switching between that style and modern-day.
• Winged Unicorn: Just like Lily's phoenix and Ashur's wolf, she gains the ability to call forth a flying unicorn made of arcane power in A Day of New Life.

Zephorius

Introduced in Volume III

• Gentle Giant: While he is a fearsome fighter in his Allosaurus form, he cares a lot about Anne-Marie. As he says toward the end, “I always cry at weddings.”
• Real Dinosaurs Eat Meat: And a lot of it, thanks to his dinosaur form. Lampshaded by Ashur since adult green iguanas are mostly herbivores in Real Life.

Bob a.k.a. Luke, Sr.

Introduced in Volume I

• Carry a Big Stick: Shandara gave him a mace and shield for his weapon.
• Death Is Cheap: Being a ghost, he was sent to the Astral Realm. The good news is that he will come back one day. The bad news is that it'll take a while.
• Killed Off for Real, but see above.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: He was Demetrios's father.
• The Men in Black: Only partially; he was a sheriff for the most part, and a paranormal investigator on the side.
• Spider-Sense: Coupled with his experience as a policeman, he can track down demonic threats. Though it does come with a drawback; if there's too much supernatural power, it causes him great pain, as seen when he enters Animus and Atrocitas's lairs.

Jack Colmar

Introduced in Volume II

• Badass Normal: He may not be supernatural, but he is still a good fighter.
• Cool Sword: He is given a sword resembling the one George Washington had during the American Revolution, which he is honored to have.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: Despite being killed by Berith, he still has enough strength left to slash him with his sword and shoot him before dying.
• Nail 'Em: His nailgun can shoot fiery nails.

Anna

Introduced in Volume II

• Mind Link Mates: She and Max have become this, as she can sense what's happening to him in Astaroth's tournament.
• Psychic Powers: She's from the Bronze Elephant Clan, which is culturally quite proficient with psychic powers.
• The Rival: She considered Max to be this until they became good friends after World War III.

Michael Hunter

Introduced in Volume II

• The Atoner: Towards the end of Volume V, he seeks to make amends for fighting with the Illuminati by marrying Kayla.
• Battle Couple: With Kayla.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: He is this during his time with the Illuminati.
• Cool Sword: While fighting with the Illuminati, he abandons his signature guns for the legendary sword Gram, which Max considers rather insulting.
• The Cynic: For much of Volume II, Michael was very cynical and sarcastic. The sad part is his aforementioned cynicism and sarcasm wasn't funny like Rattrap nor endearing like Dr. McCoy. He was more like Morrigan, only with a Y chromosome. He warmed up towards the end, though, helped a lot by his four-legged friend Cliff.
• Dark and Troubled Past: The reason for Michael's dour disposition. When his mother was no longer around, his father was so devastated by the loss that he turned to alcohol in an attempt to fill the void. Unfortunately, he fell in too deep, and he started picking fights with Michael in his drunken haze. When Michael turned 17, having had enough, he ran away from home, lied about his age, and joined the Marines.
• Face–Heel Turn: He joins the Illuminati in Volume V after Judith speaks some persuasive words to him. Fortunately, Kayla saves him.
• Happily Married: To Kayla.
• Light Is Not Good: The armor he wears while he's an Illuminati member is pure white in color. He gets confused by it when his brainwashing is cured.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Anne-Marie reminds him to cut down on the swearing when Lily joins the party, which he replies with a dismissive "Yeah, yeah."

Ruby

Introduced in Volume II

• Blindfolded Vision: After Michael's Face–Heel Turn, he asks Anne-Marie to make a blindfold for her to wear in battle so that she doesn't get brainwashed by the Illuminati's false light and made to fight against her big sister.
• Casting a Shadow: Thanks to one of Daniel's booby traps backfiring in his Nightmare Dungeon, she gains the ability to create a shadowy double of herself.
• Highly-Visible Ninja: She was only wearing workout clothes when the adventure begins, so the only ninja stuff she has is her katana and shuriken.
• Katanas Are Just Better: She has two of them as well, and in keeping with her stealthy style of combat, they are completely black.
• Kid Hero: Ruby is the youngest member of the team, being 16 forever.
• Meaningful Name: Her mother Alexis had a lot of good luck with the color red; thus, she wanted her daughter to have the same good luck.
• Spy Catsuit: The Stone Cutters give her one during the Third War. She's a bit confused by it at first, but comes to like it. In Volume V, she puts on an all-black one.

Ashur Younan

Introduced in Volume II

• Battle Couple: With Leah.
• The Beastmaster: He can summon all sorts of creatures to his side in battle. In order of strength, they are: Badger → Wild Boar → up to three Dire Wolves → either a Giant Black Widow Spider or Giant Tarantula → Grizzly Bear → Bengal Tiger → African Elephant.
• Curtains Match the Window: Sort of; he has dark brown hair and hazel eyes.
• Dare to Be Badass: His covert infiltration and especially his attempt to his escape with Leah from the Illuminati.
• Happily Married: To Leah.
• I Will Find You: To his wife Leah.
• Magic Staff
• Mana / Pure Energy: In addition to his summoning magic, he can also cast arcane spells.
• Measuring the Marigolds: In his life, Ashur was a practical man who didn't give much thought to supernatural stuff. Imagine his surprise when he became a ghost.
• Noble Wolf: He summons one in his ultimate spell.
• Power Gives You Wings: When he casts his ultimate spell, he gains the wings of a bald eagle.
• Shock and Awe: He gains a Lightning spell as well.
• Team Dad: He's, in a manner of speaking, the oldest member of the team, and thus tries to be the most responsible.

Darulai

Introduced in Volume III

• Badass Adorable: He spends a lot of the time as a cute white-tailed deer fawn. In times of battle, he can turn into the prehistoric deer Megaloceros.

Amare Toure

Introduced in Volume II

• The Atoner: When he was only a teenager, Amare took up sales in the black market. When he got out after spending nine years in jail, he took up charity work. Now, as a ghost, he hopes to make his mark on the world a more honorable one.
• Dare to Be Badass: Even with the odds against him, he fights with Dorothy to protect Clara.
• Dating Catwoman: He falls in love with the Illuminati warlock Clara Leccese. It seems a bit one-sided at first, but his love for her is ultimately what saves her.
• I Will Find You: He's so infatuated with Clara that he searches the Illuminati base camps to find her. Even though he got attacked in one of them.
• Throw Down the Bomblet: In Volume III, he is given a new weapon, the Razor of the South Wind. Not only is it incredibly sharp, it has a gemstone in its center that contains the power of a thunderstorm. When it is thrown correctly, the gemstone explodes, sending deadly shards everywhere among Amare's enemies. The gemstone can take a half-hour to recharge, however.

