Thaniel Fox is a seventeen-year-old wych-hunter. His father, Jedriah Fox, had been considered to be the best in his field until his death, when Thaniel was eleven. Thaniel learned his trade from his father , then from Cathaline Bennett after his father died. Thaniel has worked since the age of fourteen. Blond and blue-eyed, he resembles his deceased mother, Chiana Roseleaf Fox, who had been murdered in a graveyard.