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Valentine's Day

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**Valentine's Day** is an occasion celebrated on 14 February in both the Bystander world and the Heretical world. It is the traditional day on which people express their love for each other, particularly romantic love, by sending Valentine's cards, presenting flowers, or offering sweets.
Heretical Edge 2

**This article is not part of the *Heretical Edge* universe.**

This article covers a subject that is part of the real world, and thus should not be taken as a part of the Heretical Edge universe.
**Heretical Edge 2** by Cerulean is the sequel to *Heretical Edge*. It is the second in the series of Heretical Edge webserial books.
Steward

**Stewards** are a race of Alters.

## Description

Stewards are known to protect and take care of a location that they see as their home. [] get power from staying there and keeping it safe as well as killing things that invade their home or threaten the people who live there.

## Appearances

* *Heretical Edge (webserial series)* (Mentioned only)
Ulysses Katarin

**Professor Ulysses Katarin** (d. 2018) was an American Crossroads Hangman Heretic. Some time after his graduation, Katarin returned to Crossroads to teach gym, general self defense and become the specialization adviser for those in the Hunter Track.

Ulysses was banished from Earth by Manakel over Christmas vacation. He was later killed by Isaac Acosta.

## Physical appearance

Ulysses is described as being a man with very dark skin and a sort of bodybuilder look that Felicity Chambers associates with professional football linebackers.

## Personality

Ulysses is described as being unlike most other teachers. He has the ability to zero in on exactly who mumbled or didn't answer him at all and then singles them out for a severe dressing down. This has the effect of breaking his students out of those habits early on. He is considered to be scary and loud, but very fair in his treatment.

## Abilities and skills

* **Emotion Detection**: Ulysses had the power to sense emotions within his line of sight.
* **Enhanced Strength**: Ulysses had the power of enhanced strength.
* **Teleportation**: Ulysses had the power to teleport.
Torv

**Torv** (d. 2017) was an Eden's Garden Hangman Heretic that was manipulated into attacking Avalon Sinclaire.

## Abilities and skills

* **Matter Transmutation**: Torv had the power to create spherical constructs that could transmute inorganic matter that entered them.

## 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
Stav

**Septer** **Stav** was a Granakin.

## Biography

Stav met with Asenath, Felicity Chambers and Shiori Porter at Wonderland. After Felicity told them about Joselyn Atherby, Limnoreia apologized for demanding answers from her before they introduced themselves to her. He followed Limnoreia's lead and introduced himself and the other Septs to her. Felicity told him that it was a surprise to meet them and then thanked them for listening to her. After Limnoreia told Felicity that they would like to discuss what they had learned in private and she left, he talked with the others Septs.

Following Pace and Lemuel's pack attack on Wonderland, he met with Asenath, Felicity and Shiori again. He said that they had fought other Alters in the defense of Wonderland and that it aided their claim, but Kimper disagreed.

Felicity interupted their argument by offering to help the Septs find the children that Lemuel's pack had kidnapped. He told Felicity that she underestimated how long such a search would take, reminded her that she had a lot on her plate already and then asked how she would search for the children without arousing suspicion from her teachers. Felicity told him that it wouldn't be her exactly, but another Werewolf pack.

The Septs conferred about whether or not the Werewolf pack that Felicity knew could help before Xi told her to contact them and see what they could do. She told Felicity that while the Septs were not quite allies, they weren't enemies and that they would see where it went.

## Physical appearance

Stav has the appearance of a gray rock-like humanoid with long, gleaming silver hair.

## Appearances

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

**Tseniya** is a planet, and was where the Suelesk made their last stand and tried one final solution to avoid total extinction.

## History

Tseniya would be known by dozens of names over the course of millennia worth of millennia. It would eventually become a place for spiritual reflection and sanctuary for the Suelesk and a place where no technology was allowed.

At some point, the Suelesk and the Last travelled to Tseniya. The Suelesk prepared to try one last solution to avoid total extinction while the the Last produced a cloud of dark red gas as it moved, turning everything that it touched into a hardened obsidian-like stead, and steadily began to cover the planet. When the Last was encroaching on the manufactured valley the Suelesk had clustered within, the Suelesk opened a portal to another universe and began to evacuate.

## References

1. ↑ *Heretical Edge*; A Different Kind Of Hunt, Mini-Interlude 52 – What Are Dragons
Scratch

**Scratch** was an Eden's Garden Hangman Heretic

## Physical appearance

Scratch is described as a fairly short and thin man with heavily tanned skin and long dark gray hair tied into a ponytail. He has a crescent-shaped scar underneath his right eye that extends into his cheek.

## Appearances

* *Heretical Edge 2*

 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
Trajan’s Forum

**Trajan's Forum** is a location where most of Crossroads' unclaimed magical artifacts are kept.

## Description

Trajan's Forum is a place where most of the unclaimed magical artifacts that don't belong to a powerful Heretic family -- or the ones that multiple families couldn't agree on the ownership of -- are kept. There are multiple rumors about where it is located, but no one knows where it is actually hidden.

