Protagonists
While consumed by grief and rage after the death of Number Eight, she manifests a powerful new Legacy that allows her to freeze objects and surfaces by touch.
Who is Marina / Number Seven?
This term is used by both the Mogadorians and the U.S. government to describe the "intersection" of the two species, involving the use of genetic augmentations on humans.
What is MogPro (Mogadorian Progress)?
Five eventually explains that John cannot kill Setrákus Ra because the Mogadorian leader has twisted the Loric charm, causing any damage inflicted upon him to be transferred to this person.
Who is Ella / Number Ten?
Sam Goode argues that the Resistance cannot simply "scare people" with the facts about the Mogadorian invasion; they must provide this specific thematic element to successfully rally the human population to fight back.
What is hope?
"I know you won’t believe me. But no one was supposed to get killed."
Who is Number Five?
At the climax of the battle in New York City, this character discovers he has developed telekinesis when he reflexively flings a Piken into a stop sign to save John.
Who is Sam Goode?
This Trueborn female commander at the Loric Sanctuary in Mexico hides horribly charred flesh beneath her hand bandages, an injury sustained while trying to breach the Sanctuary’s shield.
Who is Phiri Dun-Ra?
During the confrontation in New York, the Garde manage to expose Setrákus Ra’s true, hideous form to the public by destroying this object.
What is his golden cane (or the Eye of Thaloc)?
During the battle at the United Nations, Ella telepathically urges John to stab Setrákus Ra even though she knows the Mogadorian charm will cause her to die as well, demonstrating this ultimate thematic trait.
What is Self-Sacrifice?
"He shouldn’t have died at all. We shouldn’t have left him out there. Now they have him, doing Lord knows what to his body."
Who is Marina / Number Seven?
This character travels to Alabama on a "soldier's mission" to work with her ex-boyfriend, Mark James, to leak Mogadorian secrets to the public via the website They Walk Among Us.
Who is Sarah Hart?
During a dinner conversation with Ella, Setrákus Ra reveals that he was once part of the Loric leadership and was known by this title before being cast out.
Who is the Tenth Elder?
Located in an ancient Mayan city in Mexico, this site houses a portal to a Loric inner sanctum that can only be opened using Loric pendants.
What is the Sanctuary (or Calakmul)?
Sam Goode describes the alliance in Baltimore between Humans, Loric, and the Mogadorian Adam as the first meeting of the "Intergalactic United Nations," emphasizing this theme of collaboration against a common enemy.
What is unity?
"I want you to think of me as a soldier. A soldier in this war who’s doing what needs to be done."
Who is Sarah Hart?
This character accidentally shatters the windows of two SUVs and knocks a pedestrian off her feet while testing a pair of "leatherlike" Loric gloves for the first time.
Who is Number Nine?
This is the name of the golden, scepter-like staff used by Setrákus Ra that contains an obsidian eye and can project transformational energy.
What is the Eye of Thaloc?
The Garde use this magazine, run by John's former high school bully, to spread the truth about the
Mogadorians to the general public.
What is They Walk Among Us?
Sarah Hart tells John to stop seeing her as his girlfriend and instead see her as a "soldier" in a "war that is bigger than us," highlighting this theme of prioritizing the future of humanity over personal happiness.
What is duty or sacrifice?
"I was called that once, yes. In other places, I was called other things. And now, on this planet, I will be called something new."
Who is the Entity of Lorien (speaking through Eight’s body)?
In a deeply personal moment at the Loric Sanctuary in Mexico, this character fulfills a promise to John by emptying Henri’s ashes into the well of blue light.
Who is Number Six?
This antagonist’s broadsword is capable of draining the life out of the environment, causing the grass around him to turn from green to brown during battle.
Who is General Andrakkus Sutekh?
Ella discovers that while her grandfather can create a field that cancels out Legacies, she is uniquely immune to it because she possesses this specific Legacy.
What is Dreynen?
Adam Sutekh demonstrates this theme when he uses his family’s own broadsword to kill his father, General Andrakkus, proving that his personal values are more important than his Mogadorian bloodline.
What is Choice over Heritage (or Identity)?
"I feel like we’re screwed, Six. Like we already lost and no one’s got around to telling us."
Who is Number Nine?