Characters

## Main Characters

### Kuro Hayashi

> *"Around twelve years old. Moderately malnourished. Rather small for his age. Brown eyes, brown hair, unusually large ears."*
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The protagonist of the series. A down-on-his-luck servant of the sadistic wizard Phineas Hearn.

After Hearn's arrest, he is driven to theft to survive, and is dubbed by the media the "Winking Weasel" as a result of the IOU notes left after each theft. His last name was given to him by De Rigueur after the Black Forest in Germany. However Kuro's name actually translated to ninth and not black. His familiar is a racoon.

### Phineas Hearn

Kuro's Master and general neer-do-well. He was part of the group that killed the Royal Family of Summer. He also is a master Neuromancer, his familiar is a crow that follows kuro around.

## Students

### Charlie (Charlotte) Cook

>  *"She was thin and lanky and at least a head taller than Kuro. Her wiry dirty-blonde hair was rapidly escaping the short braids it had been put into."*
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Kuro's best friend, and general chatterbox who never fails to say what is on her mind. Her mother was a witch from Tirnanog, and her father is a stray. She grew up on a farm in the Western Wildlands, keeping many magical creatures as well as some ordinary animals including a dog named Ralph. She is also very good at controlling things with her mind, Unfortunately she tends to get distracted easily. She has a wide imagination and is a very good storyteller. She is the person who got the group together. She and Marie share a room. Her familiar is named Henrettia and is a unicorn.

### Marie Akinwande

Francophone blandlander and firefly, with no previous connection to the fey realm. She was discovered to have the ability to change the colour of coloured pencils. When angry she swears a lot. Out of the four, she is the most intelligent. She also has many siblings which has trained her to be able to ignore others and concentrate on what she is doing. She is also an expert liar and is roommates with Charlie. Her familiar is a raven.

### Arthur Wood

> *"Arthur was a thin boy, rather tall, and unusually well groomed compared to the rest of the residents of the hall."*
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Kuro's typically silent and shy roommate at the Academy. He adores his father a lot and loves a good mystery. Sometimes he will jot down clues to a particular mystery in his journal. His familiar changes form and shape, not getting the same one every time,

### Evelyn Lemieux d’Ys

> *"Father is seventeenth in line for the Winter throne, and Mother is a second cousin of the Spring queen"*
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A high born student in Kuro's year. Generally stuck-up and looks down on the poorer students. She is a favourite of the potion teacher, De Riguer. Her familiar is a lioness.

### Meredith Thrump

> *"A head taller than the next tallest student and built like the ferry they had been riding."*
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A half-ogre (on her mother's side) high school student. An orphan. She enjoys playing lacrosse. Also because she is half-ogre, she has the ability to eat rocks.

### Belladonna Lamorak

Goes by Bella. A petty thief, alongside onetime boyfriend Seph. Steals some shoes from Mr Schumacher that lead to the inciting incident that gets Kuro caught.

### Azalea Lamorak

> *"Azalea was a year younger than Kuro and had not yet started school. ... Within an hour of meeting, she had declared herself his mortal enemy."*
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Bella's younger sister, is a very fierce warrior who is obsessed with becoming a knight and is very sickly. Hates Kuro and is very serious when it comes to honour and protecting the Royal Family of Summer. She and Moira O'Muirias are best friends due to their obsession with protecting the Royal Family and together they created the Avalon Royal Defence League.

### Joseph

Petty thief, alongside onetime girlfriend Bella.

### Sean Cassidy

> *"He was a pale boy with startling orange hair and green eye. He would look every bit the part of a prince of the Summer Court if it weren't for his poor posture and crooked teeth."*
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Gay, a stray, and in love with Gregory. He shares a room with Oliver. His familiar is a hummingbird.

### Ali Khaldun

In the same year as Kuro and is a fellow Autumn Lodger.

### Morgana (Morgan) Greenwood

A fellow Lodger who is the same age as Kuro. She prefers to being called Morgan.

