Eryx Riverly

Eryx Riverly is a major character in the first and second season of The Boy from the Bunker and is portrayed by Jeffery Dean Morgan in the books. He is the Nobel Sovereign of Basilisk (in S1) and the former Nobel Sovereign of Basilisk in Season 2. He is the father of Sol Riverly and the main encourager behind Sol and her decision to open the Bunker in S1. In Season 2, he is also revealed to be the father of Atlantis Beckett.



Eyrx Riverly was previously married to a woman named Moira Riverly with whom he had a daughter - Sol Riverly, who eventually followed on in his footsteps to become a Sovereign of their clan. Three years after Sol was born, as a result of an affair Eryx was having with a woman named Zara Beckett, Eryx welcomed another daughter named Atlantis Beckett. After struggling to keep the news of his second daughter concealed from his wife, Eryx arranged for Moria to be killed and as a cover, told Sol that Moria had gone to take refuge in a nearby Bunker to flee the wars that were approaching close to their camp. However, because of this same reason, Zara made a last minute decision to move into the second nearby bunker (The Bunker Coalition) with Atlantis, leaving Eryx on the ground with Sol - who was raised without the knowledge of Atlantis existing.

Season 1

Eryx Riverly is the current Nobel Sovereign of Basilisk and is helping to prepare his daughter, Sol Riverly, into taking his position as leader of their clan. As all three of the up-coming Sovereigns (Sol Riverly, Dreea Taven, Kodiak Zora) are given the task to create a mission to showcase what qualities and strengths they could bring as Nobel, Eryx is using his power to manipulate Sol into evacuating the nearby bunkers in the area by informing her that her mother (who he knows is dead) is inside one of them. His motivation is actually to locate Zara and his youngest daughter, Atlantis - who he wants to take Sol's place as the blood-related Sovereign and have her in charge of Basilisk. When he realises that the Bunker Sol opened is not the one containing them and is instead full of a young and naive collective who have no experience of the ground or it's brutality, he encourages Sol to ditch her mission and create a new one (leaving Wynn and the others in their camp separated from their family or left to fend for themselves outside of camp), but she is unable to leave the people of the Bunker in a position that will almost certainly have them killed. To his frustration, Sol ends up missing The Decider - a sacred ceremony where the new Nobel Sovereign is chosen - and ends up recruiting the help of Dreea and Kodiak when Wynn and his friends find themselves in fatal danger.

Season 2

With Wynn and his family having returned back to their Bunker, Eryx is keen to use Sol to open the other bunker they have located near their camp. When Sol returns to Basilisk with a bus of people - all of whom have survived the evacuation of their home this time around - Eryx is relieved to find that Zara and Atlantis were inside. As their reunions pass, Eryx is quick to begin training Atlantis in combat and logic skills; Atlantis assumes this is just because he wants her to be safe on the ground, but it is soon revealed that it is because Eryx wants to erase the ties of Moria from his past - including Sol - and focus on his "new" family. When Sol goes missing after finding out about her long-lost-sister, Eryx forces Atlantis into taking up her position as Sovereign, sharing the position with her which, in result, restores part of his authority he lost when Sol replaced him. When Atlantis finds out what he has done, she works with Sovereign Dreea and Kodiak to keep things running smoothly at Basilisk whilst they send out a search team to find Sol, meanwhile discovering that Eryx had sent two of their own people - Ellery and Adair - to capture and kill Sol in "whichever measure they choose" and hide her body. When Atlantis receives a radio signal that Sol is alive, she places her father under arrest until Sol returns home and decides a suitable consequence for his betrayal. Sol and Atlantis both come to a mutual agreement of having Eryx executed and he is eventually killed by Sol at the end of Season 2.

 Fun Trivia: 

In Season 2, Eryx orders his close friends Ellery and Adair to capture Sol and have her killed in the DeadLands. These are the same two friends who he had capture and kill his wife, Moira Riverly, after she learned about his affair with Zara Beckett and grew suspicious of Atlantis Beckett being his child.

Despite his obvious favouritism for Atlantis, when Sol arrives back at Basilisk and is left with the decision of deciding Eryx's punishment for trying to kill her and having her tortured, Atlantis is more open to the idea of Eryx being executed than Sol is. With encouragement from Wynn and Atlantis, Sol orders for Eryx to be killed. Her position as Nobel Sovereign of Basilisk is immediately restored.