People of Interest
For humans, the dagger indicates that the character is dead by the beginning of The Dark Mirror . For Rephaim, it indicates that they have been sequestered.
CLAIRVOYANTS
Humans with the ability to commune with the ?ther. They are identifiable by an aura, the colour of which is related to their specific means of connecting with the spirit world.
Paige Mahoney
Order : Jumper
Type : Dreamwalker
Also known as : The Pale Dreamer, Black Moth, XX-59-40
Born in early 2040, Paige lived a quiet life on Feirm na mBeach Meala – her grandparents’ dairy farm in County Tipperary, Ireland. Her mother, Cora Spencer, died of placental abruption not long after giving birth.
At the age of six, Paige narrowly survived the Imbolc Massacre, the first stage of the Dublin Incursion. Two years later, as guerrilla war raged between Scion and Ireland, Paige was forced to move to the Scion Citadel of London when Scion conscripted her father, Cóilín, who legally anglicised both of their names to protect them from rising hibernophobia. Her first significant encounter with the spirit world was in a poppy field near the Cornish village of Arthyen, where a poltergeist made physical contact with her, leaving a scar on her left palm. It was here that she met Nick Nyg?rd, who treated her wounds.
At sixteen, Paige reunited with Nick in London, and he invited her to join the clairvoyant underworld as a member of the Seven Seals, a gang founded by Jaxon Hall. Prizing her rare form of clairvoyance – dreamwalking – Jaxon made Paige his mollisher.
In 2059, Paige was detained and transported to the prison city of Oxford, where she learned of the existence of the Rephaim. Arcturus Mesarthim was assigned as her keeper. The two eventually put aside their differences and, with help from some of the other humans and Rephaim in Oxford, organised a rebellion against Sargas rule. Paige returned to London and resolved to become Underqueen in order to expose the Rephaite threat. During this period, she came into conflict with the Rag and Bone Man and uncovered his trafficking network, the so-called grey market. In the fourth scrimmage in London history, she betrayed and defeated Jaxon, who was not inclined towards rebellion against Scion, to win the Rose Crown.
As Underqueen, her main legacy was the neutralisation of RDT Senshield. After a rigorous search across Manchester and Edinburgh for a way to destroy it, Paige surrendered herself to Scion to reach its power source in the Westminster Archon. She endured twenty-three days of imprisonment and torture before banishing the spirit inside Senshield’s core by unknown means, deactivating all the scanners. Alsafi Sualocin and Scarlett Burnish organised her escape from Inquisitorial custody. Burnish sent her to Paris to work for the Domino Programme.
Paige’s first assignment for Domino was to identify the source of tension between the Scion Republics of England and France. To this end, she infiltrated the H?tel Garuche, home of Inquisitor Ménard, and discovered his disdain for the Rephaim. During this time, she reunited with David Fitton, real name Cadoc Fitzours, who offered her support. She also convinced Kornephoros Sheratan, an imprisoned Reph, to give her the location of the second Rephaite city – Versailles – and worked alongside the perdues, loyalists of Le Vieux Orphelin, to infiltrate and destroy it. Domino tasked her with assassinating Jaxon, the Grand Overseer, but Paige failed to do this.
After returning from Versailles, Paige committed to a relationship with Arcturus, only for him to be detained by Scion. When Paige attempted to rescue him, Arcturus claimed to have been a double agent, spying on her for Nashira. A heartbroken Paige threw her focus into hunting down the Rag and Bone Man and striking a truce with Ménard, preventing him from executing voyants. Paige was then taken prisoner by Cadoc Fitzours. Kornephoros Sheratan released her. Paige came to the realisation that Arcturus had not betrayed her, and attempted to find him. After surviving the ensuing free-world airstrike on Paris, she was found by Domino medic Eléonore Cordier, who subdued with a dose of white aster, an amnesic drug.
Antoinette Carter
Order : Fury
Type : Unknown
A member of the Triumvirate, the trio of leaders of the Council of Kassandra. Before Scion invaded Ireland, Carter was the host of the talk show Deepest Truths , during which she would often make accurate predictions about her guests and the news. During the Molly Riots, she became an outspoken insurgent and established an illegal pamphlet, Stingy Jack .
