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Aradia:
Aradia is described as a tall, eighteen-year-old girl with lovely features; coffee-coloured skin and dark eyes that show no particular focus.

Aradia lost her eye-sight at the age of one but has been having prophetic visions since.

She is the Maiden of the witches. Along with the Mother and Crone of the witches, Aradia forms the head of the Inner Circle. In Witchlight, the Inner Circle – and all those witches who obey their lead – allied themselves with the First House of the Shape-shifters for the upcoming battle during the Millennium.

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Azhdeha:
The Night World Council, in their desperate attempt to capture at least one Wild Power, hired a witch to perform a spell that would awaken a powerful dragon named Azhdeha. Azhdeha appeared as a teenage boy with black eyes and messy black hair. On his forehead were five horns representing the seat of his power.

Azhdeha caused havoc in Witchlight by commanding renegade shape-shifters to disrupt the impending alliance between the witches and the shape-shifters for the upcoming battle during the Millennium. As a result of his commands, the Crone of the witches – Edgith Harman – was killed.

In a final showdown between Azhdeha and the third Wild Power – a lost witch named Iliana Dominick – Iliana is finally able to summon up the blue fire within her blood. She directs her power at Azhdeha, who then dies.

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Claire Goddard:
Jez Redfern was the first Wild Power to be found. Jez had a vampire father who was from the Redfern family and a human mother. Claire Goddard is the human cousin of Jez. She is described as having dark hair and almond-shaped eyes.

In Huntress, Jez is living with the Goddard family, pretending to be a normal teenager. In actual fact, she is secretly working for Circle Daybreak who have given her the mission of finding the first Wild Power. Claire knows her cousin is not as normal and innocent as she makes out, and, through her spying, Claire discovers that she may be the Wild Power Jez is looking for. Towards the end of the book though, it is learnt that Jez was the Wild Power all along.

Jez and the entire Goddard family gain protection from Circle Daybreak. The Goddard family does not reappear in the series after Huntress.

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Daphne Childs:
Daphne Childs is described as a slim girl with a sweet face, fluffy blonde hair, and cornflower-blue eyes. This fashionable high-school teenager helped vampire hunter Rashel Jordan enter The Crypt – a nightclub run by vampires who were kidnapping young girls for a blood feast, organised by Hunter Redfern, for vampires.

Daphne, along with the other girls who were kidnapped, managed to escape the vampire enclave where they were held hostage, with the help of Rashel.

Daphne Childs has not been mentioned in the Night World books since The Chosen.

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Dove Redfern:
Dove Redfern was the daughter of Hunter Redfern. Though born a lamia vampire, Dove fell in love with a human named John Quinn back in the seventeenth century. When Quinn asked Hunter for his daughter’s hand in marriage, Hunter made Quinn a vampire before accepting his proposal.

But when the newly made vampire Quinn went to see his father, a minister of the church, his father staked Dove and tried to kill his own son for being an abomination of evil.

In The Chosen, Quinn still remembers Dove as a sweet, gentle girl, with soft brown hair and brown eyes.

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Edgith Harman:
Known as Grandma Harman to Thea and Blaise Harman, Edgith Harman was the oldest living Harman witch alive until renegade werewolves and a tiger murdered her in Witchlight.

Edgith was the Crone of the witches. This position meant that she had final say in all the matters the Inner Circle dealt with. Edgith also held witchcraft workshops and owned a renowned witchcraft supplies store in Las Vegas. Her assassination was carried out outside her store. After her death, Mother Cybele became the leader of the witches.

Edgith was well over a hundred years old when she was killed. She is described as a small woman who walked with the aid of a crane. Though Edgith may have looked frail and old, those who knew her knew she was a strong and stern woman.

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Gary Fargeon:
Gary Fargeon was a lost witch who discovered his true heritage. One night whilst Gary was practising his new-found magic, a young girl broke his circle and was killed by fire. Gary buried her body without telling anyone what had happened. That very night, Gary went to a party, got drunk, and had a car accident that killed him. Because of the terrible secret Gary took to his grave, he became stuck between life and death. He could see other people living their life but he could not interact with them and he could not cross over to the Other Side.