Frederick Adler

Introduced in Volume II

• Almost Kiss: He has two with Felicia, before they finally have one at the end of the chapter.
• Battle Couple: He becomes one with Felicia.
• Blue Blood: He was once a Duke from Prussia when it was part of the Holy Roman Empire.
• Canon Immigrant: He first appeared as a prisoner in hell that Demetrios met in the story Prelude to a Legend.
• Curtains Match the Window: He has dirty brown hair and brown eyes.
• Happily Married: To Felicia.
• The Paladin: He assists Lily in casting holy and healing spells, and he's very skilled with a sword.
• Papa Wolf: He becomes one to Michelangelo.
• Sadistic Choice: A cult murdered his entire family in front of him, and then the leader offered to make him a member so that he could use his ducal influence to further spread the cult's power. When Frederick refused, the cultists killed him and sent him to hell.
• The Teutonic Knights: His new armor during the Third War resembles the one they wore.

Arcturus

Introduced in Dawn of a New Century

• Fun Personified: For the party after the Third War, he dresses like Dionysus.
• Girls Have Cooties: In Dawn of a New Century, he has this reaction when Demetrios and Lily kiss.

Rosemary

Introduced in Dawn of a New Century

• Magic Staff: Imitating her mother, she has one.

Dante

Introduced in Dawn of a New Century

• Babies Ever After: Dante is the youngest of Demetrios and Lily's children.
• The Determinator: He never gives up hope of saving Luke.
• Knight in Shining Armor
• Panthera Awesome: He rides a lion he named Hercules.

Michelle

Introduced in Volume III

• Cool Horse: She rides a palomino Hanoverian stallion named Lancelot.
• Cool Mask: She wears one in battle to protect her face, as well as being opposite of Kayla.
• Never Smile at a Crocodile: Her pet Nile crocodile Pharaoh, which she gets in Volume V.
• Panthera Awesome: Her pet tiger Shadow Stalker
• Pimped-Out Dress: The dress she wears for the party at the end. Adding to it, she wears silver makeup on her face in the style of a geisha.
• Shout-Out: Michelle wears red and white armor, the colors being a reference to Twilight. Her facial makeup could also be considered a reference to the vampires' shininess.

Kayla

Introduced in Volume III

• Battle Couple: With Michael.
• BFS: She has a Zweihänder
• Determinator: She'll get Michael out of the Illuminati no matter what.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: The outfit she wears for the party at the end. And also her wedding dress in Volume V.
• Giant Flyer: In keeping with her opposite-ness of Michelle, she rides a gryphon named Daredevil.
• Happily Married: To Michael.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: As she says, as a true warrior, she likes to invite her enemies to look upon the face of their destroyer. Thusly she also mocks Michelle for wearing her mask.
• Proud Warrior Race Girl: Considering she is from the Golden Lion clan.
• The Rival: She and Michelle are this. It might be a bit one-sided, though, as Michelle wants nothing to do with her (at first, anyway).
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: When Michael [[Face Heel Turn joins the Illuminati]], she fights perhaps the hardest of the Champions of the Light to save him.
• Shout-Out: In another case of opposite-ness with Michelle, she wears all-black armor, which is a reference to Underworld (2003).

Kago Cairnsmith

Introduced in Volume III

• Dual Wielding: He has a short sword and a dagger.
• Giant Flyer: He rides a gryphon named Rabova.

Seros

Introduced in Volume III

• Big Brother Instinct: His search to rescue Uridera from the Hands of Armageddon.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: He gives one to Uridera. And it works.
• Panthera Awesome: Firar and Axiha, the jaguars he rides.

Uridera

Introduced in Volume III

• An Ice Person & Casting a Shadow: She uses ice and shadow magic for attack.
• Carry a Big Stick: She gets a mace in Volume IV.
• High-Heel–Face Turn
• Making a Splash: She uses water magic for healing.
• Ms. Fanservice: She dresses a bit revealingly.
• Shout-Out: She’s based on the unique succubus with the same name from the first Diablo. Only with a happier ending. She also wears a rather fanservice-y outfit during her priestess duties like another video game character.
• Silver-Skinned Elf Babe: While the other dark elves have skin ranging from ash grey to obsidian, Uridera has silver skin, an unusual occurrence amongst them, and thusly considered a blessing.
• Sinister Scythe: A non-sinister version.

Xeoiphe

Introduced in Volume III

• Never Smile at a Crocodile: Not just any crocodile; she can turn into Deinosuchus.

Kalegar

Introduced in Volume III

• Badass Bookworm: He becomes determined to protect the new world he is fascinated to learn about.
• Badass Normal: In Volume III, he was a capable fighter despite not having any powers.
• Battle Aura: After becoming a paladin, he gains one that even gives Bruce in his demon form pause.
• Cool Horse
• The Greys: He started as a scout for the grey aliens living on Phobos and Deimos.
• Knight in Shining Armor: His new paladin armor is gleaming white.
• The Paladin: In Volume IV, he becomes the first grey alien paladin thanks to the goddess the White Knight.
• Take Up My Sword: The White Knight gives him a sword as proof of his swearing allegiance to her.

William

Introduced in Volume III

• Heroes Prefer Swords: That is, he prefers to use one during the daytime when he's in his human form. At night he uses his teeth and claws.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: He's one of the uncorrupted werewolves of the White Moon pack.
• You Killed My Father: His determination to bring down the Illuminati.

Luke

Introduced in Volume III

• Battle Couple: With Hannah.
• Forced into Evil: He was forced to become a Dark Stone Cutter no thanks to the curse they used to control him.
• It's All Junk: After using the armor and weapons he was forced to wield as a Dark Stone Cutter against his former masters, he tosses them all into the ocean.
• The Dog Bites Back: After the Champions of the Light save him.
• There Is Another: He is the son Demetrios and Lily had when they were mortal.
  • Canon Immigrant: Demetrios and Lily had him in the end of Prelude to a Legend.

Zerron

Introduced in Volume IV

• Big Friendly Dog: He acts like this when there are no demons around. It helps that he's the great ancestor of dogs.
• Friend to All Living Things: Mostly by way of fighting demons and other threats.
• Noble Wolf: He is the ancestor of dogs, after all.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: He's a ghost wolf as well as a nature spirit.
• Team Pet: During Volume V, he permanently joins the Champions of the Light.

