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Appears from the start

A senior Wanderers ritualist who leads training and construction on Jotunheim while seeking a new way to repair his severely damaged mana foundation. His active magic is limited, but he can still channel mana through his arms for crafting and ritual work.

Appears from the start

Joe's dwarven instructor in mana manipulation. After months of treatment, she has restored less than a third of his mana foundation and believes ordinary methods would require decades to finish the work.

Appears from the start

A dwarf who supervises much of the Wanderers' ritual-combat instruction. He works closely with Joe and maintains a safety ritual that protects marked trainees during dangerous exercises.

Appears from the start

A highly agile trainee in Joe's movement program who is approaching mastery in a jumping discipline.

First appears in chapter 2

A wolfman Grandmaster who leads the Stormbinder's Tower expedition. After her group finds but cannot defeat Jotunheim's elusive World Boss, she asks Joe to devise a dependable method for locating and reaching it.

First appears in chapter 2

Jotunheim's difficult-to-track World Boss, revealed by a failed hunting expedition to be a flaming titan rather than an icy mountain formation.

Also known as Nyanderthal Queen

First appears in chapter 4

A queen who appears as a cat and can perceive karmic obligations. She explains that Joe's bond with Tatum attracts danger and that his lasting divine injury must ultimately be repaired through his own efforts.

First appears in chapter 4

Joe's deity, whose immense unpaid karmic obligation to his first follower has become a force that draws unusually dangerous opportunities toward Joe.

Also known as Mir

First appears in chapter 5

Joe's Sage elementalist mentor. He arrives on Jotunheim after Joe conceals his karmic presence, concerned that the sudden disappearance signals danger to his trainee.

First appears in chapter 8

Joe's alchemist mentor and the principal operator of the evolving Pyramid of Panacea. He rejects Joe's unsafe ichor design and agrees to redesign it in exchange for a major favor.

First appears in chapter 13

A subcommander in the Tower of Defenders Expeditionary Force. He arrives at Joe's wilderness camp while pursuing research that might reveal the World Boss's location.

First appears in chapter 17

A Novusheim smithing Grandmaster whom Joe intends to commission for the artifact and master-rank metal components of his channel-reconstruction equipment.

First appears in chapter 17

A Tower of Rituals mathematician selected to develop the matrix framework for Joe's channel-repair project.

First appears in chapter 19

A Vanaheim merchant who handles cheese as currency. Joe asks him to determine the value and practical restrictions of a large supply of goat cheese.

First appears in chapter 19

A master of the Tower of Blood Rites who leads nine colleagues in forcing Joe into an unequal honor challenge over suspicions that Joe possesses a mythic core.

Also known as Jenna Sequoia

First appears in chapter 21

A prospective student in ritual circles who earns provisional acceptance and organizes applicants by screening them before they approach Joe.

First appears in chapter 21

An enchanter whom Joe approaches for assistance with his recovery project.

Also known as Master Darling

First appears in chapter 22

An expert in token enchantment and enchanted ritual circles. She agrees to create the enchanted-token component of Joe's recovery procedure in exchange for instruction.

First appears in chapter 25

The leader of the Tower of Rituals and the proposed conductor for Joe's eventual grandmaster-scale repair procedure. He offers to coordinate the specialists and tower members needed to perform it.

First appears in chapter 39

Joe's mother and the exclusive merchant for his duchy. She delivers his accumulated cheese taxes and reports that the duchy's trade and food production are expanding rapidly.

First appears in chapter 43

The leader of the Wanderers sect. During the defense of the main mountain, he draws on the members' pooled characteristics and resources to confront the legendary titan directing the assault.