Minor Side Characters

These are named characters that only show up for briefly. They are listed order of when they appear.

To see a list of characters with their own pages, check Characters

## In Warrington on Planet Lilly

###### Roxanne

A fellow orphan who grew up with matt. She always wanted to be a mage. Was last seen talking to a guild recruiter for Victor's Elementals, a mage focused guild. Appeared in chapter 1.

##### Miles

Miles is the head recruiter for Gavle's Good Guilders, a tier 10 guild based on the tier 12 planet Ilstor.

Miles had gotten matt a conditional contract with GGG before his awakening, but he no longer met the requirements. Miles warned him to read any contract he is offered because most of the ones we would attract would be tantamount to slavery. Appeared in chapter 1.

##### Benny

owns an inn between some tier 3 rifts and was Matt's boss from ages 13 to 14. he believes the customer is always right. Appeared in chapter 1.

##### Beatrice

Works for Benny. Often 'takes a dozen smoke breaks' but can get away with it because she's sleeping with Benny. Appeared in chapter 2.

##### Zephyr

A grumpy old Tier 4 who spends the entire day drinking in Benny's inn. Matt got his Cracked Phantom Armor while helping him to his room during a bar fight. Matt speculates that he lost someone important to him. Appeared in chapter 2.

##### Brackus

Son of the owner of Brackus Holdings, a courier service. He found Matt's Cracked Phantom Armor and chucked it at someone's head in a fit of rage. Appeared in chapter 2.

## At the PlayPen

##### Darius Blackwell

Joined the path at the same time as Matt. Has black hair and silver eyes. When he filled out his Empire ID, he put a different last name. Appeared in chapter 4.

##### Smith the smith

Smith is a blacksmith on the path that explained The Path of Crafting to Matt. He has a sign with a gold shield with crossed daggers inside with a stylized three next to the arrangement. Meaning he can make tier three equipment and he is on the path (what the gold means). Matt bought a cheap dagger from him when he first got to the playpen. Appeared in chapter 4.

##### Tun

A longsword crafter on the path who can make tier three blades. Matt buys a long blade heavy sword from him when he first got to the playpen. Appeared in chapter 4.

##### Dominic

A 6'4'' tier 7 personal trainer that Matt hired at the play pen to work on his swordsmanship as well as sword and shield combinations. Appeared in chapter 6.

##### Iris

a tier 8 healer that tried to bully Matt into giving over Aster's egg when he got it from a rift reward. Ended up getting killed by Griff for trying to steal from a pather. Appeared in Chapter 7.

##### Helen

The tier 20 that runs the playpen matt when to. She is not initially named until Matt looks at classes in tier 3. She arrives to talk to Melinda about her talent in Chapter 6 but is not named until chapter 10.

##### Jasmine

Matt's casual girlfriend and the playpen. She and her party are from a rich family and are not on the path. She is brunette. She met matt at one of the parties on the playpen island and eventually decide to be exclusive for the duration of their time there. They agreed to stop and say hello if they end up on the same planets. Appeared in chapter 9.

##### Shadi

The founder of TrueMind, a company most well known for making responsive enchantments. They make Personal AIs subsidized by the empire. Apparently crushed her competition 20 thousand years ago. Matt learned of her researching AI companies in chapter 11.

##### Janet

A member of the development team at TrueMind. She signs matt up with a deal to get scans of his AI every tier up to the 15th in exchange for a free prototype. Appeared in chapter 11.

## On the Training Planet

##### Richmond and Faye Page

Richmond is tier 29 and Faye is tier 30. they had similar talents (something light emitting) that was how they met. they are the leaders of the Dual Stars guild and the owners of the training planet which was gifted from the empire. Appeared in chapter 13.

##### Driver

a tier 25 member of the Dual Stars guild. he fell off the path at tier 15 and is the overseer of the training world. Appeared in chapter 13.

##### Simeon

While Driver is in charge of the defense for the training world, Simeon is in charge of everything else. Matt made a deal to sell half a million mana to them in exchange for VIP status and out at third teleport to a location of his choosing. Appeared in chapter 13.