In 2059, Carter visited London to meet Jaxon Hall and his gang. Against her will, Paige was among the team sent by Nashira Sargas to detain her. With the help of her archangel, Carter fended off several Rephaim and escaped by jumping into the River Thames. Paige has not seen her since.
Beatrice Sala
Order : Augur
Type : Oculomancer
President of Italy, a member of the Triumvirate, and a key proponent of the Forum Project. She has not been seen for several weeks.
Cadoc ‘Cade’ Fitzours
Order : Jumper
Type : Oracle
Also known as : David Fitton, XX-59-12
As a spy for Georges Beno?t Ménard and Luce Ménard Frère, Cade engineered his own arrest and transportation to Oxford under the name David Fitton in early 2059. He quickly rose through the ranks to become a red-jacket. His immediate fate after the rebellion was unknown to Paige, but she met him again in Paris, where he claimed to be helping Ménard resist the influence of the Sargas family. Later, he turned on Page and imprisoned her in the H?tel Garuche. His motives and whereabouts are unknown.
Danica Pani?
Order : Fury
Type : Unknown
Also known as : The Chained Fury
The former gunsmith and inventor of the Seven Seals, who also worked for Scion as an engineer. Danica helped rescue Paige from Oxford and ostensibly sided with her after the fourth scrimmage, but secretly applied for a transfer to the Scion Citadel of Athens, disinclined to participate in the revolution. Her status is unknown.
Divya ‘Ivy’ Jacob
Order : Augur
Type : Chiromancer
Also known as : The Jacobite, XX-59–24
A Bone Season survivor and former mollisher to the Rag and Bone Man, who was an unwitting accomplice of the grey market. She is now a close ally of Paige and works for Le Vieux Orphelin in Paris, whom she helped rescue from Versailles. Ivy is training to destroy Thuban Sargas, her former Rephaite keeper, who tortured her in Oxford.
Eliza Renton
Order : Medium
Type : Automatiste
Also known as : The Martyred Muse
The former breadwinner of the Seven Seals, now interim Underqueen of the Mime Order. Eliza sided with Paige after the fourth scrimmage, despite her previous loyalty to their shared employer, Jaxon Hall.
Ezekiel ‘Zeke’ Sáenz
Order : Fury
Type : Unreadable
Also known as : The Black Diamond
A former member of the Seven Seals, who participated in rescuing Paige from Oxford. After the fourth scrimmage, he and his sister, Nadine, sided with Jaxon Hall. This forced Zeke to separate from his boyfriend, Nick Nyg?rd, who chose to pledge his loyalty to Paige.
Jaxon proceeded to imprison the siblings in Versailles. Paige later rescued them and gave them enough money to buy passage to the free world.
Federico Zitouni
Order : Augur
Type : Hydromancer
A high-ranking member of the Figli de Partenope, a gang of Neapolitan hydromancers. He was briefly the fiancé of Veronika Norlenghi.
Giosuè Barraco
Order : Augur
Type : Lithomancer
The architect behind the Forum Project. He taught Beatrice Sala at the Sapienza University of Rome.
The Glym Lord
Order : Medium
Type : Physical medium
Also known as : Laurence Adomako, Glym
Known to the clairvoyant syndicate as Glym, Laurence is a high commander of the Mime Order, who ruled as its interim leader while Paige was preoccupied in Manchester, Edinburgh and Paris. He has since ceded the role to Eliza Renton, but is still closely involved in the management of the organisation.
Hector Grinslathe ?
Order : Soothsayer
Type : Macharomancer
Also known as : Haymarket Hector
The former Underlord of the Scion Citadel of London, Hector was notorious for his greed, cruelty, and sloth. In retribution for his decision to sell Paige on the grey market, Jaxon arranged for Hector and his gang to be assassinated by the Abbess, a fellow marketeer, who was possessed by the spirit of Jack the Ripper. Along with almost all of his gang, the Underbodies, Hector was murdered in his own den.
Jaxon Hall
Order : Guardian
Type : Binder
Also known as : The White Binder, the Grand Overseer, An Obscure Writer, XVII-39–7
Orphaned at the age of four, Jaxon Hall was an impoverished gutterling until 2031, when he shot to underworld fame as the author of On the Merits of Unnaturalness , a pamphlet that divided clairvoyants into seven orders and caused an outbreak of gang warfare in London. His writing saw him arrested by Scion and transported to the prison city of Oxford for Bone Season VIII.
