The Fifth Season Characters

Characters in The Fifth Season
 * Essun, a middle-aged woman from the small Midlats comm of Tirimo. She is a creche teacher, married to Jija, a stoneknapper, with a daughter named Nassun and a son named Uche.
 * Lerna, Tirimo's doctor, of the Resistant use-caste.
 * Rask Innovator Tirimo, the elected headman of Essun & Jija's comm
 * Syenite, an Imperial Orogene bearing 4 rings as a sign of her orogenic ability and rank
 * Feldspar, a 6-ringed Imperial Orogene and administrator at the Fulcrum in Yumenes, Syenite's assigned superior.
 * Alabaster, an extraordinarily powerful Imperial Orogene wearing 10 rings, Syenite's mentor and partner on the mission to Allia.
 * Asael Leadership Allia, a tactless local government official
 * Heresmith Leadership Allia, a higher ranking and more politic official.
 * Hoa, a boy with unusual pale white skin and strange powers, that Essun meets at a roadhouse after leaving Tirimo.
 * Tonkee, a trans commless geomest that Essun meets on the road. She is filthy, smelly, smart, and insatiably curious.
 * Damaya, a young girl from near the small comm of Palela, discovered by her family to be an orogene, and later trained with other "grits" at the Fulcrum.
 * Schaffa Guardian Warrant, the Guardian who comes to take Damaya from her family to the Fulcrum
 * Maxixe, a handsome, popular older grit training with Damaya at the Fulcrum.
 * Jasper, a grit who torments Damaya at the Fulcrum.
 * Crack, an unstable grit training with Damaya at the Fulcrum.
 * Binof Leadership Yumenes, a young girl of the Yumenes elite, who sneaks into the Fulcrum on a mission of curiosity.
 * Guardian Timay, one of the resident Guardians at the Fulcrum.
 * Innon, a pirate captain and feral orogene, second in headship of the island comm Meov.
 * Corundum: Syenite's baby son.
 * Ykka Rogga Castrima: a feral orogene and headwoman of the underground comm of Castrima.
 * Ruby Hair: a stone eater associated with Ykka.
 * Antimony: a stone eater seen in several locations
 * Hjarka Leadership Castrima: one of Ykka's trusted advisors.
 * Cutter, a feral Castrima Orogene and member of Ykka's informal council.
 * Eitz, a feral orogene boy that Schaffa discovers in a small Coaster comm.