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