Characters in Deadhouse Gates

Coltaine

Wickan warlord and Fist of the 7th Army, leading the legendary Chain of Dogs retreat across Seven Cities.

Duiker

The Imperial Historian, an aging witness to empire's brutality who chooses to record rather than flee.

Felisin Paran

Younger sister of Ganoes, condemned to the slave mines, whose harrowing survival reshapes her into something colder and darker.

Kalam Mekhar

Bridgeburner assassin now working his own agenda back in Seven Cities, hunting a target that could change the empire.

Also in Gardens of the Moon, The Bonehunters, The Crippled God

Fiddler

Sapper and Bridgeburner veteran traveling with Kalam, sardonic and steady in the face of catastrophe.

Also in The Bonehunters, Dust of Dreams, The Crippled God

Heboric Light Touch

Exiled historian and defrocked priest of Fener, scarred by a power he cannot understand.

Also in House of Chains

Icarium

An ancient half-Jaghut wanderer who cannot remember his own past, whose dormant power is the most terrifying force in the world.

Also in The Bonehunters

Mappo Runt

A Trell companion sworn to prevent Icarium from ever remembering what he is capable of.

Also in The Bonehunters