Jack Flanders:

The modest, sensitive and all-around-nice-guy star of the series of the same name. He’s pretty much experienced it all, he’s traveled the skies on winged, three-masted ships; had his body divided into two different people, then reunited; bargained with the Lords of Death and even discovered the lost city of El Dorado in the heart of the Amazon Jungle (along with a few other adventurers, of course).

The only living relatives featured in the series (his parents are presumed living as well) are his Aunt, Lady Sara Jowls, and his two uncles, Sir Henry and Sir Seymore Jowles, as well as his half-aunt, Meanie Eenie (half sister to Lady Jowls). Lady Jowls and Meanie Eenie are first introduced in the 4^th Tower of Inverness, along with Lord Jowls, who allegedly disappeared into the 4^th Tower, which formerly was believed a myth.

Sir Seymore is introduced in The Ah-Ha Phenomena, an eccentric scientist who hires Jack to "borrow" the Unified Theory of Matter and Energy from the Forbidden City of Ah-Ha several decades before its actual discovery (with the bonus of an opportunity for Jack to find the source of the Lotus Jukebox, whose melody has been plaguing him since Inverness, the melody having an effect on him like a full moon has on a werewolf). Jack reluctantly agrees and barely escapes with his skin the idea,only to receive word that some of his uncle’s people don’t agree with it, saying "some parts don’t seem to belong." Oh well.

Jack Flanders has fallen in love on a few occasions, most of the times the feeling was mutual. In Rio de Janeiro, the German anthropologist Frieda (not "Little" Frieda) reawakened the feelings he had in his childhood, and he never realized how strong their love was until Frieda suddenly died in the city of El Dorado, many miles from civilization. Through an astounding chain of events, Frieda came back to life, possessed by an Amazonian entity, then finally returned as herself. Apparently some part of the fire was put out by her condition, as Jack returns to the states a few hours later (not in actuality, just according to the scale of time in the adventure).

Another woman Jack meets in Brazil, Carmen (named after Carmen Miranda, of course), is more of a friend than a lover, since they meet again just once after Dreams of Rio, and Jack never mentions anything about their relationship.

The third flame in Jack’s life is a bit different, however. Hired by the girl’s aunt, Louise Nettles, Jack is hired to find Jesse, an anthropologist (like Frieda, yes). When he finds her, she has constructed a fantasy world of her own, even a manifestation of Jack, whom she secretly admires for both his skills and his personality (It’s amazing how she knows exactly what Jack is going to say, then says what he says at the same time). Jesse is a tad different person, and hopefully she might be making a reappearance sometime soon.

Jack's latest adventure in Return to Inverness is an echo from his past, he meets many old friends and makes many new ones, and his journey is still far from over...

Lady Jowls:

The former owner of Inverness Estate and supposed widow of Sir Henry Jowls. She is responsible for Jack’s growing awareness of the untouched planes of existence and the invisible worlds, perfect for the "new" breed of adventurer. Valerie Mamches does an amazing job of voicing both her and Meanie Eenie, sometimes when the two are in the same sound-space together. Lady Jowls is a very open person, believing in a wide range of ideas, from reincarnation to the "truth" behind Indian smoke signals (mental communication between signalers).

After her introduction in The 4^th Tower, Lady Jowls isn’t mentioned again until The Incredible Adventures of Jack Flanders (unless you count Jack’s stumbling into Inverness and meeting her again in Moon Over Morocco), where she is only mentioned for a brief while.

Then events take a tragic turn near the end of Midnight at The Casa Luna, when a Real Estate agent calls Jack’s apartment telling him that his aunt has passed on. I almost cried when I heard that. Please forgive me for referring to her in the present tense.

At the end of the same adventure, Jack is told that he has inherited Inverness from his aunt, and is not allowed to sell the estate or allow anyone else to look after it, save the caretaker. Though she is mentioned several times in Return to Inverness, Lady Jowls is sadly not going to make an appearance in the Jack Flanders series again. I'm sure we all miss her.

Sir Henry Jowls:

The former ruler of Inverness Estate, one of Jack’s two uncles (the ones mentioned in the series). He was (and still is), as Lady Jowls says, "the last of the Renaissance men." His former wife describes him as a true adventurer from the days of true exploration. Now, with every inch of the planet claimed by man, she continues, what is left to explore?

That is where Sir Henry sets off for. At an uncertain time in the past, he disappears into the depths of the 4^th tower of Inverness, which appears only to the eyes of those worthy to enter its many levels of existence. Jack is summoned to the mansion and asked to find his uncle and to learn why he vanished. Sir Henry’s former wife, Lady Jowles, is quite angered to learn that her husband left this world to get away not only from humanity, but mostly from her. She eventually accepts this for fact, and realizes that it was only natural for a man like Sir Henry to continually strive for freedom, even if it means leaving the world of man in the process.

