Characters in The Heroes

Bremer dan Gorst

A disgraced royal swordsman, now the King's Royal Observer, who is drawn back toward the violence he is best at.

Also in The Blade Itself, Last Argument of Kings

Prince Calder

Bethod's son, a clever, battle-shy schemer who maneuvers for power among the Northmen rather than fight for it.

Curnden Craw

A respected Northman who leads a small band of Black Dow's men and tries to do the right thing as the war presses in.

Also in Sharp Ends

Black Dow

The brutal Northern warlord who deposed the Bloody Nine and is fighting the Union for the North's independence.

Also in The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, Last Argument of Kings, The First Law Trilogy

Bayaz

The First of the Magi and a member of the Closed Council, who directs the Union's military plans from behind the scenes.

Also in The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, Last Argument of Kings, The First Law Trilogy

Whirrun of Bligh

A fierce Northern warrior fascinated by the raw nature of combat, who fights in the battle around the Heroes.

Finree

Lord Marshal Kroy's daughter and the Union's political point of view, an ambitious and capable woman behind the army's lines.