Leah Younan

Introduced in Volume V

• Blue Is Heroic: The armor she gets for the slave rebellion is midnight blue in color, to contrast with the Illuminati's white. She has blue-green eyes as well.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Demetrios and company give her a mameluke sword.
• High-Class Gloves: She wears a pair during the party towards the end. Despite being a ghost, having been a slave of the Illuminati for so long, she's glad to have something soft and silky on her hands for a change.
• Hope Bringer: She serves as this for her fellow slaves.
• Horse of a Different Color: She rides a zorse.
• Rebel Leader: She becomes this during the Stone Cutters' siege of the Illuminati.
• Rebellious Spirit: She was the most willful of the Illuminati's slaves, always stepping in for her fellow slaves when the drivers were going too far.

Jason

Introduced in Volume V

• The Dog Bites Back: It's thanks to his attack that Ercole's ring breaks.
• Gentle Giant: He really is this, especially when he finds a new and free life with the Stone Cutters.
• Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!: During the slave rebellion, he shouts "No more slaves! Just free people!"
• Immortality Inducer: He's immortal thanks to the necklace the Illuminati gave him.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: The Illuminati slave drivers constantly called him "Dorpha," which in the Enochian language means "Almost," which he comes to dread.
• Lightning Bruiser: As befitting a gorilla, he attacks his enemies with both speed and power.
• Meaningful Rename: When Leah sees him upset at his miserable conditions, she gives him the heroic-sounding name Jason.
• Screaming Warrior: He fights the Illuminati like this, often without regard for his own safety.

Clara Leccese

Mentioned in From Oslo to Kinardas; introduced in Volume V

• Black Mage: She's a warlock.
• Blithe Spirit: When meeting with Amare in private, she tries to convince him that the Illuminati is doing good for the world. Amare, however, insists on bringing her to the Stone Cutters to restore her.
• Casting a Shadow: Her specialty of magic.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She becomes this after she gets saved. Beforehand, her having a familiar instead of a demonic minion was a sign that she still had good in her.
• Glory Days: She was a beloved movie star when she was mortal.
• Good Costume Switch: When she comes with for the expedition to Lemuria, she switches from her Illuminati cultist robe to a more elegant and ladylike dress.
• High-Heel–Face Turn
• Love Redeems: Amare's love for her cures her brainwashing from the Illuminati.
• Super Mode: As befitting her being a warlock, she can turn into a demon.
• Technicolor Eyes: Her eyes are teal.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: During Amare and Dorothy's fight, Clara hits Dorothy with a shadow spell and tells her to back off.

Viacylia

Introduced in Volume V

• Cute Kitten: Her peacetime form is an Abyssinian cat.
• Determinator: She'll do whatever it takes to get her friend Clara out of the Illuminati and back to her good self again.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: She actually fights with Clara during the Stone Cutters' siege to help them save her from their brainwashing. A spellcaster and their familiar fighting each other is almost unheard of.
• The Mole: She pretends to be evil so as to keep up appearances.
• Morality Pet: She is this to Clara. As a matter of fact, her first act was to leap into the magic upwelling so that she appeared before Clara instead of the demon she was attempting to summon.
• Panthera Awesome: Her battle form is a Smilodon.

Katie

Introduced in Volume V

• BFS: Her weapon of choice, a saber, is an unusally large one.
• Cool Big Sis: Ironically, when they were mortal, Katie was Ruby's younger sister. Now she's an adult as an angel.
• Family of Choice: When her family took in Ruby after her mother's death.
• The Paladin
• Playing with Fire: Her aura is fiery.
• 11th-Hour Ranger: She joins the Champions of the Light right before the duel with Lucas in Vgear ol Olpirt.

Heather

Introduced in Volume VI

• Action Mom
• Back from the Dead: She has become a ghost.
• 11th-Hour Ranger: After being freed from Astaroth's dungeon, she joins in the fight against him and his demons.
• Fiery Redhead: When she's fighting the forces of evil.
• Good Parents: Not only is she one herself, she is very thankful to King Zasedis and Queen Sastiana for all that they've done for Demetrios.
• Mama Bear: She very eagerly casts her strongest spells on Astaroth for his sick tournament.
• Magic Knight: She's skilled with both magic and a sword.
• Noodle Incident: No detail is given as to how she was captured and made to fight in Astaroth's tournament, but she says it wasn't her proudest moment.
• Southern Belle: She has the characteristics of one.
• Supernaturally Young Parent: Relatively speaking. Thanks to her being a ghost, she's eternally 39 years old.

Tharelaer

Introduced in Volume V

• Black Magician Girl: She slowly becomes more confident in her spellcasting and helping her mothers in battle, as well as summoning her familiar.
• Pimped-Out Dress: When she begins learning magic from Anne-Marie, she wears a green version of the female students’ dress uniforms in Ouran High School Host Club, saying it represents her being Anne-Marie’s student.

Julian

Introduced in A Day of New Life

• Dual Wielding: When he joins in the battle toward the ending, he has a broadsword in one hand and a dagger in the other.
• Precocious Crush: He has had one on Anna ever since he was old enough to find out he shares a birthday with a beautiful vampire lady.

Queen Seldanna

Introduced in Volume VII

• Fiery Redhead: It takes her a while to develop the ‘fiery’ part, though.
• The High Queen: She became one after the death of Hadrinar.
• The Paladin: She was very religiously dedicated before becoming a paladin. She took up the mantle during the battle with the demons.
• Statuesque Stunner: She’s very tall even for a high elf.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Despite being Queen, she is filled with self-doubt and uncertainty, which manifests in the nightmares that Mhithl’ithoth torments her with. When the worldwide invasion by the demons starts, however, she is the first to fight back against them to protect her city and her people.

The Stone Cutters

Tropes describing the Stone Cutters in general

• Aliens Never Invented Democracy: Neither did angels apparently, seeing as they are ruled by the royal family of King Zasedis, Queen Sastiana, and Princess Lily.
• Angelic Beauty: As befitting their angelic status, they are incredibly attractive.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: King Zasedis, Queen Sastiana, and Princess Lily are more than willing to join in the fight against evil.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Living on the Earth for long enough has disrupted their angelic powers, preventing them from being able to return to Heaven. Fortunately, they have done quite well for themselves on their new homeworld.

