List of The Invisibles Characters - The Outer Church

The Outer Church

The Outer Church exists in the "unhealthy" universe, where conformity and hierarchy consume individuality and free will. The demon-like Archons of the Outer Church wish to enslave humanity and rob them of everything that cannot be measured, weighed and counted. The Outer Church's representatives on Earth are politicians, policemen, royalty and other representatives of control and order. They run the secret conspiracies that attempt to keep all of humanity docile and malleable.

• King Archon/Abbadon/Rex Mundi – The ruler of the Archons. It is the plan of Sir Miles and other human servitors of the Outer Church to bring him to our world through the coronation of the Moonchild - after which he is to posess the body of the Moonchild and thereby take direct and total control over all life on Earth. Never shown, and perhaps actually non-existent. The attempted possession of Dane McGowan by the entity seems to have no effect at all - although Dane claims he "ate it".

• King-of-All-Tears – This Archon is a vaguely humanoid figure standing over seven feet tall and wearing flowing dark-green robes. His face is reminiscent of a black, fanged and horned equine-like skull with a long vertebrae-like protuberance on the top of his head. Two curved white horns jut up from his shoulders. His fingers appear as either a cluster of tentacles or long talons. When preparing for battle, he emits a howl "summoning his weapons—his cloak of inks, his neuroworm larvae and nanofactories." It is shown that being unprotected in the same room as him for a longer period of time causes rampant, fast-breeding skin cancer. The King-of-All-Tears is the direct master of Ms. Dwyer, who summons him to the House of Fun during Miles Delacourt's interrogation of King Mob and Lord Fanny. He later tries to prevent Ragged Robin from traveling back in time from 2012. The King claims his name is due to the fact that he "weeps for the end of the era" and all that he (a King of this World) has built. He is banished at one time by Dane McGowan on threat of saying "his name", and King Mob eventually destroys him utterly by dosing him with logoplasm (a substance that makes words seem real) and shooting him with a pop gun.

• King-in-Chains – A vaguely humanoid figure standing over seven feet tall and wearing a tattered dark-purple robe with chains trailing out from underneath it. His nobbed, featureless black head has a vertical slit down the center that emits a white light. He has long, slender, filth-covered talon-like fingers. He is the direct master of Mr. Gelt, headmaster of Harmony House, who is killed by King Mob during his rescue of Dwane McGowan.

• Two other Archons are also shown, but never named.

• Sir Miles Delacourt – A master of conspiracies, Miles Delacourt is a director of the Secret Intelligence Service, a high ranking Freemason, and the controlling force behind the plot to install Rex Mundi as Monarch of the United Kingdom. Delacourt, although of English nobility, seems to have been a beatnik at one point, but during a series of Project MKULTRA-like experiments with LSD his visions lead him to believe that at the end of history "the Machine" wins, and ultimately there are no other choices than being slave or master. He betrays his circle, writing a book titled The Invisibles which scandalizes Queen Mab, and later kills her as token of his willingness to serve the conspiracy. Although he develops into a cold-blooded human monster who hunts the homeless for sport, he still does not seem entirely capable of 'shaking off' the wrongness of his first murder. After the failure of the Outer Church's plot to use Jack Frost as a host for the King-Archon, Miles proposes to serve Helga (who has taken control over him to a certain degree) but is rejected. Mister Six hands him a rope, and he takes this to imply that his only responsibility left is to remove himself from the stage. He then commits suicide by jumping from the aisles in Westminister Abbey, after singing a verse of the Eton Boating Song.

• Mister Quimper – The owner of a strip club whose employees claim to have been coerced into performing in porn movies with aliens. Quimper is capable of lodging a part of himself in bad, repressed memories like a virus - and use these memories to eventually delete the identity of the victim and take total control. He claims that when the bad memories 'burst', victims will ask him actively to take control in order to blank out the pain. He is psychically devastated by Ragged Robin, and has to be taken to the Outer Church by Colonel Friday to be restored. The Invisibles successfully execute a mission to get Ragged Robin close enough to Quimper to remove his Outer Church programming and find out who or what he really is: a spirit of some sort, given flesh and viciously abused at the hands of the same perpetrators who once gang-raped Lord Fanny. Quimper disappears after realizing what he once was.

• Colonel Friday – Chief of the hidden station at Dulce, New Mexico in which the vaccine for the AIDS virus is kept. Friday also wields the "Scorpio" machine, which can implant horrible fears in the human mind. He is a modified servant of the Archons, and claimed by the Blind Chessman to be one of the first that the Archons approached for modification, all the way back in 1945. He is murdered by the Outer Church after failing twice to protect Dulce from the Invisibles.

• Orlando – A demon assassin. He encounters Lord Fanny once in Mictlan and twice on Earth. The latter encounters both end in his banishment back to Mictlan. Orlando enjoys wearing the skin of the people he murders. He cuts a finger from Jack Frost, and kills Jack Flint. Like Quimper, the Chessman, Elfayed and Jack Flint, there is an aspect of John-A-Dreams in him (see: John-A-Dreams).

• Ms. Dwyer – A modified servant of the Archons, first introduced as an administrator at Harmony House. She later takes charge of Sir Miles' attempts to interrogate King Mob. Ms. Dwyer's body is host to a great deal of Archon technology, including 4D armor and nanites in her blood. She is sacrificed by Jim Crow as payment for his successful rescue operation of King Mob and Lord Fanny from the House of Fun.

• Mr. Gelt – An modified servant of the Archons, first introduced as an administrator at Harmony House. Killed by King Mob.

• Brodie – An assassin hired by Sir Miles to seduce Lord Fanny for the purpose of learning information about King Mob. He apparently is genuinely attracted to Lord Fanny, but work is work. Lord Fanny stabs him to death.

• The Moonchild – A grotesque, 200 year old creature which is part Archon and part English Royalty. It is kept behind a magic mirror. The Moonchild is intended to be used as a host for Rex Mundi, the ruler of The Outer Church. How much the monster actually understands of everything is questionable - it appears to be almost completely wittless, innocent like a wild animal. Sir Miles kills it, when it is revealed that according to the most secret of the Outer Church's plans, it was intended to symbolize the death of the old order, and that it is Dave McGowan who is supposed to be the host for the Rex Mundi.

• Queen Elizabeth II - What it says. She is present at the Abbey, and crowns the Moonchild.