The Command Staff:
Gaius Julius Caesar: Politician, general and governor.
Aulus Ingenuus: Commander of Caesar’s Praetorian Cohort.
Cita: Chief quartermaster of the army.
Decimus Brutus: Staff officer and favourite of Caesar’s family.
Quintus Atius Varus: Commander of the Cavalry.
Quintus Titurius Sabinus: Senior lieutenant of Caesar.
Quintus Tullius Cicero: Staff officer and brother of the great orator.
Titus Labienus: Senior lieutenant of Caesar.
Seventh Legion:
Publius Licinius Crassus: Legate and son of the triumvir Crassus.
Titus Terrasidius: Senior Tribune.
Publius Tertullus: Junior Tribune.
Gaius Pinarius Rusca: Junior Tribune.
Eighth Legion:
Quintus Balbus: Ageing Legate of the Eighth, close friend of Fronto.
Titus Balventius: Primus pilus & veteran of several terms of service.
Aquilius: Training officer, senior centurion and perfectionist.
Ninth Legion:
Publius Sulpicius Rufus: Young Legate of the Ninth.
Marcus Trebius Gallus: Senior Tribune and veteran soldier.
Grattius: primus pilus, once in sole command of the Ninth.
Tenth Legion:
Marcus Falerius Fronto: Legate and confidante of Caesar.
Gaius Tetricus: Military Tribune, expert in military defences.
Servius Fabricius Carbo: Primus Pilus.
Petrosidius: Chief Signifer of the First cohort.
Eleventh Legion:
Aulus Crispus: Legate, former civil servant in Rome.
Quintus Velanius: Senior Tribune.
Titus Silius: Junior Tribune.
‘Felix’: Primus Pilus, accounted an unlucky man.
Twelfth Legion:
Servius Galba: Legate.
Gaius Volusenus: Junior Tribune.
Publius Sextius Baculus: Primus pilus. A distinguished veteran.
Thirteenth Legion:
Lucius Roscius: Legate and native of Illyricum.
Atenos: Senior centurion and former mercenary.
Fourteenth Legion:
Lucius Munatius Plancus: Legate and former staff officer.
Cantorix: Centurion in the Third cohort.
Other characters:
Faleria the elder: Mother of Fronto and matriarch of the Falerii.
Faleria the younger: sister of Fronto.
Corvinia: Wife of Balbus, legate of the Eighth.
Lucilia: Elder daughter of Balbus.
Balbina: Younger daughter of Balbus.
Galronus: Gaulish officer, commanding auxiliary cavalry under Varus.
Gnaeus Vinicius Priscus: Former primus pilus of the Tenth, assigned camp prefect of the army, convalescing in Rome after serious wounding last year.
Paetus: Former camp prefect, betrayed by Caesar and Clodius. Believed dead, but escaped and at large in Italy.
Publius Clodius Pulcher: Powerful man in Rome, enemy of Caesar and conspirator, responsible for multiple crimes.
Philopater: Clodius’ chief enforcer.
Clodia: Sister of Clodius, a devious and dangerous woman.