II / Book III

Characters
Silhouetted Adversaries

The characters who appear in Silhouetted Adversaries, drawn from the shared cast of the full series.

Azazyel

Semyaza’s opposing answer to guilt, power and the burden of immortality.

One of the two immortal rivals at the center of The Apocrypha’s long conflict.

The Byzantine emperor whose reign frames the opening movement of the six-volume cycle.

Alexios’s formidable mother and a central force within the Komnenian family and imperial court.

Two hundred fallen immortals who entered human history and never escaped its consequences.

Emperors, courtiers, soldiers and families whose finite lives give supernatural history its human consequence.