Jack Flanders, the only person to return from the 4^th Tower of Inverness alive, was originally destined to rule in Lord Jowles’ place, but after telling his aunt that he felt he had his own, separate path to follow, she reluctantly agreed.

Sir Jowls said his final farewell to his nephew in The 4^th Tower of Inverness, but in spite of this he has played a very minor role in Incredible Adventures, and a more-than-minor role in Midnight at The Casa Luna. Apparently, Sir Henry has stepped out of one realm and into another, and through fate, coincidence and the author, he and Jack join forces once again, along with the mysterious and strangely familiar Leela.

Meanie Eenie:

The half-sister to Lady Jowles, a mischievous, child-like person as well. Said to be somewhat of a runt in her youth, yet very ferocious, as she tells Chief Wampum when they are talking together in The Fourth Tower. Jack was attacked in the east tower by someone who looked exactly like Meanie Eenie, but it later turned out that Jives, the butler, had disguised himself and given Jack a "crash course" to keep him on his toes. Even though she is more than a little crazy, Meanie Eenie proves herself to be a good friend (especially when she kisses Jack good-bye near the end of The Fourth Tower).

Meanie Eenie hasn’t really played a role in any of the Jack Flanders Series but the first adventure, and in RTI, Old Art tells Jack that she moved to Seattle.

Little Frieda:

A mysterious little girl ("I’m a million and a half years old.") with no pupils in her eyes ("You can do lots of things without any pupils in your eyes.") with a fetish for Havana cigars and pigtails ("Cute, aren’t they?"). This charming Venusian appears as one of the strange inhabitants of the Inverness Mansion and quickly becomes Jack’s close friend after she saves his life from the Madonna Vampyra.

Though she is rumored to have either died or lost her body in an explosion near the end of The 4^th Tower, another very familiar girl makes an appearance in Moon Over Morocco, named Little Flossic. Frieda herself is also rumored to have a starring role in the zany Rocket Pierre series in Stars & Stuff, as well as the actress behind her narrating nearly all the adventures.

Little Frieda also appears in Incredible Adventures, though the exact way she managed to rematerialize is uncertain. In the adventure, Jack manages to save her life (even though she allegedly died in another explosion) and even the score.

The "Frieda" in Dreams of Rio is not played by the same actress, nor is it the same character, though Jack at first thinks it is. Exactly why this coincidence takes place is uncertain, as are many other things in the series. But I can live with it.

The question of whether Little Frieda is alive or not is answered in RTI, when Jack hears her voice calling from within the fourth tower, and eventually finds her, even though she then tells him that she never called him. But still, she helps solve the mysteries and the strange plagues of Inverness, and she and Jack are together once again.

Dr. Marlin Mazoolah (alchemist of the 1^st Order):

The shy, bent and somewhat batty alchemist of Inverness Estate. His first meeting with Jack Flanders ended up giving Jack more than his share of knowledge (and relieved him of one of his boots, whether Jack ever got his boot back is uncertain, but it was one of the only pair he had so--guess he did).

Dr. Mazoolah (voiced by the narrator of nearly all the Jack Flander Series, Dave Herman) is responsible for unleashing a dragon upon the Inverness grounds (his own dragon, from the depths of his own mind), and partially takes the blame for little Frieda’s disappearance, but still remains a likeable, if eccentric character.

Jack Flanders leaves the good doctor living in Inverness, and is greatly surprised to find him an alchemist aboard a winged ship in another realm, along with Little Frieda, in The Incredible Adventures of Jack Flanders. After an unexpected explosion in his laboratory, Jack travels to the Realms of the Dead to bargain for the lives of his friends, but unfortunately, while he gets away with Little Frieda alive, Mazoolah dies a happy man.

The good doctor’s story is not over, however. It turns out that he has an evil half-brother, Dr. Merlin Mazoolah. Jack and Mojo Sam end up going into battle with this insane wizard and just manage to come through victorious.

And the question of whether Mazoolah is dead or not in Return to Inverness... well, you don't want me to spoil the surprise, do you?

Chief Wampum Stompum:

Another eccentric occupant of the Inverness Mansion. Chief Wampum’s occupation is an Indian (I’m being politically correct here, an east Indian, not a Native American) and a classic trickster, voiced by the one-and-only Meatball Fulton. He does, however, have his little disagreements with Old Far-Seeing Art in The Fourth Tower of Inverness, what with Art being a former cowboy.

Chief Wampum makes another appearance in The Ah-Ha Phenomena as a shaman who assists Jack Flanders in getting into the astral realm (but from Jack’s perspective, is only an irritating prankster). He plays yet another minor role in The Incredible Adventures of Jack Flanders as the author of the book "Taming the Fierce Frombork: Do's and Dont's."

