Protagonist and allies:

Violant of Avallach

Protagonist and returner. In her previous lifetime the wife of Gervase who got used and betrayed by him.

Malford

Violant’s loyal personal butler. Despite him appearing like a twelve years old boy, he is in fact a powerful elder vampire.

Millicent

A silky. One of Violant’s personal maids.

Abigail

One of Violant’s personal maids. A chatterbox.

Huwcyn

A ceffyl dwr. Violant’s mount who she calls Huw.

Alarun

A schrat. Violant’s peerless healer and wise friend.

Hraban

A night-raven. Serves as the wild hunt’s envoy to Violant.

Arinnefja

A troll. A genius inventor and strategist who played a major part in the great troll uprising in Violant’s past lifetime, albeit unwillingly. In this timeline she puts her talents into service for Violant. Called Nefja by Violant.

Hrimnir

A white giant wolf. Arinnefja’s mount and important family.

Eibhlin

An elf. Violant’s magic tutor who originally unsuccessfully ran a magic shop business in Avallach town.

Cuilennain

An each-sith. Eibhlin’s mount. Infatuated with her.

Banadietrich von Hackelberg

The nachtjäger, leader of the wild hunt. Violant’s loyal retainer.

Rambold

A wild huntsman, sent to Violant as a henchman by Banadietrich.

Waldolf

A headless wild huntsman, sent to Violant as a henchman by Banadietrich.

Margravial house of Avallach and retainers:

Orderic of Avallach

Current margrave. Uncle and foster father of Violant.

Annota of Nussex

Orderic’s late wife, mother of Parcie and Mortimer.

Evelyn of Avallach

Orderic’s late sister, mother of Violant.

Parcie of Avallach

Orderic’s older son. A musclehead. Prince Wynkin’s tutor in martial arts.

Mortimer of Avallach

Orderic’s younger son. Rather scholarly, designated heir of the margraviate.

Hanarr Filason

A dwarf. The margrave’s exclusive smith in Avallach. A grumpy but capable fellow.

Augustine

The old librarian of Avallach Castle and one of Violant’s tutors. A scholar deeply interested in the other march.

Lady Alse

Violant’s governess and her teacher for courtly standards and practices. Finds other employment after her student’s coming of age.

Lawrence

The impeccable head butler of Avallach Castle.

Andrew

Mortimer’s personal butler and also a capable coachman.

Doctor Wace

The healer of Avallach Castle responsible for the sickbay.

Ottiwell

Doctor Wace’s assistant.

Sir Thopas

Knight commander of Avallach’s garrison.

Cecily

The daughter of Sir Thopas.

Edric-Wynkin faction:

Wynkin of Yteland

8th son of King Baldwin. A sickly boy contracting berserk syndrome. Rather two-faced, with a masklike childish personality and a hidden cold and cunning personality.

Dryp

A fairy. Wynkin’s companion who knows of his true nature.

Edric of Yteland

2nd son of King Baldwin. A scholarly recluse interested in the kingdom’s welfare.

Mafalda Lictorini of Giudena

Concubine of King Baldwin and mother of Edric. Originally from the merchant republic of Giudena.

Berengaria of Ealdon

Queen and main wife of King Baldwin. Mother of Mabel and Wynkin. Dotes on Wynkin.

Mabel of Yteland

King Baldwin’s eldest child and only daughter. Married to the chief minister. Dotes on Wynkin.

Jocelyn of Sulia

Chief minister and Mabel’s husband.

Sybil of Sulia

Jocelyn’s sister. A somewhat sickly but modest and graceful woman. Deeply in love with Mortimer whom she later marries.

Adelaide of Sulia

Current duchess and head of the family. Mother of Jocelyn and Sybil. Very protective of her daughter.

Petronella of Sulia

Mabel’s and Jocelyn’s eldest child. Pet named Nelly.

Adelard of Sulia

Mabel’s and Jocelyn’s second child. Jocenlyn’s future successor.

Gervase faction:

Gervase of Yteland

3rd son of King Baldwin. Aims for the throne. In his previous lifetime the husband of Violant who used her to become king but then discarded her

Salome of Serpantine

Concubine of King Baldwin and mother of Gervase. A schemer without equal.

