CHARACTER LIST

* Indicates a historical character/place

** These Arthurian characters have been so mythicized that some scholars would say they never existed, while others would place them in different time periods. The references used in Rebel put them in the late sixth century and list them as historical. Arthur of Dalraida is known to have existed as evidenced in historical records of the time.

*GODODDIN

Angus—a name and a title of Queen Gwenhyfar’s protector king of Strighlagh (Stirling); capital of Gododdin

*Arthur—High King or warrior leader of the Cymri kings (brotherhood of the Welsh and Britons); historic prince of Dalraida; no kingdom of his own except Gododdin through marriage to its queen, Gwenhyfar

**Elyan—prince of Gododdin; Gwenhyfar’s brother

**Gwenhyfar—queen of Gododdin; Arthur’s second or third wife; high priestess of the Grail Church; a Pictish princess born in Meikle

O’BYRNE Clan of Glenarden

(colors are red, black, and silver/gray)

Aeda—Tarlach’s late royal Pictish wife; mother to Ronan, Caden, and Alyn

Alyn—Tarlach and Aeda’s third son

Brenna—Ronan’s wife; lady of Glenarden; a gifted healer; formerly of the Gowrys subclan

Caden—see Trebold

Conall—Brenna and Ronan’s son; older brother to Joanna

Daniel of Gowrys—prince of Gowrys; friend of Alyn; cousin of Brenna

Egan O’Toole—Glenarden’s champion

Ervan—son of Vychan and Glenarden’s new steward

Fatin—an African monkey; gift to Alyn from Prince Hassan at the Baghdad School of Wisdom

Joanna—Ronan and Brenna’s daughter; named after Brenna’s late mother

Kella O’Toole—daughter of Egan O’Toole and the late Wynn of Erin; foster sister to Ronan, Caden, and Alyn; scribe to Queen Gwenhyfar

Rhianon—Caden’s deceased wife from Gwynedd of North Wales; daughter of Idwal and Enda; mistress of Tunwulf in Din Guardi; practiced witchcraft

Ronan—Tarlach and Aeda’s eldest son; the Glenarden king/chieftain

Tarlach—Alyn’s late father and former clan chief/king also known as “the Glenarden”; of royal Irish descent (Davidic bloodline)

Teilo—Welsh bard; children’s tutor at Glenarden

Vychan—Glenarden’s late steward

Wynn of Erin—Kella’s mother; died in childbirth

TREBOLD

Aelwyn—Sorcha and Caden’s daughter; named after Sorcha’s late adopted mother, tavern owner and singer/scop who was a former gleeman with her best friend, Gemma

Caden—Tarlach and Aeda of Glenarden’s second son; brother to Alyn and Ronan

Eadric—Sorcha’s cousin; a master bard

Ebyn—adopted son of Sorcha and Caden; rescued by Sorcha when his parents sold him

Gemma—female dwarf; like a second mother to Sorcha

Lachlan and Rory—Caden and Sorcha’s twin sons

Sorcha—Caden’s bardic wife; foster mother of Ebyn, and mother to Aelwyn and twin boys Rory and Lachlan; Myrna’s daughter; Aelwyn’s foster daughter

PERTH

Beathan—Fortingall’s druidic adviser

*Bridei (Brude)—Overking of the whole Pictish nation

Brisen—healing woman

Drust—chief king of the southern Picts; cousin to Brude/Bridei (High King of all Picts)

Elkmar—Prince Lorne’s captain

Garnait—a prince; chief of the Miathi of Dumyat

Goll—shoemaker in Crief

Heilyn—Fortingal’s Christian queen

Idwyr—druid/wizard of the Miathi

Lorne of Errol—a prince of Perth; Kella’s betrothed

Mairead—Grail high priestess of Mons Seion near Fortingall

*Miathi—rebellious border tribe with stronghold at Dumyat

KINGDOM OF LOTHIAN

*Aethelfrith—Modred’s ambitious Saxon ally who overtook the Northumbrian throne after Hussa’s death, exiling his cousin, the rightful prince, Hering

**Modred—king of Lothian; priest of the Celtic Church; Arthur’s cousin; son of Morgause and the late Cennalath of the Orkneys

**Morgause—mother of Modred; aunt to Arthur; queen of the Orkneys; abbess of the Celtic Church

RHEGED

*Llywarch Hen—king of South Rheged

*Merlin Emrys—Arthur of Dalraida’s late merlin adviser from Powys in Wales

**Morgein—wife to Urien of Rheged; sister to Arthur; daughter to Aedan of Dalraida

Ninian—Merlin Emrys’s protégé; abbess of the Grail Church

*Taliesen—Rheged’s historical bard; author of The Book of Taliesen

*Urien of Rheged—historical king of North Rheged; successor to Arthur as warrior-king leader of the kings of the north; immortalized in Aneirin’s Y Gododdin

PRIESTS

Aunt Beda—abbess in Ireland; Kella’s maternal aunt

Bishop Martin—former hermit priest of Glenarden who mentored the O’Byrne brothers and their brides and performed their marriage ceremonies

Cassian—archbishop of the Roman Church who returned as chief counselor to Arthur after the High King’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land; Merlin Emrys’s successor

BAGHDAD

Abdul-Alim ibn Shamoon—Alyn’s late teacher (servant of the Omniscient of Simon)

Hassan ibn Yūsuf ibn Matar—Alyn’s best friend in the East; a prince of the Ghassãnid (foederati of Christian Arabs who protected Byzantium)

ADDITIONAL PLACES

Baghdad School of Wisdom—historic place of learning for scholars from the entire known world

Bardsley Island—burial place for great kings, druids, and saints

Dumyat—capital of the Miathi Picts in the Ochill Hills of Perth

Eboracorum—today’s York

Fortingall—stronghold of the southern Picts

Glenarden—a lesser kingdom in the Pictish kingdom of Gododdin

Lockwoodie—village in Strathclyde

Mons Seion (Mount Zion)—mountain to the north of Fortingall; known as Schiehallion

Perth—Pictish kingdom north of Lothian and Gododdin

Trebold Law—Sorcha and Caden’s home; a hillfort and inn on the Lader in Lothian

Note: See also Glossary on p. 357.