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Jiao

**Jiao** was an American Natural Akharu Heretic.

## Biography

Jiao was admitted to a hospital in New York City. The doctors were unable to cure her illness and so made her as comfortable as possible before waiting for her to inevitably pass away.

Jiao spotted Tiras standing in the doorway and tried to talk to him. She spoke with Tiras and, over a very short time, he came to care for her. Unable to bear the thought of her death, Tiras shared his blood with her to turn her into an Akharu Hybrid. The two of them escaped from the hospital in the middle of the night and began to travel together while he told her the truth of his existence and origin.

Jiao stayed with Tiras and the two of them became inseparable. When she became pregnant with their daughter, Asenath, they settled down on a large ranch. She and Tiras raised their daughter, feeding on the livestock they raised and the occasional bandit.

When Tiras' friends tracked him down to tell him that the Vestil had not given up their attempts to eliminate the Akharu, Tiras convinced Jiao to stay with Asenath even though she wanted to come.

At some point, Jiao met and fell in love with LIang. The two of them would go on to have a daughter together, Reathma, but would be forced to give her up for adoption in order to protect her from Liang's enemies.

When Jiao stepped into the light of the pavilion that Asenath, Felicity Chambers, Shiori Porter and Columber Porter were at, she was immediately greeted by her daughter. She greeted Asenath back before she told Columbus that she called Asenath "Sunny" because she had always been her sun when he asked her if she had meant "Senny". She went on to tell him that she did know of him and thanked him for being a good brother and thanked Felicity for helping her.

Shiori told Jiao that she didn't know her but that she was her mother. She told Shiori that she wanted to be there for her, that she wanted her, but that she wanted her safe and that she wasn't after what had happened. Shiori asked about her father and she told her that he would be there if he could, but that she was afraid that his enemies had caught up with him. Jiao told her that she hadn't given up searching for him and that she would find him if he was alive.

## Physical appearance

Jiao is described as a woman that looks to be in her mid-twenties with amber colored eyes and long hair tied into a braid. She has a sort of fragile china-doll type appearance everywhere but her eyes. She wears a long coat over black slacks and a white shirt with an elegant flower design going up one side along with a leather satchel.
Manakel

**Manakel** was a Seosten. He is on assignment on Earth to gain access to Hieronymus Bosch's Blood Vault before the Heretics do.

## Biography

Around 3,000 years ago, Manakel was part of a group of Seosten operatives and infiltrators on Earth, portraying himself as the Olympian God Hades.

## Physical appearance

Manakel is described as an older man, with blue eyes and a receding hairline, with a noted likeness to James Spader. He wears a three piece suit and a fedora.

## Abilities and skills

* **Necromancy**: Manakel had the power to manipulate the dead. He could use this power to resurrect creatures back with weakened versions of their powers.
* **Possession**: Manakel had the power to possess living creatures and gain complete control of their actions by doing so.

## Appearances

* *Heretical Edge (webserial series)*

**Olympians**
Jiorge Taklen

**Jiorge Taklen** was an Alter.

## Biography

In 2018, Jiorge was captured by Kegt and taken to Los Angeles in the back of a semi truck with several others Alters. Jiorge and the others were subsequently rescued by Mateo's Pack.

Jiorge was later approached by Pace and Roxa Pittman who, after revealing that Jeanne d’Arc had sent them, asked him if he could create a spell that could act as a beacon. When he asked them why they would need a spell like that, Roxa told him that they needed it to help them find the prison that someone close to her had been imprisoned within.

## Physical appearance

Jiorge is described as a short man with dark orange skin lined with wrinkles and light green hair.

## Abilities and skills

"*Jeanne d’Arc told us that you... you specialize in communication spells, homing spells, that kind of thing. She said Jiorge Taklen can beat any privacy magic in the world, that your communication spells can't be blocked.*"
—Roxa Pittman to Jiorge Taklen

* Communication Spells: Jiorge is known to specialize in communication spells. According to Jeanne d’Arc, his communication spells can't be blocked.
Ricky Gileo

**Ricky Gileo** was a Stardrinker.

## Physical appearance

Ricky is described as an overweight man. He dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and baggy cargo pants.

## Abilities and skills

* **Electrokinesis**: Ricky had the power to create, shape, and manipulate electricity.
	+ **Solid Energy Constructs**: Ricky had the power to turn electricity into tools, objects, or weapons made out of solid energy.
Lyell Atherby

**Lyell Atherby** was a Natural Heretic, father of Joshua Atherby, grandfather of Joselyn Atherby, and great-grandfather of Wyatt Rendell, Abigail Fellows, and Felicity Chambers.

Lyell was one of the Heretics that dealt with and was betrayed by Fossor when he unleashed the Black Death. He died within the next decade.

## Physical appearance

Lyell is described as a five and a half foot tall man with shoulder-length straight brown hair, a well-cared for mustache and goatee, and brown eyes.

## Appearances

* *Heretical Edge (webserial series)* (Mentioned only)
Ankh

**Ankh** was a Eden's Garden Hangman Heretic.

## Biography

Six months before the Suspects arc, Ankh's grandmother's ring was stolen from him by a bunch of other students. He told them that it was his grandmother's ring and pleaded for them to return it only for them to tell him that he would have to do the ritual that they had all done. He told them that it was stupid and that someone was going to get hurt, and they told him to grow a pair.

