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| Logen Ninefingers A Named Man from the North - one of the most feared warriors alive, with nine fingers and a reputation for survival that has outlasted everyone who tried to end it. Logen has spent his life fighting and is very good at it, which is not something he is proud of. He is trying to be better than he has been, with limited success. The problem is the Bloody-Nine: something that takes over when Logen is cornered, a killing fury that he cannot control and cannot always remember. His arc across the trilogy is a sustained examination of whether people can change, and Abercrombie's answer is characteristically uncomfortable. He is one of the great characters in modern fantasy precisely because his decency and his violence are both entirely convincing. | Leader |
| The Dogman One of Logen's Named Men - the best scout in the North, a man who can track anything across any terrain and who has survived longer than most by knowing when to run. The Dogman is quieter and more thoughtful than most Northern warriors, less interested in reputation than in keeping himself and the people he cares about alive. He becomes a POV character in the later books and proves to be one of Abercrombie's most sympathetic perspectives on the North - someone who has seen what the endless fighting produces and has clear-eyed views about its value. |
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| Caul Shivers A Northman who tries to go south and be a better man - to leave the violence of the North behind and become something else. He fails, but the manner of his failure and what it costs him make him one of the most interesting characters in the series. Shivers appears first in Best Served Cold as Monza's hired muscle and grows into a recurring presence across the standalones and Age of Madness, each appearance showing him further from who he wanted to be. His arc is the purest expression of the series' central theme: people do not change, and the things that happen to them tend to make them more themselves rather than less. | Member |
| Rikke The daughter of the Dogman, chieftain of the North, with the Long Eye - the ability to see the future in fits that leave her incapacitated and uncertain what is vision and what is fear. Rikke is the most unconventional of the Age of Madness protagonists: funny, self-aware, and navigating a world of Northern politics that has no obvious place for a woman whose father is dying and whose gift is as much a curse as an asset. Her arc involves learning to use what she has - the Long Eye, her father's name, her own judgment - in a world that prefers its leaders to be straightforward and male. | Leader |