Their affair is discovered and her foster sister Chiro ends up betraying them by telling Thiago. The two end up falling in love despite being on opposite sides in the war and despite the fact that Thiago, The Warlord's son, had placed a claim on her. Madrigal finds Akiva at Bullfinch and saves his life by binding his wound. When she was fourteen years old, Issa teaches Madrigal about the human story of the wishbone. Under Brimstone's guidance, Madrigal learns about magic, teeth, and how to arrange them to create revenant bodies for Brimstone's resurrection magic. When Madrigal was ten years old, she was chosen by the youth mistress to become Brimstone's page. There, she was adopted by a family of the Sab tribe because they could 'keep up with her.' They had a daughter named Chiro around Madrigal's age. Madrigal and the survivors went to Loramendi. The only survivors she found were a handful of elders hidden deep in the caves who had managed to save only the very smallest of the babies, one of whom was Ziri.

She returned to the aftermath of the slave raid. She survived the attack because she hadn't been home at the time. She was around seven years old when she was orphaned by the seraphim. Madrigal grew up in the Kirin Caves of the Adelphas Mountains. Despite being a trained solder, Madrigal was not naturally driven to war. She also was a curious worker that was one of the few people who grew close to Brimstone. She was brave when she faced evanescence. Madrigal was kind and considerate, she took mercy on Akiva even though he was a seraph.

She is slender and she has a lovely oval face with flawless skin. She is tall, and her legs are extremely long because of the antelope half. Her hair is described as being soft like the down of a bird. But since she was raised as a soldier and doesn't embrace beauty so easily, she keeps her hair cut short and close to the head and does not wear makeup or paint to enhance her features. Many other chimaera consider her to be beautiful, probably due to her high-human aspect. She has warm, brown eyes, that are large, deer-like, and very intelligent. Large bat wings grow out of her back, while gazelle horns curl and frame her face. From her knees down she has gazelle-furred legs with hooves.

Madrigal is a Kirin, one of the few chimaera races that have more of a human look to them, known as a high-human aspect.

A daughter of smoke and bone