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

Extras: Guide to Characters

Icelos - An Angel and one of Somniel's many sons. He has the ability to take the form of  animals or beasts. Icelos is often accompanied by a white snake and frequently travels with his brother Phantasos. (Based on god Icelos of the Oneiroi from Greek mythology.)

Phantasos - An Angel and one of Somniel's many sons. He has the ability to take on the appearance of vegetables and minerals (naturally occurring objects). He often travels with his brother Icelos. (Based on the god Phantasos of the Oneiroi from Greek mythology.)

Psyche - A Devi Angel, born a Human Princess of Lydia in Anatolia, in the millennia before the common era. Her family sacrificed her to an alleged beast on the suggestion of an oracle. The 'beast' was Eros, who sought a relationship with Psyche against his mother's wishes. After various trials, Psyche and Eros married and conceived Splendor. Sometime after Splendor's birth, Psyche was granted the elixir that gave her Angelic nature, with Leliel among her sponsors. Psyche is one of the Children of Night and Regent of the Mental States, which she shares with her Vice-Regent, Opium. During the era of Romanticism, Psyche divorced Eros and chose to be with the Vampyre Athené. (Based on heroine Psyche of Greco-Roman mythology.)

Splendor - A Halfangel, child of Eros and Psyche, conceived and born while Psyche was yet mortal. One of the Children of Night and a Vice-Regent of Love in charge of Bliss (particularly afterglow/post-coital bliss). (Based on the demigod Hedone from Greek mythology.)

Elle Makepeace - a Human woman who met Opium in Los Angeles sometime prior to 1992 and is somewhat aware of Opium's non-Human nature and abilities. She moved to New York to help Opium. She is a musician and drummer for the Goth band Robert's Pill. (Original character, but her name is an homage to characters in a certain Children's Fantasy series by a certain British author.)

Pedro A. Montoya a.k.a. Pam a.k.a. Toni Toy - a Human man; a Contemporary Folk musician and singer from New York City who exhibits androgynous presentation. (Inspired by historical figure Pedro Montoya who was a castrato singer living in the estate of Cardinal Francesco Del Monte around the same time as the painter Caravaggio and  one of the possible models for the painting The Lute Player (others being Caravaggio himself or Sicilian painter Mario Minitti).)

Seraph - a Human Dark Wave chick who attends Parson's School of Design. (She coincidentally shares a name with the author.)

Mandy Valois - An engineered being who is a Human male in most respects, created by Jibril to be a muse-like agent, balancing the release of Joy into the Empty World (Earth). (Mandy fits the trope of the morally ambiguous gatekeeper and informant to a literal or criminal underworld such as often appear in Urban Fantasy and Occult Detective genres. As Joy's opposite, he can also be compared to Greco-Roman Oizys/Miseria.)

Lance Fisher aka Lancelot Jérouge - A man of Human and Wolfbreed ancestry. A member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation on his mother's side and one of the Jérouge Wolfbreed on his father's side. He is employed by Steven Jewel (III) as a chauffeur after Steven's father (Steven Jewel II) killed his brother (Chevy Fisher/Chevalier Jérouge) in a drunk driving incident in Connecticut. (Original character developed toward goal of introducing more Wolfbreed characters earlier in the sequence. His name is not inconsistent with the character's ancestry, being an English trade-based name. Both real Shinnecock and fictional Wolfbreed have an association with working around water. Any apparent Arthurian symbolism is mostly coincidental.)

John Jett - A Human man born in California in the late 1960s who retired from professional dancing after a knee injury and became a private investigator and bodyguard. Encountered Vampyres for the first time in San Francisco when one preyed on a lesbian friend. Moved to New York for a change of scenery, where he met Blade Dangerous on a music video shoot and subsequently encountered the same brood of Vampyres, again. (Original character, but his name is based on a person the author met.)

Joseph Ripley - An American Vietnam Veteran who struggled with drug addiction back in The States, while working as a History teacher at a school for performing children that Blade Dangerous attended. Was diagnosed with AIDS in the 1980s and spent time in a hospice care facility where Amanda Jewel was a fellow patient. Befriended Steven Jewel over their shared love of Classic Rock. (Shares a first name with someone known to the author who happens to be a vet, but otherwise is an original character.)

Ernest and Albert - The respective doorman and security guard at the Jewel Building in Midtown Manhattan through the 1990s. (Their nicknames are Ernie and Bert.)

Yara Arroyo - a former highschool classmate and friend of Julien who fell out of touch but re-encountered Julien when she began dating another Parson's student. (An original character, but her names reference water: Iara, a Brazilian river spirit and Arroyo which can indicate a creek.)

Cary Merisi - a New York-based painter and former Parson's student who dated Julien freshman year, had some personal troubles after dealing with Mandy Valois, and developed a relationship with Pam. (Inspired by historical Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.)

Evangelista - A Djinn in service to Morpheus who often manifests in the guise of Linda Evangelista. A native to New York City with ancestry in the Persian Gulf, Evangelista is fluent in American English and communicates through slangy English and shapeshifting. (Evangelista is a Hinn type Djinn associated with water and rat forms.)

Troy aka Destroyer - A vampiric wolf, formerly a mortal gray wolf and traveling companion to Shade, Troy was exposed to Vampyre blood and continued to serve Shade as an immortal guardian.

As of now, this guide is completed through the beginning of Chapter 8. I will add to it as I continue to edit and update chapters.