Character profiles

Aran Romau

Occupation: Biologist

Skills: Plant and animal identification; handling dangerous animals

Best known for: Severely underestimating the relative danger of death or dismemberment posed by his tentacled murder-pet

Savina Moya

Alba Espina

Occupation: Chief Justice and Head of the Judicial Council, Joint Head of the Council of Orthodoxy

Skills: diplomacy; politics

Best known for: Reshaping situations through sheer force of personality

Occupation: Assassin

Skills: lying; knives; murder

Best known for: Looking sweet, innocent, and helpless while slitting someone's throat