List of The Power of Five characters

This is a list of all the antagonists and protagonists in The Power of Five series by Anthony Horowitz.

The only characters to physically appear in all four novels to date are Matt Freeman, Richard Cole, Nathalie Johnson and the King of the Old Ones.

Protagonists

Matt Freeman

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Matt is the first of the Five and the leader of the Five, and is the main protagonist in the first two novels Raven's Gate and Evil Star. He did reappear in the third novel Nightrise but only very briefly when Scott and Jamie Tyler appeared in the Nazca Desert, the place where Matt and Pedro were staying in Professor Chamber's hacienda. Matt is not the main protagonist in book four as that is left to Scarlett Adams (who is the fifth of the Five) but he makes a bigger appearance than he did in Nightrise.

Matt's powers are telekinesis, as well as clairvoyance; his powers are stronger when he is with another of the five but it has also proven to be unstoppable with just extreme will. When he activates his power he can smell burnt toast, as this is what he could smell the day his parents died. This is first shown when he tries to steal from a warehouse in Ipswich and senses the security guard. He always blames himself for not warning his parents the accident which would occur for he knew his parents would not believe him. He regretted not doing damage to the car such as pouring paint over it or slashing a car tire to prevent them from going out in the car.

Matt is described as being muscular but slim and very good looking. It describes Matt in the book as having the look of a male model or a footballer or like many both. His past incarnation is also called Matt as he preferred the name better. Matt is 14 years old, in Raven's Gate, Nightrise and Evil Star but is 15 in Necropolis.

He was paired with Lohan when he went through the door in the Tai Shan Temple.

Matt can communicate with other four in a dream world. The dream world is on a beach in neither day nor night.

Pedro

Pedro is the second of the Five and is first introduced in the second book, Evil Star. Pedro lived as a beggar in Lima, Peru, where he meets Matt Freeman and assists in the search for the second gate, though his native tongue is Spanish and he cannot speak much English.

Pedro began life in a small village in the Canta province. When he was young the River Chillion burst its banks and Pedro's family were killed. A group of survivors travelled with Pedro to Lima. Pedro eventually ended up in the care of a man named Sebastian with many other children. He lived there performing tricks to people passing by and robbing rich tourists. However, he then met Matthew Freeman and travelled with him.

Pedro also bears a strong resemblance to Manco Cápac, the founder of the Inca Empire. Pedro's power is healing. He could heal people by being around them. He only realised his power at the end of Evil Star when he helped Matt after he was injured by Chaos, the King of the Old Ones. He discovered that during the stay with his carer Sebastian in Ciudad del Veneno, known as Poison Town in English, none of the people around him got sick due to his healing abilities, and when Matt slept at the house where Pedro lived he noticed his scars from a previous fight had vanished.

He is described as being extremely skinny with long dark brown hair and brown eyes. His past incarnation is named Inti. Pedro is 14 years old in Evil Star and Nightrise, but is then 15 in Necropolis. He had tried to heal Scott after Susan Mortlake tortured him bad by trying to control him but could not as the scars of the wound were too deep. By the time of Necropolis, he had learned enough of the English language to be able to communicate with the other four gatekeepers.

He went through the doorway in the Tai Shan Temple by himself, though he may have to go with Richard and Scarlett because of her bullet wound.

Pedro can communicate with the other four of the five in the dream world.

Jamie and Scott Tyler

Jamie and Scott Tyler, twins, are two of the Five (Jamie being the third and Scott being the fourth) and are the main protagonists in the third book in the Power of Five series Nightrise. At the beginning of the novel, Jamie and Scott are working in a dingy theatre in Reno, Nevada, USA, under the whim of their "Uncle Don" who is not really their uncle, but Jamie and Scott are forced to call him that. After a performance Scott is kidnapped and both physically and mentally tortured by the sinister Nightrise Corporation at a juvenile prison called Silent Creek. Jamie is rescued by Alicia McGuire and creates a plan to save Scott. Along the way he is catapulted into the past and witnesses the first battle against the Old Ones. Sapling, Jamie's former self, was killed by the Old Ones, hence he was 'replaced' by Jamie. At the end of the novel Jamie and Scott are united with Matt and Pedro.

