Brambles and Thorns characters

Appears from the start

A violet-eyed Al'rashian adventurer with unusual trial knowledge, soulbound equipment, a damaged spirit, and an uncertain past.

Also known as Carrie

Appears from the start

A former academy fighter seeking freedom from Jace's coercive charter.

Appears from the start

A half-elf mage apprentice.

Also known as dog companion

Appears from the start

Trent's young prospective bond. The creature is intelligent, fiercely protective, and capable of brief speech.

Also known as assassin-mage

Appears from the start

A silver-haired rogue travelling under a concealed identity. She uses shadow magic and practical field skills.

Also known as Lewis

Appears from the start

The duke of Al'drossford.

Also known as Cullen

Appears from the start

An Al'drossford guard sergeant who trained Trent.

Appears from the start

The Iron Wolves captain who established a vulnerable community around a dungeon. A far larger Red Tiger force arrives and encircles it.

Also known as the Red Tiger

Appears from the start

Leader of the Red Tiger Company, recognizable by his winged golden lion. He commands the large force that closes around Owen's settlement.

Appears from the start

The Iron Wolves' enchanter, a member of Owen's company during the Red Tiger Company's encirclement.

First appears in chapter 3

An Iron Wolves team leader who survives the assault on the company's settlement. She escapes with other survivors and directs her anger toward the Red Tiger Company.

First appears in chapter 3

An Iron Wolves team leader who escapes alongside Sasha after the destruction of their settlement. He is part of the surviving company scattered by the disaster.

First appears in chapter 5

A goddess associated with a book whose mention provokes Felicia's immediate hostility toward Trent.

First appears in chapter 8

Keeper of the traveller trial created within Trent's Storage and formerly part of a knowledge compendium. She offers training, skill instruction, and class guidance in exchange for beast cores.

First appears in chapter 10

An elder spirit housed in Trent's gloves. It protects Trent, treats him as a brother, and demands to remain with him during future trial challenges.

First appears in chapter 11

The Dusk Tower master's exceptionally powerful ancient bonded wolf. Duty-bound to assist a newly appearing violet-eyed Al'rashian, it leaves Al'drossford to seek Trent near Belrise.

First appears in chapter 11

An ally of Lewis Al'dross in preparing Al'drossford against royal pressure. His bonded ancient wolf leaves the city to seek Trent near Belrise.

First appears in chapter 12

The Dusk Tower master's long-lost wife, once believed dead. She has been living near Trent and observing him by the Reckoning Stone.

First appears in chapter 20

A former Embra dragoon captain with the Spirit Summoner and Dominating Tyrant classes. He travels toward Wallander with a king's message for Clan Embra and chooses to help a wounded sunstrider despite an approaching Grimtosh pack.

First appears in chapter 20

Orion's loyal travelling companion, an experienced knife fighter whose wind magic is poorly suited to the Grimtosh threatening their route. She refuses to abandon him when he tries to send her ahead with his message.

First appears in chapter 20

A wounded sunstrider released by a collapsed trial into unfamiliar terrain. Orion approaches it as a creature worth saving rather than an animal to be subdued.

First appears in chapter 19

The goddess who witnesses Trent's truth-binding ceremony concerning Felicia's inherited history. She declines to answer the central question about Felicia's family, but grants Felicia strength, leaves Trent seeds, and claims a future favor.

First appears in chapter 24

Carrie's former charter leader, who demands payment when Carrie tries to leave his control and proposes a nonlethal guild duel to settle the dispute.

First appears in chapter 26

A durable Stormbringer guard recruit who has been blamed for other recruits' failures. She enters the Storm Guard and tries to turn her lightning magic, axe work, and restless ambition into disciplined progress.

Also known as assassin-mage

First appears in chapter 32

The name used by the silver-haired assassin-mage travelling with Trent's party. Raven is a level-ten assassin who uses shadow magic and is pressing for greater influence over the group.

Also known as the glove spirit

First appears in chapter 34

The elder hunt spirit attached to Trent. It can possess empty trial servants, intervenes in Rhea's training design, and has previously served as a guardian.

Also known as Kirstin

First appears in chapter 27

A young noble of House Al'dross selected as the Storm Guard's prospective deputy. The unit plans to support an effort against the dungeon's final guardian while preparing to advance beyond the upper floors.

First appears in chapter 44

A hostile figure in jester-like clothing who enters Rhea's sanctuary through an open window and insists that she has started a contest.

Also known as jester-clad intruder

First appears in chapter 45

The keeper of Mortimer's Miraculous Maze. After entering Rhea's sanctuary, he claims a conqueror's rights and is forced to acknowledge that his intrusion began their contest.

First appears in chapter 49

A roaming guardian in Belrise's altered dungeon. It can break mage shields, inflict a disabling fear-like effect, and is deterred by sustained fire.

First appears in chapter 49

A hidden Belrise healer known to academy students by a nickname and reputed to provide treatment beyond the ability of the temple clerics. The healer's precise identity is still unknown.

Also known as dirty-boy healer

First appears in chapter 50

A wood nymph living secretly in Belrise who uses earth and plant magic to heal a wounded student. She has known Carrie since childhood and begins following his party west through connected roots.