The Pendragon Adventure characters
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This is a list of characters in the book series The Pendragon Adventure by D.J. MacHale. It is suggested that all characters be merged into here.
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[edit] Bobby Pendragon
Robert "Bobby" Pendragon is the protagonist of the Pendragon series. He was a fairly average fourteen year old boy and suburban basketball star living in the fictional suburb of Stony Brook, Connecticut at the beginning of the series. However his uncle (Press Tilton), soon informs him that he is a Traveler and must help save "Halla" ( described as every time, place and thing that ever has, or ever will, exist) from Saint Dane, the series' antagonist, who wants nothing more than to plunge each territory into chaos.
One night, Press takes Bobby to an abandoned subway in the Bronx in New York, where they are attacked by Second Earth’s "quigs," which guard the flumes from Saint Dane's enemies. Quigs take different forms on each territory. Press also engages in a gun battle with Saint Dane while Bobby tries to get to a doorway in the subway tunnel, concealing a "flume." Bobby and Press escape by taking a flume to Denduron. Flumes are tunnels that transport the Travelers to different territories.
Bobby's adventures are chronicled in a collection of journals that he writes to his best friends and Acolytes on Second Earth, Mark Dimond and Courtney Chetwynde. As he follows Saint Dane from territory to territory, Bobby forms friendships with the Travelers of the other territories. He also grows wiser and becomes a better strategist every time he battles Saint Dane.
Bobby ages throughout the series; he turns fifteen in The Never War, sixteen in Black Water and it is implied that he has become 17 by The Rivers of Zadaa and The Quillan Games.
[edit] Press Tilton
Press Tilton, or "Uncle Press", as Bobby calls him, was the Traveler from Second Earth before Bobby became a traveler. He taught Bobby about the flumes, the rules that Travelers must obey, and Saint Dane. He was killed on Cloral at the end of book 2: The Lost City of Faar. His acolyte was Tom Dorney.
[edit] Saint Dane
Saint Dane is the main antagonist in the series. He is an evil Traveler who wants to break down Halla so that he can rebuild it. It is still a mystery as to Saint Dane's origins, as each of the ten territories are already represented by other Travelers.
He has the ability to transform into anyone or anything. His main features are his cold, icy blue eyes. He also has ghostly white skin and long grey hair. However, in The Reality Bug whilst he is growing stronger, his hair catches fire in a flume, making him bald with lightning-bolt shaped red scars on his head, and his eyes change from the cold blue to nearly white. He always wears a dark, Asian-looking suit.
Saint Dane is cruelly and sadistically characterized. He always makes a complicated plan before trying to overthrow a territory. He does not fear death or suffering, but enjoys the suffering of others. He also has the power to manipulate people only with his might. Bobby's attempt to kill Saint Dane in The Rivers of Zadaa fails, proving that Saint Dane may not be murdered by ordinary means. Press once told Bobby Saint Dane can only die when he believes he has won, which Bobby still does not understand.
[edit] Loor
Loor is the Traveler from the territory of Zadaa. She is a Batu (a tribe on Zadaa) and is a Ghee warrior of that tribe. Since the Batu live above-ground on a scorching planet, their skin is very dark.
Loor's eyes are brown. Her hair is dark, almost black, and is tied in a long braid. Loor has an extremely athletic body with "zero body-fat" and is taller than Bobby when described in The Merchant of Death. Her acolyte is Saangi, her adopted sister.In the sixth book, Bobby admits he has special feelings for Loor.Loor says she does too but that it would get in the way of their mission
[edit] Alder
Alder is the Traveler from the territory of Denduron. He appears in The Merchant of Death, and The Rivers of Zadaa. He is described as being over six feet tall, and not handsome (Bobby claims that everything about him "seemed too big".). He is clumsy, but also a great warrior with heightened senses and excellent skill at throwing knives, which is seen when he pins a snake to a wall in an underground cavern. His acolyte, though her name is unknown, was the wife of a Milago miner who was killed by Saint Dane in an unfair transfer ceramony.
[edit] Vo Spader
Vo Spader is the Traveler from the territory of Cloral, and is one of the last generation of travelers. When his father was indirectly killed during one of Saint Dane's destructive plots, Spader vows revenge, and becomes obsessed with killing Saint Dane. This obsession causes many problems in The Never War when he refuses to follow orders. Later after helping save Eelong he and Gunny are trapped in that territory due to the flume collapsing. Spader appears in The Lost City of Faar, The Never War, and Black Water. His acolyte is Wu Yenza.
