He was many things. He was there ruler. Their king. Their savior. Their terror. He was a magnificent thing. A gorgeous thing. And how he hated and loved all at the same time, the two things blurred together for him. But, most of all, he was the beast!
Lynn Rose, Phillip Quan, Andrea Snow, and Marko Starling meat the horrible beast for different reasons. They each have a different back story, of love, of fear, to follow their dream, to keep a horrible secret safe, and to protect themselves and others from the plague. In the end they all meat up to help, or defeat (depending on which way you look at it) the Fifth Beast.