MAIN CHARACTERS
---
Zeyr Vol
Race: Green Dragonborn
Role: Protagonist / Poisonmage / God of Decay
Description: Once a royal alchemist and lover of Princess Aeryn, Zeyr was betrayed, executed, and resurrected by the forgotten poison god Yasshal. Master of venom-based martial arts, he seeks vengeance against the empire, even as love continues to haunt him. Ends the story as the avatar of ruin itself.
---
Princess Aeryn Dazari
Race: Human
Role: Tragic Love Interest / Saint / Divine Weapon
Description: The Emperor's daughter and Zeyr's forbidden lover. She was sacrificed in a ritual and resurrected as a vessel for the empire's god-light. Despite her imposed sanctity, fragments of her original soul persist. She dies in Zeyr's arms after helping him destroy the empire, her memory becoming his undoing.
---
Yasshal, The Decay Weaver
Race: Forgotten Poison God
Role: Patron / Eldritch Entity / Final Corruptor
Description: A primordial force of rot, poison, and forgotten cycles. Offers Zeyr power in exchange for spreading decay through the empire. Tempts him with divine unity, but is ultimately rejected at the story's end—though not fully vanquished.
---
SECONDARY CHARACTERS
---
Eila Mournblade
Race: Elf
Role: Ally / Poison Sect Lieutenant
Description: Zeyr's first loyal follower and a co-founder of the Poison Sect. Charismatic, sardonic, ambitious. Complex relationship with Zeyr—part rival, part almost-lover. Drinks from Yasshal in the final act to witness the empire's death. Survives.
---
Emperor Halveth Dazari
Race: Human
Role: Antagonist / Tyrant
Description: Cold, calculating ruler of Kurosei. Believes in divine order above all. Sacrificed his daughter Aeryn for political sanctification. Faces Zeyr alone at the end and is killed with a poisoned kiss. His death begins the empire's collapse.
---
General Vaelor Dazari
Race: Human
Role: Aeryn's Father / Executioner of Zeyr
Description: Military commander and co-architect of Aeryn's ritual sacrifice. Loyalist to the empire to the end. Publicly forces Aeryn to execute Zeyr during the Cleansing Ceremony. Killed during the palace assault (off-page).
---
Bran Vek
Race: Human
Role: Rebel Officer
Description: Veteran captain within the rebel faction. Skeptical of Zeyr (as Captain Vell) and protective of Aeryn. Never uncovers Zeyr's identity. Represents the dying remnants of "honorable rebellion."
---
Captain Irzan Vell (deceased)
Race: Human
Role: Identity stolen by Zeyr
Description: A minor rebel tactician who died off-screen. Zeyr assumes his identity to infiltrate Aeryn's rebel group and get close to her again. His personality and habits are used as a mask.
---
Nameless Student (Poison Sect)
Race: Human
Role: Initiate in Chapter 2
Description: Young girl who completes the Trial of Stillness. Sacrifices her sister to craft a new hallucination-based poison. Example of the zeal and amorality cultivated in Zeyr's sect.
---
The Blind Monk
Race: Human
Role: Sanctum Guard
Description: An elderly monk guarding a side passage during Aeryn's public rite. Zeyr speaks gently to him and puts him to sleep rather than killing him—one of the few spared.
---
The Double / Green Mimic
Race: Dragonborn (or altered human)
Role: Decoy for public execution
Description: A fabricated imitation of Zeyr used by the Empire to force Aeryn into a symbolic killing during the Cleansing Ceremony. Killed by Aeryn in an act of bitter obedience.
---
The People / Chorus of the Dying Empire
Role: The silent majority
Description: Priests, rebels, nobles, acolytes, and civilians who play out the consequences of Zeyr's vengeance. Their lives, deaths, and silence form the backdrop of the final apocalypse.
---