Unnamed Remnant

Unnamed Remnant
Character Information
Species	Remnant
Gender	Unknown/Genderless (when in its natural unpossessing state) Male (when possessing Grouse, Wrong, Shudder, or Tesseract) Female (when possessing Tanith)
Birth	Unknown
Age	Unknown
Death	2014
Magic	Remnant
Location	Destroyed by Darquesse

An unnamed Remnant is the Remnant responsible for the events that happened throughout Mortal Coil. It has possessed a lot of characters in the books and believes in the destruction of the world by Darquesse will come to pass and will do anything to put her on the path to destruction. It was destroyed by Darquesse in The Dying of the Light.

Biography[]

Dark Days[]

The Remnant was captured by Billy-Ray Sanguine in the Midnight Hotel using the soul catcher he had stolen from the Necromancers. It was then brought to Serpine's castle where it possessed Kenspeckle Grouse so Dreylan Scarab could make him fix and make another Desolation Engine. It was then given a captured Tanith as a "gift" and tortured her by nailing her body to a chair in several different places. It was finally driven from Kenspeckle after China used symbols and captured again in the Soul Catcher.

The Soul Catcher was then returned to Solomon Wreath on the promise that he would return the Remnant to the Midnight Hotel after studying it.

Mortal Coil[]

Wreath was ordered by Auron Tenebrae to use the Remnant to possess Finbar Wrong to see if Valkyrie Cain would be the new Death Bringer. He successfully used the Remnant to possess Wrong and ordered it to see what would become of Valkyrie. The Remnant, seeing that Valkyrie would destroy the world as Darquesse, got excited and started to put together a plan. It tried to possess Wreath but he managed to escape by diving through Finbar's window in his tattoo parlour. On St. Stephen's Day, when the Midnight Hotel appeared in Ireland, the Remnant left Finbar's body as bait and lured in Anton Shudder who was soon possessed. Possessing Shudder, it returned to the Hotel where it released the rest of the Remnants who took over a club that Valkyrie and Fletcher had visited. It encountered Tesseract in Roarhaven soon after and after the Russian broke Shudder's arm, the Remnant abandoned him and possessed Tesseract by climbing in through the eyeholes of his mask.

It is later seen enjoying the chaos that Darquesse is creating when a Remnant had attempted to possess her; however, it is forced to leave Tesseract's body, along with the rest of the Remnants, so Skulduggery would not shoot Valkyrie. The Receptacle was activated, and most of the Remnants were sucked into the orb. The Leader refused to give in and while clinging on to Tesseract's coat it leapt and forced its momentum to possess Tanith. It then started to go after Valkyrie and heavily beat her until It was forced to flee when Skulduggery Pleasant fired his gun at it.

Near the end of the book it was encountered talking to Valkyrie's parents through Tanith and was also seen to be with Sanguine and kissed him. This left Valkyrie in shock as the pair both disappeared.

Trick Or Treat[]

Main article: Tanith Low#Trick Or Treat

Kingdom of the Wicked[]

Main article: Tanith Low#Kingdom of the Wicked

The Maleficent Seven[]

Main article: Tanith Low#The Maleficent Seven

Last Stand Of Dead Men []

Tanith returns disguised as a rare female Cleaver tasked with relocating Dexter Vex. Vex regards how uncommon female Cleavers are, at which point Tanith reveals herself and kills the two other Cleavers, before kidnapping Vex. Tanith and Billy-Ray later hand over Dexter to Skulduggery, Ghastly and Valkyrie and even want to join the Irish Side. After a brief scuffle between Ghastly and Sanguine, the three agree and send Tanith and Sanguine with Donegan and Gracious to disable the Midnight Hotel which is the only way the Supreme Council can send their troops in through the shield. The pair succeed in their mission, but Billy-Ray and Tanith are captured. They are later freed by Aurora Jane and they all escape. Tanith is later captured alongside Valkyrie and Gracious. Using Darquesse, Valkyrie frees herself and the three escape. Tanith then travels to the English Sanctuary with the Dead Men and Valkyrie to get the Engineer's memory, and the mission is successful. Later on, Tanith attempts to kill Stephanie, and nearly succeeded, if not for Skulduggery, who intercepted her.

Tanith also appears in one of Cassandra Pharos' visions of the future, in which she appears to be rid of the Remnant but is heavily injured. Ghastly comes to her aid and the pair kiss.

The Dying of the Light[]

Tanith returned into hiding with Billy-Ray Sanguine in a safehouse in Ireland, protecting Darquesse as she 'hibernates' as she requested. Originally overjoyed at protecting her messiah, soon Tanith began to lose faith in Darquesse.

When fighting their way to the Receptacle, Tanith was disappointed at the fact that instead of easily killing the Cleavers, Darquesse decided to fight them face-to-face, which did not sit comfortably with Tanith since she thought it was a waste of time.

When Tanith learnt that Darquesse has been separated from Valkyrie Cain, she attacked Valkyrie and her reflection in their home at Haggard and demanded she bring Darquesse back. Valkyrie explained that Darquesse was now a separate entity. Tanith admitted that her human side was beginning to question why she would want Darquesse to burn the world, and even her Remnant was beginning to agree.

Tanith helped Valkyrie escape from Darquesse in the caves under Gordon Edgley's home and cut off Mercy's hand and head.

Darquesse questioned Tanith and then pulled the Remnant from her body to gain the knowledge of Kenspeckle Grouse, nearly killing Tanith.

Powers and abilities[]

The Remnant has the ability to possess people, becoming capable os using any of their intelligence, memories, and abilities. When the Remnant is serious in a fight, it's host's veins will stick out, and their lips will glow black, which gives it access to it's full power, including increases strength and speed.