{"id":51,"date":"2011-04-04T20:03:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T00:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2020-10-14T09:53:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T13:53:36","slug":"cast-of-characters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?page_id=51","title":{"rendered":"Cast of Characters – Founders Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a gallery of character images (I don’t own any of these images, by the way), please check out this link: http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/tagrendar\/awakenings-characters\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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The elements of the cast, roughly in order of appearance. \u00a0There are a few dozen minor characters, many of them named, that are of lesser importance.<\/p>\n

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The Michigan Cast<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Marin Astoris<\/span>
\nTwenty-two years old, Marin was about to move to Connecticut to start graduate work at Yale University when the world ended.\u00a0 She was spending one last semester at her alma mater <\/em>outside of\u00a0Grand\u00a0Rapids, working \u00a0as a coordinator for summer camps and conferences and living in the dormitories with the rest of the camps staff.\u00a0 At the same time, she kept her job at a local retail clothing chain, miles from campus.\u00a0 Awakened as a child, Marin is a mystic and has a talent for catching glimpses of the future.\u00a0 Four years ago, she had a vision fortelling the end of the world in a nuclear war, accompanied by the words Take a breath and wait to die<\/em>.\u00a0 That vision never came to pass…until one August day, when she realized it wasn’t a war that would kill the world at all, but something else.<\/p>\n

Carolyn Roberts
\n<\/span>Sheltered by her friends, twenty-two year old Honors student Carolyn was, to their surprise, the first to come into her abilities after the end of the world. Quiet, tall, but whipcord thin, Carolyn can apparently see some of the creatures that inhabit the world beyond \u201cnormal\u201d sight, such as faeries, which is a rare talent at the time of Earth\u2019s breaking. She\u2019s been a close friend of Marin and Thom\u2019s since they were all freshman together and at the time of the world\u2019s ending, she\u2019d been finishing a degree in elementary education.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jaqueline Bell<\/span>
\nTwenty-one and one of the group’s “innocents,” Jac grew up (and remains) a devout Catholic. While she doesn’t share the outright contempt some of her friends have for the evangelical sects that surround them, she’ll willingly admit that they make her nervous. Bookish and smart, Jac was considering applying to medical or nursing school after college, but hadn’t made an outright decision yet.<\/p>\n

Rory O’Hara<\/span>
\nUndoubtedly the most \u2018sinister\u2019 of the friends, Rory works hard at maintaining his facade as a creepy but fun kind of guy. He\u2019s into vampires without being goth, fire without being a pyro, and says things to other people just to watch their shocked and outraged reactions. At his core, though, the senior is a good guy and an extremely loyal friend. How he managed to make it through his university career only ever going to the library twice, however, is a question for the ages.<\/p>\n

Kellin Willis<\/span>
\nA junior Honors student when the world died, Kellin was part of a knot of students who were already Awakened when the world ended.\u00a0 Sensitive to the ebb and flow of natural and supernatural energies since childhood, Kellin’s university career had focused on investigating the links between those energies and the religions of the world.\u00a0 She struggled to always walk the path of balance and non-interference in the natural evolution of the unseen, but with the breaking of the world, she’ll be forced to choose between the friends she loves and the building darkness they’ll face.<\/p>\n

Drew Smith<\/span>
\nTwenty-six year old Drew Smith waited before he went to college, uncertain of what he wanted to study.\u00a0 He finally settled on literature and was about to start his junior year when the world ended.\u00a0 A gaming buddy of Marin and Thom’s, he later became one of Marin and Kellin’s late-night walk partners.\u00a0 He has been able to sense supernatural forces since he was young, but the greater part of his ability lies in his empathic abilities, which caused migraines to plague him on and off throughout his life.<\/p>\n

Matthew Astoris<\/span>
\nEighteen months younger than his older sister, Matthew Astoris was studying at the same university, staying close to his only surviving family–his older sister, Marin. \u00a0Always the outsider among her friends, Matthew never quite bought into his sister’s mystical mumbo-jumbo, despite the fact that he was aware of the prophetic dreams and visions she’d had since they were children. That changed once the world came to an end.<\/p>\n

J.T. MacKenzie
\n<\/span>J.T. MacKenzie has been Thom Ambrose\u2019s closest friend since they were kids, and remained that way through their years at the university. A volunteer paramedic studying theater and English, J.T. is neither the picture of a lit scholar nor thespian. Rough around the edges with a checkered past, the twenty-three year old became fast friends with Marin, who he introduced to his friend. Fiercely protective of the people he cares about, J.T. believes that some of his friends really can sense, see, and do things beyond the ken of normal people and is terrified when he begins to manifest his own ability to see and speak to the dead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas Ambrose
\n<\/span>Stubborn to a fault, twenty-three year old Thom Ambrose had an on-again, off again romance with Marin, much to the chagrin of Marin’s younger brother, Matt. \u00a0They recently broke up again in the wake of her decision to move to the east coast and his decision to interview for a position in Chicago.\u00a0 Thom Awakened in college, not long after he met Marin, but eight months before the end of the world, he began to deny his own ability to perceive the supernatural and unseen, fighting hard against the visions he tries to pass off as nightmares.\u00a0 He has since accepted his strange abilities, though perhaps not to the same degree as Marin.<\/p>\n

Greg Doyle<\/span>
\nOnce a professor of biology, thirty-two year old Greg Doyle has found himself one of the few survivors on campus in the wake of the end of the world.\u00a0 To the best of his knowledge, he’s the only professor to have survived and is certainly the only one among the group of student survivors on campus.\u00a0 He knows that the survivors will be relying at least in part on his expertise to help them stay fed over the long months ahead and silently hopes to be up to the task.<\/p>\n

Cameron MacKenzie<\/span>
\nA former pilot in the US Military, Cameron was spared from death when the world came to an end. He encountered Neve Vaughan on the road headed east and saved her life–only to have his saved in turn. Cameron is the chosen heir to a fated blade and over the course of War Drums<\/em> and Omens and Echoes<\/em> makes his way to Michigan with Neve at this side.<\/p>\n

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Other Michigan characters<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Davon Hoekstra, Leah Vandenburg, Tala Johanson,\u00a0Jack Schmidt, Brandon Thayer, Stasia Lane, Deirdre,\u00a0Carl, Paul van Rijn, Angie van Rijn<\/p>\n

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Princes of the Aes Dana<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Phelan Conrad (O’Credne)
\nTeague Vaughan
\nAoife (Eva) O’Credne
\nNeve Vaughan
\nSeamus Vaughan<\/p>\n

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Other characters from myth and legend<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Cariocecus
\nThordin
\nThe Morrigan
\nThe Hecate
\nLeinth
\nMenhit<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere Cast<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Kira Ambrose Vaughan
\nTerezia “Teca”\u00a0Ramsay
\nGray Miller
\nKestrel Marie Kenwick
\nSherlock Watson
\nDr. Elton Tapping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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