Duty and Honor

Abby is the main character in the book. When her daughter, Jana, and the rest of her family and village are taken, Abby is consumed with finding a way to save them. Her quest often seems to focus on Jana more than the others. Abby slowly begins to see that there are things that are more important than her one daughter. Even if they are not more important to her as an individual she realizes that she is condemning every other person in her country if she helps Panis Rahl succeed in capturing and killing Zedd. While Abby's duty and honor are themes that are often in conflict with what she considers duty and honor to her child, the reader will see that she is unable to betray what she knows to be right in the end.

Zedd is a character that the reader sees already...