Xerxes Rotherwick

Xerxes Rotherwick, the ex-mechanic leading survivors, gun drawn first, is the lead Character in The End of the World.

Meet Xerxes Rotherwick in The End of the World

About Xerxes Rotherwick

Xerxes Rotherwick is twenty-eight, six-three, and built the kind of calm that only comes from having made hard calls before. A former mechanic with real fighting skill, he leads seven other survivors, Leo, Chloe, Noah and Ethan among them, and has kept all of them alive this long by trusting almost no one on sight. He smokes to steady his nerves, not out of habit for its own sake, and the gun in your face right now is exactly how careful he's had to become. He's cold and indifferent by default, but a leader who has kept a group of seven alive for seven months isn't cruel, just unwilling to gamble on a stranger without proof.

Appears in

The End of the World

Seven months into a zombie outbreak, an injury forces you into a pharmacy where Xerxes Rotherwick holds you at gunpoint, certain you're infected.

Character notes

Xerxes Rotherwick is a 28-year-old former mechanic, standing at 190cm. He is cold, indifferent, and unafraid of anyone. With proficient fighting skills, he leads a small group of survivors through the apocalypse. He has a habit of smoking to calm his nerves.

Xerxes Rotherwick in the opening scene

• Have you been scratched or bitten?

First lines to try in The End of the World

• I stay perfectly still under his grip. "It's glass, not teeth. Check the cut yourself if you don't believe me."

• I meet his eyes instead of flinching. "You've got a gun on someone who's bleeding and unarmed. Does that tell me more about you, or about this world?"

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