The Beginning After the End Character Guide: Full Cast

TL;DR: The Beginning After the End character guide, checked against AniList, Wikipedia, and the anime's own character page rather than a fan wiki: Arthur Leywin, the Leywin family, Tessia Eralith and Virion, the Twin Horns adventuring party, and the Xyrus Academy cast around them.

Search "The Beginning After the End characters" and the results are a Fandom wiki, two separate TV Tropes pages split by faction, a page literally branded "Complete Cast Guide," and a Ranker list voted on by fans. None of them are wrong, exactly. None of them check their character spellings against the anime's own production materials either, which is how this site's own reading guide ended up with a love interest's surname that doesn't match a single official source.

This guide exists to fix that gap with a shorter, verified list rather than a longer, copied one. For the quality verdict on whether TBATE earns its slow opening, read the The Beginning After the End review. For the novel-versus-manhwa breakdown and where each format currently stands, see the reading guide. This page does neither job. It names the people in the story and says where each name comes from.

Key Takeaways

• Arthur Leywin is the reincarnation of King Grey; AniList's character bio records "King Grey" as his confirmed alternate name.
• Tessia Eralith, not "Tessia Elyahu," is the correct surname for Arthur's love interest, confirmed independently by AniList, Wikipedia, and the anime's official character page.
• The Twin Horns adventuring party (Helen Shard, Durden Walker, Jasmine Flamesworth, Adam Krensh, Angela Rose) was founded by Arthur's father, Reynolds Leywin, before Arthur was born.
• Sylvie and Sylvia are two different dragons on AniList's character list, not one character spelled two ways.
• Virion Eralith, Tessia's grandfather and a former king of Elenoir, is Arthur's first formal combat mentor.
• Every name below traces to AniList's character list for the anime, Wikipedia, or the show's own official character page, checked live for this guide rather than pulled from a wiki.

Overview

The Beginning After the End follows Arthur Leywin, born into the world of Dicathen after his previous life as King Grey ends in solitude at the top of his old world's combat hierarchy. He keeps his memories. He doesn't keep his power. Dicathen runs on mana and inherited aether attributes rather than the raw fighting skill that made Grey unbeatable, so Arthur spends his childhood rebuilding from close to zero, this time inside a family that actually wants him around.

That's the setup the review and reading guide already cover in depth. What neither one does is stop to name the people Arthur meets along the way, and the manhwa introduces a lot of them fast once the childhood chapters end. A reader ten chapters in and a reader deep into the Xyrus Academy arc are tracking two different casts, and most competitor coverage treats the whole roster as one flat list regardless of when a name actually shows up.

This guide sorts that cast into groups that match how the story actually introduces them: family first, mentors next, then the adventuring party that predates Arthur's own story, then the Academy cast that arrives once the childhood arc ends.

The Beginning After the End Character Guide: Arthur Leywin and the Leywin Family

Arthur Leywin (King Grey) is the protagonist. AniList's own character bio lists King Grey as his confirmed alternate name, one entry for both identities, not two. He's reborn as an infant with his previous life's tactical instincts intact and none of the physical capability to use them. Closing that gap is what the childhood arc is actually about.

Reynolds Leywin is Arthur's father, a retired adventurer whose own history (he co-founded the Twin Horns party years before Arthur was born) becomes directly relevant once Arthur is old enough to cross paths with his father's old companions. Alice Leywin is Arthur's mother. Both parents are confirmed on AniList's character list for the anime, and both are the family Arthur builds real relationships with in a way his previous life as King Grey never allowed.

Eleanor Leywin, known as Ellie, is Arthur's younger sister, the daughter of Reynolds and Alice. She doesn't currently appear on AniList's aired-anime character list, so this guide sources her family relationship from Wikipedia rather than claiming she's confirmed on screen in the seasons that have aired so far. That distinction matters for readers trying to match a name to what they've actually watched versus what the wider story eventually covers.

The family framing here is deliberate on the story's part, not incidental. King Grey died with total combat mastery and nothing else. Arthur's second life is structured around building the "nothing else" first, and the Leywin household is where that project starts.

Arthur Leywin with his parents, Reynolds and Alice Leywin. Portraits via AniList.

For where TBATE's slow-build reincarnation setup sits against other isekai casts built the same way, see

Best Isekai Manhwa →

Step-by-Step

Here's roughly the order this cast enters the story, useful for lining up a name against wherever you currently are in the manhwa's published chapters.

1. Arthur Leywin (King Grey), present from the opening chapter as an infant already carrying his previous life's memories and instincts.

2. Reynolds and Alice Leywin, established immediately as his parents and the household his second life begins inside.

3. Eleanor Leywin, introduced as his younger sister once the early family chapters have room for her.

4. Virion Eralith, entering once Arthur reaches the elven kingdom of Elenoir and is identified as a Beast Tamer worth training.

5. Tessia Eralith, meeting Arthur through her grandfather Virion and developing into his primary love interest across the chapters that follow.

6. The Twin Horns party (Durden Walker, Jasmine Flamesworth, Adam Krensh, Angela Rose, Helen Shard), entering once Arthur's path crosses his father's old adventuring companions.

