Characters

The Company, the Ledger, and the Unmaking.

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The Company

Seven companions. One truth.

Sable Dunmore — Wrenfolk record-keeper and protagonist of Songs of the Firstborn

Sable Dunmore

Wrenfolk · Protagonist · Keeper of Records

The archivist. The one who writes everything down — including the things that are inconvenient to have written.

Burr Dunmore — Wrenfolk craftsman and Sable's cousin in Songs of the Firstborn

Burr Dunmore

Wrenfolk · Craftsman · Sable’s Cousin

The anchor. He grumbles at everything and abandons nothing.

Thessaly Vorn — elven disgraced linguist and companion in Songs of the Firstborn

Thessaly Vorn

Elf · Disgraced Linguist · Translator

The scholar who was right when the world needed her to be wrong.

Breck Ironhallow — dwarven ruin-walker from Kharanor in Songs of the Firstborn

Breck Ironhallow

Dwarf · Ruin-Walker · Cartographer

A living map of forgotten places, carrying a guilt older than the road.

Mara Ashbone — orc shaman of the Thurak steppes in Songs of the Firstborn

Mara Ashbone

Orc · Shaman · Spirit-Reader

The one who has been afraid of this day her whole life — and came anyway.

Dorn Calder — human road-broker and companion in Songs of the Firstborn

Dorn Calder

Human · Merchant · Road-Broker

The one who joins for the wrong reasons and stays for the right ones.

Vorrath — the First Found Drevari, oldest living being in the world of Songs of the Firstborn

Vorrath

Drevari · The First Found · Guide

Fourteen thousand years of memory, waiting in stone.

Antagonists & Agents

The people who make forgetting possible.

Ilyr Vaust — Imperial Curator of Continuance and central antagonist of Songs of the Firstborn

Ilyr Vaust

Imperial Curator of Continuance · Central Antagonist

A compassionate authoritarian of memory: the man who believes peace requires curated truth.

Captain Renn Arct — Imperial Retrieval Commander in Songs of the Firstborn

Captain Renn Arct

Human · Imperial Field Commander · The Pursuer

The empire’s physical pressure: disciplined, correct, and not unkind.

Magister Elian Sarev — Imperial philologist and agent of the Quiet Ledger in Songs of the Firstborn

Magister Elian Sarev

Elf · Imperial Philologist · The Scholar-Hound

The scholar who knew better and chose safety.

Sister Calis Vehn — Imperial Confessor and agent of the Quiet Ledger in Songs of the Firstborn

Sister Calis Vehn

Human · Imperial Confessor · The Listener

Warm, patient, kind — and devastating because she softens reality on purpose.

Tarin Voss — courier and infiltrator for the Quiet Ledger in Songs of the Firstborn

Tarin Voss

Courier · Infiltrator · The Masked Hand

Road-wise adaptability in service of erasure.

Prelate Ossin Drae — Warden of the Vault and guardian of the Vel-Kel in Songs of the Firstborn

Prelate Ossin Drae

Human · Warden of the Vault

The keeper of the stolen holy thing the empire renamed The Anchor.

Maelor Thane — Quiet Ledger field operative touched by the Unmaking in Songs of the Firstborn

Maelor Thane

Human · Null-Touched · Field Operative

The first human proof that forgetting can become embodied.

Aldun Stonecroft — Keeper of the Deep Record at Kharanor in Songs of the Firstborn

Aldun Stonecroft

Dwarf · Keeper of the Deep Record · Book III

He did not bury truth because he hated it. He buried it because he loved Kharanor.

Veylin Dross — Senior Archivist of the Grand Linguistic Archive in Songs of the Firstborn

Veylin Dross

Elf · Senior Archivist · Vel Tharun

She is not protecting the empire. She is protecting four hundred years of elvish scholarship. The fact that these have become the same thing is not something she has examined.