Main characters in the series

• Tom Natsworthy, a 15-year-old apprentice Historian at the beginning of the series, he eventually has diverse adventures across the world.
• Hester Shaw
  Hester Shaw
  Hester Shaw is a fictional character from Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet who has terrible facial scarring, due to an attack from Thaddeus Valentine when Hester was a child.-Personality:...
  
  , a fierce young woman with a horrible scar across her face.
• Wren Natsworthy
  Wren Natsworthy
  Wren Natsworthy is a character from Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet, appearing in the last two books.-Family and friends:Her father is Tom Natsworthy and her mother is Hester Shaw and by the end of A Darkling Plain, she has become engaged to Theo Ngoni. Her best friend is Tildy Smew, a girl...
  
  , Tom and Hester's daughter who is kidnapped from their home and, as a result, finds herself experiencing the same sort of adventures as her parents had.
• Nimrod Pennyroyal
  Nimrod Pennyroyal
  Nimrod Pennyroyal is a recurring character in the Mortal Engines Quartet, written by Philip Reeve. He is first introduced in Predator's Gold and remains a major character for the rest of the series....
  
  , a supposed historian and author who is actually a fraud. He is selfish, narcissistic and cowardly, but has a knack for surviving dangerous experiences, and often shares adventures with the Natsworthy family.
• Anna Fang
  Anna Fang
  Anna Fang is a character in Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet. Her name may be derived from the German "anfang" meaning beginning.-Mortal Engines:Anna is introduced as a friendly Asian aviator who helps Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw escape slavery...
  
  , an Asian pilot and former owner of the Jenny Haniver
  Jenny Haniver (airship)
  The Jenny Haniver is the name of an airship featured heavily in Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet. She is a small cargo airship with a crimson envelope....
  
  , she is also a leading member of the Anti-Traction League. She is killed at the end of Mortal Engines but is resurrected as a Stalker
  Stalker (Philip Reeve)
  The Stalkers are a type of combatants mentioned in Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines, Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices and A Darkling Plain. They are also known as the Resurrected Men. The Stalkers were built by the Nomadic Empires that battled each other across the volcano maze of what was once...
  
   who overthrows the rulers of the League and installs herself as a military dictator.
• Shrike
  Shrike (Philip Reeve)
  Shrike is a recurring character in Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet and Fever Crumb Series. He appears in all the books except Predator's Gold and A Web of Air....
  
  , an ancient Stalker
  Stalker (Philip Reeve)
  The Stalkers are a type of combatants mentioned in Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines, Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices and A Darkling Plain. They are also known as the Resurrected Men. The Stalkers were built by the Nomadic Empires that battled each other across the volcano maze of what was once...
  
   who raised Hester after her parents were killed. In the American release of the series he is called Grike.
• Theo Ngoni
  Theo Ngoni
  Theo Ngoni is a fictional character in Phillip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet.He is first introduced in Infernal Devices as a fellow slave of Wren Natsworthy on Cloud Nine. Originally he was a Green Storm suicide bomber, but was captured when his "Tumbler" failed to detonate when it was dropped on...
  
  , an African aviator who runs away from his home to join the Green Storm, and later becomes very close to Wren.
• Fever Crumb, a member of the Engineers. She is the main character of the prequel series.

Major recurring characters in the series

• Freya Rasmussen, the young Margravine of Anchorage
  Anchorage-in-Vineland
  Anchorage-in-Vineland is a fictional city based on the city of Anchorage, Alaska in the Mortal Engines Quartet by Philip Reeve.It is the static and stable version of the Traction City of Anchorage that had decided to stop wandering the Arctic wastes and settle in the green and unspoilt land of...
  
  . Originally she is determined to stick to her family's traditions, but gradually realises that these traditions are pointless. She accompanies Tom and Hester on their mission to Grimsby at the beginning of Infernal Devices
  Infernal Devices
  Infernal Devices is the third of four novels in Philip Reeve's children's series, the Mortal Engines Quartet.-Anchorage:The story continues sixteen years after the events of Predator's Gold. The peaceful city of Anchorage is now a static settlement called "Anchorage-in-Vineland" on an island in the...
  
