Schulz Albert Nevin- With an IQ of 149, a zeal for cooking and a hatred of genocide, Schulz does his best to respect his elders and beat his best friend at any game. It doesn't get much easier, though, when you pass school with flying colors. His current teacher, Didra Grand, doesn't move him up a grade because he lacks the necessary maturity.
Schulz has never received instruction on how to use his "witchiness". An expert at improvising spells, Schulz also excels in teleportation. He cannot manipulate the dead, time, or the weather; limited mind control allowed him to gain an apprenticeship with Lamode.
Schulz's birthday falls on April 6th, the only time of the year when he gets presents. (His family doesn't celebrate Christmas.) His favorite dessert is chocolate chip pretzel boys with white hot chocolate.
Schulz is an only child, but considers his friend Kei-Shen as a brother and Lamode as a sister.
Ariel Sappho Victoire "Lamode" Miranda Sucre- The owner of the new Arryn bakery Sweet Crossed Stars, Lamode takes on Schulz as an apprentice baker- with misgivings. When not teaching Schulz how to temper chocolate or how to catch rampant gingerbread men, Lamode bickers and fusses about cleanliness and his eating habits. However, she cares for him like an annoying little brother, and he treats her like a bossy older sister.
Like Schulz, Lamode has never received instruction on how to use her magic. She does not improvise spell. With her magic she runs the kitchen as an assembly-line factory. Many of her popular pastries act lifelike. Her gingerbread men attempt to escape to the outside world while the pretzel boys take an alternative look at the literature. She makes her own chocolate and brews her own coffee, growing the beans in an upstairs room.
Lamode's birthday is on October 23rd. Her favorite holiday is Lent, her favorite color pink. She likes cream puffs filled with almond paste.
Celina "Sauna" Judith Vogel Nevin- Sauna is Schulz's mother, a retired genetic engineer, and a skilled gardener. She has both the power to puff out fire, grow long claws, and gain a superhuman body when the need arises. However, she can also make seeds sprout into thriving plants just by breathing on them.
Sauna hails from Blumenau, Brazil, where her 1930s grandparents were arrested for being Nazis. They owned a coffee plantation that the government confiscated; Sauna, however, retains that legacy and thus majored in agriculture. She studied at the University of Arryn, where she got her bachelor's degree in biotechnology; in Chicago, she got a masters in genetic engineering. A coffee company hired her in order to cultivate Florida plantations. Then it went bankrupt when Schulz was five; shortly before that, Sauna had to retire after fighting a bout of breast cancer. (Despite her current unemployment, her marriage to American citizen Albert Nevin earned her a green card when her worker visa expired.)
Sauna's birthday is May 7th. Her favorite dessert is raspberry pie, although she hates strawberries. She has a twin sister who she considers frivolous.
Krishna-Zheng "Kei-Shen" Song- Kei-Shen is a multi-talented musician, video-game player, and best friend. He can play the violin, piano, drums, and flute.
Kei-Shen hails from Rwanda, where he narrowly escaped the 1994 genocide thanks to Rukhmini Prasad's intervention; she and her husband Huang-Shi Song adopted him. They lived in Paris for six years until Huang-Shi got a job transfer to the US. They now live in Arryn.
Kei-Shen's birthday is July 7th. His favorite dessert is Parisian lemon sorbet.
Bolan Bartimaeus "B.B." Grand- B.B. is Lamode's beau, a second-year medical school student, and an aspiring fashion designer. He loves to sing with a tenor voice and can do a Rod Serling impression.
B.B. has lived in Arryn all his life with his sister Didi. His mother owned all of the land as cow pasture and sugarcane fields. When she committed suicide when he was ten and Didi fifteen, the land needed to be sold off to settle loans with the bank. Their father now lives in a condominium north of Yantu, the nearby city. They still own their childhood house, which is a Spanish mansion. B.B. lives in his old bedroom while Didi sublets the house to make ends meet.
His hair turned into blue spikes when a date with witch Ardic Bitera went badly (and it refuses to be redyed black or straightened); he also dated Mallory Gudgeon, but she showed no interest in a serious relationship. He thus has trouble with girls.
B.B.'s birthday is November 2nd. His favorite dessert is a peanut butter pretzel boy.
Dr. Herod Jacob "Herry" Bill- Dr. Bill is a successful dentist, businessman, and wrangler. He owns all of the hotel chains in the nearby town Yantu and most of the land in Arryn. A recent recession forced him to sell a bakery to Lamode Sucre, although he continues to promote her.
Dr. Bill lived in Germany for all his life until he met Cecily Vogel, Schulz's aunt, and moved to the US to be with her. They have been engaged for twelve years and counting. (Although Dr. Bill and Schulz are not related by marriage, they have a strong affectionate relationship.)
Dr. Bill's birthday is on February 23rd. His favorite dessert is mocha cake drowned in coffee liqueur.
Mallory Gitl Gudgeon- Mallory is a dedicated college student, Lamode's unofficial accountant, and a loyal customer. She can add up large sums in her head and calculate business profits and expenses in minutes. She is also a firm disbeliever in magic; not even her constant visits to the bakery have opened her eyes to Lamode and Schulz's antics.
Mallory grew up in Northern Florida, but she moved to Arryn to attend college and to fully sever ties with her mother. She works at the Candace University of Arryn to pay off part of her college tuition and stays in Didi Grand's house to avoid dorm expenses. A Social Economics major, she hopes to use her math skills to benefit the world.
Mallory's birthday is May 13th. Her favorite sweets is a cup of warm hot chocolate with a couple of pretzel boys, along with a paper filled with equations.