And yes, the Chief does make a reappearance in Return to Inverness, and like before, he is responsible for most of the mischief but also aids Jack when he needs help.

Old Far-Seeing Art:

The former caretaker of Inverness Estate. Art was the third person to greet Jack upon his arrival at Inverness, and one of the most helpful to him in his quest to solve the mystery of the fourth tower. As the caretaker, Art was provided with his own living quarters in the west tower, as he told Jack.

Old Far-Seeing Art reveals the meaning behind his name in Incredible Adventures. Jack, on another voyage with Captain Swallow, meets Art in the chain of floating islands. Art shows Jack some of the finer points of far-seeing and Jack is briefly able to inhabit the mind of a hawk and see through its eyes (surprisingly, a reference to exactly this is in Ruby 2, when Teru is talking about the different forms of "windowing").

Old Art returns with RTI, and he, like most of the inhabitants, has no idea why strange vibrations are starting to shake the mountain, but he is still an essential character in Jack's life.

Wham Bam Shazam:

A teenage boy with no named parents, another inhabitant of Inverness. Even though he’s a teenager (at least at the time of The Fourth Tower), he’s obsessed with the culture of the 1950’s. This is obvious when Jack first meets him, when Wham Bam is singing the song Jack has been hearing coming from the Lotus Jukebox, carefully tending to his car, a ’49 Mercury. Aside from giving Jack some less-than-helpful trivia about the fourth tower, Wham Bam isn’t that big a character in Fourth Tower, but he does come back in RTI.

Apparently, after Jack left Inverness for the first time, Wham Bam went to Paris and studied to become a chef, an unexpected profession for such a character, and becomes the cook for the mansion when he returns to Inverness. Still, he is definately changed when Jack meets him again. Jack is even more surprised when he finds out that Wham Bam is behind the "conspiracy" of Inverness, but still, he turns out to be much friendlier than he was in The 4^th Tower of Inverness.

Jives:

The butler of Inverness Mansion, devoted servant to Lady Jowles. Well-known for his "rare and exquisite" sense of humor, Jives doesn’t seem to play a role bigger than always being at Lady Jowles’ beckoned call, doing whatever her bidding requires. His true servitude is revealed in the end of The Fourth Tower, when Jack discovers that Jives disguised himself as Meanie Eenie and chased him around in the east tower with a meat cleaver.

The first clue of his ability to disguise himself to great effect is about halfway through the adventure, when Jack returns from the fourth tower for the first time and Jives appears very old, although Jack was only in the fourth tower for a few hours. Jives makes his exit in The Fourth Tower, and when Jack returns to Inverness, Old Art tells him that Jives moved to New Orleans.

The Madonna Vampyra:

A former inhabitant of Inverness: an astral vampire, one who drains the energy from her victims, mostly young men but even more especially married men (they are such easy marks). Jack realizes this when he first meets her and gets nearly all his energy sucked away but is rescued by Little Frieda just in time. Afterwards, he is constantly on his toes, keeping light on his feet, dodging her whenever he can. While he does this, they grow close, and Jack almost trusts her.

A terrifying turn of events occurs when Jack enters the fourth tower for the second time and finds the Madonna Vampyra lying dead in the abandoned Land of the Lotus Jukebox and returns to Inverness and finds her gone. However, when he enters the tower the third time, he meets his uncle and they set out on a voyage to find the Lotus Jukebox. When Jack is keeping watch over their campsite, he sees a figure and immediately knocks it out with an oar from their boat...and guess who it is?

After his brief encounter with what he thinks is the Madonna Vampyra, Jack meets her, alive and well, in the Valley of the Ten Thousand Ohms Unfolded. Lord Jowles tells him that she originated from the Land of the Lotus Jukebox, but her body laid in rest when she lived in Inverness. Apparently, Jack returned from the Lotus Land when the Madonna Vampyra was right in the middle of the voyage back to her kingdom to see Jack (after she heard he was going to visit that realm). After trying to brain Jack with a rock, the Madonna Vampyra (and the other two adventurers) discover the temple of the valley, and after listening to the song from the great, almighty jukebox within, she tells Jack that she understands and vanishes, never to be heard from again.

However, several days after Jack returns to Inverness nearly thirty years later, the Madonna Vampyra returns, saying that all she wants to do is to be freinds with Jack again, and Jack -- though reluctantly -- accepts. Things should be interesting in their future...

Kasbah Kelly:

The owner of a bar in Tangier (called Kasbah Kelly’s. It figures). Jack wrote to Kelly mentioning his interests in magic in Morocco and Kelly agreed to help him. He regretted this later. Half-convinced Jack was crazy, Kelly tried to get him back to Tangier when they were visiting a festival in the mountains beyond Marrakesh, but Jack disappeared, putting an end to his efforts.

