Blood of the Lost characters

Appears from the start

A hunted death wizard who washes ashore after a wreck. A dream-walk from Ember gives him reason to believe that she and Max survived the crossing, while his recent captivity and the painful signs of his growing power continue to trouble him.

Appears from the start

Kael's wife and an Earth-born healer. Though captive with Max in the Wildlands, she reaches Kael through a dream-walk and shows him that they are alive. Her fading connection leaves him with a location but no certain route to her.

Appears from the start

Kael's loyal Earth-born friend and Ember's fellow captive in the Wildlands. His appearance in Ember's dream-walk overturns Kael's belief that both of them died during the crossing and gives Kael another reason to search for the missing group.

Also known as the White Witch

Appears from the start

An ancient and formidable practitioner of white magic who once trained Desiree's late mentor. She shelters the branded apprentice, promises further training, and redirects her from killing the sought death wizard toward helping him.

Appears from the start

A Broken Blade apprentice marked as a traitor after her mentor's death. Her guild has stripped away its enhancements, but her resistance to poison and pain, stealth training, and magical daggers remain useful when Ella recruits her.

First appears in chapter 2

An archwizard leading the royal search party into the Wildlands. He accepts responsibility when the treaty-breaking expedition is captured and enslaved, but his magic is cut off by a collar and his group is divided among hostile owners.

First appears in chapter 2

A fighter and ally in Gideon's royal search party. The Wildlands ambush leaves him captured and enslaved with the other members of the group.

First appears in chapter 2

Gideon's young adept daughter and a member of the royal search. Captivity separates her from her allies and exposes her to severe abuse, while Ember secretly uses Fae magic to heal and protect her.

First appears in chapter 2

A magical tracker allied with Gideon and Ember. Enslaved beside Ember, she recognizes Ember's Fae nature and helps conceal the use of healing magic from their captors. Her own name is not established when she enters the story.

First appears in chapter 2

King Bael's runaway daughter, captured after her flight brings the royal search party across the Wildlands border. She says she fled to protect her lady-in-waiting from execution and hoped to prove herself by delivering Kael to the king.

First appears in chapter 3

Kael's young healer and fellow escapee, separated from the others when their stolen ship is destroyed. She survives the wreck with him, treats his injuries, and becomes his intimate travelling companion as they move through the Wildlands.

First appears in chapter 3

A wizard who escaped captivity alongside Kael and helped sail their stolen ship into the Sea of Storms. The wreck separates him from Kael and Kia, leaving his survival and location unknown as the pair continue inland.

First appears in chapter 3

An older wizard who escapes captivity with Kael, Kia, and Galen. He shares responsibility for sailing their stolen ship into the Sea of Storms, then becomes separated from the group when the vessel is wrecked.

First appears in chapter 6

The older wizard from Kael's escape group is identified as Kalmar. Before the wreck, Kael sustained Kalmar's magic through the bond tied to his suppressing collar.

First appears in chapter 6

Ella's experienced apprentice and Desiree's sparring partner, who helps train Desiree through repeated combat practice.

First appears in chapter 9

A feared pirate captain whose flotilla threatens a Free Lands city while seeking unidentified people within its walls.

First appears in chapter 9

An official defender of the city who belongs to Inara's order. Wary of Kael and Kia when they arrive, he verifies that they are not the pirates' targets, permits them to enter, and honors the terms he gives them.

First appears in chapter 11

A ruling couple from a southern magical kingdom whose hidden agent tracks Gideon's party. The spy reports a suspected young Fae among the fugitives, prompting the rulers to approach while Ember remains critically injured.

First appears in chapter 12

Dominic's armed lieutenant and operational partner. She is assigned to monitor Kael and Kia during the effort to recover Dominic's abducted fourteen-year-old daughter, placing her directly inside the uneasy rescue arrangement.

First appears in chapter 17

The imprisoned slave-master's son and the true organizer behind his father's enterprise. While hidden funds and illicit sales are uncovered, Cairo is in Eloria seeking payment of an old imperial debt and advancing a plan coordinated with his father.

Also known as Cassandra

First appears in chapter 18

An orphaned child raised by her aunt and uncle in a Free Lands mining town. Exceptionally agile in the forest, she is left alone when blue-skinned raiders and black hounds kill her guardians and young cousins during their attempted escape.

First appears in chapter 18

A court wizard and runecaster with prior knowledge of Ella. When Ella kills his apprentice after an insult, Cormac escapes with the body through rune magic, carrying a direct grievance into the expanding search around the White Witch.

First appears in chapter 19

A lumberjack condemned after a wealthy merchant accused him of theft and violence. Forced into a death match with an arena champion, he uses a concealed shield blade to survive before Cairo spends political leverage to prevent his execution.

First appears in chapter 19

The ruler of Sethos and the authority behind a kingdom-wide reward for Kael's capture or death. The order intensifies the danger surrounding Kael while Gideon receives a separate warning about a potentially disastrous choice from his past.

First appears in chapter 20

A reclusive alchemist near the Twin Cities with a reputation for killing a Broken Blade assassin. His defenses have deterred earlier intruders, leading Dominic and his first mate to investigate him as a dangerous and potentially valuable outsider.

First appears in chapter 24

The mayor of a mountain town occupied by northern raiders. He speaks for its people when the invaders order surviving adults into black-glass mines and threaten death for resistance, escape, or any child unable to work.

First appears in chapter 31

A concealed figure awaiting Kael in the Dwarven Mountains. The Dead Sisters transport their collared captive toward him after Kia's betrayal, linking this leader to a plan that treats Kael's death-wizard nature as something to exploit.

First appears in chapter 32

The leader of the Dead Sisters holding Kael in their mountain camp. She intends to coerce him during the journey to an old dwarven city and then surrender him to the masked leader, while forbidding demonic magic that might expose the coven.

First appears in chapter 33

An elven healer who shelters the badly wounded Kael and Cassie. She hides their trail with nature magic, helps treat their injuries, and guides Cassie's unusually rapid development as a healer.

First appears in chapter 33

A contracted killer tracking Kael. He possesses an Elderblood gift that warps light around him, providing strong concealment after dark. His orders send him to ambush Kael at an old dwarven city if Gideon fails to kill the target first.

First appears in chapter 36

Kael's elven birth mother and a nature-magic healer. She learns that Gideon sent her infant son away and has since pursued him, then rejects Gideon's suspicion that Cassie belongs to the Dead Sisters.

First appears in chapter 38

An ancient force that confronts Kael inside the ruined dwarven city through possession and illusion. After manipulating him into killing its vessel, it traps him on a seal and claims that blood from his death-wizard line can open the barrier.

First appears in chapter 40

A Fae ruler who detects the activated demon seal and realm-jumps to its chamber. She recognizes Ember as her missing daughter and attempts to heal Kael after the assassin's attack, while holding Gideon responsible for the unfolding danger.

First appears in chapter 40

A dragonkin ruler who responds to the active seal with six defenders. As nullification-equipped forces close on the chamber, she takes Gideon, Kassik, Gideon's daughter, and Kia as prisoners and removes them by realm-jump.

First appears in chapter 41

A leader among the returning ancients who holds the new rift open with stolen magic. He releases another ancient through the broken seal and declares an intention to recover the remaining sealed people and reclaim their former world.