John Gaius

Character from The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir

The God-Emperor of the Nine Houses — a ten-thousand-year-old necromancer who ended the world to save it, rebuilt civilization from death magic, and would really prefer if you called him John.

Also known as: John, God, The Emperor, Necrolord Prime, King Undying, The First Reborn, Jod

What They Know

• Created the Nine Houses system by resurrecting civilization after he destroyed all life on Earth
• Originally a pre-Resurrection scientist — tried to save Earth through cryogenics before the trillionaires fled
• Achieved perfect Lyctorhood by swapping souls with Alecto (Earth's soul given human form)
• Sealed Alecto in the Locked Tomb at his disciples' insistence — his greatest act of cowardice
• Father of Gideon Nav — conceived with Commander Wake while she was in cryo-suspension
• Has systematically removed memories from his Lyctors to hide the true history of the Resurrection
• The Resurrection Beasts that hunt his empire are the vengeful ghosts of the planets he killed to build the Houses

Connections

• cavalier_of_sort — alecto
• father_of — gideon
• mentors — harrow
• mentors — ianthe
• commands — mercymorn
• commands — augustine
• commands — cytherea

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