Characters in The Fifth Season

Essun

An orogene living in hiding as a schoolteacher, who sets out across the continent after her son is murdered and her daughter taken.

Also in The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky

Schaffa Guardian Warrant

The Guardian who collects Damaya for the Fulcrum, and who breaks her hand to test her control.

Jija

Essun's husband, who beats their son to death on discovering the boy's orogeny and takes their daughter.

Alabaster

A senior Fulcrum orogene, far stronger than Syenite and openly contemptuous of the institution that trained them both.

Also in The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky

Nassun

Essun and Jija's daughter, taken by her father the day her brother is killed.

Also in The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky

Hoa

Also in The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky

Innon Resistant Meov

Tonkee Innovator Dibars

Uche

Essun and Jija's young son, beaten to death by his father after inadvertently revealing his orogeny — the death that opens the novel.