Who's Who in "Ring Of Fire"

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Aaron Flynn
The son of an itinerant Montaigne and an Inish mother, Aaron is a Glamour mage and a swordsman in the Anystyriol rapier fighting school. His main motivation is to recover his family's lost standing and the accompanying fortune. (His mother was disinherited by her rather severe Inish clan for loving one of the invaders.) Mr Flynn is a graduate of Bedegraine University, and lived on Inismohr for several years after his graduation. Recently, he has been taken, rather forcibly, under the wing of Sir Bors McAllister.

Adrienne Farquhar
Stunningly beautiful, Adrienne Farquhar has a great mop of fiery blonde hair like a halo. She often accompanies her father, Dalziel, the Bursar of Luthon, to social occasions, filling the role of her late mother. Adrienne is personable and helpful, and generally well-liked amongst society in both Luthon and Carleon. No one has ill to say of her.

the late Aidan McCodrum

Alleander, the Lord of Ravens
A noble of the Seelie Court, Alleander is the Lord of Ravens and protector of the western gate. Arrogant, haughty and cold, he is not a man to cross. When he caught the Castillian nobleman Domingo Esteban dallying with his wife, the Lady Nephrindel, Alleander turned him into a pillar of ice. It was only through the smooth diplomatic intervention of Sir Geraint Penarfion that the young Castillian was spared.

Sir Ambrose
One of the three Knights posted at the Chandler Street House in North Luthon. Sir Ambrose looks like a taller, skinnier version of Gary Oldman, or possibly the Count from 'Moulin Rouge'. He always speaks sotto vocce and gives the impression that he is thining a lot more than he is saying.

Angus "Black Angus" Ruthven
The captain of the Fragrant Swan, on which Rhuadh sailed for three years. The Swan, apparently, went to Maab's banquet table over a year ago, supposedly taking Black Angus and the rest of his crew with it.

Angus Wilshaw
A moderately corrupt member of Her Majesty's Customs & Excise, Angus Wilshaw was taking payoffs to turn a blind eye to Roderick Lipshaw and Stormont Cole's smuggling operation until he found out about what they were truly smuggling. Then he threatened to go to the authorities and wound up in the Severn with a knife in his back. Wilshaw had been widowed young. His sister-in-law, Michelle, lives in Luthon.

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Black Annie
This one-eyed pirate was the captain of The Nightfall until our heroes thwarted her attempts to smuggle samples of the virulent and deadly White Plague into Avalon, killed her crew and captured her vessel. Annie escaped and Sir Frach von Vickstein has sworn a Vow to bring her to justice.

"Bloody" Bonnie McGee

Doctor "Bonesaw" McKay
Acerbic Hebridean physician to Her Majesty's Eisen Irregulars, serving under Sir Lamorak.

Sir Bors McAllister
The so-called "Black Knight" has two faces. The public persona is of the loveable clown with the strong Hebridean accent. The man who goes everywhere in his signature yellow plaid pantaloons, who is always putting his foot in his mouth in front of the Voddacean Ambassador, who inevitably ends up with food on his collar after any formal occasion. But in private, Bors is Elaine's spymaster and one of her most trusted subordinates. Bors and the Queen have a don't-ask-don't-tell arrangement, where Bors does what must be done for the safety of the kingdom and Her Majesty looks the other way, taking the eyes of the law with her. Recently, he became a patron, of sorts, to Aaron Flynn and Rhuadh McCodrum, and Sir Geraint has been temporarily transferred from working under Sir Lamorak to work for Sir Bors.

the late Bruno
Bosun of The Nightfall. Bruno served under Black Annie for many years. He turned out to be pretty handy with a mooring pole in battle but was slain by Rhuadh McCodrum and Sir Geraint.

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Claude du Paix
A Montaigne translator and student of classical languages, Claude is a Lecturer at Balliol College, Bedegraine. He also moonlights for Sir Bors, doing some clandestine translations and decryptions - a minor hobby of his. Claude doesn't really stress the fact but the beautiful walking stick he often carries is actually a sword cane and he is accomplished in the Swanson school.

Count Cristobal de Lacce
The Vodaccean ambassador to Avalon.

Crow's Footprints
A famous thief who has been active in the Avalonian underworld for at least 50 years. Supposedly, it was Crow's Footprints who was responsible for the theft of the ??? Diamond from Lady Helena Caldleroy during the winter's eve party at Gorfyddys Keep.

