Characters

Humans
Adele Roberts - the human mother of Marak Sixfinger and the wife of Marak Dogclaw. As a child, she is a wild girl who takes risks. When she hears about goblins, she decides to go after them. Marak Dogclaw ends up kidnapping and marrying her. After finding out that her father left Hallow Hill to protect her friend Elizabeth, she dedicates herself to goblin life.

Belinda - mentioned in Close Kin. She is a woman who was engaged to William the master of Hallow Hill. When Aganir U-Sakar, the elf King named New Moon, sees her, he decides to marry her himself and has his elves steal her. Even though he uses the amnesia drink on her, she never falls in love with him and fails to give him a son. U-Sakar's guards catch William in the forest about to approach Belinda and bring him to their king, wh turns him into a stag and hunts him. When he brings the stag home to Belinda, she sees Williams locket around the stags neck. It is unknown if the amnesia spell broke or if she pieced together enough of the truth to figure it out, but Belinda kills herself.

Bingham - the human coachman who drove Kate to Liverpool during The Hollow Kingdom. He is described as tall and handsom; with brown hair and large brown eyes. He attacks Kate for her money and is bitten by Charm. He is killed before Marak Sixfinger can exact revenge on him.

Mrs. Bigelow - a servant at the Hallow Hill estate.

Celia Whitaker - one of Kate and Emily's great aunts who appears in The Hollow Kingdom. She is a widow.

Colette - a French human girl who marries Marak Boartusk in Parisian Judgement. She is an intelligent woman who keeps house for her Uncle Victor, the distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of Paris. They travel around Britain together, eventually stoping the Hallow Hill where she makes an observation about a painting of the Parisian Judgement. She believes wisdom should have been the judge between beauty and strength. That night, Marak Boartusk and Aganir Usan come to claim her as a bride and argue over which one gets her. Thinking she's dreaming about the Parisian Judgement with herself as wisdom, Boartusk as power, and Usan as beauty, she judges the contest a tie. Usan gives her up in disgust and Boartusk marries her.

Cook - a servant of Til's. She is rude to Miranda and tells her goblins are evil fairies. Marak helps Miranda get revenge on her.

Dentwood Roberts - the father of Adele Roberts and the master of the Hallow Hill estate. When his daughter is kidnapped, he attempts to rescue her. After realizing she was taken by goblins, he takes his foster daughter, Elizabeth, and leaves the estate for good. When Elizabeth dies in childbirth, he takes her son and leaves his fortune to him. Emily and Seylin's son may be named after him.

Mrs. Eliot - a neighbor and friend of Til's.

Elizabeth Roberts - an elf-human cross who grows up as Adele's friend. She is Kate's ancestor who shares a strong physical resemblence to her. Adele's father leaves Hollow Hill with her so she isn't kidnapped like Adele. He leaves his fortune and Hallow Hill to her son. Elizabeth died in childbirth, and her son must have been more human than elf, since the elf king is the only male elf who could have children with a human. Her son later had a daughter, who was Kate and Emily's mother.

Elizabeth's son - an elf-human cross and the grandfather of Kate and Emily Winslow. His mother was Elizabeth, the adopted daughter of Dentwood Roberts, who died in childbirth. After the death of his mother, he was raised by Dentwood, who leaves him Hallow Hill Estate. According to Hugh Roberts, he never visited it. He had a daughter, who was Kate and Emily's mother.

Emily Winslow - the sister of Kate and the wife of Seylin. Emily is strong willed, opinionated, and brave. She is an elf-human cross like her sister, but is more human than elf so she can't work magic. She appears in all three books.

Mrs. Hempstead - a neighbor and friend of Til's.

Hugh Roberts - Kate and Emily's human guardian. He descents from Dentwood's brother. His branch of the Roberts Family lived at Hallow Hill, since Dentwood and Elizabeth left it after Adele was abducted. He plans to get rid of the girls so he can take their inheritence, which he thinks is rightfully his. Marak Sixfinger gets revenge on him for his treatment of Kate by forcing him to always tell the truth and to only be able to walk on the ceiling. As a result of it and because he was suspected by the authorities for having killed the Winslow sisters, he was commited to an asylum. He was later killed by the sorcerer.

