Literary and Fictional Supernatural Beings

717 documented Literary and Fictional supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 329 lesser and 185 greater in power tier.

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Ancient One
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Ancient One

A name/title applied to multiple fictional characters across comics, film, animation, and tabletop gaming. Most prominently a long-lived mystic in Marvel Comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe who served as mentor to Doctor Strange and as Earth's chief sorcerer; other unrelated uses include a Pathfinder Gloomspires ghast and occasional separate comic/animation characters.

Andragius
Minor Spirit

Andragius

Andragius (also attested Androgius) is a legendary king of the Britons recorded in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s pseudo‑historical regnal lists and later compilations. He appears as a node in a constructed sequence of rulers—not described as a supernatural being—and is principally attested by name, genealogical relationships, and position in succession.

Andrast
Minor Spirit

Andrast

Andrast is a Sindarin place-name in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, denoting a long coastal cape or peninsula in southwest Gondor (also identified with Ras Morthil). It is a geographic toponym recorded in Tolkien's maps and scholarly indexes rather than a sentient or supernatural being.

Andrea Beaumont (the Phantasm)
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Andrea Beaumont (the Phantasm)

Andrea Beaumont is a fictional human character in the DC Animated Universe who, as the masked vigilante known as the Phantasm in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993), stages a Death‑like avenger persona. Her apparent supernatural effects are produced by theatrical devices (not innate powers) and she functions narratively as a foil and dark parallel to Bruce Wayne/Batman.

Andromachus
Minor Spirit

Andromachus

Andromachus (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρόμαχος, Andromachos) is a personal name borne by multiple historical and mythological figures in classical Greek and later sources — including commanders, rulers, physicians, a grammarian/philologus, and a minor mythic warrior from Knossos. The name literally means "fighting with men" and in the cited traditions denotes human individuals rather than a supernatural being.

Angharad Golden-Hand
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Angharad Golden-Hand

A literary heroine of medieval Welsh romance, Angharad Golden-Hand (Welsh: Angharad Law Eurawc) appears as a lady of King Arthur's court in the tale of Peredur son of Efrawg. She functions in the narrative as Peredur's beloved whose spoken declaration of love for the Mute Knight permits Peredur to break his vow of silence. The name is later reused in Renaissance and modern literature with different meanings.

Angharradh
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Angharradh

Angharradh is a triune elven deity of the Seldarine in the Forgotten Realms setting, described in sources as a single greater goddess who contains three aspects. She is associated thematically with motherhood, union, and triadic unity and is worshiped by elven clergy within the setting's fiction and game materials.

Annatar
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Annatar

Annatar is an assumed persona used by the malignant Maia later known as Sauron, who presented himself to the Elves of Eregion as a fair, elflike teacher of ring‑craft and jewelry. The name (Quenya, glossed 'Lord of Gifts') functioned rhetorically to gain trust while concealing the being's true aim to dominate through the Rings of Power.

Anne Weying
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Anne Weying

Anne Weying is a human legal professional in Marvel Comics and in Sony's Spider-Man Universe films who, on rare occasions, becomes a temporary host for the alien Venom symbiote and assumes the narrative identity "She-Venom." Her bonded episodes grant her the abilities associated with Venom but are depicted in the cited sources as temporary narrative events rather than a separate folkloric species.

Annihilation Wave
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Annihilation Wave

A vast, organized invading force in Marvel Comics introduced in the 2006 Annihilation crossover, portrayed as fleets of insectoid starships and monstrous combatants led by the villain Annihilus. It operates as a cosmic-scale military campaign that invades and devastates planets and forces disparate factions to form coalitions in response.

Annihilus
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Annihilus

Annihilus is a sentient warlord and sovereign of the Negative Zone within Marvel Comics continuity. Portrayed as a tyrant commanding the Annihilation Wave and wielding the Cosmic Control Rod, he repeatedly mounts cross-dimensional invasions and serves as a recurring cosmic antagonist in multiple storylines, including the Annihilation event.

Annowre (Elergia)
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Annowre (Elergia)

Annowre (also rendered Anouwre; Elergia in Italian La Tavola Ritonda) is a malignant enchantress in medieval Arthurian romance who attempts to seduce and bewitch King Arthur, typically through an enchanted ring and an entrapping tower or castle; she is ultimately overthrown and beheaded, her head displayed as proof of victory.

