list of legends and legendary places

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Introduction

Try this site for a resource on mythological beings; just take a look at this list before using them to see whether they don’t already have canon precedence. Headings are, where applicable, linked to a resource about each legend’s original myth.

Keep in mind that visitors to Frost’s world are most likely to run into species legends rather than specific personages; moreover, legends stick to their own nations, so visitors won’t be likely to find an Indian legend in North America. (Borderkind are the biggest potential exception to this, but Borderkind are extremely rare and very good at passing as human or remaining hidden.)

When determining the demographic of legends, assume that legends which refer to specific personages also refer to a specific legend, while legendary creatures refer to a species: eg, Jenny Greenteeth refers to a specific being, while ‘boggart’ refers to the kind of being she is; Aerico is a specific demon, but many legends are demonic; ‘vampire’ refers to an extremely broad range of bloodsuckers, while strigae and pihuechenyi are specific kinds of vampires, but aren’t single people. These guidelines aren’t always true, as there is a lot of blending in mythology, but they’ll do.

Also keep in mind that many legends are facets of the same story; eg, in conventional mythology Jupiter and Zeus are the same god, only Roman and Greek respectively. In Frost’s world, they are different legends, born of the same story, with their differences separating them from one another. Assume that a different name indicates a different legend altogether, but related to the one represented by an alternate name.

Contents

A
Aerico
Ahren Konigen
Amelia Earhart
Amelia’s nightclub
Appleseed
Arcturus
Atlanteans
Atlantis

B
Blue Jay

C
Cailleach Bheur
Cheval Bayard
Chorti
Collette Bascombe
Coyote
Curlesh

D
Demeter
Dustman, the

E
Euphrasia

F
Falconer, the
Frost

G
Gong Gong
Gray Corridors

H
Hades (legend)
Hades (location)
Harvest gods’ land
Horus

J
Jenny Greenteeth
Jezi-Baba

K
Kelpie
Kirata
Kitsune

L
Lailoken
Legend-Born
Leicester Grindylow
Li, Guardian of Fire
Lost Ones, the
Lycaon

M
Malla
Manticore, the
Mazikeen
Melisande
Merrows
Minata-Karaia
Morozko

N
Nagas

O
Old Man Winter
Oliver Bascombe

P
Palenque
Pelznickel
Perinthia
Persephone
Perytons
Pihuechenyi

R
Red Caps

S
Sandman, the
Shangri-la
Strigae

T
Taliesin
Tlatecuhtli
Truce Road, the
Twillig’s Gorge

W
Wayland Smith, the Wayfarer

Y
Yucatazca
Yuki-Onna

Places

Amelia’s nightclub
Canon

When Amelia Earhart became a Lost One, she established a nightclub in Perinthia which served as essential neutral ground for beings of all kinds. Over time Amelia’s became especially known among the Borderkind for being sympathetic to them; indeed, it provided a safe place to hide for many after the Hunters began murdering them.

Amelia’s was attacked by Hunters early on in the conflict with Atlantis, led to it by Oliver Larch, who had originally sent Oliver Bascombe there. Though it was forced to close for some time, Amelia’s has been rebuilt and has since re-opened, now welcoming mundane humans as well as the once Lost and legends. It is now located in one of the largest remnants of Perinthia, in Belgium.


Atlantis
Canon

Atlantis is an island nation somewhere far off the south-east coast of Euphrasia and Yucatazca. It is near a volcano in which Atlantean giants live. The waters around it are inhabited by many legendary beasts, including such things as giant squid or sea serpents. Atlantis also boasts air-swimming creatures very like water-dwelling counterparts, except they use magic to swim in air; these include sharks, poisonous jelly-fish and poisonous eels, and are important parts of Atlantis’s fighting force.

Atlantis was destroyed by Oliver during the war. Nothing remains of it except ruins.


Euphrasia
Canon

Euphrasia is one of the Two Kingdoms and a nation built of Lost Ones, though legends are not uncommon there. Its culture was primarily influenced by European nations. It is north of Yucatazca and flanked by The Oldwood, where some of the wildest legends live. Perinthia is its capital.

Euphrasia as it was known by its geographic borders no longer exists, but in terms of its demographic and political borders it is still very much alive and ruled by King Hunyadi from his palace in Austria.


Gray Corridors
Canon

The Gray Corridors are quite literally that: they are paths in a place in-between worlds. Surrounded by fog and impossible to navigate without related magic, the Corridors can lead to any location in any world, and can be used to either move from one world to another or merely from one location to another within a single world.

Once lost within the Gray Corridors, there is no way out; the victim will remain wandering and lost until the end of their life.


Hades
Headcanon

Hades is the Grecian land of the dead. Even before the raising of the Veil, it existed in its own little pocket dimension, built by magic long ago. After the Veil was built, Hades was blocked off and became a secret place only rarely visited by its nation’s heroes and gods. Hades is not unique in that respect; many cultures’ lands-of-the-dead did much the same.

With the Veil’s fall, its location is most likely somewhere in Greece or Turkey.


The harvest gods’ land
Canon

Located in Euphrasia, some distance from the Truce Road, the harvest gods’ land is a paradise of wheat-fields and apple trees. As its name suggests, it is a haven for harvest legends, led by the Austrian harvest god Ahren Konigen. Not only European harvest legends live there, though they are predominant.

The harvest gods’ land remained intact and was relocated to Austria after the Veil’s fall.


Palenque
Canon

Palenque is the capital of Yucatazca. Its location corresponded with an ancient Atlantean outpost in the depths of South America, though Palenque itself is Aztec in origin. It was built to utilise its people as ‘walls’ to protect the ziggurat castle in the centre, with narrow and circling streets that sought to divert and strangle any invading army.

Palenque survived the Veil’s fall in better condition than Perinthia, but has still been spread among the jungles and forests of South America and Mexico.


Perinthia
Canon

Perinthia is the capital of Euphrasia. It was a rambling city which lacked a wall, but was surrounded by giant guard towers, each about a quarter-mile apart. The city was divided into sections according to the nature of Lost Ones or Lost Cities which have come through at any time; the Latin Quarter was its oldest and most dangerous area, and many legends still live there.

Perinthia has since been broken up by intervening landmasses, with each of its sections being restored to their related nations.


Shangri-la
Namedropped

Shangri-la was a secret place even before the Veil was raised and remained so afterward. A place of quiet peace and contemplation, it existed somewhere over the sea from Euphrasia and Yucatazca.

It is now likely located near India or Tibet.


The Truce Road
Canon

The Truce Road was the main road built between Euphrasia and Yucatazca after the most recent treaty was made between the Two Kingdoms. It cut all the way through Euphrasia and bridged the Atlantic River—which was the Atlantic Ocean in the mundane world.

The Road has since been broken up, though parts of it remain; the two most visible ruins are on the shores of Portugal and North American, New Jersey.


Twillig’s Gorge
Canon

Twillig’s Gorge was a small, hidden town in Euphrasia, known to very few legends. It was very sympathetic to those who wished to hide for one reason or another, Borderkind included, though once word got out about the Hunters even the Gorge’s hospitality waned. The Gorge was protected by nagas, who all left to fight Atlantis with King Hunyadi.

After the Veil’s fall Twillig’s Gorge wound up in Romania, and though it has survived well only a handful of the nagas chose to return to it. The rest opted for their homelands in India and its surrounds. Despite that, Twillig’s Gorge has remained safe and isolated, as per the desires of its inhabitants.


Yucatazca
Canon

Yucatazca is the second of the Two Kingdoms and is located south of Euphrasia, across an isthmus. It was founded by the lost Aztec and Incan empires, and is comprised mostly of jungle and temples. Thanks to its geography its populations are centred upon its few cities, with wilderness all around. Legends were less common here than in Euphrasia, but certainly not rare by any means.

Like Euphrasia, Yucatazca as it was known by its geographic borders no longer exists, though in terms of politics and population it still does so. It is now ruled by the cousin to its previous king, from the palace in South America.

People

Aerico
Demon legend
Canon

Aerico is a cherry-tree demon. He lived in the cherry-tree grove in the middle of the Atlantic River in Euphrasia. The grove stood on a series of close islands, overlooking the Truce Road and upon which the bridge’s pillars stood. Using this location, Aerico ambushed passing travellers with offers of food; he attempted so with Oliver when he, Frost and Kitsune were crossing.

