I Shall Wear Midnight characters

Appears from the start

The witch of the Chalk, now sixteen and working alone. Her days are spent on the unglamorous heart of witchcraft: nursing the dying, cutting the toenails of old men nobody else will touch, delivering babies, laying out the dead, and settling the quarrels of people who are grateful and frightened in roughly equal measure. She is competent, tired, and increasingly aware that she is the only witch for miles, that nobody thanks a witch for the difficult things, and that the mood of the countryside toward her has begun, very quietly, to change.

Appears from the start

The Big Man of the Nac Mac Feegle, the small blue fighting men of the Chalk, who regard Tiffany as their hag and turn up whenever she least needs them. Loud, loyal, and permanently ready for a fight, he is under strict instructions from his wife the kelda about how much interfering is allowed.

Appears from the start

Rob Anybody's brother, enthusiastic, well-meaning, and reliably the last Feegle to understand what is going on.

First appears in chapter 2

The kelda of the Chalk's Feegle mound and the clan's real authority, small, watchful, and capable of seeing a good way into the future and into other people's heads. She takes in those who need taking in, and she knows before Tiffany does that something old and bad has begun to move.

First appears in chapter 2

A thirteen-year-old girl from the village, quiet and easily overlooked, who has been badly hurt at home and needs more help than the village is willing to give her. She is more resilient, and pays far more attention to people, than anyone around her has ever noticed.

First appears in chapter 2

Amber's father, a drunk and a bully, whose treatment of his daughter turns the whole village against him. He is the sort of man everyone has always known about and nobody has ever stopped.

First appears in chapter 3

The old lord of the Chalk, Roland's father, bedridden and dying in the castle with Tiffany taking away his pain hour by hour. Sharp-minded still, and clear-eyed about what he owes the girl who has been nursing him and about what will happen to her once he is gone.

First appears in chapter 3

The Baron's son, once Tiffany's awkward friend, now grown up, engaged to be married, and back from the city with a great many new relations and opinions. The distance between the castle and the witch has widened, and he is no longer sure how to speak to her.

First appears in chapter 4

Roland's fiancee: pale, nervous, tearful, and easy for everyone including Tiffany to dismiss as a decorative nuisance who cries at things. She is considerably unhappier than she lets on.

First appears in chapter 4

Letitia's mother, a rigid, snobbish woman who treats servants as furniture and witches as vermin, and who arrives on the Chalk determined to run the castle and the wedding. She is used to being obeyed and expects considerably better than she gets.

First appears in chapter 4

A young guard at the castle who reads constantly, argues about the exact meanings of words, and has far more education than his job requires or his fellow soldiers appreciate. He is quietly braver than he looks, and one of the very few people on the Chalk who treat Tiffany as a person rather than as a witch.

First appears in chapter 6

A city witch who runs a joke and novelty shop in Ankh-Morpork, supplying the false noses, rubber skulls, and cackling props that other witches use to look properly frightening. Sardonic and thoroughly urban, she knows what happens to witches when a town's mood turns, and she has seen it before.

First appears in chapter 7

An old, quiet woman who was once the only girl ever to be trained as a wizard, and who now lives at an angle to ordinary time. She is hard to notice and harder to remember, and she knows things about the history of witchcraft that the witches themselves have forgotten.

First appears in chapter 6

A presence rather than a man: eyeless, smelling of old ashes, and centuries dead. He is what is left of a witch-hunter, and he works by getting into people's heads and turning ordinary suspicion into hatred, so that neighbours who liked a witch yesterday are ready to burn her today. He has woken, and he has fixed on Tiffany.

Also known as Esme Weatherwax

First appears in chapter 8

The senior witch of the mountains, austere and unbending, who has watched Tiffany's career from a distance and rarely says anything encouraging. She is the person other witches send for when something is genuinely wrong.

Also known as Gytha Ogg

First appears in chapter 8

A senior Lancre witch, warm, disreputable, and endlessly experienced, who can get a whole village talking to her within the hour. She handles the parts of a crisis that require gossip, drink, and a sympathetic ear.