| A | B |
|---|
| Zotz | god of the darkness |
| Zotz | ruler of the underworld |
| Shade | protagonist |
| Chinook | a strong bat whose parents died in the explosion |
| Marina | Shade's female friend and companion on many of his adventures |
| Ariel | Shade's mother |
| Achilles Graywing | an old bat and friend of Frieda |
| Nocturna | the bats' goddess |
| Cassiel | the first one to find the human building and gather survivors from the explosions |
| Goth | a cannibal bat |
| Goth | a bat who keeps trying to kill Shade |
| Orestes | Doesn't want a war between the owls and bats |
| Orestes | prince of the owls |
| Caliban | the bat who saved Shade and Chinook by taking them to Satude Haven |
| Romulus | king of the rats |
| Boreal | king of the owls |
| Romulus | helped Ariel and Marina go safely through the underground tunnels to save Shade |
| Ortez | the rats' general who went to save his son from the cannibal bats |
| Halo Freetail | a long-tailed bat who is the leader of the bats'army in Bridge City |
| Boreal | once wanted a war between the bats and owls but, changed his mind when Shade saved his son |
