The Legacy characters

Appears from the start

The Blood Kingdoms' only archwizard, troubled by visions of destruction on the scale of the Cataclysm. He resists the law demanding a newborn's death and tries to protect children whose magic puts them in danger.

Appears from the start

Gideon's fourteen-year-old apprentice, found abandoned as a child and raised privately as his daughter.

Appears from the start

Gideon's longtime closest friend, an elven scholar who teaches at the University of Magic. His wife and son Ciaran operate the family's merchant-protection ships.

Appears from the start

The son of Gideon's closest elven friend. He helps his mother operate the family's ships, which protect merchants at sea.

Appears from the start

A frightened child whose disturbing glimpses of possible harm mark him as a potential seer. Gideon places him with an oracle priest instead of continuing his training as a wizard.

Appears from the start

A young pupil who manipulates an elemental with exceptional power despite having no earth bond. The elven school is expected to guide the child's rapidly growing ability.

First appears in chapter 2

A formidable royal warrior and friend of Gideon. He is deeply wary of magic despite his loyalty to the archwizard.

First appears in chapter 3

The ruler who hears Gideon's warning about the approaching Black Sun. He authorizes sending the threatened child to a world without magic rather than enforcing immediate execution.

First appears in chapter 3

Gideon's pregnant elven wife and a sorceress. Their first biological child is due near the approaching Black Sun.

First appears in chapter 4

Gideon's son, born during the Black Sun and condemned by the kind of magic he may inherit. Gideon carries him through a dimensional bridge and leaves him with a family in a nonmagical world.

First appears in chapter 4

A masked, yellow-eyed assassin carrying a broken wooden blade. She tries to reach the Black Sun infant during the exile ritual and resembles a mysterious figure from Gideon's ancient vision.

First appears in chapter 4

An unidentified Fae woman who uses a stable portal to reach a nonmagical world and leaves an infant there. She believes the child may be the last Fae born on Talona.

First appears in chapter 4

An unidentified watcher on the nonmagical world who learns where both displaced infants have been placed. The watcher receives an unresolved assignment to protect or kill them.

First appears in chapter 5

Kale's wife and lifelong companion in Sam's Bay. A gifted medical student preparing for an advanced research career, she is pulled into the black vortex with Kale and Max.

First appears in chapter 5

The county sheriff and a close friend of Kale and Ember. He saved them during an earlier gang attack, later trained Kale to fight, and is caught with the couple when the vortex opens.

First appears in chapter 9

The woman who treats Kale after monsters attack him in the Forsaken Lands. She understands that exceptionally powerful magic brought him to Talona and becomes his first guide through the unfamiliar world.

First appears in chapter 11

A field leader among the Dead Sisters. She commands one of the witch teams sent to search for Kale and to strike at Gideon.

First appears in chapter 11

An enslaved healer forced to support the Dead Sisters' search teams.

Also known as Kale

First appears in chapter 13

The adult Kale under the name used for him in Talona. His first offensive spell erupts as black-and-purple lightning, convincing his vampire guide that he may possess the feared power of a death wizard.

First appears in chapter 17

A coastal master wizard abducted with his apprentices by unfamiliar invaders. Their devices defeat established magic and lock their captives' powers behind suppressing collars.

First appears in chapter 16

A powerful dragonkin ruler who believes Kael must survive because of sacrifices already made by several magical peoples. Unable to intervene directly, she appeals to the death god when Kael is mortally wounded.

First appears in chapter 16

The divine origin of Kael's inherited power. When the dragonkin queen appeals for help, he guides Kael through healing an otherwise fatal wound but warns that the intervention carries an unpredictable magical price.

First appears in chapter 25

A captive wizard held in the vast prison beneath the mountains. He is among the many prisoners whose magic the masked invaders plan to exploit.

First appears in chapter 25

A captive wizard in the prison beneath the mountains and the grandfather of Kael's vampire companion. Their meeting brings a reconciliation after a long separation.

First appears in chapter 30

The leader of the Dead Sisters and the authority behind Kael's attempted conversion. She orders increasingly severe physical and dream-based torture, demanding that Arabella either break him or turn him into the coven's death wizard.

Also known as The Dragonkin Queen

First appears in chapter 31

The dragonkin ruler whom Gideon's party seeks for help locating Kael. Entry to her islands and an audience with her require Wraithlord binding stones.

First appears in chapter 33

The queen's only daughter and successor among the dragonkin. Memories inherited through her family line were intentionally hidden.

First appears in chapter 40

The king's only heir, an accomplished whip fighter determined to prove that she can defend her realm and eventually rule it. After being confined for challenging her father, she escapes to pursue the death wizard herself.

First appears in chapter 40

The princess's trusted companion and combat instructor. She is imprisoned because of the princess's defiance, then freed by her pupil and joins the unauthorized pursuit.

Also known as Nikia

First appears in chapter 41

The healer previously known as Nikia, now asking Kael to call her Kia. Freed from the Dead Sisters' control, she remains loyal to Kael and explains how threats against families and trainees were used to enforce her obedience.

First appears in chapter 44

An ancient and exceptionally dangerous woman awakening beneath Tazamore Mountain. Feared by the deep-dwellers, she feeds on them to recover enough strength to fight toward the surface.

First appears in chapter 23

A masked nonhuman captor who defeats Kael, imprisons his vampire companion, and locks Kael's magic behind a painful suppressing collar. He intends to drain the captive wizards' power for his allies.

Also known as The Young Prophetic Child

First appears in chapter 39

Gideon's monastery-raised ward, revealed as the frightened child once placed with an oracle priest. Cortina transforms him into the first true prophet in centuries and charges him with showing Gideon his mistake.

First appears in chapter 42

The necromancer ruler of Dorma Sai. After securing peace with Eloria, he and his queen secretly prepare an expedition to seize Ember and locate Kael because they believe both are tied to prophecy.

First appears in chapter 42

Dorma Sai's warrior queen, a necromancer who can command the dead. Intelligence from her sister in Corinth helps her and the king plan a covert expedition to seize Ember and find Kael.