Ren
A con artist splitting herself among Renata, Arenza, and the private self loved by Tess.
Grey Serrado
The Rook, a Vigil officer, and Ren’s lover, forced to choose a person over the heroic identity he inherited.
Derossi Vargo
A newly ennobled crime lord whose investigation of the medallions exposes his own altered history.
Tess
Ren’s sister and the person most endangered by secrets maintained for protection.
Ghiscolo Acrenix
An antagonist attempting to recover the power of Kaius Rex through the medallions.
Tanaquis
A numinatria scholar whose work makes the ancient magical system legible.
Peabody (Alsius Acrenix)
The murdered Acrenix heir whose soul survives in a fog spider, and whose long partnership with Vargo predates the novel.