King Zasedis

Introduced in Volume II

• Battle Couple: With Sastiana.
• Flaming Sword
• Good Counterpart: To William/Mephistopheles and to his fallen brother Zecadea, now known as Anturoc.
• The Good King
• Happily Married
• Knight in Shining Armor
• Silver Fox: His dark brown hair has gotten peppered with white.

Queen Sastiana

Introduced in Volume II

• Battle Couple: With Zasedis.
• Happily Married
• The High Queen
• Mama Bear: She shows some of this in The Heralds of False Light, when she challenges Dorothy to a fight herself.
  "That's my son you're talking to."
• Pegasus: She rides one of the Stone Cutters' gold flying horses.

Lynessa

Introduced in Dawn of a New Century

• Babies Ever After: In the end of Act III of Volume V, she becomes pregnant with her and Anne-Marie's second child.
• Battle Couple: With Anne-Marie.
• Good Parents: It is her idea to adopt Tharelaer, and she and Anne-Marie love her as their own.
• Happily Married: She originally was to Itakanar; now she is to Anne-Marie.
• High-Class Gloves: In Dawn of a New Century, she wears one on her left arm, since her dress has a sleeve for the right arm. Later on she wears two.
• Knight in Shining Armor: Metaphorically, since she's a paladin, and literally, since her armor is gold and silver.
• Lipstick Lesbian: For Anne-Marie.
• Nice to the Waiter: She gave out generously large tips in Part II of From Oslo to Kinardas.
• Pegasus: She rides on the Stone Cutters' white flying horses, named Arenir.
• Verbal Tic: Which she shares with Anne-Marie.

The Red Knights

A team of heroes based in Kingsport, Massachusetts. They were founded shortly after the restoration of their hometown by the archangel Raguel, and so named in honor of those who died during the Dark Stone Cutters' attack on their hometown during the Third War of the Stone Cutters. They come from all walks of life and seek to prevent another attack from the demons.

Akihiko Himura

Introduced in Volume IV

• BFS
• The Leader
• Light 'em Up: He fights with holy magic as well as his sword.
• The Paladin

Aislin Moore

Introduced in Volume IV

• Battle Couple: With Jayden.
• Fun Personified: She's very affable and fun-loving, and becomes friends with Anne-Marie, Lynessa, and Ruby very quickly.
• High-Class Gloves: She has two red pairs in Volume IV; silk ones for the adventure and a dark red leather pair for the party at the end.
• Meaningful Name: The name "Aislin" means "dream" in Irish, since she is as beautiful as a dream. Thanks to her shapeshifting powers, she can change as quickly as one too.
• Shout-Out: During the adventure in Volume V, she wears a dress that's similar in style to the one Catwoman wore when she debuted in the '40s.
• Spy Catsuit: She wears a sleeveless black leather one during the adventure.
• Technicolor Eyes: Her eyes are silver.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Her main power, with which she can assume any form she wants as well as copy powers. She says it matches her career as a renowned stage actress.

Jayden Moore

Introduced in Volume IV

• Battle Couple: With Aislin.
• I Know Karate: His main method of combat.
• Power Glows: After becoming an outsider, his eyes glow blue.

Anzhelika Maksimov

Introduced in Volume IV

• Panthera Awesome: Her armor is inspired by the leopard.

Allen Harris

Introduced in Volume IV

• Ascended Fanboy: He greatly admires Anne-Marie, though his gushing can make her and Ruby a bit put off.
• I Owe You My Life: In a way. He's thankful to Anne-Marie for saving his cousin Mary, the little blonde girl Angel Killer was going to kill, during the Dark Stone Cutters' attack on Kingsport.
• Kid Hero: He's the youngest of the human members of the Red Knights, being 19 years old.
• Playing with Fire: His specialty of magic, which he supplements with a crossbow.
• Shout-Out: He dresses similarly to the Elementalists from Guild Wars.

Joreas

Introduced in Volume IV

• Apologizes a Lot: He usually says or gives looks of sorrow whenever Allen's gushing gets the better of him.
• Lightning Bruiser: His form of battle is a Columbian mammoth.

Felicia Mason

Introduced in Volume IV

• Battle Couple: She becomes one with Frederick.
• Emergency Weapon: She carries a dagger with her just in case a demon tries to interrupt her playing.
• Happily Married: To Frederick.
• Magic Music: The music she plays on her violin can produce all sorts of magic, from attacking her enemies with elemental magic to healing her friends.
• Mama Bear: She's very protective of her son Michelangelo.
• Promotion to Parent: She adopted Michelangelo thanks to his familiar Kroisus.

Michelangelo "Mikey" Gagliardi

Introduced in Volume III

• Foreshadowing: He was the young boy that Angel Killer would have killed Anne-Marie, Lynessa, and Zephorius not showed up in time. Sadly, he still died when Hellfire Reaver shot him in the back before he could escape Kingsport with the others.
• Kid Hero: His being a ghost makes him 10 forever. Not that this bothers him.
• Shock and Awe: Lightning is his specialty of magic.

Kroisus

Introduced in Volume IV

• Knight in Shining Armor: In terms of personality, that is. He was originally vain and arrogant thanks to his T. rex form, but eventually became friendlier and nobler thanks to his time spent with Mikey and Felicia.

Cameron White

Introduced in Volume IV

• Dark Is Not Evil: He uses his necromancer powers to prevent the chaos demons cause in their attacks.
• Necromancer
• Perpetual Frowner: He's usually stern and aloof, and rarely smiles.
• Red Right Hand: More like an "undead left hand." He hides his rotten hand with a medieval hunting glove, and in battle he uses it to paralyze his opponents.
• Sinister Scythe: Only Cameron is not sinister.

Usianisto

Introduced in Volume IV

• Morphic Resonance: In his Titanoboa form, his olive green skin still has some blotches of the red, black, and yellow of his scarlet kingsnake form.
• Perpetual Smiler: In contrast to Cameron's constant frowning, Usianisto is usually very humorous.
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Not in this case. He's very friendly and quick with a joke.

Sabrina Zhang

Introduced in Volume IV

• Knight in Shining Armor: Not only her silver and black armor, but she wears shimmering clothing in general, if the dress she wears for the party at the end is anything to go by.
• Light 'em Up: She uses the light of the Moon for attack and also defense.
• Mystical White Hair: Her powers of moonlight have turned her previously black hair silver.
• Not a Morning Person: Thanks to her venerating of the Moon, she isn't much of a daytime person in general. During the day she's usually tired; when night comes she perks right up.
• Pegasus: She rides upon him.

