Characters in Somewhere Beyond the Sea

Arthur Parnassus

Orphanage master and father figure confronting his past to protect his family.

Also in The House in the Cerulean Sea

Linus Baker

Arthur's partner and co-parent to the magical children.

Also in The House in the Cerulean Sea

Jeanine Rowder

An arch-conservative government official who goads Arthur at his hearing and dispatches an inspector to Marsyas Island.

Zoe Chapelwhite

Also in The House in the Cerulean Sea

Helen Webb

David (Cerulean Chronicles)

A melodramatic ten-year-old yeti, the new child who joins the Marsyas Island household and finds power in calling himself a monster.

Lucy (Cerulean Chronicles)

The child of the devil, one of the six magical children in Arthur Parnassus's care on Marsyas Island.

Talia (Cerulean Chronicles)

A gnome, one of the six magical children in Arthur Parnassus's care on Marsyas Island.

Also in The House in the Cerulean Sea

Phee

A forest sprite, one of the six magical children in Arthur Parnassus's care on Marsyas Island.

Also in The House in the Cerulean Sea

Theodore (Cerulean Chronicles)

A wyvern, one of the six magical children in Arthur Parnassus's care on Marsyas Island.

Also in The House in the Cerulean Sea

Chauncey

An amorphous, tentacled semiaquatic being, one of the six magical children in Arthur Parnassus's care on Marsyas Island.

Also in The House in the Cerulean Sea

Sal (Cerulean Chronicles)

A shapeshifter who can become a Pomeranian, one of the six magical children in Arthur Parnassus's care on Marsyas Island.

Also in The House in the Cerulean Sea