Characters
Main characters
Scarlet
Sister of Thomas , 14 years old.
Thomas
Brother of Scarlet, 12 years old.
Tobias Bainbridge
Cryptozoologist, currently researching creatures of legend for a forthcoming book.
Hillary Bellock
Alchemist and Watcher. Ancient.
Eliza Ardent
Shapechanger and Watcher, also quite old.
Wendle
Hillary’s scruffy-looking talking dog. Resembles a small Irish Wolfhound.
Gordon Willowbrook
The landlord of the Bearded Dragon pub. Reputedly the keeper of a dragon-slaying axe that slew a dragon that terrorized the village hundreds of years ago.
Rosemary
Ghostly barmaid of the Bearded Dragon who was tragically killed when a practical joke went horribly wrong.
Fox Tufford
Farmer and reluctant hero after defeating the Ketton Cockatrice in 1362. Disappeared into thin air when out walking one day. Presumed lost in Faerie.
The Fiery Brand
Godfrey (Mayor of Blakeby. Doppelganger. Real name: Remus Scythbane)
Gideon (Village undertaker. Doppelganger. Real name: Cyrus Thiefblade)
Augustus (Owner of the village bookshop. Doppelganger. Real name: Titus Uthferth)
Ichabod (Vicar of Blakeby and West Ketton. Doppelganger. Real name: Ursus Haeralt)
Creatures
The Clockwork Guardian
Deranged clockwork robot driven mad by years of solitude by being forced to guard an entrance to the realm of the Fair.
The Cockatrice
Originally turned to stone by Fox Tufford hundreds of years ago and used as a gargoyle in the rebuilding of Ketton church. Stolen and resurrected by the Fiery Brand.
Toadflax
King of the goblins of Bracken Wood for the last five hundred years.
Pouk
A Dream Demon. Also known by the name ‘Puck’ but has recently become more and more wicked.
Torfang
The last known surviving dragon on earth. Lives under a barrow at the centre of Bracken Wood.
Boaz
An enslaved Djinn.
Eolande
Queen of the Faeries of Bracken Wood.
Woodruff
King of the Faeries of Bracken Wood.
Characters referred to
Cornelius Taffleshaw
Hillary’s Alchemist mentor, murdered by the Fiery Brand after being thrown into his own forge.
Althanor
Alchemist of Talistay.
Loreilance
The Court Sorcerer.
Artus
The last King of Talistay.
Isolde
The last Queen of Talistay.
Kaliburn
King Artus’ talking sword, imbued with Levitonite and instilled with the soul of a great hero.
Stormduke
The King’s personal dragon.
The Green Man
Mysterious figure seen haunting the woods across Faerie.
Raedwald
Man at arms.
Sigbert
Man at arms.
Wayland
Smith and god.
Fenris
Wolf god.
Cordelia Ragweed
Witch and member of the Sisterhood of the Burning Eye.
The Ragweed Wolves
Sisters of Cordelia and Werewolves. Members of the Sisterhood of the Burning Eye.
