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Book cover of Swan Song
Swan SongRobert R. McCammon

Characters in Swan Song

30 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Swan (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.

Antagonists

  • The Man with the Scarlet Eye

  • Colonel Macklin

    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.

  • Roland Croninger

    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.

Supporting characters

  • Josh Hutchins

    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.

  • Sister Creep

    A once-homeless New Yorker who survives the attack in the subway tunnels and becomes the guardian of a mysterious glass ring that shows visions of a lost paradise.

  • Swan Prescott

  • Darleen Prescott

  • Arthur Wisco

  • Doyle Halland

  • Leona Skelton

  • Sheila Fontana

  • Lord Alvin

  • Rusty Weathers

  • Paul Thorson

  • Freddy Kempka

  • Judd Lawry

  • Paw Paw Briggs

  • Teddybear Warner

  • Beth Phelps

  • Kack Tomachek

  • Sylvester Moody

  • Franklin Hayes

  • Hugh Ryan

  • Robin Oakes

  • Glory Bowen

  • Aaron Bowen

  • Vulcevic

  • James Macklin

  • Anna McClay