O The Scientist
The Author and the Architect, the creator of the world of Razia.
Ahrima
The protagonist of Act One, and one of the most talented Angels.
Nidria
Ahrima’s
Love Interest and a fellow Angel of talent.
Barayas
A dinky brownish spider who tempts Ahrima to follow the path of evil.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
- The Corrupter: Exhorts Ahrima to destroy the lamps to show the other angels and O the Scientist "who's in control".
- Gender Flip: Is a woman in the Mercury Momentum stage version.
- Giant Spider: Despite being described as “dinky” and small enough to perch on Ahrima’s shoulder, he is the biggest puppet in the puppet show version of the play, and glows a neon purple color at that.
- Karma Houdini: Disappears and implicitly gets away with having Ahrima destroy the lamps and causing dark and light to be split... that is, if he was even real to begin with.
- Power Glows: He’s got neon glow in the dark paint on his puppet.
- Small Role, Big Impact
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Unseen after his music number. This can be justified in some versions such as the 2019 one, where he's not actually real, but just a hallucination of Ahrima's due to a spider bite.
Toba the Tura
An angel sent to banish Ahrima.
- Archangel Michael: Implied, more or less. Toba casts Ahrima from grace the way Michael banishes Lucifer from Heaven, and is the most vocally outraged Angel shown.
- Fauns and Satyrs: Seems to be represented by one in the puppet show.
- Gender Flip: The 2019 puppet show reimagines them as a girl.
- Good Is Not Nice:
This mess that you've made, it's a six-foot grave
It's a home for your lonesome bones that remain
We'll disappear, but you'll stay here to rot
As The King of The Dark and Forgot
- Hooks and Crooks: In the puppet show, he uses one to toss Ahrima around and prod him into place.
- Horned Humanoid
- Meaningful Name: Toba means “repentance”. Tura is an Aramaic word for Mountain.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: His entire song is devoted to telling Ahrima exactly how badly he screwed up.
Gargul the Oracle
An angel who can tell the future, and recants the fate of Razia to the protagonists.
Adakias
The younger Prince of The Dark, and Pallis’ younger brother.
Pallis
The Crown Prince of The Dark, and Adakias’ older brother.
- Black Eyesof Evil: With white pupils.
- Cainand Abel: The Cain to Adakias’ Abel. Trope Played Straight when he ends up killing his brother in “The End and the Beginning” when Adakias uses his own body as a Human Shield to protect Anhura from him.
- Cool Crown: In the puppet show. It’s the skull of an animal.
- Divine Parentage: Like Adakias, a direct descendant from Ahrima.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He does love his brother, enough to try to dissuade him down a path he thinks is unsafe for Adakias. Unfortunately Pallis attempts this through berating him and later attempting to kill his wife…
- The Evil Prince: Naturally.
- "Open!" Says Me: Kicks in the door to the Doctor’s house.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: White blazer, black button up shirt, striped tie, a pocket square on his breast and a flower in his lapel.
- Would Hit a Girl: he intended on killing Anhura.
Sangara
Pallis' servant, and a denizen of The Dark.
Anhura
The Princess of the Light, and Adakias'
Love Interest.
- Birds of a Feather: She has the same romantic inclinations of fate and destiny, and daydreams of a better life, just like Adakias.
- Damsel in Distress: When she is stricken ill.
- First Love: Anhura says she’s Adakias’ first kiss.
- Incurable Cough of Death: The people of The Dark can make those of The Light sick by simple proximity, which Adakias eventually does to Anhura. This affliction is apparently curable, but Doctor Dumaya says that the sickness of The Dark requires a "bona fide doctor's miracle" to cure
- Light Is Good
King Malka
Anhura's father and King of the Light. He fears Adakias wants to steal his throne when Adakias and Anhura meet him to ask him for his blessing on their relationship, and forbids them to wed.
- Adipose Rex
- Beard of Moral Ambiguity: In the puppet show, he has a very long one, as well as an incredibly long and curled moustache, which he twitches out of annoyance with Adakias.
- Greed
- Meaningful Name: Malka comes from Malaka, an Aramaic name for King.
- Parental Marriage Veto: He doesn’t want Anhura marrying Adakias mostly because he fears Adakias will depose him, but also because he senses darkness in Adakias’ heart and wants to protect his daughter.
- Properly Paranoid: The darkness he senses in Adakias is his heritage from The Dark, which makes his daughter fall deathly ill.
The Bawaba Brothers
Doctor Dumaya
A shady doctor of The Dark who lives in squalor, and the only one who
knows to cure Anhura's malady.- Adaptational Karma: His fate is left ambiguous in the album itself. In the puppet show adaptation, he's knocked out by the door Pallis kicks down, and in a stage version Pallis stabs him.
- Animal Motifs: Spiders. He seems to have an affinity for them and uses them as assistants in his work. It’s possible he’s a descendant of Barayas.
- Deadly Doctor
- Evil Laugh
- Faux Affably Evil
- Gender Flip: Is a woman in the Mercury Momentum stage version.
- Humanoid Abomination: Depicted as one with a giant mass of shadowy tendrils for a head and two glowing white eyes, dressed in a doctor's uniform.
- I Have You Now, My Pretty: What he intends on doing with Anhura as payment for curing her disease.
- Killer Robot: In the puppet show, he’s depicted as one mounted on a single wheel, with a head that isn't attached to his body, which he plays around with quite a bit.
- Large Ham
- Laughing Mad
- Mad Doctor
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
- Psycho Lesbian: The Mercury Momentum performance reimagines the Doctor as a girl, still with intent to hold Anhura captive for O-knows-what.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: When Pallis breaks in and Adakias is killed, he disappears from the story completely, making it unclear whether or not Anhura still has to stay with him. Visual adaptations rectify this by having him be killed or at the very least seriously injured by Pallis.
