History Characters / TheNeverMythos

* DudeWheresMyRespect: ''Nobody'' likes him. Eliza has little but distaste fr his shallowness, Eliphas Coyte thinks he's a twit and offers Eliza the chance to arrange an 'accident' for him, and as Hardestadt finds out from the vampire Francesca, even other nobles could not ''stand'' him, which nearly got him murdered by Francesca....Stefano however, seems to believe being a noble means he can act however he wants.

* TooDumbToLive: He managed to offend one of the oldest, strongest vampires in Italy which nearly got him killed. Not that he was ''aware'' of this, admittedly.

* AwfulWeddedLife: In 1670, she was married to Stefano de Cortly, count of Valer and ''hated'' it, given her husband was an empty headed chauvinist more concerned with his appearance than anything resembling her well being.

* EvilIsPetty: When the chips are down, [[spoiler:Lucia is at heart an insanely petty, spiteful monster who's entire mission in life is to get revenge on her sisters for stopping the abuse of her powers -- something Lucia thought she had the ''right'' to do -- via the extermination of all that lives. When this plan is waylaid? Lucia redirects her attention to ''Earth'', vowing to find a destroy it purely to spite the few ragtag survivors who stopped her plan.]]

* AntiHero: Adam is revered as a stalwart and noble man who would provides a home for the lost and aberrant of society, and he's quite civil (if [[BrutalHonesty blunt]] and [[NoSocialSkills somewhat tactless in casual conversation]]) but he also makes it clear he's not exactly concerned about justice or morality, up to the point where he apparently murdered a taxman who's worst crime was threatening to expose Adam's flock.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:A rather subtle, downplayed one, but present nonetheless. Prior to Draynak's unsealing, Lucia is ruthless, pragmatic, and horrifyingly devoted to her goal and nothing else, sparing only brief moments to taunt and violate Christian and spitefully kick in Bright's ribs in and otherwise remaining a cold NoNonsenseNemesis perpetually in control of the plot through her [[TheChessmaster chessmaster tendencies]] who barely emotes or even ''talks'', ultimately assuring the rise of Draynak. When Draynak is stopped, however? Lucia loses all vestige of control and lets the violent psychopathy, sadism, and pettiness that she had otherwise kept completely under control rise up to the surface, breaking into a hateful rant against life, attempting to torture Alessa to death, and vowing to obliterate Earth's dimension all out of nothing more than a means to take her anger out on something to cope with her billion-year plot being brought to ruin by "short-lived animals." While she remains otherwise in complete control of herself otherwise in an aversion of many of the other typical traits of the trope, it's her display of prior-unseen emotion and her violent insistence on assuaging her wounded pride that puts her directly in harm's way, allowing the Emperor to annihilate her.]]

* WomanInWhite: Every inch of her, from her clothes, to her skin, to her hair and eyes, is blindingly white.

* DeathSeeker: It is revealed that Adam one day aspires to die after achieving his ultimate purpose

* TheStoic: Adam isn't in to emoting at all.

* CoolBigSis: Eliza tends to act as this for younger Seers, treating the young Venetian Seer Julio as a little brother while fussing over him adorable in ''Sangue Serenissima.''

* LustObject: When Michael sees her in his dreams, the only thing he can think is 'want want want.' [[spoiler: He grows out of this, granted.]]

* BrainlessBeauty: Stefano is easy on the eyes, but a blithering idiot.

* WhatAnIdiot: He managed to offend one of the oldest, strongest vampires in Italy which nearly got him killed. Not that he was ''aware'' of this, admittedly.

!! Characters From ''{{Literature/The City OF Never}}''

!! Residents Of Onolo

[[folder:Michael Seer]]
-->''"I'll have you know my work as a journalist can be well-paying, more so than any other second-rate cretin on this island!"''

A stuck-up journalist from Idaho who works for an unknown magazine in Mexico, and one of the two main characters of the story. After breaking up with his girlfriend Rose Welts in 1994 and moving from Idaho to Onolo in a desperate attempt to pick up his life, Michael spends years moseying around and dreaming of being a world-famous writer without capitalizing on his dreams, with [[SmallNameBigEgo his only written work quickly turned down by publishers]]. A cynic who's taken the philosophies of his idol Creator/HPLovecraft to heart, Michael finds out he may have certain attributes and powers that may make him a valuable asset against the City when it descends on Onolo.

