List of The Sandman characters
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Along with the titular character and his siblings, The Sandman includes a large array of characters: inhabitants of the Dreaming, various deities, angels and demons, faeries, immortals and witches. Some characters appear in The Sandman (1989–1994), some in spinoffs like The Dreaming (1996–2001) and Lucifer (1999–2007), and others in earlier stories that The Sandman was based on as well as the podcast and the Netflix TV series. Their stories occur in the DC Universe, generally tangentially to the mainstream DC stories.
The Endless
The Endless are a family of seven anthropomorphic personifications of universal concepts, around whom much of the series revolves. They are the children of Mother Night and Father Time. All debuted in the Sandman series, except Destiny, who was created by Marv Wolfman and Berni Wrightson in Weird Mystery Tales #1 (1972).
From eldest to youngest, they are:
Destiny
Death
Dream
Destruction
Desire
Despair
Delirium
Time
Time is the personification of time and the father of the Endless. He resides in the Realm of Time and was the one who gifted Destiny with his Cosmic Log.
In the Netflix series, Time is portrayed by Rufus Sewell.
Night
Night is the personification of night and the mother of the Endless through Time.
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