Jamie and Scott's power is telepathy and they have the power to control other people and make them abide by the instructions given by the twins, as well as being able to read each other's thoughts automatically. Jamie has shown in Nightrise that he doesn't like using his powers. The twins are described as being very skinny (to the point of being malnourished) with long black hair (they are Native American) and dark eyes. Scott's hair was cut after his imprisonment.

Their past incarnations are Sapling (Jamie) and Flint (Scott). Matt had stated that Scott's past incarnation name, Flint, suited him for Scott had a hard look around him and a type of cruelty. He was supposedly angry when Matt split him and Jamie apart for the twins had never been so far apart. Matt stated that he thought Scott could not be trusted yet. Jamie and Scott are both fourteen years old in Nightrise, but are fifteen in Necropolis. In Necropolis, it shows that Jamie is now more in charge of the two, as Scott is very withdrawn and quiet. Scott also shuts down when in stress. The reason was that he was thoroughly programmed while held captive by the Nightrise agents in Nevada, USA. Nightrise stated at the start of Necropolis that it was possible to turn Scott against his friends.

The twins went through the doorway together in the Tai Shan Temple.

They can communicate with each other and the other members of the five in a dream world.

Scarlett Adams

Scarlett is the fifth of the Five and is the main protagonist in the fourth book Necropolis. She had a boyfriend called Aidan. Scarlett is Chinese, and was adopted in Jakarta, China from an orphanage there. She lives in Dulwich. Her adopted parents are Vannessa, who ran a holiday company that put together packages in China and Far East and Paul Adams, who specialised in international business law. Her mother is described as tall, blonde and elegant while her father is described as having the looks of a lawyer with greying hair, a round face and glasses. She bears a strong resemblance, and is described by some, as Lin Mo, the Chinese goddess of the sea. Scarlett's father Paul works for the Nightrise Corporation, at the end of Nightrise she leaves on a flight to Hong Kong.

Scarlett's power is controlling the weather. Scarlett's power was at first thought to be predicting the weather but is proven that she could also control it when she summons a dragon typhoon to escape after she gets captured. This is also noted in Nightrise as Scar summons a rainstorm to mask Inti's arrival. Scarlett is described as being small, slim, and being [Asian] She also has long black hair, strange hazel-green eyes and has the soft brown skin of a girl born in China, Hong Kong or another part of Central Asia. She is also said to have a winning smile, that has gotten her out of trouble on many occasions. Matt also claims that she is very good-looking.

While her parents are out working, Scarlett is taken care of by a Scottish woman, Mrs Christina Murdoch. She is short, dark-haired and seemed to have no sense of humour at all. Scarlett and Mrs Murdoch had agreed silently that they were never going to be friends although they got on well enough.

Scarlett is known not to act before she thinks, like when she pushed a teacher (who couldn't swim) fully clothed into the school's swimming pool. Scarlett is shown as brave throughout Necropolis.

Her past life is name was also Scarlett, but often called Scar.

At the end of Necropolis, Scarlett is shot in the head by a Nightrise agent. She is then paired with Richard Cole when they go through the door. What happened next and if Scarlett recovers or survives is unknown. All will be revealed in the last book.

She can communicate with the others when she's asleep in a strange dreamworld.

Richard Cole

Richard Cole is a journalist first introduced in Raven's Gate where he helps Matt Freeman out with his troubles with the heartless Jayne Deverill. He was a journalist for the Greater Malling Gazette in Greater Malling, Yorkshire, living in York. At the end of the novel Richard pushes Deverill in a pool of radioactive acid when she tries to crush Matt's windpipe.

