List of Emberverse Characters - Other Characters

Other Characters

• Ingolf Vogeler: Mercenary from Kickapoo, Wisconsin in the Free Republic of Richland. Ingolf was the son of a sheriff, but after his brother assumed the position Ingolf angrily left to seek out life as a mercenary and later scavenger of the dead zones. He eventually commanded his own company, Vogeler’s Villains, and was hired by the Governor of Iowa to seek out rare treasures in the eastern death zones with promises of land and his daughter’s hand in marriage. Ingolf was given a vision on Nantucket to seek out Rudi in the west. Before he could do this he was betrayed and his men killed by Kuttner and the CUT. He managed to escape and warn Rudi and now follows him back east to Nantucket. He develops an interest in Mary Havel.
• Kaur and Singh: Sikh brother and sister and mercenary scout in Vogeler’s Villains. They sacrificed themselves to buy Ingolf more time to flee Kuttner and he promised to avenge their deaths. Their names mean “Lion” and “Lioness” in their native tongue.
• Maud Loring: The late wife to Nigel. She was killed while she was attempting to flee Britain with her husband. Nigel named one of his daughters with Juniper after her.
• Virginia Kane: Daughter of a rancher who was killed by CUT-supported ranchers. She meets up with Rudi and his band after fleeing from a rancher who wants to force her to marry him. Virginia will later scalp said rancher after a skirmish between CUT forces and Rudi's party allied with a Lakota scouting patrol led by their Itancan John Red Leaf. She develops an interest in Frederick.
• Anthony Heasleroad: "Bossman" of Iowa, who took upon himself dictatorial powers after the death of his father, the first Bossman following the Change. He rules autocratically and may appear to be mentally unstable at times.
• Red Leaf: Sioux chieftain who shelters Rudi and company from the CUT. After the Change he had a major role in returning the Sioux to their nomadic roots and made them a major power on the Great Plains. Red Leaf was good friends with Virginia Kane's father and adopts Rudi and the others into the tribe.
• John Brown: Rancher of Seffridge Ranch and important member of CORA. After the Change, John Brown allowed refugees from the towns to live on his ranch to support themselves as long as they worked for him. He is a longtime ally of Clan Mackenzie, leading a force of CORA horsemen to fight the PPA in the last war even though most of CORA stayed neutral. Once Mike went undercover pretending to be him in an effort to track down a brigand named Crusher Bailey. Rudi stopped by his ranch on his quest and John allowed them to travel with his son as they escorted horses to Deseret.
• BD: A Kyklos merchant in the Pacific Northwest, BD is also a Wiccan and often works as an intelligence agent for the members of the Meeting. She was part of Astrid's team to kidnap the Bossman of Pendleton and helped smuggle their weapons into the city. She is notable for originally appearing in the Emberverse fan fiction The Bonds of Kinship (2006) by Kier Salmon and Tarl Neustaedter, before appearing in The Scourge of God.
• Jake sunna Jake: Big man of the Southside Freedom Fighters, now-grown youths who were brought out of Chicago by old Jake his father, shortly after the change. Rudi encounters them in the Wild Lands, befriending him and eventually adopting his entire tribe. Killed in battle on the Great Lakes.