Characters

A Tallfolk mercenary hired to escort the young lord Elderne Karos to the Thartan border — a journey that turns catastrophic when Elderne’s true mission is revealed.
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A man in a broad-brimmed hat and a long coat — the kind of person a room forgets the moment he leaves it. He places a ring in the hands of a young lord and set catastrophic events in motion across Mordikhaan, all in service of a question he has not yet asked out loud: where is the Queen?
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Lord High Steward of Mordikhaan. Dying — except he cannot. The Queen marked his chest with five points of cold fire decades ago and commanded him to live. His body rots from the shaking sickness while he remains trapped in a half-life, presiding over a ruined realm from the Crag.
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Captive physician and scholar, tasked with an impossible mission: create a poison capable of ending Santaris’s supernaturally prolonged life. To do it, he breaks into the sealed library of the vanished Chamberlain Parsifus. What he finds there changes far more than he intended.
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Chamberlain of the Crag. Calculating, rational, the most dangerous person in Mordikhaan’s politics.
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A Ghothar — a warrior from the eastern lands, “poor as beggars and hard as steel.” Rescued from death in a ditch by the former priest Druzman, she repays him by becoming his protector.
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Mordikhaan’s most powerful lord. Ambitious, ruthless, and determined to rule the realm. When the Vahd family steal a march on his own line in the race to replace Santaris Sendus, it is a challenge Caston cannot tolerate.
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A young girl with red hair, rescued from an abusive father by her fiercely protective adoptive mother, Paida. Her story takes her from the town of Lokhavo to the fortress of Yenarinvahl, where she attracts the attention of the mysterious Low Folk.

A young lord who carries a ring to the Thartan border, believing it will bring him power, prestige and the admiration of his father
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