## History

### Mini-Interlude 35 - Sands and Scout

Josiah Carfried and Virginia Dare  took Crossroads' first year Investigation track students to Trajan's Forum to help them find a cursed doll that had been misfiled.

## References

1. ↑ https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/2017/08/02/mini-interlude-35-sands-and-scout/
2. ↑ https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/2017/08/02/mini-interlude-35-sands-and-scout/
‘s-Hertogenbosch

**‘s-Hertogenbosch,** colloquially known as **Den Bosch,** is a city and municipality in the Southern Netherlands. ‘s-Hertogenbosch is the hometown of Hieronymus Bosch. Crossroads maintains several safehouses within the city including St. John's Cathedral

## Etymology

"‘s-Hertogenbosch" literally means "The Duke's Forest" in English and French.
Rovon Reinswield

**Rovon Reinswield** was an Eden's Garden Hangman Heretic.

## Physical appearance

Rovon is described as a man with short blond hair, a somewhat scruffy-looking face and perfectly round glasses. He wears a dark pinstripe suit with a burgundy tie and a handkerchief in his front pocket.

## Appearances

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

 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
Ylena

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**Ylena** is a Drake living in Wonderland.

## Physical appearance

Ylena is a little girl with amber eyes. She has a pair of small blue horns on her head.

## Biography

Approximately one year ago, Ylena's parents were murdered by Heretics.

### Winter Wonderland

Following the Werewolf Attack on Wonderland, Ylena was seen sitting next to her aunt's body with a shell-shocked look on her face. She saw Flick Chambers approaching her, squeaked in wordless horror, and covered her aunt's body as much as she could. When Asenath appeared between them and kneeled to give her a hug, she stared a Flick for another second before she let herself be embraced.

Sometime later, Asenath left and another adult Alter kneeled down beside Ylena.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *Heretical Edge*; Winter Wonderland, 18-08
Witch

A **Witch** is a human that has bonded with a Stranger to become a natural Heretic.

## Description

According to Vanessa Moon, a Witch is described as a human that has bonded with some Stranger to become a Natural Heretic. Usually, it's a human that has bonded with a Stranger that gives no benefit beyond unlocking the ability to do magic and possibly blocking a Heretic's Heretic Sense.
Tseuckaviel

**Tseuckaviel** are a race of humanoid Alters.

## Description

### Physical description

Tseuckaviel are three feet tall, with long arms that hang to the ground and large compound eyes that cover a quarter of their heads. They have four large and pointed ears.

### Abilities

Tseuckaviel are capable of seeing through the eyes of any of the living organisms that they have ever laid their eyes upon in their lifetime. They can also simultaneously process the images from hundreds of different viewpoints at once.

Tseuckaviel are immune to Seostenic possession.
Ullmis

**Ullmis** are a humanoid race of Alters

## Description

Ullmis are six foot tall humanoids with steel skin and arms long enough to reach the floor.

Ullmis have the power to feel the question at the forefront of people's mind and tell where it is coming from. However, there are a lot of people or the question at the forefront of a person's mind is "generic", an Ullmis cannot tell where it is coming from.

## Known Ullmis

* Aerlicht
* Ferrdreis
Zeke Leven

**Zeke Leven**​ (b. 1999/2000) was an American Crossroads Hangman Heretic who began attending Crossroads Academy in 2017. He was in the same year as Flick Chambers.

## Physical appearance

Zeke is described a male of average height and build with wild and unkempt brown hair. He wears glasses and his Crossroads Academy uniform has the white trim of the Security track.

## Abilities and skills

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

## Possessions

* **Heretical Weapon**: Zeke's Heretical Weapon was a shield with various offensive capabilities.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ Word of God - Zeke 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 - Zeke was born in Washington D.C..
Rebecca Jameson

**Rebecca Josie Jameson**​ (b. 1999/2000) was an American Heretic-born Crossroads Hangman Heretic.

## Physical appearance

Rebecca is described as a small girl with black hair cut short into a pixie cut. She wears a Crossroads Academy uniform lined with the blue trim of the Development Track

## Abilities and skills

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

## Possesions

* **Heretical Weapon**: Rebecca's Heretical Weapon was a cannon with an attached system of bracers that she could transform into a backpack. Shiori Porter believed that it could have evaporated the wall and a large portion of a building if it hadn't been magically protected.

## Appearances

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

## Notes and references

1. ↑ Word of God - Rebecca 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 - Rebecca was born in Connecticut.
Tree of Knowledge

The **Tree of Knowledge** is a magical plant located in a forest on Eden that Eden's Garden is housed upon. The founders of Eden's Garden extracted the Hangman Demon blood within the paintings that Hieronymus Bosch left Crossroads and used that blood to seed the Tree of Knowledge.

## Description

The Tree of Knowledge is a magical plant. The Tree of Knowledge has the power to call its pieces back to itself when they have been activated, bringing its pieces back to it.

The fruit borne by the Tree of Knowledge have the power to transform Humans that ingest them into Eden's Garden Hangman Heretics.
Shuten-dōji family

**Shuten-dōji** was the surname of a family of Oni.

## History

After Shuten-dōji family arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada, they fought with the Vichniac family and Sampsons family for control of Las Vegas. A tense ceasefire would later be arranged between the Shuten-dōji family, Vichniac family, and Sampsons family, with each family ruling their own corner of Las Vegas.

