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Character List
🕑 Added 2025-09-09 16:00:15 +0000 UTCMajor Characters
- Sylvia Swallows: Formerly Eric Swallow, a 30 year old salary man in a dead end job. After his death, Eric became a starlight witch (Hecates Magissa Asteri) at the Academy. Sylvia’s hair is light gray hair with a subtle lavender-pink tint. Her eyes are pastel pink holding fractal universe. Virtually everyone agrees that she is extraordinarily cute in appearance.
- Emily Clark: A soul fragment of Esmeralda Vallenfelt that was sent to Earth to be grown in the unborn body of Emily Clark. Emily appears for most of the story as a brunette. In truth, she is wearing a disguise to hide her origin. Once revealed, her green hair, her eyes, and the subtle differences in her features make it clear she is an altered clone of Lady Vallenfelt. Though Emily keeps her hair short, she actually prefers to have long hair like Esmeralda. Emily is quite girly by personality and is extremely intelligent. She mostly hides that later part of her personality until she reveals the truth of her origin to Sylvia.
- Riley Smith: Sylvia’s best friend. Riley is a tomboy with blonde hair and freckles. She loves sports and has a hard time focusing on Academics. Though her grades aren’t particularly good, she is reasonably intelligent. Riley also has a strong sense of justice, a good character, and firm awareness of other people’s hearts.
- Baroness Esmeralda Vallenfelt: A gorgeous and talented witch who created the Asteri bloodline. Esmeralda was born on Duo Pacu Ayu as the daughter of Count Vallenfelt. In the later years of her mortal life, she lucked upon a cosmic ash climbing its roots to reach the microplane Faded Star. After passing into the netherworld, she used Faded Star as her base before migrating to Tartarus. There, she served as an appointed devil to Countess Chanlina. After being presented as a prospective fiance to Asmodeus, she fled to the Timeless Beryl Wilderness where she started her Academy.
- Belkis von Vallenfelt: A dark-skinned prisma with high spiritual talent. Belkis was adopted as Esmeralda’s apprentice during Esmeralda’s first life in Tartarus. Though Belkis can’t quite put it into words, she regards Esmeralda as a mother-like figure. When Esmeralda went to the Timeless Beryl Wilderness, Belkis stayed behind. This was a decision that Belkis came to deeply regret, but she was too ashamed of abandoning her teacher to seek her out. She has become very proud of her new, adorable little sister though she feels that Sylvia doesn’t respect Esmeralda enough.
- Gavin the Black: A greedy black-skinned goblin. He’s successful escaped slavery and is now plotting how to rise up in the cruel netherword. And with his talent, its a sure thing. He was last seen in Tartarus, transferred to Asmodeus’s domain by Lord Potami to keep him out of Heaven’s sight.
- Elroy of Est Sombre: A golden-eyed, white-furred werewolf. As a highly talented man, Elroy is sure to rise. Elroy is a strong believer in honor, but some of Gavin’s thinking is rubbing off on him just as some of his thinking is rubbing off on Gavin. He was last seen in Tartarus, transferred to Asmodeus’s domain by Lord Potami to keep him out of Heaven’s sight.s
Timeless Beryl Wilderness
Sylvia’s Class:
- Natalie Ward: A tall and highly driven girl. Natalie has forest green hair and can be considered the leader of the ‘starlight thugs’. She has something of a haughty ice princess personality. Ignoring the two cheats – Emily and Sylvia – Natalie is unquestionable the most intelligent and accomplished witch of her year. Natalie was raised in a strict household by her very wealthy grandfather who was ashamed of his deadbeat son.
- Camila Powell: A thug of a girl with boyish blue hair so dark it appears black. She was literally a gang member in her mortal life and strongly subscribes to the idea: ‘chose your boss, then stick to them no matter what.’ She respects strength and likes ‘mad dog’ Sylvia when she’s being badass. She was temporarily disgusted when Sylvia came across girly, but changed her mind after Sylvia defeated Natalie Ward in the duel to the death. If asked why she bully’s her fellow students, Camila would explain: “I was just toughening them up. Call me what you like, but better it’s they get hit by me on the schoolyard than they get hit in the real world.”
