List of minor Yeerks
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This is a list of minor Yeerks from the Animorphs
series. In the Animorphs universe, Yeerk numbers are pronounced one at a time; Aftran 942 would be said "Aftran nine-four-two."
ran away from the Animorphs in The Departure (#19), she met a lost Aftran but didn't kill her because she didn't want to kill Karen.
Aftran tried to explain the Yeerks' plight to Cassie, who wound up making a deal with the alien. If Cassie would become a nothlit
, stuck permanently in the body of a caterpillar
, essentially taking upon herself the 'punishment' that she would be condemning Aftran to if Aftran left her host, Aftran would free Karen and would no longer infest any other human. Cassie agreed. Near the end of the two-hour morphing limit (the point of no return as far as morph went), Aftran told Cassie she could return to human form, but the caterpillar had no sense of hearing. She later was able to morph back, as caterpillars "naturally morphed" into butterflies
, which reset the morphing clock.
It is later revealed in The Sickness (#29) that Aftran has become the leader of a movement called the Yeerk Peace Movement, all of whom do not wish to dominate their hosts. When Visser Three
found out about this movement, Aftran was captured. Mr. Tidwell, one of the teachers at the Animorphs' school and one of Aftran's allies, tells the Animorphs. Because the other four Animorphs and Ax were disabled by an Andalite flu, Cassie went in there with Mr. Tidwell and managed to rescue her. Aftran later helps Cassie operate on Ax to remove a gland in his brain that would have killed him, entering Ax as a host and subsequently 'guiding' Cassie to the appropriate part of Ax's brain to allow her to remove it. Knowing that she was going to starve to death, Aftran asked Cassie to kill her; however, Cassie and the others agreed to give her the morphing power to become a nothlit. She chose to become a male humpback whale
.
. He was the Yeerk that piloted Esplin
's Bug Fighter, and he was often panicked.
's peers during the battle for the Hork-Bajir world who appeared in The Hork-Bajir Chronicles. Started referring to himself as "sub-visser" and gave the order to have Seerow and his family incinerated, over Esplin (Visser Three
)'s protests to wait for the fourth Andalite, Aldrea
, to appear. Esplin's advice was not heeded, but later proven the wiser, when Aldrea later became a leader of the Hork-Bajir resistance to the Yeerk invasion. Esplin considered him too aggressive and crude. Carger is killed when a Jubba-Jubba bites off his host's head.
, chronicling Visser One
's trial before the Council. Though she escaped their wrath on that occasion, it was short-lived, as they ordered her executed when she failed them on the Anati world.
The Council apparently existed before the Yeerk Empire; Visser Three mentions it had already been in place during the time of The Hork-Bajir Chronicles
. One of the thirteen is Emperor, though only the Council knows who; the Emperor's identity is kept secret, so that no assassin, Yeerk or otherwise, could succeed in killing him without killing the entire Council. Also unknown is the Council's location (their Visser appearance was via hologram) or their ultimate fate, after more than half of their forces were defeated in the final battle for Earth.
Only one Councilor, Garoff 168 (see below), is identified by name. He, along with most of the Councilors, have Hork-Bajir hosts, while two have Taxxons. Two Councilors remain forever concealed in the shadows, making their forms unknown. They all wear dark red (almost black) robes.
(indirectly through denial of Kandrona due to shortage and low rank), and it is because of this that Eslin strikes a truce (albeit temporary) with Aximili in book 8
. Eslin explains to Ax that he and Derane came from the same pool, went through training together, and were very close.
's next feeding ground in the hopes that Ax would exact vengeance. However, although Ax poisoned Visser Three, the Yeerk itself (Esplin 9466) slipped out and Ax could not bring himself to kill a fellow Andalite warrior (Alloran
). Eslin sneered at this failed attempt but did not report Ax to his superiors. Ax met him one last time to relay a message to the Andalite home world. His human host's name is Gary Kozlar.
(#16). The double six at the end of his name signifies that he was formed from the same grub as another Yeerk, half of a pair of twins. However, his identical brother happens to be the same Yeerk who is Visser Three
. In the case of twins, the one designated as the greater gets more power and rewards. However, as Visser Three is a power hungry Yeerk, he decided to snatch all the power and rewards, allowing Esplin 9466 Lesser to only have whatever he could salvage.
However, Esplin 9466 Lesser turns his misfortune around. His host is Joe Bob Fenestre, and Esplin invented Web Access America (an analogue of America Online that, in the Animorphs universe, is the world's most popular Internet service provider
) through his host, which was an easy task for superior Yeerk technology. It made Fenestre a billionaire. Joe Bob's Horatio Alger story, as he progressed from an ordinary telephone repairman to an Internet pioneer, has become famous enough by the time of the Animorphs story that Marco
regards him as a hero.
He obtains vast knowledge of information by sifting e-mails and spying chat rooms. He was a great asset for the invasion. Visser Three, fearing his rising popularity and ambition, declared him a traitor, which forced Esplin 9466 Lesser into hiding. Esplin uses Fenestre to build a huge mansion and heavily guard it. Knowing that his twin's host has the ability to morph into animals of all sorts, he equipped his mansion with weapons, ranging from Rottweliers and guards with submachine guns to insecticides and bug zappers to electrical force fields. His guards have instructions to shoot anything that attempts to come close to the house. This poses a great difficulty to the Animorphs; when they attempt to pay him a visit, Rachel and Ax are captured and they are forced to retreat, although Jake subsequently breaks through the defences by acquiring a rhinoceros
morph.