## Appearances

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

**Spinnevurr** are a race of spider-like Strangers.

### Abilities

Spinnevur can jump great distances and jump fast. Spinnevur can also spin or spit webs that will spontaneously ignite into flames, are immune to fire or heat, and are aware of when one of their kind are in trouble no matter the distance.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Heretical Edge*; Most Dangerous Game, 22-01
Zadkiel

**Zadkiel** was a Seosten.

## Biography

### Early Life

At some point in his life Zadkiel was modified through an unspecified procedure meant to create super soldiers and became a super soldier himself.

### Tartarus

After the Seosten Imperium discovered Tartarus, Zadkiel travelled to Tartarus to explore it and to determine if it could be used. At some point, he became lost and started to wander.

Zadkiel found the other half of a Fomorian that had been left within Tartarus. While he knew that he should have fought the Fomorian, his prolonged period of isolation lead him to talk with and initiate physical contact with the Fomorian instead in an effort to 'make it real'. Sometime later, Tartarus combined Zadkiel and the Fomorian into one being.

### Earth

Zadkiel escaped from Tartarus and travelled to Earth to find the other half of the Fomorian who had been in Tartarus. Throughout his time on Earth, he heard many prophecies and 'nudged' things where he felt he needed to. He heard many prophecies surrounding Virginia Dare's bloodline and sent people after her in order to ensure that she would not live an ordinary life.

At some point, he infected Metatron with one of his 'offspring' in order to make him a 'fusion'. The Fomorian subtly controlled Metatron in order to ensure events progressed as Zadkiel intended.

Zadkiel destroyed the Anasazi, Cahokia, and Mayan civilizations.

In the late 2010s, Zadkiel confronted Metatron within his quarters. He informed Metatron that his spells wouldn't work. After Metatron tried to shoot him, he had the Fomorian inside of Metatron assume full control. Metratron handed him the Tartarus Orb and he siphoned energy from it to create a 'seed' that would serve his purposes before he handed it back. When Metatron told him that he couldn't control him from across the universe, Zadkiel laughed and told him what he had done to him.

## Physical appearance

Zadkiel is described as a man with a face lined more by hard work than old age, long black hair, and brown eyes with blue flecks. He wears a dark coat with a hood.
Tribald Kine

**Tribald Kine** (b. 1 August, 1901) was an American Crossroads Hangman Heretic. Some time after his graduation, he joined the Bow Street Runners to be Joselyn Atherby's eyes inside the organization​

## Biography

### Early Life

Tribald began attending Crossroads Academy in 1918 and was grouped into a team with Deveron Adams, Joselyn Atherby, Lillian Patters, Roger Dornan, and Seamus Dornan under an unidentified student mentor.

## Physical appearance

Tribald is described as a very tall and almost dangerously thin man with an ill-fitting green suit loosely draped over his nearly skeletal figure. His eyes are covered by emerald-tinted sunglasses, and his rust colored hair is cut short.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ Word of God - Tribald was born in Washington D.C..
Trice

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

## Physical appearance

Trice is described as a tall and muscular young man with dark green hair cut short and spiked up. He wears a brown trench-coat.

## Abilities and skills

* **Enhanced Hearing**: Trice had the power to hear with amazing clarity.
* **Kinetic Energy Absorption**: Trice had the power to absorb kinetic energy and utilize it in some way.
* **Cloth Sensing**: Trice had the power to sense cloth.

## Possessions

* **Pike**: Trice's Heretical Weapon was a pike.

## Appearances

* *Heretical Edge*

 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
Unidentified Beta Fomorian

This **Beta Fomorian** attempted to paralyze Chayyiel with a paralytic powder before reaching towards her. Chayyiel used a spell to activate a forcefield around herself, sidestepped his arms, and struck him in the chest at the exact angle and the exact force that was needed to kill him.

## Physical appearance

This Beta Fomorian is described as a tall Fomorian with gray skin, a bulbous head, an angular face, and too large eyes. He had six arms.

## Abilities and skills

All of this Fomorian's organs were packed into an armored shell in the center of his body which was considered to be impregnable to most attacks. He could also see through every conceivable spectrum including magic.

He was immune to cold and heat up to roughly fourteen million degrees Fahrenheit. In addition, he could absorb various forms of energy, radiation, and magic.
Sebastian Gerardo

**Sebastian Gerardo** (b. 29 January, 1732) was a retired Crossroads Hangman Heretic and Sean Gerardo's uncle.

## Physical appearance

Sebastian is described as a fit five foot seven that looks like he can run a marathon without too much trouble. His arms are thick with corded muscle, and his gray-blue eyes look like stormy clouds moving through a clear sky.
Virtual Reality Simulation Spell

The **Virtual Reality Simulation Spell** is a spell that allows for the user to create a simulated virtual reality construct within a person's mind.