Ankh told Javier that he didn't want to do it as it was stupid and Javier told him that he would have to start acting stupid if he wanted the ring back. Javier made to through the ring into the portal, but stopped when Miranda stepped into plain sight and told him to give Ankh the ring back. Javier mocked him and said that he would need a ring to propose to his little girlfriend before he threw the ring through the portal.

Ankh threw himself threw the portal after the ring. He whirled around when he heard Miranda asked him where they were before he asked her what she was doing. Miranda told him that she was helping him. He told her that they had been transported in a place in South Carolina enchanted to lure and trap mindless Strangers inside of it and that every once in a while, the guys send someone in to kill whatever shows up.

When Miranda told him that was one of the dumbest things she had ever heard, Ankh told her that he knew that already and that he didn't want to do this but that he had to find the ring. He asked Miranda if she had heard something and scanned the room until she pointed to the middle of the corridor. He cursed and told Miranda to get back to the portal before he pulled out a machete from his belt. He cursed when he saw a duplicate of the Stranger.

The Stranger duplicated until it was spread over both sides of them. Miranda repeated the fact that this place only attracted pests. He told Miranda that it was a stupid game and that the Stranger would keep duplicating until they found the source and killed it. Miranda weakly told him that she would take one side and he the other before he told her for the record that the guys were idiots and that he wouldn't mind dating her.

At some point after that, Ankh was knocked unconscious. Miranda protected him and managed to kill the leader of the Strangers.

## Physical appearance

Ankh is described as a boy with dark hair tied back with a green bandanna.

## Possessions

* **Machete-Blade**: Ankh's Heretical Weapon is a heavy-looking machete-blade.

## Appearances

* *Heretical Edge (webserial series)*

 Children of Bosch Tribe | Prestor Cannon ·
 Dust Striders Tribe | Alexander Helios ·
 Eternal Eye Tribe | Ikita ·
Noble ·
 Fate's Shepards Tribe | Jack Childs ·
 Lost Scar Tribe | Aconitum ·
Remember Bennett ·
Doxer (deceased) ·
Zoya Dalal ·
Vanessa Holt (deceased) ·
 Reapers Tribe | Josie ·
Aniyah Keita ·
Weston Marrero ·
 Remnant Guardians Tribe | Benedict Arnold ·
Hannah Beckman ·
 Vigilant Sons Tribe | Carseus Elsen ·
Fu Hao ·
Seller ·
 Eden's Garden defectors | Abigail Fellows ·
Avalon Sinclaire ·
Haiden Moon ·
Gambol ·
Hisao ·
Pace ·
 Eden's Garden locations | Eden ·
Tree of Knowledge ·
Chamber of Victories
Kenkean

**Kenkean** are a race of humanoid Strangers.

## Physical description

### Physical appearance

Kenkean are more ant-like than humans, looking like humanoid ants. Their bodies are divided into three sections (abdomen, thorax and head) and stacked vertically. They have four legs coming out of their abdomens and four arms coming out of their thoraxes, two at the top and two at the bottom. Their heads look like giant ant-heads with sharp mandibles.

## References

1. ↑ *Heretical Edge*; A Different Kind Of Hunt, 31-03
Jekern

**Jekern** are a race of warthog-like Strangers.

### Abilities

Jekern are able to grow miniature clones of themselves within their body once they or one of their clones reach a certain size.

According to Professor Katarin, Jekern organs are small and very efficient and located inside the heavy, thick bones that made up their skeletal structure. They have a half dozen small stomachs stuffed inside the bones for protection and to save room for the nutrient sack where the next Jekern is curled up. That Jekern will have a smaller version inside of its chest and stomach area, and so on until the Jekern reaches the size of a human being's palm.

Upon the death of the original Jekern, the Jekern inside it will tear itself free of its nutrient sack. There are eight Jekern in a Jekern a little over six feet in height and each one that emerge are smaller, faster, and meaner than the ones that came before.

## References

1. ↑ *Heretical Edge*; Begin Again, Mini-Interlude 3 – Shiori
Elisabet

**Counselor Elisabet** (b. 10 January, 1635) was a Spanish Crossroads Hangman Heretic and a Natural Ramidreju Heretic. At some point, she joined the Committee and became responsible for the security and defense of Crossroads' Earth-based holdings.

## Physical appearance

Elisabet is described as a Spanish-looking woman.

## Magical abilities and skills

* **Terrakinesis**: Elisabet inherited the power to create, shape, and manipulate earth and earthen elements from a Ramidreju.
* **Aurokinesis**: Elisabet inherited the power to create, shape, and manipulate gold from a Ramidreju. She could make gold "hard as the toughest steel", allowing her to use it as weapons to fight with or spikes at the bottom of a pitfall trap.
* **Healing**: Elisabet inherited the power to heal a living being's injuries from a Ramidreju.
	+ **Gold Cost**: If Elisabet saved a living being's life with her power, she could inflict a "gold cost" that would strip the living being of their free will and make them follow her orders unquestionably. This cost would permanently strip the free will of an animal, but only temporarily strip the free will of a Human or Alter.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ Word of God - Elisabet was born in Spain.
Jue

**Counselor Jue** (b. 3 April, 1779) was a Chinese Crossroads Hangman Heretic and a Natural Dokkaebi Heretic. At some point, she became a part of the Committee and became responsible for magical research.