Both Kelly and his newfound friend Sonny Skies pondered the question that Jack might have died for some time, but then Sonny vanishes in the same manner. Kelly is nearly sent into the invisible world by the scheming La Comtessa de Zazeenia and Fatma Tajeem, but Kelly’s close friend Mojo saves him in the nick of time.

After Jack departs from Morocco (and Mojo plays a big trick on Kelly by driving off with Sonny, although he later returns alone), Kelly’s role is second to nothing. We haven’t heard of him except in reference to Mojo’s origin, and the odds of Jack meeting him again are very small.

Mojo Sam:

An African-American scholar of voodoo and yoga. His full title is "Mojo Sam the YooDoo Man." Judging by his practices, you can easily make the connection. Mojo doesn’t call himself "the YooDoo man;" he says that his former "boss," Kasbah Kelly called him by that name, him and only him.

From his first appearance in Moon Over Morocco, Mojo has been an easily likeable character, and consequently has appeared in 4 other adventures following the one in question, The Incredible Adventures of Jack Flanders, Dreams of Rio, Dreams of Sumatra and Return to Inverness.. In most of the adventures, he "appears" the same way: you always hear him playing his piano before you hear his voice.

As of two years ago, Mojo, who has always been a traveling man, has got his own series, Moving With Mojo. He gets a job in a tiny town in New Mexico, U.S.A., at the Armadillo Bistro, a sort of a small-scale replica of Inverness, judging by the crazy collection of characters in the out-of-the-way location. Mojo naturally reappears in RTI, with new tunes and more wisdom, helping Jack in his journeys all the while.

Note: The actor who plays Mojo, Dave Adams, has voiced another character besides "the piano man." He has voiced the obvious, upbeat parody of Mojo in Ruby 3 and 4. The mysterious Father Mojo of the Orchids of Osmos is just like the Mojo of our world, often conversing with visitors while playing his piano, giving sound advice to even the most hopeless of seekers (does the name Rodant Kapoor ring a bell?).

La Comtessa de Zazeenia:

An eccentric, wealthy woman of Tangier, Morocco, Jack’s first contact when he arrived in the country. She was (and probably is) well-learned in Moroccan magic, in fact, she and her close friend Fatma Tajeem nearly got Jack the young woman Sonny Skies trapped in an invisible world in an attempt to steal one of the greatest treasures of this age: the Golden Eye of El Kabah.

The Comtessa isn’t heard of after Moon Over Morocco, and it isn’t very likely that she will be.

Sonny Skies:

A young girl who visited Morocco at the same time as Jack Flanders. She described herself as "a fugitive from myself," and became close friends with Kasbah Kelly (more so than Jack, anyway). Her naïve personality allowed the Comtessa and Fatma Tajeem to use her to steal the golden eye of El Kabah, but Jack and the storyteller, Mustafa were able to stop this and return Sonny to the visible world.

Sonny leaves Morocco at the same time as Jack, changed in many ways. At first Kelly is heartbroken when she drives off with Mojo, but when Mojo returns alone, Kelly realizes the humor in Mojo’s actions.

Layla Oolopi:

A beautiful, mysterious, black-haired woman that Jack meets in Morocco. It later turns out that she is an enfreet (unsure spelling), a demon-like creature. This is obvious when Mojo sees her with a pair of bat wings (even more so when he flies back to Tangier on her). Layla gives Jack the eye of El Kabah early on in the story, and it is this gift that starts this whole mess.

Layla also flies into the battle scene between the Queen Azora and Little Flossic near the end of Moon Over Morocco, and holds down their fire until Mustafa, the storyteller arrives. She leaves Jack with a hint of heartbreak, as if she really loved him, similar to Jack’s relationship with the Madonna Vampira.

The girl Leela in Midnight at the Casa Luna is almost identical to Layla, only with a different voice credit. Yet everyone in that adventure refers to Layla as a different individual. It could also be that Layla is a reincarnation of the demon’s daughter Oolopi in The 4^th Tower of Inverness. Her voice sounds similar, as does her appearance.

Fatma Tajeem:

An aged witch of Tangier, Morocco. Although it is never depicted in sound, it is determined that Jack visited her to buy herbs to help focus his mind in order to pass through the gateway to the invisible world. It is ironic that Fatma was in cahoots with the Comtessa in the plot to steal the eye of El Kabah, which (even more ironically so) Jack had around his neck the whole time. What goes around comes around!

