Rothin: the captain of Suroth’s household guards, slain by Gatherers in Crucible of Fortune (Chapter 15)
Tannard: commanding Invictus of the Keeper’s Blades of Shalandra, commandeered Issa’s training, cruel, ruthless, callous (Chapter 17)
Chirak: veteran Archateros of the Keeper’s Blades of Shalandra, Etai’s trainer, woman of few words, inhumanly strong (Chapter 17)
Dyrkton: Invictus, Elder of the Blade (Chapter 17)
Mosai: tall, rail-thin Executor of the Indomitables, dour (Chapter 17)
Ormroth: high-ranked Ypertatos of the Keeper’s Blades of Shalandra, experienced warrior, saved Kodyn, Aisha, and Briana from bandits, escorted them to Shalandra in Trial of Stone (Chapter 17)
Taghban, Drull, Vorbus, Houl: Syndicate thugs, not too bright (Chapter 18)
Shishak: Queenslayer, Keeper’s Blade fallen in battle, helps Aisha fight Hallar’s Warriors (Chapter 23)
The Iron Warlord: Groebus’ master, true power behind the attacks and chaos in Shalandra, covers his face with an iron mask (Chapter 24)
Etai: Issa’s fellow Blade-in-training, born of the lowest-ranked Mahjuri caste, a proud warrior (Chapter 27)
Imbuka: Ghandian shaman, Umoyahlebe, Spirit Whisperer, provides Aisha information about her gifts, secretly working with the Iron Warlord (Chapter 27)
Tinush: High Divinity, oldest member of the Keeper’s Council, a priest of the Necroseti, servant to the god of death (Chapter 29)
Serias: one of Killian’s Mumblers, clever and street-savvy (Chapter 36)
Ascension of Death Characters
Listed according to appearance/mention
Issa: 17 year-old Earaqi, chosen to serve as a Keeper’s Blade, resilient, strong-willed, determined , daughter of Lady Callista and the Pharus (Chapter 1)
Tethum, the Iron Warlord: Groebus’ master, true power behind the attacks and chaos in Shalandra, covers his face with an iron mask, a demon (Abiarazi) in human flesh (Chapter 1)
Tinush: High Divinity, oldest member of the Keeper’s Council, a priest of the Necroseti, servant to the god of death, fell off a balcony to his death in Secrets of Blood (Chapter 1)
Madani: high-ranked priest of the Necroseti, most powerful member of the Keeper’s Council, cunning and deceitful, smug bastard (Chapter 1)
Callista Vinaus: Lady of Blades, highest-ranked military official in Shalandra, rules the Keeper’s Blades and Indomitables, stern, proud, warrior, Issa’s mother (Chapter 1)
Tannard: commanding Invictus of the Keeper’s Blades of Shalandra, commandeered Issa’s training, cruel, ruthless, callous (Chapter 1)
Aleema: Issa’s Savta (grandmother), maid in the house of a Dhukari (Chapter 1)
Nytano: Issa’s Saba (grandfather), laborer in the farmlands outside of Shalandra, slain in the riots (Chapter 1)
Evren: 17 year-old former pickpocket and clever thief from Darkblade Slayer, former apprentice in the Master’s Temple in Vothmot, recruited to the Hunter’s mission of feeding Kharna (Chapter 2)
Hykos: veteran Archateros of the Keeper’s Blades of Shalandra, Issa’s trainer, friendly and welcoming, two years older than Issa, handsome (Chapter 2)
Kodyn: 17 year-old apprentice to House Hawk, third-story thief of the Night Guild, son of Ilanna the Guild Master and Ria the Master of House Phoenix, protective (Chapter 3)
Hailen: child cared for by the Hunter and trained by the Cambionari, descendent of the ancient Serenii, the Hunter’s ward, possesses mysterious magical abilities (Chapter 3)
Briana: daughter of a high-ranked member of the Secret Keepers in Shalandra and Keeper’s Councilor, graceful, elegant, intelligent, studious, rescued by Kodyn and the Night Guild from kidnappers (Chapter 3—see Darkblade Justice)
