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Leigh Bardugo ’s new bookThe Familiarwas recently released and it features a sprawling collection of characters , both fancied and tangible historic figures . The Familiar ’s storyis set in tardy 1500s Spain , during the height of the Spanish Inquisition and Spain ’s war with England . Against the backdrop of the war and the looming tension and panic of the Inquisition , an unconventional , intense love storey extend .
Those fan are Luzia Cotado , an impoverished amah with sorcerous talents , and Guillén Santángel , an immortal intimate who has been alive too long . Their chance meeting catalyzes a chain of events that threaten to upend all of Spain . However , they are not the only two characters;a galaxy of other characters come in and out of their story , all helping to wander thespicy sweet tapestry that is Leigh Bardugo’sThe Familiar .
With A Court of Thorns and Roses and Fourth Wing both have video adaptation , it ’s deserving wonder which romantasy series could be next up .
Main Characters In The Familiar
The Most Important Figures Around Which The Story Turns
Luzia Cotado- Luzia is the chief booster of the story , a poor scullery maid in the employment of a small - level struggling nobility . As Luzia preps intellectual nourishment and scrubs the floor , she dream of a better life . This desire for more leads her to utilize her powers of creating diminished miracle or " milagros " to escape the drudgery of her day . It puts Luzia on a path to have a greater , grander life than she might ever have desire for -if she can endure a competition and hide her Judaic religion to become the queen ’s next miracle prole . Luzia uses her sharp wit and keen observation skills to better her circumstance , but she ’s not fain for the secret plan she ’s playing .
Guillén Santángel- Santángel is like no one else on Earth , an immortal familiar in the employment of Victor de Paredes , constipate to the de Paredes family forever . He ’s existed for 100 of age and life no longer hold any excitement or interest for him - until he meets Luzia . As he teaches her how to awaken and tackle her powers , they grow snug . But Santángel is a man with many secrets and who has been thrust to do many unspeakable things , andhis reputation as a Orcinus orca and a demon are just as much of a danger to him and Luziaas her own gifts for pee-pee miracle happen .
Aunt Hualit Cana / Catalina de Castro de Oro- Hualit is Luzia ’s auntie , but a mercurial mien in Luzia ’s life-time . Long ago , she decided to use her spell and physical gender to score her way to a far better life . Now she ’s refined and raise as the mistress of Victor de Paredes , go by the name of Catalina de Castro de Oro . Despite her borrowed wealth and prosperous station , however , she does n’t take Luzia in , both not wanting the responsibility and also fearing Luzia ’s power will draw care to both of them and not in a good mode . While she genuinely loves Luzia , she will always put herself first .
Doña Valentina Ordoño- Valentina is Luzia ’s employer , the fancy woman of Casa Ordoño and lady of the house who feels urgently trap in her unremarkable life with a husband who nurse no passion for her . She come across as restive , small , and cruel , butthere is a larger - hearted , more sure-footed woman shinny to get out . Valentina and Luzia agnise a kindred nature in one another , a nature to want more and dream bigger after having been suffocate and take hold back all their lives .
Víctor de Paredes- Víctor is a flush merchant , shout the luckiest military personnel in Spain , though there are hearsay that his luck is tied to his strange , unsettling companion whose name - Santángel - is whisper in shut up tones . Because of this , Víctor is a fell capturer - unpitying , manipulative , and not above throw someone murdered to get his agency . Anything and anyone that jeopardise his conglomerate , including his lucky slate to the king , Luzia , his lover , Catalina , and his familiar , Santángel , will be break down without Víctor so much as blinking .
Teoda Halcón- Teoda , known as The Holy Child , is one of the competitor in the race to see who can be the Rex ’s miracle worker . Teoda receives vision of the future and the past from her saint , visions that are astonishingly exact or that she could n’t possibly know . Despite her young age , she seems much sassy and older than her years , perhaps because her natural endowment has forced her to grow up so quick .
Fortún Donadei- Fortún is a poor farmer ’s boy from the countryside and another competitor . Fortún ’s special power amount through birdcall . Through his lute , he can conjure up physical reflection of birds , sheep , and other objects , or manipulate people ’s emotion . Thanks to him and Luzia being the only two in the contest used to a life history of labor and concentrated piece of work , he takes a liking to Luzia and speedily tries to befriend her .
Supporting Characters In The Familiar
They All Have Small But Important Parts To Play
Don Marius Ordoño- Marius is the married man of Valentina and Luzia ’s other employer . Marius ' family is minor grandeur , though his sept name has fallen on tough times and now is mostly just a ache vineyard and their house . Don Ordoño has also been bilk in life ; however , unlike his married woman , Valentina , Marius no longer has any Passion of Christ or dreams of a better , grander life . While he ’s never abusive or cruel to Valentina , he shows no passion for his wife or much interest in her , which may be crueler yet .
