Colonel Vallimir
– ambitious commanding officer of the King’s Own First Regiment.
First Sergeant Forest
– chief non-commissioned officer with the staff of the First.
Corporal Tunny
– long-serving profiteer, and standard-bearer of the First.
Troopers Yolk, Klige, Worth,
and
Lederlingen
– clueless recruits attached to Tunny as messengers.
Colonel Wetterlant
– punctilious commanding officer of the Sixth Regiment.
Major Culfer
– his panicky second in command.
Sergeant Gaunt, Private Rose
– soldiers with the Sixth.
Major Popol
– commanding the first battalion of the Rostod Regiment.
Captain Lasmark
– a poor captain with the Rostod Regiment.
Colonel Vinkler
– courageous commanding officer of the Thirteenth Regiment.
Mitterick’s Division
General Mitterick
– a professional soldier with much chin and little loyalty, described as sharp but reckless.
Colonel Opker
– his chief of staff.
Lieutenant Dimbik
– an unconfident young officer on Mitterick’s staff.
Meed’s Division
Lord Governor Meed
– an amateur soldier with a neck like a turtle, in peacetime the governor of Angland, described as hating Northmen like a pig hates butchers.
Colonel Harod dan Brock
– an honest and hard-working member of Meed’s staff, the son of a notorious traitor.
Finree dan Brock
– Colonel Brock’s venomously ambitious wife, the daughter of Lord Marshal Kroy.
Colonel Brint
– senior on Meed’s staff, an old friend of the king.
Aliz dan Brint
– Colonel Brint’s naive young wife.
Captain Hardrick
– an officer on Meed’s staff, affecting tight trousers.
The Dogman’s Loyalists
The Dogman
– Chief of those Northmen fighting with the Union. An old companion of the Bloody-Nine, once a close friend of Black Dow, now his bitter enemy.
Red-Hat
– the Dogman’s Second, who wears a red hood.
Hardbread
– a Named Man of long experience, leading a dozen for the Dogman.
Redcrow
– one of Hardbread’s Carls.
THE NORTH
In and Around Skarling’s Chair
Black Dow
– the Protector of the North, or stealer of it, depending on who you ask.
Splitfoot
– his Second, meaning chief bodyguard and arse-licker.
Ishri
– his advisor, a sorceress from the desert South, and sworn enemy of Bayaz.
Caul Shivers
– a scarred Named Man with a metal eye, who some call Black Dow’s dog.
Curnden Craw
– a Named Man thought of as a straight edge, once Second to Rudd Threetrees, then close to Bethod, now leading a dozen for Black Dow.
Wonderful
– his long-suffering Second.
Whirrun of Bligh
– a famous hero from the utmost North, who wields the Father of Swords. Also called Cracknut, on account of his nut being cracked.
