The Primal Hunter 3 characters
By Zogarth
Every entry below is hidden until you open it, and each names the chapter the character first appears in.
Jake Thayne (Protagonist)
Also known as Jake
Appears from the start
A hunter, archer, and alchemist linked to the Malefic Viper. Jake hunts in the upper atmosphere with a wind hawk while his primordial patron watches his progress and considers him an unusually promising ally.
Malefic Viper (Supporting)
Also known as Villy
Appears from the start
A primordial god, Jake's patron, and the source of his alchemical legacy. He begins rebuilding the Malefic Order, recalls former members to leadership, and treats Jake as a friend instead of an ordinary subordinate.
Hawkie (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 4
The wind-manipulating hawk who hunts beside Jake and corrects his aerial movement. Jake gives him the name Hawkie after their partnership carries them into battles against the cloud continent's elementals.
Miranda Wells (Supporting)
Also known as Miranda
First appears in chapter 6
The Principal City Lord managing a tiny pylon settlement for its absent, undisclosed owner. She studies the settlement interface, plans for future residents, and worries that its four occupants cannot withstand a stronger group alone.
Hank (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 6
One of the four original residents of the hidden pylon settlement. He belongs to Miranda's small group and helps maintain the foothold while its owner is away.
Louise (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 6
One of the hidden settlement's original residents and Hank's daughter. She is part of Miranda's small group holding the valley in its owner's absence.
Neil (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 8
A space and kinetic caster leading a displaced five-person team. Repeated long-distance escapes have brought his group to the valley, where he asks Miranda for temporary refuge and possible cooperation.
Eleanor (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 8
The archer and scout in Neil's team. She enters the valley ahead of her companions to examine the settlement before the stronger visiting party approaches Miranda's group.
Christen (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 8
Neil's defender and blacksmith. She arrives with his displaced team while Silas continues treating a curse-related wound that has resisted a quick recovery.
Silas (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 8
The healer and lie detector in Neil's five-person team. He treats Christen's lingering wound and helps the visitors test what Miranda's group says about the valley and its unseen owner.
Levi (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 8
A magic-swordsman hybrid and one of Neil's long-standing companions. He reaches the valley with the rest of the displaced party after their repeated spatial escapes.
Abby (Antagonist)
First appears in chapter 9
Neil's cousin, a rival inheritor of a powerful space-mage path, and leader of the force pursuing his team. She can track Neil through his inherited class and the legendary spatial orb he won.
Donald (Antagonist)
First appears in chapter 11
Abby's father and a manipulative leader among the forces besieging the lodge. He tries to pressure Miranda into surrender after the defenders retreat behind overlapping barriers.
Brimstone Hegemon (Antagonist)
First appears in chapter 17
The god who rules the Brimstone Conglomerate and rejects the returning Malefic Order's ultimatum. The Malefic Viper responds by entering his divine realm.
Jacob (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 20
The Augur of Hope who directs a coordinated assault on a pylon defender. His class prevents him from joining the battle directly, so he guides the rituals, containment, ranged attacks, and explosives that secure victory.
Caleb (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 22
Jake's brother and the principal authority within Earth's Court of Shadows. He directs his faction's prolonged hunt for a pylon defender while enduring the mental pressure of a dangerous darkness-and-lightning legacy.
Umbra (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 22
The god connected to Caleb's dangerous legacy. Umbra directed Caleb to accept the darkness-and-lightning power now used by the Court of Shadows.
Mystie (Supporting)
Also known as Mystsong Hawk
First appears in chapter 26
A D-grade Mystsong Hawk, Hawkie's mate, and guardian of their egg. Jake names her Mystie as the hawks prepare a records-enhancing incubation ritual and ask him to contribute the Storm Elemental's orb.
Casper (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 27
A leader at a death-affinity pylon settlement. He prepares a ritual intended to let living people join the undead, but refuses to regard his deceased girlfriend Lyra as a resource to be spent.
Lyra (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 27
Casper's deceased girlfriend, now a Blight Wraith bound to him through a legendary locket. Others see her as an extension of Casper's power, an interpretation he firmly rejects.
Priscilla (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 27
Casper's co-operator in preparing a large underground ritual for living people who wish to become undead. She urges him to treat Lyra's condition as a usable advantage.
Lillian (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 29
Miranda's assistant and a member of the delegation sent to contact the nearby fort. She travels beside Miranda as Jake's settlement begins negotiating from a position of superior force.
Mikkel (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 29
The level-49 leader of a sixteen-person caravan newly accepted into the settlement. He joins Miranda's party on its first direct approach to the nearby fort.
Phillip (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 30
The suspicious leader of a nearby fort. He initially keeps Miranda's delegation at a distance because he fears that negotiation skills could influence him.
Minotaur Mindchief (Antagonist)
First appears in chapter 37
A sapient D-grade bovine controller holding human captives under mental domination. It engineered repeated herd attacks on the fort to strengthen both the human defenders and a future D-grade herd leader.
Sylphie (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 42
The newly hatched daughter of Hawkie and Mystie. The female chick begins gaining levels almost immediately while her parents and Jake share in her early care.
Carmen (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 43
A regenerative pugilist whose power rises as her health falls. She returns to defeat the Slothful Warden, the final boss she failed to reach during her tutorial, and dedicates the victory to Valhall.
Indigo Fungus Mycorrhiza (Antagonist)
First appears in chapter 44
An underground fungal creature that Jake identifies as the target of his specialized fungicide work.
Kenneth (Antagonist)
First appears in chapter 46
A level-62 preacher leading roughly four hundred followers. He seeks a meeting with Haven's owner and presses Miranda for permission to establish a major temple in the growing settlement.
Ladies of the Verdant Lagoon (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 47
Three allied gods affiliated with the Malefic Viper. They invite Miranda to their realm and offer her a blessing because of her service as Jake's city lord.
Felix (Minor)
First appears in chapter 63
A Haven sculptor and former combat fire mage who now shapes stone, metal, and glass through craftwork. He accepts a confidential city-office audition to produce statues for a temple under construction.
Bertram (Minor)
First appears in chapter 59
Jacob's standing guardian at a Sanct Domo leadership meeting. He remains close while the noncombatant Augur directs the immense pylon city's affairs.
Wind Hawk (Supporting)
Appears from the start
An unnamed wind-manipulating hawk who hunts beside Jake and helps him improve his movement in the air.
Mark (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 6
One of the hidden settlement's four original residents and Hank's son. He helps maintain the small foothold while its owner is absent.
Chris (Minor)
First appears in chapter 13
A surviving follower of Abby and Donald who reports that Donald murdered his sister, helping Jake assess the pair's treatment of their own people.
Mystsong Hawk (Supporting)
First appears in chapter 23
A D-grade Mystsong Hawk guarding an egg while her mate gathers resources for its incubation formation.
Arnold (Minor)
First appears in chapter 51
A Haven craftsperson who makes the eleven timed injectors commissioned for Jake's prepared operation against the underground fungus.
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