A Tailor, the rarest type of Corporalki Grisha, able to alter the appearance of living tissue. She serves at the Ravkan court as the queen's personal attendant, a position that gives her access to everyone and trust from no one. Her loyalty to Alina costs her everything.

The second son of the Ravkan king who operates as the privateer Sturmhond before his identity is revealed. Brilliant, charming, and strategically ruthless beneath the performance of carelessness. Becomes King of Ravka after the events of the Shadow and Bone trilogy and the central figure of the King of Scars duology.

The most powerful Squaller in the Second Army and later Nikolai's general and closest advisor. Cold, proud, and formidably competent, she has survived everything Ravka has thrown at her by refusing to need anyone. The King of Scars duology slowly unpicks that refusal.