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Dale O'Connor
A friend of Kate's, often found drinking at The Rest. Dale habitually wears round spectacles, a flat tweed cap and a little waistcoat. He is usually to be found reading, playing chess or talking is sotto vocce tones to the other unlikely patrons of The Rest.

Dalziel Farquhar
Dalziel Farquhar is the Bursar of Luthon, making him about as close to the role of Chancellor of the Exchequer as one can get in Avalon. Most of the civil administration remains in Luthon, which was of course the centre of all government during the occupation years. Farquhar is a plump, jovial man with a great bristly salt-and-pepper moustache like a walrus. He is a patron of the Knights of the Rose & Cross. His wife died of polio a few years ago and he has a close relationship with his sole daughter, Adrienne, who often accompanies him to social occasions.

Domingo Esteban
A young Castillian nobleman, sent to Avalon to study by his father, whose homelands have been possessed by the Montaigne occupation. Domingo has remained at Bedegraine, and in Avalon, because he is in love with the lady Nephrindel, a Princess of the Fair Folk. Our heroes rescued him twice: Once from Fenshire bandits, and once from Alleander, the Lord of Ravens who was unhappy to discover that Domingo had (unknowingly) cuckolded him. When Domingo recovered from his treatment at the hands of Alleander and Sir Geraint Penarfion stopped him from returning to Caer Einion to rescue her, Domingo became overwrought and said things he probably shouldn't have, demanding a sword and trying to attack Geraint. The upshot is that Domingo went to gaol for insolence to a Knight.

Count Dominic Rivers
With thick black ringlets falling to his shoulders, a pencil moustache and multiple chins, Count Dominic Rivers is the picture of foppish Avalonian petty nobility. Rivers's wife died several years ago, allegedly of the 'flu (although it is rumoured by some that it was a less savoury ailment). Kate identified Rivers as the man who was working with Stormont Cole, pretending to be the (fictional) brother Hugo of the late Angus Wilshaw.

Donald Imray

Baron Douglas Colby
One of the nobles of Fenshire, Baron Colby is a staunch Patron of the Knights of the Rose & Cross. He is a widower to the late Lady Heather Colby and father to Henrietta Colby.

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Elaine Duncan

Dame Elinor Reyes
A tough, no-nonsense woman in her late thirties, Dame Elinor is one of the Knights who serve under Sir Lamorak at the camp at Cam Dun. She is a journeyman of the Goodfellow archery school and a keen shot with the longbow. She is about as well-acquainted with the land around the camps as it is possible to be and Marek often depends on her for reconnaisance and other information.

the late Eloise McCodrum

Elspbeth Dobson
Elspbeth, or "Eppy" as she asks her friends to call her, is a kindly lady somewhere in her late 60's. She is of unspecified connection to the Avalonian nobility and lives in Carleon. Rhuadh met her at the Caldleroys' party and she mentioned to him that she had know Eloise, of whom she proclaimed him the spitting image.

Estelle
A jenny working at the Fighting Gobbler in south Luthon. Estelle is a lithe Montaigne lass who has grown up in Avalon. The first night that she met Aaron he chased her all over the tavern and eventually got... somewhere. The second time they met was the night that the Gobbler was burnt down. Estelle helped Aaron out by rolling an immense iron cauldron down the stairs, taking out some of Maurice Raboport's stinking crew.

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Farrar Mountjoy

Fergus McLetchie
The Factor to the late Roderick Lipshaw. McLetchie was often responsible for picking up illegal cargoes directly from Stormont Cole.

Sir Frach von Vickstein
Frach's father maintains a modest estate in eastern Posen, near to the mountains. He sent Frach abroad to study so as to spare him the ravages of the war. (von Vickstein the elder is a pacifist, something as new in Theah as atheism.) As a student in Charouse Frach became drinking buddies with Geraint. He was also recruited by the Rose & Cross, with whom he is now a Wandering Knight. He is in Avalon pursuing his wandering and one day intends to visit the shrine on the Hebrides (the Roslin substitute -- don't recall its Thean name offhand). Frach needs to go to Carleon to report to the Order that one of their sponsors, the Baron Douglas Colby, has found a substantial cache of McEachern weapons buried beneath his manor.

