The Heroes | страница 4
Jolly Yon Cumber, Brack-i-Dayn, Scorry Tiptoe, Agrick, Athroc
and
Drofd
– other members of Craw’s dozen.
Scale’s Men
Scale
– Bethod’s eldest son, now the least powerful of Dow’s five War Chiefs, strong as a bull, brave as a bull, and with a bull’s brain too.
Pale-as-Snow
– once one of Bethod’s War Chiefs, now Scale’s Second.
White-Eye Hansul
– a Named Man with a blind eye, once Bethod’s herald.
‘Prince’ Calder
– Bethod’s younger son, an infamous coward and schemer, temporarily exiled for suggesting peace.
Seff
– his pregnant wife, the daughter of Caul Reachey.
Deep
and
Shallow
– a pair of killers, watching over Calder in the hope of riches.
Caul Reachey’s Men
Caul Reachey
– one of Dow’s five War Chiefs, an elderly warrior, famously honourable, father to Seff, father-in-law to Calder.
Brydian Flood
– a Named Man formerly a member of Craw’s dozen.
Beck
– a young farmer craving glory on the battlefield, the son of Shama Heartless.
Reft, Colving, Stodder
and
Brait
– other young lads pressed into service with Beck.
Glama Golden’s Men
Glama Golden
– one of Dow’s five War Chiefs, intolerably vain, locked in a feud with Cairm Ironhead.
Sutt Brittle
– a famously greedy Named Man.
Lightsleep
– a Carl in Golden’s employ.
Cairm Ironhead’s Men
Cairm Ironhead
– one of Dow’s five War Chiefs, notoriously stubborn, locked in a feud with Glama Golden.
Curly
– a stout-hearted scout.
Irig
– an ill-tempered axeman.
Temper
– a foul-mouthed bowman.
Others
Brodd Tenways
– the most loyal of Dow’s five War Chiefs, ugly as incest.
Stranger-Come-Knocking
– a giant savage obsessed with civilisation, Chief of all the lands east of the Crinna.
Back to the Mud (dead, thought dead, or long dead)
Bethod
– the first King of the Northmen, father to Scale and Calder.
Skarling Hoodless
– a legendary hero who once united the North against the Union.
The Bloody-Nine
– once Bethod’s champion, the most feared man in the North, and briefly King of the Northmen before being killed by Black Dow (supposedly).
Rudd Threetrees
– a famously honourable Chief of Uffrith, who fought against Bethod and was beaten in a duel by the Bloody-Nine.
Forley the Weakest
– a notoriously weak fighter, companion to Black Dow and the Dogman, ordered killed by Calder.
Shama Heartless
– a famous champion killed by the Bloody-Nine. Beck’s father.
‘Unhappy the land that
is in need of heroes’
Bertolt Brecht
The Times
‘Too old for this shit,’ muttered Craw, wincing at the pain in his dodgy knee with every other step. High time he retired. Long past high time. Sat on the porch behind his house with a pipe, smiling at the water as the sun sank down, a day’s honest work behind him. Not that he had a house. But when he got one, it’d be a good one.
