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• Ares: "War" - "Jeff" - Second of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Reseph, Thanatos & Limos' brother; A massive male with short reddish brown hair and nearly black eyes; Is nearly seven-feet tall of pure muscle; Over 5,000 years old; Was raised in ancient Egypt; His agimortus is a person
• Cara Thornhart: Human; Has a gift to heal/understand animals; Former veterinary technician; Has sandy-blonde hair and crystal blue eyes with flecks of green and gold; 26 years old
• Reseph: "Pestilence" - "Pest" - First of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Rider of the White Horse; Ares, Thanatos & Limos' brother; Has broad shoulders, long white-blond hair and blue eyes; The most easygoing and playful of the siblings, the brother who has held them all together over the centuries; Over 5,000 years old; Was raised by a powerful Akkadian priestess; His agimortus was an event (the warg civil war)
• Limos: "Famine" - "Li" - Third of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Ares, Reseph & Thanatos' sister; Has black hair and violet eyes; Over 5,000 years old; Was raised in Sheoul; Her agimortus is a small ivory cup or bowl that, if drunk from by a Horseman, will break her Seal
• Thanatos: "Death" - "Than" - Fourth of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Ares, Reseph & Limos' brother; Has pale yellow eyes, shoulder-length tawny hair with two thin braids at each temple and deeply tanned skin; Has many tattoos including cracked, bleeding bones inked on his hands, various weapons decorating his arms and depictions of death and destruction on his back and chest; Has an eyebrow piercing; Over 5,000 years old; Was raised among Druidic people; His agimortus is his virginity
• Lilith: Evil succubus; Four Horsemen's mother
• Yenrieth: Battle angel; Four Horsemen's father
• Zachariel: An angel of the Apocalypse; struck a deal with the devil to charge Lilith's four children to be the keepers of Armageddon as either an instigator or a defender.
• Reaver: Battle Angel; One of the Horsemen's two Watchers; Team Heaven; Former Fallen Angel; Former Healer at Underworld General; A tall stunning male; Has long, thick golden hair and sapphire blue eyes
• Arik Wagner: Human; Runa's brother; Kynan's Army buddy; Army Sergeant First Class; Works for R-XR; Ex-Delta Force operative; His dark hair is cut in a severe high-and-tight
• Decker Cready: Arik's partner; Works for R-XR; Has gray-blue eyes and blond hair
• Sinead Donnelly: "Sin" - "Smurfette" - Conall's mate; Seminus demon/human half-breed; Only female Seminus ever; Lore's twin sister; Eidolon, Shade & Wraith's sister; Former assassin master; Has waist-length blue-black hair and coal-black eyes; Her dermoire looks faded and lacks a personal symbol; Is petite with a toned body; Ares' ex-bedmate
• Conall Dearghul: "Con" - Sin's mate; Vampire; Former dhampire; Paramedic at Underworld General; Former Warg Council member; Has deeply tanned skin, sun-streaked blond hair and silver eyes; Is six-six with broad shoulders and a lean athletic build; Is over 1,000 years old
• Kynan Morgan: "Ky" – Marked Sentinel; Part Fallen Angel; Gem's husband; Soon to be a father; Sariel's descendant; Highest ranking Aegis Elder; Used to work for R-XR; Former Doctor at Underworld General; Former Regent of the NYC Aegis cell; Former Army medic; Is six-two and lean with thick, muscular arms, a broad chest and deeply tanned skin; Has spiky brown hair and denim-blue eyes; Speaks with a gravelly voice due to a throat injury while in Afghanistan; 31 years old; Charmed so he can't be harmed by anyone other than Angels; Newest keeper of Heofon
