Characters in A Hat Full of Sky

Tiffany Aching

Eleven years old and beginning her formal training as a witch — only for a possessing creature to take advantage of the space she has left in herself.

Also in The Wee Free Men, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight, The Shepherd's Crown

Hiver (Discworld)

An ancient, bodiless creature made of stolen minds that seeks out powerful hosts to live in.

Granny Weatherwax

The Disc's most powerful witch, who makes her first direct appearance in Tiffany's story here and whose philosophy of witchcraft shapes everything that follows.

Also in Equal Rites, Wintersmith, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade, Carpe Jugulum, The Sea and Little Fishes

Miss Level

A witch with two bodies who occupies them simultaneously — Tiffany's first formal mentor and a patient teacher.

Rob Anybody

Chief of the Nac Mac Feegle, now serving as Tiffany's frantic protectors against the possessing hiver.

Also in The Wee Free Men, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight, The Shepherd's Crown

The Nac Mac Feegle

The tiny, fiercely brawling blue-skinned clan of the Chalk who guard Tiffany as her protectors.

Also in The Wee Free Men, Wintersmith, Carpe Jugulum

Annagramma Hawkin

The bossy self-appointed head girl of the apprentice witches Tiffany meets in the Ramtops, who looks down on her.

Also in Wintersmith

Petulia Gristle

A fellow apprentice witch who befriends Tiffany while the other girls follow Annagramma.

Perspicacia Tick

Tiffany's former teacher, an undercover witch who arranges her apprenticeship with Miss Level.

Death (Discworld)

The Discworld's anthropomorphic Death, who appears briefly as the caretaker of the underworld.

Also in Guards! Guards!, The Colour of Magic, Men at Arms, The Light Fantastic, Feet of Clay, Wintersmith, Mort, Sourcery, Carpe Jugulum, Moving Pictures