Bloom is a Black paladin and liberator of North American Antiterra who still wears medieval plate armor on the eve of the Civil War; his arc runs from the Boreals through the Regulators to Les Libertateurs.
| Type | Character (paladin) |
| World | Antiterra |
| Echo | Ray (New World) |
| Spanish entry | Bloom |
Description
He comes from afar, from the gesta of the Boreals, and keeps the plate armor that the shared cosmos tolerates as a deliberate anachronism: a figure of chivalric order who precedes the work history would assign to others. Among the Regulators he regulates; among Les Libertateurs he liberates — in Antiterra two forms of one vocation. “Some armor arrives late, and that is why it arrives on time.”