The Healer's Keep

Main characters

Princess "Sara" Saravelda is the eldest daughter of Queen Torina and King Landen. She is fiery in spirit, yet very graceful in motion. She is highly gifted in the art of using gen, and is the first Firan to be seen at the Keep in over a hundred years.

Dorjan is the first Genoven, or Dreamwen, to come to the Keep in hundred of years. He is the son of Cabis Denon and a Charmal. His eyes are the same color as Maeve's.

Bern is a powerful Charmal who serves the Shadow King. He conspires to steal the gen from the Ellowens and the Keep and give it to the Shadow King.

Maeve is the daughter of Lila the Fair, a highborn, and Cabis Denon, a lowborn free. Outraged at his daughter's love for a lowborn, Lila's father marked her as a slave and threw her out of the house. Maeve, in turn, was raised as a slave, but managed to escape being marked. She has golden hair and skin, with the deep blue eyes of her father. She is able to tell a person's nature by touching them, and her mother tells her where to find the Dreamwen Stone before she dies. She also had a lovely singing voice. Falls in love with Jasper.

Jasper is a lowborn free who helps Maeve and Devin to escape. Later he falls in love with Maeve.

Evan is a young slave boy who works in the bathhouse with Maeve. He is marked by Lord Morlen, but his scars are healed through his dreams.

Orlo is an experienced slave who works in the bathhouse. Lord Morlen takes him along to search for Maeve and gives him vahss, a drug, to make him submissive.

Lord Morlen is an Ebrowen who can find people through their dreams.

After her marriage to Prince Landen, Princess Torina became the queen of Archeld and Bellandra. Many of her subjects are wary of her ruling after her father's invasion of Bellandra and her title as the Great Seer. She has three children: Saravelda, Dreena, and Veldon.

After marrying Princess Torina, Landen became the King of Archeld and reclaimed the country of Bellandra. He is the wielder of the Sword of Bellandra, yet has never used it to take another man's life. His three children are Saravelda, Dreena, and Veldon.

Minor characters

Lord Indol is the original owner of Maeve, Lila, Orlo, and Evan

Ellowen Renaiya is the mystic instructor who names the gifts of the Keep's students.

Ellowen Mayn is the Phytosen instructor at the Keep.