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• Smoke: "David Feral" - "Cat" - "Fang" - "T'Challa" - "Uruvion" pronounced Oo-roo-vee-on (Sidhe name, means fiery) - A Demigod; Sidhe warrior; Able to call magic to him; Is six-five with a powerful broad-shouldered body, fangs and pointed ears; His long, blue-black hair has horizontal silver streaks and reaches halfway to his waist; His crystal blue eyes contract into vertical slits, like a cats; Shifts into a blue-black cat with silver stripes along his haunches and forelegs; Is thousands of years old
• Eva Roman: "Eva Naomi Roman" - Dire Wolf; Was bitten by a werewolf 5 years prior and kept her change a secret; A partner in her father's comic book shop; Has long, straight dark chocolate hair and velvety brown eyes; Shifts into a seven-foot werewolf with sable fur, fangs and curving claws
• Fluffy: Eva's wolf; A seven-foot werewolf with sable fur, fangs and curving claws
• Bill Roman: Eva's father; Charlotte's husband; A comic book geek and shop owner; A bear of a man with a broad, handsome face and a gray-shot black beard that blends with the salt-and-pepper bristle of his hair and hazel eyes
• Charlotte Roman: Eva's mother; Bill's wife; A slim, youthful woman; Has honey colored hair and brown eyes; Teaches English at Steve Ditko High; 55 years old
• Joel Harmon: A tall, handsome blond; A comic book geek; Eva's ex-boyfriend; Is handsome, tall, blond and athletic; An assistant football coach at Ditko High
• La Belle Coeur: "Belle" - "Lady La Belle Coeur" - Maja; Court seducer for the past 1,000 years; Has had to kill 16 Latent's after they went crazy once the Gift was triggered; Has golden curly hair
• Arthur Pendragon: "King Arthur" - Vampire; Guinevere's husband; Logan's father; Leige of the Magi; Head of the Magus Council; Has dark eyes, dark hair that falls down to his brawny shoulders and a beard frames his handsome mouth and square chin in a dark goatee; Is not particularly tall, but he is as broad and powerfully built as a professional athlete; About 1,500 years old
• Guinevere Pendragon: "Gwen" - Maja; Arthur's wife; Logan's mother; Council member; A slim, delicate blonde; About 1,500 years old
• Lancelot du Lac: "Lance" - Vampire; Grace's husband; Former Magus court seducer; Council member
• Morgana Le Fay: Maja; Arthur's half sister; Leige of the Majae Council; One of the Magekind's most powerful witches
• Tristan: "Tris" - "Sir Tristan" - "Lord Tristan" - Vampire; A Knight of the Round Table; Has blond hair and green eyes; Has wide shoulders and tan skin; About 1,500 years old
• Reece Champion: Vampire; Erin's husband; Magus; Ex-CIA; Champion of the United States; Over 200 years old
• Erin Champion: "Erin Grayson" - Maja; Reece's wife; Former FBI agent
• Logan MacRoy: Vampire; Giada's fiancé; Arthur & Guinevere's son; Ex-Cop; 31 years old; Is six-foot-four, 210 lbs.; Has brown hair and brown eyes
• Giada Shepherd: Maja; Logan's fiancée; Has blonde hair and gray eyes
• Merlin: An alien from an alternate universe
• Nimue: An alien from an alternate universe
• Davon Fredericks: Vampire; Surgical resident specializing in trauma at Chicago Mercy Hospital; Is very handsome with chocolate skin, high, stark cheekbones, a full mouth, broad, regal nose and big brown eyes; 33 years old
• Richard Spotted Horse: Vampire; A tall Native American
• Mohammad Hasan: Vampire; A broad-shouldered Iraqi
• Delfina: Maja
• Miranda Drake: "Randy" - Dire Wolf; A lady of the Chosen; Can weild magic; 24 years old; A tall and slim redhead with bright amber eyes; Shifts into a seven foot red-furred werewolf
• Joelle Drake: Dire Wolf; Miranda's mother; Gerald's wife; A lady of the Chosen; A too-thin, perpetually wary woman; Has pale skin, flaming red hair and emerald green eyes; Shifts into a red-furred werewolf just shy of seven feet tall
• Mary Catherine: A baby girl
• Diana Galatyn: "Queen Diana" - "Diana London" - Dire Wolf; King Llyr's wife
• Llyr Galatyn: "King Llyr Aleyn Galatyn" - King of the Cachamwri Sidhe; Diana's husband
• Kat Danilo: Maja; Ridge's fiancée; Lancelot's daughter
• Ridge Champion: Vampire; Kat's fiancé; Has green eyes
• Kel: Dragon; Nineva's mate; A Knight of the Round Table
• Zephyr: A huge white stag with a magnificent rack of antlers; Is six feet at the shoulder with crystalline blue eyes; One of Smoke's fellow elementals
• Cachamwri: God of the dragons; Friend to the Sidhe
• Terry Gordon: Eva's neighbor; A small boy with white-blond hair and big blue eyes
• Shelly Gordon: Eva's neighbor; Terry's mother; Ronnie's wife; A pretty woman with delicate features and bright blonde hair
• Ronnie Gordon: Eva's neighbor; Terry's father; Shelly's husband; A wife and child beater; A massive man with a bearded face
• Warlock: Dire Wolf & wizard; Shifts into a huge white wolf (almost as big as a polar bear) with glowing amber eyes
• Harold Worthington: Dire Wolf; A handsome man in his 40's; Is big, tall and powerfully built, with silver threading his black hair; A bank CEO; A very big and very nasty werewolf
• Gerald Drake: "Gerry" - Dire Wolf; Joelle's husband; Miranda's stepfather; Owns a very successful construction business
• Tommy Danvers: Dire Wolf; One of the Twelve Bastards; The Skoll team leader; Shifts into an eight-foot werewolf with honey brown fur
• Steve Miller: Dire Wolf; One of the Twelve Bastards; Skoll team second-in-command; Shifts into an eight-foot werewolf with ginger fur
• Kevin Wheeler: Dire Wolf; One of the Twelve Bastards; The Fenir team leader
• Scott Brown: Dire Wolf; One of the Twelve Bastards; The Geri team leader; Warlock's favorite; Shifts into an eight-foot werewolf with gray fur
• Frank: Dire Wolf; One of the Twelve Bastards; Member of Skoll team; Shifts into an eight-foot werewolf
• Jim: Dire Wolf; One of the Twelve Bastards; Member of Skoll team; Shifts into an eight-foot werewolf
• Joe Byrnes: Dire Wolf; The Bastards' computer hacker
• Joan Devon: Dire Wolf; A lady of the Chosen; A slim, middle-aged woman; Is very pale with dark hair and big brown eyes; Just lost her husband, George and daughter, Amanda (killed by Logan & Giada after murdering a dozen Latents) after losing her son, Trey (a serial killer, killed by Kat & Ridge) at Christmas
• Trey Devon: Dire Wolf; Joan & George's son; Amanda's brother; Had blond hair and a big, muscular body; A serial killer, killed by Kat Danilo & Ridge Champion
• George Devon: Dire Wolf; Joan's husband; Trey & Amanda's father; Killed by Logan & Giada after murdering a dozen Latents
• Amanda Devon: Dire Wolf; Joan & George's daughter; Trey's sister; A redhead; Killed by Logan & Giada after murdering a dozen Latents
• Calista Norman: Dire Wolf; A lady of the Chosen; A gray-haired woman who is thin to the point of desiccation, with a horsey face and an expression that suggests she's been sucking on a lemon.
• Theresa Carington: Dire Wolf; A lady of the Chosen; A plump matron; Her blue eyes are hard and narrow in her soft, dimpled face
• Isolde: Tristan's ex; Deceased
• Ri'ae: Sidhe; Smoke's ex-lover; Smoke's priestess; Had blue eyes; Went insane and killed Smoke's entire tribe
• Snowball: Eva's neighbor's cat
• Anita Blake: Character from one of Miranda's favorite books
• Jean Claude: Character from one of Miranda's favorite books