The two women’s plans were unintentionally foiled by the naïve, gentle storyteller Mustafa, who calmly convinces them that they cannot stop their own stories, and that he tells their fate, so it is written. The last we heard of Fatma, she was fleeing the graveyard and Mustafa with the Comtessa, and hopefully we have heard the last of her.

Mustafa:

The storyteller of the invisible realm in Moon Over Morocco. Possibly a wizard of great powers, although he is too modest to call himself anything but a storyteller. Whether he actually told the story of Jack Flanders or whether Jack wrote his own story is unknown. Until we do know, Mustafa will always be a mere teller of tales, "so they are written."

Surprisingly, Mustafa turns out to be a former friend of Mojo's, Quagmire Jones, "World Traveller." He is mentioned in Return to Inverness, but hasn't appeared in person since Moon Over Morocco.

Queen Azora:

The female ruler of the invisible realm in MOM. At the beginning of her story, she was married to the King Hassan Bezel (actually Jack Flanders), a powerful sorceress. She made it her mission to eliminate the band of rebels marching against her husband using her powers, and she would have succeeded if it weren’t for one catch: the leader of the rebels was the same person as her husband. Her desire for the golden eye of El Kabah caused her to use Sonny Skies to steal it (the other eye, in this case).

When Azora finally possessed both eyes, it seemed all was lost until El Kabah crashed through the window, and Sonny exclaimed that there were two Jacks. This did little to unnerve the Queen, and before she could kill both sides of Jack Flanders, Little Flossic burst in, along with her band of warriors. Azora had a brief shootout with her (with lightning bolts, mostly) until Layla appeared, then Mustafa. In his own mischievous ways, Mustafa read the queen’s own fate to her, and when Azora refused to let her hatred towards El Kabah and Little Flossic go, she lost her powers and ran, crying, to her chambers.

It seems like a sad ending for Azora, but Little Flossic says that she will realize it was "just another story," and she played it out just as it was written. That seems profound enough.

Little Flossic:

El Kabah’s second-in-command during his march against El Hassan Bezel. She is remarkably like Little Frieda, in description and demeanor, especially the way she disappears as mysteriously as she appeared towards the end of Moon Over Morocco. Even Jack notices this, and he asks himself as Little Flossic marches off with her band of fierce warriors:

"Who was that pigtailed little girl smoking her cigar...?"

Maybe we’ll never know.

The Grand Wazir:

Advisor to the King Hassan Bezel. In the beginning, he has a few thought-provoking tidbits of wisdom, but in the several visits Hassan has with him after the first one, he seems to be nothing much more than a fat, greasy little man with an obsession for squeezing figs.

Captain Swallow:

Former Captain of The Blue Swallow in The Incredible Adventures of Jack Flanders. His most noticeable characteristic is his large, bushy, purple beard. Before his last breaths after catching a cannonball in an air battle (the ships are sky-ships), Captain Swallow pronounces Jack as the new captain, much to Jack’s objection. Now that Jack’s adventures in that strange invisible realm are over with, it’s a big question of who is going to be the new Captain of The Blue Swallow...your guess is as good as mine.

Carmen:

An old friend of Jack’s from Rio (actually, she was born in Guadalajara). A former employee of the great American Mall, she was responsible for returning the crystal skull to Jack after it was stolen from the museum, also in Rio, with the help of Mia Josefa. Carmen also meets Jack again in Belize in The Mystery of Jaguar Reef, asking him to help her friend Cassandra, who has had her body taken over by another mind.

Unlike most of his previous adventures, Jack is unable to return Cassandra’s mind to her body. It turns out that she just isn’t ready, and that sometime in the future, it will happen, but not now.

Carla D’Avila:

Not no be confused with Carmen, this woman was apparently working for Paulo Pompadora, trying to move Jack along a path that would eventually be intercepted by Paulo. She referred Professor Klaus Vargas to Jack, and told him about her cousin and his knowledge of the Amazon. Eventually, Jack got wind of what was going on and took matters into his own hands. He, Klaus and Frieda stole Carla’s cousin’s boat and found their way to the lost city by themselves.

Carla is not mentioned at any time after Dreams of Rio.

Professor Klaus Vargas:

The German anthropologist who first helped Jack Flanders with finding out the mystery of the crystal skull. His museum was broken into shortly afterwards, and the skull was stolen. Klaus isn’t very active in helping Jack until Jack meets Frieda, a friend of the Professor’s. Klaus, Jack and Frieda seek and eventually discover the lost city of El Dorado in the Amazon Jungle. During their stay, Frieda suddenly dies and then unexpectedly comes back to life -- only it doesn’t seem to be the same Frieda.

When they return to the city, the person who once was Frieda persuades a drunken Klaus to put on the golden mask that Frieda had on when she died. After wearing the mask, Klaus dies but also comes back to life after Jack and Mia Josefa reunite Frieda’s mind with her body. We haven’t heard of Klaus since then.

