Weaveworld - Characters

Characters

• Calhoun "Cal" Mooney: A bored young man whose life alternates between his job at an insurance company in Liverpool and caring for his father until he encounters the mysterious rug that instantly strikes him as something peculiar. Cal becomes entangled in a magical adventure while also realising his feelings for his companion Suzanna Parish.
• Suzanna Parish: A young woman who pays a visit to her dying grandmother, Mimi Laschenski, and is given clues to her family's secret past. Suzanna carries both Seerkind and Cuckoo blood in her veins. After accidentally obtaining the menstruum by Immacolata, she becomes almost as powerful as her and proves her battle skills later on in the book, trying to save the Fugue.
• Immacolata: A cold, ruthless sorceress, who was exiled by her own race for practising evil magic and desiring too much power. A woman of tremendous dark abilities, she seeks the rug with the purpose of destroying it and ultimately unmaking her kind.
• Shadwell aka the Salesman: a greedy man, whose speciality is his talent to convince others to buy anything he chooses to sell. Shadwell has been given a gift by his accomplice, Immacolata; a jacket with a glittering lining which is able to hypnotise and persuade anybody to do his bidding by granting them a wish. He gradually becomes more and more confident and finally decides to seize the power of the Fugue for himself.
• The Scourge: a catastrophic, ancient power of unknown origin. It slew the Seerkind by hundreds in the old times until they decided to prevent this genocide by hiding their world within the rug. After decades of hibernation, the Scourge is awoken in the desert by an eager Shadwell, who wishes to see the Seerkind thoroughly slaughtered. Persuaded by Shadwell, the Scourge then views itself as a form of avenging angel, identifying itself with Uriel.
• The Hag: one of Immacolata's triplet sisters, whom she strangled while all three were in the womb. The Hag survived as the ghostly presence of a gruesome old woman, always accompanying her sister and helping her when necessary. She can divine knowledge by examining the afterbirth produced by her prolific and likewise ghostly sister.
• The Magdalene: Immacolata's other triplet sister who also survives after her prenatal death as ectoplasm. She frequently rapes defenceless men and gives birth to brutally deformed abominations (called by-blows) within hours of their conception.
• Jerichau St. Louis: one of the Seerkind who is among the first five to be unleashed from the rug. He later becomes Suzanna's friend and companion, choosing not to return to the weave.
• Hobart: a cruel and deranged police inspector whom Shadwell manipulates in order to capture Suzanna and Jerichau. He is later possessed by the Scourge.
• Nimrod: another one of the first five Seerkind to be unleashed from the carpet after Cal tears off a piece of it. He is a shape-shifter, initially trapped in the form of the infant which he used to escape from a jilted husband whose wife he had seduced.
• Mimi Laschenski: Suzanna's grandmother, the guardian of the rug. At the time Immacolata tracks her down, she is too old and weak to use an effective magical trick and willingly dies in order to prevent herself from disclosing any secrets, under Immacolata's pressure.