Jack Richardson - a human raised by the goblin woman Ruby along with his twin sister Martha. Jack and his sister are initially raised by Richard, but once they come to the goblin kingdom, Ruby takes care of them until Jack is too old to live in the kingdom. He and Til fall in love and want to marry, but Marak Sixfinger won't let them. He changes his mind and allows them to marry on the condition that they give him their first born daughter, Miranda. They agree and raise their family on the Hallow Hill estate. They have at least five children together.

James Richardson - one of Jack and Til's sons. He appears in In the Coils of the Snake through Miranda's flashbacks of her life growing up. He teases her about her claims about learning to speak goblin. He also appears in Parisian Judgement as an old man. He lives on the Hallow Hill estate alone and has children who travel the world.

Jane - a human girl of 9 or 10 who Seylin meets in his travels during Close Kin. He shows her magic and heals her when she gets sick with scarlet fever.

Kate Winslow - an elf-human cross and the wife of Marak Sixfinger. Kate is more elf than human and can work magic. She appears in all three novels and is the mother of Marak Catspaw.

Martha - a human raised by the goblin woman Ruby, along with her twin brother Jack. Richard originally takes care of the twins, but Ruby takes over once they are brought into the goblin kingdom. She and Til are best friends and she eventually marries Richard.

Matilda - a human baby found by Kate in the first book. She is refered to as Til. The sorcerer killed her parents and took her for one of his spells. Before he can inact it, Kate kills him and takes her home. Growing up, she becomes jealous of her foster sibling, Catspaw. She eventually marries Jack Richardson and they raise a family on the Hallow Hill estate. She has over five children, only a few appear in the series, including Miranda.

Melim-bar's wife was a human woman, who married Melin-bar, an elf king. She studied her new people and was loved by them, but her husband didn't love, because she wasn't beautiful. Despite being robbed of her past and was forced to be devoted to her husband, she was still capable of hating him. When she got pregnant with the heir, her husband send her away from his camp and allowed her to choose another one to stay in. In the other camp she became friends with a pregnant widow of the camp leader and together they gave birth to boys the same night. But the human wife secretly switched the two boys and send the camp leader's son to the elf king in order to put an end the mistreatment of the king's human wives. She named her own son 'Ash' and died a few nights later. But she did accomplish her goal.

Miranda Richardson - the human daughter of Matilda and Jack Richardson. She was promised to Marak before her birth and he raised her to be the wife of his son, Catspaw. She instead ends up marrying the elf King, Nir, with whom she has the son, Aganir Usan.

Prim Roberts - one of Kate and Emily's great aunts who appears in The Hollow Kingdom.

Richard Richardson - a son of Til and Jack.

Simpson - the human nanny of Miranda and her siblings.

Sorcerer - a human who uses magic to kidnap goblins and other creatures to gain power. He is killed by Kate.

Dr. Thatcher - a psychiatrist brought to Hollow Hill to evaluate Kate.

Toria Richardson - a daughter of Til and Jack.

William (Robert?) - the master of Hallow Hill. He is mentioned in Close Kin. Aganir U-Sakar steals his fiance, Belinda, on the night before their marriage. Devastated by the loss, William struggles to move on. One night, he hears Belinda singing. He follows the sound, only to be captured by the elves. He is taken to U-Sakar, who turns William into a stag and hunts him. He must have been related to the Roberts family, since it have been their propety in 800 years.

Goblins
Agatha - a goblin woman who was Marak Sixfinger's nanny. She helps the King as he tries to get Kate and helps with their wedding. She dies in Close Kin after mistaking Catspaw for his father.

Alder the goblin - the oldest son of Thaydar and Irina. He marries Fay and they have a daughter named Trina.

Marak the Antlered - a goblin King whose reign coincides with Aganir Halbi.

Blackwing - a goblin King and the husband of Lim. He is mentioned in Close Kin and his story is fully told in the short piece called The Story of Lim and Marak Blackwing. He catches Lim as she comes to attempt to rescue her father, who he has captured. He agrees to release her father if she marries him, giving her three months to decide. She initially intends to refuse, but changes her mind when she realizes marrying him might be best for her people. They have a son together, Marak Whiteye.

