Juan Jerez (Juanje) is a companion of the Pretty Women line of Les Libertateurs in Antiterra, who died in Kraken’s Cove. Under the name Juan the archive keeps at least three figures that are not merged (Juan Sears, Pepe Juan and Juan Jerez), and a night of the year devoted to demons.
| Type | Character |
| World | Antiterra |
| Affiliation | Pretty Women |
| Died | Kraken’s Cove |
| Spanish entry | Juan Jerez |
Juan Sears, the field orc
Juan Sears is a half-orc who sits by a country road, “half wise, with jumbled things, lying by the road with feathers and tars, all strange”. At his feet is a cauldron, “a half-witch’s pot”. He is “the field orc”, a roadside witch whose instrument is the pot and whose materials are feathers and tar. He has an unnamed half-orc brother, “the wildest orc”, who became civilized and “to some is a traitor”.
Pepe Juan, of the poker poncho
Pepe Juan wears only “a brown tunic” and, over it, a poker-table cloth worn as a cape, “all loose”. He plays notes on a guitar with fingers ruined by “scab upon scab of food”, and carries bags with “several toys, several trinkets, a cloth, several things”. Despite his look he has great strength: he can hold “a beam with one arm… he is very big, but stocky. And heavy”.
He comes “from the East!” and joins the company with “teary eyes, almost imploring”, saying: «vengo por los gurises que están matando gurises. Queremos detener a este pequeño para ser amparado» (roughly, “I come for the kids who are killing kids. We want to stop this little one, to be sheltered”). Children are being killed somewhere in Antiterra, and some travel from the East to stop it. He is also recorded as Pepe Buri.
Juanje and the count of maidens
No physical trait of Juanje is recorded. He belonged to the Pretty Women line, whose count is the number 69: “I got to 69, let’s say.” The 69th and last maiden was raped and possibly killed by him while he was under partial amnesia. The devils freed him and charged him the act as a debt. He died in Kraken’s Cove.
Saint John’s Night
The calendar of Antiterra fixes: “Saint John’s Night, the night of the demons”. The rite, its exact date and its prohibitions are not recorded.
Conflicting accounts
- What the 69 count: “murdered women”, or “interaction with and responsibility over maidens”.
- The spelling of the orc’s name varies: Sears, Sear, Sir.
Open questions
- Whether Juan Sears, Pepe Juan and Juan Jerez are one entity, three, or a reused name is not established.
- Who kills the children Pepe Juan protects, and who “this little one” is, are unknown.
- The meaning of Pepe Buri is unexplained.
- Where the field orc’s road lies and what boils in his cauldron are unknown.
- Juanje’s appearance is not recorded.