Upon discovering a nascent rebellion against the Sargas family, he betrayed it in exchange for his own freedom. This resulted in the massacre of almost every human in Oxford and the disfigurement of the Rephaite conspirators, including Arcturus Mesarthim. Although it was initially agreed that Jaxon would remain under Scion surveillance for the rest of his life, he slipped the net, returned to the underworld and built a new life as mime-lord of I-4, founding a gang named the Seven Seals and calling himself the White Binder. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to his gang (including his mollisher, Paige Mahoney), he maintained contact with Nashira Sargas – never meeting her in person – and began selling her rare clairvoyants for the Bone Seasons, accruing significant wealth in the process. Several syndicate members joined this enterprise, including the Rag and Bone Man, the Abbess, and even the Underlord, Hector forming a trafficking ring known as the grey market.
Jaxon attempted to become Underlord in 2059 and came close to winning the Rose Crown, but Paige betrayed him and used her gift to force him to yield. With the grey market exposed and the crown no longer in his grasp, Jaxon revealed himself to Nashira and apparently defected to Scion. He was granted the title of Grand Overseer and given authority over the second Rephaite city, Versailles.
When Paige arrived in Versailles, tasked by Domino with assassinating him, Jaxon faced Arcturus (unapologetically) for the first time in twenty years. Unable to shoot Jaxon in cold blood, Paige struck him with her spirit, set fire to the building and left him to the mercy of the flames. However, Jaxon recovered quickly enough to join her group, wearing a dissimulator to disguise himself, as they escaped through the underground Passage des Voleurs. He saved Paige from the flood in the tunnel before leaving by train for London. His motives for his actions remain unclear.
Julian Amesbury
Order : Unknown
Type : Unknown
Also known as : XX-59-26
One of Paige Mahoney’s closest friends during her time in Oxford. Julian worked with Paige to plan and execute the rebellion of 2059, and was responsible for setting fires on the evening of the Bicentenary, which prevented the Rephaim from sending an assistance call to London. He never reached the escape train. Paige initially assumed he had died in Oxford, but Scion is still looking for him, suggesting that no body has been found.
Kafayat Ekundayo
Order : Medium
Type : Automatiste
A barrister associated with the Forum Project, specialising in international human rights.
Lennart Bohren
Order : Fury
Type : Unreadable
An associate of the Domino Programme.
Liss Rymore ?
Order : Soothsayer
Type : Cartomancer
Also known as : XIX-49-1
A talented cartomancer, Liss was another of Paige’s closest friends in Oxford, where she was imprisoned for a decade, having been captured during Bone Season XIX. Gomeisa Sargas was once her keeper, but he expelled her to the Rookery, where she became a performer, specialising in aerial silks.
Frightened by stories of the failed rebellion of Bone Season VIII, Liss was initially reluctant to resist the Sargas – but after Arcturus Mesarthim saved her from spirit shock, she joined Paige and Julian in planning the rebellion. Before she could leave with Paige on the train, Gomeisa murdered her by causing her to fall from the silks.
Michael Wren
Order : Fury
Type : Unreadable
A Bone Season survivor who was stationed at the Residence of Magdalen. Nashira Sargas gave Michael to Arcturus Mesarthim, who taught him Scion Sign Language. Michael grew to trust Arcturus and later assisted him in planning the rebellion of 2059 with Paige. After leaving Oxford on a hijacked train, he and Paige were separated while fleeing the Tower of London. Michael was then captured by the Rag and Bone Man and imprisoned in Versailles, but was taken away from the city before Paige could liberate it. His whereabouts are unknown.
Nadine Arnett
Order : Sensor
Type : Whisperer
Also known as : The Silent Bell
A former member of the Seven Seals, who participated in rescuing Paige from Oxford. After the fourth scrimmage, she and her brother Zeke sided with Jaxon Hall, who proceeded to imprison them both in Versailles. Paige later rescued the siblings and gave them enough money to buy passage to the free world.
Nicklas ‘Nick’ Nyg?rd
Order : Jumper
Type : Oracle
Also known as : The Red Vision
Born in the Scion Republic of Sweden, Nick – a child prodigy – was training as a doctor when his younger sister, Karolina, was murdered by soldiers under the command of Birgitta Tj?der. This incident led Nick to the path of rebellion, and he resolved to move to England, the heart of Scion, to fight the anchor from within. He first met Paige Mahoney in Arthyen.
