Unsong contains the following characters:
Aaron Smith-Teller
A skilled kabbalist who works in a sweatshop owned by the theonomic corporation Countenance in Silicon Valley. Aaron unwittingly sets the apocalypse in motion after discovering the Vital Name, which allows to speaker to implant souls in non-living objects; he resolves to use this power to become the next Comet King and remake the world.Ana Thurmond
A theodicy student and Aaron's sort-of girlfriend. After experimentation with the Vital Name brings Unsong down on Ithica, Ana goes on the run, eventually stumbling into a quest to locate Metatron and resolve the problem of evil.Erica Lowry
The impassioned editor of radical Bay-area underground newspaper The Stevensite Standard, and Ana's cousin. After Unsong raids Ithaca, she seeks out Dylan Alvarez with the intention of joining BOOJUM.
Pirindiel
A fallen angel, one of many who lost their innocence through overexposure to the cynicism of human religion as practiced.
Malia Ngo
The mysterious and feared Director-General of UNSONG.Dylan Alvarez
A charismatic ritual magician and anarchist terrorist who has dedicated himself to destroying UNSONG and the United States Government. He weaponizes the Theory of Narrative Causality, positioning himself as the heroic underdog protagonist of whatever story he's currently part of and thus tricking the universe into treating him as such.
Jalaketu West (The Comet King)
The Messiah, born to a mortal mother and the Comet West, heavily implied to be the archangel Raziel. Father of four children, all of whom inherited some degree of supernatural ability.Sohu West
The youngest of the Cometspawn, sent by the Comet King to train in Kabbalism under Archangel Uriel during the 1990s, gradually becoming Uriel's closest friend and Morality Chain. Permanently trapped in the body of an eight-year-old girl after a misadventure involving Thamiel. Sohu took up her father's work in the aftermath of his death in 2001.Jinxiang West
One of the Comet King's daughters.- Action Girl: Dresses like an archetypal action movie heroine and is more than capable of holding her own in combat.
Nathanda West
The Comet King's oldest child.Caelius West
The Comet King's only son.Robin West
The Comet King's late wife, and the only woman he ever truly loved.
Vihaan
The Comet King's uncle, who served as his chaperone during Hell's invasion of North America and as his close advisor after the establishment of the Kingdom of Colorado.
Uriel
An archangel who lives in a hurricane in the Gulf Coast. Uriel has the self-appointed task of keeping the physics-based nature of the universe from collapsing entirely in the wake of the Apollo incident, with the laws of physics functioning in accordance with the kind of day he's having.
Gabriel
The last surviving Archangel during the original War against Hell.
Sataniel
An angel who discovered the existence of Hell deep within the Earth's core, and came back with some rather controversial ideas.Raziel
An archangel who went missing during the War in Heaven, he returned to earth in the 20th century to father the Comet King.
Metatron
The voice of God within the universe. Word among the Angels is that Metatron descended to the sea during the War in Heaven and now travels the earth in an impossibly fast ship; anyone capable of catching up to his ship is granted the closest thing possible to an audience with God.Samyazaz
A hedonistic, shifty angel who drifts between human civilizations, enslaving them to act as his worshippers and to build him monuments. In the present day, he goes by the name of the Drug Lord.
Gadiriel
The Angel of Creativity, who set up shop on the California Coast and influenced the atmosphere and culture of Hollywood. In the present day, she's one of the major power brokers of Los Angeles.
Thamiel
The Left Hand of God, Father of Lies and ruler of Hell.- Obviously Evil: He wears a black suit, has a shrunken and deformed second head, flies around using bat wings, and carries a wicked two-pronged spear ("bident"). Appropriate, considering he's literally the Devil.
- Would Hurt a Child: And he takes great relish in doing so.
Demons
Neil Armstrong
The first man to walk on the... crystal sphere surrounding the existing universe, Armstrong ascended to a higher plane of existence while exploring the crack created by the Apollo 8 incident.
Richard Nixon
The US president at the time of the Apollo 8 incident, Nixon formed a strategic alliance with Hell against Russia. He was responsible for releasing The Broadcast, which caused the Balkanization of the US, and was impeached for the....extreme measures he took to escape the fallout.
