Characters in House of Chains

Adjunct Tavore Paran

New commander of the Malazan 14th Army, cold and unreadable, whose tactical genius is matched only by her personal sacrifice.

Also in The Bonehunters, Reaper's Gale, Dust of Dreams, The Crippled God

Karsa Orlong

A powerful, ruthless Toblakai warrior who leads a raiding party and becomes entangled in the Malazan Empire's campaigns.

Also in The Bonehunters, Reaper's Gale, Toll the Hounds

Sha'ik / Felisin Paran

The prophetess of the Whirlwind, revealed to be Felisin Paran — whose transformation from victim to destroyer is the novel's emotional core.

Lostara Yil

An agent assigned to escort a mission that reveals uncomfortable truths about the rebellion and those who lead it.

Also in Dust of Dreams

Heboric Light Touch

Exiled historian now touched by an alien god whose power he cannot control or comprehend.

Also in Deadhouse Gates

Leoman of the Flails

Desert warrior and Sha'ik's most loyal general, pragmatic and unyielding.

Trull Sengar

A Tiste Edur exiled and "shorn" by his own people, who journeys with the broken T'lan Imass Onrack, pursuing renegade Imass intent on placing an Edur on the First Throne.

Also in Midnight Tides, Reaper's Gale

Onrack

A T'lan Imass undead warrior, broken from the Ritual that bound his kind, who travels alongside the exiled Trull Sengar.