Characters in The Faith of Beasts

Dafyd Alkhor

The highest-ranking human among the Carryx's captives, feared and resented by the people he speaks for while he hides where his loyalty really lies.

Also in The Mercy of Gods

The Swarm

An agent of the Carryx's deathless enemy, smuggled into the world-palace among the human captives, whose sense of its mission blurs the longer it lives among them.

Tonner Freis

The brilliant scientist who once led Dafyd's research team and now resents answering to the man he used to outrank.

Also in The Mercy of Gods

Jessyn Kaul

A researcher living with mental illness who is sent to survey a newly conquered world on the Carryx's behalf.

Also in The Mercy of Gods

Rickar Daumatin

A researcher posted aboard a Carryx warship who struggles to keep his mind intact as it heads into battle.

Campar (The Captive's War)

A researcher on the same warship who copes through humour and small comforts, and becomes a friend to the alien Vaudai.

Vaudai

A slug-like alien serving alongside the human researchers on the warship, who becomes an unlikely friend to Campar and Rickar.