Dragon Heart - Book 13: Demon City characters

First appears in chapter 3

Sedent's reclusive sword master, still alive after the wider world came to believe him dead. He defeats a formidable visiting swordsman with a cherry twig, then accepts Gustaf into a school open to anyone willing to learn.

Appears from the start

A veteran wandering swordsman who challenges schools and collects their signs while seeking the threshold of true cultivation. His journey to Sedent brings him to the local master's unusually inclusive school.

Appears from the start

A Sedent blacksmith who respects the town's grey-haired sword master. He directs Gustaf to the master's school while warning that the proposed challenge is unlikely to end well.

First appears in chapter 2

A powerful swordsman who repeatedly challenges Sedent's unnamed master, using two swords and wagering wine and stories on their latest bout.

Also known as white feline

First appears in chapter 2

A small white feline with black stripes who remains beside Sedent's unnamed sword master.

Also known as half-demon hunter

First appears in chapter 6

A gravely wounded half-demon woman whom Hadjar met decades earlier. She reaches his school and asks him for help.

Also known as white tigress

First appears in chapter 7

The small feline beside Sedent's master is Hadjar's long-term tiger companion. She dislikes the wounded hunter but obeys Hadjar's order to guard her.

Also known as Hadjar's master

First appears in chapter 6

Hadjar's deceased master, whose inherited technique now limits Hadjar's remaining life. Hadjar must create a personal sword style capable of overcoming that restriction before his aging body fails.

First appears in chapter 5

A white-haired swordsman of exceptional power who organizes a seven-empire force for war with the Ruby Palace and calls Hadjar to take part.

First appears in chapter 9

A long-serving true cultivator responsible for Sedent's welfare. He tolerates the wounded hunter's presence but presses Hadjar to investigate the blight associated with the Nightmare Trench.

First appears in chapter 13

The demon ruler of a hidden city reached through the Nightmare Trench. He commands exceptionally strong armored guards from a fortified castle while human captives live under the city's control.

Also known as soul fragment in Hadjar

First appears in chapter 17

An ancient presence within Hadjar who calls him a disciple. Through a memory of his former service to Durger, he directs Hadjar toward the Demon City lord as a possible source of knowledge about the Pool of Many Reflections.

Also known as god of war

First appears in chapter 17

A god of war once served by the First Darkhan. In an ancient memory, he petrifies the Potter's beloved, whose tears sustain a pool through which the gods can observe mortals.

Also known as the lord's valet

First appears in chapter 23

A Heaven Emperor swordsman serving within the Demon City lord's castle. He detects the advanced sword skill hidden beneath Hadjar's alchemist disguise but allows the audience to proceed and proposes a future duel.

Also known as ancient human wizard

First appears in chapter 36

An ancient human wizard encountered in the First Darkhan's memory. At the grave of a woman he loved, Ash warns the First Darkhan to restrain his destructive power and acknowledges that his own war against the Seventh Heaven disturbed the boundaries of the four worlds.

First appears in chapter 49

An elderly hunter who detects danger approaching a borderland village camp. He arms himself and places a young villager behind him for protection.

First appears in chapter 54

An ancient and extremely powerful agent of the demon prince who visits Hadjar during his village recovery. He recognizes that Hadjar deliberately broke his own meridians and warns that destroying the demon outpost has made him a target.

Also known as White Fang

First appears in chapter 56

The man known as White Fang. He approaches Hadjar's new home intending to force him into a coming war, with death as the alternative if Hadjar refuses.

First appears in chapter 56

Hadjar's former demon-hunter companion, now his wife. They exchange wedding bracelets and establish a committed household in the village where she works as a healer.

First appears in chapter 70

A supernatural emissary who identifies the ice prison holding Hadjar's family as Icy Sorrow. He says he represents one of four powers that guide the world and is generally barred from interfering directly with mortals.

Also known as captive-maker

First appears in chapter 71

The woman who claims responsibility for imprisoning Hadjar's wife and unborn child. From the Seventh Heaven, where she has gone to serve the god of war, she demands that Hadjar reach her before she will release them.

Also known as Shi keeper

First appears in chapter 72

The spirit guardian of the fire flower in the Dark Woods. It refuses Hadjar's request, says he cannot repair the forest's accumulated wounds, and consumes the flower rather than let him take it.

Also known as sister of the Winter Court queen

First appears in chapter 75

A fey ruler hostile to Hadjar because of his alignment with her sister's Winter Court. She halts his attempt to finish the Dark Woods keeper and tells him how long the captives in Icy Sorrow have left.

Also known as pavilion sage

First appears in chapter 79

A dragon mage and old acquaintance of Hadjar. He arrives as Hadjar defeats a pavilion mentor, prevents the confrontation from becoming fatal, and grants Hadjar the audience he demanded.

Also known as Dragonlands emperor

First appears in chapter 80

The ruler of the Dragonlands and controller of the Ruby Palace treasury. Hadjar agrees to assist the pavilion sage in overthrowing him so that the treasury can be reached.

Also known as imperial princess

First appears in chapter 81

The imperial princess scheduled to join a delegation to the Ruby Mountains. Hadjar must win the Hero Challenge and return her safely to earn the Emperor's oath granting him one wish.

First appears in chapter 85

A formidable warrior discussed among the likely Hero Challenge contenders. Despite her recognized ability, Dragonlands tradition is expected to bar her from entering because she is a woman.

Also known as excluded female warrior

First appears in chapter 89

The ice-wielding finalist whose armor concealed the woman barred from the Hero Challenge by tradition. Hadjar's attack exposes her identity during their final duel, and officials remove her from the contest for entering in disguise.