• Gemella Endri: "Gem" - Doctor at Underworld General; Kynan's pregnant wife; Tayla's older twin sister; Half-human & half-Soulshredder demon; 27 years old; Has shoulder-length black-and-blue hair and green eyes; Wears Goth clothing and has a pierced tongue, eyebrow, ears & navel; Her tattoos include Celtic bands around her ankles, wrists & neck, a long-stemmed rose running the length of her left leg and a dragon covers her belly with its teeth appearing to clamp down on her navel piercing
• Runa Wagner: Varcolac Werewolf; Shade's mate; Rade, Stryke & Blade's mother; Arik's sister; Used to work for R-XR; Has long, caramel brown hair, pale champagne eyes and smooth, golden skin; 28 years old; Can shift at will thanks to one of R-XR's experiments
• Shade: Seminus demon; Runa's mate; Rade, Stryke & Blade's father; Eidolon, Wraith, Lore & Sinead's brother; Runs the Paramedic program for Underworld General; Has an Umber demon mother; Is nearly six-four with brownish-black eyes and shoulder-length, nearly black hair; Wears a stud on his left ear; Can turn to shadow in the presence of a shadow; Since Runa bit him, he can now shift at will into a huge black werewolf and is forced to shift every full moon
• Luc: Varcolac Werewolf; Karlene's mate; Luca's father; Runa's sire; Paramedic for Underworld General; Born in 1894, American-born son of French immigrants; The victim of a warg attack in 1918, while fighting as an American soldier in World War I France; Is six-six with a thick build; Has dark hazel eyes and shaggy, black chin-length hair; Shifts into a black werewolf
• Karlene Lucio: "Kar" - Luc's mate; Luca's mother; Feast Warg; Aegis Guardian; Has pale blue eyes and shoulder-length strawberry blonde hair; Has a crescent moon birthmark on the sole of her foot; Shifts into a red werewolf; Was raised in Texas, born to an American mother and an Italian father
• Eidolon: "Doc E" - "Hellboy" - Seminus demon; Tayla's mate; Soon to be a father; Shade, Wraith, Lore & Sinead's brother; 103 years old; Doctor; Head of Underworld General; Has a Judicia demon mother; Former Justice Dealer; Is six-four with expresso eyes and short nearly black hair
• Tayla Mancuso: "Tay" - Eidolon's pregnant mate; Regent of the NYC Aegis cell; Gemella's younger twin sister; Half-human & half-Soulshredder demon; 27 years old; Has burgundy hair, green eyes rimmed with gold and pale freckles shimmering just beneath the surface of her creamy skin
• Wraith: Seminus demon; Serena's mate; Talon's (aka Stewie) father; Eidolon, Shade, Lore & Sinead's younger brother; Has a vampire mother, which is an anomaly; Is six-five with blue eyes and shoulder-length, bleached blond hair; 101 years old; Procurer of ancient relics and magical artifacts for Underworld General; Charmed so he can't be harmed by anyone other than Angels
• Serena Kelley: "Sere" - Vampire; Wraith's mate; Talon's (aka Stewie) stepmother; Valeriu & Patrice's daughter; Treasure Hunter; Former Marked Sentinel and keeper of Heofon; She possesses an uncanny ability to locate anything she's looking for; 26 years old; Is five-five with wavy blonde hair and big brown eyes shot through with gold
• Dawn Morgan: Has dark brown hair and denim-blue eyes
• Vladlena Paskelkov: Hyena-shifter; Nurse at Underworld General; Yuri's daughter; Has a star-shaped mark behind her ear and blonde hair
• Hades: A massive man with a dark blue mohawk; Would be handsome if not for his extreme paleness that reveals a pattern of black veins beneath his skin; Has black, leathery wings protruding from his back and extending to his calves
• Regan Matthews: Aegis Elder; A stunning, bronze-skinned woman; Wears her dark hair in a ponytail that reaches her thighs; Is tall and curvy
