Klein

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Earth, the Moretti Family, and Tingen

Klein retains fragments of the original Klein Moretti’s memories while recognizing himself as someone from Earth. His initial pursuit of mysticism is driven by the hope of finding a way home. He recognizes the apparently coded symbols in Roselle Gustav’s diary as simplified Chinese, giving him access to information his colleagues cannot read 20 24 84 955.

The Moretti household initially depends heavily on Benson, who supports Klein’s university education and Melissa’s mechanical studies despite an increasingly difficult job. After obtaining paid employment, Klein helps move the family from shared accommodation to No. 2 Daffodil Street. He wants both better living conditions for Melissa and enough privacy to conduct rituals 3 24 30.

Joining the Nighthawks

Klein accepts Dunn Smith’s invitation to become a civilian Nighthawk employee, then formally joins the Tingen team. His official appointment doubles his weekly salary to six pounds, grants him the rank of probationary inspector, and requires weekly duty at Chanis Gate. He must conceal the work from his family and cannot leave Tingen without permission 16 77.

His work combines supernatural investigation, divination, and increasingly dangerous field assignments. Killing the tailcoated Secret Order Beyonder leaves him psychologically shaken; he also fears that the organization’s Seers might identify him through divination and seek revenge 78 79.

Death and Separation from His Family

Klein dies after his heart is shattered and subsequently returns from the grave. Benson and Melissa mourn him, while Azik visits his grave and apologizes for arriving ten minutes too late 211 465.

After returning to Daffodil Street, Klein decides against revealing his survival. He believes remaining officially dead will prevent his future activities from implicating his siblings, whose compensation should support a stable middle-class life. He watches them from a distance before leaving Tingen 213.

Detective Work in Backlund

Under the Sherlock Moriarty identity, Klein works as a private detective while pursuing potion ingredients and supernatural intelligence 316 778. His cases include destroying the entity haunting Adol Calman, investigating violence connected to the Rose School of Thought, and examining the suspected curse that kills his friend Talym Dumont 300 330 439.

He also invests one hundred pounds in Leppard’s bicycle project for a thirty-five-percent share, recommending a simpler vehicle suited to everyday customers 228. During the operation against Capim’s group, he survives repeated attacks with Paper Figurine Substitutes and ignites accumulated coal gas to destroy the dining room 380.

Maritime Journey and Return to Backlund

Klein’s maritime activities bring him into contact with pirates, dangerous artifacts, and Spirit World creatures. He contracts Reinette Tinekerr as his messenger and manages the escalating accidents caused by the Die of Probability 501 564 610. His search for mermaids culminates in his advancement to Marionettist 669.

Back in Backlund, he operates as Dawn Dantès while continuing missions as Gehrman Sparrow. He kills Mr. X using Death Knell and recorded powers from Lemano’s Travel Notes, then escapes an Aurora Order demigod 785 870. After becoming a Bizarro Sorcerer, he entrusts Daly’s body to Leonard and states that he can no longer return to the Church 955.

War, Amon, and the Forsaken Land of the Gods

When Feysac attacks Backlund and Pritz Harbor, Klein authorizes Audrey to use Dawn Dantès’s resources for injured charity beneficiaries, food, and medical supplies. With Zaratul in Backlund, he warns Sharron and Maric and goes into hiding with his marionettes 1098.

His flight from Zaratul requires Arianna’s intervention. Soon afterward, Enuni’s appearance reveals that his own marionettes can be used to track him 1161. Trapped with Amon in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, Klein repeatedly attempts escape rather than accepting the offer to become Amon’s Blessed 1169 1177.

The True Creator later implants a compulsion directing Klein toward Sasrir at the Giant King’s Court. Klein escapes to Sefirah Castle, where he can contain—but not remove—the corruption, and prepares the characteristics needed for his next advancement 1261 1263.

Wishes and Apotheosis

As a Miracle Invoker, Klein travels as Merlin Hermes. During the Beldan incident, he checks for remaining dangers, helps survivors, fulfills Roy’s wish for another potion, and Teleports the group out of the city 1305.

His final documented advancement pits him against Amon, the Ancient Sun God’s prophecy, Antigonus’s loss of control, and the awakening Celestial Worthy. The Evernight Goddess’s intervention enables his death and resurrection within the ritual, after which he confronts Amon as The Fool 1397.