He explains to the Animorphs that the only reason why he is still alive today is due to his technique of survival. Cut off from Kandrona rays, he is now a cannibal. He captures fellow Controllers, splits the human host's head open, and grinds the Yeerk body inside into a powder that he then ingests. Visser Three keeps him alive only because he wants to learn that technique; but, as he explains, the technique would never catch on very well for the rest of the Yeerks.
After explaining this to the Animorphs, Cassie
, horrified by his cold-blooded attitude towards humans and Yeerks, demands that Jake kills Esplin. Jake, however, had already agreed not to harm him, but adds a condition: Esplin may never leave his mansion again, or the Animorphs will find him and kill him. Esplin agrees. However, by the end of the book, his house burns down under mysterious circumstances; it is implied, but never stated, that Jake or Cassie may have done this. Nobody died in the fire, but Esplin's fate afterwards is never disclosed, including whether or not Jake fulfilled his pledge to kill him or if Visser Three thought that his brother's habits were killing too many Yeerks and destroyed his brother once and for all.
Esplin 9466 Lesser makes a minor appearance in the prequel, The Hork-Bajir Chronicles
, which chronicles the origin of Visser Three, appearing alongside his twin before the Yeerks are attacked by Aldrea's
army of Hork-Bajir and Arn-created monsters. He and his twin are joking together on the edge of a Yeerk-felled Nawin Speaking Tree which had been cut into to make a Yeerk pool.
(#41). He was a planetary engineer working on the project to convert Earth's moon into a Kandrona-radiating miniature sun, based in the Chrysler Building.
. In The Departure
(#19), Jake
gives the order to call off their attack immediately before Cassie
rips out the throat of Estril's host. This guilt pressures her to temporarily leave the Animorphs.
's former mentor, whose sole appearance is in Visser
. He is the speaker at the trial of Edriss 562. During the trial, Edriss strongly suspects that he is the Emperor, and wonders if only his opinion matters. Garoff is sympathetic to Edriss and tries as much as possible to get her free. For instance, when it is clear that Edriss has committed treasonous acitivities, he decides to resume the testimony instead of convicting her. Edriss is stunned at first, but it is her host, Eva, that realizes that Garoff is trying to get her free. Garoff controls a Hork-Bajir
host.
.
, Iniss 226 tells Mrs. Chapman's Yeerk how Visser Three
showed him a hologram video of how he morphed a Vanarx and sucked Iniss 174 out of a woman's head and ate the Yeerk.
in cobra morph. Visser Three
decides not to help him, because he knows the Inspector would have given him a bad review. The Inspector dies from the poison.
who was part of the mission to enter Zone 91 controlling a horse to find out what non-human thing was being hidden there. He was killed when he could not tell Visser Three what they had seen inside the base.
. He speaks up during Sub-Visser 409
's lecture, and its host is killed by Edriss immediately after giving its name. Kilgam manages to crawl out of the Gedd's ear before the death completely reaches it. He is then taken to the pool.
who was part of the mission to enter Zone 91 controlling a horse to find out what non-human thing was being hidden there. Called a "clumsy fool" by Visser Three, he dies when he is bitten by a snake.
. He is mentioned by one of the security guards wearing boots, saying he "just left the entrance" and passed his shift off to Lascar 454.
, delivering news (from the Taxxon homeworld) to Sub-Visser 409
of a Class Five species. The report claims that humans may exist in billions. These humans are in fact Loren and Hedrick, in a scene that takes place in The Andalite Chronicles
.
) Niss is the Yeerk who controls future Cassie. She is part of the Evolutionist Front (The EF) , a group of Yeerks who wished to create artificial symbiotes rather than taking natural, sentient hosts.
in Megamorphs #4: Back to Before
. The book is set in an alternate universe that chronicles what would happen had the Animorphs not received their powers. Tobias joins the Sharing and becomes a Controller: he almost willingly surrenders his freedom, but resists at the last minute. Odret is loyal to the current Visser One, Edriss 562
, which leads to his execution by Visser Three.
.
, Edriss 562
describes to the Council of Thirteen how she reported to Sub-Visser Ninety-two that she had found a Class-Five species, in the early 1990s. Sub-Visser 92 is surprised that there are five billion, rather than million, Class-Five humans on Earth, so much so that he cuts himself with his own Hork-Bajir blades by sitting up too quickly.
(in #6: The Capture
) and his older brother Tom previously. Temrash was originally waiting for a promotion (to infest the Governor) when the Animorphs invade the Yeerk pool (a smaller one contained in a spa inside a hospital room). After being shot, Jake falls in, and Temrash infests him to avoid death when one of the Animorphs boils the Yeerk Pool (by turning on the spa's jets and heater). He first believed that he could fool the other Animorphs, but they soon realize that Jake is not acting normally when Temrash instinctively sneers at Ax and then calls him "Andalite filth" when Ax is acquiring him. Determined to eliminate the Yeerk, the Animorphs tie Jake up in a cabin in the woods for three days until Temrash dies; although he attempts to escape on multiple occasions, the others are always able to recapture him. His death causes Jake to see Crayak
, a recurring dream that haunts him until book 26
, when the Animorphs confront Crayak on the city of wonders (the Iskoort
home world).
series: Edriss 562
and later (after the death of Edriss) Esplin 9466 Primary
.
(#46). His host is a lieutenant of the U.S.S. George Washington
. When something attacks the George Washington, he arranges for a fake report to state that it was from a Chinese submarine. According to his plan, several hours later, the U.S. government will receive a report that the Chinese made an unprovoked attack, which would lead to a World War III
and millions of lost lives. Only Visser Two had the authority to stop his men from shooting, so Ax morphs into his host and other various humans. Ax
hijacks an F-14 Tomcat with a nuclear weapon and puts Visser Two in the cockpit with him. Ax calmly states that he will bomb the location of the Yeerk pool (having a single bomb that was loaded previously on the plane), killing thousands of Yeerks, in an attempt to convince Visser Two to call off the attack. Furious, Visser Two agrees, and his plan is defeated.