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Genevieve du Campagne

Sir Geraint Penarfion
A Knight of Her Majesty, Geraint serves under Sir Lamorak, who is charged with maintaining, disciplining and captaining Her Majesty's Mercenary Forces. The foppish fourth son of an Avalonian nobleman, Geraint was schooled in Valroux and is also an Initiate of the Donovan style. While he was in Montaigne, studying, he met and became fast friends with the bookish Eisen nobleman, Sir Frach von Vickstein, later a Knight of the Rose & Cross. But tragedy struck Geraint when a prince of the Sidhe stole off with his lady love, Moira, while he was in his final year at Valroux. It wasn't until the end of the resultant binge of self pity that he took himself in hand and took the oath to join Her Majesty's Knights.

Geronwy Penarfion

Doctor Gordon Leitch

Sir Gryffyd
One of the three Knights posted at the Chandler Street House in North Luthon. Sir Gryffyd is a straggly little man with a combover of wiry dark hair, a round, red face and a florid, fleshy nose. His bright, spotless Knight's tunic seems incongrous on him but he wears it with the comfort of one long familiar and his ancient rapier is marked with the signs of frequent use.

Sir Gwyth

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Heinrich the Acolyte
Heinrich was an acolyte to the Eisen Priest, Wolfgang. He was apprehended, and escaped, with Wolfgang when our heroes first encountered the Priest. Later, in the camps at Cam Dun, he approached Iris Romani, telling her that he had realized that his mentor was crazed. He warned her of a trap which had been set for Rhuadh McCodrum. In return, Iris offered him her protection, but Heinrich was later turned over to Dame Reese Pranshaw and Sir Bors McAllister, whose prisoner he remains.

Helga
This Eisen woman smuggled Iris Romani across Theah from the north of Vodacce to Freiburg and then, by ship to Strangore in Avalon. She has since returned to the continent.

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the late Iris Romani
A Strega, Iris was smuggled out of Vodacce by the Daughters of Sophia and brought to Avalon for safekeeping. The Daughters hope that the influence of the Sidhe makes it harder for Strega to trace the runaways to Avalon. Scarcely had she arrived than Helga, the woman who was her mentor, gave her into the care of Rebecca, who quickly pressed Iris into the care of Sir Geraint Penarfion before mysteriously vanishing. Iris proved herself many times over as a companion to Sir Geraint, showing great courage in opposing the smuggler Black Annie in particular. She became firm friends with Henrietta Colby during the short time that she spent at Colby Manor. And it was she that Heinrich the Acolyte approached with the warning that Rhuadh McCodrum was in danger from Father Wolfgang. Iris is thought to have perished in the fire at Gorfyddys Keep which killed Roderick and Monique Lipshaw.

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Jeremiah Berek
Technically, Sir Jeremiah Berek is one of the Twelve Knights who are central to Her Majesty's order. But no-one refers to Jeremiah as "Sir", not even his own men. For Berek is the Admiral of Her Majesty's Navy, and his men are sea dogs - bucaneers and freebooters, promoted to the new rank of "Gentleman Sailor" by royal decree. It is rumoured that the Queen tacitly encourages Berek's men to maintain their old ways, and that the royal treasury is padded with foreign coin as a result, but no one in power will accept such imprecations as less than treasonous. Berek made his name for good when he defeated the much larger, and better equipped, Castillian Armada.

John Flynn
One of the most honest of Flynns, John is a large, solid man who works as a wheelwright in southern Luthon. Aaron visited him briefly during his time in Luthon. John fed him a hearty breakfast and the two talked.

John Grimes
Baldheaded John Grimes was a gambling partner of Ramish and Rashid at the Fighting Gobbler. Grimes is a part of the Luthonian underworld and served as a recruiter for the two Crescents and for Stormont Cole on occasion. He revealled these details to Rhuadh McCodrum after he was shot in the leg with a crossbow by "Simon" and abducted by Kate and Aaron Flynn. McCodrum then forcibly recruited Grimes to be a spy in the Luthon underworld, although he did not tell him whom he was actually working for.

Judith Imray
An old friend of Katharine's from her school days, Judith is a prominent member of the ladies fashion society Mode du Lac (although she often asks Katharine, who is too individualist too join, for fashion tips). Judith was asked by her husband, Donald, to introduce her idiosyncratic friend Katharine to the up-and-coming Explorer, Nigel Barrington.

