NIMUR FURSTÁN — King of Torenth.
*NORFAL — a Deryni master.
OÍSIN ADAIR — a horse breeder, member of the Camberian Council.
OLIVER DE NORE, BISHOP — itinerant bishop in Carthane, elder brother of Septimus.
ONORA, PRINCESS — daughter of Judhael of Meara, granddaughter of Annalind of Meara.
ORBAN HOWARD, SIR — «father» of Vera (de Corwyn) Howard.
ORIN — great Deryni adept and mystic of the seventh century.
PASCHAL DIDIER, FATHER — Deryni priest from Bremagne, chaplain to Keryell Earl of Lendour and tutor to Alyce and Ahern (and Vera Howard). Trained at Nur Sayyid and the R'Kassan seminary at Rhaname.
PATRICK CORRIGAN, BISHOP — newly consecrated itinerant bishop.
RANNULF, SIR — along on the hunt at Martinmas.
RICHARD BEARAND RHUPERT CINHIL HALDANE, PRINCE — unmarried half-brother of King Donal, Duke of Carthmoor.
RICHELDIS, QUEEN — second wife of King Donal and mother of his children, a princess of Howicce and Llannedd.
ROBARD KINCAID, SIR — a Mearan rebel.
RODDER GILLESPIE, FATHER — a priest of the Diocese of Nyford.
*ROISIAN, QUEEN — heiress of Meara, eldest daughter of Jolyon of Meara and Urracca; twin of Annalind; wife of Malcolm Haldane and Queen of Gwynedd.
RORIK HOWELL, SIR — new Earl of Eastmarch, son of the late Corban Howell.
ROSMERTA, LADY — third wife of Keryell Earl of Lendour.
RUSLAN, BROTHER — a monk serving at the chapel royal of Rhemuth Castle.
SEFFIRA MACATHAN, LADY — a daughter of Jessamy and Sief MacAthan.
SEISYLL ARILAN, LORD — member of King Donal's council of state and also the Camberian Council.
SEPTIMUS DE NORE, FATHER — brother of Bishop Oliver de Nore, briefly a chaplain at Arc-en-Ciel.
SÉ TRELAWNEY, SIR — former squire in the service of Keryell Earl of Lendour, childhood friend of Alyce, Marie, and Ahern, secretly Deryni; knighted at Twelfth Night Court 1082.
SIEF MACATHAN, JUNIOR — firstborn son of Jessamy and Sief, dead at one week of age.
SIEF MACATHAN, LORD — member of King Donal's council of state and also the Camberian Council.
SiEFFANY MACATHAN DE COURCY — eldest daughter of Jessamy and Sief MacAthan, wife of Aurelien de Courcy.
SILE, QUEEN — second wife to King Malcolm Haldane, mother of Richard.
SlLKE ANNE ELIZABETH ROISIAN HALDANE, PRINCESS — second daughter of Donal King of Gwynedd and Queen Richeldis.
SOBBON VON HORTHY, PRINCE — sovereign Prince of Thalia and Hort of Orsal.
SOFIANA VASTOUNI, PRINCESS — elder daughter of Prince Mikhail of Andelon and Princess Ysabeau.
STASHA, PRINCESS — wife of Prince Khoren Vastouni of Andelon.
*STEVANA DE CORWYN, LADY — deceased heiress of Corwyn, granddaughter of Stiofan Duke of Corwyn; second wife of Keryell Earl of Lendour, mother of Alyce, Vera, Ahern, and Marie.
*STIOFAN DE CORWYN, DUKE — great grandfather of Alyce de Corwyn.
*TAYCE FURSTANA, LADY — first cousin of Festil I King of Gwynedd, wife of Lord Richard du Joux; their son was Dominic du Joux, first Duke of Corwyn.
THOMAS CARDIEL — younger brother of Alinor.
TIARNÁN MACRAE, SIR — an aide to King Donal.
TIPHANE, LADY — a lady-in-waiting to Queen Richeldis.
TREVOR UDAUT — a squire in 1090, just raised from page at that Twelfth Night.
URIEN, KING — Haldane monarch who died at Killingford.
*URRACCA, PRINCESS — consort of the last sovereign Prince of Meara, mother of twin sisters Roisian and Annalind and also of Magrette.
URSIC, DUKE — Duke of Claibourne.
VERA LAURELA (DE CORWYN) HOWARD — younger twin sister of Alyce, but raised by and believed to be the daughter of Lord Orban Howard and Lady Laurela.
VIVIENNE DE JORDANET, LADY — member of the Camberian Council.
WILCE MELANDRY, SIR — nephew of Iolo, sheriff of Ratharkin.
WILLIAM MACCARTNEY, ARCHBISHOP — Archbishop of Rhemuth.
XENIA NUALA JARONI SWYNBETH, PRINCESS — first daughter and third child of Donal King of Gwynedd and Richeldis.
*YSABEAU, PRINCESS — late wife of Prince Mikhail of Andelon, mother of Sofiana and Michendra.
ZOË BRONWYN MORGAN — a student at Arc-en-Ciel, eldest daughter of Sir Kenneth Morgan.
* denotes a character is already deceased when first mentioned.
ARC-EN-CIEL, CONVENT OF NOTRE DAME D' — royal convent and school just outside Rhemuth.