However, Aerico was working as an informant for the Hunters. He had already killed Appleseed on their behalf, and when Frost’s party came by he tricked the trio into the branches of his trees by using the arrival of a force of Euphrasian soldiers, who would have killed Oliver on sight. Aerico restrained Kitsune with living branches; he immobilised Frost by impaling the winter-man on his magical branches. He attempted to have Oliver absorbed by his trees’ bark, but Oliver escaped.

Oliver was rescued by the harvest gods, who arrived in search of Appleseed. Aerico was killed by Ahren Konigen, the harvest king.


Ahren Konigen
Harvest legend
Canon

Ahren Konigen is an Austrian harvest god representing the last sheaf of corn. In Euphrasia, he ruled the harvest gods’ lands and the other harvest legends. He led a small force to find Appleseed and slay Aerico, and he freed Kitsune and Frost from capture. He also directed the group toward Bromfield, so that Oliver may find clothing better-suited to that side of the Veil. Finally, he gave Oliver as seed so that he might summon the harvest gods’ if he ever had great need of them.

Oliver did so when he and Kitsune were ambushed by Hunters at the magic road they intended to use to get to the Sandman’s castle. Konigen and his legends fought off the Hunters and killed them while Oliver and Kitsune fled.

When Kitsune later led a band of Grecian gods (and one titan) toward the battlefield in Euphrasia, their path took them through the harvest gods’ lands. As a matter of courtesy Kitsune entered the lands to beg Konigen for leave for the Grecian gods to pass through safely; Konigen did one better and offered his forces to aid King Hunyadi as well. He fought alongside other legends and humans against Atlantis.


Amelia Earhart
Lost One
Canon

Amelia Earhart was one of the Lost humans—one of those who fell through the Veil and was unable to return. She settled in Perinthia and founded a nightclub where all were welcome. Though Amelia died many years ago, the nightclub was passed down the family; at the time of the conflict with Atlantis, it was run by her granddaughter.


Appleseed
Forest legend
Canon

Not much was shown of Appleseed in canon. He was Borderkind and murdered by Aerico. He was, apparently, kin to the Appletree Man, a harvest legend; quite possibly his son, given how the Appletree Man mourned him.

Appleseed had the appearance of a man or a scarecrow, but his veins ran with apple juice and when he was killed apple seedlets grew from his wounds.


Arcturus
Non-existent legend; title
Namedropped w/ headcanon background

It was the Egyptian belief that a set of northern stars which never set over the horizon were evil; thus, Arcturus was the star which guarded Egypt from them. This legend was a story only, even to legends. Instead, the name was gifted by Horus to Frost, who killed the first of the Legend-Born and, in Horus’s eyes, protected the magical side of the Veil from a great threat.

Frost bore this name with disgrace, however, and Wayland Smith used it to shame Frost into watchcaring for the Bascombes. It was last used when Frost and Collette met with Wayland in King Hunyadi’s camp after escaping Palenque, when Wayland congratulated Frost on his efforts in protecting the Bascombes.


Atlanteans
Human legends
Canon

Atlanteans are an alternate human evolution; many argue they aren’t human at all, and the Atlanteans appear to consider themselves superior to humans. They are a water-dwelling race, being tall, sallow and with a green caste to their skin. They are ruled by a council of sorcerers and apparently have a natural talent for magic. Many Atlantean sorcerers were involved in the Veil’s creation; before then, they used their magic to remain hidden and protected.

The only Atlanteans remaining are primarily the soldiers who were still in Euphrasia when Atlantis was destroyed. If any survived Atlantis’s fall, they are few.


Blue Jay
Trickster legend; half-human; Borderkind
Canon

NOTE: There are many legends regarding the trickster Blue Jay; the two linked above are only examples.

Blue Jay was a Native American trickster legend, cousin to Coyote and Kitsune, though was markedly more responsible than either of them. He has two forms: that of a blue jay, and that of a man. His powers lie in spiritual warrior-dances and spiritual feather-blades as weapons; although he cannot fly in human form, he can manifest spiritual wings which allow him some measure of flight-control.

Blue Jay and Frost apparently knew one another before the beginning of canon, as he already knew of the Bascombes’ identity as Legend-Born; it is possible he, on occasion, helped Frost guard them, especially since he indicates he still visited the mundane world regularly and recently. Initially, he did not receive Oliver well.

When it became clear the Borderkind were being murdered by Hunters, Blue Jay fled to Amelia’s, where he hid. Then Amelia’s was attacked; Blue Jay led the surviving Borderkind across the Veil into London, bearing Gong Gong’s unconscious body. He alone of the three survivors was uninjured. He joined Frost, Oliver and Kitsune along with Gong Gong when they went in search of Professor Koenig, and fought against the Hunters there.

After the ambush, Blue Jay led the Borderkind and Oliver to Twillig’s Gorge, promising them safety. He alone of the Borderkind greeted Coyote with any warmth, but like the others, shunned Coyote when it became clear Coyote refused to fight. He chose to join Frost in seeking out more allies and then moving on to confront Ty’Lis in Palenque, and in essence became Frost’s second-in-command—if only to keep watch over the winter-man.

When the Borderkind reached Palenque, Blue Jay helped Frost evade the ambush to enter the palace, but was then forced to flee the city. He threw in his lot with King Hunyadi, leading the remaining core group of Borderkind rebels on Hunyadi’s behalf, and fell in love with Damia Beck, King Hunyadi’s guard-captain. When Wayland told him the time was right, Blue Jay took that group back into Palenque to slowly incite rebellion on Oliver’s behalf; and when Oliver escaped with Julianna, Blue Jay was among those who accompanied them out of Yucatazca to the Sandman’s nearest castle. He witnessed the castle’s destruction.

Blue Jay joined Oliver’s team to infiltrate Atlantis, and was among those who fared the best until Kitsune, driven half-mad by poison, feel from a window. Blue Jay flew after her to try and arrest her fall; he succeeded, but was unable to defend himself against the air-swimming sharks around the tower and was killed.

His grave lies on a hill overlooking King Hunyadi’s summer residence, in the hills of Austria, where Damia Beck now lives as Euphrasia’s ambassador.


Cailleach Bheur
Divine legend; Winter legend
Namedropped

Cailleach Bheur was one of the names by which Frost was called over the course of the series—on this occasion by the nagas. Interestingly, this is the only time Frost did not correct the use, which suggests this is one of those ‘many names’ by which he is known.


Cheval Bayard
Creature legend; Borderkind
Canon

Cheval is a French water-horse, similar to the kelpie. She could change shapes between human and horse and was able to drown victims with a kiss. She was once married, but during an expedition in the jungles of Yucatazca she and her husband were set upon by bandits and he was killed. The bandits were interrupted by Chorti, who helped Cheval slay them, and from then on the two were inseparable.

Cheval was present at Twillig’s Gorge during the Borderkind war council. She agreed to go with Frost to find allies and confront Ty’Lis, and though not a warrior legend soon proved that she was formidable in battle. When Chorti was killed during the second ambush by Hunters, in Yucatazca, she almost abandoned the fight due to grief, but ultimately stayed with the group and became fast friends with Leicester Grindylow.

Along with the other core Borderkind rebels, Cheval fled from Palenque and threw her lot in with King Hunyadi under Blue Jay’s direction. She returned to Palenque to help stoke the rebellion in Oliver’s name, and was likewise on the team to infiltrate Atlantis.

Cheval was killed while attempting to escape Atlantis’s library.


Chorti
Monster legend; Borderkind
Canon

Chorti is a Mexican monster-man similar to Big Foot. He has known Cheval Bayard for many years, having aided her in a battle against the bandits which killed her husband while in Yucatazca. Chorti was in Twillig’s Gorge and accompanied Frost’s band of Borderkind into Perinthia and then to Yucatazca.

He was killed by Hunters in the ambush in Yucatazca.


Collette Bascombe
Human; Legend-Born
Canon

Collette Bascombe is the elder of two children, six years older than her brother Oliver. Her parents are Maximilian Bascombe, a wealthy human from the mundane side of the Veil, and Melisande, a Borderkind. She was an editor at for Billboard magazine in New York and has been married and then divorced.

When Oliver was due to be married Collette came home for the wedding. She heard nothing of Oliver or Frost’s escape from the Falconer, nor had any idea where Oliver had gone except that she was certain he had not simply run away. She saw her father murdered and was kidnapped by the Sandman, held in a pit at the top of his castle. She was there for weeks, but in that time discovered she had some power which allowed her to reduce the walls of her prison to sand.

Eventually Collette was able to escape her prison, but the Sandman kept her contained within his castle until Oliver and Kitsune arrived to summon the Dustman. Only then was she freed. She, along with Oliver, Julianna and Kitsune, found a door in the castle which led directly into Palenque’s palace; they went there, searching for Ty’Lis, but save for Kitsune were all captured.

