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Characters in The Heir Chronicles
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| Name | Description |
| Barber, Warren | Alumnus of the Havens |
| Bayoumi, Emi | Healer who works in the Dispensary at the Anchorage |
| Benning, Lucile | Night nurse at Safe Harbor |
| Bolingame, Iris | Glass artist; resident of Trinity |
| Booker, Millicent (Min) | Grandmother of Madison Moss |
| Boykin, Tyler Greenwood | Emma’s father, a sorcerer and guitarist |
| Brodie, Jeanette | Sorcerer-healer, survivor of Thorn Hill |
| Brooks, Jeremiah | Jack’s sparring partner from 18th century America |
| Burroughs, Granville | Wizard, ambitious assassin member of the Black Rose |
| Butterfield, Mose | Seer savant, Thorn Hill survivor, lead guitarist and singer, Fault Tolerant |
| Childers, Ross | Police officer in Trinity; uncle to Will Childers |
| Childers, Will | Best friend of Jack Swift’s; good friend of Ellen Stephenson’s; nephew to Ross Childers, a police detective |
| Conroy, Peter | Alumnus of the Havens; heavyset, nervous, glasses, suffers from asthma |
| DeMint, Cameron | Apprentice in The Black Rose, wizard |
| DeVries, Andrew | Wizard and founder of the Black Rose, a syndicate of gifted assassins |
| DeVries, Rachel | Wizard, daughter of Andrew, younger sister of Rowan, in training with the Black Rose |
| DeVries, Rowan | Wizard, son of Andrew DeVries, wizard; reactivates the Black Rose in response to wizard killings |
| Diaz, Natalie | A gifted healer savant who can spot disorders through the skin. Drummer of Fault Tolerant. |
| Downey, Becka | Mother of Jack Swift; teaches literature at Trinity College and practices law |
| Downey, Linda | Aunt to Jack Swift; sister to Becka Downey |
| D'Orsay, Claude | Master of the Games for the Wizard Council; plots with |
| D'Orsay, Devereaux | Son of Claude D'Orsay |
| Dugard, Jarrett | Thorn Hill survivor savant. European shadeslayer; ability with languages |
| Eggars, Wayne | Alumnus of the Havens, physician in the clinic there |
| Elliott, Graham | Wizard, apprentice in The Black Rose |
| Fitch, Harmon | Friend of Jack and Will; computer systems expert for Trinity High School |
| Fortenay, Therese | Savant, Thorn Hill survivor, slayer of French-Canadian background, assigned to Europe |
| Foster, Mercedes | Weaver; resident of Trinity |
| Greaves, Lilith | Sorcerer, killed at Thorn Hill; a shade who is organizing shades to take revenge on mainliners |
| Greenwood, Emma Claire | A sorcerer savant, Thorn Hill survivor, with a gift for making and playing musical instruments that can drive emotion and control behavior |
| Greenwood, Sonny Lee | Sorcerer, luthier in Memphis, Claire’s paternal grandfather |
| Hackleford, Brooke | Wizard, daughter of Nancy Hackleford, apprenticed to the Black Rose |
| Hackleford, Nancy | Wizard, assassin member of the Black Rose |
| Haley, Jason | Student at the Havens with Seth McCauley |
| Hall, Martin | Alumnus, vintner for Second Sister |
| Hanlon, Aaron | Alumnus of the Havens; handsome, articulate, a trusted assistant to Gregory Leicester |
| Hardesty | Wizard with the Black Rose |
| Harkness, Jay | Friend of Garrett Lobeck; player on the Trinity High School soccer team |
| Hart, Gwyneth | |
| Hastings, Leander | Teacher to Jack Swift; former lover of Linda Downey |
| Hays, Bruce | Alumnus of the Havens |
| Highbourne, Blaise | Silversmith; resident of Trinity |
| Houghton, Denis | An attorney with the firm of Sloane, Houghton, & Smythe, Seph's legal guardian |
| Hudson, Hilary | Wizard; mother of one of the kidnapped mainliner children from Trinity (Alistair) |
| Hughes, John | Alumnus of the Havens; systems expert for the school |
| Joplin, Mike | Shadeslayer; a savant who reflects wizard charms back at them; LA based |
| King, Kenyon | Alumnus of the Havens; phys ed teacher |
| Kinlock, Jonah | Enchanter savant, Thorn Hill survivor, whose family was killed in the attack on Thorn Hill; now a Nightshade assassin |
| Kinlock, Kenzie | Younger brother of Jonah, fragile, telekinetic, a gifted composer and computer hacker |
| Leicester, Gregory | Headmaster at the Havens |
| Leonard, Bruce | Friend of Garrett Lobeck; player on the Trinity High School soccer team |
| Lobeck, Garrett | Football star and Trinity town bully |
| Longbranch, Jessamine | Procurer of warriors for the White Rose |
| Mandrake, Gabriel | Sorcerer, rock promoter, club owner, founder of the Anchorage, a school for damaged Weir; a gift for creating ink art that protects and controls others |
| McCartney, Ray | Lawyer in Coalton County, in love with Carlene Moss |
| McCauley, Joseph (Seph) |
Orphan with a mysterious past |
| Middleton, Alicia (Leesha) | Former girlfriend of Jack Swift |
| Morrison, Sylvia | Seer, mother of Olivia Morrison, one of the children kidnapped from Trinity |
| Moss, Carlene | Mother of Madison Moss; waitress in Coalton County |
| Moss, Grace | Younger daughter of Carlene, sister of Madison Moss; lives on Booker Mountain in Coalton County |
| Moss, John Robert | Son of Carlene; brother of Madison Moss; lives on Booker Mountain in Coalton County |
| Moss, Madison | Art student from southern Ohio; works at the Legends Coffee House |
| Penworthy, Leotis | Principal, Trinity High School |
| Perez, Ramon | Physical therapist at the Anchorage |
| Rice, Ashton | Alumnus of the Havens; music teacher |
| Richardson, Elliott | Alumnus of the Havens; teaches mathematics at the school |
| Roper, Brice | Son of the owner of Roper Coal; neighbor of Madison Moss in Coalton County |
| Roper, Bryson | Owner of Roper Coal, wealthy businessman |
| Severino, Rudy | Sorcerer savant, gifted with digital systems; plays keyboards and vocals, Fault Tolerant; in a relationship with Natalie Diaz |
| Shaw, Alison | Warrior savant and Thorn Hill survivor; Nightshade assassin whose family was murdered by the Black Rose; fading |
| Silkie | Asian slayer, operative for Nightshade |
| Snowbeard, Nicodemus | Caretaker; teacher to Joseph McCauley and Jack Swift |
| Somerset | Wizard with the Black Rose |
| Stephenson, Ellen | High school student; new to Trinity, OH; volunteer soccer coach |
| Struthers, Rachel | Cousin of Madison Moss; owner of the Legends Inn |
| Swift, Jackson | High school student in Trinity, Ohio |
| Swift, Thomas | Jack’s father, lives in Boston |
| Thorne, Margo | Wizard, apprentice with the Black Rose |
| Weed, Dimitri | Sorcerer, sleek and appealing. Independent skin art therapist. |
| Witcraft, Martha | Nurse practitioner at the Dispensary |
| Wylie, Geoffrey | Killed Leander Hastings’s family; warrior master |