During a visit to London, Nick met Jaxon Hall and became the first member of his gang, the Seven Seals. After meeting Paige again, Nick brought her into the gang. He has been her closest friend and confidant ever since, and served alongside Eliza Renton as mollisher supreme. He sided with Paige after the scrimmage, forcing him to part from his boyfriend, Zeke Sáenz, who chose to support Jaxon.
Nick was drafted into the Domino Programme at the same time as Paige and sent back to Sweden to stir up anti-Scion sentiment there.
Noemi Morpurgo
Order : Medium
Type : Unknown
A gondoliera working for the Domino Programme.
Nuray Ercetin
Order : Soothsayer
Type : Molybdomancer
Born in Antalya, Nuray moved to Sofia with her mother and aunt at the age of twelve. After joining the failed defence of the city during the Balkan Incursion, she was imprisoned in the Chakalnya – a mountain fortress – and sentenced to death for unnaturalness. To avoid execution, Nuray chose a decade of hard labour, followed by enrolment into the Night Vigilance Division, as her sentence for rebelling.
In early 2060, Nuray was serving as a night Vigile when her old friend Yoana Hazurova, also known as Ognena Maria, found her. She gladly joined the Domino Programme as a member of sub-network Plashilo (Scarecrow), with the aim of breaking into the Chakalnya and liberating a Greek agent known as Kostas. After being identified during the raid, she was swiftly extracted from the Scion Republic of Bulgaria and given refuge in Prague.
Ognena Maria
Order : Augur
Type : Pyromancer
Also known as : Yoana Hazurova, Nina Aprilova
Born to Ekaterina Hazurova and Petar Hazurov in 2025, Yoana Hazurova was among the many Bulgarians who resisted the Republic of Scion during the Balkan Incursion. After the fall of Sofia in the autumn of 2040, she was imprisoned in the Chakalnya and sentenced to a decade of hard labour in the new Scion Republic of Bulgaria, to be followed by enrolment in the Night Vigilance Division.
When Yoana was nineteen, she escaped across the Black Sea and travelled west through Europe, seeking a large community of fellow clairvoyants. She found sanctuary in London, where she eventually became mime-queen of I-5 under the alias Ognena Maria, the name by which she is now most commonly known.
When Paige Mahoney won the fourth scrimmage and was crowned Underqueen, Maria became one of her six high commanders and travelled with her to find the core of Senshield. After its deactivation, the Domino Programme sent her back to Bulgaria to rekindle the resistance there.
The Rag and Bone Man ?
Order : Soothsayer
Type : Bibliomancer
Also known as : L’Homme au Masque de Fer
The former mime-lord of II-4, leader of the Rag Dolls and a key member of the grey market. After the rebellion in Oxford, Paige came into conflict with him when she found Arcturus Mesarthim imprisoned in his lair.
As Paige grew closer to discovering the grey market, the Rag and Bone Man organised an unsuccessful attempt on her life. Finally, after the end of the fourth scrimmage, Ivy Jacob – his former mollisher – told the truth about the market, and the Rag and Bone Man fled London.
In Paris, the Rag and Bone Man cut a deal with the grands ducs, offering handsome sums of money in exchange for voyants they considered troublesome. These voyants would then be sent to Versailles. Paige and Le Vieux Orphelin finally tracked him to Montmartre, only to discover that Jaxon had already mortally wounded him, apparently in retribution for the Rag and Bone Man’s attempt on her life. Upon unmasking him, Paige saw that the Rag and Bone Man was Alfred Rackham, Jaxon’s former agent. She cut his throat and left his body in a derelict sewer.
Renelde Du Linceul
Order : Fury
Type : Unknown
Also known as : Renée Gilson
A member of the perdues – the followers of Le Vieux Orphelin – and a high-ranking member of the Nouveau Régime, the clairvoyant syndicate of the Scion Citadel of Paris. Renelde was part of the team who infiltrated the Rephaite city of Versailles and liberated its prisoners.
Roberta Attard ?
Order : Soothsayer
Type : Capnomancer
Also known as : The Scuttling Queen
The elder daughter of the late Nerio Attard, a former Scuttling King of Manchester. Roberta was murdered by her sister, Catrin Attard, who Paige Mahoney had released from prison as part of an attempt to find the core of Senshield.