For two months Collette was imprisoned with Julianna and Oliver, struggling to discover the key to her power. Frost was finally able to alert them to his presence and the trio staged an escape with the hope that Frost could get them out of the prison or through the Veil. Collette was the only one who passed through the Veil with him, and she was left in his care while they passed across South America to a place where they could cross the Veil into Euphrasia.

When they arrived at Hunyadi’s camp they found that the Lost Ones had already been alerted to her existence, and she was greeted with reverence. Though willing to join the infiltration team to Atlantis, Frost and Wayland objected to risking both of the Legend-Born; at Hunyadi’s request, she grudgingly agreed to remain behind. Instead, as the battle raged, she and Julianna helped in the healers’ tent.

It was while taking a bathroom break that Collette was ambushed by a Hunter posing as Coyote; she recognised the subterfuge because the imposter still had both his eyes. Halliwell came to her aid and killed the man, but—looking like the Sandman as he did—he was recognise by a wounded soldier as a killer. The soldier attempted to kill Halliwell; thus distracted, no one noticed until too late as Ty’Lis came upon them. Collette was able to evade him long enough for Frost, Oliver and Halliwell to come to come to her aid, and together the four of them were able to kill him.

After the Veil’s fall Collette became highly involved in helping everyone, Lost Ones, mundane humans and legends alike, adjust to the change. She keeps regular contact with her brother and sister-in-law, and uses her contacts in media and publishing to good effect on behalf of Lost Ones and legends.


Coyote
Trickster legend; half-human; Borderkind
Canon

Coyote is a Native American trickster legend, Kitsune and Blue Jay’s cousin. Like them, he has both an animal and a human form, though his methods of shapshifting and battle is more akin to Kitsune’s than Blue Jay’s: his main weapons are his claws and teeth. Coyote originally refused to enter into the conflict with Atlantis; he hid away in Twillig’s Gorge long before Oliver became an Intruder. He was present when the core group of Borderkind took counsel and Twillig’s Gorge, and slew Tlatecuhtli when he realised Tlatecuhtli was a spy and a traitor.

After the meeting, Coyote was shunned for his choice by the other Borderkind and remained in Twillig’s Gorge. However, after Kitsune abandoned Oliver and the others to Ty’Lis, she fled to him and he gave her sanctuary, at once hoping that she would remain apart from the conflict and grieving to see her spirit so crushed. It was Coyote who heard the rumour of the Legend-Borns’ return and informed Kitsune, effectively startling her out of her depression.

When Kitsune decided to make for Perinthia to find more allies, Coyote grudgingly went with to help. He fought the Sandman when they were attacked on the banks of the Atlantic River, and lost his eye in Kitsune’s defence. At that point he all but decided to throw his lot in fully with the Borderkind, and stood at Kitsune’s side as they gathered the harvest gods and travelled to meet Oliver. Coyote remained with King Hunyadi when Kitsune left on the team to infiltrate Atlantis, but he made his feelings for Kitsune known beforehand and she, in return, asked Cronus to protect him.

Though no mention is made in canon whether Coyote survived the war, it is most likely that he did and now accompanies Kitsune on their travels.


Curlesh
Magical monster legend; water-affiliated
Canon

The Atlantean sorcerer Ty’Lis turned into one of these; Frost described it as an ‘ancient Atlantean legend’. It appears to be similar to the necromantic lich, in that Ty’Lis wanted to expand his magical and physical strength and make himself more difficult to kill. The curlesh was described as having a shell like a crustacean, but with dozens of tin poisonous jellyfish attached to its outside, providing extra magical resources. These jellyfish were able to detach themselves and attack enemies at will; Ty’Lis exuded magical tendrils through the openings the jellyfishes’ absence left.

It’s likely such beings are extremely rare if not otherwise extinct, and that many beings are unaware of the nature of their existence.


Demeter
Divine legend; goddess
Headcanon

Demeter was among the first legends to create a space not belonging to Winter. Due to her grief over Persephone’s kidnapping, Old Man Winter was able to bring Winter back to Greece and its surrounds; when Persephone returned, the two of them together were able to cast him out again.

Demeter, along with most other seasonal legends, submitted to the decision made by the legends of time, fate and justice to determine the length of seasons.

In modernity, Demeter has been long dead.


The Dustman
Monster legend; Borderkind
Canon

The Dustman is the English counterpart to the Sandman, and calls him ‘brother’. He is made of dust and grit, and like both Frost and the Sandman is able to dissolve into a cloud of dust, thus rendering him nearly unkillable. Unlike the Sandman, the Dustman is benevolent; he appears in children’s nurseries to give them pleasant dreams. Oliver and Kitsune appealed to the Dustman for help against the Sandman, and although initially unwilling to fight his brother, the Dustman eventually agreed that the Sandman needed to be stopped and gave Oliver a feather with which to summon him.

When Oliver and Kitsune reached the Sandman’s castle they did so, and rescued Collette while the Dustman and the Sandman warred. The Sandman accused his brother and the other Borderkind of betraying him first by allowing the Red Caps to keep him imprisoned for so long (roughly a thousand years). The two brothers proved evenly matched; their battle stripped Halliwell down to his bones, and only ended when Collette used her power of entropy on them.

Collette’s power had a side-effect. It ended the conflict, but both Borderkind were both incorporeal—aside from their sand-clouds—at the time. Instead of killing either, it opened them to a merging; when they renewed themselves they were of one body, with Halliwell’s bones as their foundation.

At first the mind of the Sandman was in control; weary and wanting to remain hidden from his brother, the Dustman remained quiet. However, Halliwell’s spirit drew the Sandman’s attention and made him realise he was no longer alone within his body; the Dustman counselled Halliwell to remain quiet lest the Sandman crush him.

Halliwell was unable to do nothing while the Sandman continued his murders; with the Dustman’s help he overcame the Sandman enough to save Kitsune. When the Sandman then targeted Halliwell’s daughter, the Dustman agreed to a pact with Halliwell so that they may become the dominant minds and thus keep the Sandman trapped forever.

It is unlikely the Dustman is alive in any true fashion since his pact and full merging with Halliwell, though certainly Halliwell bears the parts of him that remain.


The Falconer
Monster legend; Hunter
Canon w/ headcanon background

NOTE: To my awareness, there is no legend named the Falconer in conventional mythology. The Falconer’s description resembles that of Horus greatly, being eight feet tall or more, with broad shoulders, a falcon’s head and falcon’s wings. In addition, Frost says outright that the Falconer was once known by another name and implies that he lost his previous nature. In addition, he is the only one of the Hunters to have this distinction: the rest are monsters from conventional mythology with a reputation for being evil or bloodthirsty. Thus, I assume he was once Horus.

The Falconer was a vicious Hunter who was sent directly after Frost and the Bascombes. He had apparent seniority, since he was among the first Hunters to be sent out, and also appeared to be familiar enough with Frost’s habits to ambush him despite Frost being incorporeal and on his own ground. Though he spoke rarely, the Falconer had the capacity for speech and the intelligence for tactical reasoning. He also possessed a magical blade, which was broken in his and Frost’s first confrontation at the Bascombes’ estate.

The Falconer was killed in battle by Frost during the ambush at Professor Koenig’s house, early in the conflict between the Borderkind and Atlantis.


Frost
Primal legend; Borderkind
Canon w/ headcanon background

His detailed history is here.

Frost was one of two beings created when Old Man Winter was split in two; it was his awareness which caused the split. Up until then, Old Man Winter had been indifferent at best and bitter at worst over humanity’s treatment. The frost, Winter’s herald, saw humanity greet Winter with awe and pleasure after a long summer, and grew fascinated in them, thus creating Frost the legend.

Frost is composed of everything in Winter that appreciates beauty, art, mischief and a fascination for humanity, and is Winter’s herald. As such, he creates the first snowfall of Winter; what’s more, Frost has control over where his twin Morozko walks.

When the Veil was created, Frost became Borderkind and travelled the world without needing to be responsible for Morozko’s presence. Frost discovered the first of the Legend-Born, Taliesin’s son, and accidentally killed him and his mother, an act which caused Horus to give him the name Arcturus. Unfamiliar with the shame he felt, Frost ignored the hunting of the Legend-Born until Wayland Smith confronted him and requested that he watchcare Melisande’s mundane family.