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Karl
This Eisen loyalist once challenged Frach von Vickstein to a duel, upset by Frach's wearing the tabard of the Montaigne organization, the Rose & Cross. Frach trounced him handily.

Katharine Barrington
Katharine Barrington looks like Audrey Hepburn and acts like Katharine Hepburn. She is the socialite wife of Explorer Nigel Barrington, but the two spend much of their time apart. Katharine lives in Luthon and maintains a small studio in Carleon, while Nigel is most often out on the seas, or in foreign ports, involved in exploratory work. It is rumoured in society that the Barringtons have a stormy relationship, but Katharine would find a way to turn your comments round to make you seem a fool were you to mention it in front of her. Whatever happens, she seems stylish and poised, but this can make her hard to know.

Katharine Bridges
A spy working for Sir Bors McAllister. Katharine was placed in the late Roderick Lipshaw's import business and became his liason with the Vendel Guilder Stormont Cole. When Lipshaw was mysteriously killed and Cole escaped justice and fled the country, Katharine joined Sir Geraint's investigative team.

Kenneth Wooton
Blonde, bearded and blusterous, Kenneth Wooton is one of the principal figures in the Luthon branch of the Green Jade Society.

the late Kristoff
Dark-haired and saturnine, Kristoff was a member of the 14th (Bull) regiment of Her Majesty's Eisen Forces. He was a member of the freefloating poker game at which the Dragon's Claws passed information. Sent to Strangore to receive a message from Father Wolfgang for Jakob Ibsen, Kristoff revealled this information to Sir Geraint Penarfion and was then silenced, permanently, by Wolfgang.

Kurt
Older, soberer and balder than his two companions, Karl and the late Kristoff, Kurt is an experienced soldier with the 8th (Boar) regiment of Her Majesty's Eisen Forces.

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the late Lady Heather Colby
The Hebridean wife of Douglas Colby, Heather died of influenza five years ago. Although she concealed it well, her Hebridean heritage was from the line of the McEacherns and she hid a store of McEachern blades in a secret room in the basement of her new home at Colby manor.

Lady Helena Caldleroy

Lady Henrietta Colby
Daughter to Baron Douglas and Lady Heather Colby, Henrietta is a thoroughly modern woman and unimpressed with the lot of a Nobleman's daughter. Although she is at the right age, she has thus far spurned all the suitors that her father could persuade to call on her. Recently, however, she was impressed by two accidental guests at Colby manor - Sir Frach von Vickstein and Aaron Flynn. She also became firm friends with Iris Romani, and Sir Geraint Penarfion has offered to find her a private tutor, possibly from Bedegraine University.

Sir Lamorak
Whiskered, brusque and sober, white-haired Lamorak is somewhere in his late 40's. He is the commander of Her Majesty's Eisen Forces and a member of the Twelve Knights. He has several Knights under him in his duties, including Sir Geraint, Sir Kier Wilson, Dame Elinor Reyes and the late Sir Marek Anderson.

Sir Lawrence Lugh

Leodegrance Battencourt

Count Leopold Arniston
A major noble from the kingdom of Percis, Arniston is a member of the Green Jade Society in good standing. He looks a lot like the Count in Moulin Rouge, save with long, dark ringlets. Leodegrance Battencourt and Rhuadh McCodrum overheard the Count conspiring with Donald Imray and know that he planned the assassination of Count Robert StClair.

Little Henry
The hulking barman at The Rest is just a little larger than the ceiling of his charge and has consequently affected a permanent stoop and a shuffling gate. Henry always wears a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up and a great leather apron, mottled many colours with the stains of countless slopped ales. In my mind, he is played by Andre the Giant. It is rumoured that some of the most trusted regulars at The Rest have heard Henry speak, but none of them can recall what it was he said.

Dame Lladwys
One of the three Knights assigned to the Chandler Street House in North Luthon. These Knights operate under Sir Uwaine and are in charge of the Sherrifs and policing of the city. Lladwys is a plain woman, powerfully built with a mass of waist-length fair hair, running to grey and a long, thin nose. She has a lilting Inish accent.

