Tyler Leander/ The Prophet
Tyler Leander is the son of Arthur Leander and Elizabeth Colton
He is raised in Israel by his mother away from his father
During the collapse, he lives in the Severn City airport and becomes increasingly religious and extremist, coming to believe that the Flu was a divine cleansing of the population and that those who survived did so for a reason
He and his mother leave the airport to join a wandering cult, and as Tyler grows up he eventually becomes the leader of the cult and starts calling himself the Prophet
As the Prophet, Tyler runs a group of highly trained religious fanatics who carry a large arsenal of weapons and take over towns. In a strange mirroring of his father’s wife-hopping, Tyler takes multiple wives, including very young girls, usually by force
He, like Kirsten, is obsessed with the “Dr. Eleven” comics.
Elzabeth Colton
Elizabeth is Arthur’s second wife and Tyler’s mother
She is a movie star and believes that everything happens for a reason
After the collapse, she comes to believe, perhaps as a way to stave of despair, that the pandemic was a cleansing that allowed only those who were meant to survive to live on
Elizabeth instills this point of view in Tyler, ultimately leading to him becoming the Prophet after her death.