Characters in Steelheart

David Charleston

A young man who has spent ten years memorizing everything about Epics, particularly Steelheart, after watching the Epic kill his father.

Also in Mitosis, Firefight, Calamity

Steelheart

The most powerful Epic in existence, who turned Chicago to steel and rules it as an absolute dictator — supposedly invincible.

Prof

The brilliant and intense leader of the Reckoners, a secretive team of ordinary humans who study and kill Epics.

Also in Mitosis, Firefight, Calamity

Megan

A skilled Reckoner agent whose true nature becomes central to the series' larger mystery.

Also in Firefight, Calamity

Abraham (Reckoners)

A soft-spoken Reckoner and the team's gunner, a former French Foreign Legion soldier who believes a good Epic might exist somewhere.

Cody (Reckoners)

A former Nashville policeman turned Reckoner marksman, known for rambling about his Scottish ancestry.

Tia (Reckoners)

The Reckoners' researcher who runs their command center and is the only member who knew Prof before Calamity.

David (The Reckoners)

Thia