The Mountain Kingdom princess who marries Verity Farseer and becomes Queen of the Six Duchies, bringing with her a set of values around duty and service that sit in productive tension with the court culture she enters. Kettricken's arc across the Farseer Trilogy is one of its most carefully observed - a woman adapting to an alien culture while holding to her own principles - and her role develops considerably in the Tawny Man Trilogy.