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Kaz Brekker, also known as Dirtyhands and the "Bastard of the Barrel", is seventeen and a master thief with a reputation for doing anything for the right price. He is
haphephobic due to a traumatizing incident in his childhood and has a limp in his right leg from an improperly healed break. He is described as very pale, with dark hair and dark brown eyes. He uses a cane with a crow's head top as a mobility aid and, occasionally, as a weapon. Her family was a travelling troupe and her act was
tightrope walking, making her extremely agile and light-footed. She was kidnapped by slavers when she was fourteen and forced into working in a brothel before Kaz bought her
indenture. She's described as short, with bronze skin and black hair, worn in a braid. •
Wylan Van Eck is a sixteen-year-old disowned merchant's son with a penchant for chemistry and demolition. He can not read, but is an excellent mathematician, chemist, and musician. He is described as having curly red-blonde hair, blue eyes, and pale skin. •
Matthias Helvar is an eighteen-year-old former
drüskelle (Grisha-hunter) from Fjerda, who is conflicted between his hatred for Grisha and his feelings for Nina. He is the oldest, tallest, and most muscular of the group, with pale skin, shaved blond hair, and blue eyes. He is religious and follows
Djel, the Fjerdan god. •
Nina Zenik is seventeen, and is a powerful Grisha Heartrender and former soldier and spy for the Ravkan Second Army. She has fair skin, thick brown hair and green eyes, and is described as round and voluptuous. •
Jesper Fahey is a seventeen-year-old Zemeni sharpshooter with a gambling problem. He is described as being tall and lanky, with dark skin, and grey eyes. He is a Grisha but hides it to avoid being kidnapped or killed. •
Jan Van Eck is a rich man and a prominent merchant who sits on Ketterdam's Merchant Council. He is Wylan's abusive father. •
Pekka Rollins is the leader of the Dime Lions gang and Kaz's main adversary. == Reception ==