Maternal grandfather of Violante.
Resa (Theresa) Folchart
Mo’s wife, Meggie’s mother, and Elinor’s favorite niece. She spent many years mute and enslaved by the evil Mortola after Mo unknowingly read her into Inkheart. Resa returns to the Inkworld in search of Meggie in Inkspell. By Inkdeath, she and Mo are expecting a second child, and she wishes to return to our world, even though the rest of her family does not. By following the dangerous craft she learned as the Magpie’s servant, she, too, shape-shifts into a bird—a swift—in an effort to save Mo and Dustfinger at the Castle in the Lake.
Rico
Fenoglio’s grandson.
Robbers
Blackbeard, Charcoal-Burner, Elfbane, Gecko, Grabber, Hedgehog, Hobo, Silkworm, Swindler, and Twofingers are among the band of robbers in Inkdeath. See also Snapper, Woodenfoot.
Rosanna
Youngest daughter of Roxane and Dustfinger; died of a fever while Dustfinger was stranded in our world.
Rosenquartz
Fenoglio’s peevish, put-upon, pink-colored glass man. Appreciative of Elinor’s frankness toward the author once she arrives in the Inkworld!
Roxane
Dustfinger’s wife, and a great beauty, with raven hair and alabaster skin. Mother of Brianna, Rosanna, and Jehan. Once a minstrel woman, she is now a healer and herbalist.
One of Violante’s child-soldiers.
Shadow
Known as Capricorn’s Hound in Inkdeath. A being whose touch, and even breath, brings death.
Slasher
Formerly Capricorn’s fire-raiser, now the Adderhead’s henchman.
Snapper
Robber, writer, and follower of the Black Prince. Saves Doria and Luc from hanging in Inkdeath.
Sootbird
Strolling player and unconvincing fire-eater. An informant to the Adderhead in Inkspell; serves the Milksop in Inkdeath.
Spelt-Mill
Scene of a terrible act of treachery in Inkspell.
Strong Man
Sugar, also known as the Wardrobe-Man
Servant of Mortola and then of Orpheus. A huge hired thug with rotten teeth.
Susa
Dead sister of Doria and Lazaro, buried in the graveyard of the strolling players.
Taddeo
Librarian in the Castle of Night.
Thumbling
The Adderhead’s bodyguard, notorious for cutting a thumb off every man he kills and turning the bone into a little-pipe to mock the Piper.
Tullio
Furry-faced page of the Laughing Prince; loyal to Violante.
Violante, also known as Her Ugliness
Daughter of the Adderhead, widow of Cosimo the Fair, mother of Jacopo. Her cruel nickname can be attributed to a large birthmark on her left cheek. Once heir to the realms of both Lombrica and Argenta, she despises her immortal father and plots his demise, recruiting an army of child-soldiers and enlisting the aid of the Bluejay in her scheme.
The eldest of Violante’s child-soldiers.
Wayless Wood
The forest south of Ombra, the place where Meggie and Farid arrive in the Inkworld.
White Book, also known as the Book
Bound for the Adderhead by Mo in Inkspell to give him immortality.
White Women
The servants of Death.
Woodenfoot
Robber with a stiff leg—not a fast runner, but a good cook.