Short Top Detroit:

A comical, all-together-nice-guy private investigator, the one responsible for Jack’s coming to Rio de Janeiro. He is never involved with Jack at any time during his trip, but tries to have a vacation in Rio, meeting new friends and talking about women with old friends. His secretary, however, is involved with Paulo Pompadora, who tries to get some information out of her but doesn’t succeed. Short Top Detroit is played by Bill Raymond, who also plays TJ Teru in the Ruby series.

Frieda:

A German anthropologist whom Jack meets in Belem, a city located at the mouth of the Amazon River. She is one of his few true loves, mostly because of her independence and intelligence. When she dies in the lost city of El Dorado, Jack is crushed greatly, but his feelings of sorrow turn to terror when Frieda suddenly comes back to life -- only it isn’t her. Through a lot of trial and error, Jack and the mystic Mia Josefa bring Frieda back, along with the several other victims of the gold mask she brought back from the jungle.

Mia Josefa:

An old woman who lives in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. She contacted Jack when he first visited the city, saying she had some information about the statue he had been given. What she actually gives is a lot more than Jack asked for. Mia Josefa also assists Carmen in returning the crystal skull to Jack, and also helps him return Frieda to her original self. She hasn’t been heard of since Dreams of Rio.

Paulo Pompadora:

An ill-meaning gentleman of Rio, whom Jack met shortly after he arrived. Paulo stole the crystal skull from the museum shortly after his associate Carla set Professor Klaus Vargas and Jack up by referring Jack to the Professor, knowing where he would go next. Paulo also tried to find out what Klaus, Frieda and Jack found out in the lost city, but his attempts failed and the skull was returned to the museum.

In an ironic twist, Paulo manages to steal not only the skull, but the two stone eyes that belonged to the skull as well. Upon hearing this, Jack returns to Rio after hearing the skull’s requests to "take it home," and a mysterious woman somehow takes the skull from Paulo and delivers it to him. As Jack and several other friends proceed into the jungle, he realizes that Paulo intended for them to do this, and is following them in order to find the lost city.

Fortunately, Jack’s friends discover a rare type of night-blooming orchid that causes a loss of memory when it blooms. They sneak some of the orchids into Paulo’s tent, and he loses all memory of the treasure he was planning to find as Jack secretly returns the skull. We haven’t heard of him since then.

Terry Neuman:

The young professor who Jack finds replaced Professor Vargas in the beginning of Dreams of the Amazon. He assists Jack in finding the lost city and returning the skull and stopping Paulo Pompadora’s destroying the city, and he disappears soon after that.

Tereza Cavalcanti:

The mysterious priestess who is in league with Paulo Pompadora but is also helping Jack rediscover the lost city and is responsible for returning the skull to him. She apparently spoke through the skull and was able to communicate with Jack and persuade him to return to Rio.

She discovered the mystic city above the lost city shortly before Jack, and he was able to observe her as she moved only one jewel from the strange pool beneath the city and caused everything to shift. Then when she replaced the jewel, everything returned to the way it was. She is apparently working as a sort of "double agent" for Jack’s side and leaves Paulo’s side in the end.

Claudia Guedes:

A friend of Terry Neuman’s and also a person who helped Jack to relocate the lost city. She also helped find the orchids necessary to stop Paulo and Professor Evans-Wentz from destroying the city.

Near the end of Dreams of the Amazon, she lets Jack have one of the eyes of the crystal skull and keeps the other for herself. Surprisingly, we don’t hear about her after that.

(There was another minor woman named Claudia in Dreams of Rio, but this obviously isn’t the same one).

Professor Evens-Wentz:

A professor on Paulo Pompadora’s side, eager to discover the lost city and willing to use Jack to find it. Somewhat skeptical about Jack’s theories of using the crystal skull to open the mind, but knowledgeable about metaphysics just the same.

Jack and his friends were forced to sneak some memory-deteriorating, night-blooming orchids into his tent to stop him from destroying the city. We haven’t heard from the professor since the incident in question.

Kamala Shukla:

A young Indian woman whom Jack meets in a café in New York. She asks him to come to India to help with some personal troubles with her aunt, Lalitha Chatterjee. She is in the process of writing a book when Jack comes to India, and after her aunt finally releases the jinn who turns out to be causing her such trouble, Jack hints that Kamala’s life is going to probably be interesting because she is now the "master" of the jinn.

Lalitha Chatterjee:

A middle-aged Indian woman, Kamala’s aunt. Her life was troubled when Kamala became a young woman because the jinn she once had power over now insists that she release it. Lalitha refuses to do so, and so the jinn begins to punish her.

