Characters in A Curse Carved in Bone

Freya (Skaland)

A shield maiden and daughter of the goddesses Hlin and Hel, forced to weigh a prophecy that could make her either the shield or the curse of her people.

Also in A Fate Inked in Blood

Snorri (Skaland)

The Skalander jarl who holds Freya to the blood oath he bound her with in book one, still pursuing the throne a prophecy promised him.

Also in A Fate Inked in Blood

Harald (Nordeland)

King of Nordeland, Bjorn's adoptive father and the ruler Freya was raised to fear, who commands the god-descended Unfated of his court.

Bjorn

Jarl Snorri's firstborn son, raised in Nordeland by King Harald; the seer's warning drove him to a betrayal Freya has not forgiven even as the blood oath keeps them together.

Also in A Fate Inked in Blood

Hlin

One of the two goddesses whose blood Freya carries, and the source of the shield-maiden magic that first marked her as Unfated.

Also in A Fate Inked in Blood

Hel

Goddess of the underworld Helheim and Freya's other divine parent, whose revealed blood is what drags Freya into the war between the two kingdoms.

Saga (Nordeland)

Bjorn's mother and the seer whose prophecy set the whole story in motion, foretelling that Freya would unite Skaland and unleash destruction on the world.