## History

Sariel Moon used the Virtual Reality Simulation Spell to create a simulated construct of herself and the home that she had shared with Haiden Moon within Tabbris' mind to raise and teach her as she grew up within Flick Chambers. When Tabbris had a problem or thought that the implanted memories could answer, the spell brought her mind back to the simulation and presented her with an answer or advice through the frame of a conversation.

## References

1. ↑ *Heretical Edge*; Hoc Est Bellum, Mini-Interlude 61 – Tabbris
Sonoma

**Sonoma** (b. 1507) was a Werecrow and the daughter of Liwanu.

## Biography

At some point in her childhood, Sonoma became a Werecrow.

Realizing that Sonoma would be in danger because she was no longer human, Liwanu told her to resist the change and set off in search of the witch in hopes for a cure. Sonoma tried to convince Liwanu to stop, and told him that he could not pay the witch's price, but Liwanu told her that he would pay any price for her.

Hours later, Liwanu and Sonoma mat the Lady of the Swamp, and Liwanu told her that he wanted to protect Sonoma. After the Lady of the Swamp whispered into Sonoma's ears, Sonoma straightened and transformed into a crow and flew up into a nearby tree. The Lady of the Swamp told Liwanu that he had to accept that Sonoma would have to change at times and that there was no cure, but that there might be a way to disguise her so that no one would know of her true nature. Litany told her that he would do anything to make sure Sonoma could be safe and live without being hunted.

The Lady of the Swamp transported Liwanu and Sonoma to a different location. Sometime later, Liwanu and Sonoma met a man that introduced himself as Grandfather. The Lady of the Swamp told Liwanu and Sonoma that they would need Grandfather's knowledge of blood and bones and her own knowledge of magic to hide Sonoma's nature. When Liwanu expressed his desire to continue, Grandfather cut off one of his fingers and explained that they would need his bone to provide a base for the ring.

At some point, Sonoma and Bastet fell in love and worked with Grandfather to have a child of their own.
Seller

" *I'm not gonna say I'm good, cuz there's some shady shit in my past. Hell, probably got just as shady shit coming up in my future. But I'm not that guy. Just like you won't be this same girl you are now in fifty years, a hundred years, two hundred years. We change. That's life. Change or die.*"
—Seller to Flick Chambers

**Seller** was an English Eden's Garden Heretic of the Vigilant Sons tribe that has been around as long as Gaia Sinclaire and Nicholas Petan. Despite a less than amicable first impression, Gaia trusted him with saving Hannah Owens' life when she was wounded by Fahsteth, and later helped her escape from Eden's Garden after she killed Torv in self-defense.

He is Joselyn Atherby's great-grandfather and the ancestor that Flick Chambers saw in her Heretical Edge vision abandoning a wounded Gaia Sinclaire.

## Physical appearance

Seller is a tall and handsome man with black hair. He wears an emerald green suit over a black dress shirt and opaque sunglasses.

## Abilities and skills

* **Enhanced Smell**: Seller had an extremely keen sense of smell.
* **Portal Creation**: Seller had the power to create portals for transport between two non-adjacent locations.
* **Teleportation**: Seller had the power to transport himself or others from one place to another without traversing the physical space between them.

## Possessions

* **Sunglasses**: Seller had a pair of sunglasses. His sunglasses granted him 360 degree vision, night vision, telescopic and x-ray vision, and protected him from harmful vision effects.

## External links

* Green Knight on Wikipedia

 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
Theriangelos Spell

The **Theriangelos Spell**.

## Description

The Theriangelos Spell is a spell that Heretics can use to create an animal that they control. To use the spell, the Heretic must carve elaborate and detailed scripts onto a wooden block and imbue the wooden block with their power as they recite the full words of the spell. When the Heretic completes the spell, the wooden block will turn into a ruby red and gold animal.

## References

1. ↑ *Heretical Edge*; A Learning Experience, 17-05
Werethekau

**Werethekau** was a Natural Primal Heretic.

## Abilities and skills

* **Reversion**: Werethekau has the power to rewind the results of specific events, and the power to remove another person's abilities and skills by reminding the fact that person learned them.
* **Teaching**: Werethekau taught Humans how to block time-stop spells.
Seraphim

The **Seraphim** is the government of the Seosten Imperium.

## Government Structure

### Seraphs

The Seraphim's Seraphs are the leaders of the Seraphim. Any Seosten within the Seosten Empire can attempt to become a Seraph, but have to jump through several hoops to do so:

* The current Seraphs can choose to support a candidate, oppose them or abstain.
	+ If a Seraph chooses to oppose the candidate, the Seraph can set up a combat, intellectual, or magic-based challenge to put the candidate through.
	+ If a Seraph choose to support the candidate, the Seraph will be counted as a "block" against one of the other Seraph's challenges. Once all of the Seraph's challenges for the candidate are determined, a challenge and a block will be matched against each other.

