Jack West Jr

Jack West Junior's father was a cold and ruthless American, Colonel Jack West Senior ("Wolf"), and his mother Mabel Merriweather was an Australian high-school history teacher. He had an older sister who was killed in a plane accident a few years before the events of Seven Ancient Wonders.

West Junior was encouraged to join the US Army by his father but instead joined the Australian Armed Forces. There he proved to be an extremely efficient soldier and attained the rank of captain. West was then fast-tracked to the Special Air Service Regiment, set a new record on a desert survival course, and became a more formidable soldier than his father.

His desire to learn archaeology led to the Australian Army allowing him to attend university at Trinity College in Dublin, under the guidance of Professor Maximilian T. Epper, with whom he formed a close friendship.

West was also sent to a series of multi-national special forces exercises at Coronado in 1990, hosted by the US at their Navy SEALs base. These exercises were hosted by West's future enemy, Marshall Judah. West was injured in a helicopter accident at Coronado and lay unconscious in a hospital for four days. When he woke up, West was sent back to Australia with no serious damage done.

Jack made his name at Operation Desert Storm, being one of the first troops to land in Iraq in 1991, where he blew up communication towers, completed dangerous missions behind enemy lines, and served under his future foe, Marshall Judah, who had personally requested him. At a Scud base in Basra, West was left for dead by Judah but escaped through 300 enemy soldiers.

West then returned to Australia and handed in his resignation to his commanding officer, Lt. General Peter Cosgrove, and began working with his friend Professor Epper (aka Wizard) on the Dark Sun project.

Lily "Eowyn" West is Jack's adopted daughter. She was born to the wife of the former Oracle of Siwa, who was kidnapped and taken to a chamber in the heart of a Ugandan volcano. Her captors, led by the priest Del Piero took the mother's first-born child, Lily's older twin brother Alexander, and left her mother for dead. Jack and Max Epper were able to perform a caesarian on the dead mother using Jack's Leatherman knife, and rescued Lily, though Jack lost his arm triggering a release lock behind a curtain of lava during their escape.

Lily is described as being of Egyptian descent, and, like her twin brother, is an Oracle of Siwa. This grants her the ability from the age of 10 to read the Word of Thoth. She is also highly competent with other languages.

Jonathan 'Jack' 'Wolf' West Sr is Jack's father and has attempted to kill Jack several times. He is an American and referred to by J.J. Wickham as "one motherfucker of a father-in-law". He has another son with the callsign of "Rapier". He is killed by his own greed at the end of The Five Greatest Warriors (by a similar fate to Jack's previous ordeal at the Second Vertex) after the Sixth Pillar was laid, trying to get its reward, power.

Mabel Merriweather is Jack's mother (first named in The Four Legendary Kingdoms), who lives in Australia. Prior to FLK, she was only seen by Jack once every several years due to the facts of Wolf's violent relationship with her and Wolf's affair. She divorced Wolf and humiliated him even further by divorcing him in an Australian court.

Jack's sister Lauren is deceased after being killed in a plane crash. She was two years older than Jack.

J.J. 'Sea Ranger' Wickham is Jack's brother-in-law and oldest friend. He married Jack's sister, Lauren West. An expert submariner, he stole a Russian Kilo-class submarine & is now a rogue submariner living on the island of Zanzibar. He helps Jack in his mission and has a mutual hatred of Jack West Snr, referring to him as one "arsehole of a father in law."

Sergeant Zoe "Bloody Mary" "Princess" Kissane is Jack's good friend and, at the end of The Five Greatest Warriors, the two are married in a civil service.

Rapier is Jack's half-brother. Determined that their father respects West over him, he constantly makes threats to kill West for the respect he desires.