Characters in The Winner's Crime

Arin (The Winner's Trilogy)

The Herrani governor and Kestrel's former slave, who reads her engagement as a betrayal and seeks an alliance abroad.

Also in The Winner's Curse, The Winner's Kiss

Kestrel (The Winner's Trilogy)

A Valorian general's daughter, engaged to the crown prince to protect Herran, who secretly spies against her own empire as the Moth.

Also in The Winner's Kiss

Prince Verex

The Valorian crown prince and Kestrel's fiance, who dislikes his father's scheming and the marriage forced on them both.

Also in The Winner's Kiss

Tensen (The Winner's Trilogy)

Herran's minister of agriculture, who works alongside Arin and handles Kestrel's secret intelligence.

Princess Risha

A Dacran princess kidnapped as a child and kept as a pampered hostage in the Valorian palace.

Also in The Winner's Kiss

Roshar

Brother of the Dacran queen and of Risha, who helps Arin in Dacra.

Also in The Winner's Kiss

General Trajan

Kestrel's father, a Valorian general fighting on the eastern front.

Also in The Winner's Curse