Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic Characters

For Real Farm GirlHow would you like waking up at dawn every day to cook, clean, and take care of the various animals? Sadima doesn't seem to mind it one bit.When she tracks down Franklin in Limòr...

Spoiled BratHahp comes from a pretty dysfunctional family, but they're so rich that he's led a super comfortable life. Okay, we'll come out and say it: he's a spoiled brat when he arrives at the wi...

Mr. OptimistWhen Sadima first meets Franklin, he helps her save her birthing goat's life. She thinks he looks "kind and calm and handsome" (11.34), and he has "dark brown eyes" (17.17) too. When he...

The Royal WeSomiss comes from a royal/noble family, which means money and a sense of entitlement. According to Franklin, Somiss "has as good a claim as ten or fifteen others" (45.50) to the throne...

Street KidWhen Hahp first sees Gerrard, he assumes he's some kind of messenger boy or whatever: He wore rough-woven clothes from some South End market stall. Sweat had plastered his dark curls agai...

Micah's such a good kid, we feel for him when bad stuff happens to his family. He runs a long distance from the family farm to the town of Ferne to get a magician to help his mom with a difficult b...

The manager of a store in the town of Ferne, Mattie has a "plump face" (3.9) and she is a friend to Micah's family. When the old magician lady is trying to haggle with Micah for a better price to h...

This shouldn't come as a big surprise, but losing your wife in childbirth can have a big impact on a person. Like Sadima and Micah's dad.Before his wife dies, we see a man who is happy and playful....

We hear her cries during childbirth, but unfortunately we only see her as a corpse. Micah walks in and sees this scene: The linens were stained with an ugly, deep red. No. Not red. Red-brown. The b...

The magician who agrees to come help Micah's mom give birth is pretty shady. For one thing, she doesn't even agree to come until she's promised five silver pieces. And then, she "bit down on each c...

How much of a jerk is Hahp's dad? We're not even really sure where to start.First, Hahp's dad clearly abuses Hahp and his mother. Like when Hahp's mother starts to protest about something small, sh...

We feel bad for Hahp's mom—she's like one of those little lap dogs that has a pretty coat but is always afraid of getting stepped on. When she escorts Hahp to the academy, "She was holding hersel...

Levin is a boy that Hahp knows from boarding school (8.9). They're sorta like friends, since Hahp remembers their times together fondly: "He had helped me memorize succession lists in third form, w...

Gabardino is the driver who works for Hahp's dad. Overall he acts like a loyal servant, doing exactly what Hahp's dad says: "Gabardino reined in, pulling the stallion to a halt when my father told...

Celia works in Hahp's dad's household as a cook and servant. We know from Hahp that "She was always up early. She sang softly, almost constantly, as she fed fires, kneaded dough, ground herbs, made...

Kary is "a woman in a lovely blue dress" (15.7) who stops her carriage and offers Sadima a lift the rest of the way to Limòri. We know that she's rich (carriage, duh, plus she lives on Ferrin Hill...

Maude is a fortune-teller in Limòri whom Sadima befriends upon her arrival. She is "a loud-voiced woman with her lips and fingernails painted black—and a stack of intricately inked fortune cards...

Rinka owns a cheese shop in Limòri. When Sadima wanders in to look for a job, she sees her like this: "The woman inside wore a close-fitting cap, embroidered with flowers and vines. Wisps of grayi...

While Hahp is in the academy, he tries to learn the other boys' names without seeming too obvious about it. At one point he notices Levin calling out to a boy named Jordan while "reaching out to st...

One of the boys in the academy is named Tally, and after Somiss makes the first round of food appear, a boy named Will begs him to share some of his food, saying "You know me. We went to Argents to...

This boy begs Tally to share some of the food that Somiss manifested for them, and Tally refuses (22.20). And after Somiss announces a period of starvation until the boys can memorize a song, Will...

Luke is a "tall blond boy" (26.3) who talks with Levin at the academy. He's rooming with Jordan, who says when Luke wants to be first to try making food with the stone: "You have to be first at eve...

This is another boy at the academy. Someone wishes him good luck when he attempts to make food using the stone (28.20), and Hahp assumes that he has died late in the story, when Rob stops coming to...

Joseph is one of Will's roommates at the academy. He's "almost as big as Luke, but he always stood with his shoulders rounded and his head down" (28.11). At one point he asks Franklin when they'll...

Sadima meets this woman at the water well in Limòri. She looks pretty exotic: She was dressed head to toe in rust red robes embroidered with many colors… Her hands were tattooed in swirling patt...

Hannah is a "heavy, round-faced woman" (37.9) who comes to sing some of the old songs for Somiss. Since Somiss isn't there, Sadima greets her at the door and learns the songs from her. She and her...

Rinka hires Sadima to help in the cheese shop because, as she says, "My youngest sister is heavy with child—she lost her last one and none of us wants her working now, so we are in need of help"...

One beggar boy in Limòri catches Sadima's attention: He had a cheerful demeanor, and a terrible scar. Someone had tried to cut his throat, the knife sliding up behind one ear as he fought for his...

When Sadima and Franklin return home from Market Square one day, they witness something strange: "A boy of nine or ten was running down the stairs, his mouth bleeding through the fingers of his rig...

Hahp thinks about his brother Aben pretty frequently while he's at the academy. Thing is, applications to the academy are always done in secret, so Hahp has no idea what his father told Aben about...

This fellow buys milk from the goats that Micah and his dad are raising. His wife in turn makes cheese; she "clabbered, salted, and pressed the cheese that half the folks in Ferne ate" (5.14). Arra...

On King's Day, which is like a holiday, Sadima gets to see the king in a parade around Limòri. She witnesses some pretty fancy stuff: "The king was just coming, his carriage making a slow turn at...

The queen accompanies the king in the King's Day parade, so Sadima gets a chance to see her: The queen was young, lovely, her gown the color of a full moon. The sleeves were enormous, puffed out at...

In the King's Day parade, the crown prince makes an appearance, waving and "using a cane to steady himself" (45.46). When Sadima asks Franklin if the prince is lame, he answers: "They say it was an...

Laran is one of Mattie Han's daughters, who has dark hair (13.1). She is, according to Sadima, "as kind and good-hearted as Mattie" (13.6). Micah asks her to marry him, and presumably she accepts (...

This woman is the landlady from whom Somiss and Franklin rent their apartment in Limòri.

Is this horse-wrangler a jerk? Yeah, pretty much. When he's having men beat a gray horse that won't behave, he says: "Get that animal out of my barns… I don't want anyone hurt" (9.51). Because, y...

There are a whole bunch of wizards in the academy, and we never learn most of their names. They wear robes, and they give the boys orders and lead them around the tunnels. They seem oblivious to ho...