A year after becoming a restless spirit, Gary lures Gillian Lennox into the woods one day, where she falls into the creek and dies of hypothermia. As Gillian crosses over, Gary appears to her. Gillian sees a teen-aged guy with a terrific body and a face like an ancient Greek sculpture. Gary tells Gillian to call him ‘Angel’. Angel has hair the colour of gold and violet-coloured eyes. Gillian is given the choice to go back. After a hesitant pause, Gillian decides to return. When she comes to, Gillian discovers Angel has come back with her.

Angel makes Gillian an offer. He can help her to get everything she desires as long as she trusts him. Gillian proves her trust by cutting off most of her hair. Angel begins telling Gillian how to dress and what to say to people. Literally overnight, Gillian becomes a sensation at school. Every guy wants to date her and every girl wants to be her friend. With Angel’s help, Gillian even causes her childhood sweetheart – David Blackburn – to break up with his long-time girlfriend, Tanya Junn. When David asks Gillian out, she is ecstatic.

Angel informs Gillian about her real heritage. She is a lost witch, of the famous Harman line. Angel then instructs Gillian to perform a spell that will keep Tanya from seeking revenge on David. When the spell starts to cause serious harm to Tanya, Gillian becomes worried. She questions Angel, who smugly tells her that she was the one who wanted to cause harm to Tanya. This is when Gillian realises Angel is not an angel after all. Angel immediately guesses that Gillian will no longer be his puppet, so, he informs Gillian that he is about to cause a little car accident that will kill David for a brief moment. Gillian knows Angel plans to take over his body so she tries to prevent the accident.

The crash occurs and David falls unconscious. Gillian resolves to find out who and what Angel is. When she is certain Angel has not possessed David, she goes to confront him. She finds out Angel – Gary – is actually a distant cousin of hers. He died the previous year and he has unfinished business that is keeping him stuck in limbo. Gillian pleads with Gary to tell her his unfinished business. After some heated exchanges, Gary gives in. Hoping to release Gary from his position, Gillian informs the police about the dead body buried in the woods. When the father of the dead girl proclaims his forgiveness to whoever killed his daughter, Gillian and Gary are startled. Immediately Gary begins to float towards the bright light in the sky. To show his appreciation to Gillian, Gary causes snow to fall. One flake brushes Gillian’s cheek, like a kiss.

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Hecate:
Approximately thirty thousand years ago there existed a Witch Queen named Hecate. Hecate was the leader of the witch people. She was also the mother of Maya and Hellewise.

Although Maya renounced her heritage as a witch and created the vampire species instead, Hellewise assumed the role her mother had played to the witches and continued the witch race.

The Night World books do not actually discuss much about Hecate but even though she has been dead for over thirty thousand years, some believe her spirit – like the Old Powers – are awaking during the dawn of the Millennium.

The third Wild Power, Iliana Dominick, was believed to have received guidance from Hecate when she was fighting the dragon Azhdeha in Witchlight. Iliana was able to summon the blue fire within her blood in time to destroy the dragon and save her friends.

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Hellewise:
Hellewise was the daughter of Hecate, the Witch Queen. She, along with her twin sister Maya, were the leaders of a tribe of witch people. Maya renounced her heritage to create a new species – of vampires. She later attacked the witches of her former tribe. To save the witch people, Hellewise challenged Maya in a duel which resulted in Maya being driven out of her former village. Hellewise later died of the wounds she suffered from her duel with Maya but she was praised for her loyalty to her tribe. This is why Hellewise is regarded as the ancestress of all witches – because she enabled the witch species to continue.

Hellewise is also the ancestress of the Harman family. She and Maya were both Hearth Women (Hearth Woman was later changed to the surname Harman) but only Hellewise had children who remained witches.

Thierry Descouedres was a witch who belonged to the same tribe as Hellewise and Maya. Though they were twin sisters, Hellewise and Maya were completely different in their appearance. Thierry remembers Hellewise being a beautiful girl, with long yellow hair and deep brown eyes.

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Hodge and Opal Burdock:
Hodge and Opal Burdock are the great uncle and aunt of Ash Redfern. When Night World elders learned that Hodge had told a human about the Night World, he was pricked countless times with little wooden stakes, until he bled to his death.

After his execution, his wife left the isolated Night World island they lived on without telling the elders. For this reason, the Redfern family considers Opal a traitor, just like her infamous husband.