In the second novel, Evil Star, Richard left his job as a journalist for the Greater Malling Gazette and worked on another newspaper, The Gipton Echo. He agrees to go to Peru with Matt and gets separated from Matt when their taxi from the airport was ambushed by the Incas, who were actually preventing them from being captured by the police. He stays at Vilcabamba, the lost city of the Incas, and reunites with Matt who went to the Nazca Lines to find the second gate.

He does not appear much in Nightrise, though he does appear briefly. But in Necropolis, he makes a bigger appearance when he goes with Matt and Jamie to London to try to find Scarlett Adams, the last of the Five, and then goes to Hong Kong with them via Macau before they are attacked and separated. He reunites with the Five at the Tai Shan Temple. He is then paired with Scarlett when he went through the door in the Tai Shan Temple.

At university Richard studied journalism, politics and the history of geography. In Necropolis, his knowledge of historical maps helped him to decode St Joseph's diary and find out where the Gatekeeper's portals are.

The Librarian

The Librarian is a very mysterious character, so far having only appeared in Necropolis. He is first introduced when Matt explores the Dreamworld and in the process discovers and enters a Library. The Librarian, as his name suggests, is the master of the Library, which he calls "the Great Library." The motive of the Librarian is obscure; he simply seems to catalogue and record the lives of every being which has ever lived. He has a collection of the lives of all the humans on Earth, in the form of books which record "their beginnings, their marriages, their good days and their bad days, their deaths - of course. Everything they ever did." The Librarian knows all about the Gatekeepers, and is seemingly there to help them combat the Old Ones, although when questioned, he often gives vague and obscure answers. Such is his power that he may in fact be the opposite of Chaos, the King of the Old Ones.

Physically, the Librarian appears as a short, elderly man, (barely five foot high) with white robes, a silk red jacket, with gray hair, gray eyes and a face which looks as if it has been carved. He looks like an Arab. A beard would suit him but he is clean-shaven.

The Nexus

The Nexus is a highly secret group of powerful and influential people with some link to the supernatural world who prevent the Old Ones re-entering planet Earth. They tell Matt that he is one of the Gatekeepers in Raven's Gate and help Matt and Pedro with the gate's whereabouts in Evil Star. In Nightrise, only one member of the Nexus, Natalie Johnson, appears near the end of the book. She helps Jamie and Scott Tyler escape after a near assassination of a presidential candidate in Auburn, California.

There are always 12 members in the Nexus. However in Raven's Gate one of them, Professor Sanjay Dravid, is killed by a pterosaur and in Evil Star, Fabian, another member of the Nexus, is shot by Captain Rodriguez of the Peruvian police service.

The Nexus are not specifically named, but the members of the Nexus who are mentioned in Necropolis are:

• Susan Ashwood, a blind medium who is also the daughter of an author named Elizabeth Ashwood who wrote about Raven's Gate, black magic and witchcraft
• Nathalie Johnson, who owns a computer empire and is described as the "female Bill Gates"
• Dravid, who was murdered by the witches in Raven's Gate.
• Harry Foster, an Australian who owns a newspaper empire operating internationally
• David Tarrant, who is a senior police officer in New Scotland Yard, London
• Mr Lee, who happens to be Chinese and is in good connection with the Triads
• Mr Danton, who is French and is connected with Military intelligence
• Fabian, who betrays Matt, Pedro and the Nexus in Evil Star.
• A German woman (unnamed) who is involved in politics
• An uninteresting man, possibly a senator in the American democratic party according to Fabian in Raven's Gate
• An uninteresting woman
• A man who replaces Dravid
• A man who replaces Fabian
• A bishop who seems to be very sceptical about the existence of the Old Ones.

Atoc

Atoc was an Inca who successfully tried to save Matt and Pedro in a helicopter over the Nazca desert when Salamanda shot it with a gun, spinning it out of control.After being shot,the helicopter crashes and Atoc is killed.

