The eldest Sengar brother and a Tiste Edur warrior of great skill and honour. Fear serves as Weapons Master to the Edur and watches with growing horror as his youngest brother Rhulad is transformed by the cursed sword into something he can no longer recognise.

A Tiste Edur warrior found chained in a flooded cavern, left to die by his own people for an act of perceived betrayal. Trull is honourable, thoughtful, and carries the burden of having spoken truth to a people who did not want to hear it. His partnership with Onrack forms one of the novel's most affecting threads.

One of the Sengar brothers, a powerful Tiste Edur sorcerer. Binadas is capable and independent, often away on missions for the Edur that bring him into contact with strange and dangerous forces.

The youngest of the Sengar brothers among the Tiste Edur. Rhulad is vain, insecure, and desperate to prove himself to his brothers and his people. His discovery of a cursed sword transforms him into something terrible - a weapon of the Crippled God, resurrected from death with the sword fused to his body, driven mad by the agony of repeated dying and rebirth.