* Once the challenges and the blocks have been matched against each other, the remaining challenges must be completed by the candidate.
* Once the candidate has completed the Seraph's challenges, the leadership of each Choir can announce their own challenge to the candidate that the candidate must complete.
* Once the candidate has completed the Choir's trails, the Seosten will hold a vote on whether to allow the candidate into the Seraphim.
Mordok

Mordok, eller den Store Ljusslukaren, är enligt valarnas traditionella Josua-tro monstrens kung och fiende till Valarien och allt som lever där. Enligt sagorna är han en väldig drake med oerhörda magiska krafter. Det sägs att kung Josua besegrade honom fullständigt när han stängde portalen och att han kommer att besegra honom fullständigt i framtiden.

De flesta moderna valar tror inte på Mordok.
Alasar I

## Historia enligt östvalarna

Alasar I var äldste son till den legendariske trollkarlen Albior. Efter den Stora Kataklysmen och faderns svek förblev Alasar och Albid, hans två söner, lojala mot kung Josua. Enligt östvalarna valde kung Josua Albid, den yngre brodern, till kung över Valarien innan han försvann. Som hans undersåte blev Alasar hertig över Västvalarien, och hans arvtagare innehar fortfarande denna titel.

## Historia enligt västvalarna

Enligt västvalarna valde Josua Alasar till kejsare över Valarien. Som äldste son, stor krigare och nära vän till Josua var det bara han som kunde styra över världen i Josuas bortavaro. Albior var en rättvis kejsare, en modig krigare och en sveklös vän, men en fruktansvärd fiende att ha. Han utnämnde sin yngre bror till hertig över Östvalarien och lät honom gifta sig med Rebecka, den vackraste av kvinnor och högst älskad av Alasar. Som bröllopspresent svor han att alltid försvara Rebecka och hennes efterkomlingar, och som tecken på sitt löfte gav han henne ett halsband som han hade fått av Josua själv.

## Politiska konsekvenser

Namnet "Alasar" har övergått från att bara vara personnamn till att vara titel. Varje arvtagare till Alasar antar namnet Alasar när han kröns till kejsare av de västvalariska adelsmännen. Den alasarske kejsaren har länge varit rikare och mäktigare än den albiske kungen, med en stor armé och flotta. (Östvalarna har varken armé eller flotta då kungen själv är traditionellt sett deras beskyddare.) På grund av tvisten om kronan har de två ätterna varit i krig mot varandra i flera hundra år, men deras kontinenter är långt ifrån varandra, den gemensamma fienden i Mardurien utgör ett större hot och Alasars löfte till Rebecka komplicerar situationen. Alltså har relationen mellan den alasarske kejsaren och den albiske kungen pendlat från hotelser och krav på underkastelse till tystnad eller kylig artighet i flera hundra år.

## Alasars bok

Västvalarnas livsåskådning och hela deras kultur har sin grund i Alasars bok, en samling av kloka ord som de påstår att Josua sa till Alasar I. Denna bok liknar i vissa detaljer Glädjens bok som troende östvalar menar att Josua gav till Albid, men det finns viktiga skillnader.
Shiloh Lexx

**Shiloh Lexx** was an American Heretic-born Crossroads Hangman Heretic and student at Crossroads Academy.

## Physical appearance

Shiloh has the appearance of a slim girl with brown hair cut fairly short, falling just above her shoulders at its longest point in the back while the rest is cut shorter leading into jagged, scruffy bangs. She wears the pants version of the uniform with the light blue trim of the Development track.

## Abilities and Powers

### Shiloh's Wrist-Mounted Computer

Shiloh's Heretic Weapon is a wrist-mounted computer capable of remotely hacking into and taking control of almost any object, even non-computerized objects such as doors, older cars and guns. Any hand-held object the wrist-computer hacks is also capable of being created in solid-light holographic duplicate form for her to use, such as hacking the sword that’s being swung at her or the gun that’s being fired at her to create a duplicate in her hands.
Torchbearers

The **Torchbearers** are an independent clan of six interconnected Heretic families.

## History

Around the time of the American Revolution, six separate Heretic families split off from both Crossroads and Eden's Garden to focus on protecting humanity. Collectively, the six families referred to themselves as "Torchbearers", a play off of taking the light from Crossroads' lighthouse and bringing it down into the read world as a torch.

It became tradition to take an initiate out on a hunt with those who were already Heretics, take an appropriate Stranger, expose the initiate to blood and other parts, and turn them into a Natural Heretic. Those that didn't make the change were given the choice of trying again later or choosing to live a more ordinary live.

At some point, the Torchbearers made an agreement to send one student to each Crossroads and Eden's Garden in order to prevent the Torchbearers from becoming too weak. Those students would go through the education and training, becoming a full-fledged Hangman Demon Heretic, and come back to take up the mantel of a "Lightbearer".
Sophronia Leven

**Counselor Sophronia Leven** (b. 22 November, 1079) was a Crossroads Hangman Heretic and a Natural Akhkhazu Heretic. At some point, she became a member of the Committee, and became in charge of Heretics who target Strangers that pass through/lurk in travel stations like airports, train and bus stations.

## ​Physical appearance

Sophronia is described as a pristinely beautiful woman with auburn hair.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ Word of God - Sophronia was born in Jerusalem.
Weston Marrero

**Weston Marrero** was an Eden's Garden Hangman Heretic.

## Physical appearance

Weston is described as a man with a heavy and almost Cro-Magnon-like forehead, silky long black hair and a stocky, muscular build. He wears a black tank top and a pair of cargo pants.

