Azarinth Healer, Book Six characters

Appears from the start

An investigator and ally of Ilea who died before the events of this volume. Her unresolved death remains a personal debt carried into the book, with the identity and circumstances of her killer still unknown at the outset.

Also known as Ilea, Lilith

Appears from the start

An exceptionally powerful three-class mage, battle healer, and founder of the Medic Sentinels. Publicly known as Lilith, she has placed Endless Meadow near Hallowfort and continues pursuing dangerous creatures, Taleen technology, and leads to her missing companion.

Appears from the start

A telepathic four-mark tree newly settled in a cavern near Hallowfort. Its healing, earth, wood, and space magic make it a formidable protector, and it is willing to help Ilea investigate ancient evidence and the difficult problem of Taleen gates.

Appears from the start

Hallowfort’s guard commander and a member of its council. He challenges Ilea soon after Endless Meadow settles nearby, then acknowledges her superior strength after she defeats and disarms him.

First appears in chapter 2

Ravenhall's administrator and one of Ilea's trusted confidantes. She supports carefully managed cooperation with Endless Meadow while anticipating resistance within the city to closer ties with elves and Hallowfort.

First appears in chapter 2

Headmaster of the Medic Sentinels and an experienced ally of Ilea. He oversees advanced training with Aki and prepares the corps' first level-200 team for a hunter examination and eventual outside assignments.

Also known as the enchanted dagger Aki

First appears in chapter 2

A sentient enchanted dagger controlling a level-300 Taleen Centurion body and serving as a combat instructor for the Medic Sentinels.

First appears in chapter 2

A first-generation Medic Sentinel with an ashen ranger class and self-healing, preparing with two teammates for the corps' first hunter examination.

First appears in chapter 2

A human intermediary who maintains contact with a group of exiled hunters. He agrees to notify Ilea before his next scheduled meeting with them.

First appears in chapter 5

A masked member of Ravenhall's council selected for the delegation to Hallowfort. He is cautious about Endless Meadow and elven politics, while showing an unexplained familiarity with elves.

First appears in chapter 5

A Ravenhall council member and librarian selected for the authorized visit to Hallowfort. He hopes to evaluate Endless Meadow and pursue an exchange of library knowledge.

First appears in chapter 5

A Ravenhall enchanter selected for the delegation to Hallowfort. She researches Taleen teleportation technology alongside Christopher as Ravenhall considers cooperation with Endless Meadow.

First appears in chapter 5

A Ravenhall enchanter and Iana's research partner, selected for the Hallowfort delegation as Ravenhall considers studying Taleen teleportation technology with Endless Meadow.

First appears in chapter 5

Leader of exiled elven hunters who oppose Taleen attacks. Ravenhall will not formally support his group, leaving Ilea's contact with him an individual commitment shaped by the dangers of both the machines and elven politics.

First appears in chapter 7

The ancient four-mark source of the rot beneath a Kroll Mountains settlement. Awakening her creates an immediate danger to the community above the dungeon.

First appears in chapter 10

A young inn worker who asks Lilith for the chance to leave her mountain town and train as a battle healer with Ravenhall's Medic Sentinel Corps.

First appears in chapter 11

Leader of the Golden Lily and a politically powerful visitor to Ravenhall. She offers Ilea membership in the organization and seeks an explanation for Ilea's sharp increase in strength after Erendar, which Ilea does not fully provide.

First appears in chapter 12

A light mage with sensitivity to mind magic who joins one of the Shadow teams assigned to contain the danger from newly uncovered ruins beneath Ravenhall.

First appears in chapter 12

A member of the second Shadow team assigned to the operation in newly uncovered ruins beneath Ravenhall.

First appears in chapter 16

An exiled elf, ice mage, trader, and guide who maintains contacts in the human world. He explains the hunters' long conflict with Taleen machines and agrees to lead Ilea toward their forces near the Navali Forest.

First appears in chapter 18

A dragonling hunter among Isalthar's exiled elves. When Ilea reunites with the group at a deactivated Taleen gate, he seeks another spar with her.

First appears in chapter 27

Two younger members of Isalthar's hunters who falsely report a machine attack and lead the group through a gate into the Sky Domain ruler's ambush.

First appears in chapter 27

The four-mark ruler of the Sky Domain, encountered after two hunters lead Isalthar's group into an ambush. His light and space magic can overpower Isalthar, and his forces drive the surviving hunters back into the Taleen facility.

First appears in chapter 39

A high-level Medic Sentinel with a berserker class and powerful self-regeneration. His failure to report after accepting a shredder-clearing contract prompts Trian to send Ilea in search of him.

First appears in chapter 44

An Imperial rogue and scout assigned to guide Lilith and an elven hunter to a fort after several adventuring teams vanish. Cautious and mindful of his duty, he remains with them as an official witness despite the uncertain danger.

First appears in chapter 49

An Imperial ally who meets Ilea before the capital's celebration. She discusses resistance to the Medic Sentinels and is working to stabilize House Redleaf after damage caused by its former leadership.

First appears in chapter 50

A man who approaches Ilea at the capital's celebration through an apparent copy. The copy invokes an outstanding arrangement from his prior dealings with her.

First appears in chapter 52

A missing traveler whose emergency activation appears in the recovered Taleen gate records. Her entry in the network creates a separate northern lead, but the available destination data does not establish her present condition.

First appears in chapter 53

Ilea's long-missing companion and a survivor of the Shadow's Hand. Found alive at a keep in the far north, he left warnings and directions along the Taleen route in the hope that another traveler might eventually reach him.

First appears in chapter 62

A wood-magic healer among Isalthar's hunters and the sole volunteer from that group to join Ilea's renewed expedition to the northern isles.