Hannah Wright

Introduced in Volume IV

• Battle Couple: With Luke.
• Cool Sword
• Doppelgänger Attack: She can cast three spectral copies of herself to aid in attack.
• Large Ham: She speaks very theatrically, which Allisa often has to translate.
• Shout-Out: She dresses quite like the Mesmers in Guild Wars.

Allisa

Introduced in Volume IV

• Big Sister Instinct: She quite readily looks out for Hannah whenever there is danger.
• Beige Prose: She often translates Hannah's Purple Prose into more understandable words.

Carter Phillips

Introduced in Volume IV

• Breath Weapon: He fights with his lightning breath.
• Power Gives You Wings: As he was dying, he merged his soul with that of a dying bronze dragon, granting him the dragon's powers as well as his wings.

Emily

Introduced in Volume IV

• Cold Sniper: She starts off as this before becoming a Friendly Sniper.
• Heel–Face Turn: She joins the Red Knights toward the end.
• It's All My Fault: She at first blames herself and her quest for revenge for Aristotle's death.
• Psychic Powers
• Revenge Before Reason: She plans on killing Demetrios to avenge her grandmother Marissa's broken heart, not knowing the whole story.
• Spy Catsuit: She wears one during the adventure, thinking of nicknaming herself "the Viper."

Maebh Moore

Introduced in Volume VII

• Cheerful Child: Until Mhithl’ithoth’s storm began draining her energy.
• Princesses Prefer Pink: She actually has pink hair.
• Yin-Yang Bomb: She has opposite but effective specialties of magic: fire and water.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: She admits she’s not much of a fighter because she’s mostly been using her magic for fun. However, thanks to some words of encouragement from Tioveius, she really comes through when they’re fighting the demonic bear from her nightmare.

Alexandra “Alex” Moore

Introduced in Volume VII

• Bare-Fisted Monk: She fights in much the same way that her father does.
• Determinator: She won’t let the tiredness from being exposed to Mhithl’ithoth’s draining storm for so long stop her from becoming stronger.
• Kid Hero: She’ll willingly fight demons many times her size to protect her sisters.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: She prefers to be called “Alex.”
• Tomboy: The opposite of her sisters.

Caoimhe Moore

Introduced in Volume VII

• Cheerful Child: She does her best to keep it up even with Mhithl’ithoth’s storm draining her spirit.
• Magic Music: It turns out that by singing, she can augment her family and friend’s fighting spirit and strength.
• True Blue Femininity: She has teal hair that’s styled in the same way as Domino.

Supporters and Other Allies

Marissa

Introduced in Volume I

• Brainy Brunette: You'd pretty much have to be if you had psychic powers.
• Good-Guy Bar: Her house serves as a hangout for the other characters.
• High-Class Gloves: She has a couple pairs of them.
• Ms. Fanservice: She makes her first appearance wearing a Spy Catsuit. What more proof do you need?
• Psychic Powers: She has a few of them. Sadly, even they could not find where her sister Gloria had gone to.

Gloria / Nemesis

Introduced in Volume I

• Distressed Damsel
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: blond, pretty and perpetually young Gloria subverts this trope by being the Nemesis.
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: When kidnapped by William's, she was injected with a serum that would keep her a 13-year-old girl, thus making her more susceptible to brainwashing and thinking she's William's daughter, thus severing the psychic link between her and Marissa. Fortunately, undoing the mutant transformation reverses this.

Carter

Introduced in Volume I; mentioned in Volume II

• Figure It Out Yourself: Not even people in the afterlife can explain how or why somebody becomes a ghost.
• MacGuffin Delivery Service: He was waiting for the right time to give Dragon Claw back to Demetrios.
• Mr. Exposition: He explains how William turned crazy and founded the Brotherhood.
• Our Angels Are Different: He looks very much like he did when he was alive.
• Overlord Jr.: Carter did what he could to prevent William from becoming a sinister cultist, but it was not enough.

Hadrinar

Introduced in Volume III

• BFS
• Dragon Rider: He rides upon a bronze dragon named Isreon.
• Enemy Mine: He is very mistrustful of the dark elves, but soon comes to realize their heroic spirits.
• Killed Off for Real: By Lucas.
• Magic Knight: The magic he uses is mostly to defend himself and others.

Toras Thunder-Axe

Introduced in Volume III

The Forces of Evil

The Brotherhood of Nullity / The Empire of Oblivion

Tropes describing the Brotherhood in general

• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When the other prisoners tell Demetrios of the terrible imprisonment and the important parts of their lives they missed out on during their time with the Brotherhood, one prisoner ends with something silly:
  "They make you do arts and crafts for four hours."
• Cult / Knight Templar: They're the classic bad guys who think they're good guys.
• The Empire: William's second attempt to take over the world, which he calls "the Empire of Oblivion."
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: William and Dorothy can't figure out why Demetrios is so opposed to living with the Brotherhood or why the other prisoners are secretly unhappy.
• Grim Down South: The Brotherhood's base of operations is on a subantarctic island covered with polar conifer forest. The Empire is situated on several tropical islands.
• Straw Nihilist: It's easy to tell with names like "the Brotherhood of Nullity" and "the Empire of Oblivion."
• These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: According to William and Dorothy, the Brotherhood is supposed to keep people from knowing about the supernatural because, as they put it, human knowledge was not meant to travel far.