.
). In Megamorphs #3: Elfangor's Secret
, he discovered the Time Matrix and intended to use it to change history, in order to make the future invasion easier for the Yeerks. When Crayak
and the Ellimist
deemed him dangerous, they sent the Animorphs after him. They managed to finally stop him on D-Day
on the beaches of Normandy. In the ensuing chaos, Marco throws him into a burning tank. With the Time Matrix, the Animorphs rewrote the past so that Berryman would never exist, and Visser Four would presumably have never infested him.
man for a host. He is a member of the search party looking for Karen and Aftran in the woods in book 19
.
Animorphs
Animorphs is an English language science fiction series of young adult books written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic. Five humans, Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and Tobias, and one alien, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill , obtain the ability to morph into any animal they touch. They name...
series. In the Animorphs universe, Yeerk numbers are pronounced one at a time; Aftran 942 would be said "Aftran nine-four-two."
Aftran 942
Aftran 942 is a Yeerk, but unlike the majority of her species, she does not want to dominate other species. Her host was a young girl named Karen. When CassieCassie (Animorphs)
Cassie is a fictional character from the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K. A. Applegate. Her last name is never mentioned, although she referred to it as being "nice" in The Secret.-Biography:...
ran away from the Animorphs in The Departure (#19), she met a lost Aftran but didn't kill her because she didn't want to kill Karen.
Aftran tried to explain the Yeerks' plight to Cassie, who wound up making a deal with the alien. If Cassie would become a nothlit
Andalite terminology
A compilation of Andalite terminology used throughout the Animorphs series.*Andalite Homeworld: The name of the native planet of the Andalites is not given in the series, and is simply referred to as the Andalite homeworld. It possesses more than one sun, which gives its sky a red-gold hue, and the...
, stuck permanently in the body of a caterpillar
Caterpillar
Caterpillars are the larval form of members of the order Lepidoptera . They are mostly herbivorous in food habit, although some species are insectivorous. Caterpillars are voracious feeders and many of them are considered to be pests in agriculture...
, essentially taking upon herself the 'punishment' that she would be condemning Aftran to if Aftran left her host, Aftran would free Karen and would no longer infest any other human. Cassie agreed. Near the end of the two-hour morphing limit (the point of no return as far as morph went), Aftran told Cassie she could return to human form, but the caterpillar had no sense of hearing. She later was able to morph back, as caterpillars "naturally morphed" into butterflies
Butterfly
A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...
, which reset the morphing clock.
It is later revealed in The Sickness (#29) that Aftran has become the leader of a movement called the Yeerk Peace Movement, all of whom do not wish to dominate their hosts. When Visser Three
Visser Three
Visser Three, born as Esplin 9466 Primary and later known as Visser One, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K.A. Applegate. He is the leader of the Yeerk forces on Earth, having inherited the planet from Edriss 562, who was Visser One at...
found out about this movement, Aftran was captured. Mr. Tidwell, one of the teachers at the Animorphs' school and one of Aftran's allies, tells the Animorphs. Because the other four Animorphs and Ax were disabled by an Andalite flu, Cassie went in there with Mr. Tidwell and managed to rescue her. Aftran later helps Cassie operate on Ax to remove a gland in his brain that would have killed him, entering Ax as a host and subsequently 'guiding' Cassie to the appropriate part of Ax's brain to allow her to remove it. Knowing that she was going to starve to death, Aftran asked Cassie to kill her; however, Cassie and the others agreed to give her the morphing power to become a nothlit. She chose to become a male humpback whale
Humpback Whale
The humpback whale is a species of baleen whale. One of the larger rorqual species, adults range in length from and weigh approximately . The humpback has a distinctive body shape, with unusually long pectoral fins and a knobbly head. It is an acrobatic animal, often breaching and slapping the...
.
Akdor 1154
The Yeerk who led the uprising against the Andalites. Akdor understood the concept of using a host body to act as a predator, and he personally killed four Andalites. Died on the campaign for the Hork-Bajir.Alahar 7865
Alahar 7865 appeared only in The Hork-Bajir ChroniclesThe Hork-Bajir Chronicles
The Hork-Bajir Chronicles is the second companion book to the Animorphs series, written by K. A. Applegate. With respect to continuity within the series, it takes place before book #23, The Pretender, although the events told in the story occur between the time of The Ellimist Chronicles and The...
. He was the Yeerk that piloted Esplin
Visser Three
Visser Three, born as Esplin 9466 Primary and later known as Visser One, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K.A. Applegate. He is the leader of the Yeerk forces on Earth, having inherited the planet from Edriss 562, who was Visser One at...
's Bug Fighter, and he was often panicked.
Carger 7901
One of Visser ThreeVisser Three
Visser Three, born as Esplin 9466 Primary and later known as Visser One, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K.A. Applegate. He is the leader of the Yeerk forces on Earth, having inherited the planet from Edriss 562, who was Visser One at...
's peers during the battle for the Hork-Bajir world who appeared in The Hork-Bajir Chronicles. Started referring to himself as "sub-visser" and gave the order to have Seerow and his family incinerated, over Esplin (Visser Three
Visser Three
Visser Three, born as Esplin 9466 Primary and later known as Visser One, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K.A. Applegate. He is the leader of the Yeerk forces on Earth, having inherited the planet from Edriss 562, who was Visser One at...
