Characters
- Tessia
- - A healer's assistant turned magician after her powers develop naturally. While an apprentice she experiments with applying magic to healing, which culminates in the discovery using magic to heal. A founder of The Magician's Guild.
- Jayan
- - Apprentice of Lord Dakon. Elevated to Higher Magician during the Sachakan Invasion. A founder of The Magician's Guild.
- Lord Dakon
- - A Higher Magician, Tessia and Jayan's teacher, and ruler of Aylen ley in north-east Kyralia. Resides in Mandryn, the largest village in the ley until its destruction, later stays in Sachaka to assist ruling the country. Assassinated 10 years later.
- Ashaki Takado
- - A Sachakan Magician who leads the attack on Kyralia. Later killed by Dakon in Arvice, the capital of Sachaka.
- Hanara
- - Source slave to Takado.
- Lord Narvelan
- - Ruler of Loran ley, which borders Aylen ley. During the invasion his behaviour becomes progressively more erratic. This behaviour continues when he's elected to rule Sachaka after Emperor Vochira surrenders. After being forced to retire by King Errik he leaves Arvice and travels south, where it's revealed he has stolen the storestone. He breaks it in the south of Sachaka, and the resulting explosion obliterates the land and creates the wasteland of Sachaka.
- King Errik
- - The young king of Kyralia. A magician.
- Lady Avaria
- - Friend of Tessia, a magician. Married to Lord Everran, a friend of Lord Dakon's.
- Stara
- - A half-Elyne, half-Sachakan "Traitor". The Traitors are a group of women who try to influence politics to protect Sachakan women, who are often badly treated in the male-dominated country. Stara learned magic while in Elyne, and was taught Higher Magic by her brother Ikaro. Towards the end of the book Stara leads the Traitors to a hidden valley in the mountains which they intend to make their home.
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