The Incas

The Incas appear in Evil Star when Matt and Pedro travel to the Inca City Vilacamba in Peru. They also appear in Necropolis where they fight the zombies destroying Professor Chambers' hacienda.

The Native Americans

The Native Americans aid Jamie in Nightrise by rescuing him from Silent Creek prison. A Native American by the name of Joe Feather has said that Jamie and Scott have Native blood in their veins, and that the tribes of America will always be ready to help the Five. When Jamie is injured by security guards at Silent Creek an Indian shaman revives him at the camp where Feather's tribe live.

Alicia McGuire

Alicia McGuire is an American woman with dark skin and dark hair, said to be in her mid-thirties who used to work for the Presidential Candidate, Senator John Trewlawny. She helps Jamie Tyler try to find his brother, Scott Tyler, when he gets kidnapped. They meet at one of Jamie and Scott's performances, as she is trying to find her son, Daniel, who was kidnapped by the Nightrise organisation due to his clairvoyant powers. Luckily for Jamie, Alicia still had contact with the presidential hopeful.

At the end of Nightrise she is nearly arrested, but then she persuades the police to contact Senator Trelawney. It is presumed he lets her off the hook.

Han Shan-tung

Also known as "The Master of the Mountain", Han Shan-tung is the leader of the Chinese Triad White Lotus Society, first appearing in Necropolis. He has sent Matt, Richard and Jamie by Mr Lee, a Chinese member of the Nexus. Although not a great man in personality, he helped smuggle Matt, Richard and Jamie into Hong Kong to find Scarlett Adams.

Lohan Shan-tung

White Lotus Society Triad member and son of Han Shan-tung, Lohan is responsible for saving Scarlett from the shape-changers and the Nightrise Organization. He sent the bugged jade necklace given to Scarlett on an aeroplane to Australia in the hopes of luring the Old Ones away. He then found Richard and Jamie, and set up the operation to break Matt and Scarlett out of Victoria Prison.

At the end of Necropolis when all of the Gatekeepers and their supporters were separated, he was paired with Matt.

Professor Joanna Chambers

Professor Joanna Chambers is an expert on the history, geography and culture of Peru and the Nazca lines, introduced in Evil Star. She helps Matt, Pedro and Richard with their exploration of Peru for the second gate, and later they stay at her "Hacienda" (Farm)

In Nightrise she does not appear significantly, but in Necropolis she makes a more important appearance. She has been looking after Richard and the male Gatekeepers for four months and celebrates them leaving as they have constantly interrupted her research. However they are attacked by a small army of zombies who destroy her house and wound her. She later on dies of internal bleeding.

John Trelawny

Senator John Trelawny is Alicia McGuire's boss and one of the two main candidates for the presidency of the United States along with Charles Baker. While Baker has the support of the Nightrise Corporation, Trelawny is young, popular and charismatic and is in the lead for the presidency.

He helps Jamie Tyler get into the Silent Creek prison and is also investigating Nightrise for several stories of corruption. He is the target of Susan Mortlake's plan and is nearly assassinated by one of his guards who is under Scott Tyler's control. Jamie uses his own power to save the senator.

It is later revealed that Trelawny lost the election possibly due to rigged votes. A vast majority of Americans are very displeased by Trelawny's defeat.

