Characters¶

132 pages, grouped by the case they belong to.

Main cast and recurring¶

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Andrew Howard	Andrew Howard is an FBI special agent, the nominal leader of the Paranatural Incident Task Force, and a lifelong member of the Aetherius Society who sincerely believes that benevolent extraterrestrial Masters are...
Big Bill	Big Bill Nelson is the senior FBI official to whom Andrew Howard reports, and the superior who shields, scolds and cleans up after the Paranatural Incident Task Force from its founding until he is forced out in...
Bill Clinton	Bill Clinton is the Governor of Arkansas and Democratic presidential nominee in the campaign's alternate 1992, whose candidacy is wrecked by a surveillance scandal in Dahlonega, Georgia that the public blames on the...
Boris Yeltsin	Boris Yeltsin is the President of Russia in the campaign's alternate 1993, the man who holds Dick "The Biz" Baxter in Moscow and questions him about everything the Paranatural Incident Task Force has seen.
Daniel Webster	Daniel Webster is an FBI Special Agent who is put in charge of the former task force agents when they are sent back to Radford, Virginia in April 1993; he is the second player character of Ezra, played alongside Dick...
Diane	Diane is the secretary of the Paranatural Incident Task Force, who runs its barbershop headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Dick "The Biz" Baxter	Dick "The Biz" Baxter is an FBI counterintelligence agent and founding member of the Paranatural Incident Task Force, played by Ezra.
Donald McManley	Donald McManley is the abrasive FBI forensic examiner who works out of an RV crime lab and is called in whenever a Paranatural Incident Task Force case produces a body, a sample or a face in a bag.
George H. W. Bush	George H.
Huell Kendrick	Huell Kendrick is a divorced, chain-smoking, knife-carrying FBI agent from Louisiana and a founding member of the Paranatural Incident Task Force, played by Zack.
Kurtis "Kurt" Larson	Kurtis "Kurt" Leonard Larson is a Vietnam veteran and former CIA case officer from the agency's UTAW branch who serves the Paranatural Incident Task Force as its consultant, burglar, interrogator and tactical lead,...
Ross Perot	Ross Perot is the President of the United States in the campaign's alternate 1993, the winner of a 1992 election that the Paranatural Incident Task Force helped to upend.