- Heather Grenier: The last member of the starlight thugs, Heather has fiery red-orange hair. While she’s very much a bitchy valley girl, but proved her courage in the first Armed Combat Class. Natalie and Camila, though, ended up regretting having her as a roommate and kicked her out after the end of first year. Having no self awareness, Heather hates them for this instead of recognizing the faults in herself.
- Margret Rivera: A witch with pale green hair. She was one of the two ‘cowards’ who refused to fight in Armed Combat Class. She was bullied by Camila and Heather and eventually tried to run away in Orasul Lunii only to have her soul saved by Sylvia.
- Valerie Baker: A blonde witch who is friends with Margret. She tried to run away in Orasul Lunii only to have her soul saved by Sylvia. Valerie was originally a black girl and is very unhappy with being white, though Sylvia doesn’t know her well enough to learn this fact.
- Lucy White: A minor character with a particularly smooth voice. She got stuck under the Academy Butte after falling off the cliffs in chapter 22.
- Kinsley Pearson: A blue-haired girl who was emotionally scarred by Sylvia’s shielding training. After being looked down on by several of her classmates, she’s aiming to prove herself. When Sylvia returned to the Academy, Kinsely was the one who fumbled her lightning bolt due to mistakenly swapped runes.
Other Students:
- Kyna: A pink-haired faerie, Kyna was the president of Charm Club and the club mentor charged with tutoring the younger students. Her studies were paid for by a lady in Sunlight Harbor, to whom she owes service after graduation.
- Ingrid: A purple-haired red-eyed succubus. Ingrid has poor talent and only got into the Academy by borrowing money against her body. She like fashion, sexy clothes, and has an rather extreme definition of the word ‘high’ in ‘high heel’. After graduation, she became an occupation apprentice to Kagome in Enchanted Elegance. She’d hoped to pay off her debt in this manner and was elated when her debt was waived.
- Piper: The redheaded girl who brought Sylvia to the Sunday Course. She made Team Captain for the Young Demon’s Tournament. Piper headed the Explorer’s Club and tried to entice Sylvia into it. Later, she became a member of the Sky Scouts exploring the Cloud Island Wilderness.
- Brianna Schultz: A wild white-haired girl who headed the Hunter’s Club at the Academy. She considers herself Piper’s rival, but generally loses because she lacks Piper’s discipline. Brianna is a rather skilled combat witch. Or, at least, she’s skilled for her age. She wouldn’t stand a chance against Belkis.
- Tiffany Lowe: A blue-haired girl who loves gossip and causality magic. During her stay in Axis, she’s among the girls who went ‘boy crazy’. As a result, Sylvia kicked down her door.
- Faith ???: A seventh girl with pinkish-purple hair. She failed her consolidation right before the tournament and thus wasn’t allowed to participate. She later crossed into the first consolidation, which was regretful, as her future would’ve been better if she’d received the System first.
- Josephine ???: A doll-like girl with eyes like the void. She’s mostly calm and expressionless. She was also a member of the Sunday Course. Later she joined Swift Brooms and is the head of material acquisitions.
- Willow Hunt: A twin-tailed girl with shoulder length pink hair. She intercepted Sylvia when Sylvia returned to Baroness Vallenfelt’s manor in Orasul Lunii. She was serving as the corporeal leading the ballista bolt manufacturing team later when they returned to the Academy. Later, she became one of the first witches with the System.
Lady Vallenfelt’s Staff:
- Glenda Fischer: A ‘crazy’ blonde haired professor who vivisected Sylvia at the end of Chapter 8. Glenda has a fascination for chimera and biological alchemy. She’s quite smart and is the ‘oldest’ professor in the Academy, being one of the first wave of students when the Academy was founded. Glenda had already reached the second consolidation before Sylvia’s stay at the Academy. She was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana and is one of Esmeralda’s retainers.