William/Mephistopheles

Introduced in Volume I

• Animal Motifs: When alive again to become Mephistopheles, he becomes mixed with two animals he considers natural born leaders like himself: the lion and the gorilla.
• Back from the Dead: The first time after his Deal With The Devil, and during the last battle, he even comes back to life four times.
• Big Bad: Though he doesn't think of himself as such.
• British Stuffiness
• Deal with the Devil: How he came back to life the first time.
• Evil Is Hammy: During his last fight with Demetrios and when he becomes a mutant does he start Chewing the Scenery.
• Evilutionary Biologist: How he plans to take over the world the second time around.
• Honor Before Reason: During his last fight with Demetrios (as a mortal), he switches his RPG for a pair of samurai swords. It doesn't turn out very well.
• Meaningful Name: Mephistopheles.
• One-Winged Angel: As the fight with Demetrios and company continues, he steadily becomes more powerful until he reaches his final form.
• Really Gets Around: A male example. Because of his craziness, William fancies himself as the mortal version of Zeus. Why else would he have all these kids who seek to follow in his footsteps?
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When he becomes a mutant.
• Starter Villain: William was this when he was human. His resurrection and subsequent transformation into Mephistopheles upgraded him to the Big Bad.
• Split Personality: It's split all right; in The Return of Mephistopheles, he creates eight avatars from his own soul, each one based on parts of his personality.
  • Carnificinus: The embodiment of William/Mephistopheles's sadism and willingness to torment his prisoners. His name means “torture.”
    • The Butcher: He even wears a bloody butcher's apron.
    • More Teeth than the Osmond Family: His teeth resemble those of the deep sea angler.
    • Nothing but Skulls: He wears a necklace of them.
    • Tail Slap: His tail looks like a whip, and instead of a left hand, from the elbow downward, he has chains ending in oversized barbed fish hooks
  • Umbra: The embodiment of William/Mephistopheles's preference to work – and strike – from the shadows. His name means “shadow.”
    • Dark Is Evil: He's even made of the stuff.
    • Living Shadow
    • Winged Humanoid: He has the stealthy wings of an owl.
  • Ira: The embodiment of William/Mephistopheles's anger and hatred. His name means “wrath.”
    • Enemy to All Living Things: Ira's anger and hatred is so intense that it causes pain among the people and wildlife of the region where he establishes his fortress. The animals become painfully lethargic, while the humans suffer from a crippling combination of the flu and pneumonia.
    • Glass Cannon: Despite his enormous strength, he can't take it as well as he can dish it out, a fact that he's well aware of and makes up for with the Zerg Rush mentioned below.
    • Our Minotaurs Are Different: He takes the form of a minotaur.
    • Unstoppable Rage: It's what he's named for.
    • Zerg Rush: To make up for his surprisingly low defenses, he summons a great swarm of fiery invertebrates to his side.
  • Gelu: The embodiment of William/Mephistopheles's selfishness and inability to empathize with other people. Her name means “cold.”
    • An Ice Person
    • Badass Boast: “Ice coating the heart of the Dark Emperor, rise and crush the lapdogs of the Stone Cutters!”
    • The Smurfette Principle: Gelu is the only female avatar, resembling a succubus. Yeah, you read that right. William/Mephistopheles is so evil that even his proverbial feminine side is pretty unpleasant.
    • Vocal Dissonance: When first encountered, she talks like a snooty upper-crust rich girl, but when the fights begins, she starts talking like Sindragosa.
  • Animus: The embodiment of William/Mephistopheles's desire – in this case, his desire to control everything. His name means “spirit.”
    • Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has six arms, symbolizing his ability to reach out in all directions thanks to his reality warping.
    • Squishy Wizard: He looks like one because his head is grossly enlarged while the rest of his body is bone-thin.
    • Reality Warper
    • Wicked Cultured: He enjoys chess and is seen sitting in a lotus position.
  • Atrocitas: The embodiment of William/Mephistopheles's fear – that is, the fear he inspires in other people. His name means “horror.”
    • Badass Boast: In another homage to Maleficent, Atrocitas makes a speech involving hell before transforming: “Great and mighty Dark Emperor, grant me the strength to annihilate your foes!”
    • Nightmare Fuel: Invoked. As the embodiment of William/Mephistopheles's fear, Atrocitas is this trope. He even looks like a Stephen Gammell illustration come to life.
    • Scaled Up: You can tell you're in trouble when his dragon form looks like a combination of this and this.
  • Insuadibilis: The embodiment of William/Mephistopheles's determination to see his goals are completed. His name means “adamant.”
    • Giant Flyer
    • The Phoenix: This one is the only avatar that is not an anthropoid.
    • Playing with Fire: As befitting the form he takes, he's even made of the stuff.
  • Supremus: The embodiment of William/Mephistopheles's pride and belief that what he is doing is right. His name is pretty self-explanatory.
    • Light Is Not Good: He may look like a paladin, but he's just as evil as his demonic brethren.
    • Knight in Shining Armor: A villainous version, and literally in this case; his armor looks like its made of solid gold.
    • Manipulative Bastard: He tries to trick Demetrios and company out of fighting him by saying he'll forgive them for their sins. It doesn't work.
    • Strawman with a Point: What he likes to think he is.
    • Knight Templar: What he really is.

Melissa / Shadowbite

Introduced in Volume I

• Animal Motifs: She gets turned into a half woman/half coral snake creature.
• Evil Redhead
• Non-Mammalian Mammaries: Despite turning into a reptile, her chest becomes more prominent instead of less.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: More like black and red, matching the coral snake she's turned into.

Lucifer / Blackstorm

Introduced in Volume I

• Animal Motifs: He gets his DNA combined with that of a falcon.
• The Dragon
• I'm a Humanitarian: While the possibility to actually eat a ghost is up for debate, he wants to kill Demetrios for food.
• Lightning Bruiser: He's fast and packs a punch.
• Winged Humanoid

Kurt

Introduced in Volume I

• Back from the Dead: He returns for another battle in A Day of New Life
• Casting a Shadow: One of his specialties of attack in the above short story.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Well, they actually call it a draw.
• Face–Heel Turn
• Feathered Fiend: During his fight with Anne-Marie, he turns into a demonic owl/vulture-like creature.
• Hellfire: His other method of attacking, including turning it into a whip.
• Knight of Cerebus: His [[Diabolus Ex Nihilo sudden appearance]] disrupts the Slice Of Life setting of the short story.
• Mind Control: A mysterious presence seems to be controlling Kurt and compelling him to do evil deeds. Sadly, it succeeds.
• The Mole
• One-Winged Angel: See Feathered Fiend above.
• Slasher Smile: He wears one for a lot of A Day of New Life.
• The Starscream / Evil Power Vacuum: When Mephistopheles gets defeated for the last time, he betrays Demetrios again and tries to take over the world himself. Fortunately, Demetrios puts an end to that.
• Was It All a Lie?: His friendship with Demetrios.
• Would Hurt a Child: His goal for returning in A Day of New Life, until Anne-Marie intervenes.

The Empire of Pandemonium

Satan

Mentioned in Volume I; met with in Volume II

• Big Red Devil
• God-Emperor
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Dark Emperor.
• Orcus on His Throne: While the rest of his demonic minions do battle, he rarely joins in.
• You Have Failed Me: While not entailing death, he always punishes those who fail his agenda. Rarely does he give second chances.