Appearance

• Natural appearance: Black hair, brown eyes, a slender build, ordinary features with pronounced contours, and a distinct scholarly air 807 955.
• Early clothing: A low-crowned top hat, formal suits, and a silver-inlaid cane 20 29 83.
• Disguises: Regularly changes his appearance and clothing to separate identities or evade pursuit 785 1098 1161.
• Bizarro Sorcerer transformation: Transparent worms appear across his face, hands, neck, and beneath his clothes before withdrawing into his body 955.
• The Fool: Appears beneath a dark cloak after completing his Sequence 0 advancement 1397.

Personality

Klein is cautious, analytical, and reluctant to mistake supernatural advantages for certainty. He tests potions and threats with divination, prepares escape methods, and explicitly warns against relying too heavily on any one ability. His caution does not make him fearless: early combat leaves him shaken, and Amon’s repeated destruction of his escape plans brings him close to despair 78 168 299 1177.

Humor frequently separates his inner thoughts from his composed public manner. He jokes about Seers and Clowns belonging in a circus, teases his siblings, and privately mocks the lofty personas he maintains. As The Fool, he often conceals uncertainty behind restrained gestures and ambiguous statements 24 61 78 343.

His attachment to Benson and Melissa becomes increasingly natural despite his awareness that he occupies another person’s body. He feels guilty about lying to them and ultimately treats distance as a form of protection. His original wish to return home also leads him to avoid romantic commitments that might leave emotional debts behind 50 84 108 1288.

Klein describes himself as someone who protects himself and fears danger, yet can give everything for what he stands by. His practical compassion extends from helping people he encounters to supporting wartime relief and protecting Tarot Club members from knowledge that could endanger them 70 955 1098 1113.

Abilities & Skills

Divination and Spiritual Perception

Klein uses divination for investigation, preparation, and threat assessment 49 99 195.

• Employs spirit pendulums, Dream Divination, dowsing, and card-based methods 49 99 316.
• Uses Spirit Vision to examine auras, health, and supernatural traces, including the fading black energy associated with Talym’s death 175 439.
• Recognizes that revelations can be symbolic, vague, or impossible to obtain without sufficient preliminary information 99 133.
• Can be affected by suppression from a higher-Sequence Beyonder of the same pathway 240.
• After becoming a Magician, can attempt to divine formulas from Beyonder Characteristics above the gray fog, though failure remains likely 382.

Clown’s Bodily Control and Premonitions

The Clown potion gives Klein precise control over movement, facial expressions, and body language 169.

• Uses bodily control for evasive maneuvers and convincing deception 169 229.
• Throws ordinary paper hard enough to pierce a wall 169.
• Receives fleeting intuitive premonitions that can change a battle’s outcome, but cannot reliably capture every warning 169.
• At Sequence 4, combines strengthened premonitions with the gray fog’s power to perceive a visitor’s appearance and movements from a considerable distance 986.

Magician’s Spells

Klein’s Magician abilities emphasize survival, escape, and adaptable combinations rather than overwhelming direct offense 297 299.

• Flame Jump: Initially moves between prepared fire seeds or existing flames within thirty meters; the range improves with digestion and advancement 297.
• Air Bullet: Fires compressed-air attacks through simple gestures or sounds, initially comparable to a specially made revolver’s bullets 297.
• Paper Figurine Substitute: Uses prepared paper figures to survive otherwise lethal attacks 299 380.
• Flame Manipulation: Ignites hazards and burns through restraints, including the coal gas trap used against Hunas and Kitty 380 480.
• Other retained powers: Underwater Breathing and Bone Softening remain part of his later repertoire 1172.
• Rapid casting: A simple gesture can activate a spell without a spoken incantation 297.

Marionettes and Spirit Body Threads

As a Marionettist and Bizarro Sorcerer, Klein manipulates Spirit Body Threads and turns targets into marionettes 843 992.

• Uses Senor’s Wraith abilities for exploration, combat, and movement through obstacles 741 785.
• Swaps positions with marionettes to evade attacks and conceal his true location 992 1172.
• Bestows his own Beyonder powers on marionettes by placing Worms of Spirit inside them 992.
• At the documented Bizarro Sorcerer stage, has a base thread-manipulation range of 150 meters, a marionette-control range of one kilometer, and a limit of fifty marionettes 992.
• Cannot grant marionettes self-awareness or thought. Marionette chains do not bypass his overall control-range restriction 992.
• At Scholar of Yore, can convert targets below Sequence 5 within two or three seconds under the described conditions 1172.

