The Thousand Enemies of Differel-Rah

Differel Van Helsing once told Team Girl that she feels like El-ahrairah.

In Watership Down by Richard Adams, El-ahrairah is the great, semi-divine rabbit trickster folk hero. His name means "The Prince with a Thousand Enemies", and is a reference to the fact that rabbits are preyed upon by nearly every predatory animal. In the book, there is a line from a folk tale that goes:

"All the world will be your enemy.... And when they catch you, they will kill you."

It often feels to Differel like she also has a thousand enemies, all bent on her destruction and that of the Caerleon Order. And whenever she eliminates one or turns it into an ally, another one arises to take its place. It's part of the reason she feels so worn out, and despairs that she can ever guarantee the safety of Sovereign, Church, and Country. But she draws some hope from the concluding line of that passage:

"Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed."

What follows is a list of Differel's enemies, whether direct or indirect, in both the Waking World and the Dreamlands.

A.I.Vi.L — “Artificial Intelligence Virtual Lifeform”; popularly known as Livia; artificial intelligence that controls the integrated computer system of PARASol Unlimited

Amadan Mor — “Great Fool”; second most powerful of the Aes Sídhe and their enforcer/protector

Adm. Ayhirnia Nemo — Descendant of Captain Nemo, inventor and commander of Nautilus; currently ruler and benevolent dictator of the undersea city complex of Templemir

The Baobhan Sìth — “Fairy Woman”; Scottish vampire spirit that seduces men and drains their blood

Baron Samedi & Maman Brigitte — Vodou god and goddess of death, sex, and resurrection, though Brigitte also protects graveyards; are true supernatural beings not subject to any power in Existence

Beast of Exmoor — Cat From Mars that terrorizes the Exmoor region

Birog — Pre-Hyborian Age (c. 18,500 years BP) sorceress from Acheron

Bogeyman — Paranormal being that terrorizes children when they sleep; he seeks to strengthen and toughen them, so that all they need to do is declare they are no longer afraid of him and he will leave them in peace, but those who die as a result of a night-terror are taken away to be his slaves

Catarine fel Amigortue — former Dreamlands pirate turned aristocrat

Chamberlain in Green — Carcosan royal family; represents wickedness and corruption; secret lover of The Queen and pits The Princess and The Prince against each other for his own purposes

Countess of Salisbury — Satanist with the power to command devils; seeks to gain sufficient power to control Her Majesty’s Government

The Daemon Sultan — Avatar of Nyarlathotep who sits enthroned in the fortress of the Great Ones on Mt. Kadath in the Cold Waste in the Dreamlands

Deborah Alice Wechsler — Founder, Chairman, and CEO of The Mhorrigan Group

The Duke of Holdehurst — Member of the British Peerage and political heavyweight within Her Majesty’s Government

Dullahan — Headless rider terrorizing County Tyrone in Northern Ireland

Elatha — Fomóraigh ruler of the city-state in Hazuth-Kleg and nominal high king of all the Fomóraigh in the Dreamlands

Eochaid Bres — Fomórach/Human son of Elatha mac Delbáeth, Lord High Steward of the city-state in Hazuth-Kleg, and Lord High Chancellor over all the Fomóraigh in the Dreamlands

Doge Gaius Zilach — Etruscan (675 BCE) Vampire of the Voltura strain; tried to usurp the Conclave but was defeated

The High Priest of Leng — Mysterious entity, robed and veiled in yellow, that resides in an ancient monastery on the Plateau of Leng in the Dreamlands (also present in the Waking World, where it rules over the Tcho-Tcho)

Hyaline Maximilia de Grymm — Pre-Thurian (27,000 years BP) Vampire of the Mousterian Strain; oldest Human Vampire extant

Jack the Ripper — Needs no explanation

Jester in Violet — Carcosan royal family; represents torture and death; more enforcer than fool, and executes the will of the rest of the family, having none of his own; his jests are particularly gruesome and macabre

Kanyth Tyree — Female Homo praedatoreous (known as Predators) who runs a strategic electronics firm

Killer Klown — Paranormal entity that takes the form of a clown at regular intervals to commit killings

King in Yellow — Carcosan royal family; represents pestilence and decay

Leannán Soit — Ancient (150 million years BP) Serpent Woman scientist and wizard

Lich Queen — Thurian Age (c. 20,250 years BP) sorceress from Valusia

Marseilles Sheraton — Celebutante and criminal overlord

Masako Hojo — Onna-bugeisha, disgraced samurai and kunoichi, who lives in the city-state of Yeddo in the Dreamlands