Radford, Virginia¶

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Abelforth Whateley	Abelforth "Abe" Whateley was a space-obsessed teenager of Radford, Virginia and the twin brother of Wilbur Whateley.
Agent Murphy	Agent Murphy is a black-suited man who stepped out in front of the task force's car on a Radford mountain highway, claimed to be with the NSA, burned Kurt with a handheld beam device, and died in the woods soon...
Amanda Lucky	Amanda Lucky is the 17-year-old cheerleader whose disappearance from a locked third-story bedroom brings the task force to Radford, Virginia in the first case of the campaign.
Billy Thornton	Billy Thornton is a homeless man who haunts the Pay n' Stay motel and the woods nearby in Radford, and who tells the task force that chimpanzees, John Travolta and "some ladies" abducted him.
The Biz's guards	The Biz's guards are the Russian guards assigned to watch over Dick "The Biz" Baxter in the Hotel Metropol in Moscow.
Charm	Charm is the teenage clerk of the Econo Thrift Pay n' Stay motel in Radford, who tells the team the bedbugs were wiped out by a chlorine tent while hiding the motel's rabid rodent and bat problem.
Dean Lawson	Dean Lawson is the Miata-driving boyfriend of Amanda Lucky and a teenage heroin dealer whom the task force never meets, though his buried cash and hidden heroin end up in their car.
Derek Augustine	Derek Augustine is a Radford pharmacist and romance novelist, publishing as "Marcus Heat", who writes in a converted barn behind his house.
Douglas Douglas	Douglas Douglas is a lonely security guard at the Stately Acres gated community near Radford, living in a guard shack full of vintage pinball machines.
Dr. Harvey Mauden	Dr.
Dr. Lawrence Lori	Dr.
Elizabeth George	Elizabeth George is the overnight security guard and repair technician at the Douglas Pinball Emporium in Radford, tased and carried off by masked men while repairing the Flash Gordon machine.
Freak	Freak is a scarred Vietnam veteran and charter pilot at Roanoke Airport who flies the task force over Radford in his baby-blue Cessna, Annabelle, and recognizes the heroin in their possession.
Harold	Harold is a sad teenage Blockbuster Video clerk in Radford who lets the task force copy the diner's security tape in the store's back room, and who tells them he saw a man dragged into a van.
Howard and his wife	Howard and his wife are a very elderly Jewish couple of Radford whose old diesel sedan the task force commandeers in a McDonald's drive-thru to chase a tailing van.
Irene Whateley	Irene Whateley is the mother of the Whateley boys in Radford, Virginia, a patient of Dr.
Liam Lucky	Liam Lucky is the father of missing teenager Amanda Lucky and a worker at the Radford Arsenal, where he does something classified.
Matt McCready	Matt McCready is a leather-jacketed teenage biker in Radford, Virginia, the unofficial boyfriend of Amanda Lucky, who lives and works at the Alpine Lodge ski resort.
Maybelline Augustine	Maybelline Augustine is the devout, hospitable mother of Phoebe Augustine and wife of Derek Augustine, who gossips with the task force about Dean Lawson and later reports her husband missing.
Molly Underhill	Molly Underhill is a towering sheriff's deputy in Radford, Virginia who becomes the task force's steadiest local ally, rescues the team from the burning church, keeps their secrets, and by 1993 is sheriff after a...
Mr. King	Mr.
Phoebe Augustine	Phoebe Augustine is Amanda Lucky's horse-loving friend in Radford, Virginia, who is taken from her bed in the night, found alive and crucified above the pulpit of the old church, and rescued by Kurt, only to be...
Red Dutchford	Red Dutchford is the name a Pay n' Stay guest in a fishing hat and heavy coat registered under, a man who drove a brown station wagon and stayed in the motel for only a few hours on the day the team's belongings were...
Rooftop watcher	The rooftop watcher is an unidentified man with binoculars and a small electronic device who is seen on rooftops in Radford, Virginia, and whose white van, fitted with fake plates, tails the task force.
Rudy Giuliani	Rudy Giuliani is the FBI Director in the campaign's alternate 1993, installed by President Ross Perot after William Sessions is fired, who puts Daniel Webster in charge of the task force and demands an "acceptable...
Rutherford	Rutherford is the Pay n' Stay motel clerk in Radford, Virginia, a UFO believer who listens to Art Bell, never seems to leave his desk, preaches the Anunnaki, and sells the Biz DMT; his name is given only in Radford...
Sheila	Sheila is the chatty waitress at the Lonely Mountain Diner in Radford, Virginia, who feeds the task force across both Radford cases and eventually supplies the camera footage of the gray van raid.
Sheriff Frank Roosevelt	Sheriff Frank Roosevelt is the sheriff of Radford, Virginia, a tired, by-the-book lawman who is sick of UFO talk, blames tourists and perverts for Radford's troubles, and steps back after a heart attack before the...
Tyler	Tyler is a four-year-old boy from the trailer across the street from the Lucky house in Radford, Virginia, who saw a "spaceman" above the missing girl's home.
Unnamed pharmacist	The unnamed pharmacist is the nervous counter pharmacist at the Radford pharmacy who admits off the record that the paper record for Amanda Lucky's Vicodin prescription is missing.
Wilbur Whateley	Wilbur Whateley is the comatose-seeming identical twin of Abelforth Whateley, a teenage butterfly collector from Radford, Virginia, who raised the Radford Moth, became its thrall and was blamed by the police as a...
Yobiah Whateley	Yobiah Whateley is the shell-shocked, churchgoing father of the twins Abelforth and Wilbur Whateley, whose wife Irene walked into the woods in front of him.

