Sylia, the Dark & Light Saint

Characters appearing in Sylia, the Dark and Light Saint novel.

Main Characters

Sylia

Sylia is the main character of the novel. She lives in the Slums of Irdalenvi Province, in the Nagasmar Kingdom, as part of the Krevoski family, though she is not truly one of them. She shares her body with the Soul of Masha, a fact that has caused her to regress in age multiple times. Though referred to by others as a Saint, Sylia never took that title herself; her role is more complex — she is an Avatar of over a hundred Gods and Goddesses and a Dragon Knight of the All Saints, tasked with protecting Saints and Saint Candidates like Masha. She is betrayed and sold out by her adoptive family at the beginning of the novel.

Sylia holds immense magical and divine power. She commands Divisions of herself (including Syl Celia and Cesylia) and exacts punishment on those who attempted to control or destroy her. She controls parts of the Slums and several City's districts, maintains order, and serves as both protector and enforcer in a collapsing system. Her actions throughout the story are calculated, strategic, and often merciless, particularly toward those who wronged her.

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Syl Celia

Independent Division of Saint Sylia. Lives in the Slums most of the time. Is known as a Sainted Prietress.

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Cesylia

Semi-independent Division of Saint Sylia. Also known as a Saint in the City. Very popular with men particularly with soldiers because of her beauty and Magical Potions. Is staying most of the time near the docks.

Main Antagonists

Masha

Masha is a Soul placed inside Sylia's body. She was originally found as a baby by Grenek and Grenar Krevoski in the Grayn Mountains, cradled in her dying mother's arms. Her body decayed rapidly, and through magical intervention (involving shadowy beings and the Queen of the Nights), her Soul was transferred into another child — Sylia. Masha has failed repeatedly to mature or fulfill her expected role. Though some of Sylia's Goddesses once favored her as a Saint Candidate, she is not a Saint and has been demoted or dismissed multiple times in the story. Her repeated regressions have forced Sylia's body to shrink and reset, blocking Sylia's own progression. Masha is resented by Sylia and is seen as a burden and symbol of divine injustice. She has allies, including Juvel Greesham and some in the Church, who seek her return or restoration.

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Grenar Krevoski

Adoptive father of Masha. The man is highly corrupted and deranged. He hates with passion Sylia, considering her no better than a monster or a parasite.

Grenar Krevoski spent most his life within the disgraced Krevoski line in the slums of Erlankor. After years as a frontier soldier, he accepted a dawn-to-dusk post as City Gate guard. Over seventeen years ago, on a frost-bitten patrol in the Grayn Mountains, he and his son Grenek discovered a dying woman and her infant; Grenar vowed to raise that child—Masha, later known as Sylia—sealing his promise in a Pact. Married to Tasha Bimal and father to several biological children, he is desperate to save Masha's Soul and betrayed Sylia at every turn even selling her into Church servitude through alliances and manipulations.

A choice that he is still conflicted about as he lost his veteran soldier position and now scrapes by on low night-guard wages and polluted-spring fish.

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Grenek Krevoski-Sigmund

Son of Grenar and former lover of Saint Sylia. Involved in the latest scheme against Sylia.

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Tasha Bimal

Wife of Grenar Krevoski. Originally married to Dyren Krevoski (Grenar's son), she later became Grenar's second wife to cloak dark family secrets—an arrangement that sheltered her kin when "something terrible" transpired in those early years.

Originally born Malyna of the disgraced Bimal–Glishmal line, Tasha rose through ruthless ambition. She sold her own friends and relatives to Nobles to curry favor from them.

Under the influence of a Fallen Celestial who was now living as a Noble by the name of Frieze, she not only sold her own relatives to a terrible fate but she also murdered many and even scavenged their flesh to feed her Mana hunger. She was later betrayed by Frieze who offered her as scapegoat to cover his own crimes.

After her death, her shattered Soul was pieced back together by a Spiritus, and she was reborn as "Tasha"—but her heart remained cold and evil.

Now a mediocre seamstress, she barely scrapes by stitching coarse garments for Gentry clients.

She was deeply involved in Grenar's scheme and delighted in Sylia's enslavement, seeing it as both a reduction of burdens and a triumph over the girl whose very existence she despised. Envious of Sylia's divine gifts and ever-watchful for any opportunity to advance her own children and torment the weak and innocent, Tasha is always scheming, displaying a high level of cunningness and evilness.

Characters closely related to Saint Sylia

Rozen Nizareus

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Rozen is the daughter of Saint Sylia and Tamren Syrmundi. She leads the newly founded Academy of Alchemy and had started overseeing various departments of the Alchemy & Botanical Guild since her mother's Divisions and Bunnies have abandoned their posts. Rozen is engaged to three Noblemen but did not choose any of them. She has discovered that she and her siblings were not born out of love, but as tools to carry out her mother's Divine mission to purge and restructure the world. She carries out her duties publicly while privately grappling with betrayal, family politics, and the nature of her existence.

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Tamren Syrmundi

Rozen's father and occasional lover of Sylia. A Declassed Noble from a mixed background: Gentry on his mother's side and Noble House on his father's. He is aware he had been manipulated by Sylia. He still trusts her completely. Tamren had recently moved to Elankor City where Rozen and Sylia both reside. He is pursuing Sylia fervently.

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Seyka

Sylia's daughter and Rozen's half-sister. She is a Saint with powerful combat skills but is known around the City mostly for her other powers and her Magic Potions which had become extremely popular among the soldiers. Seyka was betrayed in the past by a man who still pursues her. Rozen believes Seyka will never return her former suitor Josias's affection. She understands her sister's wounds and recognizes that any potential affection from her would require time and patience.