Anti-Monitor
Ancient

Anti-Monitor

A fictional cosmic antagonist from DC Comics: an anti-matter–aligned multiversal being whose actions can destroy positive-matter universes and who serves as the cosmic opposite of the Monitor.

Anti-Venom
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Anti-Venom

Anti-Venom is a fictional symbiotic life-form appearing in Marvel Comics. A member of the alien Symbiote race, Anti‑Venom bonds with human hosts (notably Eddie Brock and Flash Thompson in different storylines) to form a hybrid being with enhanced physical abilities and narrative powers described as curative against symbiote-related afflictions.

Antimachus
Minor Spirit

Antimachus

Antimachus is attested in the provided sources primarily as a classical Greek personal name borne by historical figures (notably Antimachus of Colophon, a poet and grammarian ca. 400 BC, and Antimachus I Theos, a Greco-Bactrian king). The name is also reused in modern contexts (a Wikidata taxon entry and small-press fictional/divinatory pages). The sources do not present Antimachus as a supernatural or folkloric entity.

Antinous son of Eupeithes
Minor Spirit

Antinous son of Eupeithes

Antinous son of Eupeithes is a named Ithacan suitor of Penelope in the Epic Cycle/Odyssey tradition. He is presented as a mortal member of the group of suitors who occupy Odysseus's household during his absence.

Antiochus
Minor Spirit

Antiochus

Antiochus is primarily a Greek personal name (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίοχος) borne by multiple historical, dynastic, and mythic figures in the Hellenistic world; most notably it names Seleucid kings including Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who figures in Jewish historical memory as the antagonist linked to the Maccabean Revolt and the origin of Hanukkah. The sources do not present Antiochus as a single coherent supernatural being.

Anton Arcane
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Anton Arcane

Anton Arcane is a recurring antagonist in American comic-book fiction, portrayed variously as a scientist, sorcerer, resurrected/possessing figure, demon, and (in The New 52 continuity) the avatar of the Rot, a cosmic force of decay. He creates monstrous biogenetic creatures (the Un-Men), practices forbidden occult science, possesses other bodies, and pursues immortality and power in opposition to the protagonists such as Swamp Thing.

Anya Corazón
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Anya Corazón

Anya Corazón is a Marvel Comics superheroine (originally published as Araña) who was mortally wounded and saved when Spider Society mage Miguel Legar performed a ritual that gave her a spider-shaped tattoo, endowing her with spider-derived powers and marking her as a Hunter of the Spider Society. She balances teenage life in Brooklyn with duties fighting mystical and criminal threats within Marvel's shared-universe fiction.

Anárion
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Anárion

Anárion is a proper name attested as a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium and as a contemporary proper-name used in music and online handles. The supplied sources identify it primarily as a literary/historical name within Tolkien's secondary world and as modern cultural usages (band name, user credits).

Aoi no Ue
Minor Spirit

Aoi no Ue

Aoi no Ue is a Heian-period noblewoman character in The Tale of Genji who becomes the victim of mono no ke (spirit possession). In the narrative she is portrayed as a high-ranking court wife of Hikaru Genji whose body is afflicted by the jealous spirit of Lady Rokujō and other wandering phantoms; the episode was later adapted into a Noh play titled Aoi no Ue.

Aphrodite
Ancient

Aphrodite

Aphrodite is a major ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and related social and cosmic forces. She is counted among the principal Olympian deities with major cult-centers (Cythera, Cyprus, Corinth, Athens), celebrated annually at the Aphrodisia, and syncretized with the Roman Venus.

Aquagirl
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Aquagirl

Aquagirl is a codename used by several fictional superhero characters published by DC Comics, depicted as female counterparts and allies to Aquaman and members of the wider 'Aquaman Family'. Notable bearers include Tula (an Atlantean princess/ally), Lorena Marquez (a human metahuman from San Diego), and earlier one-off figures (Lisa Morel, Selena); the name functions as a recurring title across multiple continuities and reboots.

Aqualad
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Aqualad

Aqualad is a modern American fictional superhero mantle published by DC Comics and appearing across comics, animation, live-action television, film, and games. The name denotes youthful water-associated protégés of Aquaman — chiefly Garth (an Atlantean who later becomes Tempest) and Jackson Hyde / Kaldur'ahm (a reimagined, partly human version created for Young Justice).