• Valeriu Macek: "Val" - Aegis Elder; Serena & David's father; Speaks with a Romanian accent; Archaeologist and former archaeology professor, one of the few who specialized in paranormal archaeology and demon artifacts
• Patrice Kelley: Serena's mother; Valeriu's lover; Was a treasure hunter like her daughter; Was a Marked Sentinel and the keeper of Heofon before her daughter Serena
• Batarel: Female fallen angel; Ares' original agimortus holder
• Sestiel: Fallen angel; A beautiful male with long blond hair
• Vulgrim: Ramreel demon; Sireth's mate; Ares basically raised him; Torrent's father; Rath's grandfather; Works as a "servant" for Ares even though he is more like family; Is seven and a half feet tall and has a silver ring piercing his left horn
• Sireth: Ramreel demon; Vulgrim's mate; Torrent's mother; Rath's grandmother
• Torrent: "Torr" - Ramreel demon; Vulgrim & Sireth's son; Rath's father; Has a slash of white on his broad snout
• Rath: Ramreel demon; Torrent's son; Vulgrim & Sireth's grandson; A few months old
• Gethel: Angel; Is beautiful with blonde hair; The Horsemen's former Heavenly Watcher; Was rotated out of Watcher duty to give the assignment to Reaver
• Whine: A huge male werewolf; Harvester's blood slave
• Ekkad: Ares' human brother
• Nera: Ares' human wife; Mother of his children
• William: Aegis Guardian from Yorkshire
• Zhreziel: Fallen angel; Has dark hair and pewter eyes
• Jackson: Cara's ex-boyfriend; Realtor in South Carolina
• Larena: Cara's therapist
• Emmalee: Human; One of Reseph's lovers; A hot, busty blonde
• Ross Spillane: Human; In his 20's with no job and too many kids by too many different moms
• Dr. Happs: Human; Veterinarian; Married to the town's chief of police
• Cetya: Sora demon; One of Reseph's regular bedmates
• Ciska: Sora demon; Cetya's sister; Was a nurse at Underworld General; Radiated sex like a contaminated nuclear power plant; Was killed by Roag
• Garcia: Aegis Guardian
• Carrot: Aegis Guardian; Has red hair and freckles
• Azagoth: "Grim Reaper" - Fallen Angel; Idess' father; Is the epitome of male beauty; Appears to be in his early 30's; Is tall, with black hair, emerald eyes, chiseled cheekbones and a strong, square jaw.
• Harvester: Female fallen angel; One of the Horsemen's two Watchers; Team Sheoul; Is six-six with long black hair and green eyes
• Eviscerator: The Horsemen's original Sheoulin Watcher; Was killed for revealing the material used in the making of Limos' agimortus without permission
• Satan: "Dark Lord"
• Tristelle: Female Unfallen
• David Macek: Former Aegis Guardian; Valeriu's son; Serena's older half-brother; 35 years old; A handsome younger version of Val; Has dark hair and eyes; Was kicked out of The Aegis for being a traitor
• Saw: Neethul demon; Flail's sister
• Flail: Neethul demon; Saw's sister
• Mordiin: Neethul demon; Pestilence's right-hand man; Has white hair and pointed ears; Is ruthless and has an uncanny ability to sense fallen angels
• Orelia: Silas demon; Thanatos' tattoo artist; Is pale and eyeless
• Battle: Ares' war horse; A giant blood bay stallion; Has a black mane and a reddish-brown coat; Is tattooed on Ares' forearm; Comes "out" at Ares' command
• Styx: Thanatos' war horse; A pale dun stallion
• Conquest: Reseph's war horse; A white stallion
• Bones: Limos' Hell Stallion; A massive black horse with glowing red eyes, teeth that are more like fangs and hooves that scorch the floor
• Halitosis: "Hal" - Hellhound puppy; Has black fur and glowing red eyes
• Eater of Chaos: "Chaos" - Hellhound; Has a jagged scar on it's left side; Ares has been hunting him for thousands of years
• Cerberus: Hellhound King; Has three heads

