Characters
A list of most major characters in the Aurra series. Descriptions are kept basic in Part 1 to minimize spoilers. Beyond that, you should read about half of each part first.
Introduced in Part 1
Garder Nolland
A young, talented swordsman about to reach adulthood along with his twin sister. He’s hard on himself but has a sense of justice and hidden, powerful potential. | Watairre
Milla Nolland
As an Aurrian queen from several lifetimes ago, Milla tries to not dwell her famed past and live for today. She is wise and mighty with alchemagi, but like her brother, is also haunted by her recent past. | Vector
Lechi Dachel
A young girl assigned to aid the Nolland twins, she can speak with animals and has lived enough lives in Aurra to provide needed insight on their first assignment together. She can be a bit argumentative. | Iron
Jeryn Klowsk
A powerful alchemagist who wields fire, he has a mysterious background and knowledge about how the Guard operates. He is assigned to help and protect the group, even as his past may threaten their safety. | Fire
Simon Thalst
An Earthen picked up along the way when the group needs a pilot while in Africa, Simon is brought to Aurra and having never been there, finds himself in a strange, fantastical world ready to be discovered. An activist already, he has a strong sense of right and wrong.| Solar
Temki Rachester
The current mind paradigm—the strongest mind adept in Aurra—is a young boy from a frozen land, currently imprisoned. Rivia tasks the group to free him, but he’s shy, easily frightened, and reluctant to go up against the Guard. | Mind
Verim Grenwich
A semi-feral animalect who fights wildly, carries a giant sword, and fights with plantlife. He has the ability to bypass Guard protections and attack them, but his allegiances are unknown, as is where he comes from. | Plant
Shin Xin
A warrior of diminished height who makes up for it with a vigorous and righteous spirit. She hails from a hidden kingdom and has a personal vendetta against Aurra’s current king. A talented wielder of the katana, who can swing a blade with lightning-fast movements. | Lightning
General Rivia
A respected man ready to betray the Guard, who across lifetimes has met and influence many people into fighting for a cause. He’s ready to risk everything for revolution to bring down a corrupt and antiquated authoritative power. But first, he has to enlist the Nolland twins to help with another matter. | Silver
Xavier Holden
Rivia’s bodyguard, who assists the Nolland twins in a menial way and ends up surviving an encounter that should have killed him. Lost, confused, and out of his element, he has no choice but to follow a peculiar group of people and find a new path in life. | Silver
King Ruthers Lontonkon
The elusive, elderly, and power-hungry ruler of Aurra. Lontonkon has kept many secrets from his foes and other Aurrian officials, and has devoted his life to finding and unlocking a great source of power, no matter the cost. | Mind
Relinia Escellé
A tall, beautiful queen of a small hidden kingdom never thought able to exist. Her eyes are as striking as her silver hair, and though she has relegated herself to possessing and sharing information, her great alchemagi strength has not been diminished by the years. | Watairre
Kyrell Pangs
The leader of City C and a brilliant scientist in charge of a research team. Though his ethics and experiments with the souls of animals are questionable, his goal in trying to find a way to save his City are altruistic. He also opposes the Guard and will give shelter to the like-minded. | Earth
Marsian Osk
A respected officer within Aurra’s independent military, and one of Rivia’s ardent protectors. He has been preparing an army to fight the Guard for years, and his experience with a multitude of battlefields places him in a good position for a first effort against Aurra’s oppressors. | Earth
Councillor Delqua
Acting Security Councillor for City N, Delqua has been trying to become Lontonkon’s favorite politician for years and is seen as something of the king’s sniveling lackey. He has taken a particular interest in the Nolland twins and Rivia’s suspicious behavior. | Earth
Tess Rachester
Temki’s grandmother and architect of City I, to the far north. She helps maintain, rebuild, and approve the construction of infrastructure in the frozen City, but she has recently found herself distracted and ever more worried about her special grandson. | Lightning
Gregory Hekens
“Mayor” of City I, Hekens can be a bit fearful of the Guard, but is not afraid to act in the shadows against them. Suspicions abound about his wife’s mysterious death, which has forced him to raise Jeremi, his spoiled brat of a son, alone. | Silver
Tabi Feretta
The imprisoned plant paradigm, eager to serve Rivia and get a chance for revenge against the Guard, who once tried to force her into servitude. Young and fierce, she is able to grow massive, lethal plants rapidly and is also talented with a blade. | Plant
Masayuki Xin
The imprisoned lightning paradigm. Shin’s cousin, who is the only other survivor of the massacre of their family and clan. He is determined to lead a rebellion against the Guard and if Shin can’t do it, kill Lontonkon with a faster-than-sound swing of his blade. | Lightning
Viktor Wulf
The imprisoned fire paradigm. A grizzled veteran of many wars and former senior member of the League of Flame, a fire-based clan. Able to send out waves of flame or strike with a blazing sword, he seeks to show the clan he betrayed that they never should’ve sided with the Guard. | Fire
Pretorians
Kamsa