Marquis Serpantine

Salome’s father and Gervase’s grandfather.

Felicity of Marchester

From a marquis house. In Violant’s previous life Gervase’s concubine and later Queen.

Tancred of Marchester

Felicity’s younger brother. Shamed Violant after her downfall in her previous life.

Marquis Marchester

Father of three children: Felicity, Tancred, and their elder brother.

Royal family:

Baldwin of Yteland

King of Yteland and father of the eight princes.

Rowland of Yteland

1st son of King Baldwin. Fell on the battlefield two years prior to the beginning of the story.

Rosamund of Doocaster

Late concubine of King Baldwin and mother of Rowland. Cousin of Adelaide of Sulia. Friends with both Queen Berengaria and Duchess Adelaide.

Hal of Yteland

4th son of King Baldwin. The kingdom’s best jousting knight. Jarm’s twin. Aims for the throne.

Jarm of Yteland

5th son of King Baldwin. Hal’s twin. Captain of the royal knight order. Aims for the throne.

Humphrey of Yteland

6th son of King Baldwin. Aims for the throne.

Janet of Linkan

Concubine of King Baldwin and mother of Humphrey. Twin sister of Ethel and aunt of Fulk. A wallflower.

Fulk of Yteland

7th son of King Baldwin. Aims for the throne.

Ethel of Linkan

Concubine of King Baldwin and mother of Fulk. Twin sister of Janet and aunt of Humphrey. A wallflower.

Nobles:

Euphemia of Nussex

Violant’s obnoxious cousin from her late aunt’s side of the family. Sees Violant unilaterally as a rival in vying for Mortimer’s affection but fails to realize that she is completely disliked by him.

Barnabas of Nussex

Orderic’s brother-in-law and Euphemia’s father. A marquis.

Georgina of Herinald

Euphemia’s mother and Barnabas’s wife, daughter of court nobles from the capital.

Alphege of Wuldington

An old friend of Orderic. A count. Often requests help in dealing with supernatural events. Called Uncle Ally by Violant.

Mildred of Oakbury

Count Alphege’s wife. A charitable person. Called Aunt Milly by Violant.

Hubert of Wuldington

Count Alphege’s only son and designated heir. Taciturn vice-captain of the royal knight order.

Count Linkan

Grandfather of the princes Humphrey and Fulk.

Others from Yteland and the other march:

Ipos

Demon, infernal earl and prince. Violant’s biological father. Helped her to return to the past.

Mansie

A hideous warlock and the culprit behind the great troll uprising in Violant’s previous lifetime.

Dougald

A vicious and belligerent redcap. Twin of Donnell and friend of Arinnefja.

Donnell

A vicious and belligerent redcap. Twin of Dougald and friend of Arinnefja.

Heardred

The kingdom’s mythical founder king, a berserk who was able to keep his sanity. A friend of Alarun.

Æscwine of Avallach

The founder of the margravial house, best known for slaying a cockatrice.

Mérovie:

Médard de Crêtou

Duke and a dreaded warrior. Chief commander of the Mérovian army.

Amaury de Mérovie

King of Mérovie.

The Grand Duchy:

Svyatoslav the Great

The grand duke and chief commander of the grand duchy’s army. A dreaded warrior.

Dobromysl

Svyatoslav’s ambitious uncle, leader of the quelled coup d’état who got executed for his participation.

Skarbimir the Gentle

The previous grand duke and Svyatoslav’s late father. A peace-loving ruler.

Giudena

Dottorena Lictorini

Head merchant of Giudena, Mafalda’s younger sister.

Martuccio Lictorini

Once head merchant of the merchant republic Guidena. Mafalda’s and Dottorena’s father.

Lionetto

Secretary of the merchant council of Giudena.

The Empire:

Myrtis Porphyrina

Edric’s fiancée. The niece of the empire’s current emperor. Originally the empire’s leading female scholar, later continuing her research in Yteland.

Artostre

A panotian. Myrtis’s old and trusty nurse.

Stylianos Porphyrios

The late emperor and Myrtis’s father.

Gennadios Porphyrios

Current emperor and Myrtis’s uncle. Younger brother of Stylianos.

Euphrasios

A bishop from the empire. Myrtis’s mentor and kind of a father figure for her.