### Magna Singh

> *"She looked a bit of an oddity, with features of an Alfheim elf - tall and broad, with bright golden eyes - but her skin and hair were much too dark."*
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Same year as Kuro and stays at the Autumn Lodge. Her roommate is Jennifer.

### Merissa Klepmann

Is friends with Evelyn and is a Charmed Daughter of the Summer Court,

### Sara Mahdavi

A friend of Evelyn and is a Charmed Daugter of the Summer Court.

### Oliver Kagen

He is a shy boy who lives in the Autumn Lodge and is in the same year as Kuro. He shares a room with Sean.

### Jennifer Tanaka

Fellow lodger and same age as Kuro. She shares a room with Magna.

### Abigail

A Summerhill resident who is the same year as Kuro.

### Arie Vanderbosch

A firefly who uses Bandlander terms to help understand evocation. He is one year older than Kuro and stays at the Bytown Royal Orphanage with Meredith, Bella and Johannes.

### Moira O'Muirias

> "She was like an unpolished miniature copy of her mother. She had the same auburn hair and light eyes, wore a similar grey coat over her new school uniform, and struck the same pose, while carrying none of the grandeur. She was like a kitten beside a tiger.
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## Teachers

### Principal Liath McCutcheon

> *The woman was a middle-aged witch in a long black skirt, with a tweed jacket over a white blouse that had a collar so stiff it could stop an axe. She had black hair streaked with grey, all pulled back tightly into a bun, which emphasized the severe look on her face. She wore cat’s-eye glasses, further enhancing the sternness of her features. Her grey eyes were cold as stone, and her lips were so pursed they looked like a raisin.*
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Principal of Avalon Junior High, teaches spellcraft. She is a strict teacher who knows how to command a class. Despite her strict nature she does care about her students, every year giving a Solstice present to those who stay in the school for the holiday. Her favourite sweet is licorice and every year in the Solstice present that she gives she always includes a bit of licorice.

Also at the beginning of every year she will inspect students entering the school as to ensure that they meet up to her expectations when it comes to tidiness.

### Principal Thrymson

> *Thrymson looked like a man hewn from stone, his face and hair grey with age, his skin chiselled with wrinkles like crevices.*
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Principal of Avalon High. Just like Principal McCutcheon he is also very strict. He also has a bit of an Elvish Accent in his voice.

### Vice Principal Sycamore Flint

> *The man looked prematurely old. His hair sat unevenly, brushed up from one side in a poor attempt to hide his balding head. His face was creased with lines from prematurely scowling eyes and sneering lips. He wore glasses low on his nose so he could gaze disdainfully over them at students.*
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Vice Principal of Avalon Junior High. Delights in meting out punishments and is in charge of discipline.

### Ms. Beatrice Crawley

> *She wore large round glasses and a neatly tailored grey morning coat, which together made her look an awful like her barn owl familiar.*
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Spellcraft teacher who is very good at reading minds and knows how to quieten a class.

### Professeur Gustave De Rigueur

> *He was an old man with thin and bony fingers and drooping features, though he carried himself like a Spring prince: haughty, melancholic, and detached. He wore a gaudy wig of white curls and powdered his face heavily to hide his wrinkles. He spent most of the class reclining on a velvet chaise longue he had in the classroom, draped in a silk smoking jacket*
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Alchemy teacher who favours those from rich families or with a high status. He was once an Ambassador to Takamagahara.

Bad at evaluations, good at classism.

### Ms. Frigard

> *Ms. Frigard, was as elven as could be; tall, strong, and blond, with golden tan skin and bright golden eyes.*
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Elvish teacher. Is very quick as writing and erasing words.

### Mrs. Lovelace

Numerology teacher. A Tirnanogian woman. She is very particular, only walking in a straight line and when having to turn, turns on the spot at a very specific angle which she would calculate with a huge brass protracter. Her classroom has many tapestries and the desks are places according to a complex set of mathematical rules which result in them being placed in a disorderly manner. She speaks in sentences of prime numbers of syllabus as she thinks its the most effective in remembering concepts.

