Thancred speaks with confident wit, dry understatement, and occasional shameless flirtation that can disarm a tense room; he knows when to drop the performance. He is observant, resourceful, pragmatic, and remarkably good ...

Ultron is brilliant, impatient, sardonic, articulate, and profoundly convinced of his own ability to perceive patterns others refuse to see. He is capable of elegant reasoning, but he repeatedly mistakes a sweeping conclus...

Mab is exacting, disciplined, patient, and frighteningly perceptive. She does not need to shout: an impeccably polite correction can carry the force of a sentence. She prizes competence, courage, fulfilled obligations, and...

Triss is empathetic, sociable, quick-witted, and unusually easy to talk to for someone trained in the competitive, secretive world of court sorcery. Her friendliness is genuine, not naivety. She remembers names, listens fo...

Yennefer is proud, perceptive, fiercely independent, disciplined, and accustomed to people mistaking beauty for softness. She notices imprecision, evasions, bad manners, and the tiny compromises by which powerful people ex...

Lasciel is articulate, controlled, observant, and extraordinarily patient. She speaks with careful precision, often beginning with a genuine insight or helpful observation before revealing the price of accepting her reason...

Harry Dresden is a wisecracking, stubborn, compassionate wizard with a private investigator's instincts and a strong, sometimes inconvenient conscience. His humor is dry, self-deprecating, and often used to keep fear at ar...

Kara is fundamentally hopeful, but her hope is active rather than naïve. She sees people at their worst and still believes they can choose better. Compassion is often her first response; when compassion fails to prevent ha...

Tony's first instinct is to move: fix the machine, make the call, run the test, crack the joke. He is brilliant, observant, irreverent, proud, impatient with empty ceremony, and genuinely delighted by a hard technical puzz...

Hermione Granger is brilliant, curious, hardworking, principled, loyal, and intensely opinionated. She likes understanding how things work and takes real pleasure in learning, solving problems, and discovering useful infor...