- Allison Myers: A raven-haired woman who wears her hair in a bob. According to Sylvia, she has that perfect ‘sexy librarian’ or ‘teacher’ look but is missing the proper glasses. Allison Myers entered the Academy 32 years before Sylvia’s time, making her three classes behind Glenda Fischer. She almost immediately became a teacher after graduation. Miss Meyers is very strict by nature and is a highly responsible woman.
- Abigail Wright: A plain looking, brown-haired witch. Abigail Wright ‘flunked’ out of the Academy in her fifth year with only a hedge witch certificate to her name. After, she tried her hand at multiple jobs with little success. She was dragged into the Academy after the defaulted on her loans as an intervention. While working there, she wrote her book: A Beryl-ous Travel Record. Lady Vallenfelt was pleased by her insight and made Abigail the Professor of Field Studies. It was in this job that Abgail found her true calling.
- Roisin Owsley: A second consolidation swamp hag, Roisin ‘discovered’ the rune yithmafar – though she never met the Collegium Magicae’s definition of discovered. When she learned Lady Vallenfelt received a laurate for the same discovery she was furious. She eventually followed Esmeralda to the Timeless Beryl Wilderness looking for a chance for revenge. Roisin is a terrible teacher in part because she hates magissa. Though, as Sylvia notes, Basic Runes was a doomed subject from the start. Esmeralda wanted to replace her, but lacked necessary number of professors to do it. Roisin escaped after her assassination/soul capture attempt on Sylvia.
- Isabella: A second consolidation warrior who has been following Esmeralda for a century. Isabella is both the instructor for the armed combat class and the head of the Academy guards. Isabella is a redhead dragonling (Drakon Drakon Anthropos).
- Dianna Sable: A witch with ruby eyes and sea blue hair, Dianna is one of Esmeralda’s retainers. In the Academy, Dianna served as Esmeralda’s secretary handling paper work along with interactions with the important people in Vallen. She’s currently serving as mayor of the Beginner’s Village
- Zoe Marshall: A deeply tanned witch with aqua colored hair. Zoe is one of Esmeralda’s retainers. She worked in Orasul Lunii managing the mansion there and acting as a political proxy with major figures. She’s now the mayor of the Viridian City.
- Chloe Foster: Another of Esmeralda’s retainers, Chloe was in charge of tracking student debts and handling interventions when students failed to pay their debts. She would also work to find jobs for graduates or soon to be graduates.
- Jovan Lebas: A werewolf with reddish-brown hair. Jovan was the captain of the guard in Vallen and one of Esmeralda’s retainers along with an appointed devil. He has no relation to the Gris pack and worked for Lady Vallenfelt in part due his fascination with magic. He has since become an official devil and has left the Timeless Beryl Wilderness.
- Brendt Carmody: A light elf who was notably lazy in his cultivation, only having a level corresponding to a first consolidation demon despite being Awakened. Brendt was one of Esmeralda’s retainers and an appointed devil. He served, and continues to serve, as magistrate in Vallen. The Ministry of Ceremonies rejected his request to become an official devil, recommend that he continues in an appointed position for: “an additional decade or two.”
Other Persons from the Timeless Beryl Wilderness:
- Dumas: The blue-furred wannabe rapist in chapters 7 and 8. He was, indeed, smart enough not to anchor his soul in Vallen. Thus, he got away with his crime. He’s still lingering in the Timeless Beryl Wilderness being a creep.
- The Chef: The cheerful unnamed slave who cooked for Sylvia and Riley in chapter 7. He continues to work in Vallen, missing the days when so many pretty girls walked into his shop. Despite his slavery, he’s lucky enough to have a kind master who’d like to keep the beast-kin on as an employee when the term of service comes to an end. Who knows, maybe one day this chef will be managing part of a restaurant franchise.
