A Conjuring of Ravens characters

Appears from the start

Ennis Nott's resourceful daughter and an unlicensed novice sorcerer. Wanted after her father leaves her exposed during a crime, she slips back into a watched inn for her magical belongings and escapes only after an unexplained transformation gives her a male body.

Appears from the start

Siobhan's absent father, sought by officers for unlicensed thaumaturgy. He occupied the watched inn room and left Siobhan facing the consequences of the crime and flight, giving her reason to blame him for her danger.

Appears from the start

A well-dressed, dark-haired stranger who pulls Siobhan into hiding during her flight from the officers. He witnesses her sudden physical transformation and helps her pass as an unrelated male bystander.

Also known as Mr. Dryden

First appears in chapter 2

The stranger who helped Siobhan evade the officers. He has criminal associates and offers to connect her with people who could finance a university education under a new male identity.

First appears in chapter 3

The manager of Oliver's establishment and a lender willing to finance Siobhan's university education. Her terms carry steep interest and require magical service if money falls short, with only narrow protection against objectionable assignments.

First appears in chapter 3

A red-haired boy at Katerine's establishment who hopes to learn magic. He admits Oliver and Siobhan when they arrive and shows curiosity about the sorcerers around him.

First appears in chapter 4

The male identity Oliver creates for Siobhan from an extinct noble line, intended to carry her safely through university admission. She must learn the manner and presentation expected of a wealthy young man while concealing both her fugitive status and the artifact behind the change.

First appears in chapter 7

The female identity used by the same person known as Siobhan and Sebastien Siverling. She changes which identity she presents while pursuing university admission and trying to contact her imprisoned father without exposing herself.

First appears in chapter 5

A privileged applicant from a powerful Crown family. He tries to use his rank to move ahead in the university admissions queue, but Sebastien publicly refuses to yield and turns their first meeting into a confrontation.

First appears in chapter 5

A renowned university professor and master of freecasting whom Siobhan recognizes on sight. He ends Damien's admissions-queue dispute, rebuking the younger man before taking him away.

First appears in chapter 8

An independent, unlicensed sorcerer who sells powerful clandestine services from a carefully warded workspace. She agrees to help Chauvin reach Ennis in prison, but demands substantial payment and a reciprocal blood-print vow of secrecy.

First appears in chapter 12

A professor on Sebastien's oral admissions panel who challenges his weak formal grounding with hostile history questions. His examination emphasizes how far Sebastien's practical talent has outpaced his conventional education.

First appears in chapter 10

Damien's unnamed older brother, a Crown-family investigator who leads the search for Siobhan. He directs the local coppers and strengthens the wards around Ennis's cell after the prison messenger narrows the search.

First appears in chapter 17

Head of the Westbay Crown family and father of Titus and Damien. He publicly belittles Damien's entrance ranking at an elite gathering until Thaddeus Lacer intervenes in the younger man's defense.

First appears in chapter 17

Damien's elder brother and an influential member of the Westbay family. In conversation with Oliver, he suggests that growing restrictions might eventually push powerful people toward political change, while offering no firm support.

First appears in chapter 17

A noble host pursued by Oliver as a potential business contact. The prospect of using Oliver's rare Erythrian horses secures agreement to discuss commercial matters another time.

First appears in chapter 18

A fourth-term student liaison assigned to orient Sebastien's incoming cohort. She explains the university's competition, discipline, housing pressures, and genuine risk of magical accidents while fielding gossip about his unusual admission.

First appears in chapter 18

A fourth-term student liaison helping Sebastien's cohort settle into university life. He provides practical guidance about housing, discipline, contribution points, and student support.

Also known as Jan Burberry

First appears in chapter 19

A Master Sorcerer who teaches Introduction to Modern Magics. Her first lesson stresses the need for a safe conduit and warns students about failed circles, will strain, bodily conduits, blood magic, and corruption.

First appears in chapter 20

A natural-science professor who treats careful knowledge of physical reality as a way to expand magic beyond inherited methods. The course gives Sebastien a disciplined framework for questioning accepted explanations.

Also known as Anastasia Gervin

First appears in chapter 22

Sebastien's dormmate and Alec Gervin's cousin, who recognizes him from the admissions process and asks to be called Anna. She offers an early social connection amid his otherwise isolated university routine.

First appears in chapter 22

Anna Gervin's cousin, whom she identifies while introducing herself to Sebastien.

First appears in chapter 22

A history professor who favors critical interpretation over memorized answers. She assigns students to compare explanations for humanity's early magic and the disappearance of older powerful species.

First appears in chapter 22

A former soldier who teaches defensive magic as a discipline of survival. His course begins with physical training and emphasizes preparation, escape, and staying functional under dangerous conditions.

First appears in chapter 22

The professor of sympathetic science, teaching magical associations through metaphor and culture. Sebastien presses for evidence about whether collective beliefs create those links, but receives no definite answer.

First appears in chapter 26

A Verdant Stag enforcer entrusted with field command. Oliver sends him to lead an emergency team rescuing a girl held by the Morrows, making him part of the organization's growing public-response work.

First appears in chapter 26

The captain of a small smuggling fleet and a prospective supplier for Oliver. He agrees to conceal magical plants, artifacts, and alchemical materials among legitimate imports in return for premium payment.

First appears in chapter 27

A member of the study group practicing Thaddeus Lacer's supplementary exercises. He works with Alec on a miniature magical dueling game while Sebastien and Damien test their control.

First appears in chapter 27

One of the students in Anna and Damien's early-morning practice group for Thaddeus Lacer's demanding supplementary exercises. Waverly joins the new circle in which Sebastien's rivalry becomes shared training.

First appears in chapter 27

A shy member of the early-morning study group formed around Thaddeus Lacer's supplementary casting exercises. Bryn practices alongside Sebastien, Damien, Anna, Alec, Rhett, and Waverly.

First appears in chapter 31

A Verdant Stag warehouse worker found dead beneath a collapsed support beam after the Morrows' assault. His death makes the human cost of the attack immediate as Chauvin and Oliver search the wreckage.

First appears in chapter 31

A Verdant Stag warehouse worker left with a critical neck wound after the Morrows' attack. Chauvin uses healing supplies and a flesh-mirroring spell to stop the bleeding, though his severe blood loss remains life-threatening.

First appears in chapter 34

Liza's half-troll supplier within the hidden Nightmarket trade. His heritage allows repeated journeys into elemental planes, giving him access to unusual materials and an otherwise difficult supply network.

First appears in chapter 36

The investigators' unofficial public codename for Siobhan, inspired by raven imagery and alarming reports about the magic used during her escape from the warehouse attack.