The mysterious newest member of the pretorian circle, Kamsa is a naive young lady who is still mastering her own powers, but her purity with her alignment gives her potential to summon the mightiest of water and air spells. Her loyalty to the Guard is not yet fully assured. | Watairre
Jenera Trinqit
A cruel woman with sociopathic tendencies who is unafraid to cut down innocents to get through to an enemy, she gladly serves Drides and the Guard and believes only in power and defeating their opponents in a way that makes them feel hopelessness just before the end. | Vector
Axel Breen
An old and respected warrior who has put down many smaller rebellions and serves both the Guard and Aurrian royalty faithfully, he is also the iron paradigm, which has weakened his bones and forces him to use mechanized armor just to move around. His only weapon: a malleable, compacted ball of metal. | Iron
Rhet Palar
Power hungry and obsessed with destroying anyone he perceives as an enemy, Palar is strong both physically and with alchemagi. Using a large battle ax which he combines with some of the strongest earth-based spells known and once prohibited, he can crush his opponents to dust—and he has the ambitions to rise even further in the ranks. | Earth
Kendel Viveri
Easy-going for a pretorian, Viveri has a laid back nature and he tries to avoid conflict just by flaunting his position and making vague threats. Even so, he can prove easily capable if forced into combat, able to go toe-to-toe with any enemy seemingly naturally and without trying. He and Trinqit often feud. | Lightning
William Drides
The enigmatic leader of the pretorians is a young man who is mostly unknown by the outside world. He has a closeness with the king, and a mechanical patch over a seemingly undamaged eye. His alignment is unknown outside of the pretorian and royal circles, but it is rumored by a very few that he possesses incredible power.
Introduced in Part 2
Colt Huart
Like Simon, he is an Earthen pilot and now works for the burrow, which needed someone who could both fly jets and know engineering for their Mezik project. He and Michael Reynolds then created Aurra’s greatest technological wonder. | Solar
Leovyn Nolland
Friend of Rivia and Caeden and father of the Nolland twins, Leovyn returned to his position directing Eden’s Burrow after spending some time with nomadic villages. He has a dry and sardonic wit, but his talents are unquestioned. | Vector
Rayna Carthy
A girl from Earth with no ability to recall past lives, she was created by Lontonkon to be Aurra’s sole nova adept and is connected to a (currently) dead nightmarish “demon.” She now lives in the burrow with her parents, Phoebe and Louis. | Nova
Norria Olivine
Though she is free, she is one of Pangs’ projects and was created in the burrow, her genetics containing DNA from the extinct Inglix species. After helping Rivia in the Fragmented City, she joined the burrow youth squad as defensive support. | Earth
Wendell Celin
A friend of Rivia, this rifleman sometimes helps the Angels but also spends some time on diplomatic missions to City F, to try and get their air force on the front. He is an animalect and a member of the Watchers Elite intelligence division. | Fire
Adama Klayson
A former high-ranking Guardsman that changed his allegiance to the Angels and led the rebellion in Onasia during the war’s early days. Selfless yet mild, he was assumed captured or killed amid the fierce back and forth fighting in D. | Vector
Pip, Kyler, & Dak Montag
The Montag cousins, all of whom have different parents, are marksmen from the erased City I and now fight the Guard as they seek to restore their home. Pip and Milla had a brief relationship that proved too difficult to hold onto during wartime.
Tethis Pristil
The current queen of Aurra. She inherited the position after her loathed uncle died, and wasn’t prepared to lead in wartime. Some find her ineffectual, but her advisor Henri and bodyguard Cadius, also combat-training her, keep her spirits up. | Iron
Irietté Stolpin
Appearing to be meek and mousy, she is Pristil’s closest friend and another of her personal advisors. She has a secondary role in checking in on Hold’s kingdom now and then, but also has allegiances and agendas of her own on the side. | Earth
Bired & Vadaka
Empathic but outwardly stoic twins who are among Aurra’s top erasers; those who illegally prune others’ memories across lifetimes. They secretly took care of another pair of twins while they were young, and then erased their memories, too. | Mind
The Original
A mythical ancient human said to be the first one aware of Aurra’s true nature and either created alchemagi, or mastered it, depending on interpretations. After they were discovered trapped in a dimensional void for millenia, their soul was freed.
Introduced in Part 3
Nadir Daschel
The eldest of the Angels’ young officers, he oversees the successful program which has incorporated recently reborn tacticians who bring modern strategy to the war. He does all of this while being the only none-mind adept among them. | Lightning
Zachery Menin & Felix Jaraphim
The young Angel commanders of the air and sea. Menin typically stays aboard the Angels’ greatest airship, the Blue Rosely, while Jaraphim is seldom seen off of his battleship. The two are genius strategists, but don’t much like each other. | Mind
Nym Yvell & Earnst Shiloh
Nym is the quiet and reserved child commander of the Angels, who takes every loss hard. She manages provisional forces and supply lines, and like her weary uncle Major Shiloh, feels underappreciated and overworked—but keeps at it regardless.
