Garden of Sanctuary characters

Also known as Erin

Appears from the start

The Earth-born owner of the Wandering Inn. She is returning after time away while the inn reopens, burdened by her treatment of Toren and uncertain how to control a new fire shaped by memory.

Appears from the start

A young Gnoll who belongs to Erin's household and is watched over by the adults of the inn.

Appears from the start

Erin's former undead worker, whom she now believes was a person. She accepts that she failed him without overlooking the people he killed or his attack on her.

Appears from the start

A Liscor Watch officer who helps restore the rebuilt inn's magical door and has an informal protective bond with Mrsha.

Appears from the start

Liscor's strategist and a Watch officer who helps reinstall the Wandering Inn's magical door as the building reopens.

Appears from the start

Liscor's Watch Captain. She organizes warnings and surveillance when a vast frost-wyvern flight passes the city.

Appears from the start

A runner from Selim who reaches Liscor with a delivery for Erin and finds the damaged Wandering Inn reopening.

Appears from the start

Zel Shivertail's niece and a prospective buyer in Liscor's expanding district. She challenges hostility toward the human workers arriving for the construction effort.

Also known as Tyrant of Flames

Appears from the start

An ancient dragon who claims the High Passes as his territory. He drives out a large frost-wyvern clutch with magic and stored weapons.

Appears from the start

Pallas's foremost alchemist and an indispensable named adventurer who is frequently detained. He investigates Erin's sorrow and happiness flames and helps her regain some emotional balance.

Appears from the start

A disgraced master craftsman in Pallas. Under the influence of Erin's grief-fire, he forges a cold-enhanced bardiche and acknowledges an unexplained failure shared by other dwarven smiths.

Appears from the start

A powerful Drake mage whose severe training joins physical conditioning with magical study. He adopts Erin's exercise ideas and prepares a Gnoll apprentice to demonstrate spellcasting.

Also known as King of Destruction

Appears from the start

The ruler of Rhyme, rebuilding both his kingdom and army. While watching the crisis in Pallas, he uses the broadcast to demand the return of Ameris.

Appears from the start

Flos's steward and left hand, responsible for carrying out the king's political and military direction.

Appears from the start

A half-Gazer and one of Flos's Seven. She identifies the creatures attacking Pallas as exceptionally dangerous frost wyverns.

First appears in chapter 7

A Free Antinium archer and resident of the inn. After helping against the wyverns, he falsely presents himself as a Prognogator and creates the danger of a new Antinium war.

First appears in chapter 7

A senior Antinium and Liscor Watch officer. He regards Bird's unauthorized claim as a grave threat to Antinium survival and responds with severe discipline.

First appears in chapter 16

A Redfang hobgoblin who lives at the Wandering Inn. He befriends Bird after recognizing their shared exclusion from ordinary cities.

First appears in chapter 16

A senior member of the inn household who helps Erin care for Mrsha and establish boundaries for Bird.

First appears in chapter 16

A Walllord of Salazar who sees Bird's feat as evidence that the Walled Cities have dangerously underestimated ordinary Antinium workers.

First appears in chapter 16

The leader of the Free Hive. She defends Bird as an autonomous experimental Antinium rather than a Prognogator when the other Queens demand answers.

First appears in chapter 16

A leader within an illusionist faction allied with Erin. He negotiates controlled access to her magical-door network and limited material from Earth.

First appears in chapter 16

A scarred Gnoll criminal who approaches Mrsha while Relc and Klbkch are already watching her. The Watch suspects her of serious violence but lacks evidence for an arrest.

First appears in chapter 16

A farmer and former pirate who initially mistakes Numbtongue for an attacker. After learning who he is, the farmer shelters him and takes him toward the family farm.

First appears in chapter 16

The official handling Selim's dispute over Erin's magical-door endpoint. Safety concerns and local commercial complaints lead him to seek tighter control over the connection.

First appears in chapter 16

A small cave goblin and former resident of Erin's inn, now separated from it among the displaced goblins at River Farm. She attempts to reconnect with Erin through a crude magical door.

First appears in chapter 16

A Mountain City hobgoblin shaman who uses inherited memory, body-paint magic, and strict work and food rules to organize the displaced goblins.

First appears in chapter 16

The blind Emperor of River Farm, which is growing into a town. He grants the goblins their own territory but cannot sense what occurs inside it.

Also known as Emperor of Sands

First appears in chapter 16

The ruler of the Empire of Sands, using detachable heads as distinct governing personas. The balanced Empress persona favors indirect expansion and opposition to Flos over an immediate war.

First appears in chapter 16

Flos's armored vanguard and an illusionist, accompanying his army during its imposing arrival at a neighboring kingdom.

First appears in chapter 17

An Earth-born Sand Mage traveling to a Shield Kingdom conference with Ghazi and the Quaross. He has developing utility magic and remains under their protection.

First appears in chapter 17

The child-bodied ruler of a Shield Kingdom. Each incarnation inherits memories of earlier Quarosses, including the old agreements binding the Shield Kingdoms.

First appears in chapter 17

The ruler of the Carven City and its representative at the gathering of Shield Kingdoms. He receives the visiting delegation and leads it into the city.

First appears in chapter 19

A trusted follower of Flos who is being prepared as a bodyguard. Orthenon trains her to fight without depending on a powerful weapon.

First appears in chapter 11

The senior Antinium ruler who holds the Free Queen responsible for Bird’s dangerous claim. She threatens consequences while accepting that the Hives must address negotiations involving Liscor.