  , but then returns to Anchorage with Caul.
• Caul, a Lost Boy with wavering loyalty. He betrays his people and joins those of Anchorage, only to switch allegiance again to Uncle when he, Tom, Hester and Freya visit Grimsby. Eventually he rejoins the people of Anchorage for good, and returns there with Freya to marry her.
• Fishcake, a young Lost Boy who crewed with Gargle. He betrays Grimsby
  Grimsby
  Grimsby is a seaport on the Humber Estuary in Lincolnshire, England. It has been the administrative centre of the unitary authority area of North East Lincolnshire since 1996...
  
   to Brighton, and is exiled by the other Lost Boys as a result. After Tom and Hester abandon him he finds the remains of the Stalker Fang and tries to rebuild her, desperately looking for a mother-figure. At the climax of the series he coldly abandons Hester the same way she abandoned him, and goes to Zhan Shan to live with Sathya.
• General Naga, a soldier of the Green Storm
  Green Storm
  In Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet, the Green Storm is a fanatical splinter group of the Anti-Traction League, which ends up in control of the League...
  
   with a mechanical exoskeleton to replace limbs lost in battle. Following the apparent death of the Stalker Fang at the end of Infernal Devices, he is proclaimed the new leader of the Green Storm
  Green Storm
  In Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet, the Green Storm is a fanatical splinter group of the Anti-Traction League, which ends up in control of the League...
  
  , and takes Oenone Zero
  Oenone Zero
  Oenone Zero is a character in the Mortal Engines Quartet, introduced in Infernal Devices.Doctor Zero was born on the Aleutian Islands about two years before Mortal Engines started, making her approximately nineteen or twenty when she is introduced, four years older than Wren Natsworthy, who wasn't...
  
   as his wife. He is killed at the end of A Darkling Plain
  A Darkling Plain
  A Darkling Plain is the fourth and final novel in the Mortal Engines Quartet series written by author Philip Reeve.The novel won the 2006 Guardian Award and the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction.-Setting:...
  
   in a kamikaze attack on Harrowbarrow.
• Dr. Oenone Zero; then Lady Naga; later Widow Naga
  Oenone Zero
  Oenone Zero is a character in the Mortal Engines Quartet, introduced in Infernal Devices.Doctor Zero was born on the Aleutian Islands about two years before Mortal Engines started, making her approximately nineteen or twenty when she is introduced, four years older than Wren Natsworthy, who wasn't...
  
  , a gifted member of the Green Storm
  Green Storm
  In Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet, the Green Storm is a fanatical splinter group of the Anti-Traction League, which ends up in control of the League...
  
  's Resurrection Corps. At a young age she is appointed the personal surgeon-mechanic to the Stalker Fang, and uses this position to assassinate her. After the Stalker's apparent death, General Naga takes her in as his wife. In A Darkling Plain
  A Darkling Plain
  A Darkling Plain is the fourth and final novel in the Mortal Engines Quartet series written by author Philip Reeve.The novel won the 2006 Guardian Award and the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction.-Setting:...
  
   he briefly has her wrongly imprisoned for treason. However, she is released after the Storm realize that she is innocent. She assumes command after Naga's death.
• Cynthia Twite, a Green Storm
  Green Storm
  In Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet, the Green Storm is a fanatical splinter group of the Anti-Traction League, which ends up in control of the League...
  
   spy
  SPY
  SPY is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:* SPY , ticker symbol for Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts* SPY , a satirical monthly, trademarked all-caps* SPY , airport code for San Pédro, Côte d'Ivoire...
  
  , and unquestionably loyal to the Stalker Fang. She is originally posted to Brighton to keep tabs on Pennyroyal, but uses this position to steal the Tin Book. Later she is part of the internal plot to assassinate Oenone Zero, and blows up her airship over the Sahara Desert. She then tries to kill Naga when he finds out about her plot, just as the Stalker Fang fires ODIN upon Tienjing. She is incinerated in the attack.
• Dr Popjoy, a London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
   engineer who survived the city's destruction and later works for the Green Storm
  Green Storm
  In Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet, the Green Storm is a fanatical splinter group of the Anti-Traction League, which ends up in control of the League...
  
  . He creates the Stalker Fang from the frozen corpse of Anna Fang, and is her personal surgeon-mechanic until Dr. Zero takes over when he retires. The Stalker Fang eventually returns and kills him when he cannot explain why she is defective.
• Uncle (real name Stilton Kael), the elderly leader of the Lost Boys. He founded Grimsby after being disowned by his family and banished from Arkangel (where he was a slave master who owned Anna Fang). He is killed when Tom, Hester, Freya and Caul return to Grimsby to find Wren.

Minor recurring characters in the series

• Sathya, an India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
  n Anti-Tractionist and one of the founding members of the Green Storm. Later, after losing her hand to the Stalker Fang, she retires to a hermitage on the slopes of Zhan Shan. Eventually she becomes Fishcake's foster-mother.
• Captain Khora, an African soldier of the Anti-Traction League
  Anti-Traction League
  In Philip Reeve's book-series Mortal Engines Quartet, the Anti-Traction League is an organization opposed to the prevalence of Traction Cities and Municipal Darwinism. Its symbol is that of a broken wheel.-Geography:...
  
