Swan Song

A girl born Sue Wanda Prescott, known only as Swan, who carries a gift for coaxing life back out of ruined ground and becomes the hope the survivors rally around.

A survivalist officer who builds the militaristic "Army of Excellence" out of the ruins and leads it on a campaign of conquest across the wasteland.

Taken in as a boy by Colonel Macklin after the bombs fall, he is shaped over the following years into Macklin's ruthless second-in-command.

A former professional wrestler (once billed as "Black Frankenstein" and "the Masked Mephisto") who becomes Swan's protector and father figure after the bombs fall.