The night before Oliver Bascombe’s wedding, Frost sought to defend the Bascombes against the Falconer and was half-successful—injured, he was forced to take Oliver through the Veil, but lied to him about his status as Legend-Born. They met with Kitsune, who suggested they go to Professor Koenig to ask for help in removing the bounty from Oliver’s head, all the while fending off Hunters out for Oliver and the Borderkinds’ lives. In Perinthia and London Frost gathered Blue Jay and Gong Gong to their cause.

At Professor Koenig’s house the Borderkind were ambushed by Hunters, including the Falconer; this time Frost defeated him easily and threatened him with a slow death in exchange for the name of the man who sent them: Ty’Lis, Atlantean sorcerer. Enraged, Frost killed the Falconer and swore vengeance on Ty’Lis. He and the others, sans Gong Gong, fled back across the Veil to Twillig’s Gorge, where they found more Borderkind allies.

There Frost, Oliver and Kitsune separated, Frost unaware that Oliver and Kitsune had discovered he was conspiring with Wayland. He led his Borderkind rebels to Perinthia to find more allies, then his group to Yucatazca to find Ty’Lis. He planned to leave them behind and attack Ty’Lis alone, since they were so few and not the army he hoped; he got his chance when they were ambushed in Palenque. Unfortunately he wasn’t expecting Oliver, Collette, Julianna and Kitsune to arrived unexpectedly, and his opportunity to assassin Ty’Lis was lost; he, along with the others save Kitsune, were captured.

Being a Borderkind and without the safety-net of Oliver and Collette’s freedom, Frost was of no use to Ty’Lis. He was kept separate, but Ty’Lis was unable to kill him, and after months of imprisonment the four were finally able to escape. Since Julianna couldn’t pass through the Veil, Oliver demanded that Frost take Collette to safety alone. He did so, arranging things on the fly to take her to Euphrasia while evading the invading Yucatazcan/Atlantean armies. Frost delivered Collette to King Hunyadi and Wayland, but objected to her coming on the mission to Atlantis.

Frost was on the team to Atlantis, one of the most powerful of the group and one of the few to survive. When Atlantis sank, Frost saved those on the team who remained—himself, Oliver, Kitsune and Grindylow—by building a mountain of ice. This feat tapped him out completely, so much so that he lacked the power to open a portal through the Veil. Fortunately, they were rescued by other versions of Wayland Smith, who led them through the Gray Corridors to the battlefield in Euphrasia.

Leaving Kitsune and Grin behind, Frost and Oliver rushed to rescue Collette and Julianna from Ty’Lis, and with Halliwell and Collette’s help were able to finally kill him. Julianna was left desperately wounded and in need of medicine the magic side of the Veil simply didn’t have; at Oliver’s plea, Frost opened a portal in the Veil for Oliver to pass through, Julianna in his arms. Oliver’s power as Legend-Born ensured that Julianna could pass through, but it made the Veil collapse in the same moment.

In the aftermath of the Veil’s fall, Frost attended to his kin, Grin and Kitsune, and ensured they could be safe; but now with the war over and himself changed, he returned to wandering the world. He attended Oliver and Julianna’s wedding only the day before he was brought through the Window to Citagazze.


Gong Gong
Black Dragon of Storms; Borderkind
Canon

Gong Gong was a Chinese dragon, one of the most powerful of the Borderkind. He could change his size and travel about two-feet in length, but at full size he was dozens of feet long. His magic was in lightning storms. He was guarding the hiding-place under Amelia’s when first met in canon.

Blue Jay later said it was thanks to Gong Gong that any of them survived; when they emerged through the Veil, Gong Gong had exhausted himself and was unconscious in Blue Jay’s arms. He recovered quickly and set to guarding the Borderkind while in London, and later as they travelled to Professor Koenig’s house.

During the ambush, Gong Gong was unrivalled in the battle; no kirata had a chance against him, and the Falconer was busy with Frost. Malla, however, had come prepared for the dragon—he stood in hiding, unchallenged, and waited until Gong Gong stood still for a moment.

Gong Gong was killed by an arrow through the eye, fired by Malla and dipped in dragonsbane.


Hades
Divine legend; god
Headcanon

Hades’s background may be assumed to be generally the same as in his original legends. When Hades kidnapped Persephone, it gave Old Man Winter the opportunity to retake Greece and its surrounds and put them under the effects of Winter.

When the Veil was erected, Hades diminished like all his divine kin. He retreated to his domain and is assumed to have taken Persephone with him. Though Hades-the-place likely still exists, it is well-hidden and rarely visited even by the gods who still exist; as far as anyone knows, only the legends of Greece and its surrounds have any idea where it is. Those Grecian gods who have chosen to die rather than continue to live in a diminished state have, inevitably, found their way there.


Horus
Divine legend; god
Implied canon w/ headcanon background

Horus’s background may be assumed to be generally the same as in his original legends. When the legends abandoned the mundane world, he, like his divine kin, diminished in strength and with lack of human worshippers. In accordance of his nature as a protector and relatively benevolent war-god, he took up duties of protecting the magical side of the Veil, and so was among the first on the scene when Taliesin’s Legend-Born son was discovered. It was Horus who named Frost ‘Arcturus’, after the story of the star Arcturus in Egyptian culture.

Horus took the knowledge of the Legend-Born to the magical side of the Veil, and it was thanks to his efforts that the Legend-Born became known and feared as a threat. Believing that the Legend-Born needed to be contained at all costs to preserve their way of life, he gathered to him legends who would be capable of hunting and killing children.

However, the murder of innocents betrayed Horus’s basic nature as a protector. He became a twisted facsimile of himself, vicious, bloodthirsty and feared. Though he no longer required worshippers or diminished as other divine legends did, he remained but a shadow of his former self; the other legends ceased referring to him as the legend he had once been, and he became known as the Falconer instead.


Jenny Greenteeth
Monster legend; Borderkind
Canon

Jenny Greenteeth was a waitress and bartender at Amelia’s, a close friend of Kitsune’s, and apparently known to most of the others. She was also a Hunter, and had been for many years; she was, apparently, well-known for getting herself out of life-threatening scrapes with Hunters. All of it was a farce; as she later said to Kitsune ‘no one is that lucky’. She was likely the cause of many other Borderkind’s deaths.

When Amelia’s was attacked Jenny was assumed to be killed, but she later turned up at Professor Koenig’s house, having beaten Frost, Oliver and the others there. It was a trap to catch Oliver; as soon as he heard that reinforcements arrived—in the form of kirata, Malla and the Falconer—she murdered Koenig and attacked the others.

Jenny was killed by Kitsune in the ambush at Koenig’s.


Jezi-Baba
Witch legend; Hunter
Canon

Jezi-Baba was a witch-hag who became a Hunter after the creation of the Veil. She accompanied the Manticore and a company of perytons in attempting to ambush and kill Frost’s rebel Borderkind after the Falconer and Malla failed. A magic-user, she was more of a risk than the more physical beings, and was able to kill one of the Mazikeen.

She was also present at the second ambush in Yucatazca, but was immediately engaged by the surviving Mazikeen. They killed each other.


Kelpie
Creature legend; Borderkind
Namedropped

Kelpies are Celtic water-horses. The kelpies were mentioned in passing, early in the series, as having been targeted by Hunters—among the first of the Borderkind who were. As none of them appeared to aid the Borderkind, either they were all killed or the survivors went into hiding.

If any kelpies survived the war, they likely returned to the United Kingdom.


Kirata
Monster legend; Hunters
Canon

While not Hunters themselves, the kirata were used as their footsoldiers. They accompanied Malla, in particular, and were trained for bloodthirstiness. They were involved in ambushing Frost, Oliver and Kitsune at the Sandman’s castle, at Bromfield, and attacked Amelia’s in Perinthia; they were also the main force in the ambush of Professor Koenig’s house.

They have not appeared since Malla’s death, though there are likely others still living who had not accompanied the Hunters.


Kitsune
Trickster legend; half-human; Borderkind
Canon

Kitsune is a Borderkind trickster, cousin to other tricksters such as Coyote and Blue Jay. Like them, she has two forms, one animal and one human; hers is that of a red-furred fox and that of a human woman wearing a fox-fur cloak. She once visited the mundane world regularly, but her visits waned as humanity ceased believing in her, since their disbelief removed much of her enjoyment. She once lived in the legendary Asian countries, but something happened there which caused her to leave for the areas of the magical world which correspond to Europe; she has no desire to return.

