Characters

• AkurakhaithanLord of Umbrage, head of the banished pantheon exiled from the Realm of Prignam-oykrig.
• Argyllic IEnorn king of Enonia and the Shatterer, the only commander to bring Þordil the Great within sight of military defeat. At the Battle of Relanor he sallied unexpectedly from his defensive position against the High King's force and nearly broke its line; sought single combat against Þordil himself and was slain by his hand. His written rebuke of Þordil's surrender terms, "I shall not treat with this Scourge from the West", gave his surviving peoples the standing euphemism for a name they would no longer speak aloud.
• BæurnOnly son of Garðwin I and Berta; fearless sailor who settled the Isle of Kraguth, slew the leviathan Salt-bane in passing, and drove the Dai'dou to extinction, ultimately lost to the world in the arctic wastes north of Mok while hunting the last of them, Maerxsikyst.
• Erikkr IEldest son of Ule Bear-heart and first of his name in the dynasty; raider and pillager whose major contribution was carrying Nortr culture and the worship of Þonart southward. Master of the famous meadhall Poderrikhaus and the figure who first forged ties between the Nortr and the Clans of Angle.
• EurlinThird-born and youngest son of Jargsnek; murdered at the age of thirteen by his elder brother Maelar, to whom he is rumored to have given the infamous facial scar.
• FarnekYounger son of Yanterr Wave-master and Prince of the Northern Isles who ruled as steward during Jolim Salt-lung's seven-year absence; never ratified as king. Grandfather of Þordil the Great through his bastard son Orling.
• Garðwin IFirst-born son of Þordil the Great and first of his name in the dynasty; fearless sailor and conqueror who carved a domain in the west under his father's rule, took the island fortress of Kiegnarrzsk from the sons of Yanterr, and was slain in the abyss by the leviathan Salt-bane.
• JargsnekFourth-born son of Þordil the Great, remembered in two contradictory sagas, as Jargsnek the Vile, snake-tongued debauchee banished for patricide; and as Jargsnek the Redeemed, a maltreated son forced into that act who later defended his nephews from a malevolent cousin.
• JolimEldest son of Yanterr Wave-master and a king of the Northern Isles; lost at sea to a leviathan, returned years later, and perished without heir during the Drakhullic invasion of the Northern Isles.
• KaelSecond-born son of Þordil the Great; genius trader who settled the southern valleys beyond the Falkorring and was both an adopter and an author of modern economic and trading practice. Eponym of the Valleys of Kael.
• KetilSecond-born son of Kael the Rich; inherited the central lands of the Valleys of Kael and bartered a fortune from a dragon, at the cost of his face, which he thereafter concealed behind silken robes and a golden mask.
• MaelarStrongest and most blood-driven of Jargsnek's sons; reputed vampire, murderer of any deemed unnecessary to his rule, perpetrator of three acts of fratricide and an attempted patricide, and the malevolent cousin from whom Jargsnek (in the Redeemed saga) ultimately defended his nephews.
• Olfr ISecond-born son of Ule Bear-heart and first of his name in the dynasty; the first great metalworker of the line, whose unmatched mastercraft arms drove back the re-conquests of his uncle Jargsnek and his savage sons.
• OrlingBastard son of Farnek and a Jonorn woman; raised as an orphan in a village whose other notable orphan was Hurdania, Goddess of Justice, exiled by her grandfather Exar to live out a span among mortals. The two children fell in love over the years that followed, and she was carrying his unborn son Þordil when armed men he believed to be bandits descended on the village and struck her down, a deception staged by the mercenary commander who, having failed to recruit Orling by ordinary means, sent his own men in disguise to give him reason. Fought alongside the Doghul against the Legions of Voitykras during the Second Voityllic Rift with such ferocity that they named him friend; learned the truth of his recruitment only after the war was over; pursued his revenge against the mercenary who had ruined him, and was slain in single combat by the legendary Drakhul Viedskavn before he could reach his quarry. Died believing his lover dead, and the child she had carried lost with her. Never knew either had survived.
• PodoThird-born son of Kael the Rich; unable to father children and denied land, but a wise counsel to Erikkr I, a reformer of Þonart's worship, founder of the position of brewmaster, and a hand in the raising of the meadhall Poderrikhaus.
• Salt-baneA bizarrely oversized Adamerr leviathan of the great abyss, infamous for sinking ships along the central scar of the Sea of Garðwin; eponymous bane of Jolim Salt-lung, slayer of Garðwin Great-storm, and ultimately slain in turn by Bæurn Serpent-bane.
• ÞadgarFirst-born son of Kael the Rich; inherited the southernmost territory of the Valleys of Kael and held fast the border of the true gods against foreign partisans of Olden and Prignam.
• ÞordilDemigod son of Orling the Wary and Hurdania, Goddess of Justice; warlord-king who in twenty-seven years of unbroken campaigning forged the greatest domain any Primevean had ever held, founded the dynasty that bears his name, and was remembered by his own line as the First Emperor of the Nortr. To those his armies broke, the Enorns, the Northern Isles, the Primeveans his Thrakheddenol sold into Drakhullic slavery, he is remembered in different terms.
• UleThird-born son of Þordil the Great; stoic defender who settled the tundra forests west of the steppes, and the archetype of valiant manhood, the man who wrestled a bear with his bare hands because the beast could not use an axe.
• ViedskavnCrimson Emperor and Great Tyrant of all the Drakhul. Born Tergarus, eldest son of the previous patriarch; took both his father's seat and the dynastic name with it. Crowned Grand Tyrant in 50 AFS after consolidating the Drakhullic north under his banner during the Warring City-states Period, and has reigned for nearly half a century from his palace above the Lochnormouthin on the slopes of Yyingrigotl. In 85 AFS he launched the first Drakhullic Invasion of Raetun, opening the Western Front of the Crisis Upon Raetun.
• YanterrKing of the Northern Isles and great-grandfather of Þordil the Great; legendary Kiegzorn raider slain during his final two-year campaign against the coast of Telnon.
• Yyod IFirst-born son of Jargsnek and first of his name in the dynasty; feared mounted warrior who crippled his brother Maelar in fraternal combat, then rode on to carve out the nation of Yllantros and to champion the Primeveans of the East under Prignam.