## Biography

### Early Life

Very little is known of Jue's early life.

### Before Orientation

On 3 September, 2017, Jue met with the Crossroads Committee to discuss and vote on whether or not they should allow Felicity Chambers into Crossroads Academy. She voted to disallow Felicity into the school because she was worried about the damage that Felicity could to their society if she was working with her mother. When the Committee failed to come to an agreement on the matter even after they had cast their votes five times, it became up to Gaia Sinclaire to decide whether or not to allow Felicity into the school.

### Most Dangerous Game

Jue attended the meeting of the Crossroads Committee that was held to talk to Felicity and Avalon about the latest attempt on Avalon's life. Jue told the Committee that it had gotten off-track talking about whether or not people from Crossroads could have been involved in the previous attempts on Avalon's life and then asked her to continue.

## Physical appearance

Jue is described as an Asian woman with features more handsome than pretty and strikingly violet eyes.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ Word of God - Jue was born in China.
Peridle

**Peridle** are a race of Strangers.

## Physical description

### Physical appearance

Peridles are small Strangers that look like a poodle crossed with a coackroach. Peridles have six legs and are covered in dark brown shells with patches of fur.

### Abilities

Peridles are known to be dangerous in packs, but are almost entirely useless on their own. Peridles can regenerate.

## Uses

One of the first things that Crossroads Heretics have new students do is to kill a Peridle. It allows students to learn what it is like to absorb a Stranger's power and to kill something that doesn't look like a human.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Heretical Edge*; First Steps, 2-05
Jazz Rhodes

## Jasmine Rhodes

**Jasmine "Jazz" Rhodes** (b. 1999/2000) was an American Crossroads Hangman Heretic.

## Physical appearance

Jasmine is described as a fairly tall black girl with long hair that is dyed purple on one side and pink on the other.

## Abilities and skills

As a Crossroads Hangman Heretic, she was immune to the Bystander Effect, capable of utilizing magic and absorbing the powers from the Strangers or Heretics that she kills.

* **Gravikinesis**: Jazz had the power to create gravitational spheres that attracted matter and energy towards themselves.
* **Invisibility**: Jazz had the power to render herself invisible.
* **Intangibility Infusion**: Jazz had the power to infuse intangibility into objects.
* **Nephokinesis**: Jazz had the power to transform herself into mist.
* **Thiriokinesis**: Jazz had the power to vocally control non-intelligent animals that she comes into eye contact with.

## Possessions

* **Heretical Weapon**: Jazz's Heretical Weapon was a falchion. Her falchion had a hidden barrel inside of it could produce flames that she could control with motions of the sword.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ Word of God - Jazz has to be born by the end of October 1999 in order to attend Crossroads Academy at the age of 17 on 3 September 2017. Had she been born in November 1999, she would only be 16 on 3 September 2017.
2. ↑ Word of God - Jazz was born in Arizona.
New York Minutemen

The **New York Minutemen** was the name by which the Crossroads Hangman Heretics operating within the Clocktower in New York, New York was known. The Crossroads Hangman Heretics was called to respond to any crises within minutes of it happening.

## History

"*About a quarter of the guys assigned here switched to our side in the war and sabotaged this place so they couldn’t ambush Alters so much. Took them years to put it back together from all the damage we did to it. Wonder if they just stuck the same guys back here after wiping their memories…*"
—Deveron Adams
Eden's Garden

**Eden's Garden** is a Heretic school located on Eden.

## Location

### Grounds

Eden's Garden is described by Miranda as the most beautiful, lush and vibrant area that she has ever seen. It is a forest of giant trees that stretches on for hundreds of miles in every direction. The area between the trees was filled flowers as tall as a human teenager in every color of the rainbow and wide fields of grass where normal animals can mingle alongside "acceptable" magical creatures that Eden's Garden cultivates.

The Tree of Knowledge stands twice as tall as any other tree in the forest with eight branches wide enough to drive three semi trucks side by side without bumping into one another, and long enough that the trucks would run out of gas before they reached the end of them. The main trunk of the tree is mostly hollow and it houses everything the eight tribes need to do as a group inside of it.

## History

### Early History

The founders of Eden's Garden took the paintings that Bosch left in Crossroads, extracted the blood from the paint and used it to seed the Tree of Knowledge in the middle of what would become the Garden. From that point on, the fruit borne by the tree would have the ability to turn those that ate them into Heretics.

## School Year

However, just because you were recruited by one tribe, or even born in that tribe doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll stay there. There are three separate times when that choice is made, each more permanent than the last. When the children are initially made Heretics at age eleven/twelve, they are made an official initiate of their sponsor tribe. During this time, they’re trained in as many weapons and disciplines as possible to give them a broad general knowledge and find out what they should focus on.

Once the initiates arrived at Eden's Garden, they are put through various physical and mental tests, and become members of a tribe when the leader(s) of that tribe chose them.  The initiates are then trained in multiple weapons and disciplines to give them a broad knowledge and to find out what they should focus on.

## Traditions

Eden's Garden don't start to teach their students magic until they become seventeen because the human body can't handle it until then. To make up for that, Eden's Garden focus on their student's physical capabilities, teach them how to fight and how to handle multiple different weapon types.

According to Seller, when students turn eighteen, they will be given a new name either their mentor, teacher, a committee of leaders or be allowed to choose their own name, depending on the tribe.