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Madame Charlotta
Madame Charlotta is the eponymous owner and manager of the famous Jenny-house at Strangore. She is a large, busty woman who delights in a personal style which is a mixture of the vulgar, the refined and the common sensical.

the late Sir Marek Anderson
The tall, laconic Glamour Mage served as a Knight of Her Majesty under Sir Lamorak at the Camps at Cam Dun. It was somewhat of an open secret that Marek shared a lover in a nearby town with Dietr Friedrichs. When Dietr was murdered by the Claws, Marek was put in the frame. He was later assassinated in his cell by Father Wolfgang. Sir Geraint later had to break the news to Marek's sister, Elinor.

Maurice "The Dog" Raboport
With his mashed-in, flattened face and random tufts of hair, the foul-teethed Montaigne, Raboport, is referred to as "The Dog" amongst Avalonian sailing men, although rarely to his face. Referring to him as such is grounds for a sound beating.

Michelle Wilshaw
The late Angus Wilshaw's sister-in-law by way of his deceased wife. Michelle lives in northeastern Luthon where she works as a seamstress. She was able to confirm to Kate that Angus didn't have a brother named Hugo.

the late Monique Lipshaw
Wife to the importer, Roderick Lipshaw, Monique was of Montaigne heritage. She was a private woman, who kept to herself, although she was involved in the women's fashion society Mode du Lac, which she became a member of at the instigation of Lady Helena Caldleroy. Monique Lipshaw is thought to have perished in her room during the fire at Gorfyddys Keep, along with her husband and Iris Romani.

Lord Montague Caldleroy
Warden of Gorfyddys Keep, which overlooks Gorfyddys Bay, immediately to the south of Carleon. Lord Caldleroy's ancestors descended from the Gorfyddys of Kinross, who won the title from King Eilidodd in the 9th Century. Montague is married to Lady Helena and is close friends with Dalziel Farquhar, Nigel Barrington and the late Roderick Lipshaw from the days when they all went to Glenarniston Academy together in their youth. Montague is a large, powerful man with salt and pepper hair, shaggy eyebrows and great muttonchop sideburns.

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Nigel Barrington
Barrington is one of the hero's of the Explorer's Guild for his discovery of the Isle of the Lidded Eye. He also sailed with Jeremiah Berek in the great sea battle against the Castillian Armada. Barrington is in his later 30's now, a solid man with a saturnine look, a thatch of silky-blonde hair and seagrey eyes. He has unfortunate fashion sense, dressing in combinations of red and black. He is not comfortable with formal occasions, preferring by far to be out in the wilds, getting dirt on himself and digging things up. Barrington is good friends with the Caldleroys, Dalziel Faquhar and the late Lipshaws, and was devastated by the Lipshaws' death in the fire at Gorfyddys Keep. He is married to the beautiful Katharine, and it is rumoured in society that the two have a tempestuous relationship.

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Sir Owain
Still powerfully built but now running a little to paunchiness, white-haired, white-bearded Owain is the Queen's majordomo and protector. He serves as her steward, and oftimes as an informal bodyguard, and he is one of her most trusted advisors. He is father to Sir Uwaine.

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Patrick O'Doyle
A friend of Seamus Flynn's, Patrick works as a cooper in Luthon. He helped Seamus stick up for Rhuadh against Maurice Raboport's men and ended up taking a knife in the guts for his troubles. Seamus is red-faced and heavy-set, with thinned out black hair on his head.

Patrick Owens
A rider in the Royal Courier Service, out of Luthon. Patrick is also in the pay of Sir Bors and was one of Kate's contacts for Bors in Luthon. Patrick would take messages from her to Bors' townhouse in Carleon along with his regular deliveries there. On a few emergencies he also made night rides to deliver urgent missives.

Patrick "Packie" McGrath
An aquaintance of Rhuadh's father, Aidan McCodrum, from back in the days when both men worked against the Montaigne occupation. Packie has "retired" from Inismohr to the mainland, not far from Strangore and lives alone, with occasional visits from Vivien.

Sir Peppin
Bespectacled, red-faced and stammering, Sir Peppin has spent his life pusuing the fearsome Mirror Beast, a creature somewhat akin to the mirror ghosts of Montaigne, which has bedevilled his family for centuries thanks to an ancient curse.

Peter Duncan
Peter Duncan works in Her Majesty's treasury, under Dalziel Faquhar. He is an unassuming and plain-faced man who lives modestly, performs his job soberly and efficiently and is good to his wife. Peter has a thick mop of black hair, which he tends as best he can, and shaggy lambchop sideburns. He is married to Elaine Duncan.

