Dulcinea Orta (2024)

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What race is Harrowhark? ›

Out of 25 characters, only two are explicitly portrayed as people of color – Jeannemary Chatur and Colum Asht. Gideon is white*, and Harrow's race is ambiguous, especially given that she is covered in face paint for the vast majority of the book.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus (HA-row-hark Noh-nah-GUESS-i-mus) is the Ninth Saint to the Serve the King Undying, formerly known as the Reverend Daughter of Drearburh and Heir to the House of the Ninth.

Harrow is a deeply repressed prude and religious figurehead. She's literally a nun. Hell, one of the very first things Harrow does when she wakes up in Harrow the Ninth is try to cover her face, be it with her own blood and torn up sheets if necessary.

Cavalier secondary to the Ninth House, Harrow Nova exists only in Harrow's imagination as she is dying of a rapier wound during the Battle of the Mithraeum, and is the imaginary alternative to Harrow if she had not been born a necromancer.

There are no labels and no one ever explicitly states what genders they are or are not attracted to, but even so Gideon is clearly sapphic and this is never portrayed or perceived as being odd or unusual.

Harrow professes her love to Alecto, who, not knowing how to kiss, bites Harrow in the mouth, saying "this is how meat loves meat." Remembering her vow to Anastasia, Alecto swears loyalty to Harrow.

As he dies, and in accordance with his plan with cavalier Camilla Hect, Palamedes Sextus crafts a single theorem tying his soul to his body on a cellular level. He constructs a small bubble of space "on the bank" of the River that allows him to retain his sense of self as a revenant.

The Resurrection Beast is repelled by Ortus the First, whose true name is actually Gideon, alongside Matthias and the ghosts, but Harrow's consciousness is either unwilling or unable to return to life.

Stephanie answers “Why does Harrowhark call Gideon "Griddle"?” — Gideon the Ninth Q&A. Jennrin asked this question about Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1): Why does Harrowhark call Gideon "Griddle"? Stephanie It's an insult, like calling someone dumb.

Gideon the Ninth left off with our heroine Gideon dead. Gideon sacrificed herself so that her true love Harrow could absorb Gideon's soul and become a Lyctor, one of the immensely powerful and un-aging necromantic saints who serve the Emperor-God of this system of necromantic cults.

What is Harrowhark the saint of? ›

Her inability to be kept down makes Harrowhark the Saint of Resilience. And that's it for the crew! If you disagree, I'd love to hear it.

The book picks up right after the end of Gideon the Ninth, but Harrow has cast a spell on herself to forget all about Gideon. The goal is to keep Gideon's spirit alive within herself until she can find a way to resurrect her.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus

She is 17 years old in Gideon and turns 18 during Harrow. Harrow is the heir apparent to the Ninth House of the Nine Houses. As the Reverend Daughter, Harrow believes it is her solemn duty to shepherd her House, which is currently dying out.

Content warnings: Horror, graphic violence, character death, attempted murder and murder, body horror, gore, PTSD/trauma, mentions of suicide and suicidal ideation.

The Water Tribes are tribes at the north and south poles who are loosely based on the Inuit people. The Earth Kingdom is a large and diverse nation reminiscent of ancient China that is highly decentralized. The Fire nation is based on Imperial Japan, and they have been at war with the other nations for a century.

Shadow is a racially ambiguous character with “coffee and cream” skin and a mother who may have been either Native American or African-American. Oftentimes, when the physical descriptions of a book character are that loose, the tendency in Hollywood is to cast a white actor.

Héctor Neris (born June 14, 1989) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB).

Pagan Min's character, in general, confused many players. He's of Asian descent, born in Hong Kong in 1966, but he also speaks fluent English with a strong British accent.