- Viscount Vilhelm Codrin: The Demon King of the Timeless Beryl Wilderness and a fourth consolation vampire, though his current strength is only at the third consolidation due to a lack of talent and resources. He still dreams of making the Timeless Beryl Wilderness into a sovereign plane and is deeply frustrated by Baron Ishii’s “stupidity” and the Tisa clan’s betrayal of his good friend Rupert Gris.
- Baron Rupert Gris: He’s remains furious and bitter how everything turned out, particularly with his missing son “Lyam Gris”. He’s successful sold out to the Hoga, but not without throwing his good friend Vilhelm a bone. Despite raging at Pierre Bauhin, Rupert gave the man no punishment because he knew he was right.
- Baron Tadc Cair: A nuckaleeve who controls Port Blaze. He’s made a lot of money through grift from the war, as everything the Hoga brought it passes through his port. He’s the only rebels who wasn’t worse off for the plot when the Padure clan rolled in.
- Baron Goro Ishii: An oni and head of the resource faction. He brokered the deal with the Hoga and plotted the war. He’s furious that Vilhelm brought the Padure into this, making him an extreme hypocrit.
- Baron Marius Maxium: A brown haired minotaur who has humanized. Marius has gotten nothing but shit for his failure to capture Vallen on his own. He’ll be glad when he can cash out and run away from this mess.
- Dumitra Frunze: Head of the hunters guild in Vallen and one of the few devils in the town. She has a pallid, corpse like complexion.
- Lyam Gris: The young master of the Gris pack, Lyam is an arrogant, self and scummy charcoal gray werewolf. He’s currently busy being a lamp, his off gassed soul ether is being put to good use by Esmeralda as part of her soul-space silver generation experiments. Which marks the single most good the scum bag has done in his afterlife.
- Iulian Codrin: A redhead vampire who headed Sylvia’s team during the Young Demons Tournament. He saved Elroy from being cast into the void, transferring the lamp to Sylvia. While he hasn’t succeeded in becoming a young master of the Codrin clan, he’s doing quite well for himself.
- Mihaela Codrin: A dark-haired and arrogant vampiress. She won a captain’s spot through force of arms int eh Young Demon’s Tournament. She’s still an idiot. And she’s also Iulian’s headache, because she was assigned under him.
- Leonid: A hogmin slave. He was sold to the demon king’s army at the start of the war. He hopes to win his freedom through military exploits. Alas, he is a fool.
- Nessa: A tree-based beast-kin slave who can generate explosive fruit. She’s currently producing explosive fruit demon king’s army. To increase her value, her slimy master is helping her cultivate. A benefit that’ll pay dividends in the long run for them both.
Tartarus
- Fiia: A zoi, a member of the Deep Seeker’s coven, and Belkis’s good friend…, who betrayed her to Malik Nychta. She justifies herself by believing she'd done Belkis a favor by helping her with connections (besides, Malik is hot).
- Pheobe: An oracle with very long inky black hair. She’s currently working for Lord Potami having realized that Sylvia was likely the one who shifted fate. She aims to become part of that fate. Who knows, someday I might work her back into the story.
- Rauno: An Awakened firefox and a member of Belkis’s adventuring group. He was attracted to Belkis but does genuinely care for her. Though things didn’t pan out like he hoped, he’s happy that Belkis escaped Malik’s clutches. He’s very bitter and depressed though, thinking Belkis might blame him for what happened.
- Marqui Nandru Padure: A lanky great vampire of the fight consolidation, Nadru serves as a vassal to Archduke Damballa. Nandru is the head of the Padure clan along with being the governor of Iacchus. He also has his own person fief, which is currently being administered by one of his vassals. Nandru sees promise in the Timeless Beryl Wilderness and thus wants neither the Tisa nor the Codrin clan branches to firmly control it.
- Viscount Drugi Potami: A karnabo and a great demon of the fifth consolidation. Lord Potami is famously part of the Promethean Cult known as the Clockwork Men, preventing his rise in power. Like Nandru he’s a vassal of Archduke Damballa, reporting the dragon directly despite his low social rank.