The Summer Service¶

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Amos Shaw	Amos Shaw is the unnaturally fit preacher of Marblehead's ocean-obsessed church, who serves fishy communion wine and owns the blood-soaked house the team finds in The Summer Service.
Arnold Weathers	Arnold Weathers is a wealthy Marblehead selectman who is kept chained inside his island house, a bloated worm host found in a tub of black fluid and destroyed by Huell and Andrew.
Briggs	Briggs is a drunk, one-footed fisherman and veteran who lives on a barely floating boat at the old docks of Marblehead, Massachusetts, and the first local to give the task force an outsider's view of the town's church.
Carter	Carter is Kurt Larson's former CIA fixer turned overseas arms dealer, whose life Kurt once saved and who supplies the deniable M28 Davy Crockett as a final favor.
Chief of Police	The Chief of Police is the hostile, bloated head of the Marblehead police and a member of the Marblehead Board of Selectmen.
Douglas Scott	Douglas Scott is the big, gentle, lumberjack-looking father of Lena Scott and husband of Irene Scott, a Marblehead local who hoped the missing scientists would call back.
Esteban	Esteban is a McDonald's worker in Marblehead whose clothes smell of beans, a problem the team traces to his church-going uncle.
Gray-skinned dream visitor	The gray-skinned dream visitor is a nude, dead, deformed gray man who appears in Andrew Howard's sleep-paralysis dream to warn him away from the water.
Henry	Henry is Donald McManley's "useless" assistant, sent to Salem by Vespa to fetch ivermectin, who calls in with a gore-covered umbrella having "killed something."
Horace Cromwell	Horace Cromwell is the banker on the Marblehead Board of Selectmen, a silent, bloated and visibly tense man at the back of the selectmen's meeting in The Summer Service.
Irene Scott	Irene Scott is the chatty, friendly mother of Lena Scott, who runs Scott Insurance from the family home in Marblehead.
Jester	Jester is the devout desk clerk of the team's hotel in Marblehead, a church member and selectman who owns a bag of crystal marbles and feeds Arnold, and who ends infected and killed while driving the stolen FBI car.
Lena Scott	Lena Scott is a friendly six-year-old in Marblehead who hugs strangers and fell ill on the beach the day after the offshore explosion.
Ma Gramoire	Ma Gramoire is a tiny, blunt, absinthe-drinking old woman of Marblehead, poisoned by the sea, the last known contact of the missing scientists, who later sends Madeline Weathers to the team.
Madeline Weathers	Madeline Weathers is the niece of the missing selectman Arnold Weathers, a Beetle-driving young woman who comes to the task force for help in the storm-lashed Marblehead of The Summer Service and ends the case vowing...
The Mayor of Marblehead	The Mayor of Marblehead is the unnamed, bloated and near-translucent head of the town's Board of Selectmen, who also preaches the sermons in the Sons of Adam church in place of Amos Shaw.
Older Guard officer	The older Guard officer is an unnamed National Guard officer in command of the checkpoint at the entrance to Marblehead, who debriefs the task force at the end of The Summer Service.
The radio contact	The radio contact is an unnamed, cheerful voice on the task force's pocket radio who supplies the anti-worm agent, tracks the angel thing and plans the nuclear shot with Kurt in the finale of The Summer Service.
Ram and Arms innkeeper	The Ram and Arms innkeeper is the very old, cheerful and formal keeper of the Ram and Arms Inn in Marblehead, who checks the task force in at the very end of The Radford Horror and gives them the Sons of Adam Bible.