##### Emily

a tier 8. appraiser with 40 years experience. She appraised Matt and Liz's items from their first trip out in the rifts. Appeared in chapter 19.

##### Tina

a tier 15. Emily's supervisor, brought over because of the growth teleport rings that Matt found. Appeared in chapter 19.

##### Susan

Tier 12. the auctioneer with the Yellow Feathers Auction House. that house is common on under tier 25 worlds. Appeared in chapter 20.

##### Damian Woods

a wolf bloodlined man, newly tier 5 who tried to suppress liz with his bloodline. He forced up the price of a spear she wanted at auction, in which she made him pay a 7th tier mana stone. Then she insulted him until he demanded a duel. He put a suppressor on her wrist to try to allow him to dominate her in the duel, which backfires spectacularly. Appeared in chapter 20.

##### Yan

A Tier 5 Dual Stars cultivator who led off the challenges in the Exchange combat competitions. Appeared in chapter 21.

##### Eden Kline

A member of the Dual Stars guild that challenged Matt to a duel. after losing terribly to the 3 hits rule demanded a "real" duel. the wager was 10 tier 5 mana crystals vs. hurting him. used a magnetic power to rip Matt's sword from him and destroy it. Matt stripped off his clothes (metal buttons and boot lacings) and preceded to beat Eden into submission with his fists, broke his arm and his neck. Appeared in chapter 21. Named in chapter 23.

##### Jay

a Republic cultivator tier 4. who uses a saber. He developed his concept during his fight with lilly and ranked up to tier 5. Appears chapter 24.

##### Lilly

a Bow user from the empire who uses void skills, tier 5. She burned rift mana stones to defeat Jay, who had by far more talent. Appears chapter 24

##### Blink

a high tiered assassin that does empire sanctioned assassinations during times of war. He was on the path but disappeared while on it. He is basically a ghost. mentioned in Chapter 26.

##### Brandon

a short darkskinned man that matt and liz met in a camp on the training world. appeared in chapter 26.

##### Chun

a Republican that Matt and Liz met at the camp on the training world and talked about the political structures of their nations. Appeared in chapter 26.

##### Brent Corosi

a pale cultivator who was in a debate with a magic archer. the archer asserted that 1000 mana at tier 3 is best and Brent said 800 is best because you don't lose some essence trying to push your mana cap higher without concentration. Liz agrees with Brent. Appeared in chapter 27.

##### Taki

a cultivator that ascended to a higher realm a few thousand years ago. His Tier 3 talent was that he had no maximum mana cap. Mentioned in chapter 27.

##### Tetra

Tier 8 Appraser for the Dual Stars guild. They traded her the skill Filter in exchange for materials to get their linked rings to tier 6. Appeared in chapter 29.

##### Lady Demoness Charlotte

A character in a book series that Liz (and secretly Matt) likes: Two Faces of the Demons. It's softcore porn and "they genderbend the love interest so everyone’s happy." mentioned in chapter 31.

##### Diana

A waitress that Matt and the party had after matt figured out how to make his AI remember names. Appeared in chapter 33.

##### Humpty

a cultivator that Matt and Co. met during the empire vs. republican battle on the training world. He was a hand to hand fighter and avenged Liz and aster after they were knocked out of the fight. Matt speculates that it's just a stupid alias and not his actual name. Appeared in chapter 34.

##### Kathy

A cultivator that matt spent the night with after the battle. aster was less than pleased when matt came back at noon the next day. Appeared in chapter 35.

## Vacation

##### Dominic

The guild leader of the explorer's guild. He got his aspect at tier 46 and ascended. He is 34,705 years old. His mother was tier 2 and his father was tier 3 and they worked themselves to death providing a better life for him on a tier 1 planet. Mentioned in chapter 37. Appeared in chapter 40.

##### Jessie

The delivery girl who takes and replaced 250k mana slabs that Matt is using to fund his and Elizabeth's classes while staying with travis. Appeared in chapter 39.

##### Baroness Varsies

The owner of the planet where Dominic ascended. her underling tried to strong arm Travis into moving his house to make room. Travis stormed up in phoenix form and she instantly backed off. Bought a lot of mana from Matt and co in exchange for a lot of things from her vaults. Appeared in chapter 39.