Eliza Sasoire
Another of the young commanders, she works to keep Garder under control and is one of the few officers he respects. Often operating on the Red Tenor airship, she has a calm demeanor and specializes in guerilla tactics and surgical strikes. | Mind
Adama Klayson
A former high-ranking Guardsman that changed his allegiance to the Angels and led the rebellion in Onasia during the war’s early days. Selfless yet mild, he was assumed captured or killed amid the fierce back and forth fighting in D. | Vector
Izae Finx & Poret
A disgraced noble, she is now a specialist who fires arrows that she can turn into pointed rocks. She is part of Xavier’s team and has feelings for Garder. Her older brother Poret handles and rides the battle-hardened rairer Zalatrya. | Earth
Corus
One of Eden’s Burrow’s combat veterans, he was captured early in the war after he foolishly shot Drides, who took an eye and sent him to Z. Cynical but an excellent rifleman who curves bullets, he personally trained the burrow’s teenagers. | Iron
Seth Harken
The leader of Guardfall, the second largest rebel group now under Angel control. Like his men, he is barbaric and vengeful, and his lieutenant Prell can only keep him somewhat civilized at times. In combat, he wears two large bladed gauntlets.
Wade Terront
A senior officer and leader of an entire Guard division, he is set in his ways and difficult to work with, but loyal to his friends and the queen. He isn’t as sure about their new child officer, Grant Hement. He was blinded earlier in the war. | Mind
Bolia Savienth
An irritable Guard veteran, she stands out with her hood, mechanical arm, and use of cigarettes. Close to the queen, she often commands from the capital or City B. She has several children and grandchildren, and no time for nonsense. | Plant
Thomas Fordein
Leader of the Tillethian Guard division and an admiral in command of the many warships required to patrol and manage the seas and islands of the region. While outwardly faithful to the queen, he is also aloof and has projects on the side. | Silver
Phisa Camryde
A rising soldier of the League of Flame who has been on the pretorian recruit short list for years. She is strong, deadly efficient, and uses a rocket scythe and fear tactics in battle. She replaces the equally ruthless plant adept pretorian, Connarth. | Fire
Arthur Camryde
A patriarch who treats his three daughters like prized investments while gunning for a higher position in the senate. He can’t match the popularity of Pristil stalwart Viterus Luna, so he turned to corruption and became an ally of Drides. | Fire
Kae Anneise
A very tall, slender, and agile pretorian warrior and one of the few solars adepts to hold the title. Fierce but honorable, she fights with teleportation and a battle staff, and can employ a nearly forgotten technique that creates small black holes. | Solar
Gause Lenal
A regal pretorian with an inflated ego, he is one of the capital’s elites and considers himself a tactical genius beyond reproach. His stuffy attitude means he often works alone, aside from a small strike team or fellow intelligence-gathering agents. | Mind
Charles Renek
An honorable and unassuming man who was chosen by the queen to assist the other pretorians in matters of masterful defense and support on the battlefield. He is a scholar with a wife and children, and keeps a big secret: he is a first-lifer. | Silver
Rodrick Vermer
A small man who is seen as a lunatic. While that is partly an act, he truly is unstable. Even so, he is also a genius who can summon the psyche-destroying owl elemental. He was locked up in Z for loyally aiding a previous criminal lead pretorian.| Mind
Pendergast Quinlin
The headmaster of Evirtide Academy in City M. He was a friend of Rivia’s during their time in the Guard together, but his traditionalist loyalties have corrupted his morality and turned the school into a war factory for alchemagist elites. | Watairre
Lenox Crawn
A large brute of a man and the current leader of the League of Flame clan after Viktor Wulf’s expulsion. As strong or stronger than most pretorians, he is waiting to see if he should officially aid the Guard. He dons legendary Mezik armor. | Fire
Nish Formel
A mysterious underground figure in Aurra who has been running bizarre and cruel science experiments in each life for centuries and can wield unkown alchemagi. He was behind the creation of young soldiers cloned from Escellé, including Kasma.
Gretchen Heartzfel
A lowly and lonely reservist of the Guard who has monitored southern Russia for years. With contact cut off due to the worlds being isolated again, she has no idea what’s happened in Aurra recently. Her favorite weapons are halberds. | Mind
Blythe Xidona
Chief of Security in City W, the subterranean metropolis, who inherited the position when the Guard killed her husband. She has kept W neutral for the time-being, but can be convinced to help the Angels with a good enough justification.
Andrine & Risar Camryde
Phisa’s sisters, with Andrine in the middle and Risar the youngest, who is attending Evirtide Academy. Andrine wants nothing to do with the war and prefers to focus on her art, while Risar is fierce and takes after her eldest Guard-loyal sister. | Fire