Rohan Mistry
Order : Guardian
Type : Summoner
A member of the Triumvirate, the trio of leaders of the Council of Kassandra. He is a retired diplomat.
Veronika ‘Ver?a’ Norlenghi
Order : Fury
Type : Unknown
Also known as : Veronika Zhangová
A civilian recruiter and administrator for the Domino Programme. Ver?a grew up in Czechia with her parents, Lia Norlenghi and Daniel Zhang, and her older sister, Debora. From an early age, she had a love of languages and a passion for the arts. During a year of travel, Ver?a and Debora were caught up in the Balkan Incursion, during which they met Yoana Hazurova in Sofia. Yoana saved their lives by bribing a station guard in exchange for their safe passage to Belgrade.
Ver?a went on to study interior design and embark on a diverse career in Italy. At thirty-six, she returned to Prague, where she was employed by the Libu?e Institute. She is now their most successful recruiter, reporting to Radomír Dole?ek. In 2060, Ver?a finally reunited with Yoana – now known as Ognena Maria – and started a relationship with her.
Le Vieux Orphelin
Order : Jumper
Type : Oracle
Also known as : Ignace Fall
The incumbent leader of the Nouveau Régime. Originally one of three grands ducs who ruled over the syndicate, he was betrayed by Le Latronpuche and La Reine des Thunes, who sold him on the grey market. Paige was part of the team that freed him from Versailles. Upon their return to Paris, the pair forged an alliance between their syndicates and ousted the corrupt Le Latronpuche, while La Reine des Thunes pledged her loyalty – and her valuable jewellery – to the revolution.
AMAUROTICS
Humans who are not clairvoyant, sometimes known as rotties. They have no connection to the spirit world and are unable to sense it.
Albéric ?
A field agent working for the Domino Programme, responsible for the safe houses of sub-networks Mannequin and Figurine in the Scion Citadel of Paris. He was detained and executed by Scion.
Aparna Wells
A defector from the Scion Republic of England, now assisting the Domino Programme. She was a classmate of Scarlett Burnish at the Ancroft School in Bloomsbury, where Paige was later a student.
Birgitta Tj?der
Also known as : The Magpie
The Chief of Vigilance in Stockholm and commander of the Second Inquisitorial Division of ScionIDE. Rumour holds that she controls the weak-willed Ingrid Lindberg, the Grand Inquisitor of Sweden. Known as the Magpie by her enemies, Tj?der is a merciless Scion fanatic with a zero-tolerance approach to all degrees of lawbreaking.
In early 2060, Paige discovered that Tj?der was nursing a grudge against the Rephaim, seeing them as just as unnatural as voyants, and had been working with Inquisitor Ménard of France to undermine the Sargas family. Tj?der is currently overseeing the anchorisation of Spain and Portugal, following the success of Operation Madrigal.
Eléonore Cordier
A field agent working for the Domino Programme. She was the medical officer for sub-network Mannequin before her apparent detainment by Scion in February 2060. Her name is an alias.
Frank Weaver
Grand Inquisitor of the Scion Republic of England. He succeeded Abberline Mayfield, who ruled Scion when it conquered Ireland. Prior to Operation Madrigal, Weaver had no military victories to his name.
Georges Beno?t Ménard
Also known as : The Butcher of Strasbourg
The Grand Inquisitor of Scion Republic of France, usually known as Beno?t Ménard. He is spouse to Luce Ménard Frère, with whom he has four children.
In 2060, Paige came to blows with Ménard when she possessed Frère and infiltrated their family home, the H?tel Garuche, in an attempt to gain information. She discovered that Ménard had turned against the Rephaim and intended to overthrow Nashira Sargas. Paige escaped with the intelligence she needed, but later arranged another meeting with Ménard to propose a truce. In exchange for the Mime Order focusing its efforts on the Rephaite-supporting England, Ménard agreed not to execute any voyants for two years. Following the airstrike on Paris, it is unknown whether this arrangement stands.
Gilberto Draghetti
Minister of Defence in Italy.
Harald Lauring
A courier for the Domino Programme, previously a field agent in Sweden .
Helen Githmark
A former Norwegian politician, strongly opposed to the Republic of Scion. She was publicly disgraced and stripped of her government position after being arrested for a hit and run in Oslo.