Worms of Spirit

Worms of Spirit form part of Klein’s Mythical Creature structure and support his distributed powers 992.

• Can separate up to fifty at the documented Bizarro Sorcerer stage; exceeding that limit risks spiritual overload, split personality, and worsening loss-of-control tendencies 992.
• Reaches a separation limit of six hundred as a Scholar of Yore 1149.
• Uses two Worms and the gray fog’s power to create Spirit Control Bullets capable of briefly paralyzing even a Sequence 3 Saint 1003.
• Suffers injury to his Spirit Body when a Worm is destroyed 1003.

Historical Projections and Wishes

Higher Sequences expand Klein’s access to the Fog of History and introduce wish-based powers 1149 1283.

• Summons Historical Void projections, including food and supernatural assistance 1169 1172.
• Attempts to conceal an escape by having a hundred marionettes summon Reinette Tinekerr; Amon counters by stealing her projection 1169.
• Gains Wishes as a core Miracle Invoker ability 1283.
• Fulfills requests while traveling as Merlin Hermes, including Roy’s wish to obtain another potion 1305.

Sefirah Castle and the Gray Fog

Klein’s control over the mysterious space grows alongside his Sequence 77 986.

• Convenes Tarot Club gatherings and communicates through members’ crimson stars and prayers 143 189 236.
• Establishes sacrificial rituals for confidential exchanges of physical materials 221 222 230.
• Summons himself as a special spirit body capable of passing through physical barriers and receiving intuitive danger warnings 195.
• Creates Paper Angel effects that interfere with divination and prophecy 783.
• At Sequence 4, can project power approaching an angel’s level when augmented by a Card of Blasphemy and the Sea God Scepter 986.
• Contains the True Creator’s corruption within Sefirah Castle but cannot simply remove it 1261.
• Still enters the castle only in spirit form immediately after becoming a Miracle Invoker 1283.

Dream Lucidity

Klein retains rational awareness when subjected to forced dreams or hypnosis-like effects 198.

• Remains lucid during encounters with Dunn’s Nightmare powers and Daly’s Spirit Channeling 198.
• Exploits this trait by putting both himself and Madam Shermane to sleep, then recovering awareness within the dream 198.

Regeneration

As an Attendant of Mysteries, Klein can summon Spirit Body Threads from objects whose materials once possessed a Spirit Body 1373.

• Turns qualifying objects into marionettes 1373.
• Can also make living beings into marionettes through their deep connection with an affected object 1373.

Practical Skills

• Cooking: Prepares dishes praised by both Benson and Melissa; continues experimenting with food rather than accepting Loen’s repetitive breakfasts 105 106 228.
• Chinese literacy: Reads Roselle’s diary without requiring its supposed cipher to be decoded 20.
• Investigation: Combines searches, witness information, divination, Spirit Vision, and spirit-form reconnaissance 195 300 330.
• Acting and deception: Maintains separate identities and simultaneously performs The Fool and The World during Tarot gatherings 343 443.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Citrine spirit pendulum — A silver-chained pendant used for divination, including checks on potion safety and investigative questions 99 143 168.
• Homemade charms — Uses Sleeping, Slumber, and Dream Charms to supplement his early support-oriented powers 133 156 198.
• Azik’s copper whistle — Helps draw out the spirit haunting Adol and makes Klein’s summoned spirit form more solid and powerful 230 300.
• Creeping Hunger — A glove with access to abilities from grazed souls. Klein negotiates restrictions on its praise of the True Creator 483 870.
• Lemano’s Travel Notes — Records Beyonder abilities, including demigod-level powers. Klein uses recorded Tornado, Lightning Storm, and Traveler’s Door during the attack on Mr. X 783 785.
• Death Knell — The firearm used to kill Mr. X 785.
• Sea God Scepter — Supplies powers such as Tornado, Lightning Storm, and Lightning Strike; also strengthens his projected power above the gray fog 783 809 986.
• Sun Brooch — Adds sacred power to an Air Bullet and provides abilities such as Summon Holy Light and Create Holy Water for recording 380 809.
• Biotoxin Bottle — Among the mystical items in his arsenal; biological toxin is central to his preparations against Capim’s group 363 380.
• Eye of All-Black — A characteristic tainted by the True Creator. Klein uses it to intimidate the Die of Probability, then purifies it to prepare his Marionettist potion 610 669.
• Black Emperor Card of Blasphemy — Provides pathway knowledge and can augment his spirit-form activities above the gray fog 324 986.
• Family silver pocket watch — An inheritance from the Morettis’ father, repaired by Melissa. It is not buried with Klein after his death and is later carried by Benson 264 355.

