Helena Sedanka
The narrator and clerk whose retrospective voice records both her loyalty to Vonvalt and her growing resistance.
Sir Konrad Vonvalt
An Emperor’s Justice whose supernatural authority and anger increasingly threaten his legal principles.
Dubine Bressinger
Vonvalt’s taskman, mortally wounded by a demon during the escape from Keraq — after which Claver puppets his corpse.
Bartholomew Claver
A former priest whose religious movement and supernatural alliances destabilize the empire.
Justice Luitgard Roza
The Justice whose lie to the Emperor about the prince’s death destroys the Magistratum from inside.
The Imperial Family
The dynasty whose vulnerability turns one disappearance into an imperial emergency.
Sova’s officials
Magistrates, soldiers and courtiers who reveal how institutions fail through self-protection.