)'s protests to wait for the fourth Andalite, Aldrea
Aldrea
Aldrea-Iskillion-Falan is a fictional character in the Animorphs series.Aldrea is the daughter of Prince Seerow, a main character in Animorphs 34: The Prophecy and the heroine in The Hork-Bajir Chronicles...
, to appear. Esplin's advice was not heeded, but later proven the wiser, when Aldrea later became a leader of the Hork-Bajir resistance to the Yeerk invasion. Esplin considered him too aggressive and crude. Carger is killed when a Jubba-Jubba bites off his host's head.
Council of Thirteen
The Council of Thirteen is the top governing position of the Yeerk Empire, above all the Vissers in rank. The Council is rarely seen, but mentioned fairly often; Visser Three often discusses his dream of becoming a Councilor, as do Visser One and likely all the most prominent Yeerks. Their only appearance in the series is in the novel VisserVisser
Visser may refer to:* Visser, a companion novel from the Animorphs sci-fi series, and also a term used within the continuity of the series to denote a Yeerk of high status or rank in the military of the Yeerk Empire...
, chronicling Visser One
Edriss 562
Edriss 562 is a Yeerk that controls Marco's mother Eva. For most of the series, her rank is Visser One. She is the subject of the novel Visser, which describes her rise to and dramatic fall from power...
's trial before the Council. Though she escaped their wrath on that occasion, it was short-lived, as they ordered her executed when she failed them on the Anati world.
The Council apparently existed before the Yeerk Empire; Visser Three mentions it had already been in place during the time of The Hork-Bajir Chronicles
The Hork-Bajir Chronicles
The Hork-Bajir Chronicles is the second companion book to the Animorphs series, written by K. A. Applegate. With respect to continuity within the series, it takes place before book #23, The Pretender, although the events told in the story occur between the time of The Ellimist Chronicles and The...
. One of the thirteen is Emperor, though only the Council knows who; the Emperor's identity is kept secret, so that no assassin, Yeerk or otherwise, could succeed in killing him without killing the entire Council. Also unknown is the Council's location (their Visser appearance was via hologram) or their ultimate fate, after more than half of their forces were defeated in the final battle for Earth.
Only one Councilor, Garoff 168 (see below), is identified by name. He, along with most of the Councilors, have Hork-Bajir hosts, while two have Taxxons. Two Councilors remain forever concealed in the shadows, making their forms unknown. They all wear dark red (almost black) robes.
Derane 344
A Yeerk that Eslin 359 had affectionate feelings for, with an unknown human host (likely female, as Eslin's host was Gary Kozlar, a male). She was killed by Visser ThreeVisser Three
Visser Three, born as Esplin 9466 Primary and later known as Visser One, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K.A. Applegate. He is the leader of the Yeerk forces on Earth, having inherited the planet from Edriss 562, who was Visser One at...
(indirectly through denial of Kandrona due to shortage and low rank), and it is because of this that Eslin strikes a truce (albeit temporary) with Aximili in book 8
The Alien (Animorphs)
The Alien is the eighth book in the Animorphs series, written by K. A. Applegate. It is the first book narrated by Ax.-Plot:...
. Eslin explains to Ax that he and Derane came from the same pool, went through training together, and were very close.
Eslin 359
Ax meets Eslin 359 in The Alien (#8), three weeks after the Animorphs destroyed the Kandrona machine in the previous book. The Yeerks had to keep going up to the mothership (the Pool Ship) to receive a minimal amount of Kandrona to survive. However, there were too many Yeerks and not enough capacity, so many Yeerks died. Eslin lost his lover (Derane 344) and was angry, sabotaging a feeding schedule as revenge. When he meets Ax, he gives him the location of Visser ThreeVisser Three
Visser Three, born as Esplin 9466 Primary and later known as Visser One, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K.A. Applegate. He is the leader of the Yeerk forces on Earth, having inherited the planet from Edriss 562, who was Visser One at...
's next feeding ground in the hopes that Ax would exact vengeance. However, although Ax poisoned Visser Three, the Yeerk itself (Esplin 9466) slipped out and Ax could not bring himself to kill a fellow Andalite warrior (Alloran
Alloran-Semitur-Corrass
Alloran-Semitur-Corrass is a fictional character in the Animorphs series by K. A. Applegate. He is the host body of Visser Three, a high-ranking Yeerk and the primary antagonist of the series.-Character history:...
). Eslin sneered at this failed attempt but did not report Ax to his superiors. Ax met him one last time to relay a message to the Andalite home world. His human host's name is Gary Kozlar.
Esplin 9466 Lesser
Esplin 9466 Lesser is a Yeerk who appears in The WarningThe Warning (Animorphs)
The Warning is the sixteenth book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is narrated by Jake.-Plot summary:Jake discovers a Yeerk website, but is it what it seems? It looks like a crazy mix of fact and fiction. He's not sure if it's a Yeerk trap, or a place for potential...
(#16). The double six at the end of his name signifies that he was formed from the same grub as another Yeerk, half of a pair of twins. However, his identical brother happens to be the same Yeerk who is Visser Three
Visser Three
Visser Three, born as Esplin 9466 Primary and later known as Visser One, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K.A. Applegate. He is the leader of the Yeerk forces on Earth, having inherited the planet from Edriss 562, who was Visser One at...
. In the case of twins, the one designated as the greater gets more power and rewards. However, as Visser Three is a power hungry Yeerk, he decided to snatch all the power and rewards, allowing Esplin 9466 Lesser to only have whatever he could salvage.
However, Esplin 9466 Lesser turns his misfortune around. His host is Joe Bob Fenestre, and Esplin invented Web Access America (an analogue of America Online that, in the Animorphs universe, is the world's most popular Internet service provider
Internet service provider
An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...
