Soul Eaters

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The Soul Eaters are fictional characters who appear in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series written by Michelle Paver. They are the enemies of Torak, the main character of the books.

First seven mages of different clans joined forces to rule the wood, and were named the Soul Eaters. They possessed a great opal called the fire opal, which was the center of their power. But one of them tried to stop the others and he was expelled by them, after which he broke the fire opal into three pieces and started a great fire. One of the Soul Eaters died in the flames, trying to save a piece of it. Others became injured. The Soul Eaters were driven apart by the fire, and the one that started the fire went living hidden in the forest as a hunter, together with his son Torak.

When Torak was aged twelve, the Mage of the Seal Clan, Tenris, who was Torak's uncle and a Soul Eater, put an elemental demon inside a bear, thus creating a monster which, in a couple of months, would destroy the whole forest. This creature killed Torak's father, who told Torak with his last breath that he must find the mountain of the World Spirit. Torak destroyed the demon, together with his wolf companion, Wolf, and Renn from the Raven clan.

After this, Tenris used his knowledge of poison to make it look like a terrible disease had came to the forest to lure Torak to the Seal Islands. Torak came to the Seal Islands, unaware that Tenris was a Soul Eater and his father's brother. Tenris killed a young orca to anger its parents, who started to kill people. When trying to find an antidote for the disease, Torak nearly drowned and discovered that he was a Spirit Walker. He told this to Tenris, who, on midsummernight, tried to sacrifice Torak to become a Spirit Walker himself. But during the sacrifice, Torak jumped in the sea, as did Tenris and at the moment Tenris tried to kill him, he was killed by the orca.

In spring of the next year, Wolf was kidnapped by the Soul Eaters, who wanted to sacrifice nine hunters at the mountain of the snake eye in the far north to release lots of demons in the world. But Torak and his friend, Renn, followed them to save Wolf. They found them only at the mountain of the snake eye, where Torak pretended to be a member of the White Fox clan who wanted to join the Soul Eaters. After some time, he found Wolf and saved him, but then the Soul Eaters wanted to start the sacrifice and attacked Torak. But Renn and Wolf helped him and they escaped with a piece of the Fire Opal. The Soul Eaters followed them, but at an ice gap, one of them, Nef the Bat mage, felt guilty and destroyed the piece of the Fire Opal by jumping in an stone crevase with it. In the meantime, Torak went spiritwalking in a polar bear to scare the Soul Eaters away.

Biography of the Different Soul Eaters

Eostra

Eostra, the eagle owl mage, is the most powerful Soul Eater. It is said that she can wake the dead. Her face is always behind a mask, probably because she has been grievously wounded in the fire that drove the Soul Eaters apart. Mostly she is seen in the form of an owl.

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The name and clan of this Soul Eater are unknown. He died in the fire that drove the Soul Eaters apart and was fascinated by demons.

Seshru

Seshru, the viper mage, has knowledge about herbs and potions. She is beautiful, but vicious. She can also sense souls.

Thiazzi

Thiazzi, the oak mage, is as strong as a tree and very cruel, he likes to hurt those who are weaker than him for fun.

Nef

Nef, the bat mage, is really intelligent. When her child died, she tried to kill herself, but was stopped by Torak's father. Therefore, she felt guilty that he had died. At the end of the third book in the series, Soul Eater, she destroys the fire opal by jumping in an ice canyon with it.

Tenris

Tenris the Seal mage appears briefly in the first book, but reappears as the antagonist in the second. He has killed his brother, Torak's father using a spell which locked an elemental demon inside a bear and sent it on a murderous rampage. He also sought to eat Torak's heart to gain his spirit-walking abilities. He was killed by a killer whale (also known as a hunter in the books) in the second book for the crime of killing one of its young.

Torak's Fa

Torak's father was the seventh Soul Eater. He was the one who started the great fire that had damaged the other Soul Eaters. He was hunted down and killed by the demon in the bear Tenris had made.