Ren / Renata / Arenza
A Vraszenian con artist using noble and pattern-reading identities while trying to protect Tess.
Tess
Ren’s sworn sister, tailor, operational partner, and clearest moral witness.
Grey Serrado / the Rook
A Vigil officer who secretly fights the colonial order from outside the law.
Derossi Vargo
A crime lord and aspiring noble investigating ash while manipulating nearly everyone around him.
Donaia, Leato, and Giuna Traementis
The noble family Ren intends to exploit and gradually comes to love.
Sedge
Ren and Tess’s surviving sworn brother, caught between family loyalty and work for Vargo.
Ondrakja and Mettore Indestor
The gang leader and noble conspirator behind the ash, unrest, and Wellspring plot.