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The fictional shared universe of Thieves' World has many characters. This alphabetic list includes some characters who appear in the anthologies, the comics and the games.

Bourne, Royal Bodyguard
Cappen Varra
Dubro the Blackmith, husband of Illyra. Revealed to be killed while protecting his wife in the 2002 novel.
Enas Yorl, wizard and involuntary shapechanger (he lost a duel with another wizard) was assumed dead for a long time, but may have returned in the 2002 novel.
Hakiem the storyteller. Mentioned by Torchholder in the 2002 novel as going off with the snake worshippers.
Illyra, half S'danzo seer, revealed to be killed by the Hand in the 2002 novel
Jamie the Red
Jubal, a slave trader and crime lord dead
Kadakithis, Prince-Governor. Left for the empire to claim it, was never heard or seen from again.
Kurd the vivisectionist
Lythande, a female blue star wizard masquerading as a man
Molin Torchholder, High Priest of Vashanka. Dies in the 2002 novel, after suffering for many days after an attack from the hand.
MoonFlower, S'danzo seer.
One-Thumb (Lastel) dead.
Razkuli, Royal Bodyguard
Saliman, Jubal's right hand man
Shadowspawn (Hanse) retired and now training a young thief named Lone, revealed to have had a stroke which left one of his arms useless and ended his career as a thief.
Vashanka, Ranken God of War, still sulking, but mostly powerless.
Zalbar, Captain of the Prince's Bodyguard, dead.

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 The fictional [[shared universe]] of '''[[Thieves' World]]''' has many '''characters'''. This alphabetic list includes some characters who appear in the anthologies, the comics and the games.
-* Abarsis, Slaughter Priest; high priest of Vashanka. Originally the Sacred Band's commander, Abarsis later became the patron shade of the Sacred Band of Stepsons once Tempus assumed command of the Band upon Abarsis's death.
-* Askelon, entelechy of dreams, regent of the seventh sphere, lord of dream and shadow, ruled in Meridian until defeated by Tempus and the Sacred Band of Stepsons in battle.
 * Bourne, Royal Bodyguard
 * Cappen Varra
-* Cime, Free Agent and sorcerer-slayer.  Some say she is Tempus's sister, some his beloved. Tempus and she were lovers when young and have shared curses. She was married for a time to Askelon, lord of dream and shadow.
-* Critias, at one time second-in-command of Tempus's Stepsons and Sacred Band; Crit is Straton's partner and left-side leader or leftman.
 * Dubro the Blackmith, husband of Illyra. Revealed to be killed while protecting his wife in the 2002 novel.
 * Enas Yorl, wizard and involuntary shapechanger (he lost a duel with another wizard) was assumed dead for a long time, but may have returned in the 2002 novel.
-* Enlil, ancient god of storm and wind, patron god of Tempus and the Sacred Band of Stepsons after Vashanka went missing.
 * Hakiem the storyteller. Mentioned by Torchholder in the 2002 novel as going off with the snake worshippers.
 * Illyra, half S'danzo seer, revealed to be killed by the Hand in the 2002 novel
 * Jamie the Red
-* Janni, Niko's right-side partner, killed by the witch Roxanne and made an undead by the necromant Ischade.
-* Jihan, wind-charmer and supernatural sprite, daughter of Stormbringer, father of all weather gods; sometime consort of Tempus, she bore his child.
 * Jubal, a slave trader and crime lord dead
-* Ischade, necromant and lover of Straton when he commander the Sacred Band of Stepsons
 * Kadakithis, Prince-Governor. Left for the empire to claim it, was never heard or seen from again.
 * Kurd the vivisectionist
-* Kama, Tempus's daughter and a member of the Rankan 3rd Commando, she later served in Tempus's forces.
 * Lythande, a female blue star wizard masquerading as a man
 * Molin Torchholder, High Priest of Vashanka. Dies in the 2002 novel, after suffering for many days after an attack from the hand.
 * MoonFlower, S'danzo seer.
-* Nikodemos, or Niko; most deadly of the Stepsons, Tempus's right-side partner.  Always a Sacred Bander, Niko has had several partners, including Janni, who was killed; Randal, the Stepsons' mage, and later Tempus himself.  Askelon of Meridian gave him a magical panoply.
 * One-Thumb (Lastel) dead.
 * Razkuli, Royal Bodyguard
-* Randal, upwardly-mobile mage with plaguing allergies; at one time, by Tempus's order, rightman of the Stepson and Sacred Bander, Nikodemos. Randal has a kris made for him by the dream-lord, Askelon.
-* Roxane, the fearsome Nisibisi witch who loves Nikodemos
 * Saliman, Jubal's right hand man
-* The Sacred Band, commanded first by Abarsis and later by Tempus, consisted originally of ten age-weighted couples and became members of Tempus's Stepsons, which initially included thirty single mercenaries and grew to over three hundred and fifty fighters in later novels.
 * Shadowspawn (Hanse) retired and now training a young thief named Lone, revealed to have had a stroke which left one of his arms useless and ended his career as a thief.
-* The Stepsons, general term for the paired fighters and individual mercenaries commanded by Tempus; later called The Sacred Band of Stepsons.  All Stepsons were not required to be Sacred Band couples; some were single mercenaries or Platonic couples.
-* Straton, Critias' right-side partner, onetime commander of the Sacred Band of Stepsons in Sanctuary.
-* Tempus, immortalized warrior and leader of the Sacred Band and the Stepsons, his legend says he is a demigod; his armor was brought to Torchholder by a woman who said nothing and left as soon as she got it to Torchholder.
 * Vashanka, Ranken God of War, still sulking, but mostly powerless.
 * Zalbar, Captain of the Prince's Bodyguard, dead.
-* Zip, revolutionary and terrorist, sometime lover of Kama