He Who Fights with Monsters 3 characters

Also known as Jason

Appears from the start

An outworlder adventurer who leads a six-person team in Greenstone. He protects his companions and hopes to find a route back to his own world.

Appears from the start

A prince whose experienced adventuring team trains against Jason's group.

Also known as Sophie

Appears from the start

A swift close-combat adventurer training with Jason's team. Her indenture to Jason remains part of her circumstances at the start of the book.

Also known as Lindy

Appears from the start

A shapeshifting support fighter on Jason's team and an intermittent student of Clive.

Also known as Humphrey

Appears from the start

An experienced frontline member of Jason's team. He combines disciplined combat training with a strong sense of responsibility.

Also known as Clive

Appears from the start

The team's specialist in ritual and astral magic. His expertise supports the group's magical research and field work.

Also known as Neil

Appears from the start

The team's healer, defender, and support specialist. His shields and protective abilities keep companions functioning through difficult training and compensate when the group makes tactical mistakes.

Also known as Rufus

Appears from the start

Jason's mentor and one of the friends who first helped him in this world. He supports the team's training while mourning Farrah and recovering from the Builder Cult's island attack.

Appears from the start

A leonid weaponsmith and trusted ally of Jason's group. He contributes equipment and practical support while carrying the loss of Farrah.

Appears from the start

A deceased former teammate whose loss continues to shape Rufus, Gary, and the wider group after the island raid.

Also known as Jory

Appears from the start

An alchemist and healer who is Belinda's partner.

Appears from the start

A powerful patron who supports Jason's associates and research into the sealed astral space.

Appears from the start

Greenstone's Adventure Society director.

Appears from the start

An Old City power broker.

Also known as Danielle

Appears from the start

A silver-rank adventurer of the Geller family.

Also known as Cassandra

Appears from the start

Jason's former partner and Thadwick's sister.

Also known as Thalia

Appears from the start

Thadwick's mother and a senior member of the Mercer family, still tied to the consequences of her son's involvement with the Builder Cult.

Also known as Thadwick

Appears from the start

A compromised member of the Mercer family connected to Builder Cult activity.

Appears from the start

A Greenstone crime lord who claims control over Sophie and regards Jason's interference as a direct challenge to his authority.

Appears from the start

A Magic Society official hostile to Jason and Sophie. His institutional position and knowledge of magical evidence make his opposition especially dangerous.

Also known as Anisa

Appears from the start

A priestess of Purity.

Also known as Shadow of the Reaper

Appears from the start

Jason's shadow familiar and a guide to Reaper knowledge. Multiple bodies support Jason's movement and reconnaissance.

Appears from the start

Jason's force-beam familiar. Gordon supports the team with disruptive ranged attacks.

Appears from the start

Jason's healing familiar.

Appears from the start

Humphrey's small dragon familiar. Stash assists the team through transformation magic.

Also known as Gabrielle

Appears from the start

A priestess of the Goddess of Knowledge and Humphrey's former lover. She brings Jason a collection on matters beyond the world, personally prepared through her goddess's direction.

Appears from the start

A member of Valdis's adventuring team who participates in its training matches against Jason's group.

Appears from the start

The Archbishop of Purity, absent on an unexplained sabbatical while other churches investigate Purity clergy for cooperation with the Builder Cult.

First appears in chapter 5

Humphrey's sister and the bronze-rank supervisor assigned to Jason's road-contract team. She is an experienced minion specialist responsible for judging when the iron-rank group must yield to her.

First appears in chapter 7

The surviving silver-rank leader of the Builder Cult's local force. From the former Vane estate, he oversees a portal operation intended to reclaim the sealed astral space.

First appears in chapter 7

A Builder Cult operative responsible for security and portal preparations at the concealed Vane-estate base.

First appears in chapter 7

The distant power behind the cult's effort to build an astral bridge into the sealed space. Its followers' plan threatens Greenstone and the surrounding region.

First appears in chapter 10

Clive's tortoise familiar. Its elemental powers can be repeatedly replenished by Clive.

First appears in chapter 16

Cole Silva's highly capable abduction specialist, skilled in ritual magic and bone conjuration. He helps arrange Jason's covert capture at a site prepared to defeat ordinary tracking.

First appears in chapter 22

A gold-rank priest of the Church of the Healer who specializes in soul trauma and starseed cases. He examines Jason to determine whether the implantation left any Builder influence behind.

First appears in chapter 33

A researcher investigating Sophie's unknown family background and the assassin-order inheritance taught by Sophie's father.

First appears in chapter 41

A former Blood Cult member who once released Anisa from captivity and has since attached himself to the Builder Cult's operation beneath the Vane estate.

First appears in chapter 70

A dangerous creature that escapes from the opened astral space. Its presence is recognized after portal guards are found drained of magic.

First appears in chapter 71

A diamond-rank servant through whom the Builder can speak. He is also the distant founder of an imperial line whose descendants possess Builder-made guardian golems.

First appears in chapter 74

Jason's sister on Earth and a publicly known celebrity chef. A former detective gives her material concerning the suppressed investigation into her brother's disappearance.

First appears in chapter 74

The investigator assigned to the impossible disappearance of a section of Jason's Melbourne apartment building. He loses his position after resisting official pressure to accept a false explanation.

First appears in chapter 74

A recruiter from an organization opposed to keeping the hidden truth from the public. He offers the former detective a demonstration before asking for any commitment.

First appears in chapter 77

The peak diamond-rank First Servant of the Cult of the World Phoenix. She temporarily delegates her duties while undertaking an assignment connected to the Outworlder.

First appears in chapter 77

A draconian diamond-ranker and Dawn's intended successor. She temporarily assumes the First Servant's duties while Dawn tests whether she is ready to make independent decisions.