Tarot's Ninth Harbinger characters

Appears from the start

A Divine Apostate and Architect protecting Grave. He begins by examining two defeated deities with his allies, seeking knowledge that may improve godstone research while the collapse of the Pact reshapes the divine balance.

Appears from the start

Ruwen's mind-linked ally and Miranda's daughter. She explains how Miranda helped bring down the Pact, while remaining uncertain about the purpose behind her mother's intervention.

Appears from the start

Keeper of the Shattered Sun and a godstone researcher. His reconstructions can preserve learned capabilities in living dungeon beings without transferring the original person's soul or memories.

Appears from the start

A powerful figure who maneuvered a hostile deity into helping dissolve the Pact and then publicly supported Ruwen. Her motives remain uncertain when her apparent change of alignment is disclosed.

Appears from the start

An independent avatar within Ruwen's inner world. The avatar explains how divine bodies anchor souls and helps Ruwen reason about what would make a deity's death permanent.

First appears in chapter 2

A powerful Black Pyramid figure and Fractal's protective companion. She trades access to her divine realm and other resources for Ruwen's help repairing the prison and returning its captives.

First appears in chapter 2

Ruwen's martial companion, found alive but unconscious after the Black Pyramid crisis.

First appears in chapter 2

Sift's large tortoise companion, found alive but unconscious beside him after the Black Pyramid crisis.

First appears in chapter 2

Sift's partner and one of Ruwen's scouts. She is missing after the divine attack, but Blapy's location marker proves that she is alive and moving south.

First appears in chapter 3

Ruwen's partner, healer, and protector. She tends Sift and his tortoise companion while they remain unconscious, despite finding no ordinary injury that explains their condition.

First appears in chapter 3

The deity associated with Ruwen's nation. At a meeting with Ruwen and three champions, she reports the Pact's end and Miranda's apparent change of allegiance.

First appears in chapter 4

An autonomous and destructive construct formerly housed in Ruwen's mind. By the time Ruwen discusses it, Nameless has departed with the Infernal Lord and become a reason to investigate that enemy.

First appears in chapter 4

A powerful adversary in the Infernal Realm who has received Nameless. Ruwen treats the alliance as dangerous enough to justify a covert mission by Eiru's enhanced champions.

First appears in chapter 5

The intelligence of Eiru's third temple and Ruwen's systems adviser. Ruwen's apostasy has broken normal temple monitoring, prompting Lir to search for a safer way to restore useful status information.

First appears in chapter 6

A golden fortune golem visible in Lir's oldest recovered image. Lir's partial identification suggests Tarot may hold context for encrypted memories and the unfamiliar information now available to Ruwen.

First appears in chapter 7

An autonomous resident of Ruwen's inner world who resembles him and helps assess threats there. Overlord supports Lir's transfer while warning that Ruwen's mental constructs are becoming more capable.

First appears in chapter 8

A drake ally of Blapy who accompanies Ruwen on the expedition into a temporal rift whose nature and dangers are still unknown.

First appears in chapter 12

A drake ally who accompanies Chip and Ruwen into the temporal rift. Stump joins them in the ground engagement against the Nexus facility's mechanical defenders.

First appears in chapter 19

A former researcher whose artifacts and journals remain important to Ruwen. Tarot identifies Penn as the seventh Harbinger and describes his work as driven by a belief that the universe lacked balance.

First appears in chapter 21

A sapient, three-headed guardian blocking the trench where Lylan is believed to be. The Royal Sea Hydra Queen possesses immense regeneration, acid and psychic attacks, and treats Ruwen's party as trespassers.

First appears in chapter 24

A death-affiliated divine figure who approaches while Ruwen works to reunite Lylan with the Royal Sea Hydra Queen on Earth. Her intentions are not yet established at her arrival.

First appears in chapter 27

A Deepwell worker and practical adviser who reports public fear following rumors of Eiru's death. Bliz helps Ruwen assess how sweeping class and civic reforms might affect ordinary people.

First appears in chapter 27

A civic and labor adviser who joins Ruwen and Bliz in responding to national panic. Big D tests reform proposals against their likely social and economic effects.

First appears in chapter 46

The Shattered Sun's quartermaster and a major source of logistical support for Fractal's expanding dungeon. Fluffy's work helps sustain its adventurers, directors, creatures, and growing infrastructure.

First appears in chapter 50

A poison-and-remedy specialist who works through multiple minion bodies. The narrator synchronizes Ruwen's alchemy teams and assigns recipes across the production effort.

First appears in chapter 51

A priest among the Black Pyramid's escaped captives. Blapy warns Ruwen that this figure may be able to make demons resistant to spirit attacks, although soul attacks should remain effective.

First appears in chapter 55

The alchemy narrator identified by name after completing the tenth recipe volume through a minion. Arcanum returns to Ruwen's mind as a Grandmaster Alchemist and accepts his offer of future collaboration.

First appears in chapter 67

A godstone researcher associated with the Shattered Sun. Xavier reports that functioning samples are under test while Ruwen insists that no soul be entrusted to the process before its effects are understood.

First appears in chapter 68

A hostile priest shown bound within the Dark Temple in Coley's detailed records. The temple also contains soul-powered gates and writing in three untranslated Outerverse languages.

First appears in chapter 70

The defender of the last surviving city on a demon-ravaged world and an ally from Ruwen's master's trial. Ruwen recognizes the ally's world when Big D is taken there as bait.

First appears in chapter 78

The Plague Siren's daughter and an aspect of death found mourning in the abandoned central sanctuary. Echo can determine that her mother's soul is absent, placing the loss beyond the healing available to Ruwen's group.