- Viscount Malik Nychta: An extraordinarily handsome dragonling with golden hair. Malik is a complete monster of a human being, enjoying the hunt and rape of unwilling woman. He successful collected his Duat Dream Drop and is actually quite amused by Belkis’s escape. He’s since moved on to new prey. Malik administers the Nychta Ward and is a vassal to Nandru Padure.
- Baroness Bai Meng: A beautiful, platinum haired sacred fox and Belkis’s rival in love. Bai Meng chases after Malik. She hates Belkis for winning the man’s ‘affections’ and wants to see Belkis ruined.
- Lady Dai Mai: A beautiful, golden haired sacred fox as well as Bai Meng’s good ‘friend’. Lady Dai is very much a social climbers and is quite happy how the gala went. She has no ill feeling for Sylvia at all. In fact, she’s already forgotten that Sylvia exists.
- Magister Moswen: A purple-skinned magia who works as a retainer to Lord Potami. Like Drugi, Moswen is a follower of the flame. He is a highly skilled mage and hopes to restore the golden dream.
Cloud Island Wilderness
- Nithe: A fifty meter long, Class X god beast . Nithe has dark red scales and slit eyes like pits of blazing fire. Nithe is quite arrogant and looks down and the little ‘ants’ gathering around the World Tree. It’s impossible for him to respect any being below Transcendence. He is, however, quite protective of his brother Lenape.
- Lenape: A giant world turtle whose shell is fifty meters in diameter. By mass, Lenape is bigger than Nithe however he is only a Class IX immortal beasts not yet qualifying as a god beast. Lenape is a gentle soul. While he love talking to people, he’s also an introvert so sometimes he retreats out of views. As a world turtle, realm is his natural magic allowing Lenape to easily teleport or travel through the starry void.
- Empress Idetta: Idetta is a Class VIII hive ant queen and an immortal beast. Unlike Lenape and Nithe, Idetta because a guardian after eating a soul fruit rather than by hatching from the Egg of Origin. She later evolved into an immortal beast. Empress Idetta commands the legions of ants who live in the ground beneath Axis and guard Yaalon’s roots. She’s only ever seen interacting through proxies, which she directly puppets with her mind. Incidentally, she has a technique that lets her project her full Class VIII strength into any proxy and to fuel this strength with the power of the hive.
- High Queen Telma: Telma is a Class VIII steel needed wasp and an immortal beast. Like Idetta, she ate a soul fruit then evolved into her role. As a wasp queen, she commands a nest along with several kingdoms run by subordinate wasp queen guardians. She considers it her duty to protect the upper branches of Yaalon, a role she takes very, very seriously. Right now, she’s intent on breeding an massive army of wasps. She hasn’t yet figured out how she’s going to command them.
- Henry Taylor: A lanky barbarian who has become Riley’s boyfriend. He now heads a guild called the Viridian Blades.
- Silas Wells: A redheaded shadow hunter who worked with Henry and Riley to run tours of the Beginner’s Forest. He reached out through Henry to make a business deal with Sylvia. He’s now CEO of the construction company Wells and Swallow.
- Timothy Cooper: A pudgy mage who is now a student in the Moonlight Academy. Timothy is the head of the Cutie Fanclub and goes by HaremGod on the forum. He’s HaremGod because HaremKing was already taken.
Comments
Steve Barbour
Nope, she hasn't been mentioned for a good long while. Sylvia really doesn't operate in the same circles as Heather.
Steve Barbour
Yeah, I never found the chance to address it in the 82 chapters thus written so I figured I'd let the information out.
awelonblue
So this is how I learn Fiia (who had like two sentences of screen time) was the culprit and Rauno (the "sugary fox") received suspicion falsely. Guess it wasn't going to come up in-story.
Benjamin Mages
Btw have we heard anything about Heather recently in story? I think there was a blurb in the last few chapters about how she wasn't part of Natalie's group anymore but that's all I remember.