At some point, each Eden's Garden students recieve a tatoo on their bicep of a dagger cutting an apple in half.

## References

1. ↑ *Heretical Edge Discussion Thread*; Page 13, Post 20953425
2. ↑ *Heretical Edge*; Interlude 7A – Miranda, Comment Section
Lincoln Chambers

**Lincoln Chambers** was an American Adjacent, the husband of Joselyn Chambers, and the father of Felicity Chambers.

## Physical appearance

Lincoln is described to look like a mountain man from the old days of the American frontier, complete with a thick bushy beard and long hair.

## Appearances

* *Heretical Edge (webserial series)*
* *Heretical Edge 2*
Oscar

**Oscar** was an Orc and a member of the Atherby Clan.

## Physical appearance

Oscar is described as a large, eight-foot tall orc with a warthog-like face and a long, scraggly gray beard. He wears ratty blue jeans and a black shirt that advertises some kind of automotive repair shop.

## Trivia

* Oscar is not his real name, but he doesn't think that Felicty Chambers pronounce his real one and he thinks that Oscar is close enough.
Niekal

**Niekal** was a Seosten and a scientist working for Kushiel in order to understand the complications that emerged from Kushiel's efforts to discover a cure for their species reproductive issues. Sometime in 2018, Niekal led Puriel on a tour of the facility after he unexpectedly showed up, and was presumably murdered by Puriel to stop him from continuing his work.
Occator

**Occator** was a Seosten.

## Physical appearance

Occator is described as a man with dark brown, swept back hair and dark eyes. He has a noted resemblance to Christian Slater

## Abilities and skills

* **Tartarus Power**: Occator had the power to create an invisible line through solid matter and disturb that material to shake it apart. He could use this power to create holes or break apart inorganic and organic matter. He could also use this power to inflict "tremors" of a sort within living beings.
Jesus

**Jesus** was a Seosten. He was considered to be the central figure of Christianity, regarded by most Christian denominations as the son of God, born of a human mother, Mary.

When the Human that he had possessed died, Jesus left the Human's body. Soon afterward, he was captured by the Seosten Imperium and executed.
Joselyn Chambers' note

This **note** was written by Joselyn Chambers to her daughter Flick Chambers after she convinced Fossor to take her instead of Flick.

When Flick Chambers reached the end of the Joselyn Chambers' photo album, she found the note next to a picture of her eating soup on the day that her mother left. Reading the note stating that she loved her and that she could trust Gaia Sinclaire, led Flick to reaffirm her decision to save her mother from Fossor and eventually choose to confide in Gaia.

## Contents

*You are the most amazing, wonderful thing I have ever done. I love you, Felicity. I can’t begin to tell you how much. I love you, my baby girl, my brilliant little one. Of every creature I have seen, you are the most magical to me. You are my gift, my luck, my light. I will always love you, and no matter what happens, I will always choose to protect you. Be safe, my child. Be careful.*

*You can trust Gaia.*

## References

1. ↑ *Heretical Edge*; Getting Some Answers, 6-02
Radueriel

**Radueriel** was a Seosten.

## Physical appearance

Radueriel is described as a short man with tousled, curly brown hair. He wears a dark green cloak over one shoulder that covers the right half of his body, leaving his right arm hidden.

## Abilities and Powers

* **Technology Manipulation**: Radueriel had the power to create, shape, and manipulate technology.
	+ **Nanites**: He could use his power to create nanites capable of consuming matter and energy effects, blocking teleportation, and altering active portals.
	+ **Technological Implants**: He could use his power to create technology that he could implant within himself or other living creatures. He could use technological implants to take control of those that he had implanted them into.

## External links

* Hephaestus on Wikipedia
* Vulcan on Wikipedia

**Olympians**
Josiah Carfried

**Josiah Carfried** (d. 2018) was a Crossroads Hangman Heretic.

## Biography

During the 1800s, Josiah Carfried was a professor at Crossroads Academy. He moved on to his current position and then started to pose as a cultural anthropology professor at a prestigious Bystander university so that he could keep an eye on what Bystanders dug up and to help sure they didn't find magically cursed objects or release entombed monsters. In his spare time, he went back to Crossroads to advise some students.

## Physical appearance

Josiah Carfired is described as a man with somewhat stringy blonde hair and a crooked nose that resembles Owen Wilson. He wears an open black long-sleeved shirt with a black tee-shirt and tan khakis.
Marina Dupont

**Marina Dupont**​ (b. 1998/1999) was an American Heretic-born Crossroads Hangman Heretic. She became the mentor of Paul Calburn's team in September 2017.

## Biography

### Orientation

In September 2017, Marina became the mentor of Isaac Acosta, Paul Calburn, Douglas Frey, Gordon Kuhn, Roxanne Pittman and Jasmine Rhodes.

## Physical appearance

Marina is a described as a tall, pale, willowy girl with short brown hair. Her uniform is lined with the blue trim of the Development track

## Abilities and skills

As a Crossroads Hangman Heretic, she was immune to the Bystander Effect, capable of utilizing magic and absorbing the powers from the Strangers or Heretics that she killed.

