Julia Wicker

Julia Wicker is a childhood friend of Quentin's. Following an unsuccessful interview for Brakebills on the same day as Quentin, she works to learn magic from other sources. Eventually, she finds Free Trader Beowulf, a group of hedge witches like herself, and she moves to Murs in France to study with them. Following an accidental summoning of Reynard, the trickster god, in which she is raped and has her humanity taken, she finds Eliot and Janet and travels with them and Quentin to become a Queen of Fillory. During a quest to restore magic to Fillory, the goddess she had intended to summon makes her a dryad, and she becomes a demigod, after which she goes to look after the other side of Fillory. Grossman has stated that she is very like what he was like in his twenties, when he "really got lost in the way that she does",^[1] and in writings about his own struggles with depression has used similar phrasing to the way he describes her.