Ar-Pharazôn
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Ar-Pharazôn

Ar-Pharazôn is the twenty-fifth and last King of Númenor in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium; a mortal ruler whose political and military leadership, and whose acceptance of Sauron's counsel, precipitated the rebellion of Númenóreans against the Valar and the Downfall of Númenor.

Aravis
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Aravis

Aravis is a fictional human character from C. S. Lewis's The Horse and His Boy (1954). A Tarkheena (female noble of Calormen), she flees an arranged marriage, travels north with talking horses and companions, is wounded by a lion, undergoes moral transformation after encountering Aslan, and later becomes queen of Archenland and appears among the redeemed in Aslan's Country.

Arcadia (Utopia)
Primordial

Arcadia (Utopia)

In Greek tradition, Arcadia is an idealized concept representing a harmonious relationship with nature. (Note: 1. The power tier should be "Primordial" is correct, but clarify that this refers specifically to its conceptual or idealized nature, not implying it has traditional magical powers. 2. No explicit des)

Archelochus
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Archelochus

Archelochus (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχέλοχος) is a mortal Homeric warrior, son of Antenor and Theano, who served as a commander of the Dardanian contingent allied with Troy during the Trojan War. He appears in the Iliad as a named noble-born combatant and is killed in battle by Ajax son of Telamon; later tradition and scholiasts note his shared command with his brother Acamas and Aeneas.

Archgallo
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Archgallo

Archgallo is a legendary mortal king in the pseudo‑historical Kings of Britain tradition (popularized by Geoffrey of Monmouth). His story, dated in the chronicle framework to around 339 BC, narrates tyranny, deposition, exile, restoration by his dutiful brother Elidurus, a decade of reformed rule, and death.

Archie Corrigan
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Archie Corrigan

Archie Corrigan is a fictional, non-superpowered human supporting character in Marvel Comics. A pilot, small-business proprietor, and smuggler based in the island-city of Madripoor, he serves as an ally to Patch and other protagonists and appears in storylines that mix criminal and occasional supernatural threats.

Archie O'Toole
Minor Spirit

Archie O'Toole

Archie O'Toole is a fictional comic-strip character created by Will Eisner (under the pseudonym 'Bud Thomas') in 1938 for Quality Comics. Portrayed as a tall, gangly, red-headed itinerant painter from the fictional mid-Atlantic island of Pyromania, he rises to prominence within the strip after tricking the island's dictator and being declared king; the feature ran in Feature Funnies and Smash Comics through 1949.

Archmail (Arthmael)
Ancient

Archmail (Arthmael)

Archmail (Welsh: Arthmael) is a legendary king of the Britons recorded in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s regnal tradition. He is presented in modern summaries as having come to power in 161 BC and as succeeding his brother Beldgabred and preceding Eldol in the king-list.

Ardina
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Ardina

Ardina is a Marvel Comics fictional cosmic/magical construct described in comic-book continuities as a female being formed from the Silver Surfer's energies (Power Cosmic) and appearing in storylines involving the Defenders, the Order, and related Marvel mythic figures.

Arella
Minor Spirit

Arella

Arella (born Angela Roth) is a fictional human character from DC Comics, best known as the pacifist mother of the superheroine Raven and a member of the interdimensional spiritual community of Azarath. In-universe she is a mortal woman who assumes a spiritual caregiver role and, in certain storylines, participates in sacrificial events that merge her with collective souls of Azarath (Phantasm).

Argius
Minor Spirit

Argius

Argius (also attested Argios/Argeus) is a Greek personal name borne by multiple distinct figures in classical, mythographic, medieval, and modern literary sources — including a historical sculptor, one of the mythic sons of Aegyptus, and various later fictional characters. The attestations do not present a single supernatural entity or a consistent set of powers or rituals.

Argynnus
Lesser

Argynnus

Argynnus (Ἄργυννος) is a youthful mortal from Boeotia in Greek myth whose drowning in the Cephissus river moves Agamemnon to bury and memorialize him; Agamemnon is said to have established or honored a shrine to Aphrodite under the epithet derived from Argynnus. He is presented across sources as a beloved youth (friend, lover, or unreciprocating beloved) whose death serves an etiological role for a local cult epithet.