  , and captain of the gunship Mokele Mbembe. Later he becomes Air Marshal Khora and commander of the Zagwan Flying Corps.
• Chudleigh Pomeroy, a member of the Historian's Guild. He helps Katherine by giving her a place to hide Bevis Pod, and fighting off Crome
  Magnus Crome
  Magnus Crome is the Lord Mayor of London in Phillip Reeve's book Mortal Engines. He has been mayor of the city for 20 years and he is also head of the Guild of Engineers. Many Londoners believe that this is unfair and that he may put the priorities of his guild before those of London's three other...
  
  's Engineers when they attempt to kidnap her. After the destruction of London, he is Lord Mayor of the surviving Londoners but passes away before New London is complete.
• Clytie Potts, a member of the Historians' Guild who helps in the fight against the Engineers. After the destruction of London, she takes on the alias of Cruwys Morchard
  Cruwys Morchard
  Cruwys Morchard is an ecclesiastical and civil parish in the Mid Devon district of the county of Devon in England. It is located about four to five miles west of Tiverton along the road to Witheridge. The parish covers about of land, and comprises a number of scattered houses and farms, and three...
  
   to ferry in supplies to the London survivors.
• Gargle, a Lost Boy who (when he was very young), was a member of Caul's Anchorage crew . He later becomes the de facto leader of the Lost Boys, but when he comes to Anchorage-in-Vineland for the Tin Book, he is shot by Hester as she tries to rescue Wren.
• Smew, a dwarf retainer of the Rasmussen family.
• Windolene Pye, an old member of Anchorage's Steering Committee who marries Søren Scabious, Anchorage's Engine Master.

Major characters in Mortal Engines

• Thaddeus Valentine
  Thaddeus Valentine
  Thaddeus Valentine is a fictitious historian of London in the book Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve. Mortal Engines is the first of a four-part series detailing life in an post nuclear war world...
  
  , a dashing and handsome Historian often idolised by younger Historians - though his less public image involves murder and thievery as an agent of London. He was killed in the destruction of London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
   by MEDUSA. He is in fact Hester's biological father.
• Magnus Crome
  Magnus Crome
  Magnus Crome is the Lord Mayor of London in Phillip Reeve's book Mortal Engines. He has been mayor of the city for 20 years and he is also head of the Guild of Engineers. Many Londoners believe that this is unfair and that he may put the priorities of his guild before those of London's three other...
  
  , the megalomaniacal mayor of London. Killed when it is destroyed.
• Katherine Valentine, Thaddeus Valentine's daughter. After uncovering her father's dark secret, she attempts to stop him, with help through Bevis Pod and the Historians guild; however, he accidentally kills her with his sword just before MEDUSA destroys London.
• Bevis Pod, a young apprentice Engineer. He works with Katherine to uncover Valentine's plans and falls in love with her. Killed when the 13th Floor Elevator crashes on London's top tier after being shot down by Tom. Estranged son of Dr. Lavinia Childermass.
• Chrysler Peavy, the pirate mayor of Tunbridge Wheels. He takes Tom and Hester to the Black Island, expecting Tom (because he is a London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
  er) to teach him how to be civilised. He is betrayed and shot by the remainder of his crew shortly before they themselves are killed by the Stalker Shrike.

Minor characters in Mortal Engines

• Nils Lindstrom, a gloomy aviator of the Garden Aeroplane Trap.
• Yasmina Rashid, an Arabian privateer
  Privateer
  A privateer is a private person or ship authorized by a government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping during wartime. Privateering was a way of mobilizing armed ships and sailors without having to spend public money or commit naval officers...
  
   on the Zainab.
• Moira Plym, a member of the Historian's Guild who helps in the fight against the Engineers. Killed in the destruction of London.
• Dr Arkengarth, the curator of ceramics
  Ceramics (art)
  In art history, ceramics and ceramic art mean art objects such as figures, tiles, and tableware made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery. Some ceramic products are regarded as fine art, while others are regarded as decorative, industrial or applied art objects, or as...
  
   in the Historian's Guild. Killed in the attack by the Engineers.
• Dr. Twix, a researcher in the Guild of Engineers who creates many Stalkers for Magnus Crome.
• Orme Wreyland, the mayor of a small town who rescues Tom and Hester and then drugs them in the hope of selling them into slavery.
• Mr Ames, a former schoolteacher who is now a pirate in Peavy's band. Killed by Shrike.
• Mungo, of Peavy's pirates. Killed by Shrike.
• Maggs, one of Peavy's pirates. Killed by Shrike.
• Pewsey and Gench, two reformed air pirates who are the sole crew of Valentine's airship, the 13th Floor Elevator. Killed by Tom when he shoots them down over London from the Jenny Haniver.