7. Sylvie and Sylvia, the two dragons, entering during the arc that gives Arthur his Beast Will.

8. The Xyrus Academy cast (Cynthia Goodsky, Lucas Wykes, Elijah Knight), entering once Arthur formally enrolls and the story's ensemble expands past his immediate family and mentors.

That order tracks the manhwa's own pacing rather than an alphabetical wiki listing, since several of these names only make sense once you know which arc actually introduces them.

Tessia Eralith and Virion: The Mentor and the Love Interest

Tessia Eralith is an elf of the Elenoir kingdom and the granddaughter of Virion Eralith. AniList's character list, Wikipedia's entry on the series, and the anime's own official character page all agree on the surname Eralith. That's worth flagging directly: this site's reading guide currently spells her surname "Elyahu," which doesn't appear on any of the three sources above. It reads like a name that got swapped in from somewhere else during drafting, and it's a correction worth making the next time that page gets touched.

Tessia and Arthur meet as children, and the relationship that eventually becomes central to the story builds slowly across the Xyrus Academy arc rather than starting the moment they meet. She's not introduced as a prize to be won. She has her own training, her own family standing as Virion's granddaughter, and her own reasons for spending time around Arthur beyond the fact that the story needs a love interest.

Virion Eralith is Tessia's grandfather and a former king of Elenoir. He's the character who first identifies what Arthur is actually carrying, the Beast Will of a dragon, and takes on the job of training him in the basics of Beast Tamer combat. That mentorship happens before Arthur ever sets foot in Xyrus Academy, which makes Virion the first person in the story to teach Arthur anything about this world's version of power on purpose, rather than Arthur figuring it out alone.

The pairing of mentor and love interest sharing a bloodline isn't an accident of casting. It means Arthur's two most significant non-family relationships in the early story both run through the same household, which is a tighter structure than most isekai manage with their opening cast.

The Twin Horns: Reynolds Leywin's Old Adventuring Party

Most cast rundowns introduce the Twin Horns as if they're Arthur's own party. They aren't, at least not originally. AniList's character list confirms five members: Helen Shard, Durden Walker, Jasmine Flamesworth, Adam Krensh, and Angela Rose. The party's founding predates Arthur's birth. His father, Reynolds Leywin, co-founded it with Helen Shard back when Reynolds was still an active adventurer himself.

That detail changes how the group should read. When Arthur eventually crosses paths with the Twin Horns, he isn't meeting a random adventuring party. He's meeting people who knew his father before Arthur existed, which gives their early scenes with him a weight a stranger group wouldn't carry. Jasmine Flamesworth becomes the member Arthur ends up closest to as the story continues, but her connection to him starts from that same inherited context, not from a cold introduction.

For readers who want more series built around this same "protagonist inherits relationships instead of just power" structure, Manhwa Like The Beginning After the End → sorts recommendations by which specific element of TBATE actually hooked you.

Xyrus Academy: Rivals, Faculty, and Allies

Xyrus Academy is where The Beginning After the End's cast stops being a small family circle and starts being an actual ensemble. Cynthia Goodsky, credited on AniList and referred to as Director Goodsky elsewhere, is a duel instructor at the Academy, one of the adults responsible for the formal combat training Arthur receives once he's enrolled.

Lucas Wykes is introduced as an academy rival, initially adversarial toward Arthur before the relationship shifts over the course of the story. Elijah Knight rounds out the named academy cast this guide can confirm; AniList lists him among the show's credited characters, and Wikipedia's summary of the series describes him as a human raised among dwarves, a background detail the anime hasn't gotten into much in the seasons that have aired so far.

The Academy arc is also where the story's political stakes start attaching to specific names instead of staying abstract. Faculty members like Goodsky aren't just background instructors; they're the adults who notice when a student is developing faster than his file explains, and Arthur's Academy years are shaped as much by who's watching him as by who he's training alongside.

For a broader look at manhwa built around a comparable magic-system-plus-academy structure, see

Best System Fantasy Manhwa →

Sylvie and Sylvia: Arthur's Dragon Bond

Sylvie and Sylvia are two of the more commonly mixed-up names in casual TBATE discussion, and AniList's character list settles the confusion cleanly: they're separate entries, separate dragons, not one character under an alternate spelling.

Sylvie is the younger dragon Arthur bonds with directly. That bond gives the childhood-into-Academy stretch of the story some of its warmest material. Sylvia, an elder dragon, is the one who sacrifices herself protecting Arthur and passes on her Beast Will in the process, the ability Virion later identifies and trains him to use. Before that sacrifice, Arthur has no combat edge beyond memory. After it, he has an actual power to build on. A dragon hands him that, not a person.

Keeping the two names straight matters for anyone discussing later chapters. A conversation that conflates Sylvie's ongoing presence with Sylvia's sacrifice is describing two different emotional beats as if they were one.

Sylvie (left) and Sylvia (right), two separate dragons in Arthur's story. Portraits via AniList.