Aribeth de Tylmarande
Minor Spirit

Aribeth de Tylmarande

Aribeth de Tylmarande (commonly Aribeth or Lady Aribeth) is a fictional human paladin of Tyr in the Forgotten Realms setting, portrayed as a high-ranking civic and religious officer in the city-state of Neverwinter whose grief and crisis of faith lead her from defender and ally to an antagonist in the Neverwinter Nights narrative.

Arioch
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Arioch

Arioch (Hebrew: אַרְיוֹךְ, ’Aryōḵ) is a personal name recorded in Genesis 14 as the "king of Ellasar" who took part in a coalition of kings at the Battle of Siddim. In later literary, occult, and popular-fantasy traditions the name is reused for various infernal or chaotic personae (e.g., listed in grimoires as a demon, named among fallen angels in Milton, a lord of Chaos in Michael Moorcock, and a duke of Hell in Greyhawk lore).

Aristonymus (Aristonymus of Athens)
Minor Spirit

Aristonymus (Aristonymus of Athens)

Aristonymus (Greek: Ἀριστώνυμος) is a classical Greek personal name attested for multiple historical individuals in literary and historical sources. Bearers of the name appear in political, military, familial, and literary contexts across 5th–4th century BCE Greek records and later compilations.

Arizelus
Minor Spirit

Arizelus

Arizelus (also attested Arizelos, Latinized Arizela) is attested in Greek literary and onomastic sources as a personal name borne by mortal figures. In epic genealogy he is known only as the father (patronym) of the warrior Harpalion; in later literature the name appears as the father of an orator Timarchus. No supernatural attributes are recorded.

Arkham (as place-name)
Minor Spirit

Arkham (as place-name)

Arkham is a fictional New England town coined by H. P. Lovecraft and used across his shared setting (Lovecraft Country) as the locus for uncanny, scholarly, and occult occurrences; the toponym has since been adopted by other creators and institutions as an evocative label for legend-haunted or madness-associated locales.

Arkillo
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Arkillo

Arkillo is a DC Comics character associated with the Sinestro Corps (Yellow Lantern Corps), presented in comics as a principal lieutenant and enforcer figure described in promotional material as "Sinestro's right hand man." He appears in Green Lantern Corps storylines collected around issues #33–39, in narratives leading into the "Blackest Night" event.

Arkon
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Arkon

Arkon is a fictional extradimensional warlord and ruler (titled Imperion) of the extra-dimensional world Polemachus in Marvel Comics. He is portrayed as a superhuman warrior-leader who travels between his world and Earth (and other planes) pursuing solutions to existential crises and engaging in conquest, alliance, and romantic entanglements with Earth heroes.

Arnim Zola
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Arnim Zola

Arnim Zola is a fictional human-origin supervillain from Marvel Comics: a biochemist and genetic engineer who becomes an enduring antagonist through technological means — notably mind-transfer, cloning, and android bodies — and as an agent of Hydra and the Red Skull across multiple media.

Arrowette
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Arrowette

Arrowette is a legacy heroic persona from American comic-book continuity (DC Comics), adopted by two related women across generations: Bonnie King (the original 'Miss Arrowette') and her daughter Suzanne 'Cissie' King-Jones. Within the fictional world she is a human, costume‑wearing archer whose identity functions as a public role, team membership, and a locus for interpersonal and moral drama rather than a supernatural being.

Artemis Entreri
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Artemis Entreri

Artemis Entreri is a fictional human character in the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons & Dragons, portrayed as a professional assassin and a recurring antagonist and foil—most notably—to the dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden across multiple novels and game products.

Artemis of Bana‑Mighdall
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Artemis of Bana‑Mighdall

A fictional Amazon superheroine from DC Comics, introduced as a rival to Princess Diana of Themyscira who briefly took on the mantle of Wonder Woman, died fulfilling a prophecy, was sent to the Underworld, and later returned to life.

Arthur Curry (Aquaman)
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Arthur Curry (Aquaman)

A fictional comic-book superhero created for DC Comics, Arthur Curry (commonly called Aquaman) debuted in More Fun Comics #73 and has been presented across anthology and solo series; he is depicted within DC continuity as a leading Atlantean figure and, in later reinterpretations, as king of Atlantis.