Berith

Introduced in Volume IV

• Aristocrats Are Evil: He's one of the Spirits of the Goetia that is a duke.
• BFS
• Blood Knight: Not just in battle; his armor is red as well as per his traditional depiction.
• Evil Is Hammy: He makes a grand speech before he and his legions attack Kinardas City, and does this a lot in the final battle.
• Human Aliens: He's one of the more anthropoid members of the Goetia.
• Malicious Misnaming: Which he does to Demetrios regularly.
• Public Domain Character: The 28th member of the Spirits of the Goetia.

Melissa

Introduced in Volume IV

• Evil Is Deathly Cold: She establishes her base in Vinson Massif in Antarctica.
• Goth: She dresses like a gothic queen when Demetrios and his friends encounter her.
• Princesses Prefer Pink: A villainous version; the succubus she turns into has hot pink-colored skin. Demetrios and his friends find it oddly amusing.
• Succubi and Incubi: She turns into a succubus for her fight.
• Woman Scorned: She seeks revenge on Demetrios for what she claims was breaking her heart when she was mortal.

Jessica

Introduced in Volume IV

• The Bully: When she was mortal. And proud of it.
• Evil Wears Black: When she first appears in the swamp, she dresses "like a child-hating headmistress".
• Good Thing You Can Heal: She uses her ice powers to regenerate any damage she suffers.
• An Ice Person: Not only does she have ice powers, her mere presence causes the swamp of Louisiana to freeze over.
• Would Hurt a Child: She nearly attacks Michelangelo, which Kroisus promptly intervenes.

Cecil

Introduced in Volume IV; returns in Volume VII

• BFS: He fights with one.
• Energy Absorption: In his scorpion form, he can absorb any kind of magic, even holy spells, and reflect it back at his enemies, making him nearly invincible. It's only when Lily, Ashur, Anne-Marie, and Clara use all four of their ultimate spells on him at once and Demetrios's Sword of Divine Might does he get defeated.
• Entitled to Have You / Stalker with a Crush: He was incredibly obsessed with Lily when he was mortal despite her clearly being uninterested in him.
• Flunky Boss: He has two lesser soul killers named Lukathur and Yukikiren to fight alongside him.
• Laughing Mad: His speech descends more into maniacal laughter when Lillukisen and company call him out on his obsession with Lily.
• Rainbow Pimp Gear: When he turns into an incubus, his armor becomes tastelessly revealing and multicolored.
• Scary Scorpions: He turns into a giant demonic one to fight with Lily and then the other Champions of the Light.
• Succubi and Incubi: He turns into an incubus.
• This Is Unforgivable!: He considers Demetrios earning Lily's love to be stealing her from him, which he considers horribly unforgivable. As such, he becomes completely enraged when Demetrios appears to fight alongside Lily in her nightmare.

Daniel Adams

Introduced in Volume IV

• Another Dimension: He's very proud of his "Nightmare Dungeon" that he uses as his base. Lynessa, on the other hand, says it sounds like a carnival ride.
• Evil Is Hammy: When Anne-Marie and her friends fight him, he makes a lot of grandiose statements.
• The Hedonist: He lounges in the Nightmare Dungeon like it's the ultimate mansion.
• One-Winged Angel: He has two of them. For the first, he turns into the same dragon Atrocitas turned into in The Return of Mephistopheles. For the second, he turns into Cthulhu.
  • Earlier, he once turned himself into a computer virus, which he used to cause cybernetic chaos and anarchy.
• Villain with Good Publicity: He passed himself off as a great charity worker, when in reality he was giving the donations he collected to crime gangs and cultists.

Glenn

Introduced in Volume IV

• Evil Sorcerer: Thanks to Berith.
• Evil Old Folks: When Amare and his friends fight him, he turns into this. Though he's no less powerful.
• Squishy Wizard: Averted. The shield he wields gives him an impressive and fearsome counterattack.

Bruce

Introduced in Volume IV

• Playing with Fire: One of his powers in his giant form is igniting his fists with hellfire.
• Revenge by Proxy: He relishes at the opportunity to kill Demetrios and Lily's four children.
• Spikes of Villainy: His giant form is adorned with these.
• Tin Tyrant: He turns into a giant made of demonic metal. Thanks to this, he was even able to beat back the earth giants.

Elizabeth

Introduced in Volume IV

• Always Chaotic Evil: She considers all vampires to be this (which the vampire members of the Champions of the Light are offended by), and thanks to Berith, she sets out to make her warped vision a reality.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Both of her One-Winged Angel forms are based on insects. The first one in Volume IV is the leech-headed hornet described below, and in Volume VII, she turns into a giant demonic butterfly.
• Culture Chop Suey: Her outfit is described as an odd combination of the classic Victorian era vampire look and a modern day biker punk.
• Eldritch Abomination: Besides Daniel turning into Cthulhu, Elizabeth's demon form is the least anthropoid of Demetrios's resurrected enemies, being a giant hornet with the head of a leech.
• Evilutionary Biologist: She plans on turning all vampires into demonically crazed monsters.
• It's Personal: While she does seek to conquer and terrorize the entire world in the name of Pandemonium and her own agenda, she hates Michelle the most of all.
• Meaningful Name: She's named after Countess Elizabeth Bathory.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: The younger villain to Michelle's older hero.
• Would Hurt a Child: She's very eager and willing to attack Jayden and Aislin's daughters; as a matter of fact, facing defeat from the heroes pushes her to it.

Astaroth

Cameo appearance in Volume IV; fully introduced in Volume VI

• Big Bad: He's the main villain of Volume VI.
• Cool Sword: The blade of his sword looks like it was forged from a single jagged black diamond.
• Divinely Appearing Demons: He looks a lot like an angel, only his wings are black instead of white.
• Doppelgänger Attack: He can create duplicates of himself with a sizeable portion of his powers to serve his needs elsewhere.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: He's smug and makes Demetrios and Jason's cheesy opponents sound more fearsome than they really are. As the tournament goes on, the humor becomes replaced with cruelty.
• Large and in Charge: He's described as being tall enough to overshadow a basketball player.
• Magic Knight: He mostly uses his magic to fight, though he does carry a sword with him for emergencies.
• Non-Human Sidekick: He has two; a pet demonic cobra named Corvaezar and his mount Vuinohn, which looks like a Hyaenodon with the wings of a dragon and the tail of a snake. They share both his arrogant enthusiasm and demonic anger at the events of the tournament.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: He wears a black wizard-style robe decorated with moons and stars that glow an eerie red.
• Scaled Up: During his final battle at Kinardas City, he transforms into a dragon.
• Smug Snake: Very much so, as this exchange shows:
  Demetrios: (upon seeing that his opponent is an underwhelming imp) Are you kidding me? Look at that guy. I don’t have to fight him; I can just wring his neck.
  Astaroth: What’s the matter? Is my choice of the challenger not suitable for the Stone Cutters’ stalwart paladin who saved the planet Earth many times over?

