Crown characters

Also known as Silas Vale

Appears from the start

The Unbound Autark of Nagast, a powerful territorial ruler traveling with a trusted company.

Appears from the start

Felix's loyal bonded companion and combat partner. He begins the book injured and trapped in a prolonged evolution within Felix's spirit.

Also known as Vess

Appears from the start

A skilled dragoon heir, Felix's ally, and the voluntary partner of a diminished dragon.

Also known as Evie

Appears from the start

A trusted frontline fighter in Felix's company who combines ice magic with chain weapons.

Also known as Michael

Appears from the start

A young Earth-born Unbound allied with Felix. His construction and necromantic abilities are supported by an undead companion.

Appears from the start

Beef's surviving shape-changing undead companion, able to act independently of him.

Also known as Archibald Ross

Appears from the start

A guarded Earth-born Unbound fugitive with the ability to travel through stone. The Hierocracy hunts him.

Appears from the start

A veteran commander, forge master, and practical adviser to Felix who begins the journey injured.

Also known as Atar

Appears from the start

Felix's fire-mage ally, a specialist in sigildry, and Alistair's partner.

Appears from the start

Felix's ally, a force mage and inscriptionist, and Atar's partner.

Also known as Karys

Appears from the start

Nagast's learned chancellor and Felix's adviser.

Also known as Zara

Appears from the start

A magical and diplomatic ally of Felix linked to the Cantus.

Also known as Lady Isla

Appears from the start

A healer linked to the Cantus.

Also known as the Titan, the Pathless's Chosen

Appears from the start

A devastating Unbound weapon controlled by the Pathless and sent against Felix's allies. Her strength makes her one of the Hierocracy's most dangerous battlefield assets.

Appears from the start

A hostile deity that works through the Hierocracy and controls a devastating chosen warrior.

Also known as dragon companion

Appears from the start

A diminished dragon joined to Vessilia by a voluntary bond.

Appears from the start

Ancient stone guardians who accompany Felix's party as allies.

Appears from the start

A badly injured former guild elder who accepts partial restoration from a Pathless zealot. The remaining cure is promised only after the elder completes a divine quest to kill Felix.

First appears in chapter 6

An elven Chanter traveling with Felix's party who can manipulate wards and bypass protected passages.

First appears in chapter 13

A separate, talkative will bound within Atar V'as. It urges aggression and drains his mental strength when he restrains it.

First appears in chapter 15

A deity who grants Felix Nevarre access to an ancient shrine and speaks to him through a crushed corpse.

First appears in chapter 39

A dragoon leader among the disguised refugees who identifies herself as Vessilia's relative after fighting her.

First appears in chapter 39

A high-ranking dragoon officer among the refugees who treats Vessilia's voluntary dragon bond as a threat to dragoon authority.

First appears in chapter 40

Vessilia Dayne's father, the deposed ruler of Pax Rell, is alive in Hierocratic custody.

First appears in chapter 45

An allied ruler whose presence near the negotiations lends weight to Alistair's party.

First appears in chapter 50

A dwarven Chanter traveling with Felix's party who helps catalogue recovered objects and identifies a concealed artifact.

First appears in chapter 57

A small mouse-shaped manifestation of immense ancient power, summoned to negotiate over a dragon's evolution. It remembers the old dragon pacts and judges the legacy of dragons and dragoons by a different history.

First appears in chapter 30

A local prince who requests a representative from Nagast.

First appears in chapter 70

The provincial ruler's disillusioned commander. Seeking to preserve the province and its people, she proposes that Alistair help remove the ruler from power.

First appears in chapter 81

The Grandmaster Hieri occupying Pax Rell's citadel. A former warrior and close ally of the Hierophant, he is protected by an elite guard, a Grandmaster array, and a dense network of coercive oaths.

First appears in chapter 86

A deity tied to the shrine beneath Pax Rell's citadel who attempts to restore the damaged oaths before withdrawing.