Kenna Rys

Kenna Rys is one of the main characters in "The Crown and the Flame" series along with Dominic Hunter, and is the new queen of Stormholt as of the end of Book 1. She is first seen in book 1, chapter 1. She is the daughter of King Marcellus and Queen Adriana Rys of Stormholt.

Appearance
Kenna has mid-length, brown hair, olive skin and brown eyes. Usually, she wears silver armor and a blue cape.

Personality
Kenna is a warrior and thinks that peace cannot be achieved by just words. She can sometimes be a bit sassy but she is generally a nice person. In Book 3, based on your choices, Azura mentions that Kenna is known worldwide for being stubborn.

Despite this, she is very smart and believes in justice and in doing the right thing.

Dominic Hunter
Kenna and Dominic have been friends since they were kids. They first met at the Beltane Festival. Kenna and Dominic can be best friends or lovers depending on the player's choices. When Kenna retreated to the Ruins of Rajkur, he became a spy for her.

Adriana Rys
Queen Adriana Rys is Kenna's mother. Even though Kenna isn't happy about the fact that her mother intends to choose her future husband for her, Adriana loves "her little butterfly" a lot and their relationship is very affectionate. In book 1, chapter 1, Adriana is killed by Nevrakis soldiers and Kenna swears to avenge her. Kenna becomes angry a lot when someone insults her mother or if they call her "The Fool Queen". She is suprised when she finds out that her mother was in love with Leon.

Garbriel Amarne
Gabriel is Kenna's bodyguard and mentor. She also considers him as a father figure and is grief-stricken when Helene kills him during the battle for Stormholt.

Raydan Lykel
Raydan is Kenna's friend who she met in Aurelia. A talented spy, he helps her escape from Prince Marco and helps defeat Marco and the Nevrakis soldiers that occupy the city. He is a potential love interest for Kenna based on the user's choices.

Val Greaves
Valentina is a talented mercenary Kenna and Gabriel meet at the mercenary camp in Book 1. She initially refers to Kenna's mother, the late Adriana Rys as "the Fool Queen", but Kenna can earn her respect. Within the camp, she seems to be a leader among the mercenaries, alongside Leon, who leads the former Stormholt soldiers. Despite her rough exterior, Val does have a caring side, and is a potential love interest for Kenna.

Annelyse Adair
Annelyse is the Queen of Aurelia and a close friend of Kenna. Early in her reign, she virtually eliminated poverty in Aurelia, and despite her initial characterization as a ditzy person, she is shown to be a smart, fair, and generous ruler, as shown when she agreed to give every soldier in Kenna's army golden mountain fangs. She is one of Kenna's potential love interests.

Whitlock
Whitlock is a young inventor and the leader of the Technocrats, a faction of engineers and inventors that live in the Foundry. When he was young, his right hand and left arm were cut off by a Nevrakis knight, and when he joined the Technocrats, Hex helped him make new prosthetics. He helps Kenna through the Labyrinth that leads to the Foundry, where he is revealed to be the leader of the Technocrats. He does not have much of a stomach for war or violence, but agrees to help Kenna take back Stormholt. He eventually becomes one of her close allies.

Marcellus Rys
Marcellus Rys is Kenna's father and was the King of Stormholt until he died. Since Kenna was a little girl when he died, his wife, Queen Adriana, became Stormholt's ruler. Not much is known about him, and it is only mentioned that he and his wife were very in love when he died and that he was well respected.

Family

 * Adriana Rys (mother)
 * Marcellus Rys (father)

Trivia

 * Kenna is shown on the cover of "The Crown and the Flame, Book 1", "The Crown and the Flame, Book 2" and "The Crown and the Flame, Book 3".
 * In chapter 5 of Book 1 of The Crown and The Flame, Kenna states that her name is Kenna Rhys, this was probably a writing error.
 * In The Freshman series, the Crown and the Flame is a TV series that the MC and her friends watch. In The Freshman, Book 3, the MC gets to be an extra during filming, and "meets" Kenna and Dom.