Antagonists

The Old Ones

The Old Ones are a group of creatures that the Five will one day battle in the present day. They were defeated for the first time by the Gatekeepers when they were all together 10,000 years before. The Old Ones are led by a creature called Chaos, who first appears in Raven's Gate as the primary antagonist, alongside Sir Michael Marsh and Jayne Deverill, who were working for Chaos. Chaos was the cause of the near-destruction of Earth before the Dark Ages where Jamie Tyler is catapulted to in Nightrise, where he meets the Old Ones in their previous forms. The forms that the Old Ones take towards the end of Evil Star are deformed and monstrous creatures which centre mainly on the creatures in the Nazca Lines in Peru. The Old Ones are capable of finding people who share the same views as them and giving them extra powers and plans for world destruction. However, at the end it is revealed that those people cannot destroy the world themselves - they have to die with the rest of humanity, because humanity is doomed and the Old Ones are the true masters of destruction. The Old Ones make an appearance in both Evil Star and Nightrise, although in Nightrise their presence is mainly due to the flashback wherein the Gatekeepers eradicate them. Despite these brief appearances, the Old Ones are the primary antagonists in The Power of Five, and their influence is felt throughout the series.

The Old Ones first appear in Chapter 15 of Raven's Gate, mentioned by Professor Sanjay Dravid of the Nexus. The Nexus has been created to combat the Old Ones, and make sure the world remains safer whilst the Old Ones are kept in their prison. The only Old One to make a physical appearance in this book is Chaos, who attempts to escape from Raven's Gate with the assistance of the witches of Lesser Malling and the human antagonist, Sir Michael Marsh. Chaos kills Marsh when he comes out of his prison, taking the form of a huge black creature with webbed fingers. Chaos is then pulled back into Raven's Gate by radiation when the nuclear reactor beneath the Gate explodes and then he is not seen again until the events of Evil Star, where another Gate is opening, this time in Peru.

The Old Ones' presence is felt throughout Evil Star, but only at the end are they actually seen in physical form. The four main creatures in the Old Ones' army are a giant hummingbird, a massive condor, a giant spider, and a huge monkey. There are also thirteen fire riders who form the Old Ones' cavalry, and several other deformed creatures: a huge toad with the head of a bird, an alligator on legs, a pig the size of a horse, and several strange, ethereal creatures. The Old Ones escape from their prison and meet two Gatekeepers, Pedro and Matt Freeman. Pedro is unable to confront them due to an injury cause by a plane crash. Matt tries to fend off the Old Ones, and almost wins, but he realizes that he doesn't have enough power for he is one of the Five and all of them are needed to defeat the Old Ones. Matt falls unconscious allowing the Old Ones to escape led by Chaos. Just like the Old Ones possessed two giant dogs in Raven's Gate, in this book they possess several giant condors, which guard the Gate in the Nazca Desert, thus linking with the Inca's prophecy: The birds fly where they should not fly.

In Nightrise, the Old Ones have escaped. They are assisting Nightrise Corporation in order to find the Gatekeepers, and Nightrise capture two: Jamie and Scott Tyler. Diego Salamanda has failed to capture Matt and Pedro, and Nightrise is also trying to look for them, and also the fifth Gatekeeper, Scarlett Adams, appears in the past when Jamie Tyler is shot while escaping the prison Silent Creek, dying temporarily and going back to the past, where he replaces his previous incarnation, Sapling, in order to destroy the Old Ones. The Old Ones rule the world in the past, and they seem invincible, to the point of actually killing a Gatekeeper. However, they don't know that when a gatekeeper dies he is replaced by his future self, and so they ignore the fact that Jamie has replaced Sapling. A brief battle follows with the Old Ones in which the Gatekeepers meet up and defeat the Old Ones, expelling them to another dimension. After this, two Gates are built to keep them out: one in Peru and one in Yorkshire, where the first battle was fought. However, they break out in Evil Star, which Jamie sees in his dreams in Silent Creek Prison.