The Master of Rats — Priest of Luchóg Mhór, the Rat Demon

Medraut Pen Draig — Illegitimate son of Artur Pen Draig cursed to remain alive until the return of Artur

The Mehakebar — Prophesized offspring of Nyarlathotep and the Bride of the Crawling Chaos, who will rule the Dreamlands and the Waking World in the name of her father

Miranda Pendragon — Maternal aunt of Sir Differel Van Helsing

The Mirror Devil — Supernatural entity trapped in the silver backing of a cursed antique mirror and able to open a portal to Hell through the glass

Modron l’Fae — Sorceress from the city of Lelga-Leng, who specializes in illusions and phantasms; she was an ally of Sysphius Tyrannia in her attempted coup d’état and is now rumored to be her eyes and ears in the Dreamlands

Monsignor Canarde — Leader of Vatican City’s Holy Order of St. Antony Demons-Bane

The Nurse — Hired to care for Sir Henry Van Helsing, father of Sir Differel Van Helsing, when he fell ill; later revealed to be a fully mature Fomórach

Nuthia Su’h — Human/Predator hybrid and Telemaraine Wizard, Black Onyx Level; born during the Dark Ages (c. 750 CE) in Europe

Owlman — Paranormal being posing as the cryptid native to Cornwall

Prince in Blue — Carcosan royal family; represents depression and grief; the family rebel, seeking to overthrow the current order, and has a fanatical hatred of his sister

Prince of Dylath-Leen — Ruler of the city-state of Dylath-Leen in the Dreamlands

Princess in Orange — Carcosan royal family; represents madness and depravity; has a fanatical hatred of her brother

The Purple Fool — Avatar of Nyarlathotep associated with the Boyar of Malebolg in the Dreamlands

Queen in Red — Carcosan royal family; consort of the King in Yellow; represents bloodlust and carnage

The Red Death — Avatar of Nyarlathotep associated with the Prince of Dylath-Leen

Sahyadín — Sole survivor of a project to create an artificial hybrid of a human and a Serpent Person; she has Serpent Person immortality and illusion power, as well as access to their technology, but her overall form is that of a human with scales instead of hair; her bite is venomous, creating paralysis and eventually mutating the victim with serpent traits, turning him or her into her willing slave; she hates both sides of her ‘parentage’ and seeks to destroy both races

Shoulder Devil — Personification of Sir Differel Van Helsing’s evil, selfish side who appears to her to give advice on moral and ethical dilemmas

The Spirit of the Oaks — Paranormal being associated with old-growth oak forests of 300+ years; the older the forest, the more powerful the resident

Spring-Heeled Jack — Interdimensional explorer equipped with a highly advanced steam-based technology; displays an irreverent attitude towards his work

Sysphius Tyrannia — Extremely powerful sorcerer from the city-state of Lelag-Leng in the Dreamlands, who specializes in daemonology; she was a one-time member of the Ruling Council until she tried to mount a coup d’état and was banished from the city; her current whereabouts are unknown

Lady Tamora Draconae — Disgraced Knight of Celephaïs in the Dreamlands, who attempted to assassinate King Kuranes for personal revenge and as part of a coup d’état

Dr. Uriah Silas Huer — Mad scientist specializing in cognitive theory, neurophysiology, cybernetics, psychology, and semiotics; excels at developing methods of mind control and behavioral modification that involve virtual reality and symbols

Venke Myhre — Former adventurer and now waitress at the Forenoon Tavern in the town of Ulthar in the Dreamlands

Vincent O’Shaughnessy — “The Weasel”; a former gangster who runs a cabaret outside of the town of Ulthar in the Dreamlands

Warrior Nun Walpurga — Member of the disbanded Daughters of Cwenthryth, an all-female military religious order that combined features of the Knights Templar with a contemplative order; went underground when Pope Julius II decreed that all female religious orders must renounce violence and return to the cloister; as a result, all members were excommunicated, which has never been rescinded; a popular legend states that when enough sisters have been sent to Hell, they will rise up in revolt and overthrow Satan to end his rebellion and restore the rule of God

The White Dragon — Symbol of the Saxon invaders, and mortal enemy of The Red Dragon, the symbol of the native Britons

Xenomorph Queen/Human hybrid — Xenomorph queen that acquired human DNA from Sir Differel Van Helsing when it’s chestbuster was incubated inside her; acquired human thought patterns imprinted onto its ancestral instincts and behavior