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• “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility”

  Eva Quoting Spiderman Comic

• “If you kiss me covered in blood. I'm going to yark on your shoes.”

  Eva

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Greendale, South Carolina: A New South town, one big suburb and small city core that includes one or two tall buildings with skyscraper pretensions
• Comix Cave: Bill & Eva Roman's comic book store in South Carolina
• Chicago, Illinois
• Mercy Hospital: in Chicago
• Avalon
• Drayton Apartments: in South Carolina
• Mageverse: An alternate dimension where magic is one of the universal forces.
• Joyous Gard: Mediterranean villa built by Belle to house all recruits, male and female until they build a place of their own in Avalon.
• New York
• Steve Ditko High School: in South Carolina
• Sandwiched In: Three doors down from the Comix Cave
• FBW Savings and Loan: in Chicago
• North Carolina
• Peach Pit
• Pendragon House
• Camelot: King Arthur's legendary castle
• Morgan, South Carolina

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• Majae Council: Add a description of this organization.
• Knights of the Round Table: Consists of 12 knights lead by Arthur
• Warlock's Bastards: Warlock's 12 sociopathic assassins; They live together in three separate groups
• The Chosen: The aristocratic descendents of those Merlin had personally selected to become Direkind.
• The Dark Ones: They were predatory invading aliens who lived on the energy of human suffering; The creatures were big, horned bipeds that looked like a medieval woodcut of a devil.
• Direkind Council of Clans

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• Merlin's Gift: "Merlin's Curse"
• Dire Wolf: Merlin selected some people to become Direkind and watch over Arthur to make sure he did not overstep his bounds. Most of the rest are Bitten—transformed by the magic of a werewolf’s bite.
• Magus: "Vampire" - Are always male; Cannot work spells; Can shapeshift
• Maja: "Majae" (plural) - "Witch" - Are always female; Can works spells
• Sidhe: Fae
• Elemental: An alien energy being
• Dragonkind: Dragons; They can use magic and shift into a human form
• Burning Moon: One month a year when female Dire Wolves go into heat.
• Excalibur: Arthur's sword
• Kingslayer: Warlock's massive battle-axe; Has a great red gem that tips the shaft between massive double blades; The gem can act as a focus for Warlock's power, amplifying it as a ruby intensifies light into a laser.
• Ciardha: Something like a tiger, but a little bigger, black, with silver stripes on the haunches.
• Truebond: A psychic link between mates
• Merlin's Grail: Describe this term.
• Latents

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Master of Fire, and followed by Master of Shadows.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Angela Knight (Author)

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• Dewey: 813

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction
• Books › Romance

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Angela Knight's website: Mageverse Series

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