Arch-Guardian Suroth: Briana’s father, high priest of the Secret Keepers in Shalandra, member of the Keeper’s Council, mute, slain by the Gatherers in Trial of Stone (Chapter 3)
Ennolar: high-ranked Secret Keeper, member of the Venerated, lover of banquet delicacies, provides Kodyn and Aisha a map of the Serenii tunnels, set to replace Suroth as Arch-Guardian (Chapter 3)
Groebus: nom-de-guerre “Dayblood”, hunchback, priest of the Long Keeper, mastermind orchestrating the chaos (Chapter 3)
Uryan: sharp-faced, high-ranking Guardian of the Secret Keepers, has a link to the spirit of Thimara (Chapter 3)
Thevoris: tall, dark-bearded Secret Keeper, administers “torture” potion to captive Hallar’s Warrior (Chapter 3)
Tianath: high-ranked Guardian of the Secret Keepers, alchemist, travels to the Hall of Bounty to collect grain samples to analyze for poison in Storm of Chaos, purple-haired (Chapter 3)
Aisha: 17 year-old former trafficking victim rescued by Ilanna and the Night Guild (see Traitors’ Fate), apprentice to House Phoenix, Kodyn’s best friend, child of a Spirit Whisperer (Chapter 4)
Amhoset Nephelcheres: Pharus of Shalandra, Servant of the Long Keeper, Word of Justice and Death, a noble and honorable ruler hamstrung by the Keeper’s Council (Chapter 4)
Killian/Elmessam: blacksmith, leader of the Mumblers, Issa’s trainer, surprisingly well-connected, cunning, more than he appears, former warrior of the Keeper’s Blades (Chapter 11)
Imbuka: Ghandian shaman, Umoyahlebe, Spirit Whisperer, provides Aisha information about her gifts, secretly working with the Iron Warlord, slain by Aisha in Secrets of Blood (Chapter 12)
Lunus and Ryneos: Secret Keepers guarding the entrance to the Temple of Whispers, help Kodyn figure out how to get off the roof of the Temple (Chapter 14)
Ormroth: high-ranked Ypertatos of the Keeper’s Blades of Shalandra, experienced warrior, saved Kodyn, Aisha, and Briana from bandits, escorted them to Shalandra in Trial of Stone, led assault on Hallar’s Warriors in Secrets of Blood (Chapter 18)
Nysin, Enyera, Rilith, and Viddan: Indomitable trainees assigned to patrol the Slave’s Tier with Issa, all from low castes, valiant despite impossible odds (Chapter 18)
Chirak: veteran Archateros of the Keeper’s Blades of Shalandra, Etai’s trainer, woman of few words, inhumanly strong (Chapter 21)
Dyrkton: Invictus, Elder of the Blade (Chapter 25)
Burim: Cambionari hunting demons in Shalandra, fights to help protect the city (Chapter 25)
Lorran: Ypertatos of the Keeper’s Blades, leading the defense of the Keeper’s Crypts (Chapter 27)
Etai: Issa’s fellow Blade-in-training, born of the lowest-ranked Mahjuri caste, a proud warrior (Chapter 27)
Shishak: Queenslayer, Keeper’s Blade fallen in battle, helps Aisha fight Hallar’s Warriors (Chapter 32)
Hallar: founder of Shalandra, dead for thousands of years (Chapter 42)
Military Ranks
Indomitables:
The ranks in the Indomitables are similar to the martial ranks of Praamis and Voramis:
Executors: Commanders
Sentinels: Captains
Protectors: Lieutenants
Dictators: Sergeants
Neophytes: Privates
Keeper’s Blades:
Prototopoi: trainees new to the Keeper’s Blades
Defteteros: Blades serving for fewer than six months after the Anointing of the Blades
Katoteros: two-year veterans of the Keeper’s Blades.
Archateros: four-year veterans of the Keeper’s Blades.
Ypertatos: ten-year veterans of the Keeper’s Blades.
Invictus: twenty-year veterans of the Keeper’s Blades. All of the Elders of the Blades are Invictus.
Proxenos: a rank reserved only for the Lord or Lady of Blades, equivalent to High Commander
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