) through his host, which was an easy task for superior Yeerk technology. It made Fenestre a billionaire. Joe Bob's Horatio Alger story, as he progressed from an ordinary telephone repairman to an Internet pioneer, has become famous enough by the time of the Animorphs story that Marco
Marco (Animorphs)
Marco is a fictional character from the sci-fi book series, Animorphs, written by K. A. Applegate. His last name is never mentioned.-Biography:...
regards him as a hero.
He obtains vast knowledge of information by sifting e-mails and spying chat rooms. He was a great asset for the invasion. Visser Three, fearing his rising popularity and ambition, declared him a traitor, which forced Esplin 9466 Lesser into hiding. Esplin uses Fenestre to build a huge mansion and heavily guard it. Knowing that his twin's host has the ability to morph into animals of all sorts, he equipped his mansion with weapons, ranging from Rottweliers and guards with submachine guns to insecticides and bug zappers to electrical force fields. His guards have instructions to shoot anything that attempts to come close to the house. This poses a great difficulty to the Animorphs; when they attempt to pay him a visit, Rachel and Ax are captured and they are forced to retreat, although Jake subsequently breaks through the defences by acquiring a rhinoceros
Rhinoceros
Rhinoceros , also known as rhino, is a group of five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. Two of these species are native to Africa and three to southern Asia....
morph.
He explains to the Animorphs that the only reason why he is still alive today is due to his technique of survival. Cut off from Kandrona rays, he is now a cannibal. He captures fellow Controllers, splits the human host's head open, and grinds the Yeerk body inside into a powder that he then ingests. Visser Three keeps him alive only because he wants to learn that technique; but, as he explains, the technique would never catch on very well for the rest of the Yeerks.
After explaining this to the Animorphs, Cassie
Cassie (Animorphs)
Cassie is a fictional character from the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K. A. Applegate. Her last name is never mentioned, although she referred to it as being "nice" in The Secret.-Biography:...
, horrified by his cold-blooded attitude towards humans and Yeerks, demands that Jake kills Esplin. Jake, however, had already agreed not to harm him, but adds a condition: Esplin may never leave his mansion again, or the Animorphs will find him and kill him. Esplin agrees. However, by the end of the book, his house burns down under mysterious circumstances; it is implied, but never stated, that Jake or Cassie may have done this. Nobody died in the fire, but Esplin's fate afterwards is never disclosed, including whether or not Jake fulfilled his pledge to kill him or if Visser Three thought that his brother's habits were killing too many Yeerks and destroyed his brother once and for all.
Esplin 9466 Lesser makes a minor appearance in the prequel, The Hork-Bajir Chronicles
The Hork-Bajir Chronicles
The Hork-Bajir Chronicles is the second companion book to the Animorphs series, written by K. A. Applegate. With respect to continuity within the series, it takes place before book #23, The Pretender, although the events told in the story occur between the time of The Ellimist Chronicles and The...
, which chronicles the origin of Visser Three, appearing alongside his twin before the Yeerks are attacked by Aldrea's
Aldrea
Aldrea-Iskillion-Falan is a fictional character in the Animorphs series.Aldrea is the daughter of Prince Seerow, a main character in Animorphs 34: The Prophecy and the heroine in The Hork-Bajir Chronicles...
army of Hork-Bajir and Arn-created monsters. He and his twin are joking together on the edge of a Yeerk-felled Nawin Speaking Tree which had been cut into to make a Yeerk pool.
Essak 241275
The Yeerk supposedly in Jake's head in the alternate future he visited in The FamiliarThe Familiar (Animorphs)
The Familiar is the forty-first book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is known to have been ghostwritten by Ellen Geroux. It is narrated by Jake.The cover quote is "They're out of sight...
(#41). He was a planetary engineer working on the project to convert Earth's moon into a Kandrona-radiating miniature sun, based in the Chrysler Building.
Essam 293
Essam 293 is a Yeerk engineer based on the Yeerk home world who appears in Visser in the form of flashbacks. He accompanies Edriss 562 (then Sub-Visser 409) on her mission to find Earth, and later falls in love with her. He infested a human named Hildy Gervais. In human hosts, they conceived twin children, Darwin and Madra. However, he later disagreed with Edriss' philiosophy and tried to defy her; Edriss cut off Kandrona rays. Essam died of Kandrona starvation.Estril 731
Estril 731 is the brother of Aftran 942. Before his death, he was the controller of a Hork-BajirHork-Bajir
The Hork-Bajir are a race of aliens in the Animorphs novels.The Hork-Bajir are fictional aliens that are usually about seven feet tall. They are a dark shade of green and have three-toed theropod feet. Their necks are long and they have a mouth that resembles a falcon's beak with teeth. Their legs...
. In The Departure
The Departure (Animorphs)
The Departure is the nineteenth book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is narrated by Cassie and Jake, who narrates several chapters towards the end of the story.-Plot summary:...
(#19), Jake
Jake Berenson
Jake Berenson is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists from the science-fiction book series Animorphs, written by K. A. Applegate. Until the penultimate book of the series, his last name was never revealed, and he was known only as Jake...
gives the order to call off their attack immediately before Cassie
Cassie (Animorphs)
Cassie is a fictional character from the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K. A. Applegate. Her last name is never mentioned, although she referred to it as being "nice" in The Secret.-Biography:...
rips out the throat of Estril's host. This guilt pressures her to temporarily leave the Animorphs.
Garoff 168
Garoff 168 is a member of the Council of Thirteen and Edriss 562Edriss 562
Edriss 562 is a Yeerk that controls Marco's mother Eva. For most of the series, her rank is Visser One. She is the subject of the novel Visser, which describes her rise to and dramatic fall from power...