##### Raster

Prince of a vassal kingdom two thousand years ago. Raster was close to Baroub who he christened "Bob". when he was assassinated by his brother bob called in a lot of favors to have him toiling as a laborer for all eternity. Mentioned in Chapter 41.

##### Duke Culumus

An evil bastard with golden hair and emerald eyes who tortured low level girls including Camilla and was murdered by Duke waters at the girls behest. Appeared in chapter 43.

##### Duke Osculation

A guest of Duke Culumus he tried to stand up for him to duke waters and got cut in half for it. Appeared chapter 43.

##### Yousef

The ticket counter worker that told matt and liz that they had been upgraded because of double booking, which conveniently put them in a suite with Camilla. Appeared in chapter 44.

##### Oliver

the TrueMind employee that matt met when he was tier 5. He was a lot nicer than the techs he met at tier 4 and explained the origins of AIs and suggested matt use his AI in his professions. Appeared in chapter 45.

##### Duke Ignite

The duke assigned to investigate Matt and Liz being forced into slavery by a guild in the vassal kingdom. Appeared in chapter 47.

## Ruin Debacle

##### Fen with Bow and Arrow

A man around Matt's age with two wolves, one Bigger, Bow, and another smaller, Arrow, who are bonded to him. In chapter 58 it was revealed that he can share wounds with them. He gave Matt and Co. information on the surroundings and a nearby rift in exchange for breakfast. Malcom offended him by asking about his talent and he left. He temporarily teams up with the party to get the non-combatants into a rift during the golem attacks. Appeared in chapter 48.

##### Geraden with Den

A tier 6 solo fighter that Matt and party found when informing people of the meetup Prince Albert was setting up. He was more concerned that the golems were destroying the forest than the people. He is bonded to a tree named Den that he takes with him in the form of a staff. He was left with only a torso at the end of the Ruin boss fight. Matt and Liz sent him a growth item that would speed up Den's recovery from their first rift experiments. First appeared in chapter 54.

##### Vanessa

A cultivator with a healing skill who told matt to not waste a potion on a dying man. She was part of a group of about 30 that lost 15 to the ruin golems originally. Appeared in chapter 55.

##### Basil and Thyme

Basil is a melee front liner, he has a Talent where he gathered momentum and released it in his first attack. Thyme is a Tier mage. They were assigned to work with Matt and party during the Ruin Golem fights. Appeared in chapter 56.

##### Zoey

A tier 6 female crafter from the royal family who coerced a lower tiered man for sexual acts under threat of throwing him out of the rift they go in. Matt and party (including Camilla), along with Fen, Geraden, Basil, and Thyme plotted to kill her, though Matt carried it out. Appeared in chapter 56.

##### Kline

Leader of the non/less-combatants of the Golem fight refugees. He is tier 6. He pushed to be left more food, materials, and protection than the combat force was willing to allow when they were left in a rift to wait out the Golem Ruin. Appeared in Chapter 57.

##### Frederick and Oliver

The two tier 15s that were protecting the teleporter and also kept tier 7s from helping with the golem subjugation. Frederick works for Albert's older brother and Oliver was paid off. Mentioned in chapter 63. Appeared in chapter 64.

##### Varrick

Son of a Duke in the Seven Sun's kingdom. He worked as Albert's guard during the golem ruin subjugation. He had a lot of capital with him that his father gave him in case he got into trouble. He bought the golem flying fortress out from under the prince. Then, after being fired, he set the contribution type to be direct contribution, nuking albert's contribution score allowing Liz (and Aster) to take first, and Matt to take second. Appeared in chapter 64,

##### Alfonso

Tier 11 appraiser with the Kas's Auction house for 6 years and 4 years as a freelancer. He appraised Liz's Blood Iron. Appeared in chapter 66.

##### Diana

Tier 12 appraiser with nineteen years of experience. appraised Max and party's first rift experiment haul. Appeared in chapter 67.

