AFFIANA — Innkeeper in Testra. Brak’s great-great grand niece.
B’THRIM SNOWBUILDER — Villager from Haven. Elder sister of J’nel.
BASEL — Sergeant of the Defenders stationed on the southern border.
BEK — Prisoner at the Grimfield. Sentenced to five years for arson.
BELDA — Sister of the Blade at the Grimfield.
BERETH — Former Sister of the Blade. Now a pagan.
CRISABELLE CORTANEN — Wife of Wilem Cortanen, Commandant of the Defenders.
DAVYDD TAILORSON — Lieutenant of the Defenders attached to the Intelligence Corps.
DAYAN JENGA — Quartermaster of the Defenders stationed in Bordertown. Younger brother of the Lord Defender.
DENJON — Captain of the Defenders.
DRACO — First Spear of the Sister and ceremonial bodyguard.
FOHLI — Corporal of the Defenders in the Grimfield.
FRANCIL ASHAREN — Sister of the Blade. Member of the Quorum. Longest standing member. Mistress of the Citadel.
GARET WARNER — Commandant of the Defenders. Head of Defender Intelligence and second most senior officer in the Defenders.
GAWN — Captain of the Defenders posted to the southern border.
GEORJ DRAKE — Captain of the Defenders. Tarja’s best friend.
GHARI RODAK — Rebel Lieutenant. Brother of Mandah.
GWENELL — Physic. Sister of the Blade in charge of the Sisterhood’s Infirmary at the Citadel.
HARITH NORTARN — Sister of the Blade. Member of the Quorum. Mistress of Sisterhood.
HEANER — Mistress of the most notorious brothel in the Citadel.
HELLA — Joyhinia’s maid at the Citadel.
HERVE RODAK — A Rebel from Testra. Mandah and Ghari’s cousin.
J’NEL SNOWBUILDER — Died in Haven from complications of childbirth without naming the father of her child.
JACOMINA LAROSSE — Sister of the Blade. Member of the Quorum. Mistress of Enlightenment.
JOYHINIA TENRAGAN — First Sister of the Sisters of the Blade following Mahina’s impeachment.
JUNEE RIVERSON — Probate at the Citadel.
KHIRA — Pagan Rebel and Physic in the Grimfield.
KILENE — Probate at the Citadel.
KORGAN — Deceased. Former Lord Defender. Rumoured to be Tarja’s father.
LENK — Corporal of the Defenders at the Grimfield.
L’RIN — Innkeeper of the Inn of the Hopeless in the Grimfield.
LOCLON — Wain Loclon. Lieutenant of the Defenders and Champion of the Arena. Promoted to Captain following the Purge.
LOUHINA FARCRON — Sister of the Blade. Appointed to the Quorum following Joyhinia’s elevation to First Sister.
LYCREN — Sergeant of the Defenders in the Grimfield.
MAHINA CORTANEN — First Sister. Mother of Wilem.
MANDAH RODAK — Formerly a novice and now a pagan rebel from Medalon. Elder sister of Ghari.
MARIELLE — Prisoner at the Grimfield, sentenced with R’shiel.
MARTA — Probate at the Citadel.
MYSEKIS — Captain of the Defenders stationed in the Grimfield.
NHEAL ALCARNEN — Captain of the Defenders.
PADRIC — Pagan rebel.
PALIN JENGA — Lord Defender. Commander in Chief of the Defenders. Brother of Dayan Jenga and rumoured to be R’shiel’s father.
PENY — Court’esa working for Mistress Heaner.
PROZLAN — Sister of the Blade stationed at the Grimfield, responsible for discipline among the female prisoners.
R’SHIEL — Probate. Daughter of the First Sister.
SUELAN — Sister of the Blade. The First Sister’s Secretary and Harith’s niece.
SUNNY — Sunflower Hopechild. Court’esa from the Citadel who befriends R’shiel on their journey to the Grimfield.
TARJA — Tarjanian Tenragan. Son of the First Sister, Joyhinia. Captain of the Defenders.
TEGGERT — Former convict. Works as a cook in the Commandant’s household in the Grimfield.
UNWIN — Sister of the Blade at the Grimfield in charge of the Grimfield’s Kitchens.
VERKIN — Kriath Verkin. Commandant of Bordetown.
WANDEAR — Probate at the Citadel.
WILEM — Commandant of the Grimfield. Son of Mahina and married to Crisabelle.
WYLBIR — A rebel. Former sergeant of the Defenders.
ZAC — Prisoner in the Grimfield.
BRAK — Lord Brakandaran té Carn. Only other living half-breed Harshini.
DRANYMIRE — Prime Demon bonded to the house of té Ortyn.
GLENANARAN — Harshini sorcerer who leaves Sanctuary to help Brak.