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the late Ramish
A hulking bald warrior from the Ruzgarhala Crescent tribe. Ramish fought in the Sersemlik style wielding the enormous crescent sword, the Doganlar. Ramish was a bodyguard and enforcer to Stormont Cole until he met his end at the hands of Aaron Flynn and Rhuadh McCodrum in the Battle of the Belltower.

the late Rashid
A small, skulking Crescent warrior, from the Mujahabutri tribe. Rashid fought with twin curved Katars (a smallsword similar to a Kukri) in the Atischoo fighting style. Rashid was a bodyguard and spy for Stormont Cole until he fell to his death from the Belltower outside Luthon, following a battle with Sir Geraint, Kate and Rhuadh McCodrum.

Rebecca
One of the Jenny's at Madame Charlotta's famous Jennyhouse in Strangore, redheaded Rebecca is a friend to Iris and an enemy to Father Wolfgang. What she may be to everybody else remains to be seen. Rebecca disappeared from Charlotta's when her room was ransacked, presumably by Wolfgang. No-one has seen or heard from her since.

Dame Reese Pranshaw
Reese Pranshaw is nothing if not deceptive. Sir Bors, her mentor amongst the Twelve, would have it no other way. With her light blonde hair and sweet face, Reese appears to be a girl in her late teens, but in actuality she is somewhere in her late twenties and is the veteran of scores of dangerous missions. Her expression is incredibly difficult to read, but behind her eyes her brain is always whirring.

Captain Reis
The fabled Captain of the Crimson Roger, Reis is feared across the six seas as the butcher who sends ships to the bottom with all hands. The words "No Quarter" are emblazoned on both flanks of the Roger. Reis is the quintessential pirate - eyepatch, parrot, he's got it all. In battle, he allegedly fights with an enormous scythe - a Syrneth artefact which is said to cut through stone and metal as easily as flesh and wheat.

Rhuadh McCodrum
Son of a minor Hebridean noble and the daughter of a Montaigne count, Rhuadh grew up on Torsay, the northernmost of the Hebridean isles. His parents, Aidan and Eloise, did a lot of travelling and young Rhuadh grew up in the company of his extended family as well as the water-dwelling Selkies, whose blood the McCodrum family share of old. When he was twelve, Rhuadh's mother came home to stay and revealled to him the strange gift he had inherited from his Montaigne ancestors - the mysterious sorcery of Porte. When Rhuadh was 16 his mother left for the mainland on an unstated matter. She never came back. Six months later, Aidan ventured to the mainland to look for his bride and early the next year his body was shipped back to Torsay in an oak casket. Angry and bitter, Rhuadh fled the Hebrides, signing on with the pirate ship The Fragrant Swan under the command of Black Angus. When the swan sank out in the wild waters of the Channel two years later only his Selkie blood kept him alive. He washed up on the shores of Avalon drained and near death, where he was taken in by kindly fisherfolk. When he recovered, Rhuadh first returned to Torsay, then gathered his determination and set out for Inismohr and the mainland to look for word of what had happened to his parents.

Baron Robert St Clair
Moustachioed and old fashioned, with great whiskery sideburns, Baron St Clair is a Chauvinist in the old-fashioned sense. When he visited Colby manor with his son, Trevelyan, the Baron was the target of an assassination attempt conducted by Pietr Iago. The Baron threw himself between a grenade blast and his son and was terribly injured but, thanks to our heroes, Pietr's assassination attempt was thwarted. Baron St Clair has returned to his estate in southern Avalon but is still in a very frail condition.

the late Roderick Lipshaw
An importer-exporter with strong ties to the Vendel League and the Guild, Lipshaw made his fortune as a shipping magnate. He was also a close friend to explorer Nigel Barrington, Dalziel Farquhar, the Bursar of Luthon, and Lord Montague Caldleroy, the Warden of Gorfyddys Keep. It is thought that Lipshaw perished in the fire at Gorfyddys Keep, along with his lady wife, Monique, and Iris Romani.

Roger Penrose
Head Manservant to Katharine Barrington.

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Seamus Flynn
A distant cousin of Aaron's and Luthonian member of the Flynn family. Rhuadh, Aaron and Kate met Seamus Flynn in the Fighting Gobbler in Luthon. Thin-faced and pipe-smoking, Seamus works as a brewer by day, but it is rumoured he has other, more nocturnal, means of making an income.

