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Book cover of The Calamities
The CalamitiesChuck Wendig

Characters in The Calamities

5 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Mourning Mayne

    Reluctant heir to the Mayne fiend dynasty, who resists his family's legacy of cruelty.

Antagonists

  • Hadrian Mayne

    Mourning's estranged, formidable father and head of the Mayne family.

Supporting characters

  • Key (The Fiends)

    A black-market seller of human souls who becomes Mourning's ally.

  • Quinn (The Fiends)

    An artist who struggles to tell dreams from reality and may hold the truth behind the fiends' fate.

  • Silas (The Fiends)

    A servant of another fiendish family, sent to protect its fount and investigate what is happening.