Ironhorse is a very large and outdated machine, and when he speaks it is in a booming voice. Despite his ferocious appearance, he is also very loyal and he did eventually sacrifice himself to help Meghan overcome her enemy Virus. At the time of his death, he agreed to give his essence to Grimalkin to create an amulet that would allow the faery cat to travel through the Iron Realm and continue to aid Meghan without being poisoned.

As the Lord of the Obsidian Plains, Ironhorse rules over a clan of similarly built horselike iron fey. He has the ability to take the form of a monstrous black man with glowing red eyes.

MACHINA

(the Iron King)

King Machina was the true Iron King, the predecessor of the first king, Ferrum. When Ferrum became obsolete and refused to abdicate his throne, becoming hostile and paranoid, Machina rose up and overthrew him, absorbing his powers.

Tall and elegant, with flowing silver hair and pointed ears, Machina is refined and graceful, yet unmistakably powerful. He wears a stark black coat, a metal stud in one ear and a Bluetooth headset in the other. Energy crackles around him and electricity occasionally crackles across his black eyes. His face is beautiful and arrogant, all sharp planes and angles, but when he smiles, it lights up the whole room. He wears a strange, silvery cloak across his shoulders that wriggles slightly as though it were alive. In actuality, this cloak is a network of silver cables, a halo of metal wings wickedly barbed on one end.

He kidnaps Meghan’s brother, Ethan, replacing him with a changeling, in order to lure her into the Nevernever in the hopes of making her his queen. When Meghan kills him by stabbing him in the heart with the Witchwood arrow, he becomes a massive iron oak tree. Upon his death, his powers transfer to Meghan, and he begins to appear to her in dreams.

MELISSA AND LUKE CHASE

Melissa (Meghan’s and Ethan’s mom),
Luke (Meghan’s stepfather and Ethan’s father)

Meghan’s mother, Melissa, is a former artist who, despite being married to a mortal man, was seduced by the power of the Summer King. Meghan was raised as a human by Melissa and her husband, Paul, a piano prodigy, until she was six, when Paul mysteriously disappeared.

Unbeknownst to Meghan, Paul had been abducted by Leanansidhe. Fleeing to the Louisiana Bayou, Melissa met Luke, a pig farmer and “true hick” as Meghan describes him. Due to her half-fey nature, Luke often tended to overlook Meghan, and his frugal ways frustrated her. Nevertheless, her mother never forgot her and when she becomes the Iron Queen, Meghan returns one last time to say goodbye to her family.

RAZOR

(Buzz-saw)