Characters

The Endless are seven siblings that embody seven different fundamental forces of existence itself. Ageless, immortal and nigh-omnipotent, these siblings were the central characters of the landmark Vertigo series "The Sandman".

"I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall."~Dream, in Brief Lives. Dream is one of the seven Endless, who are powerful beings older than gods. He is both the personification, as well...

Death of the Endless came into existence shortly after the first lifeforms appeared in the universe. She will function as the embodiment of death until the very last living thing died. After that, she was destined to put the universe to rest. After Despair was murdered, Death and the Endless...

Born Delight, she transformed into Delirium long before the advent of humanity. She can be seen as a very young Delight in Endless Nights, a collection of stories about the Endless; a statue of an older Delight can be seen in Destiny's garden in Brief Lives. Most of the time, she is...

"Where I touch, things want and need and love - drawn to their objects of desire like butterflies to a candle flame."~Desire Desire is the third youngest ofthe Endless and the twin of Despair. The anthropomorphic personification of its name, it is a strikingly beautiful, gender mutable figure...

You think your job is tedious? Any job would turn boring after doing it for eight billion years—even if you’re an immortal. That's what happened to Lucifer Morningstar.

Matt Cable was an investigative agent for Defense Department Intelligence and a close friend of Alec and Linda Holland. When he learned that the Hollands had been killed in the swamps of Louisiana, he swore to track their killer down and avenge them. Matt believed that a creature known as the...

The Corinthian is a fictional character in Neil Gaiman's series The Sandman. He was first seen in The Sandman #10 (October 1989), which is part of  The Doll's House. The Corinthian is a nightmare created by Dream, who then  destroys him for going rogue, and failing to fulfill his original...

A full character profile for DC Comics' Fury (Lyta Hall) during her time with Infinity, Inc.. Pictures, biography, powers, skills, personality, quotes...

Rose Walker is the daughter of Miranda Walker and Burt Paulsen. She also has a brother, Jed. The two were estranged, her father had taken Jed when he left Miranda. Burt Paulsen died a few years before The Doll's House takes place, and Jed had been sent to live with their grandfather. After the...

Robert Gadling was originally a common English man born in the 14th Century when Dream encountered him while visiting the waking world with his older sister, Death. Gadling was proposing to his friends that people only died because everyone else did it, and that he'd have no part of it. Dream...