In Necropolis, the Old Ones have seized control of Hong Kong in China, as this is where the ultimate headquarters of the Nightrise Corporation is situated. From Hong Kong, the Old Ones are spreading a fascist government across the world, commencing their new empire. Anyone who criticizes the government is eliminated, and anyone who informs people about the possession of Hong Kong also dies. In other words, the Old Ones have seized control of Hong Kong, and are possessing multitudes of its civilians, from the government to the police and the street cleaners. As the main plan of the Old Ones is to destroy humanity, they are slowly killing off all the surviving inhabitants of Hong Kong - the inhabitants who have not criticized the government or informed their relatives of the new regime - by infecting the atmosphere with a poisonous gas which resembles green acid, and this slowly sucks the life out of the living inhabitants. In Necropolis, the Old Ones have discovered the Fifth of the Gatekeepers: Scarlett Adams. They now need to trap her in Hong Kong, their city, and lure the other Gatekeepers into the same trap. This they succeed in doing, only to have the Gatekeepers escape at the last moment and Scarlett creating a typhoon which ultimately destroys Hong Kong, the Necropolis. Once the Old Ones have separated the Gatekeepers, they leave Hong Kong, presumably to Antarctica, where Chaos, the King of the Old Ones, has made his base in an ice palace.

Jayne Deverill

Jayne Deverill is Matt Freeman's foster parent when he is sent on the L.E.A.F. project after robbing a wearhouse. She is the main antagonist in book one, Raven's Gate.

She lives in a remote village named Lesser Malling just outside the Yorkshire Moors. The village is very much far away from everything altogether the village has just a very small centre where there is only a pond, a pub, a sweet shop and a chemist. It also has an unnatural forest.

Deverill has her own farm named Hive Hall. She is described as having wrinkled skin, lifeless eyes, and white hair. At the end of the novel it is revealed she is an evil, heartless witch.

She dies at the end, when she is pushed into a pool of radioactive acid underneath a power plant by Richard Cole after she attempts to kill Matt.

Mrs Deverill has a cat named Asmodeus who cannot die.

Sir Michael Marsh

Sir Michael Marsh is, along with Jayne Devrill, the main antagonist of Raven's Gate. The mastermind behind the government's Omega One project, he was knighted by the Queen for his services.

Along with the witches of Lesser Malling (of whom he is the leader), he is planning to use nuclear power and black magic as well as Matt's blood to open Raven's Gate and release the Old Ones. He fails to kill Matt but manages to get enough of his blood to release Chaos, the King of the Old Ones.

However, the powerful demon kills Marsh as soon as he is released before being dragged back into the Gate by Omega One's radioactive pull.

Chaos

The king of old ones. Has no name at first but named by the look of him and his destruction to humankind.

Diego Salamanda

Diego Salamanda is the main antagonist in Evil Star. Salamanda's main purpose is to get the diary belonging to St Joseph of Córdoba, because he knows this will gain him supernatural powers, and he auctions for it in London and pays an enormous sum of money to tempt William Morton, the book owner. However, he has Fabian who Morton when he has the chance and steals the diary.

He has three main bases: one not far from Lima, another in the desert up by Nazca, and another in the desert itself, where he finally operates the satellite which is the title object of the book.

Salamanda is one of the victims of an ancient ritual which requires squeezing a "special" baby's head from birth so it looks abnormally deformed. Even Pedro, who is used to deformity and disease, calls Salamanda a "freak", and also says he was "evil" and says Salamanda makes him "want to be sick."

Diego Salamanda, as it is revealed in Nightrise, is an agent of the Nightrise Corporation, and this explains why he wants to hunt down the Gatekeepers, in order to allow the Old Ones to be released. Diego Salamanda also employs the traitor Fabian, from the Nexus organization. Diego Salamanda pursues Matt and Pedro through the entire book, and he doesn't seem to let Matt's disguises barricade him from his mission: he straightaway knows that Matt and Pedro are the Gatekeepers when he sees them in his farmhouse, because he says he can "feel their presence."

Diego Salamanda also seems to have a good understanding of astronomy, because he knows about the lacking star Cygnus that will open the gate in Nazca and therefore he is replacing the star with his own satellite - the evil star of the title.

Diego Salamanda tries to kill Matt with a pistol, but in a final use of his powers, Matt thrusts the bullets away but two bounce back at Salamanda, who gets hit by the bullets in the chest and dies when he falls.

