Thomas Emerton

Emerton is a general of the military encampment. He is an elderly man who advises Blaine Redrick. Emerton has served in the military for many years and is known for his accomplishments. he and Redrick go back a long way, Emerton and Redrick's father were friends, and Redrick's father was also in the military. Emerton is described as strict and unfriendly. He is too typical with his job annd wants everything done by the letter. When it comes to punishments or protocols, he advises Redrick to do everything by the law. When the group arrived, he wanted to let them die outtside, as the protocol said to not let any outsiders inside the camp, mo matter the consequences. Emerton didn't change his mind even when he saw children among the survivora and Billy's brother, William. Redrick has said many times and believes that without Emerton to keep them in line, the whole encampment would have gone to hell. When William imposes a military junta, Emerton is imprisoned with Redrick in the same cell. When Jackson Mason makes a move against them, Emerton gets in the way and takes all bullets to the chest but manages to save Redrick's life. He then dies, almost instantly.

Redrick is then devastated by his death and it is this death that forces his actions afterwards. He aids William in tracking down Jackson, and then exiles William and his group too when he finds the chance. Since he now doesn't have someone extremely lawful to cnsult him, he becomes much stricter himself, and to prove such thing he goes as far as to have all those who sided with William assassinated