## 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
Albior

ALBIOR är allmänt känd som den mäktigaste trollkarlen i Valariens historia. Ursprungligen en tjänare och vän till kung Josua, han övergick av okända anledningar till Josuas och världens store fiende Mordok. Hans världsförödande svek -- att öppna portalen från Mardurien och låta Mordoks horder av monster passera -- är flera tusen år senare ihågkommet som den stora Kataklysmen från vilken Valariens folk härleder sin tideräkning. Efter kung Josua stängde portalen genom sin självuppoffrande död år 0 försvann Albior mysteriöst. Hans son Albid regerade sedermera över Valarien som Josuas utvalde.

Albior är upphovsman till Albiors bok, en manual i filosofi och magi som återfinns i några få exemplar. Han är även känd som Pelarlundens skapare, och andra urgamla storverk, både verkliga och fiktiva, tillskrivs honom i legend och i folkmun. Enligt en vanligt förekommande legend ska tre föremål med ofantliga magiska krafter finnas kvar efter honom, gömda någonstans i de tre världarna.
Yup

**Yup** was a Tseuckaviel

## Biography

Yup found Haiden Moon and Larissa Mason on a border world searching for the place that they believed Radueriel to have imprisoned Flick Chambers. He tried to contact them, attempting to tell them that Flick was with the Aelaestiam, but they were 'skittish'. Sometime later, after Athena introduced him to Flick Chambers and Tabbris, he opened a portal and lead them to Haiden and Larissa.

Yup followed Haiden and Larissa to an abandoned warehouse and, after entering it, noticed that a metal sphere on the floor was a powerful portal spell. Haiden agreed, telling him that it would teleport everyone within the room onto their ship, before teleporting them onboard the *Sunstrider*.

Sometime later, Yup created a beacon that would allow him to create a portal to the *Sunstrider* before he transported everyone back to the Aelaestiam base.

Yup introduced himself to Tristan Moon. Tristan told him that he had heard stories about the Tseuckaviel from Nicholas Petan and had met one of the Mevari that the Tseuckaviel had created. He was glad to hear that one of the Mevari had survived, stating that it gave him hope, and arranged to hear more stories about the Mevari sometime in the future.

## Physical appearance

Yup is described as a three foot tall man with bright purple skin, red hair styled like Albert Einstein, large compounded eyes that cover a quarter of his head and four long pointed ears.

## Abilities and skills

As a Tseuckaviel, Yup was capable of seeing through the eyes of any living being that he has ever laid his eyes upon. He is also capable of simultaneously processing the images from hundreds of different viewpoints he has access to at once.

Yup was proficient in the art of magic, able to use portal magic that he could use to transport himself and others through as well as clairvoyance magic that he used in conjunction with his natural abilities.
Vichniac family

**Vichniac** is the surname of Akharu.

## History

The Vichniac family consisted of a line of Akharu that lived in Las Vegas, Nevada. The family fought with the Sampsons family for control of Las Vegas until the Shuten-dōji family arrived; to combat the Shuten-dōji family, the family would form an alliance with the Sampsons family. One of the head of the Vichniac family's children fell in in love with a "princess" from the Sampsons family and, at some point after, a tense ceasefire would be arranged between the Shuten-dōji family, Vichniac family, and Sampsons family, with each family ruling their own corner of Las Vegas.

## Known Members

* Eldridge Vichniac
* Messek Vichniac
* Rowan

## Appearances

* *Heretical Edge (webserial series)* (Mentioned only)
* *Heretical Edge 2*
Shapeless Magic

"*The last category of magic is Shapeless. Those are enchantments that are made up on the spot. The Heretic determines the effect they want, and imbues the item with that effect without using any previously designed spell.*"
—Vanessa Moon describing Shapeless Magic
**Shapeless Magic** is a branch of magic that focuses on spells and enchantments that are made up on the spot. Shapeless Magic is regarded as the "most powerful" and more "prone to mistakes and backfiring" than any other kind of magic.

Shapeless Magic can become Directed or Forged if it is cast with the same method "often enough".

## See also

* Directed Magic
* Forged Magic

## Appearances

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

**Tabilten** are a race of Gecko-like Alters.

## Overview

Tabilten are Gecko-like Alters the size of Cocker Spaniels, with feathered tails and six eyes. They have the power to periodically cleanse of their bodies of exotic toxins, an ability that makes them useful to hospitals like the Eduard Jenner Center For Strange Maladies.
Taddy

**Taddy** was a stuffed animal that was shaped like a racoon. It was given to Flick Chambers by Joselyn Chambers when Flick was an infant.

Flick destroyed Taddy two months after Joselyn left, after she came home to find her father Lincoln Chambers crying over one of Joselyn's sweatshirts, in an attempt to hurt Joselyn.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Heretical Edge*; Visitations, 5-08
Theia

**Theia** (b. 1989) was a Seosten and the only child and daughter of Puriel and Kushiel.

## Biography

### Early Life (1989-)

Theia was born in the late early to late 1989 to Puriel and Kushiel. Her mother noticed that Theia was unable to leave a living being that she had possessed, meaning she was a Lie.