Hildred Vance
Grand Commander of the Scion Republic of England and authority maximum of ScionIDE. She has been hospitalised since Paige destroyed the core of Senshield while they were both inside Victoria Tower. Patricia Okonma, the Deputy Grand Commander, is currently acting in Vance’s stead.
Isaure Ducos
A member of the Domino Programme, formerly a field agent, now based in Venice as a member of Command. She was previously the supervisor of sub-network Mannequin, of which Paige was a member. Her name is an alias.
Johan Ospeth
A former doublet for the Domino Programme, who worked in the court of Queen Ingelin of Norway. He left Oslo with Queen Ingelin and her entourage shortly after ScionIDE entered the country.
Linda Groven
The former Prime Minister of Norway, now Grand Inquisitor of the new Scion Republic of Norway.
Lorenzo Rinaldi
Prime Minister of Italy.
Luce Ménard Frère
Also known as : Madelle Guillotine
Spouse and official representative of Georges Beno?t Ménard, the Grand Inquisitor of France. Paige first saw Frère in person during her imprisonment in the Westminster Archon and later possessed Frère in Paris, on the orders of the Domino Programme, to obtain intelligence on the tension between France and England. During this time, Frère was pregnant with her fourth child, Victoire. She disappeared just before the airstrike on Paris, and her current whereabouts are unknown.
Pivot
A member of Command. She is head of the Palazzo del Domino, the paramount headquarters of the Domino Programme.
Radomír Dole?ek
A member of the Domino Programme, who heads the Libu?e Institute of Prague. His name is an alias.
Sandra McCarthy
Also known as : Alastríona Ní Mhathúna
Paige’s paternal aunt and mother of Finn Mac Cárthaigh. She rescued Paige from Dublin after the Imbolc Massacre.
Scarlett Burnish ?
The former Grand Raconteur of the Scion Republic of England, known as the Voice of Scion, and the host of its only news station, ScionEye. In January 2060, Burnish unexpectedly helped Paige escape the Westminster Archon and revealed that she was a deep-cover agent in the employ of the Domino Programme and an ally of Alsafi Sualocin. After her disloyalty was discovered, she was executed in secret.
Spinner
A member of Command. He is responsible for instructing and liaising with the doublets, the representatives stationed in countries that support the Domino Programme.
Umberto Bianchi
The Mayor of Turin, recently arrested for drug possession, which he denies.
Yelyzaveta Covali
A member of the Domino Programme. She specialises in training recruits to enter Scion East, where her mother was born.
Yousry El-Khatib
A courier for the Domino Programme, specialising in high-risk assignments.
REPHAIM
Immortal humanoids of the Netherworld, a decayed and uninhabitable dimension that once served as an intermediary realm between the ?ther and the corporeal world. Rephaim exhibit similar abilities to clairvoyant humans.
THE RANTHEN
Arcturus Mesarthim
Type : Oneiromancer
Also known as : Warden of the Mesarthim, the concubine, the blood-consort
The former Warden of the Mesarthim – the guardian and ruler of his family – Arcturus was among the most devoted to the Mothallath family, whom the Mesarthim were sworn to protect. Despite repeated accusations that the Mothallath were responsible for the Netherworld’s deterioration, he remained loyal and fought on their side during the Waning of the Veils. When the war was all but lost, Nashira Sargas blackmailed Arcturus into a betrothal to signal the surrender of the Mesarthim family, forcing him to part from his existing partner, Terebellum Sheratan. Arcturus was given the title of blood-consort.
On Earth, Arcturus spent most of his time confined to the prison city of Oxford, where he and several other members of the Ranthen hatched the ill-fated Novembertide Rebellion of 2039. After a young Jaxon Hall betrayed the plot, Nashira slaughtered almost the entire human population of Oxford and punished the Rephaite participants by using a violent poltergeist to mutilate their backs. Following the betrayal, Arcturus developed an intense distrust of humans, though he tried to protect them by fighting the Emim in secret, limiting injury to the red-jackets. In March 2059, Arcturus reluctantly took Paige Mahoney – a dreamwalker – as his ‘tenant’ in the Residence of Magdalen. With the approval of the Ranthen (and the vocal disapproval of Paige), he helped her to hone her skills, hoping she would be able to defeat Nashira at the Bicentenary. Nashira, meanwhile, wanted Paige trained so she could absorb the gift of dreamwalking at its fullest. After six months, Arcturus and Paige sparked a mass breakout with help from some of the other humans and Rephaim in Oxford.