Rhagosct

Introduced in Volume VII

• The Dragon: He describes himself as the Herald of Mhithl’ithoth.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: He has elements of other Mix-and-Match Critters. His head is like a combination of a barracuda and a venomous snake, like Father Dagon and he has primitive dragon wings like Cthulhu. In addition, his almost lion-like body has sickly greenish-grey flesh instead of golden-brown fur, he has Creepy Long Fingers on the ends of his paws, his mane is made up of parasitic worms, and his tail is more whiplike and armed with sharp blades.
• Sealed Evil in a Teddy Bear: For most of the story, he goes around in the form of a man wearing a lion costume (the main giveaway being his blood red eyes. He reveals his true form during the final confrontation with Demetrios.

Mhithl’ithoth

Introduced in Volume VII

• Creepy Long Fingers: The only parts of his body that can be seen are his hands, which have these and dangerously sharp claws.
• Fisher King: Not only does he cause a storm of darkness and Gray Rain of Depression to envelop the entire planet Earth, his taking the throne of the Dream World causes it to turn into a dreary and unsettling wind-swept wasteland.
• Nothing Is Scarier: He actually has this as a power. He is constantly shrouded in darkness, so only his eyes and hands are visible, and nobody knows just what - if anything - he actually looks like. His form underneath the shroud is said to be incredibly horrifying.

The Dark Stone Cutters

Tropes describing the Dark Stone Cutters in general

• Fallen Angel: And how.
• Evil Counterpart: To their former brethren the Stone Cutters.
• Evil Is Deathly Cold: They froze Atlantis and turned into their new homeland of Acheron.

King Anturoc

Introduced in Volume III

• Evil Counterpart: To his brother King Zasedis.
• Evil Overlord
• One-Winged Angel: The seven-headed 10-horned dragon.

Venom Shadow

Introduced in Volume III

• Horsemen of the Apocalypse: He’s the Dark Stone Cutters’ stand-in for Famine.
• Sinister Scythe

Hellfire Reaver

Introduced in Volume III

• Horsemen of the Apocalypse: He’s the Dark Stone Cutter’s stand-in for Conquest.
• Would Hurt a Child: He was the one that killed Michelangelo before he could escape Kingsport during the Dark Stone Cutters' attack.

Angel Killer

Introduced in Volume III

• Blood Knight: He’s the most violent of the Dark Stone Cutters’ elite knights.
• Eye Scream: Zephorius bites out his right eye, which sends him into an Unstoppable Rage.
• Horsemen of the Apocalypse: He’s the Dark Stone Cutters’ stand-in for War.
• Would Hurt a Child: Or would have, had Anne-Marie, Lynessa, and Zephorius not stopped him.

Demon Fang

Introduced in Volume III

• BFS: His sword, Destroyer’s Talon
• Horsemen of the Apocalypse: He’s the Dark Stone Cutters’ stand-in for Death.

The Illuminati

Perhaps the only non-demonic threat that the Stone Cutters and the Red Knights have faced. The Illuminati are a city-cized cult determined to unite the world in the Realm of Light. They claim it'll bring peace to the world... while at the same time, they torment and terrorize their slaves into becoming members. They have become more militarily active in recent years, so their goals may be coming to fruition...Tropes describing the Illuminati in general

• Ancient Conspiracy: Well, ancient by the time the story takes place (1776 - 2140).
• Fantastic Racism: They put werewolves in the same category as dogs: as their enemies.
• Hegemonic Empire: They persuade people that they want to be part of the Illuminati. If not, they'll quickly destroy them.
• Knight Templar: At their worst.
• Language of Magic: They speak Enochian.
• Light Is Not Good: They, however, believe that they are.

Lucas

Introduced in Volume V

• Affably Evil: To better persuade people to join the Illuminati.
• Big Bad: He doesn't see himself as one, though.
• BFS: His sword Olpirt Iolci, which means "Lightbringer."
• Dragon Rider: He rides a white dragon named "Luciftianvpaah," which means "Bright Wing."
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His father, the previous Grandmaster Ignatius, whom he holds in high regard.
• Even Evil Has Standards: At one point, he stops Ercole from going overboard in his beating of Jason.
• Evil Counterpart: To Demetrios.
• The Generalissimo: Despite being only 19 years old, he's the Grandmaster of the Illuminati.
• Light Is Not Good: He's the only evil paladin seen so far; his aura is the blood red of fanaticism.
• White Hair, Black Heart

Dorothy

Introduced in Volume I

• Blood Knight: She seems very eager to kill Demetrios, even after it was only his second escape. When she joins the Illuminati, the "knight" part becomes a bit more literal, as she styles herself "the Valkyrie."
• Evil Is Hammy
• God Save Us from the Queen!: Well, she's not really a queen, but you get the idea.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Has a shade of this when she first sees Lily: "How dare you be hotter than me!"
• Knight Templar: A combination of conquering the world for the Illuminati and revenge on Demetrios.
• Pegasus: She rides a flying horse appropriately named Ares.
• Took a Level in Badass: Since joining the Illuminati, she's become very proficient in combat with a sword and a spear. Lampshaded by Demetrios: "Geez, I think I liked her better when she was mortal."
• Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him?: She almost tries this with Demetrios.
• Wicked Cultured: She uses an appropriate line from Shakespeare to describe her dislike of Demetrios: "The Devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon."
• You Are What You Hate: She has become a ghost as well. It doesn't do much to stop her, though.

Ercole "Caligula" Fontana

Introduced in Volume V

• Canon Immigrant: Demetrios and Lily once fought him when they were mortal in Prelude to a Legend.
• Dragon Ascendant: In Prelude to a Legend, he was one of the members of the Outer Circle in the Esoteric Order of the Dark Sunrise. In this story, he's one of the higher-ranking members of the Seekers of Enlightenment, as well as a deadly warrior.
• Dragon Rider: He rides a dragon named White Fang.
• Immortality Inducer: He has a diamond ring that makes him immortal. When the ring breaks, so does his life force.
• Improbable Weapon User: For his fights with Demetrios and Lily, he uses a sword made entirely of lead, the metal of death.
• The Social Darwinist: His time spent with the Illuminati has only worsened his attitude; he considers everyone who is not Illuminati to be lower than dirt.