Eriol

"And some say that Snow and Summer could never touch."

-Eriol

Eriol is the King of Words and one of Those with Responsibilities. Nothing seems to interest him aside from words, or perhaps the invention of a new word.

Profile
Eriol was first introduced in A.R. Shanks's second novel, ''A Child Named Loveless. Rose and Erica find him in the mirror version of the library in the Realm of Words in Chapter Thirteen, Escape From the Kingdom of Words.''

Appearance
Eriol takes the appearance of a young boy, possibly twelve or thirteen. He has tame, black hair and round spectacles. Despite being describes as "someone who took proper care of themselves", Eriol was seen in his bare feet on the floor amongst piles of books.

Personality
Eriol doesn't seem to care about much outside of his own realm. He didn't seem surprised or interested in the fact that someone was trying to kill him, thinking of it as only being an inconvenience.

Rose and Erica had to convince him to take action against Adam who was not only trying to kill him and control his realm, but also trying to reach the top of the Tower. Eriol finally seemed to cave in and decided to reveal the door to the next level of the Tower.

Eriol seems to like word games as evident by his play on words with both Erica's and Rose's last names (Snow and Summer respectively), saying how most people thought that "Snow and Summer would never touch."

Biography
So far, Eriol has only appeared in A Child Named Loveless. After the Tower to the moon came into existence, Eriol's realm became connected to the third level where he met with Adam. Knowing Adam planned on killing him and taking control of his realm, he allowed Adam to believe he was dead and that his murder attempt had succeeded, then hid away in a mirrored version of his kingdom.

Trinket Deadlock was the first to discover his 'body' and noticed that Eriol had faked his death right away. Rose and Erica then discovered Trinket and falsely assumed that he had been the one to kill him.

Trinket thought that they were the killers and chased after them. After the misunderstanding was cleared up, they split off to look for evidence that the killer might have left behind, only for Erica and Rose to find Eriol's hiding place.

Eriol noticed that both Rose and Erica had other names. It's left ambiguous whether he was referring to Rose's birth name of 'Loveless' and Erica's birth name of Erica Williams, or if he was referring to their past names of 'Amara' and 'Chioni' respectively.