Characters in Siege and Storm

Alina Starkov

The Sun Summoner, now forced into a leadership role for Ravka.

Also in Shadow and Bone & Siege and Storm, The Tailor, Ruin and Rising, The Lives of Saints

The Darkling

Ravka's most powerful Grisha, pursuing Alina and the throne.

Also in Demon in the Wood, Shadow and Bone & Siege and Storm, The Tailor, Ruin and Rising

Mal Oretsev

Alina's childhood friend, still by her side as she is pulled back into the war.

Also in Shadow and Bone & Siege and Storm, Ruin and Rising

Nikolai Lantsov

Ravka's younger prince, who first appears under his privateer alias Sturmhond; he becomes Alina's ally and pursues the throne on his own terms.

Also in Ruin and Rising, King of Scars, Rule of Wolves

Genya Safin

A Tailor — a Grisha who can alter appearance — who attends Alina at the Ravkan court.

Also in Shadow and Bone & Siege and Storm, The Tailor

Baghra

The severe old Grisha instructor from the Little Palace who trained Alina in her power and keeps counselling her against the Darkling.

Zoya Nazyalensky

A proud, combative Grisha Squaller and long-standing rival of Alina's who ends up serving alongside her in the Second Army.

Also in King of Scars, Rule of Wolves

Tolya Yul-Bataar

A giant Shu Han Heartrender from Sturmhond's crew, introduced in this book; the quieter, poetry-reading half of a pair of twins who join Alina's personal guard.

Tamar Kir-Bataar

Tolya's twin sister, an axe-wielding Shu Han Heartrender from Sturmhond's crew who joins Alina's personal guard.

The Apparat

The Ravkan royal priest, who cultivates a cult of sainthood around Alina among the common people and shifts allegiance to suit himself.