Pale Rider

Kazuto Kirigaya

Kirito is a "solo" player, a player who hasn't joined a guild and usually works alone. He is also one of the very few people to have had the privilege to play in the beta testing p

Suguha Kirigaya

Kazuto's sister in the real world. She is 15 years old and in her third year of junior high, as well as a member of the Kendou club. She's a diligent worker and has been practicing

Asuna Yuuki

Asuna is a friend of Kirito and is a sub-leader of the guild Knights of the Blood (KoB), a medium-sized guild of about thirty players, also called the strongest guild in Aincrad. B

Seijirou Kikuoka

Seijirou Kikuoka is a member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Technology, Second Separated Advanced Network Division, or «Virtual Division». He uses the nick

Shino Asada

Shino is a skilled VRMMO player. She goes by the name Sinon in *Gun Gale Online* and *Alfheim Online*. She is nicknamed Hecate, after her gun PGM Ultima Ratio Hecate II, a .50 cali

Yuuki Konno

She is a new player who appears in ALO in volume 7, she leads the Sleeping Knights and quickly becomes known as one of the strongest in the game winning 67 straight matches.

Sagiri Izumi

Sagiri was taught to draw by her mother at a young age, and by the time she was around the age of nine, she became Masamune's illustrator. A year before the events of the novel, Sa

Masamune Izumi

Izumi Masamune is the protagonist of the story. He is a novelist that goes by the pen name "Izumi Masamune," his same name. He started out his novels in middle school after winning

Misumi Tozawa

Tozawa Misumi was a student at the Aeterna Girls' Academy, where she befriended her classmate Yuuki Asuna. Being one of the 1,000 beta testers for Sword Art Online, Misumi encourag

Rex

A young man who often finds himself at the mercy of Emirun.

Emirun

An innocent and carefree girl.

Kibaou

One of the 10,000 players trapped in Sword Art Online. Kibaou is the leader of the Aincrad Liberation Squad, one of SAO's first major clearing guilds alongside Lind's Dragon Knight

Ryoutarou Tsuboi

A friendly player that meets Kirito at the start of the game and quickly befriends and learns from him. He and Kirito later separate because he has friends who were also new to the

Caynz

A player who was killed inside a city, which is said to be impossible as there is a protection code preventing players to lose HP inside the city area.

Eugene

General Eugene is the head of the Salamander armed forces. (Source: SAO Wiki)

Shouzou Yuuki

Asuna's father. He is a CEO of a major electronics manufacturing company.

Sasha

She resides in the first floor and takes care of the younger players. She lives with them in a church, where they hide from the members of the Army.

Akihiko Kayaba

Director and creator of the Nerve Gear and *Sword Art Online*. He traps all the players within *Sword Art Online* by using the Nerve Gear to cease sending signals to the users' bod