Death

**Death** is Dream's wiser, nicer, and much more sensible sister in the Endless family.

## History

### Meeting and Befriending Beatrice

On March 24, 1603, Death meets 29-year-old Lady Beatrice Chambers after she collects Queen Elizabeth I. Beatrice has a fright when she realizes who she is, but Death assures Beatrice that she wasn't there to collect her. Instead, Death decides to ask her about her friendship with Dream. At the end of the conversation, Death offers to grant Beatrice immortality which Beatrice accepts.

She and Beatrice next see each other in 1639 when Death comes to collect Beatrice's brother, William. Since William had died in his sleep he gets the choice of staying in the Dreaming or going with Death to the Sunless Lands. William choses the latter, but is granted the chance to say goodbye to his sister.

She next sees Beatrice during WWI as she's collecting souls at the field hospital. The two talk about the countless lives lost to the war and what it means to them.

### Reaping souls

After tracking Dream down to a local park and advising him to find a new purpose now that he'd settled his vendetta against his captors, she invited him to join her for the day as she made her rounds and reaped the living. Their first stop, an elderly man named Harry. Afterward, Dream informed Death that the men who captured him were actually after her, which she claimed to already be aware of before taking off her shoes and heading to her next appointment: a young man named Sam on honeymoon with his wife, who had just drowned in the lake. Dream wondered how Death was able to be there for all of them. She replied that she had a job to do. When the first living thing existed, she was there. And when the last living thing dies, she'll put the chairs on the table, turn out the lights, and lock the universe behind her when she leaves.

Death used to think that she had the hardest job among the Endless. Humans feared her, and yet they entered Dream's realm every night willingly. Death considered giving up and walking out, but that was long ago, even before the existence of the current world. The job got to her and she got hard and brittle inside, given humanity's reaction to the Sunless Lands. But eventually, she learned that all they needed was a kind word and a friendly face. Death and Dream had made their way into the home of a mother with an infant child. Death had unfortunately come to take the baby. She used to think she had to do this by herself, but in the end, she was there with them. They were holding her hand, and she was holding theirs, applying the same logic to Dream. The only reason the Endless existed was to serve humanity. And since figuring that out, she realized that she needed them as much as they needed her. Dream thanked Death for the insight and teaching him something he had long since forgotten.

In 1389, disguised as a nun and priest, Death brought Dream to a tavern to interact with humanity on their terms. There, they overheard a man named Hob Gadling speak of seeing death and how he decided he would never die. As Dream wondered why anyone would desire an eternity of human life, Death suggested that she grant his wish of eternal life as an experiment.

## Physical Appearance

Death appears as a young black woman with brown eyes and long, curly black hair. She tends to wear black leather and a necklace with her sigil on it.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Immortality**: Death is ageless and possesses the ability of immortality, which is also able to be granted to others, in the case of Hob Gadling.
* **Limited Omniscience:** Knows information pertaining to upcoming deaths.
* **Transformation**: Able to summon wings that usher mortals onto the afterlife.

Like all the Endless, ageless, able to manifest where needed, and can selectively interact with humanity.

## Behind the Scenes

* In the comic series, Death is described and depicted as having very pale skin.

## References

1. ↑ Season 1, Episode 6: The Sound of Her Wings"