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• “Battle whinnied with amusement. The horse's sense of humor had always been perched on the gallows with the crows.”

• “She of mixed blood who should not exist, carries with her the power to spread plague and pestilence. When battle breaks, conquest is seal'd.”

  Daemonica Prophecy

• “An angel's mistake shall bring about War, and her death shall break his sword. But be wary, a hound's heart may yet defeat.”

  Daemonica Prophecy

• “War is hell.”

  William Tecumseh Sherman

• “Sherman was totally my bitch.”

  War

• “His instincts should have warned him sooner than they had, but thanks to his agimortus, he'd been hobbled like a brood mare waiting to be mounted by a randy stallion.”

• “I looked and there before me was a pale horse. It's rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him.”

  Revelation

• “Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. It's rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other.”

  Revelation

• “I looked, and there before me was a block horse. It's rider was holding a pair of scales.”

  Revelation

• “From death will come life.”

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• Earth
• Heaven
• Sheoul: "Hell" - Demon realm. Located deep in the bowls of the earth, accessible only by Harrowgates and hellmouths.
• Himalayas
• Berlin, Germany
• Greenland
• South Carolina
• Greece
• Aegean Sea
• Underworld General Hospital: "UG" - "UGH" - A hospital that specializes in nonhuman medical care; Is located beneath New York City's bustling streets and hidden by sorcery right under unsuspecting human noses.
• The Four Horsemen: Tavern in Sheoul
• Africa
• Mexico
• China
• Alaska
• Siberia
• Balkan Peninsula
• Uganda
• Philippines
• York, England
• Temple of Lilith
• Zagros Mountains
• Sumeria
• Iraq
• Great Britain: "Albion"
• Easter Island
• Sheoul-gra: A holding tank for demon souls. The place where demon souls go until they can be reborn or kept in torturous limbo.
• Hawaii
• Australia
• Madagascar
• Marshall Islands
• Lib Island
• Canada
• Europe
• Austria
• Slovenia
• Yorkshire, England
• Egypt
• New Zealand
• Oregon
• Cascade Mountains
• Japan
• Turkey
• Korea
• Spain
• Croatia
• Hungary
• Ahaggar Mountains
• Sithbludd

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• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Reseph, Ares, Limos, and Thanatos aka Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death
• Megiddo Mount-Me's: Four Horsemen groupies
• Mongers: "War Mongers" - Ares' groupies; A subclass of Megiddo Mount-me's
• Raider-X Regiment: "R-XR" - The U.S. Army's paranormal defense division; A super secret military unit.
• The Aegis: Society of human warriors dedicated to protecting the world from evil.
• Sigil: Board of twelve humans known as Elders, who serve as the supreme leaders of The Aegis. Based in Berlin, they oversee all Aegis cells worldwide. Kynan, Valeriu, Regan & Juan are Elders.
• The Sem Brothers: Eidolon, Shade, Wraith & Lore
• World Health Organization: "WHO"
• The Knights Templar: Add a description of this organization.