's former mentor, whose sole appearance is in Visser
Visser (novel)
Visser is the third companion book to the Animorphs series, written by K. A. Applegate. Within the continuity of the series, it takes place directly after the events of book #35, The Proposal, but is also in part a detail of the backstory of its narrator, Edriss 562, Visser One, whose host is...
. He is the speaker at the trial of Edriss 562. During the trial, Edriss strongly suspects that he is the Emperor, and wonders if only his opinion matters. Garoff is sympathetic to Edriss and tries as much as possible to get her free. For instance, when it is clear that Edriss has committed treasonous acitivities, he decides to resume the testimony instead of convicting her. Edriss is stunned at first, but it is her host, Eva, that realizes that Garoff is trying to get her free. Garoff controls a Hork-Bajir
Hork-Bajir
The Hork-Bajir are a race of aliens in the Animorphs novels.The Hork-Bajir are fictional aliens that are usually about seven feet tall. They are a dark shade of green and have three-toed theropod feet. Their necks are long and they have a mouth that resembles a falcon's beak with teeth. Their legs...
host.
Illim
Illim is the Yeerk who controls Mr. Tidwell, a teacher at the Animorphs' school. He appears in The Sickness (#29). He is a member of the Yeerks' Peace Movement, having come to sympathise with his host after experiencing his screams of torment (although the two have since become friends) and a friend of Aftran 942. Cassie acquired Illim as a morph in order to infiltrate the Yeerk pool and rescue Aftran.Iniss 455
A Yeerk that Visser Three had reserved for Melissa Chapman, but she was not present at the time. Mentioned (but not seen) in The VisitorThe Visitor (Animorphs)
The Visitor, published in 1996 and written by K. A. Applegate, is the second book in the Animorphs series. It is narrated by Rachel.-Plot summary:...
.
Iniss 226
The Yeerk in control of Hedrick Chapman, a very high-ranking Controller. Iniss 226 agreed to cooperate with his host, Hedrick Chapman, who desired above all else to protect his daughter Melissa. Given his role as the Vice-Principal, it is likely that Iniss 226 was either a Sub-Visser or possibly a low-ranking Visser.Iniss 174
Mentioned in book 2The Visitor (Animorphs)
The Visitor, published in 1996 and written by K. A. Applegate, is the second book in the Animorphs series. It is narrated by Rachel.-Plot summary:...
, Iniss 226 tells Mrs. Chapman's Yeerk how Visser Three
Visser Three
Visser Three, born as Esplin 9466 Primary and later known as Visser One, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K.A. Applegate. He is the leader of the Yeerk forces on Earth, having inherited the planet from Edriss 562, who was Visser One at...
showed him a hologram video of how he morphed a Vanarx and sucked Iniss 174 out of a woman's head and ate the Yeerk.
The Inspector
The Inspector was sent to check up on Visser Three's progress on the invasion of Earth. His host is a Garatron, an alien similar to an Andalite, but one that moves much faster. However, he is bitten by MarcoMarco (Animorphs)
Marco is a fictional character from the sci-fi book series, Animorphs, written by K. A. Applegate. His last name is never mentioned.-Biography:...
in cobra morph. Visser Three
Visser Three
Visser Three, born as Esplin 9466 Primary and later known as Visser One, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K.A. Applegate. He is the leader of the Yeerk forces on Earth, having inherited the planet from Edriss 562, who was Visser One at...
decides not to help him, because he knows the Inspector would have given him a bad review. The Inspector dies from the poison.
Janath 429
A very old Yeerk and apparently one of some level of importance. He was present during the declaration of the Yeerk Empire and its plans to conquer the Hork-Bajir homeworld. Died during the Yeerk conquest of the Hork-Bajir.Jillay 926
A Yeerk from book 14The Unknown (Animorphs)
The Unknown is the fourteenth book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is narrated by Cassie.The front cover quote is, "Never underestimate the power of a morph....". All books after The Unknown were dedicated to Applegate's son, Jake, as well as her husband and co-writer, Michael...
who was part of the mission to enter Zone 91 controlling a horse to find out what non-human thing was being hidden there. He was killed when he could not tell Visser Three what they had seen inside the base.
Kilgam 329
A Yeerk with a Gedd host, seen in chapter 2 of VisserVisser (novel)
Visser is the third companion book to the Animorphs series, written by K. A. Applegate. Within the continuity of the series, it takes place directly after the events of book #35, The Proposal, but is also in part a detail of the backstory of its narrator, Edriss 562, Visser One, whose host is...
. He speaks up during Sub-Visser 409
Edriss 562
Edriss 562 is a Yeerk that controls Marco's mother Eva. For most of the series, her rank is Visser One. She is the subject of the novel Visser, which describes her rise to and dramatic fall from power...
's lecture, and its host is killed by Edriss immediately after giving its name. Kilgam manages to crawl out of the Gedd's ear before the death completely reaches it. He is then taken to the pool.
Korin 547
A Yeerk from book 14The Unknown (Animorphs)
The Unknown is the fourteenth book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is narrated by Cassie.The front cover quote is, "Never underestimate the power of a morph....". All books after The Unknown were dedicated to Applegate's son, Jake, as well as her husband and co-writer, Michael...
who was part of the mission to enter Zone 91 controlling a horse to find out what non-human thing was being hidden there. Called a "clumsy fool" by Visser Three, he dies when he is bitten by a snake.
Lacsar 454
One of the Yeerks on duty as a security guard at the new community center in book 33The Illusion (Animorphs)
The Illusion is the thirty-third book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is known to have been ghostwritten by Ellen Geroux. It is narrated by Tobias.-Plot summary:...
. He is mentioned by one of the security guards wearing boots, saying he "just left the entrance" and passed his shift off to Lascar 454.