She made her home in the Oldwood when she sense Oliver and Frost’s passing just after their first escape from the Falconer. As she had heard of the murders of the Borderkind, she decided there was safety in numbers and joined with them in making for the Sandman’s castle. It was Kitsune who suggested that Oliver seek out Professor Koenig. It was also Kitsune who killed the traitor Jenny Greenteeth, who had once been Kitsune’s friend.

In the course of their travels, Kitsune found herself greatly attracted to Oliver, though she couldn’t understand how she could be attracted to an ordinary human. She did not reveal her developing feelings, however; instead she flirted and teased him with his obvious attraction to her. Even so, when Oliver chose to find the Dustman to rescue Collette, she chose to accompany him.

When Kitsune overhead Frost and Wayland speaking together, she was shocked and betrayed by the implication that Frost, a comrade-in-arms, had been manipulating Oliver from the start. She told Oliver immediately, but they were too late to confront Frost; when they confronted Wayland instead, Kitsune backed down when faced with Wayland’s power. She led Oliver from Twillig’s Gorge, and when they discovered King Hunyadi was at his summer residence in Otranto nearby, she led him on a detour there. They were able to plead Oliver’s case before the king, as well as unveiling a conspiracy among the Atlanteans; Hunyadi’s Atlantean advisor attempted to have them both killed and Hunyadi assassinated, but the king was prepared and ordered Kitsune to take Oliver across the Veil.

Kitsune obeyed, and from there the pair of them made their way to the nearest capital—Vienna, Austria. On the way, they were attacked by and subsequently escaped a Hunter neither of them could identify. In Vienna they snuck into the United Kingdom’s embassy, which, according to the laws of magic, counted as British public land. There, they could attempt to summon the Dustman. While waiting, Oliver confessed to his great attraction to Kitsune, but refused to engage in any relations with her, either then or in the future; he was engaged and wanted only Julianna, despite his attraction to Kitsune. Kitsune believed all he needed was time.

They succeeded in attracting the Dustman’s attention, and he promised them his aid when the time came. The pair then fled the embassy under pursuit and made their way to Winding Way, a shortcut for legends to one of the Sandman’s castles. They were ambushed by Hunters at the Way’s entrance, but Oliver used a seed gifted to him by the harvest gods to summon their aid in battle, and Oliver and Kitsune fled. Only legends were able to walk the Winding Way; yet Oliver passed through easily. That was what called to Kitsune’s mind the rumours she had heard of Melisande, though she could confirm nothing.

With Kitsune’s help, Oliver reached the Sandman’s nearest castle, and there they were confronted by the Sandman holding Collette. Oliver summoned the Dustman, however, and the two legends met in never-ending battle while Oliver rescued Collette. They fled the castle to find that Julianna and Halliwell, a detective, along with Damia Beck, captain of King Hunyadi’s guard, had guessed their destination and come overland on horseback to meet them.

It was then that Kitsune saw the depths of Oliver’s feelings for Julianna and felt betrayed. She hid her feelings; instead, when the group discovered the door in the Sandman’s castle leading to the castle in Yucatazca, Kitsune went with Oliver and the other two women to find Ty’Lis. They came upon Frost’s confrontation with the sorcerer and were greatly outnumbered; with Frost already captured and Kitsune overcome by jealousy, she abandoned Oliver, his sister and his fiancé there by fleeing through the Veil, striking out when Julianna attempted to stop her.

The next two months she spent in a state of misery and guilt, hiding in Twillig’s Gorge with Coyote. Yet when rumours came that Oliver lived and was indeed Legend-Born, she shook off her malaise and determined that even should Oliver never forgive her, she would do as best by him as she could; thus, she bullied Coyote into accompanying her to the Latin Quarter to make contact with the few gods still remaining. Her plea for aid was heard and she gathered a force including Artemis, Ares, Mercury and the titan Cronus, all diminished but willing to go to war for the sake of their previous glory.

She led them over the Truce Road toward the battlefield, but on the way was confronted by the Sandman, revived after his apparent mutual death with the Dustman. She was almost murdered by him and Coyote lost an eye; but at the last moment the Sandman inexplicably released her and told her to flee.

Kitsune and her small force continued on past the harvest gods’ lands, where Ahren Konigen pledged their service to King Hunyadi against Atlantis and joined them. Together they made their way to one of the Sandman’s castles, where Oliver, Julianna, Blue Jay, Cheval, Grindylow and Li waited. Oliver did not forgive her, but acknowledged her service. From there all of them together made for the battlefield, where they bolstered King Hunyadi’s forces. To Kitsune’s surprised, Oliver and Julianna requested her presence on the mission to infiltrate Atlantis; with gratitude, she accepted. Coyote refused to accompany them, but made his feelings for Kitsune known.

Kitsune was one of the few survivors of the failed mission to Atlantis. Poisoned and pained by air-swimming eels, she lost her head and fell from the library tower, reverting to her fox-form. Blue Jay lost his life slowing her descent enough to save her own. She was too injured to join the battle afterward, and was left in Grindylow’s care while Frost and Oliver went to fight Ty’Lis.

After the Veil’s fall, Kitsune’s injuries proved too severe for her to fully recover; she was left with such horrific scars as to prevent her from ever transforming back into a human. She has remained friends with Oliver, however, and can be assumed to be exploring the newly combined world with Coyote.


Lailoken
Human legend; Borderkind
Canon

Lailoken was a wild Scottish woodman turned legend. He was met only briefly in canon, in the hiding-place under Amelia’s. He met Oliver amiably at first, but when he heard Oliver was an Intruder turned cold to him.

Lailoken was killed by Hunters when Amelia’s was attacked.


Legend-Born
Human-Borderkind legends
Canon

The Legend-Born are the children of mundane humans—humans from the mundane side of the Veil—and Borderkind. The combination of the two worlds gives them an inherent power over the Veil; that is, the ability to bring it down. For this power, they were feared by the legends at large and revered by the Lost Ones. The first known Legend-Born was Taliesin’s son.

The number of Legend-Born in history is unknown. Freidle has claimed that some were born, lived and died without ever discovering the Veil or being found by Hunters. Others were all murdered. The Legend-Born were rare enough that they became mere stories even to the long-lived legends of the magic side of the Veil, such as Kitsune, with only a few remembering the truth.

With the Veil’s fall and the mundane world again suffused with magic, no more Legend-Born will come into existence, making Collette and Oliver Bascombe the last.


Leicester Grindylow
Monster legend; Borderkind
Canon

Leicester, or Grin, is a grindylow. Though he is Borderkind, before the war with Atlantis he had never been through the Veil and so had not seen mundane humans since before its creation. He lived in Perinthia and spent much of his time working those cafes and clubs who accepted Borderkind staff—most notably Amelia’s and Lycaon’s Kitchen. He was present as a bartender when the Hunters attacked Amelia’s, but escaped with his life.

He later met with the other Borderkind in Lycaon’s Kitchen, where they went to find more allies against Ty’Lis. He helped them defend themselves against some of the other patrons, legends all, and stood with them when they made it clear they would fight any who opposed their right to live. From then on he walked with the other Borderkind, becoming very close comrades with Cheval Bayard after Chorti’s death and good friends with Blue Jay.

Grin attended the infiltration of Palenque and was a competent spy while under a glamour to make himself look human. He was also on the team to invade Atlantis, but near the end of the battle he lost his head in his attempts to protect Cheval—he leapt from a high window of a tower to try and escape the library’s warding so he might flee across the Veil and thus save her life. He was too late; Cheval was already dead, though Grin’s astonishing constitution saved him from death when he hit the ground.

Grin, unable to fight, carried Cheval’s body from Atlantis and stayed with the equally injured Kitsune while Frost and Oliver, the other two surviving members of the team, rushed to confront Ty’Lis.

After the Veil’s fall, Grin went back to bartending at Amelia’s, though he has changed from an upbeat and optimistic legend to one that is somewhat more introspective and sad. If he drinks, sometimes he will tell patrons wistfully and sorrowfully of the wonderful feats his Borderkind friends undertook, though he never speaks of the war as anything but what it was: a brutal attempt at subjugation and murder.


Li, Guardian of Fire
Human legend; Borderkind
Canon

Li was a Chinese legend. He was once a man who mastered fire and carried its spirit within him as its guardian. To help him control this great power, he was bonded with a giant tiger who served as both his friend and a mount. Li was also Borderkind, though by the time of the war with Atlantis had not passed through the Veil in many years.