The Things in Appalachia¶

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Aaron Richters	Aaron Richters is a Spud Hut distribution-center worker in Dahlonega, Georgia, who walked out for a smoke break and never returned, becoming one of the missing people in The Things in Appalachia.
Clive	Clive is the large-animal handler who trained the ape-men of Jan Martense's gold-mining operation beneath Dahlonega, Georgia, and who guides the task force out of the mines in Appalachia 09.
David Letterman	David Letterman is the real-life talk-show host who, shortly before the 1992 election, interviews the Biz about the Georgia scandal on Late Night with David Letterman and becomes his ally for the rest of the mystery.
Dead Man in the Cave	The Dead Man in the Cave is an unidentified middle-aged smoker whose shredded remains are found in a crevice cave near the freeway outside Dahlonega, Georgia; only his face, some gray cloth and a lighter marked "HF"...
Dead NSA Man in Black	The Dead NSA Man in Black is a gray-haired man in a black suit, carrying NSA identification, whom Jan Martense hit with his car and killed about five years before the events of The Things in Appalachia; the ape woman...
Delilah	Delilah is the red-haired, camcorder-carrying member of the Circle Chasers, a teenage Bigfoot-hunting group in Dahlonega, Georgia, who films the rabbit snatch and eats heroic quantities of spuds.
Derek Edwards	Derek Edwards is a tall, bearded amateur photographer and contractor for Auraria's small newspaper, the Gold Bug, whose Chewbacca costume was stolen from Apollo's dry cleaners and later turned up on a dead man.
Eddie Jones	Eddie Jones is a member of the Circle Chasers, the teenage Bigfoot hunters of Dahlonega, Georgia, who holds the theory that Bigfoot is a population of feral humans and who asks Kurt what life in the CIA is like.
Eduardo Hooper	Eduardo Hooper is a drunk, bolo-tied dealer of dangerous 1960s chemistry sets whom the team meets at the original Spud Hut in Appalachia 07.
Edward Nick	Edward Nick is a five- or six-year-old boy from the Dahlonega Trailer Park who was playing with Gene Cartwright when Gene vanished, and who told the sheriff he had seen Bigfoot.
Elijah Ray	Elijah Ray is the bigamist prophet who leads the Covenant, a religious community occupying the ghost town of Auraria, Georgia, and the last person known to have seen the missing Willow Greengrass.
Frederick	Frederick is a young German tourist who vanishes from a tour of the Consolidated Gold Mine near Dahlonega, Georgia, leaving his Game Boy behind; one of his shoes is later found at the bottom of a hidden shaft.
Frotter Comstock	Frotter Comstock is a bearded, tax-dodging moonshiner on a ridge outside Auraria, Georgia, who saw a pair of eyes at his homestead and on whose land the corpse of a man in a Chewbacca costume is found.
Gene Cartwright	Gene Cartwright is a seven-year-old boy from a Dahlonega trailer park who vanished from the field behind it, setting off the missing-persons case that draws the task force to Georgia in The Things in Appalachia.
Harvey	Harvey is the enormous black Great Dane of the Circle Chasers, a teenage Bigfoot-hunting group in Dahlonega, Georgia, who say he is trained to smell the paranormal.
Jan Martense	Jan Martense is the tall, gaunt East German manager of the Spud Hut Georgia Regional Distribution Center and the head of a secret gold-mining operation staffed by bred ape-men, the main antagonist of The Things in...
Jeremy	Jeremy is a former door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman and recovering Quaalude addict who is baptized into the Covenant in the red-clay river near Auraria, Georgia.
Monica Cartwright	Monica Cartwright is the alcoholic mother of the missing boy Gene Cartwright, who tells the task force about off-season Jeep hunters and a naked, hairy figure resembling Chewbacca.
Motel and Suites Clerk	The Motel and Suites Clerk is the tired, dry, cooperative man behind bulletproof glass at a de-branded Holiday Inn near Dahlonega, Georgia, who confirms that the drifter later found dead in a Chewbacca costume had...
Mother Dahlia Riversand	Mother Dahlia Riversand is a big, imposing elder of the Covenant who receives the task force in the ghost town of Auraria, Georgia.
Primenthol "Prim" Greengrass	Primenthol "Prim" Greengrass is the sister of the missing Covenant member Willow Greengrass, a podiatrist and former member of the Covenant who had been staying in Dahlonega, Georgia for about a month when Willow...
Shelly (ape woman)	Shelly is an ape woman whom Jan Martense found drugged in the van of a dead man with NSA identification and later used to breed the ape-men of the Dahlonega gold mines.
Sheriff Carter Burke	Sheriff Carter Burke is the haggard sheriff of Dahlonega, Georgia, who brings the task force into the missing-persons case in The Things in Appalachia, follows the team into the Spud Hut mines and ends the recorded...
Sloth	Sloth is the armed marksman of the Circle Chasers, a group of young Bigfoot hunters in Dahlonega, Georgia, and the owner of the Great Dane Harvey.
Smith Hotel Desk Clerk	The Smith Hotel Desk Clerk is the young, eager and chatty clerk of the Smith Hotel in Dahlonega, Georgia, who gossips about the suspicious guests in room 111 and lends the Biz the master key.
Spud Hut Counter Savant	The Spud Hut Counter Savant is an unnamed teenage worker at the original Spud Hut in Dahlonega, Georgia, who has perfect recall, keeps a cryptogram secret menu, and is eventually placed in a CIA job by Kurt.
Talila "Tully"	Talila "Tully" is a seventeen-year-old front-desk clerk at the Smith Hotel in Dahlonega, Georgia, who overhears Andrew Howard blurting out the case's body count to Big Bill and offers him his mother's fax machine.
Troy Cleaver	Troy Cleaver is the name of the dead man found in a stolen Chewbacca costume on Frotter Comstock's land, an ex-military drifter who staged fake Bigfoot sightings around Dahlonega, Georgia, and who, according to...
Vanessa	Vanessa is a teenage member of the Circle Chasers, the Bigfoot-hunting group in Dahlonega, Georgia, who argues for an undiscovered hominid and who produces the blinking tracking device found in a pool of bear vomit.
Willow Greengrass	Willow Greengrass is a member of the Covenant in Auraria, Georgia, who vanished while carrying a sack of peaches through the woods, and whose disappearance, alongside those of two boys, brings the task force to...