[[folder:Eliza Cortly]]
-->''"Hush, young Seer, and steer your nerves to an area of grace. After you have calmed yourself, I will reveal myself gradually. No matter what happens, you must always look to a bright future..."''

One of the oldest Seers alive, Eliza Cortly is a mysterious, ethereal woman in white first introduced to Michael Seer during his first death. Replete with her own HiddenDepths, Eliza is actually a mentor to Seers all across the world, saving and teaching one Seer after another in a desperate attempt to steer them away from the clutches of the Shadows' Consultant's dark rituals. She has a very storied history, having once been the wife of a chauvinistic Italian nobleman, and a partner of [[Literature/TheKindnessOfDevils Hardestadt Delac]] in the Renaissance era.

* {{Adorkable}}: Underneath her veil of ethereal mystery, Eliza is adorable as she reveals when more of her personality is seen, particularly [[spoiler: in the end when she appears to Hansel.]] In her friendship with Hardestadt Delac of ''{{Literature/The Kindness of Devils}}'', she's giggly, bubbly and playful while constantly joking with him.
* AllLovingHero: Eliza cares deeply for everyone, and dedicates herself to saving Seers solely because they're in danger, persecuted and deserve to be saved.
* AmbiguouslyBi: She refers to a woman named Aisling as the love of her life in ''The Englishman'', though she does have a husband she is clearly intimate with in 1670. She seems ''very'' unhappy with her marriage deep down, though.
* {{Archenemy}}: To the Consultant. Eliza is the one protecting Seers from it as much as possible as the Consultant sadistically hunts for them
* AwfulWeddedLife: In 1670, she was married to Stefano de Cortly, count of Valer and ''hated'' it, given her husband was an empty headed chauvinist more concerned with his appearance than anything resembling her well being.
* BiTheWay: While she's married to a man in 1670, and at the very least is forcing herself to pretend to enjoy all that goes with that, Eliza reveals in ''The Englishman'' her true love was a female Irish Seer named Aisling.
* ChekhovsGunman: Makes an EarlyBirdCameo as an unnamed, seemingly unimportant woman in Michael's dreams early into the story – only to reappear [[spoiler:after Michael “dies.”]]
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Eliza will always, always put herself out there to protect and save other Seers.
* CoolBigSis: Eliza tends to act as this for younger Seers, treating the young Venetian Seer Julio as a little brother while fussing over him adorable in ''Sangue Serenissima.''
* CoolTeacher: She's pretty awesome and is the mentor to many, many Seers.
* TheCutie: In good times, Eliza bursts into giggles at the slightest provocation, she's awkward and sweet, and wears oversized sweaters and a sailor cap. If Eliza isn't purely cute, nobody is.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: There's a lot of nastiness in her past, largely thanks to the Consultant hunting her. It's also revealed that she was trapped in a very, very unhappy marriage with Count Stefano de Cortly, who treated her like a trophy...and then revealed when she left the Cortly lands, her husband everyone else mysteriously ''vanished.''
* {{Determinator}}: She never gives up. No matter what.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Appears in Michael's dreams way at the beginning of the novel, long before any of the mythology she later imparts has been revealed.
* FireForgedFriends: She and Hardestadt Delac have apparently gone through quite a bit together to develop a friendship.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: In ''City Of Never'', Eliza has her own plot and triumphs, having saved many Seers from the Consultant's knives, though she has a tangential effect on ''City's'' plot.
* HiddenDepths: Eliza seems an ethereal, mystical and aloof being. Under that, she is a compassionate sweetheart with a strong moral core, incredible social awkwardness and some deep scars that she hides from others.
* LustObject: When Michael sees her in his dreams, the only thing he can think is 'want want want.' [[spoiler: He grows out of this, granted.]]
* TheMentor: Eliza functions as a mentor to Seers, helping those she can evade the Consultant.
* MsExposition: In a similar vein to the Blind for Christian, Eliza's main function in the story is to explain [[spoiler:the mythology of the Seers to Michael.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: She has lost a lot of people she's tried to help to the Consultant's claws.
* MysteriousPast: In ''Sangue Serenissima'', Eliza's past is still largely a mystery, particularly to her friend Hardestadt who's heard dark enough rumors about some of it that he's finding it hard not to be wary.
* MysticalWhiteHair: As a Seer, she has pure white hair.
* NervesOfSteel: She keeps her cool splendidly, even in the face of universal annihilation or a hideous HumanoidAbomination trying to entrap her.
* NoSocialSkills: Eliza is a woman of many talents. Social norms are not among them, given her distance from the world at large.
* OddFriendship: she is apparently friends with the more stoic, easygoing Hardestadt Delac in ''Sangue Serenissima''...who's a devil.
* RapunzelHair: It goes down to her ''knees.''
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Eliza's ''centuries'' old and doesn't remotely look it.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Averted. She has red eyes, but she's a very good person.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Eliza closes off the story asking if she can talk to Hansel in Toronto in her physical body.]]
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Eliza doesn't really care if she's seen naked by others, having little sense of shame.
* SilkHidingSteel: Eliza appears to be a silly noblewoman and plays the part of a trophy wife well in the 1600s. She is capable of wielding a dagger with solid ability, though, and is a much stronger person than she appears.
* WomanInWhite: Every inch of her, from her clothes, to her skin, to her hair and eyes, is blindingly white.
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Eliza is inhumanly ''gorgeous'', and Michael is stunned by her beauty when she is seen in his dream.