In Daughters of Darkness we learn that Opal now resides in Briar Creek, Oregon. Opal infuriates Ash when he discovers that she has been encouraging his sisters to run away from the Night World island as well. He cannot punish her for breaking Night World law when he arrives in Briar Creek though, as he discovers that Opal was murdered by a renegade werewolf named Jeremy Lovett.

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Hugh Davis:
Hugh Davis lost his entire family whilst they were on a camping holiday when he was a child. Rouge werewolves attacked the Davis family. Hugh managed to save himself. After the attack, Hugh discovered Circle Daybreak. He has been working with the organisation ever since.

Hugh recruited Jez Redfern to find the first Wild Power in Huntress. Whilst on her mission, Jez found herself caring deeply for Hugh. But when her former gang member – Morgead Blackthorn – came back into her life, Jez realised it was Morgead she loved.

Hugh is described as having a nice but serious face, with slightly long blonde hair and thoughtful grey eyes. He also has a slightly mischievous look. Hugh is one of a few characters in the Night World series who is also an old soul.

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Hunter Redfern:
After Maya died, Hunter Redfern was most likely the oldest Redfern alive until he too met with death in Black Dawn. Presumed to be well over five hundred years old, Hunter looked to be only in his late twenties. He had blood-red hair and eyes that shone like gold.

Before Hunter married Maeve Harman, he had a son named Chervil. Chervil ran away, leaving Hunter without an heir. Hunter could not have more children, so he enlisted the help of a witch – Maeve – who bore four daughters with Hunter. The daughters were named Garnet, Lily, Dove, and Roseclear.

Dove fell in love with a human named John Quinn in the seventeenth century. When Quinn asked Hunter for permission to marry his daughter, Hunter changed Quinn into a vampire and proclaimed Quinn as his sole heir. Their father-son relationship ended in The Chosen, leaving Hunter heirless again.

In Black Dawn, Hunter mentions his joy over finding out he has a pure lamia heir – his great-grandson Delos Redfern. But, when Hunter learns that Delos is ready to give up the Night World for his soulmate, Maggie Neely, Hunter tries to kill both Delos and Maggie. Delos lashes out with his Wild Power at Hunter, obliterating the much feared Redfern who planned to take sole control of the world after the Millennium.

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Iona Skelton:
Iona Skelton is a small black girl with braided hair and dark eyes.

In Huntress, when Iona is miraculously saved from a burning building, Morgead Blackthorn presumes she is one of the legendary Wild Powers. Morgead convinces his gang of vampire raiders to kidnap Iona but she proves to being just a helpless eight-year-old child. Jez Redfern is able to convince the gang to let Iona go.

After making sure Iona is released safely, Jez asks Circle Daybreak to provide protection for Iona and her mother in case other Night People assume she is a Wild Power. Circle Daybreak ends up discovering that Iona is one of the oldest old souls to ever exist. Circle Daybreakers were very thrilled to find her.

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Jade, Kestrel, and Rowan Redfern:
Jade, Kestrel, and Rowan Redfern – the sisters of Ash Redfern – escaped from the isolated Night World island they lived on to visit their great-aunt, Opal Burdock, in Briar Creek, Oregon. When they got there, they found their great-aunt murdered. The sisters end up confiding in their human neighbours – Mark and Mary-Lynnette Carter. Soon, Jade and Mark were declaring they were soulmates.

Meanwhile, Ash was given the task of finding his sisters before the Council could find out about their escape. Once Ash located them, he asked them to return home without breaking any more Night World laws. After refusing, the sisters asked Ash to help them find the murderer. Over the course of their investigation, Ash and Mary-Lynnette discovered they are soulmates.

After Jeremy Lovett was identified as the murderer, Ash allowed his sisters to stay in Briar Creek. He came to accept that Jade’s soulmate was human, as was his.

Nobody in Briar Creek had seen anything so eerily beautiful as the Redfern girls when they arrived. Sixteen-year-old Jade is described as having white-blonde hair that shimmers like fine silk, skin that is as translucent as clear quartz, and silvery-green eyes. Seventeen-year-old Kestrel is described as having dark-golden hair with unnerving yellow eyes. And, nineteen-year-old Rowan is described as tall and willowy, with brown hair that reflects chestnut highlights, and warm brown eyes.

