nor so wide as a church door

Well, some of them are people you've met before; they just weren't focused on in book one. But yes. Notes. I keep saying I am going to make a wiki for the series; maybe this will be the year? The literal cast of thousands is intimidating. Also the way the backstory is wound through all the novels--people will reminisce for a paragraph in the middle of an action scene, and then go back to acting, and then two books later they'll finish the reminiscence, and every time I sit down to write fanfic for the series I am petrified that I have forgotten something.

KIRIEL. I love that she is so convincingly not-quite-human. And doing good things, not because she is good, but because goddamit no one is going to boss her around, not even her dad.