The Empty World | The Empty World Sequence [complete | rewriting]

Extras: Guide to Characters

Dodgson - A white rabbit in Jibril's service who may have once been a Human. (Possibly inspired by a historic figure.)

Penelope - A gray cat in Jibril's service who may have once been a Human, possibly British. She is apparently Jibril's housekeeper and/or secretary. (Possibly inspired by a historical figure.)

Alexandra - A black spider in Jibril's service who may possibly have once been a Human, possibly Greek-speaking.

River - A green lizard in  service to Morpheus who was once a Human man and who made a deal with Gabriel to be reincarnated in a new body and work with a partner, in order to have to opportunity to resolve unsettled issues from his former life. (Possibly inspired by a historical figure.)

Jorge - A soul who previously lived as a Human on Earth, and spends his afterlife in the Library of Dream working as a volunteer librarian. He keeps astonishing spherical objects in his pockets. (Inspired by a historical figure.)

Michael - An Angel, Archon of the Order Tarshishim, and Commander of The Host. (Based on the archangel and saint Michael of Judaeo-Christian tradition.)

Uriel - An Angel, Archon of the Order Shinnanim. (Based on the angel Uriel of Judaeo-Christian tradition.)

Jophiel - Also known as Beholder, an Angel of the Order Hashmallim, member of the Children of Night, and Regent of Beauty. Usually appears with distinctive mismatched eyes, one of which perceives and possibly grants beauty. (Based on angel Jophiel in Judaeo-Christian tradition as well as various gods/goddesses of Beauty.)

Lucifer - An Angel, Satan of the Order Seraphim, Lord of the Malakim faction, tutelary of Venus, former Archon of the Seraphim, first among the fallen. He sought to place Shade as his agent on Earth, but was denied and as result threatened to deny Shade what he loves. Believes the one Shade loved most was Blade. (Based on the personification of Venus/The Morning Star in Roman Mythology and, at the same time, The Adversary/Satan from Judeao-Christian lore, which were two separate entities in The Bible who got confused some time after its English translations. Arguably, he's also Zeus from Greek Mythology, but that leads to a whole Gnostic rabbithole of implications if anyone is both a creator being and adversary.)

Tristopher - An Angel of ancient and unknown origin, associated with the Children of Night while also maintaining relations with Lucifer, who is the father of her son, Eros (created with assistance of Gabriel.) She is Regent of Love. (Based on various primordial and/or self-generating goddess figures, including Sumerian Tiamat and Greek Aphrodite.)

Raziel - An Angel, Archon of the Order Ophanim, and sometimes Governor of the City of Los Angeles in the Night Regions. A librarian, archivist, architect, and technician. His tears fall as morning glories the seeds of which are hallucinogenic. (Based on angel Raziel from Judaeo-Christian tradition, and homages Egyptian Ibis-therioceph Thoth and Mesoamerican  Quetzalcoatl and Kukulkan as a plumed being known for wisdom. )

Absidus aka Sid - A Devi Angel, born Human in the region then Armenia. She ended up a slave in Athens, Greece, by her teen years, where she met Shade, Star, and Metro who became her surrogate family. She helped raise Shade and Star's children: Faye, Miranda, and Athené. She also tended to Metro's children Absinthe and Laudanum when they were newly born. In the New Eden settlement, she was sponsored by Lilith and Leliel to take the elixir that granted her Angelic nature. She then was assigned to the Order Shinnanim and took the name Absidus as her personal name, though she is also known as Vanahiel. She was once, briefly, married to Steven Jewel, though they disagree on the legal status of that union. Absidus is a member of the Children of Night and Regent of Desire. (Absidus is a made-up Latin name composed of ab+sidus roughly meaning by or on a star, as in how we wish; possibly also "opposite Star" in homage to her former companion.)