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Mathias Herves

An important Divine figure who works alongside Sylia and created beings like Josias. He has children of his own and is heavily involved in the unfolding events of the world's restructuring. He is respected but alarmed when the Wolf Spirit Guardian reveals that Sylia may leave him alone in that world. He is concerned with the future of the world, his Divisions, and the arrival of other forces tied to Sylia's Source.

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Taki Beymeyer
Former Noble (13th son, 18th child of a bankrupt Over-Baron). Father of Danielu, Takaru, Yuuji, and Danisha. Now technically a Commoner. Attendant of Saint Sylia.

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Danielu Beymeyer
Youngest son of Saint Sylia and Taki. Blessed by Lord Chester's House. Target of divine enemies.

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Takara Beymeyer
Son of Sylia and Taki. Older brother of Danielu. Blessed by the Drake's Under-Sign of Lord Chester's House. Knight in training.

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Yuuji Beymeyer
Magically conceived child. Son of Sylia and Taki. Technically a descendant of Takara.

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Danisha Beymeyer
Daughter of Sylia and Taki Beymeyer. A Knight in training.

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Neron
Younger son of Sylia and Dio. Has Darkness as his main Element. Future Sainted Knight.

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Liussa
Daughter of Sylia and Renklaf. Blessed by both the Chipmuck's Mascots and the Fire Drakes.

Other Characters

Dio Krevoski-Sigmund

Soldier. Lover of Sylia. From a Fallen Noble bloodline. Son of Grenar Krevoski. Father of Neron and Dio Jr. Uncle of Pullina.

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Pullina Krevoski

Biological daughter of Dunkareh Krevoski and Dahia Bimal. Adopted young into Grenar Krevoski's household due to her parents' inability to support her when her innate magic proved too weak to be useful. Pullina found her place in the Slums under Sylia's care.

Despite her gentle demeanor, Pullina is not naive. She understands better their circumstances than many adults around her.

Over ten years old at the beginning of the novel. She is engaged to her childhood friend Jimmy.

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Magali Krevoski

Daughter of Tasha Bimal and granddaughter of Grenar, who adopted her at birth. She has a twin brother named Kyle. An over-16-year-old woman and cook apprentice, she is admired for her beauty and talent. Initially believed to share the same biological father as Kyle, it was later revealed that Grenek is her true father, with the truth concealed to avoid scandal.

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Dunkareh Krevoski

Son of Grenar Krevoski. Married to Dahia Bimal. Father of Piona whom he sold for protection.

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Piona

Daughter of Dunkareh. Most of Piona's Soul had been devoured by the Redlings Serpent, a God who had received her as payment for her father's protection. Only a fragment had been recovered—ripped back from the brink by a Spirit's intervention. It had been reformed, reshaped, and returned to her body. However, Piona was gone.

What remained now was a Replica. An improved construct, perhaps, but no longer the same child. Even her body bore the changes, subtly altered to accept what she had become.

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Guntaz

Dio's younger brother. Little is known about him for now. He is a Sigmundi.

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Gyuntez

Dio's younger brother. He is a Sigmundi blood.

Involved in Rozen's Arc

Josias

A Fire Knight created by Master Mathias Herves. He once courted Rozen, likely because of Mana compatibility and the power of her bloodline. Rozen did not reciprocate his feelings and now suspects his interest has since shifted to her half-sister, Seyka. She believes he never truly loved her and views him as naive. She does not hold anger toward him but sees his path for love as ultimately painful since her sister will likely never return his affection.

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Edouard Kyenzemel

Rozen's first intended husband and heir to a Duke-class family. He is eighteen years old in religious years and Duke-class like his father. His mother is an Over-Viscountess class from a prestigious Marquess family.The engagement of Rozen and Edouard was formally registered and celebrated when Rozen was fourteen.

The future marriage of Rozen was arranged, largely to satisfy the ambitions of Marquess Kalteris, the Head of father's maternal Noble House. Though Edouard showed some affection toward Rozen, he eventually developed feelings for her father's former stepdaughter, Rakaelle. Rozen discovered this before he did. He later confessed his love for Rakaelle and offered Rozen the First Wife position, but she rejected it, stating that only his true love should claim that role.

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Rakaelle

The former stepdaughter of Tamren. She is the illegitimate daughter of a Count and a woman from the lower Gentry. Edouard fell in love with her, and they are Mana compatible. Despite his feelings, she is not publicly acknowledged as his partner and would be given a lower status in marriage unless her future children are proven powerful. Rozen holds no resentment toward her.

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Sernesto Sefraz

Rozen's third intended. He was created by a Spirit Guardian of the Sefraz family and is over Duke-class making him the most powerful one in his family which he is not close to. Sernesto is proud and cheerful. The 17 years old young man is fond of Rozen who most of the times ignores him. His relatives are more skeptical about their future marriage. His older brother Teryon Sefraz questions the match due to his own relationship with Sylia.

Divinities, Spirits Celestials, Gods and Lords

The Sefraz Wolf Spirit Guardian

The being who created Sernesto. He takes the form of a wolf and speaks casually, even mockingly, about divine matters. He reveals information about Sylia's mission, the possible arrival of a replacement, and the ancient powers involved in shaping the world. He also mentions that he once had a Chipmuck form and discusses the destructive capacity of other High Lords like Chester.

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Izranaga

Famous and extremely popular Supreme God

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Griffondyl

Very powerful and popular God. Funded a Province in the Kingdom.

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Greenfieldia Goddess

Nature and Fertility Goddess

Fallen Gods

Izranavyl

Fallen Supreme God called God of Despairs