suspretty4

Kai's childhood best friend and enabler who admires his lazy genius approach, often helping him execute his schemes while struggling academically himself.

A brilliant student with an IQ of 160 who discovered early on that maximum efficiency means minimum effort, perfecting elaborate systems to coast through life.

A young, idealistic teacher who recognizes Kai's brilliance and becomes determined to inspire him before he wastes his gifts entirely.

The fearless student journalist who sees past Marcus's height to the person underneath. She's determined to tell his real story, not the one everyone else assumes.

The relentless basketball coach who views Marcus as his ticket to a state championship and refuses to accept 'no' for an answer. His persistence borders on obsession.

The star quarterback and school bully who feels threatened by Marcus's presence and size. He's used to being the biggest, most intimidating guy on campus.

The sharp-tongued student council vice president who initially sees Marcus as either a problem to manage or an asset to exploit for the basketball team.

The overly persistent basketball coach who refuses to accept that Marcus has zero interest in sports and sees him as the missing piece to a championship team.

Marcus's childhood best friend and self-appointed social navigator, determined to help Marcus survive freshman year despite being a full foot shorter.

A physical therapist who specializes in helping people with unique body challenges, she becomes an important figure in helping Marcus manage the chronic pain from years of hunching.

A skilled royal cartographer who was working in the archives when Vorthranax struck, she now carries the only surviving map of the ancient dragon lairs and must lead the survivors to safety.

The youngest prince of the royal family, believed dead in the initial attack, he survived in the castle dungeons and emerges shell-shocked to find his kingdom destroyed and his family gone.

The ancient dragon who slumbered for a millennium beneath the mountains, awakened by forgotten magic, now circles the burning ruins of Gale with primordial fury.

An elderly dragon-scholar and keeper of forbidden lore who tried to warn the kingdom of the awakening signs, now he holds dangerous knowledge about Vorthranax's one potential weakness.

A colossal dragon who has slept for five centuries beneath the mountains, awakening with rage and confusion to find the world utterly changed and humanity's cities sprawling across what were once sacred dragon territories.

The last living dragon rider, bound by an ancient oath to protect dragonkind, now watches in horror as everything he swore to preserve threatens to destroy humanity itself.

An ancient scholar and keeper of the old dragon treaties who understands the true reason for Vermithrax's fury and knows that killing the dragon may doom humanity to an even darker fate.

A hardened military leader who survived the initial destruction of her city and now desperately seeks any way to stop the dragon, even if it means forcing the last dragon rider to break his sacred vows.

Colonel Dubois's second-in-command and closest confidant, a pragmatic soldier who believes immediate evacuation is the only way to save civilian lives.

The lead geneticist who created F.A.1 in secret for a shadowy bioweapons program, now desperate to stop his creation before it consumes the city.