Johannes

"“Then how can anyone know what side they’re on? Like, how can you know if someone’s good or bad?... How can you know if you're good or bad?'" "—Johannes"

Sometimes called "Jo," Johannes was a boy from the Ærth who was tricked into coming to the Grauwelt on the eve of his seventh birthday.

Biography
On the night before his seventh birthday, Johannes had his mother read him a bedtime story entitled The Death-Linked Bridge. The story told the tale of a king named Dietrich that left Earth to found a new kingdom in a place called the Grauwelt.

Johannes was awakened by a sound from inside his closet door. Using elements from the story his mother had read him, he donned a pretend helmet, cape, girdle, and sword and marched for the closet. On the other side of the door he found a swirling tunnel of shifting colors and also several Löwa clerics that took him to the Kaltstein.

While in the Kaltstein Johannes faced terrible tortures and surgeries, though for what purpose he was unsure.

Johannes was implanted with the formskul.

Personality and traits
Johannes was fairly brave for a soon-to-be seven-year-old. Thinking he was still dreaming, he prentended to act as Dietrich would when facing the sounds coming from his cloest.

While in the Grauwelt he continued to convince himself that he was still dreaming.

Relation to Einsa
The character of Johannes only occurs in dreams (nightmares) that Einsa has during the course of the story. It is unclear whether or not he is an actual person or only exists in her sleeping imagination.

Only at the end of The Sword and Its Servant does Einsa realize that she is experiencing things through Johannes's eyes. She has a tendency to wake up just before the wicked culmination of the nightmare and still feels the phantom pains experienced by Johannes during the course of the deam.