# Supporting Cast — Index

Recurring characters have their own files. Minor characters are tracked in the table below.

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## Character Files

| Character | File | Role |
|-----------|------|------|
| Mere Fields | `mere-fields.md` | Love interest |
| Jonael Carterson | `jonael-carterson.md` | The Exasperated Partner |
| Leon D'Nardis | `leon-dnardis.md` | The Morally Gray Friend |
| Devod Fields | `devod-fields.md` | The Comic Relief Who Is Unexpectedly Competent |
| Ledger | `ledger.md` | Guild Intelligence |
| Cassius Rykhard | `cassius-rykhard.md` | Compact Antagonist (Book 1) |
| Carson Johnsby | `carson-johnsby.md` | The Right Reverend Carson |
| Kaeran "Kae" Thrainn | `kaeran-thrainn.md` | Book 2 Antagonist (tragic) |
| Brennan Toor | `brennan-toor.md` | The Wolf's old Pathfinder comrade — visible Cairns node |
| Duchess Pamira | `duchess-pamira.md` | Book 3 client, Devod's love interest |
| Kimbra | `kimbra.md` | Phelan's mother (Book 3 reconnection subplot) |
| Pip | `pip.md` | True dragon (Mine 1 lineage), Mere's living magic detector (Book 3+) |

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## Minor Characters

*Short entries for characters with smaller roles. Promote to their own file if they recur or grow complex.*

| Name | Role | Relationship to Phelan | First Appearance | Status |
|------|------|----------------------|-----------------|--------|
| Ned Floundry | Book 1 curse victim (Phelan broke the curse). **Drained by Kae, Book 2 Ch11 afternoon, reserves doubly depleted from prior curse recovery.** Worst dose of the named drain victims. Slow physical recovery. **Echo present but Mere's protocol hasn't fully reached him yet** — specific echo content deferred, potential Act 3 clinical beat or Book 4+ seed. See `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-21-crystal-drain-echo-design.md` | Client (indirect — via family) | Book 1 Ch04 | Post-drain recovery, echo present |
| Gavren Holst | Herbal supply store owner (Gavren's Botanical & Sundry) | Former employer | Ch01 | Active — Phelan resigned Ch05 |
| Guild Receptionist (name TBD) | Guild front desk | Professional | Ch04 | Active |
| Charlette Fields | Mere's controlling mother. Owns Thresholds (the leash). Forced Devod out via ultimatum when Mere was 12. Layered rules: income control, schedule control, social control. Named by Devod in Ch12. | No direct relationship yet | Ch12 (named, off-page) | Active — off-page |
| Harwick | Tanner, occupies ground floor below Devod's place on Millford Street | None | Ch12 (referenced) | Active — minor |
| Calla Floundry | Ned's wife, Book 1 case client. **Drained by Kae, Book 2 Ch11 morning at the canal market** — survived but badly weakened, full recovery estimated weeks/months. **Echo content (post-drain):** suppressed anxiety under functional shopkeeper-wife normalcy. Panic attacks triggered by magical activity (soundstones firing, active workings in proximity) and crowded public spaces — notably the canal market itself. Mere visits her in Book 3 Ch05 for herbal follow-up — Calla names her own experience, Mere's hypothesis crystallizes, Mere names the phenomenon "the echo." Becomes a living case-study in Mere's protocol; treated with ghostveil doses from WellsMoon production Ch22+. **If she grows beyond minor status in drafting, promote to dedicated `characters/calla-floundry.md`.** See `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-21-crystal-drain-echo-design.md` | Client | Book 2 Ch11 | Active — echo-affected, Mere protocol |
| Brida Voss | Hendrick Voss's cousin. Early 30s, wiry frame, tired brown eyes. Sheltered Kae because Elara asked her to. Ground-floor tenement, southern warrens near old tannery. Provided Kae's full backstory. Recognised Phelan as "the man who burned my wall." | Witness / source | Ch14 | Active — minor |
| Drannick | Pipe smoker outside metalworking shop in Kae's territory. Referred Phelan to Carson. | Street contact | B2 Ch05 | Active — minor |
| Sabre | Ledger's field operative. Quiet, competent, late 20s. **Returning to the site** — she was part of the two-person Cairns forensics team Ledger sent at Week 14 to recover Scout 1's body. Knows the road, knows the perimeter, has walked the Gate's kill radius in silence. Carries Scout 1's field journal in her pack when she meets the team at Pamira's estate in B3 Ch06. Attached to the Book 3 expedition as observer/security. Everything Phelan does appears in her reports — she doesn't hide this, Phelan doesn't object. Field survival, close-quarters blade work, basic ward defence, sending-stone comms back to Ledger. **Codename from the cavalry sabre she carries** — service-issue, working blade, worn on the hip, not ornamental. Matches the guild naming pattern (Ledger, Locksmith): a tool for a name. **Named by Ledger in the Ch02 briefing** — she's been on-site at Kade Reach on light rotation for ~8 weeks since recovering Scout 1, sending-stone relay to Ledger. Ledger chose her because she can sit on a site for 8 weeks without filing a report that gets longer than it needs to. Phelan will meet her at the Duchess's gates on arrival. Injured but alive during Cass's Ch18 breach. | Guild observer / returning scout | Named B3 Ch02 (off-page) / on-page B3 Ch06 | Introduced Book 3 |
| Seraphel "Sera" Varrant | Phelan and Mere's unborn child. Conceived late Book 2 / between books. Not born in Book 3 — the pregnancy and preparation ARE the arc. Named based on "Sarah." Nursery planned at Chandler's Row (east-facing, adjacent to the kitchen). | Daughter (in utero) | B3 Ch01 | Expected Book 4+ |
| Patren | Kimbra's husband. Decent, quiet man she met through work. Not present for Kimbra's Ch04 Chandler's Row arrival but mentioned. Phelan has never met him. | Phelan's stepfather (effectively) | B3 Ch04 (referenced) | Off-page |
| Margeth ("Mags") | Kimbra's best friend. Referenced in Kimbra's Ch11 letter ("Margeth visited"). May visit Chandler's Row while Kimbra is there. | Phelan's mother's best friend | B3 Ch11 (referenced) | Off-page |
| Aldric Vane | Warehouse district, east side, near the old grain exchange. Logistics, security. Contact offered to Phelan by Brennan Toor in B2 Ch15 — "Tell him the Wolf sent you." Not yet on-page. | Cairns network node | B2 Ch15 (referenced) | Seeded, not yet on-page |
| Duke Garrett Holven | Duke of Aldermere (peer duchy to Thorngate). Debt-acquirer across the north for a decade. Recently acquired an unresolved obligation left behind by Pamira's late husband — he has not moved on it, he could, she knows, everyone in the north knows. **Named on-page first in Ledger's Ch02 briefing** as one of the two reasons Pamira wrote to the Cairns four months ago (the other is the Locksmith rumour). Also named in one private-voice Pamira-at-her-ledger scene in B3 (Ch11 drafter's placement). Not on-page in Book 3. Seeded as a Book 4 adversary — if the Compact comes at Phelan through policy, a northern noble coalition with Holven at or near the centre is one plausible lever. | Political rival to Pamira; Book 4 setup | B3 Ch02 (named) / B3 Ch11 (private voice) | Named but off-page |

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## Naming Conventions

*Track naming patterns to keep the world consistent.*

- Surnames: Mix of trade-derived (Fields, Carterson) and regional (D'Nardis suggests different origin/class)
- [Expand as patterns emerge]
