Reaping Fate characters

Appears from the start

A karma cultivator fleeing Gleam beside Bella. Chance is bound to the sentient Old City, carries Urumi, and is trying to remain beyond the Shikari's reach.

Appears from the start

Chance's travelling partner and a preservation cultivator. Bella can defend and heal, and she is escaping the Shikari alongside him.

Appears from the start

A sentient city-being bound to Chance and concealed within Urumi. It can gather stone into a crude body and fears that Yamish intends to consume its essence.

Appears from the start

Bella's former master and the chief threat pursuing her and Chance from Gleam.

Also known as Chance's master

Appears from the start

A powerful mentor who turns Chance and Bella's flight into a four-month trial. He warns them that avoiding capture will include surviving Vex's pursuit.

First appears in chapter 5

One of the Red Hands bandits mistakenly freed by Chance and Bella. Brent declares that his group owes the pair a debt for their intervention.

First appears in chapter 6

A Red Hands member who tells Chance and Bella about recruitment for a sect based in a floating city.

First appears in chapter 7

An apparently friendly and seasoned applicant at the Dancing Cloud trial. James recognizes Chance's fighting style and cautions him about the danger of sect trials.

First appears in chapter 9

James's humanoid combat construct, revealed when he joins her sanctioned challenge against Chance.

First appears in chapter 11

A hunted young swordsman travelling with his teacher, Rhys. Yeo resists borrowed shortcuts to power and continues his own training while Shikari pursue them.

First appears in chapter 11

Scarred and unable to see, Rhys teaches Yeo under a contract between them. He is hostile toward their Shikari pursuers and intends to intensify Yeo's training.

First appears in chapter 12

A physically formidable cultivator questioned by Shay about Chance and Bella. Lynn withstands the Shikari's pressure and falsely denies knowing the fugitives.

First appears in chapter 12

A baron-ranked Shikari investigator seeking Chance and Bella. Shay questions Lynn about the fugitives and treats their alleged killing of a knight-ranked cultivator as grounds for pursuit.

Also known as Shay

First appears in chapter 23

The Shikari officer called Shay in the earlier investigation. By this point, Shea has traced Chance to the Dancing Cloud city and joined Jade in confronting the fugitives.

First appears in chapter 17

An independent knight-ranked Shikari who accepts the hunt for Chance's group over her captain's objections. She wields a broadsword and cultivates a purifying form of sun essence.

First appears in chapter 19

An intelligent monster whose cultivation requires it to consume flesh. Unable to find another path, it accepts Chance's offer of an honorable fight.

First appears in chapter 23

A powerful condemned cultivator whom Chance knows from an earlier encounter. Lin enters Chance and Bella's room claiming an old debt, then reveals that a higher-ranked Shikari has placed him beyond pardon.

First appears in chapter 25

A crossbow-wielding member of the Singing Fox sect and Nate's sister. Nadia joins her brother and another cultivator in an ambush against Chance and Bella.

First appears in chapter 28

A black, long-limbed creature without a face that haunts a ruined floating island and drives Chance and Bella toward its cracked tower.

First appears in chapter 37

An earth cultivator ordered by her own sister to fight Chance while Bella draws power from a crystal. Quinn creates stone weapons and defenses under the other woman's command.

First appears in chapter 37

Quinn's sister, a cultivator who commands Quinn during the struggle over a powerful crystal and attacks with a vine weapon.

First appears in chapter 45

A groundskeeper within the Bracken Sect and a friend Quinn trusts to confirm how the sect treats its servants.

First appears in chapter 58

Chance's former combat teacher and a fellow karma cultivator. Lucy meets Chance and Bella at Fallen, then guides them to the cultivator she serves.

First appears in chapter 58

A youthful-looking cultivator able to follow threads of fate. He has observed Chance and Bella and warns that Vex will soon find and kill them unless events change.