After being captured by the Rag and Bone Man in London, Arcturus reunited with Paige, who rescued him from the Camden Catacombs, and became one of the high commanders of the Mime Order following her coronation as Underqueen. He and Paige had a brief and illicit relationship before she ended it, afraid it would become a distraction – or that his fellow Ranthen would discover it, leading to the dissolution of the alliance. After the destruction of Senshield, Arcturus volunteered to accompany Paige to Paris, where he supported her in her work for the Domino Programme.
After their successful attack on Versailles, Arcturus and Paige decided to rekindle their relationship, but their happiness was short-lived, as Arcturus was detained by Scion. Paige attempted to rescue him from the Sainte-Chapelle, only for him to tell her that he had been a Sargas spy from the beginning. Paige fled the scene, leaving Arcturus with Nashira. His fate is unknown.
Arcturus is an oneiromancer, able to make others ‘dream’ their memories, and to experience them alongside the subject. In Oxford, he used this gift to judge whether or not Paige could be trusted.
Adhara Sarin
Type : Unknown
The original Warden of the Sarin, who still uses that title, despite being stripped of it by the Sargas. She joined the Ranthen after Paige deactivated Senshield.
Alsafi Sualocin ?
Type : Unknown
Alsafi was a Ranthen double agent throughout the Waning of the Veils and continued in that role on Earth. Masquerading as a Sargas loyalist, he remained with Nashira after the rebellion in Oxford and fed valuable information to his fellow Ranthen. He colluded in hiding most of the clairvoyant syndicate of London in the Beneath, having already created a network of human contacts within Scion, which allowed him to send Paige Mahoney, Ognena Maria, Tom the Rhymer and Eliza Renton north to Manchester and Edinburgh to find the core of Senshield.
After Paige disabled the core in London, Alsafi carried her from the ruined Victoria Tower and duelled with Nashira to give Paige time to escape. Nashira beheaded him. Scarlett Burnish, his ally, subsequently got Paige out of the building.
Errai Sarin
Type : Unknown
A member of the Ranthen. Despite his disdain for the Sargas family, he strongly dislikes humans and has immense respect for the doctrine of distance.
Lesath Mesarthim
Type : Unknown
A member of the Ranthen and former servant of the Mothallath. Rather than accepting the Sargas armistice after the civil war, he followed Cursa Sarin to Scotland, where they formed a community of exiles. Lesath is staunchly loyal to Arcturus, the original and rightful Warden of the Mesarthim.
Lucida Sargas
Type : Apportist
A member of the Ranthen who rejected her family and departed from Oxford before the Novembertide Rebellion.
Pleione Sualocin
Type : Audient
A member of the Ranthen who served as a keeper in Oxford, stationed at the Residence of Merton. Her human ‘tenants’ included David Fitton (also known as Cadoc Fitzours). She avoided detection during the Novembertide Rebellion, but revealed her true allegiance during the uprising of 2059.
Situla Mesarthim ?
Type : Unknown
A mercenary who fought for both sides during the Rephaite civil war, but grew loyal to the victorious Sargas family. She was stationed as a guard in Oxford and Versailles. Her devotion to the Sargas finally wavered in Carcassonne, when she witnessed Arcturus Mesarthim – her former Warden – being tortured by Kornephoros Sheratan, who mocked all of the Mesarthim. Situla made a vain attempt to help Arcturus escape, resulting in her sequestration.
Terebellum ‘Terebell’ Sheratan
Type : Somatomancer
Also known as : Warden of the Sheratan, the sovereign-elect
The incumbent sovereign-elect of the Ranthen. Terebell was Warden of the Sheratan before the civil war and still uses the title. Throughout the Waning of the Veils, she was a ferocious supporter of the Mothallath family and fought for them alongside her partner, Arcturus Mesarthim. When the war was lost and Nashira took Arcturus as her betrothed, Terebell fought Nashira in single combat and lost. After relocating to Earth in 1859, she was stationed at the Residence of Oriel and often volunteered as a keeper in the Bone Seasons.
In 2039, Terebell, Arcturus, and a number of their old allies resolved to stage a coup against the Sargas with the help of the humans in Oxford. Terebell was named sovereign-elect of the new and clandestine Ranthen. She was among those who were scarred in punishment after the failed rebellion of 2039, and assisted with the successful rebellion of 2059, after which she escaped Oxford and went to London. Terebell is currently co-ruler of the Mime Order.
