The Snow Queen: Story Time, Episode 160 characters

First appears in chapter 2

A warm-hearted girl whose closest companion is Kay, the boy living in the neighboring attic. They share a little garden of roses and listen together to their grandmother's stories. When Kay disappears, Gerda refuses to accept that he is gone forever and sets out to find him.

First appears in chapter 2

Gerda's beloved playmate and neighbor. A splinter from an enchanted mirror enters his eye and another reaches his heart, making beauty seem ugly to him and turning his affection into cold mockery. His altered judgment leaves him susceptible to the Snow Queen.

First appears in chapter 2

A dazzling, remote figure who rules a realm of snow and ice. She appears to Kay first at the window and later in the street, where she draws his sled after hers and carries him away after numbing him against the cold and his memories of home.

Also known as The Old Woman Who Knew Magic

First appears in chapter 3

An elderly woman who shelters Gerda in a garden where flowers bloom in every season. Wanting to keep the child with her, she uses magic to make Gerda forget Kay and hides the roses that might awaken her memory.

First appears in chapter 4

A talkative crow who hears Gerda's story and believes that a clever boy newly married to a princess may be Kay. He helps Gerda enter the palace to investigate, accepting personal risk in the hope of reuniting the children.

First appears in chapter 5

The fierce daughter of a robber chief who claims Gerda as a playmate after her family's attack on a royal carriage. Possessive and unpredictable at first, she becomes interested in Gerda's search and has the freedom to decide whether the journey will continue.

First appears in chapter 5

A captive animal from the far north kept by the robbers. He recognizes the Snow Queen's destination and can carry Gerda toward Lapland, giving her the first dependable route to Kay.

First appears in chapter 6

A wise woman of the far north who understands the Snow Queen's power. When the reindeer asks her to give Gerda magical strength, she recognizes that the child's innocence, devotion, and perseverance already provide the strength the rescue requires.