Methit 572
Methit 572 appears in chapter two of VisserVisser (novel)
Visser is the third companion book to the Animorphs series, written by K. A. Applegate. Within the continuity of the series, it takes place directly after the events of book #35, The Proposal, but is also in part a detail of the backstory of its narrator, Edriss 562, Visser One, whose host is...
, delivering news (from the Taxxon homeworld) to Sub-Visser 409
Edriss 562
Edriss 562 is a Yeerk that controls Marco's mother Eva. For most of the series, her rank is Visser One. She is the subject of the novel Visser, which describes her rise to and dramatic fall from power...
of a Class Five species. The report claims that humans may exist in billions. These humans are in fact Loren and Hedrick, in a scene that takes place in The Andalite Chronicles
The Andalite Chronicles
The Andalite Chronicles is a science-fiction novel, and is the first companion book to the Animorphs series, written by K. A. Applegate. Within the timeline of the series, this book takes place before the first book in the series, The Invasion...
.
Niss
In Book 41: The Familiar (narrated by JakeJake Berenson
Jake Berenson is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists from the science-fiction book series Animorphs, written by K. A. Applegate. Until the penultimate book of the series, his last name was never revealed, and he was known only as Jake...
) Niss is the Yeerk who controls future Cassie. She is part of the Evolutionist Front (The EF) , a group of Yeerks who wished to create artificial symbiotes rather than taking natural, sentient hosts.
Odret 177
Odret 177 is the Yeerk who infests TobiasTobias (Animorphs)
Tobias is a fictional character from the sci-fi book series Animorphs written by K.A. Applegate. His surname is never mentioned, but had the Ellimist not altered time in order to take his father, Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, back to his old life, his full name would have been Tobias Fangor, the...
in Megamorphs #4: Back to Before
Back to Before (Megamorphs)
Megamorphs #4: Back to Before is the fourth and final book in the Megamorphs series, a spinoff of the Animorphs series. With respect to continuity, it takes place between The Other and The Familiar .-Plot summary:...
. The book is set in an alternate universe that chronicles what would happen had the Animorphs not received their powers. Tobias joins the Sharing and becomes a Controller: he almost willingly surrenders his freedom, but resists at the last minute. Odret is loyal to the current Visser One, Edriss 562
Edriss 562
Edriss 562 is a Yeerk that controls Marco's mother Eva. For most of the series, her rank is Visser One. She is the subject of the novel Visser, which describes her rise to and dramatic fall from power...
, which leads to his execution by Visser Three.
Sub-Visser 19
Sub-Visser Nineteen is Aftran's commander, mentioned in The DepartureThe Departure (Animorphs)
The Departure is the nineteenth book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is narrated by Cassie and Jake, who narrates several chapters towards the end of the story.-Plot summary:...
.
Sub-Visser 51
Sub-Visser Fifty-one is the Yeerk controlling the human Taylor. Sub-Visser 51 previously only had infested a Hork-Bajir. Taylor is its/her second host, and first human host. More information on the relationship between Sub-Visser 51 and Taylor can be found here.Sub-Visser 92
In chapter 24 of VisserVisser (novel)
Visser is the third companion book to the Animorphs series, written by K. A. Applegate. Within the continuity of the series, it takes place directly after the events of book #35, The Proposal, but is also in part a detail of the backstory of its narrator, Edriss 562, Visser One, whose host is...
, Edriss 562
Edriss 562
Edriss 562 is a Yeerk that controls Marco's mother Eva. For most of the series, her rank is Visser One. She is the subject of the novel Visser, which describes her rise to and dramatic fall from power...
describes to the Council of Thirteen how she reported to Sub-Visser Ninety-two that she had found a Class-Five species, in the early 1990s. Sub-Visser 92 is surprised that there are five billion, rather than million, Class-Five humans on Earth, so much so that he cuts himself with his own Hork-Bajir blades by sitting up too quickly.
Temrash 114
Temrash 114 (formerly Temrash 252 of the Sulp Niar pool, later promoted) is a Yeerk who infests both JakeJake Berenson
Jake Berenson is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists from the science-fiction book series Animorphs, written by K. A. Applegate. Until the penultimate book of the series, his last name was never revealed, and he was known only as Jake...
(in #6: The Capture
The Capture (Animorphs)
The Capture, published in 1997 and written by K.A. Applegate, is the sixth book in the Animorphs series. It is narrated by Jake. The Capture is due to be re-releasd by Scholastic in March 2012.-Plot summary:...
) and his older brother Tom previously. Temrash was originally waiting for a promotion (to infest the Governor) when the Animorphs invade the Yeerk pool (a smaller one contained in a spa inside a hospital room). After being shot, Jake falls in, and Temrash infests him to avoid death when one of the Animorphs boils the Yeerk Pool (by turning on the spa's jets and heater). He first believed that he could fool the other Animorphs, but they soon realize that Jake is not acting normally when Temrash instinctively sneers at Ax and then calls him "Andalite filth" when Ax is acquiring him. Determined to eliminate the Yeerk, the Animorphs tie Jake up in a cabin in the woods for three days until Temrash dies; although he attempts to escape on multiple occasions, the others are always able to recapture him. His death causes Jake to see Crayak
Crayak
Crayak is a fictional character and villain from the science-fiction book series Animorphs, written by K. A. Applegate.-Description:Crayak is a nearly omnipotent entity appearing in the form of an armless cyborg with massive limbs and nothing but what would resemble as a blood-red eye for a head...
, a recurring dream that haunts him until book 26
The Attack (Animorphs)
The Attack is the twenty-sixth book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is narrated by Jake.-Plot summary:...