Major characters in Predator's Gold

• Mr. Scabious, chief engineer of Anchorage. He considers Tom similar to his late son, and often tries to help him. He dies sometime before Infernal Devices.
• Piotr Masgard, chief of Arkangel's Huntsmen: bands of warriors who capture cities by airship and then steer them into Arkangel's jaws. Actually he is a coward and unused to a fair fight. He is violently killed by Hester during the attack on Anchorage.
• Skewer, one of Caul's crew. He takes command when he considers Caul unfit, and is reprimanded by Uncle.

Minor characters in Predator's Gold

• Mr. and Mrs. Aakiuq, Anchorage's harbour officers.
• Wrasse, Uncle's deputy among the Lost Boys. He is killed by the Stalker Fang during the raid on Rogue's Roost.
• Widgery Blinkoe, a resident of Arkangel who kidnaps Hester and sells her to the Green Storm. In return they kill him, so he won't tell anyone their secrets. His body is converted into a stalker.

Major characters in Infernal Devices

• Boo-Boo Pennyroyal , the wife of Nimrod Pennyroyal and Mayoress of Brighton. She does little except shop and attend operas, but encourages Wren and Theo's non-existent secret romance.
• Nabisco Shkin, the man behind the Shkin Coperation (a slave dealer in Brighton). He is killed while attempting to escape Brighton during the Green Storm's attack on the city.

Minor characters in Infernal Devices

• Mr Plovery , an antiques dealer in Brighton with an expensive elderly mother to look after. He is killed by a Stalker Bird when he tries to steal the Tin Book, however his death is mistakenly attributed to Pennyroyal's security system.
• Remora, a Lost Girl and Gargle's girlfriend. She is killed by Hester.
• Krill, a Lost Boy captured by Brighton's WOPCART scheme. Hester frees him to create a diversion while rescuing Wren.

Major characters in A Darkling Plain

• Kriegsmarshal Von Kobold, the leader of Marnau, and Wolf Kobold's father. He wants peace for his city and has a soft spot for certain members of the Green Storm.
• Wolf Kobold, the German
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
   commander of a small harvester suburb called Harrowbarrow. He resents his parents and their high position. He leads Tom and Wren to the wreckage of London on a somewhat false pretext, and escapes with the knowledge of New London, intending to return and devour it with Harrowbarrow. He is killed accidentally by Wren during a sword fight atop his suburb, in which he is impaled and falls under the tracks.
• Napster Varley, an aspiring trader who buys Lady Naga and tries to sell her to the Traktionstadtsgesellschaft
  Traktionstadtsgesellschaft
  The Traktionstadtsgesellschaft is an organization of German cities in the novel A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve....
  
  . He has a wife (bought at an auction) that he frequently beats up; and son, Napster Varley, Jr. He is shot by the hand of his own spouse as Hester and Theo attempt to rescue Lady Naga.
• Dr. Lavinia Childermass, an elderly Engineer who survived the MEDUSA incident because she was locked in prison, having rebelled against the insane Magnus Crome
  Magnus Crome
  Magnus Crome is the Lord Mayor of London in Phillip Reeve's book Mortal Engines. He has been mayor of the city for 20 years and he is also head of the Guild of Engineers. Many Londoners believe that this is unfair and that he may put the priorities of his guild before those of London's three other...
  
  . She was head of the Engineer's Magnetic levitation
  Magnetic levitation
  Magnetic levitation, maglev, or magnetic suspension is a method by which an object is suspended with no support other than magnetic fields...
  
   Research Division, and was made Deputy Mayor of the Londoners that survived in the city's wreck. She personally built the Mag-Lev engines that operated New London (known as the Childermass Engines). After the death of Chudleigh Pomeroy, she is denied the mayorship of New London, and then helps Wren and Theo escape the insane clutches of the new Lord Mayor, Mr. Garamond. It is revealed that she had a son, but due to Magnus Crome's new laws for the Guild of Engineers, the boy was taken away as a baby. She named him Bevis, alluring to the fact that she was the mother of Bevis Pod, who helped Katherine Valentine destroy MEDUSA in Mortal Engines
  Mortal Engines
  Mortal Engines is the first of four novels in Philip Reeve's quartet of the same name, which is also known as the Hungry City Chronicles in the United States...
  
  .

