Legend And History

For people that do not know what Skulduggery Pleasant is all about. Here you will find a description of the books. All about the author and the general settings of the books.



There is one in every country, from which there is a magical community. To guide and lead these people there is a Council of the three wisest and most respected sorcerers. They work out of the Sanctuary, there base of operation. From here they pass laws and supervise the Cleaver army. They will also give cases to the Detectives and Agents they have.



Mindless creatures of evil who, while looking human, are merely papery, leathery shells, bloated from the inside by the foulest of gases.


This is a book that reportedly contains the three names for every single living person on the planet. Every time a person dies the names will erase themselves, and when some one is born the three names will aspire. No one knows how the book gathers its information. The book is kept behind a mystical shield and kept in the Irish sanctuary.



Dark gods who once ruled this world, beings of incredible power driven by cruelty and hate. They were eventually driven out of this plane of existence by the first of the human sorcerers, but they wait on the edges of what we know. Waiting to return.



The first of the human sorcerers; the first mortals to discover and wield magic. Although their demise is recounted in the myths and legends of the magical communities, there is still no solid evidence to explain their disappearance.



Official records show that the last war between sorcerers lasted for more than three hundred years. It began when the sorcerer Mevolent refused to curtail his attempts to bring the Faceless Ones back into our reality. The magical communities all over the world were torn in two--those who worshipped the Faceless Ones sided with Mevolent, and those who didn't, rose up against him.