Arwen Undómiel
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Arwen Undómiel

Arwen Undómiel is a fictional Elvish noble of mixed Elvish and human descent (a Half‑elven) in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle‑earth legendarium. Daughter of Elrond and Celebrían, she is famed as the Evenstar, who chooses to relinquish Elvish immortality to marry Aragorn and thereby reunite lines of the Half‑elven.

Aryan Brigade
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Aryan Brigade

The Aryan Brigade is a fictional group of supervillains in DC Comics, depicted as a paramilitary white‑supremacist cell composed of powered individuals. Introduced in 1994, the Brigade functions in the comics as an organized extremist threat that engages in violent attacks and bioterror plots against the modern fictional world.

Ashtray Maze
Minor Spirit

Ashtray Maze

A fictional, reality‑bending level/architectural sequence in Remedy Entertainment's 2019 video game Control. Initially an impassable, self‑rearranging network of corridors, it later becomes a music‑synchronized, traversable combat set piece when the player character listens to the song "Take Control."

Askeladd
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Askeladd

Askeladd is a fictional human character from Makoto Yukimura's manga Vinland Saga who functions as the leader of a Viking warband, mentor/antagonist to the protagonist Thorfinn, and a politically ambitious strategist who manipulates royal succession (notably involving Prince Canute). He is a complex, morally ambiguous human figure rather than a supernatural being.

Aslan
Ancient

Aslan

Aslan is the singular, talking lion figure at the center of C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, functioning as creator, king, judge, savior, and moral authority within that fictional cosmology. The name also appears in unrelated contexts (personal names, a lion-like alien in Traveller RPG) but those are distinct referents.

Assaracus
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Assaracus

Assaracus is a mytho-historical king of Dardania in ancient Greek genealogical tradition, presented as a mortal ancestor within the royal house that connects to the foundation and lineage of Troy (Ilium). He is primarily attested as a dynastic progenitor—son of Tros, brother of Ilus, and father of Capys—and is not described in the supplied sources as a supernatural being.

Assur (Aššur / Ashur)
Minor Spirit

Assur (Aššur / Ashur)

Assur (Aššur, Ashur; modern Qal'at Sherqat) is the ancient city that served as a major urban, political, and religious centre of Assyria for millennia. The site is an archaeological complex on a south‑facing spur of the Tigris River with extensive temple precincts and stratified occupation from the Early Dynastic period into the mid‑3rd century AD.

Astarion Ancunín
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Astarion Ancunín

Astarion Ancunín is a fictional player-controllable character from Larian Studios' Baldur's Gate 3 (2023). Presented as a High Elf rogue who was infected by an Illithid tadpole and revealed to be a vampire spawn, he functions in-game as a companion/protagonist with a personal quest concerning his former master, Cazador Szarr.

Astraeus
Ancient

Astraeus

Astraeus is an ancient Greek divine figure whose name means 'starry.' In standard theogonic genealogies he is son of Crius and Eurybia, consort of Eos (Dawn), and father of the winds, Eosphorus (the morning star) and the stars; in later literature he appears as an oracular figure. A minority late tradition (via Hyginus and echoed by Servius) treats him as counted among the Gigantes, a divergent identity.

Astyanax
Minor Spirit

Astyanax

In classical Greek and Roman literature Astyanax is the infant son of Hector and Andromache whose survival or death symbolizes the potential continuity of Troy's royal house. He is depicted as a mortal child whose fate is contested in the immediate aftermath of the sack of Troy; later medieval and Renaissance traditions sometimes recast him as a legendary founder-figure who survives.

Atlantia
Minor Spirit

Atlantia

Atlantia is not a single folkloric supernatural being in the provided sources but a modern proper name applied to multiple, independent referents — including a brief classical name-form (Atlanteia/Atlantia) listed as a Hamadryad in Greek mythic genealogies, a contemporary YA novel's underwater city, names of vessels in science-fiction media, a Society for Creative Anachronism regional designation, and a biological genus entry in a taxonomic database. The sources do not present a unified mythic ontology or associated rituals for an entity called 'Atlantia.'

Atomic Knight
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Atomic Knight

A heroic identity from American comic-book fiction (DC Comics) embodied by one or more human characters who adopt a chivalric role in a post‑apocalyptic setting. The Atomic Knights serve as armored protectors and symbols of hope amid the aftermath of a catastrophic hydrogen/atomic war within various DC future continuities.