## Physical appearance

Theia is described as a fiffteen years old girl with pale white skin, light brown hair and light brown eyes.

## Abilities and Powers

* **Damage Reflection**: Theia had the power to reflect damage. She could use this power to reflect any damage caused to herself back to its source.
* **Limited Possession**: Theia had the power to possess living creatures and gain complete control of their actions by doing so. She was unable to leave the body of a living creature that he had possessed until that living creature died.

## Appearances

* *Heretical Edge (webserial series)*
* *Heretical Edge 2*
United States of America

The **United States of America** (more commonly known as **America**, **United States**, **the States**, or simply **U.S.** or **U.S.A.**) is a large and very diverse country located in North America. It shares land borders with Canada and Mexico, and a maritime border with Cuba along the Florida Strait, and Russia in the Bering Strait.

48 states are located between Canada and Mexico, while Alaska occupies the northwestern-most region of the continent. Hawaii is an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. The capital of the United States is Washington D.C..

## Known locations

Locations known to have some sort of Heretical presence in America are, but not limited to:

* New York, New York
* Washington D.C.
Sue-Ellen O'Lattery

**Sue-Ellen O'Lattery** was an American Bystander that attended Damien Hills University.

## Biography

Sue-Ellen O'Lattery would be drugged and then raped at a party by Billy Tackett, Joey Fantine, and Omar Derosa. She would approach Benjamin Cook and tell him what had happened to her. Benjamin would promise her that the two of them would take care of the problem in the morning and send her home. Sue-Ellen would later be murdered that night.
日本

日本
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日本國旗 (1999 至今)

日本16芒旭日軍旗 (1890-1945)

二次大戰時期，日本使用的軍旗。但在曾遭遇日軍侵略的地區多帶有冒犯意味，因此遊戲開發商遂以日丸旗代之

在遊戲中，日本(1925-1965)為登場的勢力之一。

\*因為政治因素，遊戲開發商以現代日本的「日之丸」取代符合歷史事實的「旭日旗」。

歷史
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隨著中國革命，中華民國陷入混戰。日本皆因為其國家利益而扮演著阻撓統一的角色。在一戰期間亦積極地涉入遼東半島事務。

少壯派軍人在1930年代取得軍方的控制權。將日本領向無法逆轉的侵略狂潮。

### ．二次大戰中的日本帝國

1937年，橫行的日軍在北平受到國軍正式阻擋。兩國陷入正式作戰。日軍企圖以「不擴大方針」在三個月內擊潰國府。然而國軍在上海展現卓絕意志，單一城便堅守三個月。日軍低估中華民國的戰鬥意志，無法避免的全面戰爭於是爆發。然而日軍裝備精良、訓練完備。再攻下上海後立刻攻陷首都南京，國府遷都續戰，日軍則佔領所有沿海要邑。

歷經5年戰鬥，中華民國出乎意料地屹立不搖。百萬日軍陷入遠東泥淖而無法近一步北攻。同時，日本帝國海軍亦加緊在南太平洋地區的征伐腳步。南洋盡數收入日本帝國疆域、更制霸東南亞。歐洲列強忙於歐洲戰場，無暇東顧，更助長了日軍的氣勢。

1941年，日軍因為原油來源遭到美國中止，妄圖以武力逼迫美國就範而偷襲珍珠港。美國對日宣戰，盟軍與軸心勢力形成。

### ．日本帝國末日

經歷數年血戰，日軍在中國戰場難有突破，大量軍力與物資遭到牽制。而中華民國政府除了堅守之外，還與駐印英軍在滇緬戰線組織反攻。除此之外，美國的海空力量也在南太平洋對日軍施加壓力、逐島收復。

1945年5月，納粹德國覆滅。美軍全力在南太平洋加緊進攻步伐，而蘇聯亦在英美壓力下對日宣戰、進攻中國東北。最終日本失去南洋屏障，全島籠罩在美軍轟炸的範圍。

1945年8月，美軍使用了劃時代的原子武器，在長崎與廣島分別投彈，徹底終結了軍國日本的野心與狂妄。日本宣布無條件投降，二次大戰結束

### ．美國管理時期

戰爭結束後，由於中華民國服膺領袖蔣介石之「以德報怨」說，主動放棄對日本的佔領；加上陷入內戰，無暇東顧，日本便成為美國在亞太的重要管理區。在盟軍最高統帥麥克阿瑟的建設下，日本成為緊接發生的美蘇對峙中最重要的亞太島嶼。

此後，日本一直是美國在亞太地區的最重要盟友。美日安保條約也成為了日本的護身符。

## 科技樹

* 缺乏驅逐戰車
* 缺乏自走砲
Vanessa Moon

## Vanessa Lares Moon

**Vanessa Lares Moon**​ (b. 1999/2000) was an American Crossroads Hangman Heretic and Seosten Hybrid. She is the daughter of Haiden and Sariel Moon, the sister of Tristan Moon, and the half-sister of Spark and Tabbris.

