Characters in Taltos

Ashlar

The last known Taltos, an ancient being who runs a New York toy company under the name Mr. Ash and is drawn into the Mayfair family's affairs.

Rowan Mayfair

A powerful telepathic Mayfair witch and a surgeon, grieving after the events of Lasher and determined to confront the Talamasca.

Also in The Witching Hour, Lasher

Mona Mayfair

A young, red-haired and unusually gifted cousin of Rowan whose relationship with Michael drives much of the novel's plot.

Samuel

One of the Little People, a Taltos living in the Scottish village of Donnelaith, whose sighting draws Ashlar north.

Dolly Jean Mayfair

A Mayfair relative at Fontevrault, the family's ancestral estate, who sides with Mona.

Aaron Lightner

A senior scholar of the Talamasca and longtime friend of the Mayfairs whose fate sets the investigation in motion.

Also in The Witching Hour

Yuri Stefano

A young Talamasca member and pupil of Aaron Lightner who helps the Mayfairs in London.

Mary Jane Mayfair

A Mayfair relative at Fontevrault, the family's ancestral estate, who sides with Mona.

Michael Curry

Rowan's husband and a Mayfair ally, who joins the investigation and is tied to Mona by a secret.

Also in The Witching Hour, Lasher