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Jeremy Lovett:
Jeremy Lovett was a rouge werewolf living in Briar Creek, hunting and killing whenever he liked because no Night World authority existed in this hick town.

He is described as a boy who never dated, though he was blessed with good looks – light brown hair and brown eyes framed by outrageously dark eyelashes.

Jeremy pretty much kept to himself all his life. But, when Ash Redfern arrived in town and met Mary-Lynnette Carter – the human girl Jeremy had loved since childhood – Jeremy realised he was losing her. He set out to kill Ash and change Mary-Lynnette into a werewolf but was killed when Mary-Lynnette fought him back.

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Lily Redfern:
Lily Redfern is Hunter Redfern’s second eldest daughter. She is described as a very striking girl, with dark hair and hawk-like eyes the colour of topaz.

Lily is portrayed in the Night World series as cold and completely evil. She was born a strategist, according to John Quinn.

Lily was appointed by her father to find the first Wild Power in Huntress. She almost succeeded in having the Wild Power – Jez Redfern – killed until Jez lashed out with blue fire. Lily and her thugs were obliterated without a trace.

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Maeve Harman:
Maeve Harman is the witch who mingled her blood with vampire blood. Since the Night Wars, the witches and the vampires have despised each other. But when Hunter Redfern learned he could not have more offspring, he asked Maeve to help him out. To obtain the help of a witch, Hunter had to pronounce to the vampire species that they must live in harmony with the witches.

Maeve cast a spell that enabled her and Hunter to have four daughters: Garnet, Lily, Dove, and Roseclear. The three elder daughters were raised as vampires while Roseclear was raised as a witch.

Garnet Redfern is the ancestress of most of the Redferns that follow her while Roseclear is the ancestress of all the Harmans that follow her. This means that all the descendants of Garnet and Roseclear are part witch and part vampire. (This includes Thea and Blaise Harman and Ash Redfern. In fact, Thea and Blaise are cross-cousins of Ash.)

Not much detail is given about Maeve in the Night World books. In The Chosen, John Quinn mentions that Maeve seemed to dislike Hunter while she was still alive. She also kept Roseclear away from him.

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Mark Carter:
Mark Carter is the younger brother of Mary-Lynnette Carter. Mark has clear blue eyes, dark hair, and a healthy tan. Mary-Lynnette says Mark has always been a scrawny little thing because of his asthma. Therefore, it is little wonder this high-school junior fell in love with Jade Redfern – the first girl to ever be afraid of him.

In Daughters of Darkness, Mark and Mary-Lynnette follow their new neighbours – Jade and her two older sisters, Kestrel and Rowan – into the forest one night. They find the girls sucking blood from animals. Kestrel suggests killing the humans who have spied on them but Jade claims Mark is her soulmate.

Lucky for Mark and Jade that Jade’s older brother Ash falls in love with Mary-Lynnette when he arrives in town. Though known to be a stickler for Night World law, Ash refuses to kill Mark because it would mean he’d have to kill his own soulmate.

The Redfern siblings decide to keep their human soulmates a secret from their family.

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Miss Emma:
When James Rasmussen was three years old, he had a human nanny he called Miss Emma. He loved her dearly but his parents thought he was too attached to the human. So, they purposely did not feed James for a few days. Then, they brought Miss Emma to him. Unable to control his desire for blood, James helplessly fed on his beloved nanny, draining her almost dry. When he realised Miss Emma was dying, James tried to give her some of his own blood to make her into a vampire but his father stopped him. Miss Emma became a ghoul and James’s father buried her before she began to decay.

James remains haunted by what happened to Miss Emma for many years. It is this memory that holds him back from expressing his love to his best friend, Poppy North, in Secret Vampire.

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Mother Cybele:
Cybele is the Mother of the witches. She is described by Raksha Keller as a small woman with a dumpling-shaped body. Though Mother Cybele is quite an important Night Person, she does not appear much in the Night World books.

When renegade werewolves and a tiger murdered the Crone of the witches in Witchlight, Mother Cybele took over as leader of the witches. Under her leadership, the Inner Circle and its affiliates have allied with the shape-shifters for the upcoming battle to occur during the Millennium.