Minor characters in A Darkling Plain

• The Ngonis, Theo's family back in Zagwa which consists of his Mother, Father and sisters, Kaelo and Miriam.
• Mr Pondicherry, an Old-Tech auctioneer in Peripatetiapolis who tells Tom and Wren Natsworthy what he knows about Clytie Potts.
• Grandma Gravy, an old 'witch' of Cutler's Gulp, who temporarily enslaves both Theo Ngoni and Lady Naga.
• Mr Garamond, New London's paranoid head of security. He distrusts Wren and Theo, when they arrive in new London, and has them imprisoned for a short time.
• Brittlestar, one of the Lost Boy warlords of the now anarchic Brighton. He is killed by Anna Fang/Stalker Fang when his warriors attempt to apprehend Fishcake.
• Will Hallsworh and Jake Henson, School Children from London, who are both killed during the Greenstorm/Harrowbarrow Attack. Named after real people from a school in Crediton
  Crediton
  Crediton is a town and civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon in England. It stands on the A377 Exeter to Barnstaple road at the junction with the A3072 road to Tiverton, about north west of Exeter. It has a population of 6,837...
  
  , Devon
  Devon
  Devon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...
  
  .
• Mrs. Varley The wife of Napster Varley, who his beaten by him. She saves Hester by shooting her husband.

Characters in Fever Crumb

• Fever Crumb The protagonist of the book, she is part human, part scriven.
• Dr Crumb, Fever's adoptive father. It is later revealed that he is actually her biological father as well.
• Quercus, a Northern Nomad. After he fights Ted Swiney he becomes mayor of London. At the end it is hinted that he is the great "Quirke" who is revered in the Mortal Engines Quartet.
• Charley Shallow, a boy who worked in Ted's tavern, until Bagman Creech came and told him he could help him slay Scrivens.
• Ruan Solent, Kit's son.
• Fern Solent, Kit's daughter.
• Wavey Godshawk Daughter of Auric Godshawk and Fever's mother.
• Auric Godshawk Deceased leader of the Scriven.

Fever Crumb only

• Kit Solent
  Shrike (Philip Reeve)
  Shrike is a recurring character in Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet and Fever Crumb Series. He appears in all the books except Predator's Gold and A Web of Air....
  
  , a kind archaeologist who Fever Crumb is sent to work with. He is shot by rioters in London and dies from his wound while fleeing from the city in a hot air balloon. Afterwards he is turned into Shrike.
• Ted Swiney, an unpleasant Cockney tavern owner who later becomes mayor of London. During a fight with Quercus he is crushed by a giant barrel.
• Bagman Creech, a renowned "skinner" (Scriven killer) from the uprising in London. He is shot and killed by Kit Solent.
• Master Wormtimber master of devices. Killed when Godshawk's Head collapses onto him.

A Web of Air only

• Arlo Thursday, a young orphan and inventor working on flight.
• Edgar Saraband
• Jago Belkin
• Thirza Belkin

Scrivenr's Moon only

• Cluny Morvish, a you Arkangelsk woman with strange dreams.
• Martin Morvish, Clunys' younger brother, a skilled hunter.
• Tharp, the head Technomancer of the Arkangelsk.
• Gwen Natsworthy, a young London woman opposed to its transformation to a traction city.

See also

• Hungry City Chronicles
  Hungry City Chronicles
  The Mortal Engines Quartet is the UK and original title of a series of four novels, Mortal Engines , Predator's Gold , Infernal Devices , and A Darkling Plain , written by the British author Philip Reeve...
  
  
• Mortal Engines
  Mortal Engines
  Mortal Engines is the first of four novels in Philip Reeve's quartet of the same name, which is also known as the Hungry City Chronicles in the United States...
  
  
• Predator's Gold
  Predator's Gold
  Predator's Gold is the second of four novels in Philip Reeve's series for young adults, the Mortal Engines Quartet.-Setting:Predator's Gold is set two years after Mortal Engines...
  
  
• Infernal Devices
• A Darkling Plain
  A Darkling Plain
  A Darkling Plain is the fourth and final novel in the Mortal Engines Quartet series written by author Philip Reeve.The novel won the 2006 Guardian Award and the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction.-Setting:...
  
  
• Fever Crumb
  Fever Crumb
  Fever Crumb is the prequel to the Mortal Engines Quartet by Philip Reeve, released in 2009. A sequel called A Web of Air was released in April 2010.-Plot synopsis:...
  
  
• A Web of Air
  A Web of Air
  A Web of Air is the sequel to Fever Crumb, and the second book in the Mortal Engines Quartet prequel series. It was released in April 2010.-Information:...