Li joined Frost’s band of rebels in Perinthia, in the Latin Quarter, though he was initially reluctant. He tiger was killed in the second ambush by Hunters in the jungle of Yucatazca, and her death destroyed some measure of Li’s power over fire forever. From that moment on the fire became to burn him up from within, as if an outward manifestation of his grief. He fought the ambush in Palenque and fled for Euphrasia with Blue Jay and the others once Frost was captured.

By that time, Li had become nothing more than walking, man-shaped ash and embers. He rarely spoke, but remained loyal to the core group of Borderkind. He accompanied Blue Jay into Palenque when the Borderkind were sent there to encourage rebellion, and joined the team to infiltrate Atlantis; he and Frost proved devastating in battle together.

It was on Atlantis that Li finally burned himself out completely, covering Frost, Oliver, Kitsune and Grindylow as they attempted to escape.


The Lost Ones
Humans from across the Veil
Canon

The Lost Ones were humans who had either accidentally pierced the Veil—and thus been stuck there forever—or who were born on the magical side of the Veil due to their parents being Lost. Although many generations of humans have lived there, the legends refer to all humans who aren’t legends as being Lost, even after a thousand years.

Though the Legend-Born had become not much more than a fable, some Lost Ones still believed in their existence and in the prophecy that said the Legend-Born would come to return the Lost Ones to their ancient ancestral homes.

After the Veil’s fall, many Lost Ones have indeed returned to the countries of their forebears. Many more, however, declare themselves natives of Yucatazca or Euphrasia. To humans from the mundane side of the Veil, all humans who came from the magic side are known as Lost, and not all of them welcomed the Lost Ones home.


Lycaon
Monster legend; Borderkind
Canon

Lycaon was the first werewolf. He was a Greek king who, rumour has it, tried to feed human flesh to Zeus; as punishment he was given attributes related to his twisted hunger. (The accuracy of that rumour was unknown, since few people were present at the time and dare to ask Lycaon for details.) Lycaon lived in the Latin Quarter of Perinthia, one of the very few Borderkind who wasn’t a nomad. He owned Lycaon’s Kitchen, a cafe for all beings—even those legends with strange or taboo tastes.

Frost’s group of Borderkind went to Lycaon for information and allies. Though Lycaon himself refused to take part in the conflict and rejected the Borderkinds’ claims of kinship, he allowed them into the cafe to rest for a time. However, he ejected them once the Borderkind were attacked by a couple of the other patrons.

Once the invasion of Euphrasia had begun, Lycaon again remained in the Latin Quarter. Kitsune threatened him into—reluctantly—introducing her to some Grecian gods (among the only ones still remaining in the Two Kingdoms). Lycaon grudgingly agreed to let his cafe serve as a meeting-place, but still refused to fight Atlantis.

Lycaon and the Kitchen are now located in Sicily, and have remained open for business throughout the aftermath of the Veil’s fall.


Malla
Demon legend; Hunter
Canon

Malla, or Marra depending on the source, was an Indian demon who became a Hunter. He was one of the deadliest of them, commanding the kirata and with great skill in archery, and having great tactical knowledge. He first appeared in Bromfield, hunting Frost, Oliver and Kitsune, but the trio managed to evade him and escape on horses.

He headed the attack on Amelia’s and then the ambush at Professor Koenig’s. Unlike the Falconer and his kirata, Malla chose to remain hidden and waiting for the proper moment to kill the most dangerous of the Borderkind—Gong Gong—with a dragonsbane arrow.

Malla was killed by a concerted attack by Oliver, Blue Jay and Kitsune at Koenig’s house, in revenge for Gong Gong’s death.


The Manticore
Monster legend; Hunter
Canon

The Manticore was a Persian legend, sentient was apparently incapable of human speech. Like most Hunters, it was bloodthirsty and thus uniquely suited to the role. The Manticore accompanied Jezi-Baba in two ambushes of Frost’s rebel Borderkind. The first took place in Sicily, once the Borderkind had been tricked into crossing the Veil; they managed to kill one of the Mazikeen.

The second ambush took place in Yucatazca, after the Borderkind had been herded into place. The Manticore killed Chorti while he was defending Cheval, and then was killed in turn by Leicester Grindylow.


Mazikeen
Magician legends; Borderkind
Canon

The Mazikeen are unique in the respect that they have a hive-mind. Though they do appear to have some measure of individuality, their identity revolves around their Mazikeen brothers. They share memories, which gives each of them a great wealth of knowledge, and pool magic to cast spells of great power. They are, in essence, beings of magic entirely, despite their human shape.

Numerous Mazikeen were involved in the war against Atlantis. Three of them were hidden beneath Amelia’s and scried Professor Koenig’s location for Oliver. Two more were in Lycaon’s Kitchen when the Borderkind arrived there, and they joined them. One was killed soon after in the ambush in Sicily; the other grieved in private and was killed in the jungles of Yucatazca, though not without sending a message to his brothers in Palenque. Three Mazikeen awaited the Borderkind near the palace in Palenque, and it was their magic which allowed Frost to break free of the battle and enter. At least one of them was killed in that battle.

When Blue jay and his team infiltrated Palenque a second time, it was a group of Mazikeen which cast a glamour on the Borderkind so they would all look human and thus be unrecognised. When King Hunyadi rallied his forces to fight Atlantis’ first invasion wave, to distract Atlantis while Oliver’s team attempted to penetrate Atlantis through the Gray Corridor’s, the Mazikeen were those who met with Atlantis’s sorcerers in battle in a display of magic not seen in a long time.

As numerous as the Mazikeen are, any number of them survived the Veil’s fall and live on with the memories of their fallen brothers. It is likely many of them returned to the Middle-East.


Melisande
Creature legend; half-human; Borderkind
Canon w/ headcanon background

Melisande was a being kin to the naga and Lamia: a woman on the top and a serpent on the bottom. She was Borderkind and was said to have a far-reaching lineage and estate. For the later two hundred or so years of her life, she had with her a goblin companion named Robiquet, whom she took with her when she crossed into the mundane world.

She knew Wayland Smith, and was through him was introduced to Maximilian Bascombe as an Irishwoman. She fell in love. Wayland found her a magician who could turn her human, and so Melisande married Max Bascombe under the name Katherine. Robiquet became the caretaker for their estate under the name Marc Friedle.

However, the magic of her spell had to be frequently renewed, and on one such occasion Max came upon her in her true form and was frightened. Hoping to give him time to adjust, Melisande returned to France for a time. There, she was found by the Falconer and Malla, both Hunters. When they discovered her children were not with her, Malla tortured her to learn their location. Frost came looking for her, concerned by her lack of contact; near her breaking point, knowing that Frost did not have the power to rescue her while France was in the grip of summer, Melisande requested that her grant her the mercy of death so that she couldn’t betray her children by revealing their location. He complied.

The French authorities told Max that she had been murdered. He told his children that she had died in a crash while visiting France.


Merrows
Creature legends; Borderkind
Namedropped

Merrows, Scottish and Gaelic merpeople, were mentioned in passing as being targeted by Hunters before the scope of Atlantis’s plans came to light. They were also mentioned as having been targeted for their skins by regular hunters. No merrows appeared to give aid to the Borderkind against Atlantis.

Any merrows that survived the Veil’s fall would have returned to the United Kingdom.


Minata-Karaia
Monster legends
Canon

The Minata-Karaia are giant creatures which look like stick-insects. They live within the jungles of Yucatazca, and are all but impossible to see. When they move, they create a whistling sound.

The Borderkind rebels were ambushed by Minata-Karaia while travelling through the jungle. The Borderkind, at first, couldn’t tell what was producing the whistling, but then fled from the Minata-Karaia. They found themselves herded unwillingly to a clearing near a temple, where they were ambushed by Hunters and perytons. The Minata-Karaia did not participate in the battle.

They currently live as they did in the jungles of South America.


Morozko
Primal legend
Namedropped w/ headcanon background

Morozko was one of the two beings born when Old Man Winter split in two. Unlike his twin, Frost, Morozko resented humanity for their hatred of his nature and for trying to escape Winter’s grasp through the other seasonal legends. Of the two, he remembers their combined past with far more clarity.

He’s comprised of the main force of Winter—all the power of the Winter at its height. Because of that nature, he was bound to only go where Winter had already begun, a fact which put him at Frost’s mercy. As Winter’s herald, Frost dictated where Morozko could go and when, which allowed Frost to bargain with the other seasonal legends without Morozko’s presence being necessary.

When the Veil was created Morozko didn’t become Borderkind, further curtailing his territory. He existed instead only where the snows did behind the Veil, leaving Winter in the mundane world with shallow magic. Frost was later mistaken for Morozko by Kitsune, as they met in the Oldwood nearby a snowy mountain.