Brindle - a member of the goblin Guard. He appears in The Hollow Kingdom and Close Kin. He has dog traits. His wife is a bird goblin with wings. They have two children together. One that is mentioned is Penelope.

Catspaw - the son of Kate Winslow and Marak Sixfinger. He becomes the goblin King during In the Coils of the Snake. He is originally set to marry Miranda, who he loves, but after Nir offers him an elf bride, he chooses Arianna. Together, they have a son, Marak Boartusk, who appears in the short story, Parisian Judgment.

Dibah - a member of the goblin Guard. He appears in The Hollow Kingdom.

Dogclaw - the husband of Adele Roberts and the father of Marak Sixfinger. He and Adele appear in the prologue of The Hollow Kingdom.

Fay - the oldest goblin daughter of Sable and Tinsel. She appears in the third book of the series. She is pure white, except for her blue eyes that she inherited from her mother. She is married to Alder and has a daughter named Trina.

Horsetooth - a goblin King mentioned during The Hollow Kingdom. During his reign, a Roman sorcerer kidnapped a goblin using magic he learned from studying Egyptian texts. Horsetooth rescued the goblin. He then turned the sorcerer into a toad and stepped on him.

Hulk and Bulk - two goblin brothers named by Adele, who appear in The Hollow Kingdom. They both resemble large apes with feathers. Hulk is dark gray and Bulk is white. In the first book of the series, Hulk is kidnpped and killed by the sorcerer, who uses his blood to enslave the other goblins. Jacoby - a member of the goblin Guard who appears during Close Kin and In the Coils of the Snake. He is mentioned as one of the children Emily plays with. He has a beak. Katoo - a member of the goblin Guard who has the traits of a tabby cat. He appears in The Hollow Kingdom and Close Kin.

Lash - a goblin with feathers who appears as a baby in The Hollow Kingdom. He grows up to be a member of the goblin Guard.

Mandrake - a member of the goblin Guard. He appears in The Hollow Kingdom as one of the goblins stolen by the sorcerer. By the time Close Kin takes place, he is dead and it is revealed that he is Richard's father. Years before, Mandrake had a sexual encounter with a prostitute while on a goblin trading journey. Unknown to him, they conceived Richard, who the prostitute abandoned. He is described as the best illusionist in the Guard.

Mongrel - a gangly dog-like goblin with floppy ears and brown eyes. He appears as one of the babies Emily takes car of during The Hollow Kingdom. He is later a member of the goblin Guard during In the Coils of the Snake.

Penelope - a goblin child who appears in Close Kin. She is the daughter of Brindle and spends a lot of time with Emily. She has snake eyes.

Redeye - a goblin King with bright red eyes and short black fur like a panther. He kidnaps the sister of the elf lord of the Third Belt Star Camp and marries her. She gets sick because she misses dancing under the stars. After Redeye alerts her brother, the elf lord sends a musician to play for her. She gets better and the musician is rewarded by Redeye.

Richard - a goblin fathered by a human prostitute and a goblin trader, assumed to be Mandrake. He is conceived outside of the goblin kingdom in Portsmouth. His mother abandons him and his father doesn't know about him, so Richard grows up on the streets and is taken advantage of by humans who want to make a profit off of him. He discovers the human children, Jack and Martha, and starts taking care of them. When they go to the goblin kingdom, their family breaks up, but Richard maintains a close relationship with Martha and eventually marries her when they grow up. He becomes one of Catspaw's lieutenants.

Ruby - a goblin teacher who leaves the goblin kingdom with Emily in Close Kin. She dislikes humans and learns to love them when she meets the human twins, Jack and Martha. She raises them in the goblin kingdom.

Sayada - one of Marak Sixfinger's luietenents. He has hands that look like bird talons and two holes in his face instead of a nose. When the sorcerer steals the goblin souls in The Hollow Kingdom, his is the first one taken. The sorcerer tries to use him to kill Kate, but his soul is afraid of the King's Wife Charm.

