Thomas J Ward grew up on a farm. He’s the seventh son of a seventh son so he has six older brothers only his oldest brother who inherited the farm lives there the others are scattered throughout the country with either their own jobs or apprenticeships. His mother is a benign witch that worked as a midwife before leaving for her home country of Greece after Tom’s father died. He noticed his abilities rather early one of the most notable is that the ghastly in hangman’s hill frightened him and kept him up at night. He can be rather impulsive when driven by emotions which tends to make him take more risks He’s John Gregory’s apprentice.

John Gregory is a tall old man with a grey beard. He’s rather strict and doesn’t like anyone that doesn’t follow his rules. He can be quite harsh towards his apprentices as he believes that praising them can lead to them becoming too proud or arrogant which could get them killed if they weren’t careful enough. He originally was training to be a priest but entered a relationship with one of his older brothers fiancée which caused his brother to break the engagement and John to stop training as a priest since priests aren’t allowed to have romantic relationships. This relationship didn’t last. He’s Thomas’s teacher.

A daughter of both the Malkin and Deane with clans. Her parents were violent people both to each other and her. When Alice’s parents died she felt no grief for them. A while after her parents death she started living with her aunt Bony Lizzie who was a bone witch. Bony Lizzie started Alice’s training as a malevolent witch. She had Alice trick Tom into giving one of the witches trapped in a pit in the Spooks yard cakes that had Alice’s blood in them to regain her strength. Later she helped Tom escape a bit that Lizzie had trapped him in until he died and she could steal his bones. After Lizzie’s defeat Alice went to live with another family member that wasn’t a witch but was accused of being a witch and got killed for it. She eventually ends up living with Tom and John Gregory at the spooks house. Her and John have an uneasy relationship with him not trusting Alice fully which admittedly does make sense as she sometimes does use dark magic even if she thinks it’s for a good reason. She calls John Gregory Old Gregory. She is very protective of Tom and is a love interest for him.