With the Veil’s fall, Morozko has been freed and is once more unleashed upon the world with only Frost’s influence to restrain him.


Nagas
Creature legends
Canon

Exceptional archers, the nagas were the protectors of Twillig’s Gorge. When war came to Euphrasia, they left the Gorge to lend their skills to King Hunyadi.

They considered Melisande their sister; they later call Oliver and Collette their brother and sister also. When Oliver makes the decision to infiltrate Atlantis, two dozen of them volunteer to follow him on the mission; he selects five only. All of them are killed on the mission.

A number of them survived the war and returned to protect Twillig’s Gorge in the wake of the Veil’s fall. They remain in contact with the Bascombes.


Old Man Winter
Primal legend
Headcanon

The original personification of Winter, encompassing everything from the season’s force to its impending arrival. Absolutely indifferent to the foibles of humanity and concerned only with Winter’s song. Old Man Winter was one of the first legends born and, during the ice-age, had a frightening amount of power in the world.

When the seasons’ places in time were established, Old Man Winter was split in two by conflicting desires. The beings he became were Frost and Morozko.


Oliver Bascombe
Human; Legend-Born
Canon

Oliver Bascombe is Collette’s younger brother. His whole life he dreamed of being an actor, and once believing in magic. His father objected to such notions; he was determined that Oliver follow his footsteps as a lawyer in the law-firm he helped found, and then in marrying a suitable young woman—Julianna. Despite his resentment for his father’s plans for him, Oliver obeyed; though he doubted himself, he loved Julianna.

All that changed the night before his wedding, when Frost swept into his house and asked him for help to get across the Veil. Oliver found himself on the run, an Intruder on the magical side of the Veil, with Frost and Kitsune. Evading Hunters and with the help of the harvest gods, from whom Oliver received a seed with which to summon them at need, they went to Perinthia to try and find the location of a previous Intruder, one who had been pardoned—Professor Koenig. Oliver confided in Frost that he worried for his family and his fiancé, so Frost agreed to take him across the Veil so he could call them. While there Oliver discovered his father had been murdered and his sister kidnapped; but before he could explain anything to Julianna, Amelia’s was attacked and the surviving Borderkind came through the Veil.

They made their way to Professor Koenig’s, where the professor told Oliver he should plead his case before the kings to prove his worth in a year. Koenig gave him an enchanted sword which had been given to him by King Hunyadi; Oliver put it to good use by killing Malla in the ensuing ambush. The group fled to Twillig’s Gorge, where Oliver was determined to rescue Collette from the Sandman. Kitsune volunteered to accompany him as a guide.

Unfortunately Kitsune discovered that Frost had lied to them, and warned Oliver they may not be able to trust him; before they could confront Frost, the Borderkind had already left. Instead they confronted Wayland, but Wayland rebuked them for wasting time and putting Oliver in a danger and sent them away without explanation. Furious and resenting the conspiracy, Oliver nonetheless obeyed.

By chance they discovered that King Hunyadi was in residence at Otranto nearby, and detoured so Oliver could plead his case. King Hunyadi believed their story, especially since his Atlantean advisor and some Hunters attempted to assassinate Oliver, Kitsune and Hunyadi himself. The king released them on their quest and they fled through the Veil to make their way to Vienna, where they used the United Kingdom’s embassy to summon the Dustman and request his aid. He agreed and they continued on, crossing the Veil again to make use of the Winding Way—a shortcut which came out near one of the Sandman’s castles.

At the Way’s entrance they were ambushed by Hunters and Oliver used the seed given to him by the harvest gods to summon them for aid. While the harvest gods defended them, Oliver and Kitsune fled along the Way. Kitsune admitted that only a legend may walk the Way, and told Oliver of a rumour she remembered about the Legend-Born and the Borderkind Melisande. When they reached the Sandman’s castle, they summoned the Dustman and freed Collette, and emerged to find that Damia Beck, captain of Hunyadi’s guard, had led a company of soldiers to escort Julianna and Halliwell to help them.

When the fight between the Dustman and the Sandman was over, and Halliwell apparently killed, Oliver led Julianna, Collette and Kitsune in exploring the castle. They found a doorway leading into Palenque’s palace and took it, hoping to confront Ty’Lis. But Oliver had misjudged; Kitsune had fallen in love with him, though he thought he had made his feelings for Julianna clear, and she abandoned them to be captured by Ty’Lis.

Oliver, his sister and his fiancé spent over two months and Ty’Lis prisoners, all the while trying to unlock whatever powers their mother’s heritage had given them. Finally Oliver discovered that it was the power of entropy, and they were able to break the doors of their prisons and free Frost. Oliver demanded Frost take Collette to safety, but himself chose to stay with Julianna. They broke out of the dungeons and fled into the city, where they inadvertently made contact with one of the Lost rebels—one of the Lost Ones who had sided with the Borderkind.

To incite rebellion Oliver and Julianna rode publically through the city, declaring Oliver as Legend-Born; but the Atlantean soldiers planted in the city attacked. The Borderkind revealed the soldiers, posting as the king’s guards, as Atlantean instead, and Palenque exploded with fighting, the rebellion in full swing. Oliver, Julianna and Blue Jay’s Borderkind team fled the city to the Sandman’s nearest castle, there to wait for Kitsune and the company of gods she had gathered. Then, together, they made for Hunyadi’s forces.

Once there, Oliver proposed the plan to infiltrate Atlantis and steal back Yucatazca’s prince, who was being held under false pretences; with the prince, they could prove that Atlantis was the enemy and win Yucatazca as an ally. But the mission was a trap, the prince enchanted and murdered, and Ty’lis nowhere to be found. Oliver and his team tried to flee, but wards prevented them from crossing the Veil. One by one, they were slaughtered, until finally only Oliver, Frost, Kitsune and Grindylow were left.

They were rescued by the Wayland Smiths of other worlds, who returned them to the Euphrasian battlefield through the Gray Corridors. There, Oliver and Frost made to confront Ty’Lis, who had already attacked Collette and Halliwell. The four of them killed Ty’Lis, but Julianna had been left mortally wounded, and Oliver begged Frost to open a portal through the Veil so he could return Julianna to the mundane world for treatment. Frost obliged and Oliver passed through, and though he didn’t intend to make the Veil fall, nonetheless his and Julianna’s presence made it so.

Oliver, after the Veil’s fall, remained a highly public figure, both decried and revered. Oliver has done his best to help with the adjustment, helped by his father’s law-firm; he is helping tp pioneer laws of legends’ rights. He has also finally married Julianna.


Pelznickel
Winter legend; Borderkind
Namedropped

Aerico initially mistook Frost for Pelznickel before Frost corrected him. Although Pelznickel is not mentioned otherwise, he is probably Winter-affiliated but lacking the soul of Winter in the way that Frost does; he is more closely aligned with Christmas than the season.

He may have survived the Hunters and the war with Atlantis.


Persephone
Divine legend; goddess
Headcanon only

Persephone was among the first legends to create a space not belonging to Winter. When she was kidnapped by Hades the magic keeping Winter out of Greece and its surrounds was weakened, leaving her nations vulnerable to Old Man Winter’s attack. When Persephone returned, she and Demeter together were able to cast him out again.

Persephone, along with most other seasonal legends, submitted to the decision made by the legends of time, fate and justice to determine the length of seasons.

In modernity, Persephone is assumed dead or living permanently in Hades. No one has seen her in an extremely long time, and either assumption is possible.


Perytons
Creature legends; Hunters
Canon

Perytons were winged stags directly allied with Ty’Lis, possibly the only beings to which he showed any measure of warmth. When the Atlantean council of sorcerers objected to his use of them, he defended them as his allies. He used them as messengers and aerial shock-troops against Frost’s Borderkind rebels.

The perytons appeared in the company of the Manticore and Jezi-Baba, during both of the Hunters’ ambushes of the Borderkind. Some of them were also present with Ty’Lis in Palenque’s castle, and fought Frost to a standstill until he was captured. As they were Ty’Lis’s personal allies, there were fewer of them during Atlantis’s invasion of Euphrasia, but they were still present and promised a share of the spoils by Ty’Lis.

Any surviving perytons haven’t been well-received by other legends and have gone into hiding wherever they could find.


Pihuechenyi
Vampire legends; Borderkind
Canon

Pihuechenyi were vampires in the shape of a winged snake. They lived in Yucatazca, and there were many of them in Palenque. When they heard of the Borderkinds’ rebellion against the Hunters, the pihuechenyi were among those Borderkind in Palenque who killed the Hunters there in preparation for Frost’s arrival. They led the parade through the streets to the palace, but were unaware of the ambush which waited there; most of them fled once the ambush was launched.

