The Wingfeather Saga

Janner is the determined oldest brother, whom Nia (Mother) and Podo (Grandfather) expect to protect the others, Tink and Leeli. At the end of the book, in a treehouse built by Esben's brother, Artham Wingfeather (aka. Pete the Sock Man) Janner learns that his Father was King of Anniera, (The Shining Isle,) his Mother, Queen of Anneria, (The Shining Isle,) and receives a book, written (some assume) by the Maker himself. (the book is later called "The First Book" and Oskar Noss (N.) Reteep begins to translate it, finishing translating it in the Green Hollows, in a place called Ban Rona, where it is later stolen by a man named Bonifer Squoon)

Tink (Kalmar, his birth name as mentioned early on in the book) is constantly hungry and ready for mischief with his brother, such as exploring in the nearby dangerous woods. At the end of the book On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness it turned out that Tink happened to be the King of Anniera, (The Shining Isle) after his father, Esben Wingfeather, (supposedly) died. In The Monster in the Hollows (the third book) Esben Wingfeather appears, as a cloven, and is later transformed into a majestic Bear, and he is killed by Rudrec, the Keeper of Ban Rona, the place that the Wingfeathers flee for safety. After Esben died, Kalmar takes the full role as King of the Shining Isle. Starting in the book North! or be Eaten, he assumes the name Kalmar.

Leeli is kind, musically talented, and crippled, but is brave and can be surprisingly fast on her crutch when she has to be. She is gifted a Whistleharp, that originally belonged to her great-grandmother, Madia, Queen of Anneria, though it had been in Anniera since the Second Ephoc.

Podo tends the garden, protects the family, and tells stories of his former wild life as a pirate at sea. A dragon bit off his leg, in a story told in the book North! Or be Eaten and he replaced it with a peg leg, (often described as a stump) that was strapped to his leg.

Nia was a queen of Anneria, and she grew up in the Green Hollows. Her husband, Esben was the king of Anneria, and she supposed he was dead, after the fangs captured Castle Rysen, the Kings Palace. In the third book, The Monster in the Hollows, she learns that her husband Esben had been transformed into a Cloven, (a deformed creature, that was an outcast, a twisted thing created by Gnag the Namless, and then thrown into the Blackwood, residing in a place called the Clovenfast).

Artham was a man with talons, and attempted to hide them behind socks. He was later transformed into a variation of a hawk. He was Esben Wingfeather's brother.