Memphis laughed and said, “Man, that’s dumb,” which was rich coming from a guy who dressed like Elvis. Ghastly, Anton, and Skulduggery's murdered family make a brief appearance towards the end of the book. They're all ghosts. Death Bringer: A Big Bad Ensemble between Lord Vile and the new Death Bringer, Melancholia St Clair. Melancholia is Valkyrie's Necromancer Sitcom Arch Enemy who is experimented on to become the Death Bringer, before getting Drunk on the Dark Side. Lord Vile, the last of the Three Generals and Skulduggery's Superpowered Evil Side, wants to kill Melancholia for usurping his title. Melancholia is ultimately the bigger threat as she tries to kill every living thing, but Vile serves as the Final Boss after depowering her, chasing down Valkyrie as she tries to save Melancholia's life. Oh,” said Lethe. “Oh, this is one of those … principle things, isn’t it? That’s … that’s sad. I’m sad now. You’ve made me sad. Because now I’ll have to kill you, Quibble, and … and I would prefer not to.”

H ollow Men are humanoid skin bags inflated with a foul gas that animates them. The are very easy to create and makes up the bulk of Serpine’s army in the War. As gas-filled leather beings, the can’t be harmed by clobbering or any blunt weapon. However, their skin and gas is flammable and can be set alight easily. They walk slowly and have weighted fists and feet.The Plague Doctor's mission to deal with what seems to be the Faceless Ones, but actually Obsidian, who's the Bigger Fish to them and literally everything else, is to summon Darquesse. It works. Playing with Fire refers to Valkyrie regularly putting herself in dangerous situations, but as Elemental mages, herself and Skulduggery literally play with fire.

Flight: Skulduggery perfected flying using wind magic while trapped in the Faceless Ones' dimension and later taught it to other elementals when he got home. Valkyrie receives this again in Seasons of War, after being captured by Mevolent's forces in the Leibniz Universe. Mortal Coil: The Remnants, accidentally released into the world by the Necromancers. Tesseract, an assassin hired by the Roarhaven mages to tie up loose ends in the Sanctuary bombing from the previous book serves as the main antagonist up until they're released, and continues to serve as The Heavy with the Remnants' unofficial leader possessing him for the climax.Evil Old Folks: Of course ignoring the centuries' old sorcerers, old people just seem to be bad news. After having lost everything she worked for, Abyssinia spends her final moments with the man she loved, who confesses that he once loved her in turn. Eventually, she just sat on the tree stump on which she’d placed the tin cans she’d been using as targets. Three of them were scorched. Two were brazenly untouched. Still, three out of five meant that at least her aim was improving. Skulduggery interrogates Scapegrace by making him think that Tanith Low had the power to do this, and would do so if he refused to talk.

The Death Bringer for the Necromancers, although they don't quite think of him/her in that way. They believe the Death bringer will be able to eliminate death itself and bring about paradise. All it involves is killing half the population of the world. Sebastian Tao - he can handle himself in a fight, he has a coherent plan, he's just trapped in a modified necronaut suit, a daft costume, and has a penchant for finding himself in the least dignified situations imaginable. It doesn't hurt that he is, in fact, a time-travelling Omen Darkly. Skulduggery Pleasant then, once Temper is missing re-enlists Valkyrie Cain, who is staying at Grimwood House, her Uncle Gordon's former home. Happened to Skulduggery Pleasant after his death several years before the series begins, causing his soul to remain bound to his skeleton. Darquesse for the rest of the series (Although the Necromancers are involved heavily as Big Bads and have much more plot relevance for books 4 through 6), a powerful sorceror prophesied by Sensitives to bring ruin and cata

Erskine Ravel believes himself to be a Well-Intentioned Extremist, intending to improve Roarhaven for mages and making mortals second class citizens. Skulduggery is pissed at him for killing Ghastly and Anton and decides to kill him. The heroes feel no sympathy for him at all when Darquesse forces him to feel pain 23 hours a day every day and he's unceremoniously disposed of to shut down the Accelerator. Despite feeling guilt for his actions yet claiming them to be necessary, he's shown to be nothing more than a self-serving coward when Skulduggery actually confronts him.

During the climax of The Dying of the Light Skulduggery frees Ravel so he can help the Sanctuary fight Darquesse. Vile and Melancholia fight together against Darquesse. In July 2016, Derek Landy announced via a video blog that, although the Skulduggery Pleasant series was complete, the series as a whole was still set to continue with a sequel series. The first book of this sequel was released in June 2017, titled Resurrection. [2] While nine books were planned, the series was cut down to six books by HarperCollins after the publication of Seasons of War. The final book, Until the End, was released in April 2022. [3] In October 2022, Landy announced via YouTube livestream that a "one-off prequel" and "Book 0·1", Hell Breaks Loose, would release in March 2023. [4]Omen overhears the Arcanum's Scholars talking in the library, discussing rumors of the fight between Lethe and Skulduggery. He manages to steal one of their ceremonial masks, which they wear to their secret meetings. On Omen's tip-off, Parthenios Lilt is arrested and the Arcanum's Scholars continue their meetings without him. Omen manages to infiltrate one of the meetings by wearing the stolen mask. For the first time, the Scholars meet the main anti-Sanctuary members. Lethe announces that they are to be the "First Wave" of the war against the mortals. After a headcount, however, Omen is discovered and he flees before he is unmasked.