Apparently, Lalitha made a pact with the jinn when she was younger to escape the strict life her parents had chosen for her. She leaves India and has a good time in the world, but when Dreams of India begins, it seems that the jinn has finally come to collect. His fee is simply that Lalitha let him pass down and become Kamala’s, since it is time. Lalitha finally consents near the end of Dreams of India, thanks to Jack Flanders.

Tiffany:

An old friend of Jack’s from an unknown time in the past. She contacts him from Bali and asks him to visit her, saying that she is having some problems with a relationship. She is in love with a Balinese man named Madé, but is jealous of his love for friend, Nani. This one negative feeling causes her to be invaded by an entire "family" of evil emotions. Jack manages to save her and remains in Bali until Dreams of Sumatra.

Madé:

A young native of Bali, also Tiffany’s lover. Their relation is a happy one, but Tiffany thinks that his love for his friend Nani is greater than their love. Jack Flanders manages to intervene with the difficult situation the three people, and the last we see Madé, he is happily together with Tiffany once again.

Nani:

Madé’s close friend. She is also the waitress for the café known as the Casa Luna. Nani’s life was put in danger when Tiffany sought the aid of a Balinese witch to help her with her internal conflicts. Since Nani’s great-grandmother did something (we never learn just what) to the witch’s grandmother, the witch uses Tiffany’s dilemma as an excuse to attack Nani. She blames Nani for Tiffany’s problem and causes her to become very ill. Nani’s life is saved by Jack, who finally persuades Tiffany to let her feelings of hatred for Nani go.

Nani makes a reappearance in Midnight at the Casa Luna, the same role she had before: a waitress. She advises Jack as he steps in and out of the café, into different worlds and dimensions. We haven’t heard from Nani since then.

Louise Nettles:

An American woman who first appears in Dreams of Sumatra. She is Jesse’s mother, and is very protective of her. This is obvious when Jesse disappears and she turns to Jesse’s hero, Jack Flanders. She can be a cold woman, but she is not at all unfriendly. She is also a great help to Jack when he is hired to find Jesse.

Indranee deSilvia:

Jesse’s friend and mentor, who first mentioned the cult of witches in Sumatra to her. Louise Nettles accuses her of Jesse’s disappearance, but Indranee is actually quite innocent, and helps Jack in his search for Jesse, which he succeeds in.

Wu Ling:

The owner of a restaurant in the village Jack stays in while he is in Sumatra called the Mona Lisa (it’s Chinese, though). She helps Jack in tracking the woman Ade’, who seems to know something about the cult that Jesse became involved with. Her name is very similar to Woo Lee of Land of Enchantment, except Woo Lee is a man.

Jesse:

A young, American girl with an avid interest in anthropology and ancient witchcraft and sorcery. Amazingly, even though she is a westerner, she is initiated into a cult of witches in the highlands of Sumatra, having learned about it from her idol, Indranee deSilvia. After she enters a vortex (one of the parts of the initiation), the cult splits into two halves, and there is a continual struggle over who is to be the new leader. One half trying to get her out of the vortex and assist Jack in doing so, but the other half is trying to destroy Jack and the others.

It turns out that Jesse constructed her own universe within the vortex, and she loved Jack Flanders so much that she created her own version of him. But when the real Jack arrives and begs her to return to the real world, she consents after several minutes of pleading to stay. Her relationship with Jack is quite strong, and although we leave her in Dreams of Sumatra, she tells Jack, "Okay, but I’ll be back..."

Cassie:

The name the entity that "walked into" Cassandra’s body chose as her own. The being that did this has unknown origins, the same applies to the three entities that temporarily inhabited Antonio’s, Paulina’s and Jack’s bodies. Cassie tells Jack that Cassandra’s real spirit is not ready to return to her body, but that she eventually will at some time in the future.

Cassandra’s case is one of the few cases Jack has been unable to solve, but I guess you can’t help everyone...

Paulina:

Cassandra’s daughter, sister of Antonio. She and her brother contacted Cassandra’s friend Carmen and told her to contact Jack Flanders when their mother became a walk-in. Paulina also became inhabited with another being only temporarily in an attempt to rescue a kidnapped friend (of the beings, that is), and Jack did as well, except he re-entered his body in mid-rescue, the most inconvenient time, but still he went along with the plan and helped the fugitive Wolfgang escape from the clutches of the nefarious Pirate Pete.

Antonio:

Cassandra’s son and Paulina’s brother. His role in The Mystery of Jaguar Reef is similar to Paulina’s except Paulina discovers the sunken pirate ship at the same time Jack does. He is deeply concerned with what is happening in the United States, so deeply that he has little time to be overly concerned with his mother’s strange condition. He also has his body inhabited by another being, and also gets it back near the end of The Mystery of Jaguar Reef.

