Please note This page contain SPOILERS.
TERMS:
- Winter witch: a person born with the ability to summon and control ice, and can kill just by touching a person’s skin.
- Summer witch: a person born with the ability to summon and control fire, and can heal others by touching their skin.
- Lich/bone witch: a winter witch who can also use summer witch magic, and can raise the dead into either walking shells, or fully thinking, breathing revenants (also called a soul witch). Lich is the old word for bone witch, and the gang don’t discover and start using the term bone witch until Book 2.
- Shell: Walking corpse, unable to think for themselves.
- Revenant: Someone revived by a bone witch, full thinking and breathing, as if they had never been dead.
- Spring witch: a person born with the ability to summon and control earth, and can mix magic into potions for external benefits such as a fast-healing salve.
- “By the fires!”: this is an exclamation, the equivalent of “oh my god!”
- Ishma: old Highlander word for witch.
LOCATIONS:
- Atlantica and its capital city Thetis. The royal residence is the Summer Palace.
- The Highlands and its capital city Grimhold. The royal residence is Blackstone Citadel (formerly Kingscrag).
- The Midlenes and its capital city Tolbridge. The royal residence is The Roundhouse.
- Other locations:
- Fort Norwich, the town where Tally was born.
- Bridget, the town where Tally was found and taken to the Summer Palace.
PEOPLE:
- Nataliya “Tally” Wolfsbane: bone witch, a mix of winter and summer witches, with bonus necromancy.
- Ash: Tally’s shapeshifting companion. Their first meeting is detailed in Winter Wildling, though Ash’s actual origins remain a mystery for much of the series.
- Ford Tarasen: Crown Prince of Atlantica.
- Lennox “Knox” Novak: Ford’s cousin on his father’s side, and a Lord. Ford’s closest friend, advisor, and body double.
- Dover Saengo: Ford’s cousin on his mother’s side. Older brother of Beck. Close friends with Ford.
- Beckett “Beck” Saengo: Ford’s cousin on his mother’s side, younger brother of Dover. Close friends with Ford.
- Marina Baran: Tally’s handmaiden turned close friend.
- Calder Tarasen: King of Atlantica, Ford and Bourne’s father.
- Nerissa Tarasen: Queen of Atlantica, Ford and Bourne’s mother.
- Bourne Tarasen: Ford’s younger brother.
- Demyan: Bourne’s advisor.
- Vera: Calder’s senior adviser.
- Danica Monkshood: Tally’s half-sister.
- Iskra Rybak: Tally and Danica’s mother.
- Soren Vorona: A powerful winter witch and the Commander of the King’s army.