However, when Blue Jay’s team snuck into Palenque again the pihuechenyi sided once more with their Borderkind kin. They helped Oliver and Julianna escape, and some escorted the Legend-Born and the Euphrasian Borderkind to the nearest of the Sandman’s castles.

The pihuechenyi who survived the war with Atlantis have returned home to Chile and its surrounds.


Red Caps
Monster legends; Borderkind
Canon

Also known as the Bloody Caps. In the past, the Red Caps were the rivals to the Sandman, because their interest and mischief was in children. The Sandman, annoyed by their presence, slaughtered many and subjugated them to be his servants and bring him his victims.

When the plans to create the Veil were made, the Red Caps wished to be made Borderkind, but were afraid the Sandman’s legend would be forgotten if he remained a fearful personage. To this end, they captured him in a cage made of diamond and imprisoned him within his own castles, then influenced his story into becoming more benevolent. This in turn allowed them to focus on making their legend to become more widespread, and they became Borderkind.

The Red Caps were murdered by the Sandman and the Hunters. There are none left.


The Sandman
Monster legend; Borderkind
Canon

The Sandman is a monster, comprised entirely of sand, which preys upon the eyes of children. In the past his victims’ only safety was in being asleep when he arrived in their homes at night; however, in truth this provided little safety, as he would cause them to have nightmares and awaken, and thus be able to feed. When he made the Red Caps his servants, he resided in his castles and allowed the Red Caps to bring his victims to him. These castles contained many doorways leading wherever the Sandman wished them to.

When the spell to create the Veil was begun, the Sandman was made Borderkind, but he was then captured by the Red Caps and imprisoned. For centuries he remained so, and became even more insane. He was released by Hunters on Ty’Lis’s orders, and because his Borderkind ‘kin’ shunned him and left him to rot in his prison, he sided with Atlantis.

Upon his release he began a string of murders the world over, all children save one: Max Bascombe, whom he murdered in his estate. At the same time, the Sandman kidnapped Collette and imprisoned her in one of his castles to act as a lure for Oliver. And then he waited.

In time Oliver and Kitsune found where he was hiding, but they brought with him his brother, the Dustman, who fought on their behalf. With the brothers both made of nothing more than grit, they were unable to destroy one another; their battle scoured the detective Halliwell down to nothing more than bones. In desperation, Collette attempted to use a newfound and barely-understood power to destroy their sand-forms, and for a time it seemed as though this had killed them.

Instead, the Sandman, the Dustman and Halliwell’s bones merged into a single being, with the Sandman being the dominant personality. Driven by bloodlust and revenge, the Sandman began searching for Oliver and Kitsune, the pair who had turned his brother against him—and all the while he took still more victims. Yet when he finally found Kitsune, Halliwell was able to momentarily take control and prevent the Sandman from killing her.

Further enraged, the Sandman returned to the mundane world to kill Halliwell’s daughter Sara in an attempt to break Halliwell’s spirit. This action backfired; instead it kindled Halliwell’s determination, and the detective convinced the Dustman to enter into a pact with him. The two of them combined locked the Sandman away within their combined psyche and took control, becoming a new Sandman—the benevolent Sandman in truth.

There the original Sandman remains, imprisoned in a place he cannot escape.


Strigae
Monster legends
Canon

The strigae are Roman legends which are half-woman, half-bird and snatched children from their beds. They sided with Atlantis and were used as spies and couriers. When Frost’s Borderkind rebels were in Perinthia, their presence tricked the group into believing Hunters might be nearby, thus prompting them to cross the Veil and step into a trap. When the group returned they killed all the strigae. Similarly, they watched during the second ambush, in Yucatazca, and were later present on the battlefield.

Any strigae who remain are not well-received among the other legends and are likely in hiding in Italy and its surrounds.


Taliesin
Legendary human
Headcanon

Taliesin was a legendary human poet. He was a Borderkind, but spent much of his time in the mundane world, living among humans. He fathered a son by a human wife, the first of the Legend-Born; despite knowing his son was different, Taliesin kept his suspicions secret. After his family’s death at Frost’s hands, Taliesin returned to the magical world through the Veil and was shunned by legends for his part in his son’s birth. Though time dulled his grief, he did not forgive Frost for his actions.

He was among the first of the Borderkind to be murdered by Hunters.


Tlatecuhtli
Creature legend; Borderkind
Canon

Tlatecuhtli was an Azect legend who looked like a giant frog. He could birth normal-sized frogs from within himself for use as messengers and spies. Tlatecuhtli was present at Twillig’s Gorge during the Borderkind’s war-council, but Coyote exposed him as a spy and a traitor.

Tlatecuhtli was slain by Coyote, and his frog messengers found and killed before they could wreak havoc.


Wayland Smith
Legendary human; magician
Canon

Wayland Smith, the Wayfarer, the Traveller, is a mysterious legend even by legends’ standards. To most legends, he is a magician and a blacksmith, and has forged magical weapons and equipment for many legends. The Borderkind tricksters Kitsune, Coyote and Blue Jay, and likely others unnamed, consider him kin; they called him uncle.

Wayland’s nature is as a traveller and an indirect shaper of fates. He has the power to walk the Gray Corridors, which bridge the gaps in-between other realities and universes; in those other realities, he has other version of himself, all of which are in constant apparent contact with one another. He claims to be able to see the ‘weave’ of the world, and can thus determine with some accuracy how events in that world might proceed and where he can nudge people to make changes happen. However, the Veil’s construction crippled these abilities, preventing him from moving beyond the world in which he already lived. When Wayland discovered Ty’Lis’s long-lasting machinations to make the Veil permanent, he worked in opposition to bring it down, as the Veil’s permanency would have unmade him.

Before the series began, Wayland was a puppeteer. He introduced Oliver and Collette’s parents, and encouraged them to marry; indeed, he had long encouraged legends and humans to mix. He was in contact with Frost, and canonically knew of Frost’s plans to guard the Bascombes; he later claims most of the subterfuge in using the Legend-Born against Atlantis was his. He first met Oliver and Kitsune in Perinthia, and was unsurprised by their presence. He later joined the Borderkind in Twillig’s Gorge to offer them advice. When Kitsune overheard his conversation with Frost regarding Oliver’s true heritage, she and Oliver confronted Wayland about the issue after finding Frost had already left. Wayland, however, refused to explain and killed a local who overheard them arguing in order to safeguard Oliver’s identity. He then sent them on without explanation.

Wayland’s self-professed task was to gather more Borderkind for the war; however, none of these (unnamed) Borderkind arrived in time to aid the core group in Palenque. It is likely they instead joined King Hunyadi’s army against the Atlantis-backed Yucatazcan invasion. At King Hunyadi’s request, Wayland spied upon Atlantis and brought back intelligence, pushing the boundaries of his nature. He also snuck Blue Jay’s team into Palenque in preparation for the rebellion of the Yucatazcan Borderkind.

When Oliver suggested infiltrating Atlantis, Wayland was reluctant and angered by Oliver’s demand, but obeyed nonetheless; by that point, Ty’Lis had sealed off all the Doors in the Veil, thus making it even more of a danger to Wayland’s powers. While infiltrating Atlantis, he took a more active role than before, even to killing to protect their presence. When faced with three powerful Atlantean sorcerers, he claimed to be unable to kill them, but ‘unmade’ them instead, a use of power which ultimately trapped him within the Gray Corridors and left him unable to facilitate the Borderkinds’ escape.

The versions of himself from other worlds later appeared to Frost, Oliver, Kitsune and Grindylow while Atlantis was sinking. Frost convinced them to lead them through the Gray Corridors back to the battlefield in Euphrasia, which they did; on that journey, Frost and the others saw the shadow of the Wayland they knew lost in the mists beside the Corridor.

It is most likely the Wayland Smith of Frost’s world is still entrapped within the Corridor.


Yuki-Onna
Winter legend; human legend; Borderkind
Canon

Yuki-Onna was a Japanese woman who became a Winter legend; Frost called her his sister. Her physical characteristics were similar to Frost’s in that she was made of ice and could dissolve into snow; however, she wore clothes and remained physically alluring to humans. She was present in the hiding-place under Amelia’s, and disapproved of Frost’s decision to stand with Oliver.

Unlike Frost, she proved to be less than immortal when she was murdered by Hunters in the attack on Amelia’s.