Characters in the Night Watch Universe

These are the notable characters in the Night Watch books and movies as created by Sergey Lukyanenko with Vladimir Vasilyev. They all play major or medium-sized roles in one or more of the following works:

Novels:

Stories:

Movies:

Computer games:

Characters are categorized by their affiliation when they first appear.

Characters with Magical abilities that have aligned themselves with the Light are called Light Others

See below under Unaffiliated.

Characters with Magical abilities that have aligned themselves with the Dark are called Dark Others ():

Twilight Watch (Novel): She was involved in an experiment intended to create a perfect society, organised by both Watches together with the Inquisition, but she sabotaged it, together with an unknown Light Mage who is most likely Geser. Then she put herself to sleep for several decades, to wait out the hunt. Arina does most of her magic using plants and herbs. She chose darkness out of rather than any particular malice. She does not like to hurt people, although she will pretend she is willing to if it suits her goals. She actively dislikes and disrepects Zavulon.

Final Watch (Novel): She becomes a Higher Light Other and is one of the members of Final Watch trio.

New Watch (Novel): Arina becomes obsessed with prophecies and is determined to force Anton's hand to destroy Twilight itself, having decided that magic is evil. Anton strands her in the Sarcophagus of Time, but it's implied that she has a way out.

Sixth Watch (Novel): The conclave of witches is incapable of choosing a new leader, Grandmother of grandmothers, because their current leader (Arina) is still alive but inaccessible to everyone so after 10 years trapped in the Sarcophagus of Time she is visited by Anton who offers her a way out on the condition that she accepts to be part of the Sixth Watch in order to save the world from peril, Arina who confesses to have already lived through the same situation in the year 1914 accepts and eventually tells Anton the whole truth behind the Two-in-one. Eventually she confesses her love for Anton but decides to sacrifice him in order to save the world.

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