Seylin - a goblin man who looks like an elf. He grows up feeling like he doesn't belong anywhere because his appearance sets him appart from his people. He ends up marrying Emily Winslow and having 8 children with her.

Sixfinger - the son of Adele and Marak Dogclaw and the husband of Kate Winslow. They marry during the first novel and raise two children together, their biological son, Catspaw, and their foster daughter, Matilda. Throughout the course of the series, he is always scheming and coming up with exciting ideas. Though considered brilliant, sometimes his schemes backfire or don't go as planned.

Tattoo - the goblin son of Sable and Tinsel. He is a member of the Guard during In the Coils of the Snake. Though he wants to marry Seylin's daughter, Celia, Seylin thinks he should marry Miranda after Catspaw breaks their engagement. Through the course of the book, he becomes friends with the elf, Hunter, marries Celia, and names his first child after his new elf friend.

Thaydar - is a goblin who marries the elf bride, Irina. He initially wants to marry Emily, but takes an elf bride instead. He and Irina have four children together. Only one is mentioned in the series, their oldest, Alder, who married Sable and Tinsel's daughter, Fay. Thaydar dies before the start of In the Coils of the Snake.

Tinsel - a goblin who marries Sable. They have three children together, but only two are mentioned in the series, Fay and Tattoo. He is strongly elvish, with blue eyes. He is described as "a giant of a goblin with thick, corded silver-gray arms," but he wasn't overly tall, he just seemed like it because of his broad build. He appears in Close Kin and In the Coils of the Snake.

Trina - the daughter of Fay and Alder. Though she is a goblin, she looks like an elf, which the goblin pages tease her about. She wants to go live with Nir and his band of elves.

Webfoot - a teacher in the goblin kingdom who instructs on elf culture and history.

Whiteye - a goblin King and the son of Lim and Marak Blackwing. After the death of the elf King, Aganir U-Sakar, the elf King named New Moon, he wants to become King of both the goblins and the elves, but they refuse to let him. Whiteye orders the elf harrowing, that kills and scatters many elves. When he reads his mothers book that has a page on what she will miss most about the elf world, he regrets his decision and dies lonely and bitter. He is Marak Sixfinger's great-great grandfather.

Elves
Alder the elf - an elf in Sable's band and the father of Irina. He marries Rose and dies by the time his duaghter is six.

Ama - an elf woman in Aganir Ash's camp during In the Coils of the Snake.

Arianna - an elf woman who is engaged to Nir but ends up marrying Catspaw.ledel She only appears in the third book, In the Coils of the Snake. She is the daughter of an elf lord and very magically powerful. Though she is engaged to Nir for four years, they are not in love. Her magic instinctively knows that his magic wants to be rid of her. When Nir is forced to give her to Catspaw as a bride, she does everything she can to keep distance between herself and her new husband out of fear that he plans to deform her. When she finds out this isn't true, they begin to get along better. They eventually have a son, Marak Boartusk who appears in the short story, Parisian Judgement.

Ash or Nir - the elf King and the husband of Miranda. He appears in, In the Coils of the Snake. Nir, or Againir Ash, the elf King named Alone, is the son of an elf man named Ash and a human woman. His magic makes him unhappy because it orders him around, making him do things he doesn't understand and that sometimes hurt himself and others. The magic kills his first wife Kara and forces him to give his next fiancee, Arianna, to the goblin King as a bride. But his magic also helps him find each and every one of the remaining elves and does what is best for his people. It pushes him to marry the human girl Miranda and they have a son, Aganir Usan, the elf King named Evening.

Ash the first - the son of Aganir Melim-bar. His mother switches him at birth with the son of a camp lord. She names him Ash, which means "unique" or "alone." He marries three times, with his first two elf wives dying. His magic does away with them because the elf King is supposed to marry a human woman. After he takes a third wife, his niece is kidnapped by the goblins and he tries to rescue her. He makes it all the way to the door of the goblin caves. The door calls out for the goblin King, who brings the ceiling down on Lord Ash, killing him. His third wife gives birth to his son, also named Lord Ash.

Bar - the youngest elf child in Aganir Ash's camp. He appears in In the Coils of the Snake.