## Possessions

* **Heretical Weapon**: Marina's Heretical Weapon was a coresque

## Appearances

* *Heretical Edge (webserial series)*
* *Heretical Edge 2*

## Notes and references

1. ↑ Word of God - Marina has to be born by the end of October 1998 in order to attend Crossroads Academy at the age of 17 on 3 September 2016. Had she been born in November 1998, she would only be 16 on 3 September 2016.
2. ↑ Word of God - Marina was born in Minnesota.
Morrigan

**Morrigan** was a Fae.

## Abilities and skills

* **Ally Empowerment**: Morrigan had the power to enhance the physical capabilities of those that she considered to be an ally within an unspecified range. Those that Morrigan used this power were also capable of communicating telepathically and seeing through each other's eyes when needed. It was noted that Morrigan's duplicates and crows could all use this power in an "overlapping boost".
* **Animal Empathy**: Morrigan possessed an unspecified kinship with crows that made it she could understand them and see through their eyes.
* **Replication**: Morrigan had the power to replicate herself.
Kwur

**Kwur** was a plant based life-form.

## Abilities and skills

* **Emotion Manipulation**: Kwur had the power to manipulation the emotions of Humans and Alters within a certain range of himself.
* **Hatred Empowerment**: Kwur had the power to feed off of hatred and violence.
* **Mind Control**: Kwur had the power to control the minds of Humans and Alters that he had infested with his spores.
* **Plant Manipulation**: Kwur had the power to control and manipulate plants. He was noted to be able to grow and spread through plant-life.
Mexico

**Mexico**, also known as the **United Mexican States** and formerly known as **New Spain**, is a country in southern North America. It is bordered by the United States in the north and by Guatemala and Belize in the southeast.

## Heretical world

### Government

The Heretical community in Mexico is governed by the Hunahpu and Xbalanque.
Raul Frein

**Raul Frein** (d. 2018) was a Bystander gangster. He kidnapped and held Dominic as ransom for Dominic's uncle Patrick until Asenath rescued him.

## Biography

Raul would watch a woman kick in the door to his office before he pressed his revolver close to Dominic's head and told her that he would kill him if she didn't back off. When the woman reassured Dominic that he would be back with his mom soon, Raul pressed his revolver closer to Dominic's head and said that Dominic wouldn't leave until Dominic's Uncle Patrick had paid him. In response, the woman threw a knife at Raul that severed his hand from his arm, shoved his head against the wall, gathered Dominic into her arms and left the room.

Raul attempted to call the woman a bitch after he saw that she had returned to the room, but the woman interrupted him before she told him that she wouldn't leave him to bleed out on the floor. The woman went on to tell him that she was hungry.
Joselyn Atherby's Hunga Munga

Joselyn Atherby's Heretical Weapon was a pair of **Hunga Munga**.

## History

In 2018, Flick Chambers used one of the Hunga Munga to cut her notebook in order to activate the spell she had written inside of it. The spell connected to the Hunga Munga and through it to the other Hunga Munga that was seated in the middle of a ritual table within Gaia Sinclaire's private rooms -- broadcasting everything that Flick had written in her notebook to all Crossroads and Eden's Garden Hangman Heretics and breaking the memory spell that Crossroads and Eden's Garden had used to end Joselyn Atherby's Rebellion.
Kenneth Fellows

**Kenneth Fellows** was a Bystander that was murdered by The Hiding Man as part of the plot to kidnap Kenneth's daughter Koren Fellows and break the spell that protected the Earth from the Fomorians. The Hiding Man erased the memories of all the people that knew Kenneth Fellows though Tribald Kine was able to retain his memories of Kenneth Fellows because the Hiding Man didn't realize he had a connection to him.

## Physical appearance

Kenneth wore a clean-yet-ill-fitting suit and thick glasses.
Pixie

**Pixies** are a race of tiny humanoid Strangers.

According to Limnoreia, most pixies are connected or tied to nature in some way, be it plants, water, the earth itself, animals, or technology and artificial constructions.

Appears In

* Winter Wonderland 18-03
* Winter Wonderland 18-04
* Interlude 18a Namythiet
* Interlude 21 Roxa
Rudolph Parsons

**Rudolph Parsons**​ (b. 2000 - 2018) was an American Crossroads Hangman Heretic.

## Physical appearance

Rudolph is described as a teenager on the chubby side with very pale skin and white-blonde hair.

## Abilities and skills

As a Crossroads Hangman Heretic, he was immune Bystander Effect, capable of utilizing magic and absorbing the powers from the Strangers or Heretics that he killed.

* **Substitution Creation**: Rudolph had the power to create a copy of objects that he came into physical contact with.
* **Telekinesis**: Rudolph had the power to manipulate objects and matter with his mind.

## Possessions

* **Heretical Weapon**: Rudolph's Heretical Weapon was a bow that he could transform into a necklace when he wasn't actively using it. His bow had five buttons on its side that determined what kind of arrow would appear.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ Word of God - Rudolph has to be born by the end of October 1999 in order to attend Crossroads Academy at the age of 17 on 3 September 2017. Had he been born in November 1999, he would only be 16 on 3 September 2017.
2. ↑ Word of God - Rudolph was born in Michigan.
Laina Rider

**Laina Rider** was a Bystander.

After Flick Chambers brought an end to the memory spell that Crossroads and Eden's Garden had used to end Joselyn Atherby's Rebellion, Marina Dupont absconded with all of the children in Nest in order to prevent them from being used against their parents. As one of the oldest children in the Nest, Laina understood what was happening and did her best to help Marina keep the other children calm and entertained while Marina contacted their parents and arranged for them to pick them up.
Revenant

**Revenants** are a race of rare phantom-like Strangers.

## Physical description

### Abilities

Revenant are phantom-like creatures that can possess corpses. As long as a Revenant is inside a corpse, they are nearly impossible to kill. They become immune to pain, able to ignore almost all damage, and are able to ignore most magical effects. The one weakness that a Revenant has is that the bodies they possess only last a couple of hour before they disintegrate, and when they're not inside a body, they're vulnerable.
Orion

**Orion** was a supernatural being.

## Physical appearance

Orion is described as a man with dark hair cut short on both sides. He wears a black turtleneck, dark green army camouflage pants, heavy boots, and sunglasses.