##### Made Milson

A contract killer that Melinda met on the bus. Noticing that he was near death from cancer. She demands he goes to the hospital where she works tomorrow. He said he can't because he was going to an... orgy for old wrinkley people with "eclairs to die for". On the way to work the next morning Melinda notices that there was a homicide at a bakery. Milson shows up with a box of doughnuts from said bakery. Melinda heals him and after he leaves Baxter points out that he's a hired killer, and those doughnuts were from the shop where the murder was. Melinda says it's not her job to judge the people she heals. Appears in Concept of Death 1 & 2.

## Vassal War

##### Colonel Throne

Tier 33 in command of the 44th Battalion. Was in charge of facilitating the vassal war for the tier 20 planet. Appeared in chapter 70.

##### Barry the secretary

He is the right hand man to one of the seven. though no one knows which one he is the right hand to. Appeared in chapter 71.

##### Samuel

A tier 19 appraiser assigned to Matt and party by the path. with follow them to whatever auction house. Appeared in chapter 72.

##### Captian Kelsie

Captain of the HMS Deceiver. Claims to be tier 16, but melinda thinks she feels like Baxter. She has a thin scar on her face, making her smile crooked. Appeared in Concept of Death 3.

##### Javier

Tier 29 representative of the empire's auction house: Deep Sky Auctions. Appeared in chapter 79.

##### Madam Renaissance

A tier 48 crafter, good at smithing, tailoring and enchantment. Tiered up 7 times through Inspiration, including her last two tiers. She is rumored to crash crafting classes, when she does, half the class has inspirations during her lesson, the other half within the next year. Mentioned in chapter 79.

##### Otto

Queendom side archer, the second best of his squad. They were guarding the base Matt and team took over and was killed brutally. Appeared and had a POV in chapter 81

##### Lesley

The tier 6 leader of otto and harvie's team. Is an archer. appeared in chapter 81.

##### Harvie

Fought with Otto and Lesley, his leg went flying during combat. His leg appeared in chapter 81.

##### Ash

Queendom side fighter that killed Matt. His tier 1 talent gave him Water Manipulation and Darkness Manipulation. He wasn't sure killing Matt was worth it, they lost so many. After they took the fort, Alyssa showed up and took out what was left of their force. Killing everyone who surrendered. Appeared in Chapter 83.

##### Annabelle

One of Luna's earliest successes. She slept outside to save money. She didn't finish the path but came close. Famous in exploration circles and has since ascended. Mentioned in chapter 83.

##### Nael

Luna refers to him as a "wannabe hivemind". Aster took him out in battle. Luna considers him a counter to liz because he would absorb any biological matter (blood) she send at him. Appeared in chapter 83.

##### Amy, Gerald, Franklyn, and Dee

Disgruntled pathers that got screwed over by the Kingdom in the first fort taking debacle. Appeared in chapter 84

##### Jen

Disgruntled pather. Friend of Amy, Gerald, Franklyn, and Dee who was part of a cobbled together relief squad. Her commander ordered them to wait until the defenders were dead before going to take the fort themselves. Appeared in chapter 84.

##### Kelly

Girl who lived two apartments down from Liz. Her parents owned a potion shop. Appeared in Liz's nightmare in chapter 85.

##### Dominic

Liz's hair dresser, tried to get her to donate money to a charity they were supporting. Appeared in Liz's nightmare in chapter 85.

##### Hedon

A boy 4 years older than Liz who she had a crush on when she was twelve. Appeared in Liz's nightmare in chapter 85.

##### Jessica

The watch commander that matt met when first manning the Pather Union desk during the war. Appeared in chapter 86.

##### Adam

Tier 7 platoon leader of the queendom army that Melinda's team joined. When taking a copper mine. The kingdom detonated depleted copper there. Appeared in The Concept of Death 6.

##### Xander, Lena, and Teddy

These are queendom side cultivators that melinda met during the queendom siege of the city. Xander is a turtle cultivator. Lena is a girl with maroon eyes and purple hair. Teddy is a chubby tier 6 man who wields a short spear with an oversized blade. Appeared in The Concept of Death 7

##### Jen

A healer on the queendom side that said that the ones facing Matt's section were lazy. They scoffed at nicknaming him Ateleos because they couldn't take him down. Appeared in The Concept of Death 7.