, when the Animorphs confront Crayak on the city of wonders (the Iskoort
Iskoort
The Iskoort are a fictional race of aliens from the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate.They are made up of two parts - an "Isk" and a "Yoort". The Isk is the main physical body, and the Yoort is a slug which must leave the Isk every three days to soak up kandrona rays...
home world).
Tom's second Yeerk
After Temrash 114, Tom Berenson received a second Yeerk, but this Yeerk is never named. By the end of the series, it is likely that Tom's second Yeerk was promoted to at least Sub-Visser status. In the TV series, the name of this Yeerk is Iniss 335.Visser One
Visser One is a rank in the Yeerk military, where "Visser" is analogous to "General". This title is held by at least two Yeerks during the course of the AnimorphsAnimorphs
Animorphs is an English language science fiction series of young adult books written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic. Five humans, Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and Tobias, and one alien, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill , obtain the ability to morph into any animal they touch. They name...
series: Edriss 562
Edriss 562
Edriss 562 is a Yeerk that controls Marco's mother Eva. For most of the series, her rank is Visser One. She is the subject of the novel Visser, which describes her rise to and dramatic fall from power...
and later (after the death of Edriss) Esplin 9466 Primary
Visser Three
Visser Three, born as Esplin 9466 Primary and later known as Visser One, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K.A. Applegate. He is the leader of the Yeerk forces on Earth, having inherited the planet from Edriss 562, who was Visser One at...
.
Visser Two
Visser Two is the Yeerk controlling a human who orchestrates an attempt to start a World War III in The DeceptionThe Deception (Animorphs)
The Deception is the forty-sixth book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is known to have been ghostwritten by Elise Donner. It is narrated by Ax.-Plot summary:...
(#46). His host is a lieutenant of the U.S.S. George Washington
USS George Washington (CVN-73)
USS George Washington is an American nuclear-powered supercarrier, the sixth ship in the Nimitz class and the fourth United States Navy ship to be named after George Washington, the first President of the United States...
. When something attacks the George Washington, he arranges for a fake report to state that it was from a Chinese submarine. According to his plan, several hours later, the U.S. government will receive a report that the Chinese made an unprovoked attack, which would lead to a World War III
World War III
World War III denotes a successor to World War II that would be on a global scale, with common speculation that it would be likely nuclear and devastating in nature....
and millions of lost lives. Only Visser Two had the authority to stop his men from shooting, so Ax morphs into his host and other various humans. Ax
Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill
Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill is a fictional character from the sci-fi book series Animorphs.-Biography:Aximili is a young Andalite who becomes stranded on Earth when the Andalite Dome Ship GalaxyTree is shot down by Yeerk fighters...
hijacks an F-14 Tomcat with a nuclear weapon and puts Visser Two in the cockpit with him. Ax calmly states that he will bomb the location of the Yeerk pool (having a single bomb that was loaded previously on the plane), killing thousands of Yeerks, in an attempt to convince Visser Two to call off the attack. Furious, Visser Two agrees, and his plan is defeated.
Visser Three
Visser Three is a rank in the Yeerk military. For the majority of the series, this rank is held by the Yeerk known as Esplin 9466 PrimaryVisser Three
Visser Three, born as Esplin 9466 Primary and later known as Visser One, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K.A. Applegate. He is the leader of the Yeerk forces on Earth, having inherited the planet from Edriss 562, who was Visser One at...
.
Visser Four
Visser Four is the Yeerk who infested John Berryman who appears in Elfangor's Secret (Megamorphs #3). He lost the rank of Visser Four after losing the campaign on Leera to the Animorphs (book 18The Decision (Animorphs)
The Decision is the eighteenth book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is narrated by Ax.The inside front cover quote is, "Ax is about to bug out...." The front cover quote is, "Change a little. Change a lot...
). In Megamorphs #3: Elfangor's Secret
Elfangor's Secret (Megamorphs)
Megamorphs #3: Elfangor's Secret is the third book in the Megamorphs series, a spinoff of the Animorphs series. With respect to continuity, it takes place between The Sickness and The Reunion .-Plot summary:...
, he discovered the Time Matrix and intended to use it to change history, in order to make the future invasion easier for the Yeerks. When Crayak
Crayak
Crayak is a fictional character and villain from the science-fiction book series Animorphs, written by K. A. Applegate.-Description:Crayak is a nearly omnipotent entity appearing in the form of an armless cyborg with massive limbs and nothing but what would resemble as a blood-red eye for a head...
and the Ellimist
Ellimist
The Ellimist is a fictional character from the science fiction novel series Animorphs.The Ellimist is an almost god-like being, displaying many reality warping powers, though it is stated several times that while he appears to be, he is not omnipotent. By standard values, the Ellimist is a force of...
deemed him dangerous, they sent the Animorphs after him. They managed to finally stop him on D-Day
D-Day
D-Day is a term often used in military parlance to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. "D-Day" often represents a variable, designating the day upon which some significant event will occur or has occurred; see Military designation of days and hours for similar...
on the beaches of Normandy. In the ensuing chaos, Marco throws him into a burning tank. With the Time Matrix, the Animorphs rewrote the past so that Berryman would never exist, and Visser Four would presumably have never infested him.
Yaheen 747
Known to Aftran 942, Yaheen 747 is a Controller with a state policeState police (United States)
In the United States, state police are a police body unique to each U.S. state, having statewide authority to conduct law enforcement activities and criminal investigations...
man for a host. He is a member of the search party looking for Karen and Aftran in the woods in book 19
The Departure (Animorphs)
The Departure is the nineteenth book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is narrated by Cassie and Jake, who narrates several chapters towards the end of the story.-Plot summary:...
.