[edit] Vincent "Gunny" Van Dyke
Gunny is the Traveler from First Earth (a territory that is set in the 1930's on Earth). He is a tall African-American male, who works at the Manhattan Tower Hotel as the Bell Captain. He is introduced by helping Bobby and Vo Spader escape from a dispute with mobsters in the New York subway that holds the flume, during their first visit to the territory.
Gunny helps Bobby and Spader in their attempt to defeat Saint Dane in The Never War. When Saint Dane appears to be plotting to destroy the Hindenburg, He and Bobby travel to Third Earth. There they find out that if the Hindenburg is not destroyed, then Germany will win World War II and the world will be in ruins. However, neither Bobby nor Spader are able to bring themselves to let the zeppelin be destroyed and let the people inside die, so Gunny steps in and prevents them from saving it.
After the turning point on Third Earth, Gunny travels with Bobby to Veelox, but they split up and Gunny travels to Eelong. While there, he loses his hand to a tang and finds the hidden city known as Black Water. Gunny helps the gars and is met back up with Bobby and Spader. He, like Vo Spader, gets trapped on Eelong when the Flume collapses.
[edit] Courtney Chetwynde
Courtney Chetwynde is a friend of Bobby's on Second Earth, and could be considered his girlfriend. Many of her peers are intimidated by her because she is a brilliant athlete, and popular in school. Courtney first reveals that she has feelings for Bobby just before Press first takes him to Denduron. She reads Bobby's journals with his best friend, Mark Dimond. Courtney also helps Mark deal with a bully at school, Andy Mitchell. She is also one of Bobby's Acolytes.
[edit] Mark Dimond
Mark Dimond has been Bobby's best friend since youth. His shy personality and "nerdy" interests are quite the opposite of Bobby's character, yet they complement each other well. Mark was given a ring by Osa (Loor's mother) as a way to receive journals from Bobby. He informed Courtney Chetwynde of the journals and they began reading them together. Mark is Bobby's Acolyte.
Mark is bullied at school by a student named Andy Mitchell. In The Lost City of Faar Mitchell finds a page from Bobby's journals and demands to know the secret of Bobby's disappearance and read the journals. He is thwarted by Mark and Courtney before he can reveal the journals to the public, however. Later in the series, Mark and Mitchell become friends as they discover a shared interest in science, and each become members of their high school's science club "Sci Clops." Eventually Andy helps Mark save Courtney's life after she was hit by a car in The Rivers of Zadaa which further cements their budding friendship.
However, Mitchell turns out to be Saint Dane in disguise. At the end of The Quillan Games, Bobby and Courtney find a dado on Second Earth, and they discover the abbreviation of Dimond Alpha Digital Organization. It is assumed that Saint Dane as Mitchell has taken Mark to another territory and has somehow changed the history and technology of Second Earth.
[edit] Aja Killian
Aja is the Traveler from Veelox. She is a Senior Phader on her territory, who helps control people's "jumps" into an escapist, "Matrix"-like dreamworld called Lifelight. She is concerned about the fact that the people of her territory prefer the technological fantasy world over reality. Her territory is crumbling because its inhabitants spend more time quietly dreaming in chambers in the Lifelight pyramid than living in the real world. To destroy her territory's dependence on Lifelight, she creates "The Reality Bug," a computer virus that makes Lifelight fantasies less than desirable, so that people may be encouraged to leave Lifelight and live their own lives. However, the bug works far too well, actually harming the inhabitants of Veelox, creating the conflict in The Reality Bug.
Aja was an orphan, raised in a group home that trained intelligent children to become operators of Lifelight. She was adopted by Evangeline, one of the workers at the home, who she now calls her aunt. Evangeline is Aja's Acolyte.
She is presently trying to keep Lifelight up and running so that billions of people don't die of lack of nutrients.
[edit] Kasha
Kasha is a klee (a race of intelligent jungle cats) Traveler from Eelong. She didn't believe her father Seegen's "crazy stories" about flumes and Travelers (he was the Eelong's Traveler). But after her father died, Kasha inherited his responsibilites as her territory's Traveler. Her opinions gradually change over the course of Black Water and she plays a key role in saving her territory. Her acolyte is her close friend Boon. She was killed when a piece of debris struck her head when the Flume collapsed on Eelong.