THE SARGAS AND THEIR LOYALISTS
Nashira Sargas
Type : Binder
Also known as : The Suzerain, the blood-sovereign
Blood-sovereign of the Rephaim and creator of the Republic of Scion, Nashira is the highest power in the empire, but uses the Grand Inquisitors of England as her puppets and mouthpieces. She shares her authority with Gomeisa Sargas, her fellow blood-sovereign.
Formerly a scholar, Nashira spearheaded the war against the ruling Mothallath family during the Waning of the Veils, which resulted in their complete destruction. After her victory, she blackmailed Arcturus Mesarthim into becoming her blood-consort to demonstrate the surrender of the Mesarthim family. She then led all of the Rephaim across the veil to Earth, where she established Scion, with herself as its supreme authority. She spent the next two centuries presiding over the prison city of Oxford while Gomeisa largely remained in London.
After Jaxon Hall informed her about the imminent rebellion of 2039, Nashira allowed the Emim to kill almost every human in Oxford and used the spirit of Jack the Ripper to torture the Rephaite instigators, including her own blood-consort. When Paige Mahoney arrived in Oxford in 2059, Nashira tasked Arcturus with training her, partly as a test of his loyalty. Her plan backfired when Paige and Arcturus struck a tentative alliance and organised a second, successful rebellion. Nashira is the only person to have witnessed their first embrace at the Bicentenary.
Nashira is a ‘super-binder’ who can not only bind spirits, but use the gifts they had in life. This necessitates her killing her victims in a specific manner. The enraged spirit of Jack the Ripper is among her entourage of so-called fallen angels, and she can use it to cause the scarred members of the Ranthen excruciating pain on a whim. She is responsible for the doctrine of distance, which prohibits physical contact between humans and Rephaim.
Gomeisa Sargas
Type : Apportist
Warden of the Sargas and male blood-sovereign of the Rephaim. He was present in Oxford for the Bicentenary, where he murdered Liss Rymore. He is also thought to be the mastermind behind the conquest of Ireland, which he accomplished through his most powerful puppets, Hildred Vance and Abberline Mayfield. Gomeisa can harness apport, the energy of breachers – a rare and highly dangerous gift.
Kornephoros Sheratan
Type : Skeletomancer
The new blood-consort of the Rephaim. Kornephoros initially fought on the Ranthen side in the Waning of the Veils, but betrayed the star-sovereigns at the eleventh hour, resulting in the fall of the Mothallath family. Nashira rewarded him with the title of Warden of the Sheratan – a title formerly held by his cousin, Terebellum – and he now serves as her emissary. Arcturus Mesarthim is one of his former partners.
Kornephoros is able to connect with the ?ther using bones, and his touch can cause excruciating pain. In the past, during his brief stays in Oxford, he used his talent for the bones to read the future for Kraz Sargas.
Kraz Sargas ?
Type : Unknown
The former male blood-heir of the Rephaim. When he caught Paige stealing supplies in Oxford, she used the pollen of the poppy anemone and a bullet to incapacitate him. He is presumed to have been sequestered.
Suhail Chertan
Type : Unknown
A low-ranking Rephaite. In Oxford, he was charged with keeping the peace in the Rookery, the slum that housed the performers. He was assigned to torture Paige after her capture in November 2059, with the aim of forcing her to disclose the whereabouts of the syndicate. Despite subjecting her to physical and mental torment, he was unsuccessful.
Thuban Sargas
Type : None
Also known as : Le Basilic
One of the few Rephaim who lost their gifts during the Waning of the Veils, leaving him with a rudimentary connection to the ?ther. Thuban was a keeper in Oxford, stationed at the Residence of Corpus. Notorious for his cruelty, he subjected Ivy Jacob to six months of torture before her escape in September 2059.
In Versailles, he was known as Le Basilic, after the basilisk, a creature with a fatal gaze. He lost an eye during a confrontation with Arcturus Mesarthim.
Vindemiatrix Sargas
Type : Unknown
The female blood-heir of the Rephaim. She has spent most of her time on Earth creating and supervising Grapevine, a network of spies and sleeper agents, who predominantly operate in the free world.