KORANDELLAN TÉ ORTYN — King of the Harshini. Nephew of Lorandranek and brother of Shananara.
LORANDRANEK TÉ ORTYN — Deceased. Former king of the Harshini, driven mad by the task laid on him by the gods.
SHANANARA — Her Royal Highness, Shananara té Ortyn. Daughter of Rorandelan. Sister of Korandellan.
BREHN — God of Storms.
CHELTARAN — God of Healing.
DACENDARAN — God of Thieves.
GIMLORIE — God of Music.
JASHIA — God of Fire.
JAKERLON — God of Liars.
JELANNA — Goddess of Fertility.
JONDALUP — God of Chance.
KAELARN — God of the Oceans.
KALIANAH — Goddess of Love.
LEYLANAN — Goddess of the Ironbrook River.
MAERA — Goddess of the Glass River.
PATANAN — God of Good Fortune.
VODEN — God of Green Life.
ZEGARNALD — God of War.
ALMODAVAR — Hythrun Raider. Captain of Damin Wolfblade’s Raiders.
CYRUS EAGLESPIKE — Hythrun. Warlord of Dregian Province. Damin Wolfblade’s distant cousin.
DAMIN WOLFBLADE — Warlord of Krakandar and heir to the High Prince’s throne. Son of Princess Marla and nephew of Lernen Wolfblade, High Prince of Hythria.
KALAN — High Arrion of the Sorcerers’ Collective in Hythria. Damin Wolfblade’s half sister, also known as Kalan of Elasapine. She has a twin brother, Narvell Hawksword.
LERNEN WOLFBLADE — High Prince of Hythria. Damin’s uncle. A known pervert with no desire to produce an heir and rather exotic sexual appetites.
MARLA WOLFBLADE — Princess of Hythria. Sister of Lernen Wolfblade and mother of Damin. Married 5 times she is also the mother of Kalan and Narvell Hawksword of Elasapine.
RORIN — Seneschal to the High Arrion of the Sorcerers’ Collective.
SOOTHAN — Captain of a Hythrun fishing boat.
ARINGARD — Queen of Karien. Married to Jasnoff and mother of Cratyn.
CHARITY — Karien noblewoman. Granddaughter of Baron Lodnan.
CHASTITY — Daughter of Terbolt. Adrina’s Lady-In-Waiting. Formerly betrothed to Cratyn.
CRATYN — Crown Prince of Karien. Son of Jasnoff and Aringard.
DRENDYN — Karien. Earl of Tiler’s Pass. Cratyn’s cousin and nephew of King Jasnoff.
ELFRON — Karien priest sent to the Citadel with Lord Pieter to denounce the Sisterhood’s handling of the pagans.
GARANUS — Karien Priest sent to the Citadel with Terbolt, the Duke of Setenton.
HOPE — Adrina’s Lady-In-Waiting.
JASNOFF — King of Karien. Married to Aringard. Father of Cratyn and uncle to Drendyn.
JAYMES OF KIRKLAND — Karien page attached to Lord Laetho’s retinue. Son of Lord Laetho’s Third Steward, he cannot by knighted due to his common birth.
LORD PIETER — Karien Envoy to Medalon.
MIKEL OF KIRKLAND — Karien page attached to Lord Laetho’s retinue. Jaymes’ younger brother. Appointed as Adrina’s page following his escape from Medalon.
OVERLORD — See Xaphista.
PACIFICA — Adrina’s Lady-In-Waiting.
TERBOLT — Karien. Duke of Setenton and father of Chastity.
VONULUS — Karien Priest appointed as Confessor to Adrina.
XAPHISTA — The Overlord. God of the Kariens.
ADRINA — Princess of Fardohnya. Eldest legitimate child of King Hablet and his first wife. Adrina’s mother was beheaded for trying to assassinate her husband’s mistress and her illegitimate son Tristan.
CASSANDRA — Princess of Fardohnya. Adrina’s younger sister and second legitimate child of Hablet.
HABLET — King of the Fardohnyans. Has 14 illegitimate sons and thirteen legitimate daughters. He refuses to name his heir hoping one of his wives will give him a legitimate son.
JAPINEL — Fardohnyan tailor, alchemist and con-man.
LECTER TURON — Chamberlain of the Fardohnyan Court. Lector is a eunuch who makes his fortune collecting bribes.
RAVEN — Head of the Assassins’ Guild that operates in Hythria and Fardohnya
TERIAHNA — The Raven. Head of the Assassins’ Guild.
TAMYLAN — Fardohnyan slave raised to serve Adrina. Lover of Tristan on Adrina’s orders.
TRISTAN — Bastard son of King Hablet of Fardohnya. Adrina’s half-brother and Captain of her Guard sent to Karien.