List of The Power of Five characters
This is a list of all the antagonists and protagonists in The Power of Five series by Anthony Horowitz. The series chronicles the war between the Old Ones and the Five Gatekeepers. The Five are Matthew Freeman, Pedro/Inti, Scott and Jamie Tyler and Scarlett Adams. The Old Ones ruled the world for eighty years at the dawn of humanity, but the Five defeated them, and threw them into Hell, causing the demons to await their return for millennia. Two gates were built in between Earth and Hell to keep the Old Ones out - these are the focus of the series and consist of Raven's Gate, and the Nazca Desert, which is the second gate.
The only characters to physically appear in all five books are Matthew Freeman, Richard Cole and Chaos the King of the Old Ones.
Although it may seem like the characters are very clear-cut, some are neutral. Even the Old Ones themselves can appear decent and friendly - this is their main weapon such as how Audrey Cheng uses her charisma to influence Scarlett when in human form.
It is initially unknown who is behind the power of the Five, but eventually it is revealed to be the Librarian: a God-like being who is revealed as the father of the Five. The world in which the Librarian lives is strangely dead, with no colour, and is revealed to be a place the Five can use to see each other in dreams when they sleep. Eventually, in the final book, they leave for the Dreamworld forever, hinting that the Dreamworld is actually Heaven.
Protagonists
The Five
Matt Freeman
Matt is the first of the Five and the leader of the Five, and is the main protagonist in the first two novels, Raven's Gate and Evil Star. He did reappear in the third novel Nightrise, but only very briefly when Scott and Jamie Tyler appeared in the Nazca Desert, the place where Matt and Pedro were staying in Professor Chamber's hacienda. Matt is not the main protagonist in book four, as Scarlett Adams takes the role; however, he makes a bigger appearance than he did in Nightrise.Matt's powers are telekinesis, as well as clairvoyance; his powers are stronger when he is with another of the five but it has also proven to be unstoppable with just extreme will. When he activates his power, he can smell burnt toast, as this is what he could smell the day his parents died. This is first shown when he tries to steal from a warehouse in Ipswich, and senses the security guard. He always blames himself for not warning his parents the accident which would occur, as he knew his parents would not believe him. He regretted not doing damage to the car to prevent them from going out.
In Evil Star, Matt meets Pedro, the second of the five, and they together figure out the location of the second gate in Nazca Lines which is about to be smashed. However, their efforts were in vain as the gate unlocked at the stroke of midnight on Inti Raymi and the Old Ones finally re-entered the world.
In Necropolis, Matt enters the door in Tai Shan Temple in Hong Kong along with Lohan Shan-tung and arrive in Belem, Brazil ten years later, in Oblivion. Due to the fact that they need money, Lohan sells Matt on the slave market, takes the money and then saves Matt, repeatedly. Having read his life book in the dreamworld library, Matt knows what he has to do, and tells Lohan that they need to head for Antarctica where the Old Ones hold a base called Oblivion. After Scott's betrayal, he decides to meet him himself along with Richard and they are captured and tortured by the Old Ones. However, knowing what needs to be done, Richard kills Matt, who is then replaced by his old self from the past. When Scott also dies, Flint also arrives from the past and the Five successfully defeat the Old Ones once again. Matt and Scott are later buried side by side in Oblivion by Richard and the remaining Five.
Matt is described as being muscular but slim and very good looking. It describes Matt in the book as having the look of a male model and/or footballer. He has dark hair that is for most of the books cut short. His eyes are often described as being an intense, vivid blue in colour. His past incarnation is also called Matt, as he preferred the name better.
Matt can communicate with other four in a dream world. The dream world is on a beach in neither day nor night.
Pedro
Pedro is the second of the Five and is first introduced in the second book, Evil Star. Pedro lived as a beggar in Lima, Peru.Pedro began life in a small village in the Canta province. When he was six years old, the River Chillón burst its banks and Pedro's family were killed in the flood. Pedro joined a group of survivors who went to Lima, where he eventually ended up in the care of a man named Sebastian with many other children. He lived there, performing tricks to people passing by, and robbing rich tourists. However, he then met Matthew Freeman and travelled with him.