Captain Rodriguez

Captain Rodriguez is a secondary antagonist in Evil Star. At first he was an ordinary policeman, but when Diego Salamanda takes over the police, Rodriguez becomes his head of security at the base in Nazca. Later, he kills Fabian there and attempts to kill Matt too. Before he can, the Incas blow up the radio tower and the tip falls on him and kills him.

Fabian

Fabian is a secondary antagonist in the second book. He is originally a member of the Nexus, but he betrays them to help Diego Salamanda, whom he used to work with. He is controlling the Evil Star at the Nazca base. He is shot when he tries to stop Captain Rodriguez from killing Matt. After Captain Rodriguez is crushed (see Captain Rodriguez),it is revealed that Fabian survived. He tells Matt and Richard that Salamanda is controlling the satellite from his van in the desert. He then dies from his wounds.

Nightrise Corporation

The Nightrise Corporation is a group trying to resurrect The Old Ones so they can have power in the new world. They are the primary antagonists of Evil Star, Nightrise and Necropolis. Known members are The Chairman, Colton Banes, Max Koring, Kyle Hovey, Susan Mortlake, Simms, Diego Salamanda, Paul Adams, Audrey Cheng, and Karl. All these members are dead, except Max Koring and, possibly, Karl, whose fates are unknown. The Nightrise Corporation presumably disbanded after the death of The Chairman,but they may have elected a new leader.

Susan Mortlake

Susan Mortlake is the main antagonist of book three, Nightrise. She is a member of the Nightrise Corporation and manipulates Scott in order to make her plan work to successfully control an armed guard's mind and make him shoot Senator John Trelawney and make Senator Charles Baker become president of the United States, who supports the Old Ones' return. She takes Scott to a juvenile prison centre called Silent Creek. Mortlake is the woman who organized the attempt to kidnap Jamie and Scott, which half-failed, so she ordered one of their attackers, Colton Banes, to strangle his partner Kyle Hovey.

Mortlake is obviously the counterpart to Susan Ashwood, one of the members of the Nexus, although Mortlake has also probably been given power by the Old Ones, as she is pale for a human and she also has a long neck, similar to Salamanda, and very short gray hair. Mortlake works in Los Angeles and she is one of the chief executives of Nightrise, probably under the chairman, whom she takes orders from. The chairman briefly considers her resignation after her plan fails, but the chairman lets her stay on the board.

Mortlake arranges for John Trelawney to be shot, which is why she wants to twist Scott's mind: to make him able to shoot Trelawney by telepathically communicating with one of Trelawney's men. Susan Mortlake almost succeeds in accomplishing this plan, by blocking Scott's mind from other people's minds, so when Jamie tries to contact his brother's mind, he is blocked out. However, Jamie contacts Trelawney's henchman, and, at the last moment, directs him to shoot Susan Mortlake instead. This act is described as 'the most terrible order' of Jamie's life.

Colton Banes

Colton Banes is a secondary antagonist in Nightrise. At the beginning of the novel, him and his partner, Kyle Hovey (whom he despises), are sent by Susan Mortlake to capture Scott and Jamie Tyler. After a chase across the Reno circus, Jamie escapes thanks to a woman named Alicia McGuire but Scott is captured. After their failure, they frame Jamie as the murderer of his guardian Don and his wife Marcie whom they both kill. When confronted by Susan Mortlake over the failure of their mission, Hovey tries to put the blame on Banes. However, Mortlake orders Banes to kill Hovey as there was no place for the weak in Nightrise.

Banes is apparently promoted after this as he is seated in an office on one of Nightrise's high floors when Jamie Tyler comes to get the location of his brother. Later, after Jamie escaped him, Banes gets a message from Max Koring, the chief guardian at Silent Creek prison that he was holding Jamie. Banes headed to the prison intending on having his revenge on Jamie. However, as soon as he arrives, the Native Americans attack Silent Creek and Jamie escapes. However, Banes shoots him in the back during this time, killing him. Banes is killed shortly after by an Indian.