Common Character Mix-Ups

A handful of names in this cast get flattened or misspelled in fast recaps, this site's own included, and separating them out directly saves confusion later.

Tessia Eralith, not Tessia Elyahu. This site's reading guide currently uses the second spelling. AniList, Wikipedia, and the anime's official character page all confirm the first. It's the kind of single-word error that's easy to introduce during drafting and easy to miss during review, since nothing about "Elyahu" looks obviously wrong on its own.

Sylvie and Sylvia aren't the same dragon under two spellings. They're two separate characters with two separate roles in Arthur's story, confirmed as distinct entries on AniList's character list.

The Twin Horns and Arthur's own future party aren't the same group either, at least not at the point this guide covers. The Twin Horns is Reynolds Leywin's old party, founded before Arthur was born. Arthur meets its members later as a consequence of his father's history, not because he recruited them himself.

"Director Goodsky" and "Cynthia Goodsky" are one person under two references. AniList's character list credits her by given name; other summaries of the series refer to her by title. Both point at the same Academy instructor.

The Beginning After the End Character Guide: Tips for Reading This Roster

Track this cast by relationship first, arc position second. Arthur's family, his mentors, his father's old party, and his Academy peers each enter the story for a different structural reason, and knowing which category a name belongs to tells you more about their role than the name alone does.

Don't assume a name that shows up once in the anime's aired seasons is done mattering. TBATE's manhwa runs well past what the anime has adapted so far, and several relationships that start small in the early chapters (Tessia and Virion's family connection, the Twin Horns' history with Reynolds) become structurally important later.

When a source disagrees with another source on a spelling, check which one is closer to the production itself. That's the standard this guide used to settle Tessia Eralith's surname: the anime's own character page and AniList's structured data outrank a fan wiki or an earlier draft on this site.

Related Reading

• The Beginning After the End Review: the full verdict on whether TBATE's slow opening earns its long-form payoff.
• The Beginning After the End Reading Guide: the novel-versus-manhwa breakdown and where each format currently stands.
• Manhwa Like The Beginning After the End: seven picks sorted by which specific element of TBATE hooked you.
• Best Manhwa with OP MC: where Arthur's slow power climb sits against other overpowered-protagonist casts.
• Solo Leveling Character Guide: another AniList-verified roster for readers comparing cast structures across long-running system-fantasy manhwa.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Arthur Leywin in The Beginning After the End?

Arthur Leywin is the protagonist, the reincarnation of King Grey, the strongest fighter of his previous world. AniList's own character bio lists his alternate name as King Grey, confirming the two identities are the same person. He's reborn as an infant into the Leywin family in a world called Dicathen and grows up carrying his past-life combat knowledge into a body and a magic system that don't automatically give him an advantage.

Who is Tessia Eralith?

Tessia Eralith is Arthur's primary love interest, an elf noble of the Elenoir kingdom and the granddaughter of Virion Eralith. AniList, Wikipedia, and the anime's own official character page all confirm the surname as Eralith, not the Elyahu spelling this site's reading guide currently uses. She meets Arthur as a child and their relationship develops gradually across the Xyrus Academy arc rather than starting there.

Who are the Twin Horns in The Beginning After the End?

The Twin Horns is the adventuring party Arthur's father, Reynolds Leywin, co-founded with Helen Shard before Arthur was born. Its confirmed members are Helen Shard, Durden Walker, Jasmine Flamesworth, Adam Krensh, and Angela Rose. Arthur crosses paths with the party later in the story, well after his parents' own adventuring days are behind them.

What is the difference between Sylvie and Sylvia in TBATE?

They're two separate dragons, not the same character under two spellings. AniList lists Sylvie and Sylvia as distinct supporting characters. Sylvie is the young dragon Arthur bonds with directly. Sylvia is an elder dragon who sacrifices herself protecting Arthur and passes on her Beast Will, the ability that later shapes his combat style at Xyrus Academy.

Who is Virion Eralith?

Virion Eralith is Tessia's grandfather, a former king of the elven kingdom Elenoir, and the first person to formally mentor Arthur. He identifies the dragon-based Beast Will inside Arthur and trains him in the basics of Beast Tamer combat before Arthur ever reaches Xyrus Academy.

Does Arthur Leywin have a sister?

Yes. Eleanor Leywin, called Ellie, is Arthur's younger sister and the daughter of Reynolds and Alice Leywin. She isn't part of the anime's currently-aired character roster on AniList, so this guide notes her family relationship on Wikipedia's authority rather than treating her screen time as confirmed by the adaptation.

Is The Beginning After the End manhwa the same story as the novel?

Same story, different pace. TurtleMe's web novel finished at 529 chapters in November 2025. The manhwa adaptation, illustrated by Fuyuki23, was at roughly chapter 249 as of late August 2026, meaning it has adapted a smaller portion of a now-complete story. This guide sticks to characters and details that have appeared in the manhwa's published chapters or in the anime, which covers similar early ground.

References

• The Beginning After the End on Tapas
• The Beginning After the End on AniList
• The Beginning After the End on Wikipedia