LIST OF CHARACTERS
ADE
Mistress to Lancelot
AELLE
A
Saxon king
AGRICOLA
Warlord of Gwent, who serves King
Tewdric
AILLEANN
Once
Arthur’s mistress, mother of his twin sons Amhar and
Loholt
AMHAR
Bastard son of Arthur and Ailleann
ARTHUR
Warlord of Dumnonia, guardian of
Mordred
BALIN
One of
Arthur’s warriors
BAN
Once
King of Benoic (a kingdom in Brittany), father of
Lancelot
BEDWIN
Bishop
in Dumnonia and chief councillor
BORS
Lancelot’s cousin, his champion
BROCHVAEL
King
of Powys after Arthur’s time
BYRTHIG
Edling
(Crown Prince) of Gwynedd, later King
CADOC
A
Christian bishop, reputed saint, a recluse
CADWALLON
King
of Gwynedd
CADWY
Rebellious prince in Isca
CALLYN
Champion of Kernow
CAVAN
Derfel’s second-in-command
CEI
Arthur’s childhood companion, now one of his
warriors
CEINWYN
Princess of Powys, sister of Cuneglas
CERDIC
A
Saxon king
CULHWYCH
Arthur’s cousin, one of his warriors
CUNEGLAS
King
of Powys, son of Gorfyddyd
CYTHRYN
Dumnonian magistrate, a councillor
DERFEL
CADARN
The
narrator, born a Saxon, one of Arthur’s warriors, later a
monk
DIAN
Derfel’s youngest daughter
DINAS
A
Silurian Druid, twin to Lavaine
DIWRNACH
Irish
King of Lleyn, a country formerly called Henis
Wyren
EACHERN
One of
Derfel’s spearmen
ELAINE
Lancelot’s mother, widowed wife of Ban
EMRYS
Bishop
in Dumnonia, succeeds Bedwin
ERCE
Derfel’s mother, also called Enna
GALAHAD
Lancelot’s half-brother, a Prince of (lost)
Benoic
GORFYDDYD
King
of Powys killed at Lugg Vale, father to Cuneglas and
Ceinwyn
GUINEVERE
Arthur’s wife
GUNDLEUS
Once
King of Siluria, killed after Lugg Vale
GWENHWYVACH
Guinevere’s sister, a Princess of (lost) Henis
Wyren
GWLYDDYN
Servant to Merlin
GWYDRE
Son of
Arthur and Guinevere
HELLEDD
Cuneglas’s wife, Queen of Powys
HYGWYDD
Arthur’s servant
IGRAINE
Queen
of Powys after Arthur’s time, married to
Brochvael
IORWETH
Druid
of Powys
ISEULT
Queen
of Kernow, married to Mark
ISSA
One of
Derfel’s spearmen, later his second-in-command
LANCELOT
Exiled
King of Benoic
LANVAL
One of
Arthur’s warriors
LAVAINE
A
Silurian Druid, twin to Dinas
LEODEGAN
Exiled
King of Henis Wyren, father to Guinevere and
Gwenhwyvach
LIGESSAC
Traitor in exile
LOHOLT
Arthur’s bastard son, twin to Amhar
LUNETE
Once
Derfel’s lover, now an attendant to Guinevere
MAELGWYN
Monk
at Dinnewrac
MALAINE
Druid
in Powys
MALLA
Sagramor’s Saxon wife
MARK
King
of Kernow, father of Tristan
MELWAS
Exiled
King of the Belgac
MERLIN
The
chief Druid of Dumnonia
MEURIG
Edling
(Crown Prince) of Ciwent, later King
MORDRED
King
of Dumnonia, son of Norwenna
MORFANS
‘The
Ugly’, one of Arthur’s warriors
MORGAN
Arthur’s elder sister, once Merlin’s chief
priestess
MORWENNA
Derfel’s eldest daughter
NABUR
Christian magistrate in Durnovaria
NIMUE
Merlin’s lover and chief priestess
NORWENNA
Mordred’s mother, killed by Gundleus
OENGUS
MAC AIREM
Irish
King of Demetia, a land once called Dyfed
PEREDUR
Son to
Lancelot and Ade
PYRLIG
Derfel’s bard
RALLA
Merlin’s servant, married to Gwlyddyn
SAGRAMOR
Arthur’s Numidian commander, Lord of the
Stones
SANSUM
Bishop
in Dumnonia, later Derfel’s superior at
Dinnewrac
SCARACH
Issa’s
wife
SEREN
Derfel’s second daughter
TANABURS
A
Silurian Druid, killed by Derfel after Lugg
Vale
TEWDRIC
King
of Gwent, father of Meurig, later a Christian
recluse
TRISTAN
Edling
(Crown Prince) of Kernow, son of Mark
TUDWAL
Novice
monk at Dinnewrac
UTHER
The
dead High King of Dumnonia, Mordred’s
grandfather