Defiance of the Fall 6 characters

Also known as Zac Piker, Zachary Atwood

Appears from the start

The leader of Port Atwood and one of Earth's strongest defenders. Zac follows linked paths of life and death, keeps his Draugr form concealed from most people, and carries responsibility for guiding Earth through the final stages of its integration.

Appears from the start

Zac's trusted demon partner and co-leader, skilled in shadow techniques, arrays, and intelligence work. His advancement is being held back by the unmet needs of the shadow creature bonded to him, despite his growing strength.

Also known as Mackenzie Atwood

Appears from the start

Zac's sister and a gifted array specialist who helps protect Port Atwood. She operates unusual technology with the aid of Jeeves.

Appears from the start

A leader of the Marshall Alliance and a Tempest Blade cultivator allied with Port Atwood. She is an experienced fighter who often works alongside Billy.

Appears from the start

Thea's companion and a formidable close-range fighter who can assume a giant form. His dreams of being a Titan and emerging bloodline suggest unusual ancestry.

Appears from the start

Zac and Kenzie's absent mother. Her location, loyalties, and reasons for leaving remain unresolved, while clues connecting her to unusual bloodlines and advanced technology make her central to Zac's search for answers.

Appears from the start

A ghost who formerly served the Undead Empire and now remains bound to Zac. Compulsions restrict some of what he can disclose, but he recognizes Zac's Draugr bloodline as exceptionally old.

First appears in chapter 2

A Valkyrie commander who accompanies Zac as a bodyguard while he recovers from damaged pathways. She pilots his flying treasure and joins Ogras and Zac in the effort to clear the remaining zombie hordes.

First appears in chapter 2

A demon general in Port Atwood's forces. He reports the loss of the Mystic Island tunnel, then leads troops into the Dead Zone to search its core, remove the remaining unholy beacons, and secure the region.

First appears in chapter 3

Zac's intelligence contact for the New World Government. He sends her to Westfort under guard to learn more about the government's plans, its outside alliances, and the struggle over the sealed Mystic Realm.

First appears in chapter 4

A New World Government leader directing the Arc World Project. He excludes Zac from the project and announces an agreement with True Sky, choosing an independent course for his faction despite Port Atwood's power.

First appears in chapter 3

The Tal-Eladar leader on Earth. After her faction withheld support during Port Atwood's crisis, she tries to preserve a relationship through commerce and reconstruction, but Zac limits her people to trade.

First appears in chapter 4

A Sky Gnome merchant and outside contact who assists Zac with acquisitions and information. Zac asks him to investigate how the wider world has reacted to his Tower achievement and report any consequences.

First appears in chapter 20

A Port Atwood resident exposed by Kenzie as the informant who passed sensitive intelligence to cultist infiltrators. Her parents were used as leverage, but Kenzie still holds her responsible for endangering the settlement.

First appears in chapter 21

A Port Atwood administrator who informs Zac that three integration rewards are waiting for him. Her changed status and personal puppet guard indicate that she has recently evolved her grade or race and gained new authority.

First appears in chapter 22

A powerful Port Atwood ally whom Zac considers for a new law-enforcement role. His abilities can incapacitate people without killing them, making him a possible enforcer as the settlement develops formal civil order.

First appears in chapter 34

A senior Zhix Anointed and leader of the final Crusade against the Dominators. He has knowingly exchanged his future for temporary strength and tests Zac before discussing the Zhix plan for war and succession.

First appears in chapter 39

An elite Zhix Dominator who arrests Zac and Thea inside a spatial and karmic restraint. He closes in with a spear while burning his own vitality to sustain a technique far beyond the power shown by ordinary Zhix.

First appears in chapter 40

A Zhix Dominator connected to Void's disciple. News of Harbinger's death sends her into a destructive rage, after which an implanted bloodline begins to awaken under her patron's supervision inside a hidden machine.

First appears in chapter 7

A major threat reported by the Zhix. Witnesses to this figure's abilities have been killed, and the enemy can escape through spatial rifts.

Also known as Harbinger

First appears in chapter 41

The former Zhix scholar who fought Zac under the title Harbinger. Rhubat recognizes his remains and links his fall to the wider Dominator movement led by a once-respected Zhix sage from the Grand Basin.

Also known as Void's disciple, Sage of the Basin

First appears in chapter 41

The former Sage of the Basin, identified as the spatially gifted enemy known as Void's disciple. Once celebrated among the Zhix as a scholar and artisan, he now stands behind the Dominators opposing Zac.

First appears in chapter 53

Ogras's bonded shadow companion, renamed after it saves him from a mortal wound. It replaces his destroyed heart and organs with shadow matter, preserving his life while beginning a more extensive transformation.

First appears in chapter 56

A member of a captive native clan and the first among her people in generations to awaken Heaven's Eyes. She detects Zac's arriving expedition, while her elders debate whether outsiders offer liberation or another threat.

First appears in chapter 56

A prospective patriarch within Leviala's captive clan. Where a cautious elder favors survival and freedom, Evian argues for a more aggressive course as outsiders enter the expanding research realm and disrupt its balance.

First appears in chapter 73

A level-50 support fighter from Port Atwood. Her totem strengthens nearby allies, restores their energy, and can be detonated as a defensive measure, earning her a place in the group approaching the sealed inner gate.

First appears in chapter 77

The tool spirit within Zac's axe. When summoned during the lunar-wolf battle, Varun protects its incapacitated wielder, kills the pack's alpha, and forces the surviving wolves to submit to its temporary authority.

First appears in chapter 89

A void creature that reaches into the damaged base through hand-covered tentacles. It takes one unconscious expedition member and kills another as Zac leads the rescued party away.