The Walkers in Skin¶

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The "homeless" man	The "homeless" man is a ragged stranger in the alley beside the Ballard grocery store who bites Huell Kendrick's wrist, shouts "Pig!" and takes his dollar, in a town where locals insist there are no homeless people.
Alberta Wilmarth	Alberta Wilmarth ("Alby") is the owner of a Utah ranch near Ballard who hires Andrew Howard to force the exhumation of her dead mother, and who dotes on her enormous goose, Nancy.
Andrew Howard (duplicate)	Andrew Howard (duplicate) is the flawed, sickly skinwalker copy of FBI agent Andrew Howard who takes his place after the Ballard gym fight, travels with the task force while secretly working for the skinwalkers, and...
Andrew Howard (the Monstrous)	Andrew Howard (the Monstrous) is the real Andrew Howard after he dies in the Ballard gym fight and revives at the bottom of the Roosevelt morgue pile, changed into something inhuman: two heartbeats, a craving for...
Carl Gardner	Carl Gardner is a hearty, back-slapping FBI agent at the Salt Lake City field office who briefs the task force on the Sherman Ranch reports and hands over the case file.
Deborah Wells	Deborah Wells is the Ballard, Utah school superintendent, town treasurer and church-events organiser who, with the mayor, pushes the town's community center project; the team never meets her, only hears about her and...
Doug	Doug is the tendril-mouthed man of two Walkers in Skin cold opens: a large, dead-eyed trailer-dweller in the Utah desert who eats Jell-O and passes grey tendrils from his mouth, in the second case into a woman's mouth.
Drebin	Drebin is a Salt Lake City equipment dealer with mutton-chop sideburns and a pet iguana who rents the task force a ground-penetrating radar and is the first to spot the cavern beneath Sherman Ranch.
Harrison	Harrison is a stoned, apologetic Ballard high schooler caught hiding in the Sherman Ranch barn on a dare, who tells the team about the stench at his school.
Hooster	Hooster is the Biz's confidential informant in Washington, D.C., a "criminal MacGyver" on parole who agrees to build a bomb collar, supply thermite and sell a net gun to deal with the Sherman Ranch goose.
Maggie	Maggie is the young, blunt bartender of Ballard, Utah, who gives the team their best picture of the town's gossip, tells the ball-lightning story and mothers Andrew Howard with root beer floats.
The major	The major is the unnamed commander of the Utah National Guard convoy that backs the task force in the finale of The Walkers in Skin.
Naked intruder	The naked intruder is an enormous, pain-immune, naked man who lets himself into the Sherman Ranch double-wide with a key and a shotgun, bites a chunk from the Biz's cheek, is emptied by Andrew's Cast Out Evil, and...
Nancy the goose	Nancy is Alberta Wilmarth's enormous, aggressive goose, a comic menace who besieges the Sherman Ranch guest house, bites Huell, steals Andrew Howard's jacket and finally befriends the real Howard after his return.
Ned Simpson	Ned Simpson is an extravagantly blond feed-store worker who builds an armored bulldozer and leads the charge on the skinwalker stronghold in the finale of The Walkers in Skin.
Ponytail Lady	Ponytail Lady is the fan name for the blonde, holstered staffer at Robert Bigelow's rented big house, who greets the task force with sweet tea, shows them the camera footage, lends them bicycles and later shares a...
Robert Bigelow	Robert Bigelow is a Texas real estate billionaire and UFO researcher who rents the big house and barn on Sherman Ranch near Ballard, Utah, and hosts the task force during The Walkers in Skin.
Shelly Wilmarth	Shelly Wilmarth is Alberta Wilmarth's mother, who died of a heart attack out with the cattle on the family ranch near Ballard, Utah, yet appears on a local news broadcast and is said to walk the ranch at night.
Sheriff McDermish	Sheriff McDermish is the heavyset, part-time sheriff of Ballard, Utah, a veteran who files the exhumation paperwork for the task force and later flees the state with his young son.
Walt "Coyote" Murphy	Walt "Coyote" Murphy is a veteran ranch hand and gate guard on Robert Bigelow's research staff at Sherman Ranch near Ballard, Utah, who guides the task force on night patrols and joins the final battle of The Walkers...
Wilford Hiram	Wilford Hiram is the mustached, ring-wearing mayor of Ballard, Utah, who pushes the community center project, turns out to be a skinwalker who replaced the real mayor months before the task force arrived, and is last...
Yusuf Ansari	Yusuf Ansari is a junkyard owner near Roosevelt, Utah, pressured by police into falsely confessing to crushing the task force's rental car, and later found alive among the bodies after the Roosevelt police station...

