2021-12-19 20:42:45 ¶ ●

# master list of who is alive or dead, pre-NtN! it gets… complicated!

I did not include every single character ever mentioned because I wish to remain sane, but i guess if sister glaurica comes back and becomes widly integral to the story then i will have been proven a fool. But!! i think i got everyone that (i think is) plot relevent! Let’s start off easy:

ALIVE (with body and soul still together)

- Ianthe Tridentarius (+ the incorporated soul of Naberius Tern) (last seen in the River, saving Jod)
- Emperor John Gaius (last seen in the River, being saved by Ianthe)
- Camilla Hect (last seen on a BOE planet with new eyes, with “Nona” as well as two other people)
- Coronabreth Tridentarius (last seen on a murdered planet with Camilla and Judith)
- Judith Deuteros (last seen on a murdered planet with Camilla and Coronabeth)
- Comander We Suffer (last seen in AYU, on a BOE base/ship)
- Fleet Admiral Sarpeadon (last seen on the behemoth-class flagship the Seat of the Emperor, formerly known as the Erebos)

Now it gets weird. I am defining “Alive” to mean “the person, with body and soul still married, has NOT died/been killed/had their body irreparably destroyed, Jod excluded (presuming he did die once, a myriad ago)” and “Dead” to mean “quite a lot of different states of being that can happen after destruction of the body when it still houses the soul”. Defined below:

DEAD (revenant, not in river)

- Palamedes Sextus (last seen posessing his own skull transformed into a hand, with Camilla and Judith and Coronabeth, on a murdered planet, as of NtN presumed to be with Camilla and Pyrra)

DEAD (soul active, not in river, non-revenent)

- Pyrra Dve (last seen being submerged in the river, in Gideon the First’s body, as of NtN presumed to be with “Nona”, Camilla, and Palamades)

DEAD (presummed to have passed on from the river)

- Isaac Tettares (Last seen in Harrowhard’s dream bubble, soul presumed to have been ushered away immediately afterwards by Abigail Pent)
- Jeannemary Chatur (Last seen in Harrowhard’s dream bubble, soul presumed to have been ushered away immediately afterwards by Abigail Pent)

DEAD (died in Life, presumed to be in the River or a River Bubble)

- Abigail Pent (last seen fighting the RB #7)
- Magnus Quinn (last seen fighting the RB #7)
- Ortus Nigenad (last seen fighting the RB #7)
- Dulcinea Septimus (last seen fighting the RB #7)
- Protesilaus Eboma (last seen fighting the RB #7)
- Mattias Nonius (last seen fighting the RB #7)
- Marta Dyas (last seen fighting the RB #7)
- Ninth House Crew (Crux, Aiglamamine, the Rev. Father and the Rev. Mother) (Last seen in Harrowhard’s dream bubble, bodies presumed to still be on the Ninth) (like A and C might not be dead but. I think they’re dead. Their characters seemed “correct” in the river bubble)

DEAD (soul status unknown)

- Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity (soul last seen in cytherea’s body, having her head exploded, dead for the second time, body presumably farming snow leeks somewhere on the Ninth)
- Gideon the First (soul side only, killed by RB in the river, body still active)
- Colum Asht (soul lost when he was put under by Silas in GtN, body killed by Ianthe)
- Silas Octakiseron (soul last seen escaping Harrow’s river bubble, body killed by the posessed body of Colum Asht)
- Teacher, little old man version (soul last known to have escaped Harrow’s river bubble, body killed by the Second House)

DEAD (soul status unknown, lyctor edition - can lyctors even GO to the river? what happens to them? what happens to the cavalier’s soul when a lyctor dies when not in-the-river?)

- Gideon, original flavor (soul last seen being killed in the river by RB #7, body last seen housing Pyrra Dve)
- Mercymorn (last seen having having her heart exploded by Jod :( )
- [Cristabel Oct (eaten and incorporated 10,000 years ago)]
- Cyrus (last seen having lured RB #6 into a black hole, killing them both)
- [Valancy Trinit (eaten and incorporated 10,000 years ago)]
- Cytherea (soul and body killed at Canaan house, body last seen with its head exploded)
- [Loveday Heptane (eaten and incorporated 10,000 years ago)]

And finally…. my favorite section! you thought it was already complicated. it gets MORE complicated!

IT’S COMPLICATED (lyctor edition)

- Augustine (last seen being pulled, both body and soul, into the stoma)
- [Alfred Quinque (eaten and incorporated 10,000 years ago)]
- Ulysses (Last seen having wrestled RB #8 into the stoma)
- [Titania Tetra (eaten and incorporated 10,000 yrears ago)]
- Cassiopeia (last seen being “torn apart by ghosts” near RB #7, something I do not believe for a second)
- [Nigella Shodash (eaten and incorporated 10,000 years ago)]
- Anastasia (is she alive? is she dead? is she The Body? she never completed lyctorhood, but only Samael was killed in the process. what happened to her!!!! Body and soul status unknown)
- Samael Novenary (body killed by Jod 10,000 years ago, soul “not all the way in” Anastasia, it’s complicated)

IT’S COMPLICATED (unholy terror edition)

- Alecto, A.L., Annabel Lee, the Emperor’s Bodyguard (is she a RB? is she the First House? is she The Body? is she in some kind of staisis?)

IT’S COMPLICATED (Nona edition)

- Nona… the Ninth? (how did she wake up in a different body? did she die before? who is she! why does she challenge Camilla to figure out who she is! does she not know? can she not say? when is her birthday? is she the The Body? is she a dog? is she in Gideon Nav’s body? Soul last seen in a body that doesn’t belong to her, on a BOE planet, with Camilla Hect and Pyrra and Palamades)

IT’S COMPLICATED (Drearbough edition)

- Harrowhark Nonagesimus (Body last seen being dunked into the river by augustine along with the Mithraum, being piloted by Gideon (new and improved). Soul last seen falling asleep in a tomb with a copy of Frontline Titties of the Fifth. is Her soul in THE Tomb? is she in the River? is she in Hell? did she get eaten by the stoma?)
- Gideon Nav (Body last seen failing to rot on a BOE base, developing a cult following, perhaps being piloted around by Nona. soul last seen “dying a second time around” but probbaly just being very dramatic, being saved by a wildly gorgeous, yellow eyed woman that perhaps looks The Body. was this real? was this in the river? where is she? HOW is she?)
- The Body (last known to be in the locked tomb, on the Ninth. is she in stasis? who is she? is she still in the tomb? is she alecto? is she anastasia? is she a ressurection beast? is she a failed lyctor? is she the emporer’s final death? is she nona? are harrow’s hallucinations a projection of The Body’s soul, or something else?)