Dalhamun - the elf King named Dust Cloud. He is mentioned by Marak Sixfinger in a flashback during In the Coils of the Snake. In the story, he comes across a human man who has been scarred by fire. Dalhamun heals the man's face after the man outsmarts him.

Dara - the daughter of the elf King's chief advisor and the wife of Marak Lionclaw. Her story is told The Goblin King's Story on Clare B. Dunkle's website. After Marak Lionclaw kidnaps a number of elf lords, he challenges the elves to take them back if they are brave enough and Dara comes to meet the challenge. Lionsclaw is impressed by her and decides to keep her as his wife.

Galnar - the oldest elf in Aganir Ash's camp. He plays the violin for both the elves and for humans at fairs. Going to fairs brings in money for the band. Galnar is also the shoe making elf. He has blond, almost white hair and green eyes.

Girzal - Lord of the Foot Star Camp and father of Lim. He and his wife have a happy marriage, so they are able to have four children together. Lim is the fourth which is why they named her four. Girzal's camp is one of the closest to goblin territory, so it is is attacked often, especially since the elf King, Aganir Zal, refuses to help. Girzal and his men try to defend the border themselves. Eventually, he kills three goblins on goblin land, which is a crime punishable by death. The goblin King, Marak Blackwing agrees to let him go if he can marry one of his daughters. Lim goes to rescue her father and ends up marrying the King.

Halbi - the elf King named Winter Frost. His reign coincides with Marak the Antlered. He awarded an elf for his skill i battle against the goblins by gving him the lordship of the Top Shield Star Camp and the name Sabul, the Raging Fire, because he had fought like a raging fire among the goblins.

Hemlock - an elf in Sable's band and the father of Willow. When his wife, May, dies in childbirth, he left camp and never came back.

Hunter - an elf man and the brother of Nir's first wife, Kara. He is a fun loving, playful, elf who likes to hunt, play games, and execute practical jokes. He and Kara are the first elves Nir finds and they remain close friends. When Nir goes on his trip to create the boarder around the elf King's forest, he leaves Miranda in Hunter's care. So when the goblins come tot take her, he goes with her to the goblin caves. He and Miranda's goblin guard, Tattoo, bond during their time together. After they go back to their normal lives, they remain friends and Tattoo names his first child after Hunter.

Igira - an elf woman in Aganir Ash's camp in In the Coils of the Snake. She makes elf clothing and is the mother of Kiba and Min. She is blond with blue eyes. She appears in In the Coils of the Snake.

Immir - the elf King named Storm Wind. He is an elf King from the middle ages whose reign coincides with Marak Redeye. He meets h is bride when she is 14 at a festival. When her parents decide to marry her to someone else, she runs away in the middle of a snow storm to find him. He performs the Seven Stars Spell on her, but treats her as his fiance until she is 18 and old enough to marry.

Irina - an elf woman who marries the goblin Thaydar. She is born in the same camp as Sable. Since her mother died giving birth to her, she is raised by the older children in the camp. They tease her about her appearance and her intelligence, saying she is an ugly puppy. When she gets older, Seylin comes to the camp and Thorn assumes that he wants to marry Irina. Not wanting to marry their only remaining marriagable female to an outsider, Thorn decides to marry her himself. The goblins who followed Seylin come into the camp and steal Irina and Sable. One of them is Thaydar, who plans to marry Irinia. She becomes happy with the idea when he describes what their life will be like. They have four children together. The only one mentioned in the series is the olderst, Alder. Irina's specialty in magic is weaving.

Kala - the sister of Lim and the daughter of Lord Girzal. She appears in The Story of Lim and Marak Blackwing. Her fiancee is the elf King's military commander and her marriage is considered more important than Lim's to Tibir.

Kiba - an elf girl in Aganir Ash's camp. She is Igira's daughter and the older sister of Min. She is blond with blue eyes. She appears in In the Coils of the Snake.

Laurel - the elf friend of Sable and the wife of Rowan. She dies during childbirth at the start of Close Kin, which convinces Sable that she does not want to marry and die that way.

