Return of the Runebound Professor 7 characters

Also known as Vermil

Appears from the start

An afterlife survivor occupying Vermil's body. He enters the Line to recover the key that can return his companions to the mortal plane, and uses Empty Proliferation to resist Wizen's attempt to control his mind.

Also known as the Woven Man

Appears from the start

A powerful mage whose body is coming apart in the afterlife. He possesses the key Noah needs and uses formidable mind magic while pursuing an undisclosed purpose on the Line.

First appears in chapter 2

A demon whose soul Noah recognizes among those on the Line. Wizen abandons his original plan and begins using Weave on her, leaving the result uncertain.

Appears from the start

The Lord of Death whose maintained portal lets Noah and Wizen reach the true afterlife. His domain in the Damned Plains provides Noah's only known route back from the Line.

First appears in chapter 2

Wizen's daughter, who has remained on the Line for centuries. Recovering her is the private objective behind his struggle for the key and his forbidden use of Weave.

First appears in chapter 3

An official of the afterlife held responsible when Wizen removes a soul from the Line. Judgment strips her of office, and another god offers her a way to escape that authority.

First appears in chapter 3

A god who observes Renewal's punishment, incapacitates Judgment, and offers Renewal escape. He stands outside the authority that has just condemned her.

First appears in chapter 3

A rank-eleven high god governing Renewal's region of the afterlife. Judgment removes Renewal from her position after Wizen's breach of the Line.

Also known as Moxie Torrin

First appears in chapter 7

Noah's partner and a combat protector. Zath brings her safely to Sievan's domain, where she reunites with Noah as the group searches for a way back to the mortal plane.

First appears in chapter 7

Noah's demon companion, reunited with him in the Damned Plains after Zath brings her and Moxie to Sievan's domain. Her safety is confirmed while the group works to activate Wizen's key.

First appears in chapter 7

Sievan's subordinate, able to travel through a dark portal. He brings Moxie and Lee to the Damned Plains and helps reunite Noah's separated group.

First appears in chapter 8

One of Noah's students and a fire user. He fights a frog-like monster beside Emily, then stays with Isabel's group when advanced-track students try to steal their collected runes.

First appears in chapter 8

A student of Noah who carries the Soulmaster rune. She leads her exam group against hostile advanced-track students and personally forces their leader out of the test.

First appears in chapter 8

An ice-pattern caster among Noah's students. During the exam she fights beside Todd, Isabel, and James, using an ice arrow to remove one of the students trying to steal their runes.

First appears in chapter 8

An allied student who can become invisible. He continues through the survival exam with Isabel, Todd, and Emily while Alexandra takes a separate route.

First appears in chapter 8

Noah's independently minded student. She separates from the others during the survival exam because she wants a greater challenge and trusts herself to face it alone.

First appears in chapter 8

An advanced-track student who leads five others in an attempt to take Isabel's group's collected runes. Isabel forces her out of the survival exam.

First appears in chapter 9

A student attacker working with Jacob. He confronts Isabel's group with three accomplices, extensive soldier equipment, and externally supplied power well beyond an ordinary rank-two student's resources.

First appears in chapter 11

Jacob's student and Alexandra's sword-practice partner. She risks retaliation to warn Alexandra that Isabel's exam pendant was sabotaged and that Jacob intends to kill Isabel.

First appears in chapter 12

A peak rank-four professor who enters the exam to seize Isabel's Soulmaster rune. His plant-root magic overwhelms the students, and he admits that Marley has been acting on his behalf.

First appears in chapter 14

Noah's artifact, capable of communicating by writing on its own pages. When Noah cannot reach his endangered students, it offers an intervention without first explaining the price.

First appears in chapter 14

Noah's familiar, whom he summons while searching for a way to help his endangered students. Mascot cannot carry Noah out of the Damned Plains when ordinary travel is too slow.

First appears in chapter 16

The Linwick family head and a powerful spatial mage monitoring the students' exam. He honors Mascot's written instruction not to intervene even as the hidden observers see the danger worsening.

First appears in chapter 16

Vermil's half-brother and one of the temporary guardians watching over the students. He remains with Jalen and the other observers while Mascot's message directs them not to interfere.

First appears in chapter 16

A combat instructor and cautious ally of Noah's group. He monitors the exam with Jalen and Brayden, trusting Mascot's warning despite the students' immediate peril.

First appears in chapter 16

A water mage who supports Jacob's plot and appears after the grimoire's manifestation withdraws. He heals Jacob and renews the attack on the exhausted students.

First appears in chapter 19

The divine source whose power binds Lee's original demon rune to her body and soul. Lee reaches into that source after breaking the seal on the corrupted rune.

First appears in chapter 23

An Inquisitor who independently investigates missing officials, demonic traces, and suppressed records around Arbitage. He confronts the Linwick patriarch and collapses after attacking him.

First appears in chapter 23

A Linwick family leader confronted during an inquiry into demonic activity around Arbitage. He admits a past connection to demons, withstands the Inquisitor's attack, and incapacitates him through an unexplained power.

Also known as Yoku

First appears in chapter 25

A masked demon who confirms that Yoru and Yoku are both her names. She joins Noah's demon group as its members meet his students and allies in the mortal plane.

First appears in chapter 25

A protective demon allied with Noah and an older sibling to younger demons in the group. Violet promises to defend Noah's people unless they endanger those under that protection.

First appears in chapter 25

Violet's younger sibling, with an involuntary ability to examine or consume runic energy. He accidentally hurts Todd while trying to understand how the student's fire magic works.

First appears in chapter 26

A powerful investigator who memorizes the world's runic patterns closely enough to detect concealed planar intrusions. She traces Noah's unauthorized return and moves toward the resulting disturbance.

First appears in chapter 26

A dangerous intruder who uses crimson energy to forcibly reshape a wounded captive's body and voice. He remains active while searching for his missing face.

First appears in chapter 34

Yoru's coercive master rune, which has directed her actions and denied her meaningful choice. Yoru withdraws power from it and avoids future sight while seeking Noah's help to break its control.

First appears in chapter 28

The identity Noah plans to use at a major auction while keeping the supposedly dead Vermil out of public view.

First appears in chapter 42

A rank-seven apostle who arrives after sensing divine power and challenges Garina's explanation for Noah's presence. He has previously matched Garina in a spar and refuses to accept her cover story without scrutiny.

First appears in chapter 50

A concealed high-ranked demon who speaks for the demons hidden throughout the auction house.

First appears in chapter 51

A female operative in the demon seizure of the auction house. She is strong enough to participate in the takeover, but Jalen captures her decisively with spatial magic.

First appears in chapter 57

An unseen organizer who reportedly arranged the demon operation at the auction through lethal red-energy portals. The contact ordered chaos and selected killings while hiding both an identity and the object being sought.

First appears in chapter 60

An unidentified powerful figure who decides to redirect the Church of Repose after learning that it sent a rank-eight searcher into his domain. He detects the birth of chaos in the Arbalest Kingdom, but his identity remains unresolved.

First appears in chapter 63

An Arbitage associate who has maintained Vermil's old room and helped care for Mascot during his absence. She discovers that Vermil has returned with Moxie, students, and demon companions.

First appears in chapter 64

An Advanced Track professor who arrives at Vermil's room and discovers him alive among his demon companions.

First appears in chapter 67

A transport-cannon researcher and spatial mage trusted with the depleted key. His independent measurements suggest that magical conditions change systematically toward the Empire's boundaries.

First appears in chapter 71

The cloaked intruder deep within the breached Linwick archives. He effortlessly disperses Jalen's concentrated spatial attack before revealing their relationship.