The Chairman

The Chairman of the Nightrise corporation is a mysterious man, he is very vain and has a great fear of boats (when he was twelve, a fortune teller told him he'd be killed in an accident involving a boat). He has obviously spent lots of money trying to make himself look younger and he has long white hair which looks like a wig but is in fact his own. The chairman, like the President, prefers to be addressed as `Mr Chairman` and he lives in Hong Kong, in the town of Kowloon, which means `Nine Dragons.`

The chairman constantly maintains contact with his executives throughout the world, and, as he is such a mysterious character, he only appears twice in Nightrise: once in which he is talking to the executives of Nightrise and Diego Salamanda, where it is revealed Salamanda is the chairman's agent in Peru. Salamanda says the Gatekeepers he is pursuing will be in his clutches soon and the chairman is pleased. He appears again when Susan Mortlake rings up to say she plans to have John Trelawney assassinated by using one of the Gatekeepers as a weapon. Despite his brief appearances, he can be considered one of the main antagonists.

The chairman likes his position as a billionaire and wants to maintain the division between the rich and the poor as much as possible, and for this he, like all the other antagonists who serve them, requires the assistance of the Old Ones. The chairman is the main antagonist in book four: Necropolis, in which he appears more frequently than in Nightrise. In Necropolis The Chairman turns Hong Kong into a necropolis, a city of the dead, using poisonous gases that smother Hong Kong's streets and suffocate the residents.

During the Signal 10 typhoon at the end of book four, The Chairman is killed by a boat which is thrown out of the water and into his office, fulfilling the prophecy a fortune teller told him when he was young that he would be killed by a boat in Hong Kong.

Father Gregory

Father Gregory is a secondary antagonist in book four, Necropolis. His birth name is Gregor Malenkov. He is the leader of the Monastery of the Cry for Mercy in Ukraine. His monks capture Scarlett Adams when she steps through the door at St Meredith's Church. He tells her that he was born in the Soviet Union and when he was nineteen entered a seminary in England. Gregory became cynical of his teachings, as he lived a life of hardship with nothing to show for it. In the monastery Father Gregory found the door and became obsessed with it.

Father Gregory found the diary of St Joseph of Córdoba in his younger days which told him of the Old Ones. He believes the Old Ones deserve to rule the Earth "because the world is evil and so are they", and, along with seven other monks who shared his views, killed the other monks. They guard over the door, knowing that if a person steps through it, they would know they'd found one of the Gatekeepers. When Scarlett appears in the monastery, he plans to hand her over to the Old Ones, but she escapes.

Because of this failure, he kills himself in Hong Kong by walking out of a window in The Nail, the headquarters of Nightrise, on the sixty-sixth level on the orders of The Chairman.

Father Gregory is described as "the oldest man Scarlett had ever seen" and had a stye on his eyelid that dripped pus.

Audrey Cheng

Audrey Cheng is a secondary antagonist in book four Necropolis. She is introduced when Scarlett arrives at Hong Kong airport and Scarlett takes an instant dislike to her. Although she is a woman she has the physique of a man with broad shoulders.

Cheng looks after Scarlett whilst she's in Hong Kong, although Cheng is strange, almost robotic and lifeless. Later on, Mrs. Cheng is killed by Lohan's men and revealed to be a shape changer working for the Old Ones, as her severed head changes back into that of a lizard-like creature. Scarlett says "it makes her feel sick to think that she was a shape-changer all along".

Charles Baker

Senator Charles Baker is one of the two candidates running for the presidency of the United States. He is John Trelawny's main opponent and has been losing the election for the duration of Nightrise.

He knows of the Old Ones and is ready to live in a world ruled by them. Nightrise are supporting his campaign for this reason. He finally won the election due to rigged votes. Along with Chaos, Baker could be the main antagonist of book 5.