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Philip North:
Philip North is the twin brother of Poppy North. According to both the North twins, the only thing they share in common are green eyes framed by dark lashes. Philip is an honours student; he stars on the football team and the hockey team.

In Secret Vampire, Poppy is dying of cancer when James Rasmussen – her childhood best friend – offers to change her into a vampire. Philip, who has always disliked James, succeeds in turning Poppy against James and his idea. But when Philip realises Poppy has very little time left, he asks James to convert her.

After Poppy successfully becomes a vampire, the North twins discover they are lost witches – psychics, to be specific. Both are strongly telepathic. While Poppy chooses to embrace her heritage, Philip refuses to be a part of the Night World.

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Red Fern:
Red Fern is the only son of Maya – the first legendary vampire. Being the first lamia vampire, this makes Red Fern the ancestor of all lamia vampires as well as of the Redfern family.

Red Fern was born approximately thirty thousand years ago. Although he is quite an important Night Person within the series, he is hardly mentioned in the Night World books.

It is not known whether Red Fern is still alive or not within the series. It is possible that he may play the villain in the final Night World book, Strange Fate.

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Sylvia Weald:
Sylvia Weald is a witch who was not allowed to carry the Harman surname because her father was the Harman in her family – not her mother, who was a Weald. In Black Dawn, Sylvia reveals that this is why she turns her back on the witches.

When Sylvia finds out the blind Maiden of the witches, Aradia, is on her way to the Dark Kingdom enclave to see the Wild Power, Delos Redfern, Sylvia plans to kidnap the Maiden and hand her over to Hunter Redfern. Sylvia confides in her human boyfriend, Miles Neely, about her plans. Miles refuses to go along with her plans though, so, Sylvia turns him into a shape-shifter as punishment.

To prevent an inquest, Sylvia tells the Neely family Miles died whilst mountain climbing. But Maggie Neely, the younger sister of Miles, does not buy her story. Maggie follows Sylvia that very night and confronts her at her college dorm. Sylvia uses magic to make Maggie fall unconscious and then has her transported to Dark Kingdom to become a slave.

Maggie is determined to find out what has happened to Miles. She seeks help from other human slaves. They break free of their confinement. Whilst hiding out in the wilderness of Dark Kingdom, Maggie encounters Delos. They are soulmates, she realises. Delos refuses to accept this though. Their meeting is cut abruptly when they hear someone approaching. With a falcon resting on her arm, Sylvia greets Delos while Maggie remains hidden.

Maggie is convinced Sylvia is up to something. When Maggie sneaks into the Black Dawn castle, she overhears Sylvia and Hunter talking about Delos. Hunter is asking Sylvia to place a spell on Delos to prevent him from being able to use his Wild Power until Hunter can be sure Delos is on his side of the battle. Sylvia comments that she will use a spell that even the Crone of the witches could not remove.

The spell is placed and when Hunter and Sylvia leave, Maggie tells Delos what she overhead. Delos, however, is furious at Maggie for not leaving Dark Kingdom already. After much arguing, Delos gives in to the fact that Maggie is his soulmate. He then tells her to become a vampire and join him and Hunter in destroying the human world. Maggie refuses his offer and is eventually able to convince Delos that humans have as much right to live as Night People.

Delos decides not to side with Hunter anymore. Hunter will not let Delos go unpunished though. He organises a big hunt in which Delos, Maggie, and Aradia will be the prey. Maggie pleads with Sylvia to break the spell and allow Delos to use his Wild Power. It is Aradia who convinces Sylvia to do this though. Speaking through Aradia, Hellewise Hearth Woman, who has been dead for many centuries, adjures Sylvia to break the spell and prove her loyalty to the witches. Sylvia obeys the command and breaks the spell just as Hunter orders her death. Sylvia is speared.

Maggie and Delos huddle around Sylvia as she draws her final breath. Delos offers to change her into a vampire but Sylvia refuses. Talking to Maggie, Sylvia tells her that she wanted to punish Miles for not agreeing to go with her plans. She also tells Maggie that she reckons Maggie is smart enough to figure out what she did to Miles. Maggie does know. She thinks the falcon Sylvia carried around with her is Miles. Maggie was right.

Sylvia is described as tall and willowy, with silvery-blonde hair and amethyst-coloured eyes.

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