Apocalypse: Quest System characters

Also known as Jeb

Appears from the start

A powerful Mist user carrying a nuclear threat within his fifth-dimensional form. As his health deteriorates, he leaves the orphanage for the Imperial capital in search of someone capable of removing it.

Appears from the start

Jeb's fairy familiar and traveling companion. She accompanies him to the capital while undergoing unexplained physical growth and developing stronger, more persistent emotions.

Appears from the start

Jeb's technically skilled ally. He sends his conscious zombot along on the journey so it can provide protection and maintain long-range communication with the orphanage.

Appears from the start

A conscious, combat-capable cyborg sent by Eddie to accompany Jeb. It serves as both additional protection and a communications link during the trip to the Imperial capital.

Appears from the start

A powerful fifth-dimensional figure connected to the weapon threatening Jeb. He declines to remove it, choosing to observe the outcome, although he suggests Jeb might be worth employing if he survives.

First appears in chapter 3

An Imperial noble who invites Jeb to a family retreat outside the capital. The circumstances behind her invitation are not yet known.

First appears in chapter 3

The Fae ruler who offers to remove the dangerous spiritual mass inside Jeb without payment. The careful wording of her proposal leaves Jeb uncertain about her intentions and unwilling to accept immediately.

First appears in chapter 4

A birdlike rebel representative who offers to remove Jeb's weapon in exchange for help overthrowing Pikaku. He gives Smartass a spell device meant to open restraints and doors in the palace's east wing.

First appears in chapter 5

A relative trying to gain control of Vresh's family position. He uses her invitation to embarrass her and pressures her to marry into his branch during their succession dispute.

First appears in chapter 5

The reigning Emperor. After a valet dies in a politically dangerous incident at Jeb's hotel, Pikaku keeps Jeb's scheduled audience and assigns a young relative to replace the victim.

First appears in chapter 6

A young member of Pikaku's family assigned to attend Jeb after the previous valet's death. He accompanies Jeb shortly before the Imperial audience.

First appears in chapter 7

A servant whose sincere oath makes him an extension of Jeb for the blue scroll's purposes. This unusual bond allows him to carry the lethal artifact safely and assist with Jeb's fifth-dimensional experiments.

First appears in chapter 10

A toddler under Pikaku's protection. During the palace crisis, the Emperor has Casey secured in a vault while he responds to the escape of a dangerous prisoner.

First appears in chapter 10

Pikaku's undead father, secretly confined beneath the palace for five years. After escaping, he attacks the Imperial harem, kills or corrupts its defenders, and takes Smartass captive.

First appears in chapter 14

A member of Jeb's emergency party who leaves Elsewhere with him when word arrives of an undead outbreak and Casey Thompson III's disappearance.

First appears in chapter 16

An associate of Jeb's healer ally who joins the group after learning that the healer survived Elsewhere. He adds another capable participant to the effort against the undead.

First appears in chapter 18

A school friend who joins Jeb's undead hunt despite objections from the group's healer. The student enters the operation as an inexperienced but willing combatant.

First appears in chapter 22

A decorated Imperial rescue hero whose courier class can track Casey Thompson III from a written address. Pikaku assigns him to guide Jeb's pursuit after the child is taken hostage.

First appears in chapter 25

An undead technical specialist held in Imperial custody. Jeb breaks him out nonlethally and recruits him for a plan to locate the undead threat using satellite equipment.

First appears in chapter 25

A technical ally whom Jeb recruits with Eddie to develop a satellite-based method for locating undead miasma after the trail to Casey Thompson III is lost.

First appears in chapter 28

An extra-reality entity imprisoned by the pantheon for five millennia and forbidden as an object of worship. She offers Jeb a blank contract that would bind him as her mortal agent forever.