Characters in Fables & Reflections

Morpheus

Dream of the Endless, King of Dreams, who moves through the stories as a witness to the lives of mortals and the consequences of old choices.

Also in The Sandman - Book of Dreams, The Sandman: Overture, The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House, The Kindly Ones, The Sandman Companion, The Sandman Vol. 2

Despair

One of the Endless, who appears in Three Septembers and a January alongside Emperor Norton.

Also in The Sandman - Book of Dreams

Dream of the Endless

Also in Preludes & Nocturnes, Dream Country, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists, A Game of You, The Sandman Brief Lives, The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End, The Kindly Ones, Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake, Absolute Sandman Vol 4, Endless Nights

Orpheus (The Sandman)

The legendary musician of Greek myth, whose story in The Song of Orpheus is tied to the family of the Endless.

Joshua Abraham Norton

The self-declared Emperor of the United States, a real eccentric of nineteenth-century San Francisco, at the heart of Three Septembers and a January.

Augustus Caesar

The Roman emperor in the August story, set in Rome in 7 AD, where he is shown with the god Terminus.

Marco Polo

The Venetian traveller, lost in a desert in Soft Places, who tells his story to Rustichello of Pisa.

Harun al-Rashid

The Caliph of Baghdad in Ramadan, the volume's closing tale, which moves from the medieval city to the modern one.

Lady Johanna Constantine

An English noblewoman caught up in the French Revolution in the Thermidor story, alongside Robespierre and Thomas Paine.

Cain (The Sandman)

The first murderer of the Bible and keeper of the House of Mystery, who appears in The Parliament of Rooks.

Abel (The Sandman)

Cain's murdered brother, who keeps the House of Secrets and appears in The Parliament of Rooks.