## Physical appearance

Vanessa is described as a pretty, if shy-looking, young woman with light blonde hair. She wears the pants version of the Crossroads Academy uniform with the red trim of the Explorers Track.

## Abilities and Powers

When Vanessa became a Crossroads Hangman Heretic, she became to the Bystander Effect, capable of utilizing magic and absorbing the powers from the Strangers or Heretics that she kills, due to her nature as a Seosten Hybrid Vanessa absorbs the totality of the powers of a Seosten when she kills one. She receives a mental alert when she sees a Stranger. Her aura color is magenta.

Vanessa's status as a Seosten/Human hybrid also affords Vanessa the gift of Eidetic memory.

### Alter Abilities

A Tsuchinoko granted her the ability to jump several meters above herself.

An Ispec granted Vaessa the ability to see distant objects in a magnified scale. She was able to use this power to take a look at a camp of were-creatures at the base of a distant mountain.

From a Wereraven Vanessa gained the ability to change into a raven, she also got the power to turn into a bear from a Werebear.

After killing Seosten Vanessa gained the full breadth of natural Seosten abilities: Possession, connection with and transport to select others, supernatural attractiveness self or possed body boosting general physical enhanced capabilities. She also inherited her mother's perfect accuracy and body control.

From killing an Olympian Seosten Vanessa gained the power to create solid air object but is not able to use the power to the same extent as the original owner yet.

**Spells**

Vanessa is capable of using the following spells:

- Water colour changer

- Anti Eavesdropping spell

- Kevlar spell.

## Possessions

* *Heretical Weapon*: Vanessa's Heretical Weapon is a whip capable of exchanging inanimate material from one strike with inanimate material from another strike. It can also create circular mines anywhere it strikes, even in mid-air. The mines can produce several different elemental effects, including fire, ice, lightning, and posionous gas.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ Word of God - Vanessa 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 - Vanessa was born in Las Vegas.
Seosten

The **Seosten** are an ancient Alter race that rule an inter-dimensional empire. They are one of the two most powerful forces in the universe, matched only by their hated rivals, the Fomorians.

## Physical Description

### Abilities

Seosten are capable of entering and then possessing the bodies of Humans or other Alter races upon achieving physical contact with them. Once a Seosten has possessed someone, the Seosten can control the bodily functions of their host, access and alter the memories of the host, and can provide a boost that will enhance their host's physical abilities. Seosten can recall to the last person that they possessed.
Saint Nicholas

**Saint Nicholas** was an Adjacent.

## Biography

At some point in his life, Saint Nicholas took in the Elves and protected them from Heretics that came to kill them. He gave the Elves a home and a place to work. He taught the Elves how to make gifts for children and then passed them out himself.

Following Saint Nicholas' death, the Elves worked to ensure that the legend of his generosity and love of children lived on. The Elves furthered the legend of what became to became known as Santa Claus so that every Bystander child might, for at least a time, believe in magic.
Sigmund

**Counselor Sigmund** was a Swedish Crossroads Hangman Heretic and a Natural Warg Heretic. At some point, he became a part of the Committee and became responsible for Stranger hot spots, ordering specialized teams of Heretics to target areas with high Stranger populations or outstanding creatures.

## Physical appearance

Sigmund has the appearance of a black-haired man with a strong resemblance to the mythological Thor.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ Word of God - Sigmund was born in Sweden.
Tin

**Tin** was an Eden's Garden Hangman Heretic. He worked with Anguis to test untested spells against Werewolves on Werewolves that they captured. He would later be murdered by a Werewolf after Pace's arrival distracted him.

## Possessions

* **Silver spear**: Tin had a spear made out of silver that was capable of delivering electric shocks.
Sariel's Mental Doppleganger

**Sariel's Mental Doppelganger** is an "echo" of the simulated construct that Sariel Moon created and placed within Tabbris' mind with the Virtual Reality Simulation Spell that was stored within her memories until she pulled Larissa Mason back with her through Seosten space. Sariel struggled to keep herself attached to Larissa, and unintentionally deposited the mental doppelganger into Larissa's mind.

When Sariel realized what was happening, she instructed her mental doppelganger to use a small portion of Larissa's magic whenever a Seosten attempted to possess Larissa to enter the Seosten's long enough to command them to stop the possession. This affect was later studied and copied by Haiden Moon to create the Dibs spell, allowing those that it was used on to become immune to Seostenic possession.
Vlad Tepes

**Vlad Tepes** was a Bystander.

## Biography

At some point during his childhood, Vlad became a hostage of the Turks. He would eventually meet a Seosten Lie that offered him the power and means to kill his enemies, and after he accepted the offered, possessed him.

## Physical appearance

Vlad is described as an emaciated man with a near skeletal body and long dark hair.
Water Color Changing Spell

The **Water Color Changing Spell**.

## Description

The Water Color Changing Spell is a spell that allows Heretics to imbue an object with an effect that will change the color of water the object is placed in after it has been activated. Heretics can choose the color that they want the spell to turn the water and can modify the spell to activate from outside stimulus.

## References

1. ↑ *Heretical Edge*; A Learning Experience 17-01