## Abilities and skills

* **Enhanced Speed**: Orion had enhanced speed.
* **Enhanced Strength**: Orion had enhanced strength.
* **Hunting Instinct**: Orion had the power to possess talent in and instinct for hunting things. With this power he could keep the remnant of the deity he bonded with content by hunting.

## Possessions

* **Pistol**: Orion owned a pistol.
* **Knife**: Orion owned a knife.
Kendall Harver

**Kendell Harver** was an American Bystander. In eighth grade, she stole money from a school carnival that was meant to raise funds for the middle school's end-of-year field trip which she later used to purchase clothes and other miscellaneous objects. Her theft would be exposed by Flick Chambers and Miranda Wallbern.
Orb universes

The **orb universes** were alternate universes created by the Tartarus Orb sometime in the late 2010s. When the Seosten Imperium used the Tartarus Orb to reopen a path to Tartarus, the protections that Sariel Moon placed upon it activated in response to the Tartarus' hostile environment. The Tartarus Orb siphoned energy from Tartarus and used that energy to leave Tartarus and created the first orb universe which it populated with copies of every person, animal, and plant on Earth.

The Tartarus Orb continued to siphon energy from Tartarus and create additional alternate universes in an attempt to find an iteration of Earth in which Sariel Moon existed.
Quing

**Quing** was a Lavinsi that worked with Buddy System in security at Wonderland.

## Physical appearance

Quing is described as a tall humanoid-bird figure with dark blue feathers and a beak that looks like Falco from *Starfox.* He wears an official security outfit.

## Possessions

* **Bladed Weapons**: Quing owned a "plethora of bladed weapons".
* **Gun**: Quing owned a gun.
Nuella

**Nuella** was a Leusteren.

## Physical appearance

Nuella is described as a tall, gray-skinned woman with silver hair.

## Magical abilities and skills

* **Emotion Reading**: Nuella had the power to read the emotional state of others. She could use this power to tell whether an individual was lying or deceiving her, or if an individual has "bad intent".
* **Emotion Manipulation**: Nuella had the power to manipulate an individual's emotions into not caring about her presence to the point that an individual would not even consciously acknowledging it.
Olympus

The ***Olympus*** was a Seosten starship operated by the Seosten Imperium.

## History

Following the completion of the Summus Proelium Project, the Seosten that would become the Olympians were assigned to the *Olympus*. The Seosten an worked together on multiple combat and exploratory missions before they were given the assignment to travel to and investigate Rysthael.

## Crew

The *Olympus* had a crew complement of fourteen members.

### Command Crew under Puriel's command

* Tactical Officer
	+ Auriel
* Logistics Officer
	+ Kushiel
* Infiltration Specialists
	+ Lucifer
	+ Sariel
* Chef
	+ Paschar

## Appearances

* *Heretical Edge*

**Olympians**
Plot to murder Avalon Sinclaire

The **plot to assassinate Avalon Sinclare** was a series of events that took place over the 2017-2018 school year at Crossroads Academy. These attempts on Avalon Sinclaire's life were the events that led up to the Battle at Liesje Aken's Blood Vault.

## History

### Background information

In the late 1400s, Paschar was assigned to watch over Dries and Liesje Aken while Radueriel possessed Hieronymus Bosch.
Noble

**Noble** was an Eden's Garden Hangman Heretic.

## Physical appearance

Noble is described as an incredibly tanned and well-toned guy. He has the tendency to run around shirtless.

## Appearances

* *Heretical Edge (webserial series)*

 Children of Bosch Tribe | Prestor Cannon ·
 Dust Striders Tribe | Alexander Helios ·
 Eternal Eye Tribe | Ikita ·
**Noble** ·
 Fate's Shepards Tribe | Jack Childs ·
 Lost Scar Tribe | Aconitum ·
Remember Bennett ·
Doxer (deceased) ·
Zoya Dalal ·
Vanessa Holt (deceased) ·
 Reapers Tribe | Josie ·
Aniyah Keita ·
Weston Marrero ·
 Remnant Guardians Tribe | Benedict Arnold ·
Hannah Beckman ·
 Vigilant Sons Tribe | Carseus Elsen ·
Fu Hao ·
Seller ·
 Eden's Garden defectors | Abigail Fellows ·
Avalon Sinclaire ·
Haiden Moon ·
Gambol ·
Hisao ·
Pace ·
 Eden's Garden locations | Eden ·
Tree of Knowledge ·
Chamber of Victories
Pitiniana

**Pitiniana** is an uninhabited world.

## History

At some point, Pitiniana was discovered by Crossroads Heretics. The Crossroads Heretics cleared the planet of anything too threatening.

