A plump, good-natured young woman who joined the army to find the soldier who fathered her unborn child. An excellent cook who says 'sugar' instead of swearing, her real name is Betty Manickle.

A tough, angry young woman who escaped the brutal Girls' Working School with Lofty. Red-haired and fierce, she is a crack shot with a sling and deeply protective of her companion. Her real name is Magda Halter.

A small, quiet and shy young woman who escaped the Girls' Working School with Tonker. She has a dangerous fascination with fire and an instinctive understanding of explosives. Her real name is Tilda Tewt.

A stick-thin, intensely devout young woman from the Girls' Working School whose real name is Alice Goom. She prays constantly to the Duchess and claims to hear her voice, and her unwavering faith proves to be something far more than mere delusion.

An Igor of the surgical-self-modification clan of Uberwald who enlisted in the Borogravian army as a man and was discovered to be a woman, after which she dropped the trademark Igor lisp and decorative stitches and kept on quietly being the regiment's surgeon. Reuse this record for Monstrous Regiment appearances; her Carpe Jugulum rows belong to the separate Magpyrs' Castle Igor.

A troll who enlists under the name Carborundum, covered in lichen and moss. Slow to speak but not slow to think, she joined the army because troll society restricts females from carrying clubs or wearing lichen.

A skinny, bespectacled young officer who spent eight years as an ensign in the blanket-and-bedding department before receiving his first command. Bookish, earnest and hopelessly impractical, he nevertheless possesses a brilliant mathematical mind and unexpected reserves of courage.

An enormously fat, veteran sergeant of the Ins-and-Outs with decades of military service and a fearsome reputation. Shrewd, cunning and fiercely protective of recruits, Jackrum is known throughout the Borogravian army as a larger-than-life figure who has fought in every major campaign.