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• The Aegis: Society of human warriors dedicated to protecting the world from evil. See: Guardians, Regent, Sigil.
• Agimortus: A trigger for the breaking of the Horsemen's Seals. An agimortus can be identified as a symbol engraved or branded upon the host person or object. Three kinds of agimorti have been identified, and may take the form of a person, an object, or an event.
• Daemonica: The demon bible and basis for dozens of demon religions. Its prophesies regarding the Apocalypse, should they come to pass, will ensure that the Four Horsemen fight on the side of evil.
• Fallen Angel: Believed to be evil by most humans, fallen angels can be grouped into two categories: True Fallen and Unfallen. Unfallen angels have been cast from Heaven and are earthbound, living a life in which they are neither truly good nor truly evil. In this state, they can rarely, earn their way back into Heaven. Or they can choose to enter Sheoul, the demon realm, in order to complete their fall and become True Fallen, taking their places as demons at Satan's side.
• Guardians: Warriors for The Aegis, trained in combat techniques, weapons, and magic. Upon induction into The Aegis, all Guardians are presented with an enchanted piece of jewelry bearing the Aegis shield, which, among other things, allows for night vision and the ability to see through demon invisibility enchantment.
• Harrowgate: Vertical portals, invisible to humans, which demons use to travel between locations on Earth and Sheoul. A very few beings can summon their own personal Harrowgates.
• Khote: An invisibility spell that allows the caster to move among humans without being seen or, usually, heard.
• Marked Sentinel: A human charmed by angels and tasked with protecting a vital artifact. Sentinels are immortal and immune to harm. Only angels (fallen included) can injure or kill a Sentinel. Their existence is a closely guarded secret.
• Quantamun: A state of superaccelerated existence on a plane that allows some supernatural beings to travel among humans. Humans, unaware of what moves within their world, appear frozen in time to those inside the quantamun. This differs from the khote in that the khote operates real time and is a spell rather than a plane of existence.
• Regent: Head(s) of local Aegis cells.
• Sheoul: Demon realm. Located deep in the bowls of the earth, accessible only by Harrowgates and hellmouths.
• Sheoul-gra: A holding tank for demon souls. The place where demon souls go until they can be reborn or kept in torturous limbo.
• Sheoulic: Universal demon language spoken by all, though many species speak their own language.
• Sigil: Board of twelve humans known as Elders, who serve as the supreme leaders of The Aegis. Based in Berlin, they oversee all Aegis cells worldwide.
• Ter'taceo: Demons who can pass as human, either because their species is naturally human in appearance or because they can shapeshift into human form.
• Watchers: Individuals assigned to keep an eye on the Four Horsemen. As part of the agreement forged during the original negotiations between angels and demons that led to Ares, Reseph, Limos, and Thanatos being cursed to spearhead the Apocalypse, one Watcher is an angel, the other is a fallen angel. Neither Watchers may directly assist any Horseman's efforts to either start or stop Armageddon, but they can lend a hand behind the scenes. Doing so, however, may have them walking a fine line, that, to cross, could prove worse than fatal.
• Horseman's Seal: Each Seal has two prophecies. Should the Horsemen protect their Seals from breaking until the prophecy laid out by the Bible comes to pass, they will save their souls--and mankind. But should they allow the Seals to be broken prematurely, as written in the Daemonica, the demon bible, they will turn evil, and will forever be known as Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death.
• Oni Demon: Describe this term.
• Sora Demon
• Warg: Werewolf
• Hellhound
• Unfallen: An earthbound fallen angel who hasn't yet entered Sheoul and become irreversibly evil.
• True Fallen: A fallen angel who has entered Sheoul and become irreversibly evil.
• Final Battle
• Vampire
• Deliverance: The dagger forged specifically to kill the Horsemen. It resembles a miniature sword with a horse head as the pommel. Its eye is a ruby. The dagger was forged in metals from a rock that fell from the sky and was tempered in hellhound blood.The Horsemen helped The Aegis forge it after they were cursed. "From death will come life" is engraved on the hilt.
• Spiny Hellrat
• Reiki
• Hell's Kiss
• Gerunti Demon
• Divine Broadcasting System: "DBS"
• Heavenly Illum
• Ramreel Demon
• Akashic Records: The ultimate Heavenly database that contains the knowledge of EVERYTHING.
• Neethul Demon
• Carceris: The jailors of the underworld. All demon species send representatives to serve terms in the Carceris. Carceris members are responsible for apprehending demons accused of violating demon law, and for acting as guards in the Carceris prisons.
• False Angel
• Infernal Fire: It's like underworld napalm. It is massively powerful, but what's special about it is that it calls fire spirits in the flames. They can hunt down anyonw within the range of the heat. Its use is forbidden in the human realm.
• Stang: A double-bladed S-shaped weapon that is an Aegis special; Each end is coated in a different metal intended to kill different species of demons; One end is gold, the other is silver.
• Silas Demon
• Ghastbats: Man-eating demon locusts the size of buzzards. They have mouths full of razor-sharp teeth, claws like needles and a bone spike on the end of each wing.
• Totem Priestess: Descendant of the aos si (fairies). Can communicate with animals. They sometimes have the power to heal animals. They also have the power to kill people when angered.
• Imp
• Lava Beast
• Soulshredder Demon
• Heofon: Old English for "Heaven" - Kynan's charmed necklace; Is actually a little piece of Heaven
• Tesmon: Ramreel herd father
• Trillah Demon
• Shapeshifter
• Croix Viper
• Khnive Demon
• Vapor Wraith
• Raptor Horror
• Reoush: Rare beast-healers
• Aos si: Fairies
• Seminus Demon
• Battle Angel

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Followed by Immortal Rider.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Larissa Ione (Author)

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• Dewey: 813

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• Books › Romance › Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Dark
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Action & Adventure

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• Larissa Ione: Lords of Deliverance page

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