Relationships

• Benson Moretti — Elder brother and former household provider. Klein admires his perseverance and helps improve the family’s finances, but hides his survival to protect him 3 125 213.
• Melissa Moretti — Younger sister. Her trust makes Klein uncomfortable with his necessary lies; he supports her education and wishes she could worry less about the household 50 175. He later avoids contact because enemies could exploit his attachment to her 1288.
• Dunn Smith — Nighthawk captain who recruits Klein, arranges his equipment and training, and offers him official membership 20 77.
• Old Neil — Early guide to mysticism who introduces the diary pages under investigation and teaches ritual precautions. His loss of control remains a painful association for Klein 20 51 293.
• Leonard Mitchell / The Star — Former Nighthawk teammate. Klein brings him into the Tarot Club partly to help him grow stronger and reduce his dependence on Pallez Zoroast 955 961.
• Audrey Hall / Justice — Tarot Club member and trusted collaborator. Manages Dawn Dantès’s charitable resources during wartime and keeps Klein informed about his siblings 1098 1288.
• Alger / The Hanged Man — Tarot Club member whose Church of Storms connections and maritime resources become major information and trading channels 490.
• Derrick Berg / The Sun — City of Silver member whose description of sacrificial rituals helps Klein develop the club’s material-exchange system 221. His prompt reporting also alerts Klein to Amon’s interference 363.
• Azik Eggers — Adviser and ally whom Klein consults about supernatural problems. Visits Klein’s grave in grief after arriving too late to help 211 613.
• Reinette Tinekerr — Contracted messenger who charges one gold coin per delivery; later assists in dangerous operations and shares their spoils 564 1261.
• Sharron and Maric — Supernatural allies who exchange assistance and mysticism resources with Klein. He later warns them about Zaratul’s presence in Backlund 330 741 1098.
• Will Auceptin — Fate-related adviser who explains the Die of Probability’s dangers and recognizes Klein beneath his detective identity 610 778.
• Evernight Goddess — A crucial protector whose relationship with The Fool is described by Klein as an alliance “for now.” Her intervention enables his successful apotheosis 1239 1397.
• Amon — Persistent pursuer who targets Klein’s connection to Sefirah Castle, counters his escape attempts, and becomes his most direct divine opponent 363 1169 1177 1373.
• Zaratul — Higher-Sequence pursuer whose presence forces Klein into hiding and whose pursuit through the Fog of History nearly catches him 1098 1161.
• Adam — A powerful figure whose attention contributes to Klein’s Bizarro Sorcerer ritual. Klein later accepts terms requiring him to reduce the harm caused by war while he remains alive 955 1161.

Tarot Club Leadership

• Dual roles: Presides as The Fool while controlling The World as a separate participant, allowing him to conduct transactions without exposing his position 343 443.
• Recruitment: Reserves admission decisions for himself and forbids members from hinting at the club’s existence to candidates beforehand 114.
• Security: Initially favors members who do not know one another, limiting the damage that capture or Spirit Channeling could cause 221.
• Resource exchange: Develops sacrificial rituals to make transactions safer and more confidential 221 222.
• Information network: Draws together the Psychology Alchemists, Loen’s nobility, the Church of Storms, the City of Silver, the Abraham Family, and the Sanguine through individual members 490.
• Protective secrecy: Withholds the full details of high-level affairs when understanding them could endanger less powerful members 1113.
• Growth: By his time as a wandering magician, every member except The Magician and Judgement has become a demigod and occupies a senior position within a major faction 1291.

Notable Quotes

“One should make full use of one’s advantages, but not rely on them too much or believe they are all-powerful.” 168

“You can find both ‘Seers’ and ‘Clowns’ in a circus.” 78

“It’s character that’s noble, not status.” 1239