Pedro also bears a strong resemblance to Manco Cápac, the founder of the Inca Empire. Pedro's power is healing. He could heal people by being around them. He only realised his power at the end of Evil Star when he helped Matt after he was injured by Chaos, the King of the Old Ones. He discovered that during the stay with his carer Sebastian in Ciudad del Veneno, known as Poison Town in English, none of the people around him got sick due to his healing abilities, and when Matt slept at the house where Pedro lived, he noticed his scars from a previous fight had vanished overnight.
He is described as being extremely skinny with long dark brown hair and brown eyes. His past incarnation is named Inti. Pedro is 14 years old in Evil Star and Nightrise, but is then 15 in Necropolis. He had tried to heal Scott after Susan Mortlake tortured him by trying to control him but could not as the scars of the wound were too deep. By the time of Necropolis, he had learned enough of the English language to be able to communicate with the other four gatekeepers.
In Necropolis, he went through the doorway in the Tai Shan Temple along with Scott, and ended up in Italy ten years later. He was held as a prisoner in a castle situated in Naples, along with Scott. After a few weeks of being held in prison, Scott under the influence of the Old Ones joins their side along with Jonas Mortlake, son of Susan Mortlake, while Pedro afterwards escaped the prison and travelled to Rome with the help of an Italian boy named Giovanni. He used the door in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome to get to Oblivion, Antarctica where he and the remaining four finally defeat the Old Ones. After winning the battle, he joins Matt and the other three to live in the dreamworld situated beyond the mountains of Oblivion.
Pedro can communicate with the other four of the five in the dream world.
Jamie and Scott Tyler
Jamie and Scott Tyler, twins, are two of the Five and are the joint main protagonists in the third book, Nightrise. At the beginning of the novel, Jamie and Scott are working in a dingy theatre in Reno, Nevada, under the whim of their "Uncle Don" who is not really their uncle, but Jamie and Scott are forced to call him that. After a performance, Scott is kidnapped and both physically and mentally tortured by the sinister Nightrise Corporation at a juvenile prison called Silent Creek. Jamie is rescued by a woman called Alicia McGuire and creates a plan to save Scott. Along the way, he is catapulted into the past and witnesses the first battle against the Old Ones. Sapling, Jamie's former self, was killed by the Old Ones, hence he was 'replaced' by Jamie. At the end of the novel Jamie and Scott are united with Matt and Pedro.Jamie and Scott's power is telepathy and they have the power to control other people and make them abide by the instructions given by the twins, as well as being able to read each other's thoughts automatically. Jamie has shown in Nightrise that he doesn't like using his powers.
The twins are described as being very skinny with long black hair and dark eyes. Both of them have cut their hair by the time they are reunited.
Their past incarnations are Sapling and Flint. Matt had stated that Scott's past incarnation name, Flint, suited him for Scott had a hard look around him and a type of cruelty. He was supposedly angry when Matt split him and Jamie apart for the twins had never been so far apart. Matt stated that he thought Scott could not be trusted yet. Jamie and Scott are both fourteen years old in Nightrise, but are fifteen in Necropolis. In Necropolis, it shows that Jamie is now more in charge of the two, as Scott is very withdrawn and quiet. Scott also shuts down when in stress. The reason was that he was thoroughly programmed while held captive by the Nightrise agents in Nevada, USA. Nightrise stated at the start of Necropolis that it was possible to turn Scott against his friends.
Scott betrays the Five in the final book; as soon as he and Pedro arrive in Italy, Scott is won over to the Old Ones and has Pedro's finger broken. Scott then joins the Old Ones and is taught by Jonas Mortlake, son of Susan Mortlake, who tortured him. He is given "luxury" in the fortress of Oblivion which seems luxurious, but has a habit of turning to maggot-ridden meat and freezing rooms in seconds. It seems to be connected to whenever he is thinking of grim things. Eventually, he decides to contact Jamie. He summons Matt to the fortress under pretense of repentance, but actually betrays Matt and lets the Old Ones capture him. Scott feels guilty for his actions and when he hears Matt being tortured, he opens the locked door, getting Jamie, Scarlet, and Pedro inside Oblivion, but also sacrificing himself as the lock of the door was protected by a deadly cosmic force equivalent to thousands of volts of electricity. He then dies in Jamie's arms.
They can communicate with each other and the other members of the Five in a dream world.