Later, Professor Benji Carfried took the Explorer Track students to Pitiniana to explore, catalogue anything interesting they found, and then meet back up a couple of hours later.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Heretical Edge*; Uprising, Mini-Interlude 48 – Vanessa and Tristan
October Atrean

**October Atrean** was a Crossroads Hangman Heretic and a representative of the Committee.

## Physical appearance

October is described as a man that looks to be in his mid-twenties with dirty-blonde hair that reaches his shoulders that he keeps tied back into a ponytail. He wears a dark blue flower print Hawaiian shirt, a loose pair of white pants, white slip-on shoes, mirrored sunglasses and a cell phone case clipped to his brown belt.
Paschar

**Paschar** was a Seosten.

## Biography

Around 3,000 years ago, Pashcar was part of a group of Seosten operatives and infiltrators on Earth, portraying himself as the Greek God Eros.

At some point, Paschar was put in charge of getting into Hieronymus Bosch's blood vault.

Approximately twenty years ago, Paschar found two blood connections to Hieronymus Bosch: Hannah Owen's Mother and Giselle Tangle. At some point after that, Paschar brought in Fahsteth to murder Hannah Owen's Mother because she was immune to Seostenic Possession and to make it look like she had died in childbirth. After Fahsteth killed Hannah Owen's Mother and the Heretics learned that Hannah Owens had the potential to be a Heretic, Paschar manipulated Reggie Owens to hate Hannah so much that he would kill her.

When Paschar learned that Gaia Sinclaire had found out about Hannah and that she planned to find her, he sent in Fahsteth to kill Hannah. Paschar had one of his allies turn Reggie into a Vampire and sent Reggie after Hannah went to Eden's Garden, but Reggie kept failing.

## Physical appearance

Paschar is described as a tall man with long, blonde hair and bright green eyes.

## Abilities and skills

* **Love Potions**: Paschar could create love potions that induced obsessive feelings in those that consumed them. His love potions made Giselle Tangle fall in love with his host in Eden's Garden and made Torv obsessed with Avalon Sinclaire.
* **Energy Bow Construction**: Paschar had the power to generate bows and arrows out of pure energy.
	+ **Emotion Bow Construction**: Paschar had the power to create arrows from emotional energy. His arrows could induce a particular emotion in a person or do more damage to a person based on how much they felt a particular emotion.

## External links

* Cupid on Wikipedia
* Eros on Wikipedia

**Olympians**
Russell Bailey

**Russell Bailey** was an American Bystander-kin Crossroads Hangman Heretic

## Physical appearance

Russell is a boy with long hair dyed bright red, an assortment of tattoos and nose piercing. He wears the green trim of the Hunter track.

Following the Holiday Break, Russell cut his hair down to a short crew cut, allowed his hair to grow out into its natural light brown color, and stopped wearing facial piercings.

## Possessions

* **Heretical Weapon**: Russell's Heretical Weapon was a glaive. He could use his glaive to create a blood-based duplicate of a living creature that he drew blood from. He could only maintain one duplicate at a time, and the duration it lasts depends on how much blood was used as well as the power of the subject. The more powerful the wielder, the longer more powerful duplicate can remain.
Puriel

**Puriel** was a Seosten, the husband of Kushiel, and the father of Theia. He was a part of the Summus Proelium project, where he was subjected to extensive genetic modifications that enhanced him and left him with the power to manipulate forms of energy. He later became the Captain of the *Olympus.*

## Biography

Around 3,000 years ago, Puriel was part of a group of Seosten operatives and infiltrators on Earth, portraying himself as the Olympian God Zeus. He cemented the idea of his power as Zeus by destroying an incredibly rare species of Alter with the power to create time stops.

At some point, Puriel interfered in one of Chayyiel's duels against Arthur Pendragon, dropping an army on top of Arthur that left him no longer a threat. Chayyiel took his interference as a hit against her honor, swore that she would kill him if he tried to give her another order, and left Earth.

Approximately ten years ago, Puriel tracked down Sariel. He told Sariel that their people needed her, that it was not their place to mate among humans and that it was time for her to come home. When Sariel told Puriel that they could make their own choices and that her family was her choice, he called her selfish and told her that her place was among her brothers and sisters preforming their duties in the defense of their world. Puriel told Sariel that Earth needed the Seosten's guidance and that humans were savages that would become the force to destroy their world without their influence. Puriel pulled out a stepping-stone and told Sariel that not even her Heretic mate could prevent her from coming home. Haiden told Puriel that he wasn't going to take Sariel and shattered the stepping-stone. Puriel cursed Haiden, told him that he didn't know what he had done, and said that the stepping-stone was unstable before he was hauled off his feet toward the nearest stepping-stone shard, shrunk down and sucked into it.

Something happened to Puriel between the time Haiden accidentally banished him and his return to Elohim that left him extremely agoraphobic.

## Physical appearance

Puriel is described as an older man with bushy eyebrows. He wears an uncomfortable-looking tweed suit.

## Abilities and skills

* **Energy Manipulation**: Puriel had the power to create, shape, and manipulate multiple forms of energy. He could use this power to disintegrate a door in moments.

