Main Characters
Kelly Brightwater
Teleportation
Kelly Brightwater moves first and asks questions never. Her gift is teleportation, fast, fearless, and not yet fully hers to control. She leads because nobody else has figured out how to stop her.
Kyle Brightwater
Cognitive Sight
Kyle Brightwater sees what's coming before anyone else does, and he hates how much that costs him. Quiet, careful, the kind of brilliant that asks two questions before it answers one. Kelly's twin, and the one person who can tell when she's only pretending not to be scared.
Isabella Greenhill
Telepathy
Isabella Greenhill hears thoughts she never asked to hear, and she's built a personality entirely capable of pretending that doesn't bother her. Sharp, guarded, brilliant, the kind of smart that uses sarcasm as a deadbolt.
Alejandro Núñez
Telekinesis
Alejandro Núñez grew up with no family history to draw from, which made it harder to explain why he could move a pencil with his mind during orientation. He doesn't trust easily. He doesn't have to, actions are louder than promises, and his are the loudest thing about him.
Bartholomew Malevole
Mabel's son
Bart Malevole performs confidence like it's armor he's still learning to wear. He wants people to believe he's untouchable. He's not, not yet, not entirely, and that gap is exactly where the story finds him.
Mabel Malevole
Mabel Malevole doesn't raise her voice. She doesn't need to. Elegant, exact, and several moves ahead of everyone in the room, including, most of the time, her own son.
Maximilian Obsidian
Mabel’s father, a pivotal figure among the Echo of Atlantis characters, stands as Elijah’s nemesis and the formidable leader of the Obsidian Order. This fictional character profile highlights his extraordinary abilities, including telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation, showcasing the unique talents often explored in Kachina Academy.
Elijah Brightwater
The Administrator of Kachina Academy is a prominent figure among the Echo of Atlantis characters, serving on the High Elder Council as the Grand Elder. This fictional character profile highlights remarkable abilities, including telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation.
Jacob Greenhill
The Administrator of Kachina Academy, a notable figure among the Echo of Atlantis characters, holds the esteemed position of High Elder on the North America Council. This fictional character profile showcases abilities such as Telekinesis and Teleportation.
Teachers & Staff
Bethany Park
Astral Projection Principal
Bethany Park teaches the ability to work with the least room for error, to leave your body behind on purpose, and to find your way back.
Corneilus Vanderhelm
Teleportation Principal
Corneilus Vanderhelm has logged more emergency landings than any other teacher at Kachina Academy, and most of them were his own.
Myrtle Sandstone
Seer Principal
Myrtle Sandstone has spent longer learning to live with visions than she has teaching students to survive their first ones.
Thomas O’Farridge
Telepathy Principle
Thomas O'Farridge can always tell which students are listening to his lecture and which ones are listening to each other's thoughts instead. He's stopped pretending he minds.
Ms. Nightingale
Healer Principal and Physician
Ms. Nightingale is the only person at Kachina Academy qualified to treat both a broken collarbone and a fractured aura. She will note, with some precision, which one takes longer.
Valentina Morales
Academy Counselor
Valentina Morales was trained to counsel teenagers through identity, grief, and the weight of inherited expectations. The abilities were a surprise. The rest was not.
Mr. Victor Castillo
Grounds and Facility Manager
Victor Castillo keeps Kachina Academy's fields green, the grounds immaculate, and the discastum pitch ready for game day. He is also the first person they call when something goes wrong before sunrise.
Mrs. Luisa Castillo
Director of Campus Services
Luisa Castillo's empanadas have been known to make a Grand Elder hopeful on the worst morning of the year. She considers this a reasonable measure of her work.
Professor Washington
Grand Council Members
Ursula Garcia
High Elder — South America
Ursula Garcia is the kind of person who makes you stand straighter before she has said a single word.
She is also the member of the Grand Council most likely to know something she has decided not to share.
Mary McGill
High Elder — British Isles
Mary McGill's red hair catches the firelight at every council meeting, and her Irish accent gets sharper the more worried she is. She is reliably the first person in the room to ask the question no one else will.
Omar Essam
High Elder — North Africa
Omar Essam carries an old scar and an older patience. When he speaks of an enemy with reluctant respect, it means he has already understood something the rest of the council is still catching up to.
Djehuty Moustafa
High Elder - Mesopotamian
Djehuty Moustafa guards the land where civilization first wrote down its laws, mapped its stars, and asked what lies beyond the edge of everything known. The Grand Council does not begin without hearing from him first.
Youssef Khoisan
High Elder — Southern Africa
Youssef Khoisan reads a room the way an astronomer reads the sky — methodically, in full knowledge that what's visible is only a fraction of what's actually there.
When his voice goes very careful, the council goes quiet.
Noor Zidane
High Elder — West Africa
Noora Zidan speaks softly enough that the council has to lean in to catch what she says. This is not an accident.
Fatima Shirani
High Elder of Central Asia
Fatima Shirani comes from a tradition that found the divine in both mathematics and silence, in sacred text and in the space between words. She is the council member most likely to see the pattern the others are standing too close to read.
Jun Lin
High Elder of Northeast Asia
Jun Lin carries the knowledge traditions of the East: medicine, philosophy, the ancient science of energy in balance, and brings all three to the Grand Council table. She is the one who tells them not just what is wrong, but what was out of alignment long before it broke.
Sita Nguyen
High Elder Southeast Asia
Sita Nguyen leads the Siam monks, and in council chambers she does what she does in a temple. She listens until the room has said everything it meant to, and a few things it didn't.
Malosi Eti Tung
High Elder — Pacific & Polynesia
Malosi Eti Tung is a Chieftain of a Māori tribe. He is the person the Grand Council turns to when they need to be reminded what they are actually protecting.
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