House of Flame and Shadow characters

Appears from the start

Stranded in a world she had never heard of, carrying the Starsword and the Horn of Luna inked into her back, with everyone she loves either captured or hunted on Midgard. She is the Starborn heir and a Fae princess by an accident of birth she never wanted, and where she has landed none of that means anything to anyone.

Appears from the start

Taken alive by the Asteri and imprisoned beneath the Eternal City with a fresh set of restraints and no illusions about what is coming. He has been enslaved before and knows exactly how this goes; what he does not know is whether Bryce survived going through the portal.

Appears from the start

Crown Prince of the Valbaran Fae and Bryce's half-brother, captured with Hunt and held in the Asteri's cells. His mind-to-mind link with the rebel agent who calls herself Daybright is the one thing left to him that his captors cannot see or take.

Also known as the Hind

Appears from the start

The Hind, the Asteri's spymaster and interrogator, given charge of the prisoners taken in Crescent City. She has destroyed rebel cells across two continents, and every prisoner she has ever handled has broken.

Also known as the Hammer

Appears from the start

The Hammer, the imperial guard's most notorious soldier, who has waited a long time for Hunt Athalar to be handed to him with nobody left to intervene.

Also known as the Helhound

First appears in chapter 3

The angel called the Helhound, imprisoned alongside Hunt and Ruhn. He was Danika Fendyr's mate, and of the three of them he is the one with least left to lose.

First appears in chapter 3

A wolf shifter with no pack, left in an occupied Crescent City carrying the knowledge of what the Bone Quarter actually does to the dead. Grieving, guilty and short of anyone to answer to, he keeps returning to the Astronomer and the mystics kept in tanks beneath his shop, and he is not thinking especially clearly about any of it.

First appears in chapter 3

Formerly Captain of Intelligence for the River Queen, now indentured to the Viper Queen and fighting in her pits. Escaping one owner has cost him considerably more than he expected.

First appears in chapter 3

A warrior of the Night Court in the world of Prythian, carrying a power drawn from a Cauldron and a sword she did not ask for. She is among the first to confront Bryce after a stranger falls out of a portal into the middle of her home.

First appears in chapter 3

Spymaster of Prythian's Night Court, a shadowsinger who carries a dagger called Truth-Teller. Quiet and watchful, he is the first to grasp that the newcomer's sword and his own blade were made as a matched pair, and therefore that the two worlds share a history nobody has recorded.

First appears in chapter 5

High Lord of the Night Court in Prythian, who has to decide what to do about a stranger who arrived through a hole in the world carrying artifacts his own people have a history with, and how much of his court's business to tell her.

First appears in chapter 5

The Bright Hand of the Asteri, spokesman for the immortal parasites who have farmed Midgard for fifteen thousand years. Patient and unfailingly courteous, he treats the suppression of a rebellion as an accounting exercise.

First appears in chapter 20

The Witch-Queen of Valbara, whose training in necromancy has been a secret her entire life. With the Governor's court compromised and the city under imperial control, she is one of the few powers left in Lunathion still willing to act.

First appears in chapter 20

A wolf shifter kept among the Astronomer's mystics, the last true heir of the Fendyr line, held in a tank and used as a living instrument since she was a child. She has never known anything outside it.

First appears in chapter 33

A Fae noblewoman of Valbara and Tristan Flynn's sister, whose family intends to marry her to a match she refuses. Composed, immaculately raised, and a great deal harder to intimidate than she appears.

First appears in chapter 40

Prince of the Chasm and one of the seven Princes of Hel, who has watched Bryce since she was a small child. His interest in her ancestor Theia is very old and not entirely a matter of politics.

Also known as the Star-Eater

First appears in chapter 40

Prince of the Pit and the most powerful of the Princes of Hel, called the Star-Eater. He fought the Asteri once before and lost, and he regards Bryce's bloodline as his own concern.

First appears in chapter 60

A daughter of Theia, the Starborn queen who brought the Fae to Midgard, who left behind a record of what actually happened beneath the Fae island of Avallen for whoever eventually came looking for it.