## External links

* Zeus on Wikipedia
* Jupiter on Wikipedia

**Olympians**
Joey Fantine

**Joey Fantine** was a Bystander and a student at Damien Hills University.

Joey would help Omar Derosa and Billy Tackeett drug and rape Sue-Ellen O'Lattery. He would later help Omar and Joey kill Sue-Ellen after Benjamin Cook told them that Sue-Ellen had come forward, told them to deal with the problem, and provided them with a gun. In 2002, Twister bit and injected him with blue coral snake venom to kill him for his involvement with Sue-Ellen's death.

## Biography

At some point, Joey would help Omar Derosa and Billy Tackett drug and rape Sue-Ellen O'Lattery at a party. Benjamin Cook would later inform the three of them that Sue-Ellen had approached him and told him what they had done to her before he told them to deal with the problem that night and provided them with a gun.

In 2002, Joey would slap a dark skinned woman's butt and tell her that she shouldn't stick it out if she didn't want someone to take her up on the offer. He would pull the woman close to him after she commented on how he had taken his shot before asking her if she liked the feel of his body. The woman would tell him that she did, reveal that she had known his name, and then bite his neck. The woman would explain that Sue-Ellen's mother had known what they did to her daughter and that everyone that was involved was going to get what was coming to them.

## Physical appearance

Joey is described as a blond boy. He wears a red muscle t-shirt.

## Appearances

* *Heretical Edge'**Heretical Edge (webserial series)***
Nicholas Petan

**Nicholas Petan** was a Natural Troll Heretic.

## Biography

When the Orcs set the cage holding him down, Nicholas stuck his hand partially outside it and asked them for some water. He withdrew his hand when an Orc went to step on it, caught hold of its foot and pulled it into the cage. He grabbed the dagger the Orc was holding, stabbed it with it in the stomach, stole the key to open the cage and sprung out to fight the other Warthogs.

When Gaia Sinclaire warned Nicholas that more Orcs were approaching, he told Seller to escort her out of the area and escape. Seller ran and left Gaia behind with him. He told her to not be afraid as he would not allow her to come to any harm. He pushed the Orc back, stole one of the Orc's mounts, hauled Gaia up onto it and then told her to escape while he bought her time.

## Physical appearance

Nicholas looked like Richard Armitage with some gray in his hair.

## Abilities and skills

* **Age Immunity**: Nicholas was immune to the negative effects of aging.
* **Damage Resistance**: Nicholas had the power to be resistant to various forms of damage. This power did not make him resistant to fire.
* **Disease Immunity**: Nicholas was immune to disease.
* **Enhanced Strength**: Nicholas had enhanced strength
* **Fear Induction**: Nicholas had the power to induce fear in another living creature.
* **Loyalty Magic**: Nicholas learned a form of magic that made those loyal to him immune to Seosten possession. Those that this magic was used on would remain immune as long as they remained loyal to him.
* **Reactive Adaptation**: Nicholas had the power develop adaptation, powers, or skills in response in response to immediate threats. He could use this power to adapt to extreme changes in temperature or atmosphere.
Miles Cleary

**Miles Cleary** (b. 2000) was a Crossroads Hangman Heretic and a Kejjerfiet Hybrid.

## Physical ppearance

Miles is described as a lanky, olive-skinned young man with shaggy black hair. He wears the Crossroads Academy uniform with the red trim of the Explorer Track.

## Abilities and skills

* **Enhanced Strength**: Miles had the power of enhanced strength. He used this power to punch Ronney Swanks backwards into lockers which then dented around him.

## Possessions

* **Heretical Weapon**: Miles' Heretical Weapon was a swarm of cybernetic bees that he controlled through a queen bee. He could shape the swarm into various weapons and tools for him to use.
Mateo Dias

**Mateo Dias** was a Colombian Werewolf that lead a small pack in Bogota. He is Sebastian Gerado's partner and Sean Gerado's uncle.

He later brings Roxa Pittman into his pack after Lemuel turns her into a werewolf and she's forced to leave Crossroads.

## Biography

At some point in his early life Mateo was recruited by a werewolf that was part of a religious pack who thought it was their calling to turn children into soldiers for the faith. He pretended to fall in line in order to avoid punishment. Sometime after he was turned into a werewolf, he murdered his recruiter by tearing out his throat before leaving the pack.

Mateo later founded a werewolf pack that made it's home in an unused church building within the capital city of Bogotá in Colombia. Between Heretics, rival packs, and Nocen, his pack lost more members than he liked to think about.

## Physical appearance

Mateo is described as an almost rail thin man.
Knockengerwicht

**Knockengerwicht** are a race of goblin-like Strangers.

## Physical description

### Physical appearance

Knockengerwicht are Strangers that look like a cross between a goblin and a skeleton. Knockengerwicht do not have skin or muscle on one half of their body while the other half has portions of muscle and skin hanging off of it.

### Abilities

Knockengerwicht can possess inanimate objects. Knockengerwicht gather into tribes that each take over a little bit of a chosen car or house.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Heretical Edge*; Second Hunt, 16-03
Lavinsi

**Lavinsi** are a race of humanoid avian Strangers.

### Abilities

Lavinsi have multiple vision-based powers including but not limited to: x-ray, telescopic and heat. Lavinsi can read body language and facial expressions so well that Heretics used to believe that Lavinsi were telepathic until they killed enough of them to figure out what kinds of powers they were getting.

## References

1. ↑ *Heretical Edge*; Winter Wonderland, 18-03