Winterfair Gifts characters

Appears from the start

An Imperial Auditor and head of the Vorkosigan household. He is engaged to Ekaterin as their wedding approaches.

Appears from the start

Miles's fiancee, Nikki's mother, and a niece of Vorthys. Her damaging first marriage has left her uncertain about marrying again.

Appears from the start

Miles's aunt and an influential authority on high-Vor society.

Also known as Illyan

Appears from the start

The retired head of ImpSec and Miles's former superior.

Also known as Ivan

Appears from the start

Miles's cousin and a member of the extended Vorkosigan family circle.

Appears from the start

A returning off-world wedding guest who arrives with her family.

Appears from the start

A count's heir arrested while fleeing Barrayar and a subject of Miles's Imperial Auditor inquiry.

Appears from the start

A newly appointed Vorkosigan armsman, recruited from the Hassadar Municipal Guard after stopping an armed attacker. Junior to Pym, he regards his oath to Miles as a personal bond and is assigned to accompany Taura.

Also known as Taura

Appears from the start

A bioengineered mercenary sergeant and former bodyguard to Miles, attending his wedding as an off-world guest. Created as a super-soldier on Jackson's Hole, she has enhanced vision and is painfully aware of Barrayaran prejudice toward genetic modification.

Appears from the start

A Betan jump pilot who arrives among the off-world wedding guests and is a fellow guest of Taura.

Also known as Elli

Appears from the start

An off-world associate of Miles who sends the couple a wedding package containing a triple-strand pearl necklace.

Also known as Allegre

First appears in chapter 2

The chief of ImpSec, who directs the investigation into the pearl necklace and personally reports what the service has established.

First appears in chapter 2

A criminal operative from Jackson's Hole who supplied the toxin used in the attempt to kill Ekaterin and disrupt Miles's investigation.