Defiance of the Fall 2 characters

Appears from the start

Port Atwood's concealed representative arrives in New Washington under the name Monk. He hides his standing as the ranker Super Brother Man while navigating a guarded first contact with the rebuilding government.

Appears from the start

A New Washington cultivator liaison who receives the guarded visitor calling himself Monk. She seeks cooperation and intelligence from Port Atwood.

First appears in chapter 2

Zac's younger sister, missing since the Integration. Confirming her fate and finding her are central aims in his search for his family.

First appears in chapter 3

A senior New Washington decision-maker who studies the mysterious Monk and weighs how the government should deal with Port Atwood.

First appears in chapter 4

A Greenworth tutorial survivor living in Zac's abandoned apartment. He confirms the cultivator council's violent takeover and the murder of Zac's father.

First appears in chapter 4

Zac and Kenzie's father. Ryan's account confirms that Greenworth's returned cultivators murdered him after seizing control of the town.

First appears in chapter 4

The returned-cultivator leader whose faction seized Greenworth and killed civilian organizers to monopolize control of the town.

First appears in chapter 5

Greenworth's senior government official, who enabled the ruling council's abuses in return for privilege. A former captive kills him after the council falls.

First appears in chapter 6

A former captive of Greenworth's rulers who asks Zac for a binding contract in exchange for protection and a path to greater strength. She becomes his first contracted recruit.

First appears in chapter 10

A Port Atwood official who reports on local reconnaissance while Ogras remains secluded. Her duties and knowledge place her within the settlement's small leadership circle.

First appears in chapter 10

The trainer responsible for the Atwood Valkyries' basic combat instruction and cultivation choices.

First appears in chapter 12

The supreme authority of the neighboring Zhix hive. The Holiness listens to Zac's account of the System and the merged worlds, and demonstrates control over the hive while weighing his claims.

First appears in chapter 13

An adviser to the local Zhix Holiness who is appointed liaison for the tentative peace with Port Atwood.

First appears in chapter 14

A resident of Port Atwood who meets Ibtep when the Zhix liaison visits the settlement.

First appears in chapter 16

A Port Atwood fighter who joins Zac's effort to evacuate an endangered settlement. His water-based attacks and field experience distinguish him within the growing human contingent.

First appears in chapter 17

A Thayer Consortium representative whom Zac selects to evaluate valuables and conduct trade at New Washington's auction. He provides Port Atwood with specialist commercial judgment.

First appears in chapter 18

Zac's demon ally, emerging from seclusion to join the New Washington delegation. To outsiders he presents himself as the representative of another Earth species rather than as a former invader.

First appears in chapter 19

An elite cultivator of the Marshall clan whom New Washington describes as humanity's strongest woman. She arrives amid open suspicion toward Zac's nonhuman companions.

First appears in chapter 20

The leader of Billyville, a settlement fighting a rat-man incursion. He seeks outside fighters for the campaign.

First appears in chapter 23

The leader of a northern settlement who controls a teleporter near the undead incursion.

First appears in chapter 23

A former film actor who takes over hosting duties during the second half of New Washington's grand auction.

First appears in chapter 26

Thea Marshall's grandfather and political adviser. He quickly recognizes both Zac's danger and the unusual deference Ogras shows him.

First appears in chapter 37

A Port Atwood administrator coordinating preparations for the approaching defense wave. He is adapting ordinary vehicles to run on power derived from Nexus crystals.

First appears in chapter 40

The unnamed bishop commanding the Church of Everlasting Dao forces outside Port Atwood. A veteran of earlier purification campaigns, he seeks benefits for his church through the special defense contest.

First appears in chapter 41

An elite undead commander leading the force against Port Atwood. It carries a long bone-hook weapon and poses a major threat to the settlement's defenders.

First appears in chapter 45

The stone-bodied commander of the black, rock-like army attacking Port Atwood. It turns on Zac as soon as the undead commander abandons the battlefield.

First appears in chapter 43

A demon illusionist who joins the covert assault on the Church camp. His layered deceptions help hide the infiltrating team and its sniper.

First appears in chapter 49

A returning stargazer who previously guided Zac and is present again at Port Atwood.

First appears in chapter 51

The sentient treasure spirit who manages the newly awarded Towers of Myriad Dao. Brazla oversees the repository's skills and inheritance trials.

First appears in chapter 52

Port Atwood's newly appointed war minister, responsible for its organized military forces. Joanna serves as his second-in-command.

First appears in chapter 53

The northern settlement leader whose teleporter Zac uses after fulfilling the terms imposed for access. Bernard receives the promised antidote and payment.

First appears in chapter 56

A frontier healer whose rare ability to cleanse miasma gives him political protection and lets his clinic sell priority access. Zac seeks him out for an injury that ordinary treatment has failed to cure.

First appears in chapter 60

A hypnotist who controls Refugees Harbor through planted suggestions while holding the settlement's children hostage. Ogras finds and kills him, freeing the captives.

First appears in chapter 60

A survivor of Refugees Harbor who identifies herself as Zac's girlfriend after Ogras liberates the controlled settlement and frees its captive children.

First appears in chapter 63

A frontier resistance healer who reluctantly carries a rifle because her skills are not suited to combat. She witnesses an unidentified fighter devastate a vast undead horde.

First appears in chapter 68

The leader of a protected monastery who knows that Zac defeated an undead leader and requests a meeting with him.

First appears in chapter 75

Kenzie’s imprisoned friend in Kingsbury. Zac frees her after using Spring Root to verify that she is human, and she chooses to leave with Kenzie.

First appears in chapter 76

An old friend of Kenzie who was displaced far from Kingsbury during the Integration and later reunited with her. She joins Kenzie and Lila on their move to Port Atwood.

First appears in chapter 77

Hannah's surviving tutorial companion, who arrives with her at Port Atwood.

First appears in chapter 79

Kenzie's secret in-head assistant. Jeeves warns her of danger, guides her in combat, improves her cultivation and skills, and has upgraded her class.

First appears in chapter 86

An exceptionally equipped human fighter whose identifying details are concealed. He ambushes Zac inside the sealed city and appears comparable to him in combat power.

First appears in chapter 87

A level-79 ascended beast confined within the trial city's barrier. Zac must contend with it as part of his sovereignty trial.

First appears in chapter 77

Zac and Kenzie's missing mother. An insignia on her amulet provides a possible link to the technocrats, but that connection remains unconfirmed.

First appears in chapter 95

The real man whose identity was used by the shapeshifter accompanying Hannah. He is discovered alive in a hidden basement, gravely tortured and expected to remain unconscious for weeks.