[[folder:”It”]]
The unfathomably cosmic presence that the City reveres. It turns out the main purpose of the City's activity on Earth is to draw It to the City through Earth, which would unfortunately annihilate the latter in the process.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:It's only function to the Consultant's scheme is to be used as sustenance for Draynak. When Draynak resurrects and escapes the City, the very first thing it does is butcher and eat It.]]
* EldritchAbomination: Even compared to the beings of the City, It is a cosmic, world-ending presence capable of tearing apart Earth's entire universe simply by ''existing in it''. [[spoiler:Then it turns out it's ''remarkably'' lower down the ladder than previously thought, so much so that it's the first thing Draynak takes and eats in its absolute weakest form.]]

[[folder:Zyra Nyson (Unmarked Spoilers)]]

One of the residents of the long-destroyed St. Howard's and Edison's former friends. Zyra was seemingly a normal thirteen-year-old girl who Edison recalled as having vivid fantasies that worsened when the City attacked the town in late 1996. It turns out Zyra was actually the intended host for Draynak, as she was the artificial Seer that caused the destruction of the Old World when she was linked up to the Old World, somehow having been reincarnated into the form of a normal girl that the Consultant zeroed in on, obliterating the town in the process. Unfortunately, the Consultant murdered her to save face in the City -- and, very likely, [[TheStarscream for its own treacherous reasons as well]].

* ApocalypseMaiden: Apparently caused the annihilation of ''the entire world'' long ago in the past.
* TheGhost: Never seen in the flesh in the plot, apparently being [[PosthumousCharacter long dead]] alongside the rest of St. Howard's.
* HumanoidAbomination: Heavily, ''heavily'' implied to be one. Zyra wasn't a human but in fact an artificial Seer created by one of the Daydreamers in her attempt to further perfect them, only for Zyra's powers to create a violent imbalance with the Remeditary and wipe out both the Seers and everything else on the Old World. This is further reinforced when Draynak disparagingly refers to her as a "defective abomination" -- whatever Zyra turned out as, she was clearly something far more powerful than either humanity ''or'' the Seers.
* PosthumousCharacter: Long dead by the time of the present day at the Consultant's hand -- although given that Zyra is a Seer and apparently survived the destruction of the Old World, this may not be so.
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!!Draynak
-> ''"What are we but fraying specks, consulting the nature of an orderless chaos that judges our very existence as meaningless?"''

The being Lucia – aka the Shadows' Consultant – worships, and the ultimate BigBad of the story. An unfathomably old deity that once held the sum total of all knowledge in the Teraverse before a force of pure, horrifying evil called the Emperor of Ashen Rain corrupted it in an effort to destroy the Teraverse. Forcefully regressed to a weak form, its knowledge stolen from it, and its form locked away in a seal called the Heart, Draynak spent untold eons languishing in its seal with the hope to eventually free itself and regain the knowledge it lost. To this end, Draynak takes to using Lucia in its scheme to ultimately break free by using a descendant of the Seers to hook to the Remeditary and draw its form into them, allowing it to take form in the physical realm once more.
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