##### The Twin Swords

sons of Earl Benedict in the queendom. mentioned in The Concept of Death 7.

##### Healer Kelsey

Tier 17 healer specializing in beast medicine and psychology. She brought to matt's attention that aster needs friends her own age. Appeared in chapter 92.

##### Jeremy and Jasper

Jasper is a wind aspect bat and jeremy is his bond. members of aster's bond play group during the vassal war. Appeared in chapter 92.

##### Rita and Chelsea

Chelsea is a flaming lizard and rita is her bond. Members of aster's bond play group during the vassal war. Appeared in chapter 92.

##### Eric

Tier 6 queendom guard for the tier 6 gold mine that matt and co attacked and looted. Was killed with flamethrower. Also spoke to a guard named Janet. Appeared in chapter 93.

##### Sheila Benson

Tier 22 trainer that matt hired. She got 32nd place in the empire wide mundane shortsword fighting competition. worked up to 1st place in vassal contests and took 30 years before she placed in the empire competition. Appeared in Chapter 94.

##### Alistair and Philip

Alistair is the son of a kingdom duke who was put in charge of an offensive against a queendom city that matt was assigned. Philip and Olivia were his advisors. Philip Countered Olivia's suggestions. Both Alistair and Philip were killed with a mana canon ambush by the queendom. Appeared in chapter 95.

##### Olivia

Advisor to alistair, she became acting general of the offensive against the queendom city. Liz backed her taking over instead of Alyssa. Olivia took the city and was awarded a barony by Albert. Appeared in chapter 95.

##### Cladius

A queendom fighter arguing against olivia's plan. Appeared in chapter 96.

##### Tito

A bald monk with a melon hammer who stops matt from throwing himself at Talous after he insulted his parents. Appeared in Chapter 97.

##### Healer Lester

Tier 18 healer with 70 years of mental health experience. He is who Matt talked to after beating Talous to death in a duel. Appeared in Chapter 99.

##### Robert

Tara's one on one range tutor. Tier 19. Appeared in The Concept of Death 8.

##### Gerald and Yenna

Two mages in Vinnie's group mage class that half ass all their duels. Appeared in The Concept of Death 8.

##### Adam and Prices

Instructors in Vinnie's group mage class. Prices made Vinnie and his sparing partner do 5 laps hopping around like a frog when they were smirking at Gerald and Yenna getting yelled at. They did their jumps with their manipulation assisting them. Appeared in The Concept of Death 8.

##### Brianna

A wind mage that was Vinnie's sparing partner during the group mage class. He ended up going out for drinks with her and possibly more. Appeared in The Concept of Death 8.

##### Worldwaker

The ascender before duke waters. She shocked the empire by killing 3/4ths of the enemy troops in the first two weeks of her vassal war, causing her side of the war to win in one month. Mentioned in Chapter 100.

##### Kelper, Jenifer, and Edward

Spies that Annie uncovered. Jenifer was executed by matt along with several spies in his takeover of the Kingdom side of the vassal war. Edward was a revealed spy that was unknown to Juni and Albert. All appeared in chapter 100.

##### Adam

Pather for the kingdom side that fought with matt when he was the leader of the kingdom forces. Appeared in chapter 101.

##### Milly and Verona

Milly is the 3rd daughter of the 6th and second newest queen of the Alliance of Allied Queens. Verona is the Fourth Queen of the Alliance. Appeared in Chapter 102.

##### Damien and Kristen

Marquess and Marchioness of the Kingdom of Seven Suns. They are die-hard loyalists to the kingdom. Cori killed them. Appeared in chapter 102.

##### Falicia

Tier 22 recruiter for the Red Feather Academy. Recruited Alyssa. Appeared in chapter 104

##### Vince, Adam, and Tiffany

Pathers that Manny was getting rare cracked skills for from Duke Freddrick along with the healing miasma skill for Melinda. Vince and Adam needed cracked skills with lower spiritual strain. Tiffany is a void melee fighter and needed a cracked heavy punch with void aspect. Mentioned in chapter 105.