Lim - a elf woman who marries the goblin King, Marak Blackwing. The fourth child of Lord Girzal and his wife. She is "a scholar by nature and training, she looks to history rather than her own feelings for guidance." She is engaged to Tibir, the elf King's chronicler, and they live in the King's Camp together. When her father is captured by the goblins, the elf King, Aganir Zal, tells her, her mother, and her older sister Kala, that the goblin King will release him if one of Girzal's daughters agrees to marry him. Lim goes intending to rescue her father, but not marry Marak Blackwing. After attacking him, she is wounded by the goblin King's defense magic and he nurses her back to health. When he finds out who she is, he agrees to let her decide whether she will marry him and save her father or not. During the three months she spends in the goblin kingdom, she takes a book full of notes about the goblin culture and learns that the goblin Kings who have positive female elf influences in their lives, such as a wife or a mother, are kinder to elves. Though she initially intends to go home, Lim changes her mind and decides to marry Blackwing for the good of her people. She sends the book back to Tibir. She eventually grows to love Blackwing and they have a son together, Marak Whiteye.

May - Willow's mother and Hemlock's wife. She dies in childbirth.

Melim-bar - the elf King named Saturn's Ascent. He is the father of the last elf King before Aganir Ash, and the son of Aganir Zal. He is described as vain and weak. He marries a human woman who is considered strong and gifted. She loved by the elves, but Melim-bar does not love her because she is not beautiful. After she becomes pregnant with the Heir, the King puts her aside. They argue and he throws her out of the King's Camp, forcing her to move to one of the other 18 elf camps. She chooses the Camp of the Bright Shoulder star. The lady of that camp is also pregnant. They give birth to their babies on the same night. The elf King's Wife switches her son with the lady's as revenge for her husband's treament of her. She dies after naming her son. Melim-bar does nothing to save her.

Min - an elf boy in Aganir Ash's camp during In the Coils of the Snake. He is Igira's son and the younger brother of Kiba.

Rose - an elf in Sable's band and the mother of Irina. After marrying Alder, she dies in childbirth.

Rowan - an elf man from Sable's camp. Rowan appears in Close Kin. He is Laurel's husband. At the start of the book, she dies trying to give birth to their child, who also dies. Years later, he is the first elf to meet Seylin. After Irina and Sable are kidnapped and Thorn is put under goblin spells, he has to take care of his friend. He later joins Nir's band along with Thorn and Willow.

Sable - the daughter of an elf lord and a common elf. Sable first appears in Close Kin. She is named after her father and their ancestors, Sabul, who ran the Top Shield Star Camp. By the time Sable is born, their camp is primative and has lost the power to save women from death during childbirth. After witnessing three women, including her best friend, Laurel, die giving birth, Sable refuses to marry her fiance, Thorn, and scarred herself. Thorn mistreats her for years afterward, until goblins find her camp and kidnap her and Irina. Sable marries the goblin Tinsel and they have three children together. Two of those children, Tattoo and Fay, appear in the novels. During In the Coils of the Snake, Sable works against the elf King, Nir, and almost dies.

Sabul - a young elf man who fights valiantly against the goblins when the goblin King's military commander decides to claim an elf bride and attacks the Top Shield Star Camp. The camp lord and his son are killed during the battle, but Sabul turns the tide and kills the commander. Aganir Halbi awards him with the lordship of the camp and his name, which means the Raging Fire. Every other lord at the camp held the name until Sable.

Sumur - an elf in Aganir Ash's camp during In the Coils of the Snake. He is a guard and Willow's hunting partner.

Thorn - Sable's elf fiance. Raised by Sable's father to be a tough survivalist, Thorn becomes leader of the camp after the elf lord's death. He is spends 6 years engaged to Sable until she decides she doesn't want to get married and die during childbirth. He tries to convince her to marry him, but she ends up disfiguring herself so he won't want to be with her anymore. This makes him so angry, he begins to hate her and mistreats her by calling her names and throwing her food on the ground. They go on for years this way until Seylin and other goblins come and take Sable and Irina. Thorn is able to track the kidnappers within a couple of days. Since she was able to go outside during the full moon, he saw that she was healed and began stalking her. His skill as a hunter enabled him to evade guards. An argument between Til and Catspaw gives Thorn the distraction he needed to try to steal Sable back, but Tinsel catches him. Out of revenge for how he treated Sable, Tinsel put spells on Thorn that made him scared of everything and gave him bad dreams. Marak put protective spells on him also to stop him from hurting himself or others. Willow and Rowan have to take care of him for years until Nir comes and takes the enchantements away. The three elves join Nir's band, but Thorn isn't allowed to marry anyone because of the way he treated Sable. Years later, the husband of an elf woman, who Thorn is friends with, dies and out of compassion for her, he brings her her food, as elf husbands do. Nir gives them to option to marry or stop the sharing of food. They choose to marry.

