Ryan Franklin - aka Raxe

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Former Air Force fighter pilot and Special Forces Operative

Left the Air Force to join the organization, which is a secret international agency with four branches: Intelligence; Research and Development (Omni-Research); Global Organizational Defense (G.O.D. branch); and Deactivation (Assassination)

Child of the Old Ones. The Old Ones were god-like beings that existed before Heaven’s War more than two thousand years ago. The Children of the Old Ones are the offspring of Old Ones who mated with humans. Ryan is a direct descendant of the Old One Called The Gatekeeper. In the Kingdom of Lorr, he is called Raxe. Raxe was the Gatekeeper’s son and only child and also Ryan’s distant great-grandfather.

Wizard and Head Mage of the Kingdom of Lorr

High Advisor to the King of Lorr

Child of the Old Ones; direct descendant of the Old One called Lorr

Husband to the half-elf princess Catherine Lorr

Elite mercenary of unknown origin

Nomad known to travel throughout the Known Lands, performing dubious tasks for the highest bidder

Owner of Dragon-Fang, a near-unbreakable broadsword fashioned from the tooth of a dragon and known to have a corrosive effect on organic matter

Last living member of a race of changelings; beings that can transform into any creature whose species is not naturally imbued with magic; their true form is unknown

Friend to the Head Mage Rionn Lorr

Unofficial agent of the Kingdom of Lorr

Accomplished veteran of multiple pivotal military campaigns

Former High Commander of the Lorrian Military

Sovereign of the Kingdom Lorr

Orphan found on the steps of the church in Baltimore, MD

Found by a visiting priest who brought him to Chicago, IL, where he was reared in a Catholic group home

College graduate with a B.S. degree in Computer-Aided Drafting and Design

Child of the Old Ones – with dangerous powers he can neither understand nor control

Half-elf-half-human female from the elven kingdom of Thâlstrën

Self-exiled princess and Granddaughter to the Queen of Thâlstrën

Wife of - and advisor to - the Head Mage Rionn Lorr

Serves as Head Mage in Rionn Lorr's absence

High-ranking Ranger Elf from the Thâlstrën kingdom

Elite weapons master and hand-to-hand combatant

Betrothed to Catherine Eleshaë before her self-imposed exile

Son of Meldrick and Annastace Sureblade and firstborn of the Sureblade siblings

Expert tracker and swordsman

Youngest entrant and graduate of the famed Lorrian Military Academy

Lead tracker for the Keeper’s Hounds, a team of elite trackers and fighters assembled to hunt down and destroy demons

Also known as Eagle-Eye in the Keeper’s Hounds

Longtime time friend of – and former mentor to – the Head Mage Rionn Lorr

Second-in-Command of the Conjurer’s Alliance

Head Master of the Chronicai Tul Myst – the legendary Academy of Magic residing in the Kingdom Lorr