CAST OF CHARACTERS
AT DOMBEGH HOUSE
SERAPHINA DOMBEGH—our charming heroine, often called Phina
CLAUDE DOMBEGH—her father, a lawyer with a secret
AMALINE DUCANAHAN—Phina’s counterfeit mother
LINN—Phina’s real mother, alas
ORMA—Phina’s mysterious mentor
ZEYD—Phina’s former tutor, a dragon
ANNE-MARIE—Phina’s not-so-wicked stepmother
TESSIE, JEANNE, PAUL, AND NEDWARD—the moderately wicked stepsiblings
THE GOREDDI ROYAL FAMILY
QUEEN LAVONDA—a monarch who faces down dragons
PRINCE RUFUS—the Queen’s only son, inexplicably murdered
PRINCESS DIONNE—the Queen’s surly daughter, first heir to the throne
PRINCESS GLISSELDA—Princess Dionne’s cheerful daughter, second heir to the throne
PRINCESS LAUREL—the Queen’s other daughter, dead of elopement
PRINCE LUCIAN KIGGS—Princess Laurel’s embarrassing bastard, fiance of Princess Glisselda, Captain of the Queen’s Guard, possessor of too many descriptors
AT COURT
VIRIDIUS—the irascible court composer
GUNTARD—a professional musician
SCRAWNY SACKBUT PLAYER—exactly as you imagine
LADY MILIPHRENE—Princess Glisscelda’s favorite lady-in-waiting, called Millie
LADY CORONGI—Princcss Glissceda’s governess, an antique despot
DAME OKRA CARMINE—the Ninysh ambassador, an antique darling
JOSEF, EARL OF APSIG—a Samsamese lordling
REGENT OF SAMSAM—the regent of Samsam
COUNT PESAVOLTA—the ruler of Ninys
OUR DRACONIC FRIENDS
ARDMAGAR COMONOT—the leader of the dragon world
AMBASSADOR FULDA—the dragon with the best manners
UNDERSECRETARY ESKAR—Fulda’s laconic second-in-command
BASIND—a walleyed newskin
NOBLE BANISHED KNIGHTS
SIR KARAL HALFHOLDER—obeys the law, even if the infernal fiends do not
SIR CUTHBERTE PETTYBONE—his somewhat less humor-impaired comrade
SIR JAMES PEASCOD—once knew General Gann from General Gonn
SQUIRE MAURIZIO FOUGHFAUGH—one of the last practitioners of dracomachia
SQUIRE PENDER—the other one
IN TOWN
SONS OF ST. OGDO—unhappy with the treaty
LARS—the genius behind the clock
THOMAS BROADWICK—a cloth merchant
SILAS BROADWICK—the reason they call them Broadwick Bros. Clothiers
ABDO—a dancer in a pygegyria troupe
A PYGEGYRIA TROUPE—and there’s the rest of them now
IN PHINA’S HEAD
FRUIT BAT—the cIimber
PELLCAN MAN—putting the grotesque in “grotesque”
MISERERE—the feathery one
NEWT—the wallowing one
LOUD LAD—the noisy one
JANNOULA—too curious for her own good
MISS FUSSPOTS—the finicky one
PANDOWDY—the swamp thing
NAG AND NAGINI—the speedy twins
GARGOYELLA AND FINCH—mentioned in passing
FIVE MORE—to be named in a future publication
IN LEGEND AND IN FAITH
QUEEN BELONDWEG—the first Queen of united Goredd, subject of the national epic
PAU-HENOA—her trickster rabbit companion, also called the Mad Bun and Hen-Wee
ST. CAPITI—representing the life of the mind, Phina’s patroness
ST. YIRTRUDIS—the spooky heretic, Phina’s other patroness, alas
ST. CLARE—lady of perspicacity, Prince Lucian Kiggs’s patroness