Tibir (first) - the elvish fiancee of Lim and the elf King's Chronicler. He appears in The Story of Lim and Marak Blackwing. He contracts with Lord Girzal for Lim because he finds her interesting even at the age of twelve. When Aganir Zal decides to push Lim into marrying Marak Blackwing in exchange for her father's release, Tibir is sent away so he can't talk her out of it.

Tibir - a 10 year old elf who appears in In the Coils of the Snake. He is the oldest of the children in camp.

Usan -he is the elf King named Evening and the son of Nir and Miranda. He appears in the short story, Parisian Judgement, where he competes with Marak Boartusk over who gets to marry the human girl, Colette. He gives her up when she judges the competition between the as a tie. She ends up marrying Boartusk. Usan is described as "very handsome, with an ethereal beauty that properly belonged to the angels. He had black hair and lovely black eyes, and he looked noble and young."

Willow - an elf man from Sable's camp. He is a teenager in Close Kin and appears as a grown man with a wife during In the Coils of the Snake. He is the one who hits Seylin when he tries to leave the camp with Emily. As a result, the goblins put him, Rowan and Thorn to sleep and take Sable and Irina. After Thorn is cursed by the goblins for trying to take Sable back, Willow and Rowan have to take care of him until Nir finds their band and releases him from the spells. Willow and his friends join Nir's band, where he finds a wife and becomes a guard.

U-Sakar - the son of the lord of the Bright Shoulder Star camp and the unwitting elf King imposter. He is known as the elf King named New Moon. The human wife of Aganir Melim-bar, the elf King named Saturn's Ascent, switched her son with U-Sakar in order to break the cycle of human women who are stolen and discarded by the elf Kings. U-Sakar is described as handsome, vain, moody, and fickle. He couldn't be persuaded to marry for years since only the elf King is capable of feeling an interest in human women. In the 18th year of his reign, he sees Belinda, the betrothed of the master of Hallow Hill, William. Satisfied with her beauty, U-Sakar steals and marries her. He uses the amnesia drink to clear her memory and force her devotion, but she doesn't love him. She also fails to give him a son since their marriage is steril. The elf King is the only elf man capable of conceiving a child with a human woman. U-Sakar watches William from afar, jealous because he can't understand how Belinda could love William but not him. When U-Sakar's guards catch William trying to approach Belinda, he turns his rival into a stag and hunts him. When Belinda sees William's locket around the neck of the stag, she kills herself with her husband's knife. After this, U-Sakar refuses to marry again. He takes on dangerous practices, because of his doubts over his magical abilities since his powers weren't strong enough to keep his wife from committing suicide. Since he really isn't the elf King, he has no defense magic, so while he is in the form of a white fox, a trap snaps his neck.

Zal - the elf King named Dawn. He is the grandfather of the last elf King before Aganir Ash. He appears in The story of Lim and Marak Blackwing. He is described as "a petty windbag, egotistical and vain." He can't hunt and puts his own fun over the protection of his people. When Lord Girzal is kidnapped by the goblins, he pushes Lim to marry Marak Blackwing to secure the lord's release.

Other
King's Wife Charm - a magical charm placed on the King's Wife for her protection. It is in the form of a sword before it is placed on a Wife and morphs into a snake during the King's Wife ceremony. It protects it's charge from danger from others and from suicide attempts. If someone attacks the King's Wife, Charm bites them and reports back to the King so he can exact revenge.

Door - the door that guards the goblin kingdom. It follows certain orders on who to allow in and out of the kingdom.