### Mr. Stanislav Ogonov

> *He was a rather small man, thin and balding, with pointed features and a crooked nose. What hair he did have was groomed so that it stood straight out the sides, and his beard was greased into a fine point, giving his whole head the look of a triangle balanced on one end. Perhaps to distract from his unimpressive stature he dressed flamboyantly.*
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Evocations teacher. Very convincing and good at performing for an audience. He also likes to overdress.

### Mr. Widdershins

> *He was young enough to have been confused for one of the high school students*
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Social Studies Teacher, he is very shy and rarely does any magic in class but is very good at his subject.

### Talen Dubois

> *He was called Loup-Garrot across the eastern lands of Acadia, Fenrisúlfr in Alfheim, and the Dread Wolf throughout Tirnanog. A very commanding and dominating presence, his familiar Garmir is always at his side.*
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Head of the Hounds

### Sabine El-Assar

From the Office of Orphan Affairs. A therapist or guidance counselor for Kuro. Also works with Meredith Thrump and many other orphans.

## Others

### Dani the birdlady (Bandlands Warden)

> *She had short grey hair but youthful features that made it hard to guess her age.*
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Works as the Bandlands Warden, is a bandlander who drives Bandlanders away from the veil and fishes out students from the waters. She is friends with Principal McCutcheon and likes books, cats and birds hence why she's called "the Bird Lady". She now keeps Greaea after Dubois gave it to her. She renamed her as "Grey". Before Greaea she had another cat that died the year before Kuro started school.

### Helena Vigdis

A victim of Phineas Hearn. Mind controlled for years into raising Kuro as a child. Eventually she escaped and informed The Guard of Hearn's location. Hearn escaped the Guard, and killed Helena in revenge. Charlie’s mother.

### Father John

A deceased (but still practicing) reverend at a burnt out church in Detritus Lane. Always yelling but is very kind hearted and hates violence.

### Mr. Schumacher

Proprietor of a shoe shop called Wing-Tips in Detritus Lane. Gives Kuro a free pair of shoes.

### Graeae

> *Graeae was a fairly weaselish cat. She was long and thin, and her frostbitten ears were stubby and round.*
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A cat. Adopted by Kuro at the Church. Kuro's drawing of Graeae on the IOU notes is misinterpreted as a winking weasel. After he goes to Avalon, Dubois gives Graeae to Dani the Birdlady who lives just outside the veil. Dani calls Graea, Grey.

### Margret the bear

The bear that transports the Autumn Lodger's luggage.

### Welk

> *He wore an ornately sculpted beard and moustache and a scarlet red hat.*
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Is one of the lutin working at the Autumn Lodge. He is very friendly and is friends with Meredith.

#### Bindal

A young lutein child who calls kuro a ‘monster’ later befriending him. He is kuro’s half brother.

### Mr Jellico

> *He was so old and withered that his wrinkles had their own wrinkles, and his jowls and earlobes dropped down to nearly meet his collar.*
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The wizard who Dubois brought in to tests Kuro for curses.

### Ms. Emily Wong

> *She wore heavy boots, thick overalls, and a workman's gloves. On her head was a hard brass helmet with a bright light shining from the front of it and a pair of goggles so greasy she probably couldn't see through them. Around her neck hung several compasses, each of her pockets were jammed with maps and notebooks. Her age and features were impossible to discern under the layers of filth that coated her.*
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A stray who works at the Lost and Found below the Granite Citadel and is afraid of Dubois. She also doesn't believe in using things that aren't yours, even if they were in the Lost and Found.

### Mr. Cook

> "He was broad and sturdy, built up from a lifetime of labour without the aid of magic, and wore as much dirt as denim."
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Charlie's Father and a stray farmer, he drives around in a red pick-up truck.

### Dame Aine O'Muirias

Mother of Arthur and Moira, she is one of the Defenders of the Sun throne. She is intimidating, but knows how to put people at ease. A Tirnanogian, she is married to Talen Dubois.

### Willis Nguyen

> "Neither tall nor short, dull brown hair, well fed."
> A Bandlander Lodger who is in the same year as Meredith.
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