The Legend of Randidly Ghosthound 13 characters

Appears from the start

A powerful image user who accepts command of an elite Fifth Cohort recruit program. He also joins a long-term effort to challenge the Nexus order by exploiting the sealed body of its creator, a plan that first requires military leverage, citizenship, and further research.

Appears from the start

The military authority behind Randidly's appointment as head drill sergeant for the Fifth Cohort recruit program.

First appears in chapter 2

A veteran lieutenant who joins Randidly and his frontline soldiers for training in the Nexus web.

First appears in chapter 2

A Wick-family recruit assigned to enter Randidly's elite program, befriend him, and cultivate his loyalty to her family.

First appears in chapter 6

Randidly's soulbound engraving partner, consulted from afar while he designs the elite recruits' specialized training chambers. Her technical advice helps him build an isolated compound whose secrets can be destroyed after use.

First appears in chapter 7

A foxlike recruit entering the Fifth Cohort program to search for his missing younger brother and help an Aether-starved homeworld.

First appears in chapter 11

The two-tailed fox-person previously seen among Randidly's elite recruits. Raymond is searching for his missing brother, shows unusual physical ability, and helps an exhausted recruit despite his own fatigue.

First appears in chapter 13

Randidly's offworld partner and a formidable Fifth Cohort combatant. She is preparing to deploy with a brigade against the Nether offensive, and Randidly regards her as exceptionally difficult to kill despite his concern about the worsening front.

First appears in chapter 16

Charlotte's quiet, analytical companion in the elite cohort. He studies the changing flow of Randidly's Nether formation, recognizes how it concentrates and disperses through individual recruits, and receives guidance in focus and image control.

First appears in chapter 12

A rogue Nether ruler whose offensive has breached parts of the Nexus Ways, silenced reclaimed worlds, and killed a Commandant. The growing emergency turns Randidly's elite training project into preparation for imminent frontline service.

First appears in chapter 32

A senior military officer who directs security for a commandant's funeral. She belongs to Randidly's alliance seeking to change the leadership of the Nexus.

First appears in chapter 32

A prominent member of the Rex family who secretly wields Nether with greater skill than Randidly believes he possesses.

First appears in chapter 33

An overseer who keeps physical records of the seventh cohort's Aether harvests and belongs to Randidly's alliance. Intruders immobilize and torture him while demanding those records.

First appears in chapter 23

A hostile ram-horned trainee who can manifest weapons from his body. His self-destructive image and reliance on physical movement undermine his control, so Helen assigns corrective meditation and image training.

First appears in chapter 34

An exceptionally powerful veteran carrying a runic greatsword. A Swak-family contractor hires him to assess Randidly, and he accepts after witnessing Randidly travel by portal without the Nexus Ways.

First appears in chapter 52

A demigod who addresses Raymond and the ram-demon recruit through a self-immolating avatar. She promises each trainee a personalized path for completing a five-part mission whose first task forbids skills, images, and killing.

First appears in chapter 53

The royal target of Raymond and the ram-demon recruit's first field assignment. When they reach her damaged rooms, they discover that another party has already abducted her.

First appears in chapter 57

A small, hostile copy formed when an emotional infection mutates flesh severed from Randidly. It is pulled deeper into the Nexus spine, where stronger time distortion helps it develop control over emotions.

First appears in chapter 67

The ram-demon trainee previously subjected to image-free field training alongside Raymond. Diortho is learning to rely on physical ability while confronting the dangerous machine-god image that has resisted his control.

First appears in chapter 72

The tattooed swordsman who twice hunts Randidly. Veliodun is an ancient killer of rising Nexus talents whose near-perfect cutting image has already destroyed the Fifth Cohort training compound and cost Randidly his left arm.

First appears in chapter 77

An officer responsible for Randidly's recruits during their leader's unexplained absence. Haefel has lost contact with Randidly and must manage the cohort while Commandant Wick demands his return before the Fifth Cohort counteroffensive.

First appears in chapter 82

Randidly's separated projected consciousness, left beside his inert body in the Nexus shaft. The Shade protects him while developing a three-layered Nether engraving and searching for a physical medium capable of holding the finished core.

First appears in chapter 83

An imprisoned Nether gatekeeper who agrees to guard Randidly's inert body after the Shade promises to help it escape from the deep Nexus shaft.

First appears in chapter 84

An educator directing the Academy labyrinth on Xperia. Workers identify her as the authority behind the project whose final reward is a massive pillar, a structure the Shade selects as the physical foundation for its Nether core.

First appears in chapter 86

A civic leader helping oversee the Academy labyrinth on Xperia. She discusses its ancient fang reward with Gertrude and believes the world's buried remnants may prove more consequential than the prize currently placed in the labyrinth.

First appears in chapter 99

Raymond recognizes this six-tailed fox as the brother he sought. The fox rejects and gravely injures Raymond, then departs beside an unnamed commander. His remarks expose a thousand-year Nexus effort to tame Nether Kings.