Sergeant Tom Sqyres
A Seargant among the Sherrifs assigned to the Chandler Street House in North Luthon. Tom is an amiable chap, trusting and friendly, with a round, forgettable face.

the late Sharky
Beware of fat, bald guys. They have all the luck. Sharky and his lads were the kind of people that give Fenshire men a bad name. It's well known that the Fens hate their neighbours, the Bregs, and that they have little love for the Breggan King Piram. But when a backstreet brawl turned to outright murder, and our heroes intervened, Sharky proved to be most adept with beer glass and a small mattoc before Sir Geraint Penarfion laid him low.

Simon
With a pudgy, unassuming moon-face and a disorderly thatch of red hair, Simon mysteriously waltzed into and out of our heroes' lives during the fight in which the Fighting Gobbler was burned down. Simon popped up to put a crossbow bolt in the leg of a Luthonian felon, told Aaron Flynn that he was "a friend of a friend", then made his excuses and left. As of yet, no-one seems to know why he was there, who he was or where he went to.

Stormont Cole
The hawk-faced Captain of the Stormcrow and a Guildsman of the Vendel League, Stormont Cole has been importing to Avalon for 4 years in a bound compact with the late Roderick Lipshaw. Sir Bors, suspecting something, contrived to place Katherine Bridges within Lipshaw's operation, and after Lipshaw's death Bridges exposed Cole, who has now been driven out of Avalon. His two Crescent henchmen met their deaths in battle with Sir Geraint, Rhuadh, Aaron and Kate.

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Tom Dingle
Red-headed, freckle-faced Tom was not the smartest crewman on The Nightfall, but neither was he the meanest. Tom was one of the "lucky ones" who was taken alive during the battle in Strangore harbour. He remains in the custody of the Sherrifs there.

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Sir Uwaine

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Viscount Romero de Lacce
Nephew to the Vodaccean ambassador to Avalon. Romero is a practitioner of the Ambrogia school of swordplay. He became involved in a duel with Aaron Flynn and Rhuadh McCodrum on the streets of Strangore after they objected to his ill treatment of a Jenny. They beat him and he has sworn vengeance against them. Recently, Romero duelled Aaron Flynn during a party at Gorfyddys Keep thrown by the Caldleroys. The duel was interrupted by Her Majesty herself, who politely suggested that the men might have better things with which to occupy their time.

Viscount Trevelyan St Clair
Thin, preening and foppish, Trevelyan St Clair is the classic noble boy who has failed, thus far, to grow up. Brought by his father to Colby manor to woo Henrietta Colby, he sulked and threw a tantrum when she seemed more charmed by Sir Frach von Vickstein and Aaron Flynn. When Pietr Iago tried to assassinate his father, Trevelyan's cheek was badly scarred by a piece of flying shrapnel. He has since returned south with his convalescent father and seems to be in control of the St Clair estate - at least temporarily.

Vivien
With long, silver-blonde hair and disarmingly pale skin, Vivien looks eternally young. It is hard to judge her age, or indeed her true intentions. She is the companion, and perhaps the lover, of Packie McGrath, but there may well be more to her than that.

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Wallace Mountjoy

Father Wolfgang
Wolfgang is a member of a shadowy Eisen conspiracy known as The Dragon's Claws. This group seeks to unite Eisen and institute a new Imperator. Wolfgang was working to breed sedition amongst the Eisen mercenary armies in Avalon - the single largest force of Eisen fighting men in Theah today. How large his organization is, or how powerful he is within it, are unknown. Wolfgang travels dressed as a Vaticine priest. Whether he really is one or not has yet to be established, although he did seem to be extremely upset when Rhuadh McCodrum taunted him with sorcery and stole his iron Vaticine Cross. Wolfgang also appeared to have access to an unusual Sorcery which allowed him to appear and disappear, seemingly at will. So far, he has killed several agents of his own to silence them, including Kristoff and Jakob Ibsen, as well as the advisor to Sir Lamorak, Dietr Freidrichs and the Knight of Her Majesty, Sir Marek Anderson. When his own acolyte, Heinrich, betrayed him to our heroes, Wolfgang tried to murder him too but was thwarted by Sir Geraint Penarfion and Iris Romani.

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Dame Yseult
The only female Knight amongst the Twelve, Dame Yseult is one of the most famed adventurers of Elaine's young kingdom.


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