The Roulet Estate¶

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The Finnish Hare Krishna Monk	The Finnish Hare Krishna Monk is an unnamed, orange-robed hitchhiker whom the task force picked up during their drunken drive to Rhode Island and who stays with them through the first two episodes of The Roulet Estate.
Margaret Roulet	Margaret Roulet was a UFO believer who lived with her husband at 118 Benefit Street in Exeter, Rhode Island, and whose reported "visitations" and disappearance drew the task force to the Roulet House.
Mr. Roulet	Mr.
Officer Todd	Officer Todd is a nervous local police officer at the Brooks Pharmacy hostage situation who hands operational command to Andrew Howard and briefs the task force on the gunman.
Old Woman in the Lime-Green VW Beetle	The Old Woman in the Lime-Green VW Beetle is an elderly bystander at the Brooks Pharmacy siege who berates the half-naked Andrew Howard, bites both him and Huell Kendrick, and is knocked out and handcuffed by Huell.
The Young Balding Cop	The Young Balding Cop is a chain-smoking Rhode Island police officer who looks much older than his twenty-two years, drives the agents to the Brooks Pharmacy, and is shot dead the moment he steps out of the car.

Philosopher's Fist (non-canon)¶

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Addison	Addison is an exhausted, poor mother at the pre-event social who pays Mirabeth a $400 down payment on an invented essential-oil business.
Colonel Sparago	Colonel Sparago is the profane, exasperated safety officer of the World Martial Arts Tournament, who hates both lead characters.
Delta	Delta is a small psychic alien entrant who rides on Derk's shoulders in the briefing tent.
Derk	Derk is a brain-damaged, near-indestructible alien prince and one of the two player characters of the one-shot Philosopher's Fist 3.J/2: Unchainable.
Fatty Gibbs	Fatty Gibbs was a very sweet sumo wrestler and Derk's friend, who died of a coronary artery problem earlier last year.
Miguel	Miguel is the honest vendor of a hot dog taco stand who gives Derk 98 hot dogs and $2 change for a $100 bill.
Mirabeth	Mirabeth is a vain, scheming 72-year-old would-be mentor with godlike beauty and legendary speed, and one of the two player characters of Philosopher's Fist 3.J/2: Unchainable.
Mirabeth's Bridge-Club Friend	Mirabeth's Bridge-Club Friend is the harried, unnamed organizer of the president's children's event, who arguably owes Mirabeth a favor.
Mr. Cartwright	Mr.
Ovain	Ovain is an anxious, many-eyed alien, the previous tournament champion and a former world conqueror, who attacks the president and is fought into space by Derk.
The Werewolf President	The Werewolf President is the genial, unnamed werewolf head of state of the one-shot's world.

Minor entries¶

Smaller subjects are collected on list pages, one per case.