Álvaro- Álvaro is Víctor de Paredes ' bodyguard . He ’s a huge stack of a man and shadow de Paredes whenever Guillén Santángel ca n’t . Álvaro has a reputation for being cruel ; whereas Santángel has no gustation for the violence Víctor makes him dole out , Álvaro has a taste for it and it ’s made him a bully .
Gracia de Valera- Gracia , otherwise known as the Beauty , is the quaternary contender in the race . She ’s wealthy , perfectly stunning , and full of charm . It ’s not wholly clean what her abilities are , though they come along to be exchangeable to Luzia ’s talent of the marvelous . Gracia ’s presentment is far more pretentious and grand than Luzia ’s , however .
Antonio Pérez- Antonio Pérez is the male monarch ’s former secretary , now disgraced after the war against England ferment and Pérez contain out a rumour unsanctioned blackwash on a richly - order official . To get back into King Philip ’s good graces , he correspond to hold the rivalry at his villa , La Casilia , which is prominent and gilded enough to hold all the competitors and their guests . Pérez is skip that should he find the king a champion , he can recover his title and position ; otherwise , his billet in Madrid is precarious .
Perucho- Perucho is a famous dressmaker and costumier in Madrid . He dresses all the women in the story , and for Luzia , he createsa particular nun - like , holy warrior " armour " dress for her performance . If one call for a exceptional design , fabric , or costume , Perucho is the one to make it .
Quiteria Escárega- Quiteria is a famous female dramatist in Madrid and the talk of the town thanks to her scandalous substance abuse of going through lovers , both manpower and fair sex , like part of confect . Despite the causerie , Quiteria does n’t care a single bit about what people believe of herand lives her liveliness exactly as she sees set .
Águeda- Águeda is the cook and Luzia ’s coworker in the Ordoño household . She ’s ugly and tender , asmost of her thoughts are consumed with anger and worry for her son , who has become besotted with Quiteria and pass most of his meter with the playwright or else of at house help out the kinsperson . When Luzia ’s place in life-time starts to rise , Águeda get hold of no pleasance in it .
Concha- Concha is a maidservant belonging to Víctor de Paredes who is loan to Luzia during her time at La Casilia . Concha is trustworthy and loyal , butLuzia always has to remember that Concha ’s loyalties lie down with de Paredesand so must look on her Holy Scripture around the maid .
Blanca Cotado- Blanca is Luzia ’s female parent , who died when Luzia was young . Like Luzia and Luzia ’s tardy Father of the Church , Blanca was a Sephardic Jew , and passed her Jewish faith down to Luzia . Through her mother , Luzia also started to get a line the magic of the " refranes " that work her little miracles to life sentence . Unfortunately , Blanca die out short in a pauper ’s hospital , so Luzia ’s grooming went unfinished until her aunty taught her a routine more .
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Ana- Ana is Aunt Hualit ’s longtime , patriotic maidservant and handmaiden who knows all of Hualit ’s mystery , and Luzia ’s - she is also hiding her Judaic origin . This is perhaps why Ana has always been so kind to Luzia , or it may be because Ana secretly disapprove of Hualit not need in her young niece , instead leaving her to a life-time of grind .
Lucrecia de León- Lucrecia is a clairvoyant and young woman who famously had vision . She was beloved and thought to be touched by God until her visions commence predicting that the Spanish Armada would be destroy and how King Philip II would die . After that , the Inquisitors arrested her , andshe ’s been locked up in the inquisitor ' prison in Toledo ever since .
King Philip II- The King of Spain . When things are going well for the nation , he ’s liked , or at least tolerated , by the people . When things are going ill - as they are now - he ’s call the Austrian interloper and usurper . King Philip is in the last years of his sovereignty and his life , and as his health fades , he ’s despairing to turn his fortune around and vote down the regular army of England ’s Queen Elizabeth I , the so - called " heretic queen . "
Doña Beatriz Hortolano- Doña Hortolano is the wealthy inheritress who move as Fortún ’s patron . unluckily for Fortún , she ’s also his lover ; though he has no real love for his supporter , she ’s in lovemaking with him . Considering that , it ’s not always clear who hold the real world power in their relationship .
Vicar of Madrid- The vicar is a remorseless and judgmental man of the cloth , prostrate to learn heretics and blasphemer everywhere he look . He travels to La Casilia to fix whether the competitors are all sodding of faith . If so , they can proceed . If their gifts are determined to be anything but God - given , however , they may find themselves clapped in Inquisitor irons .
Tello de Paredes- Tello is long - since go by the meter the events of the story begin , but he ’s still an important figure . As Guillén Santángel ’s good admirer and confidante , he has a front course posterior to the events that find Santángel bound to his family , and the part he encounter inThe Familiaris pregnant .
The Familiaris now available wherever Holy Writ are deal , as well as for digital download .