Dr Weiss:

Cassandra’s former psychiatrist and Jack’s contact in New York when Carmen calls him to tell him about Cassandra. She plays a minor role in telling Jack about walk-ins and Cassandra’s condition in The Mystery of Jaguar Reef, but not much more than that.

Captain Coco:

An eccentric, modern-day pirate that Jack meets in Belize. He turns out to know the location of a secret reef and a wreck of a pirate ship, which, for some reason, he shows Antonio, Jack and Paulina. (He also shows it to Cassandra, but this is farther back in the past). Shortly after this, Jack, Paulina and Antonio leave their bodies, but Jack returns before the others do.

Captain Coco is well-meaning, but he can be a little hard to understand sometimes. It is also hard to understand why he does the things he does.

Madame Zee:

A mysterious woman Jack first hears about in Midnight at the Casa Luna. He is helped by the mysterious Leela to steal the stone that gives Madame Zee her power for uncertain reasons, and to return it to the Merkahbah. Leela, however, shatters the stone over the city so it is hard to tell what happened to The Dragon Lady (as she was called by Sir Henry Jowls).

Lady Pompon:

An old friend of Lady Jowls that came to stay at Inverness some time and never left (at least, that is what Jack is told when he returns to Inverness.) She was like Lady Jowls, only with much more aggression and aloofness. She constantly badgered her niece, Poodles, to write down her memoirs and act as her personal secretary, at the same time being overly protective of her. However, when the energies that were wrecking havoc upon Inverness were calmed at last, so was Lady Pompon. She became much mellower and gave her daugher the freedom she deserved.

Evie (Poodles):

Lady Pompon's gentle, quiet niece, an odd girl, whose actions usually can't be explained at first. Sometimes she is childlike, at other times she seems to be wise beyond her years. Until Jack's arrival, she was contantly under her aunt's eyes, her freedom much too limited for someone her age. However, after some time, she was allowed to live under her own roof -- which, in this case, was that of a giant, mushroom-shaped growth that had sprouted near the woods by the Inverness mansion. She has apparently become freinds with Jack, but towards the end of Return to Inverness she was spending some time with the Mask Man.

Madame Trunknose:

The strange mystic of Inverness that first appeared in RTI. Like all psychics, she helps Jack by telling him what the future may hold for him as well as advising him on a wide range of matters. She also advises the many other members of Inverness, and becomes Evie's idol in the process. She is a great character as well, and she is not without a sense of humor.

The Mask Man:

Another "new" inhabitant of Inverness, currently residing in a gingerbread house near the woods by that towering mansion. His specialty? Carving masks of all different sizes, shapes and styles. He informed Jack that he studied under a mask-carver in Bali, and the skills he learned are prominent in his work. Some of his masks seem almost alive. In fact, the strange energy that starts increasing in RTI makes them go beyond just "seeming" alive...

The Mask Man (or "Mask") aids Jack in his quest to solve the mysteries of his newly inherited estate (just as most of his new friends do), even though he doesn't tell Jack all the answers to the questions...

Madama Maltzo Paltzo:

The "notorious soprano" that is invited to stay at Inverness after her limousine breaks down on a nearby road. Her stay was something not soon forgotten, and although her voice caused serious insomnia among the inhabitants of the mansion, she was indirectly responsible to solving another of the neverending mysteries of Inverness.

Bimboshatha:

The seductive, decieving demon's daughter whom Jack meets within the fourth tower of Inverness and almost gets his head bitten off by. Bimboshatha turns out to be the daughter of the Wairogi, the King of the Rakshasas, and using her shape-shifting abilities that all Rakshasas have, she is able to lure Jack back into the fourth tower and almost kill him, but Jack (with the aid of Little Frieda) is able to escape her.

Saint Seymore:

The mistress of Angus McGregor, the architect who constructed the Inverness mansion. She was the first woman to enter the elusive fourth tower, and like the many that followed her, she never returned. However, she spent the rest of her life helping others, and when the died, she became a saint. Her bones were considered sacred, and were dispersed throughout the levels within the tower as gifts or precious artifacts.

Some time after Jack left Inverness after his first visit, Saint Seymore came to Little Frieda in a dream and asked her to enter the tower and find and reassemble her bones. Little Frieda consented and entered the tower, and for nearly thirty years she hunted down each and every bone except the last one (the thigh bone, incidentally). With the help of Jack, she was able to take the bone from the palace of the King of the Rakshasas.

Afterwards, Saint Sey contacted Little Frieda once more and requested that the temple with the seven pillars (which turned out to be hers) should be rebuilt, and her bones placed within it. Little Frieda obeyed, and both Saint Seymore and Inverness were at peace at last.