Minor Characters

The alchemy teacher at Cyoria's Royal Academy of Magical Arts. She's described as surprisingly attractive for her age, and within the loop is astonished by Zach's alchemical prowess.^[1]

Library expert at Cyoria's Royal Academy of Magical Arts, head librarian. Keen for aid. Knows library spells. Disagrees with the headmaster's political view that the alliance of Eldemar hasn't ended merely gotten smaller^[2].

When Zorian first asks for a job at the library, she puts him to work alongside Ibery^[3]. Later, she teaches Zorian book-finding divinations.

Students at Cyoria's Royal Academy of Magical Arts. The (in)famous Ashirai twins. Soul bonded twins, as is usual for the Ashirai family, a family known to only ever give birth to soul-bonded twins.^[4] Known gossips, and considered to be "giggly twits" by Zorian.^[5] Their soul bond can be detected via spell, same as with familiar soul bonds.^[6]

Their family is attempting to become an official House with their specialty being soul bonds.

Classmate of Zorian, and a known gossip. During a party at Zach's house she was seen with Neolu, Maya, Kiana and Jade. Taiven described the groups as giggly and didn't want to interact with them, but because of the group's desire to nose into their classmate's business she had to talk to them anyway.^[7]

Iroro is a classmate of Zorian. In the restarts after Red Robe got rid of the aranea in Cyoria, monster incursions ensued, and Iroro was pulled from school^[8] shortly after it started because of them.

She is mentioned by name only once in the book, in chapter 38.

Andoril Boranova is a member of House Boranova and guardian of Veyers Boranova. Zach and Zorian capture and interrogate him in order to find the whereabouts of Veyers, which Andoril doesn't know, although he supplies them with information about Veyers' general character, behavior and House Boranova internal politics. In particular, Andoril claimed that he wasn't given authority to discipline Veyers, and thus Veyers came and went as Veyers pleased.^[9]

A low ranking member of the Sword Divers web. She communicates Zorian's initial diplomatic messages when he seeks to trade secrets within the loop. She also goes by Seeker.^[10]

A gambler who lives in Kyanzov Dveri and frequently drinks and gambles in the taverns. He has a group of regular friends he drinks with, and his secret trick for winning card games is getting the opposition drunk.

Inside the loop, Orinus plays evenly against Zorian as the latter practices his mind-reading to cheat at and throw card games.^[11]

A vampire member of the invasion force and heir to House Zoltan, Lady Zoltan uses a magic sword to fight, which itself can be used to cut through forcefields. During the invasion she dressed black militaristic clothing, with a jacket with a skull-like crest on it.

She considered herself to be part of the next generation of undead, and as such, superior to a relic such as Quatach-Ichl. Despite this, her house put her protection in the hands of Quatach-Ichl, who failed to stop Zorian from incinerating her.^[12]