ALAZAIS MORGAN — youngest daughter of Sir Kenneth Morgan.
*ALBADORE, SAINT — a patron saint of lost things.
ALEXANDER DARBY, FATHER — violently anti-Deryni priest and former physician in Carthane.
ALINOR CARDIEL, LADY — second wife of Mikhail Prince of Andelon, sister of Thomas.
ALVIN DE MARCO — a guard in the retinue of Lord Deldour.
ALYCE JAVANA DE CORWYN, LADY — elder daughter of Keryell Earl of Lendour and Stevana de Corwyn.
ANDREW MCLAIN, DUKE — Duke of Cassan, father of Jared.
ANGELUS, FATHER — a chaplain to Queen Richeldis.
ANJELICA — maid to Lady Jessamy.
ANNALIND, PRINCESS — a princess of Meara, younger twin of Roisian.
ARDRY MACARDRY — infant son of Caulay Earl of Transha.
*ATUN, PRINCE — late Prince of Andelon, father of Mikhail and Khoren.
AURÉLIEN DE COURCY — son of Michon and husband of Sieffany MacAthan.
BARRETT DE LANEY — blind member of the Camberian Council; brother of Dominy de Laney.
BASIL OF CASTLEROO — a Mearan rebel.
BENJAMIN — servant in the employ of Seisyll Arilan.
BENROY, FATHER — weak-sighted scrivener and chaplain at Arc-en-Ciel.
BLAINE EMANUEL RICHARD CINHIL HALDANE, PRINCE — second son of Donal King of Gwynedd.
BLAISE OF TRURILL — a Mearan rebel.
BRENDAN, BROTHER — a dark at Rhemuth.
BRIGETTA DELACORTE, LADY — a junior lady-in-waiting to Queen Richeldis.
BRION DONAL CINHIL URIEN HALDANE, PRINCE — firstborn son and heir of King Donal.
BRONNA, LADY — a nurse to the royal children.
CAITRIN OF MEARAN, PRINCESS — daughter of Judhael of Meara, sister of Princess Onora.
*CASSIANUS DE LANEY — deceased older brother of Dominy and Barrett.
CERYS DEVANE — a student at Arc-en-Ciel, Alyce's original roommate, who later takes the veil as Sister Ins Cerys.
*CHARLAN MORGAN, SIR — former squire to Javan Haldane, treacherously killed with him; distant cousin of Sir Kenneth Morgan.
CLARICE, LADY — a lady-in-waiting to Queen Richeldis.
*COLMAN, KING — deceased King of Howicce and Llannedd, father of Queen Richeldis.
*CORBAN HOWELL, SIR — deceased Earl of Eastmarch.
CRAWFORD, MASTER — a guard at Rhemuth Castle.
*CYNFYN OF LENDOUR — deceased son of Keryell Earl of Lendour by his first marriage.
*DAMIAN CATHCART — a general/tactician of the past.
DEINOL HARTMANN, SIR — seneschal at Castle Cynfyn.
DELDOUR, LORD — a lord of Carthane, and one of the ringleaders of an anti-Deryni lay group centered on the ministry of Bishop Oliver de Nore; Father Septimus becomes his chaplain.
DENIT, FATHER — queen's chaplain in 1088.
DESMOND MACCARTNEY, BISHOP — Auxiliary Bishop of Rhemuth, brother of William.
DOMINY DE LANEY — sister of Barrett, member of the Camberian Council.
DONAL BLAINE AIDAN CINHIL HALDANE, KING — King of Gwynedd, Prince of Meara, and Lord of the Purple March.
DONNARD, MASTER — Duke Richard's battle-surgeon in 1086.
*DULCHESSE, QUEEN — childless first queen of Donal Haldane.
EDWARD — a carpenter at Rhemuth Castle.
EDWINA — Zoë's original roommate at Arc-en-Ciel, from Llannedd.
ELAINE MACINNIS, LADY — daughter of Manfred MacInnis and Signe Calder of Sheele; first wife of Jared Earl of Kierney, and mother of Kevin McLain.
EVAN SULLIVAN, SIR — human buyer of horses at manor of Arkella, north of Ratharkin. (Kindaloo is farther along.)
FARIAN, FATHER — a young dark at Rhemuth.
*FERROL HOWARD, SIR — slain 1025 at Killingford with King Urien and buried in crypt beneath Rhemuth Cathedral.
FRANCIS DELANEY — a Mearan rebel.
GEILL MORGAN — middle daughter of Sir Kenneth Morgan.
GERALD — a squire in the service of King Donal.
*GRANIA DE CORWYN, LADY — mother of Stevana and grandmother of Alyce, Marie, Ahern, and Vera.
GWENAËL, QUEEN — Queen of Llannedd and mother of Queen Richeldis.
HAMBERT HAMILTON, SIR — seneschal of Coroth.
IERY — Marie's roommate at Arc-en-Ciel.
ILLANN, KING — King of Howicce and, after the death of Queen Gwenaël, King of Llannedd; brother of Queen Richeldis.
IOLO MELANDRY, SIR — royal governor of Ratharkin, hanged by rebels.
IRIS ALTHEA, SISTER — mistress of scriptorium at Arc-en-Ciel.
IRIS ANTHONY, SISTER — professed nun at Arc-en-Ciel.
IRIS JESSILDE, SISTER — second daughter of Jessamy MacAthan, a novice at Arc-en-Ciel.
IRIS JUDIANA, MOTHER — Superior at Arc-en-Ciel; daughter of a Bremagni duke, educated at Rhaname.
IRIS MART, SISTER — a professed nun at Arc-en-Ciel.
IRIS ROSE, SISTER — a novice at Arc-en-Ciel.
ISAN FITZMARTIN — a page in the household of King Donal, son of Lady Megory Fitzmartin.
IVONE — a squire to King Donal in 1086.
JARED MCLAIN, EARL OF KIERNEY — only son of Andrew Duke of Cassan.
*JEPPE LASCELLES — one of the Gwynedd generals at Killingford.
JESIANA MACATHAN — a daughter of Jessamy and Sief MacAthan.
JESSAMY FERCH LEWYS MACATHAN — daughter of Lewys ap Norfal and Lady Ilde; wife of Sief MacAthan. Mother of four living daughters and Krispin MacAthan.
JESSILDE MACATHAN — see Iris Jessilde, sister.
JIRI REDFEARN, SIR — an aide to King Donal.
JODOTHA — a legendary Deryni of the seventh century.
*JOLYON OF MEARA, PRINCE — last sovereign Prince of Meara, husband of Urracca, father of Roisian and Annalind.
JOSQUIN GRAMERCY — a scout in the service of King Donal.
JOVETT CHANDOS, SIR — former squire in the service of Keryell Earl of Lendour, childhood friend of Alyce and Marie de Corwyn, secretly Deryni; knighted with Sé Trelawney at Twelfth Night court, 1082.
JUDHAEL, PRINCE — soi-distant Prince of Meara, first cousin to King Donal, son of Annalind, Princess of Meara.
KENNETH KAI MORGAN, SIR — an aide to King Donal; father of Zoë and two more daughters.
KEVIN DOUGLAS MCLAIN — infant son of Jared Earl of Kierney and Elaine MacInnis.
KHOREN VASTOUNI, PRINCE — member of the Camberian Council.
KRISPIN SIEF MACATHAN — son of Jessamy by King Donal, secretly sired to be a Deryni protector for the royal princes.
LAURELA HOWARD — «mother» of Vera (de Corwyn) Howard.
LEWYS AP NORFAL — infamous Deryni who defied the Camberian Council; father of Jessamy and Morian.
LUCIEN TALBOT, BARON — a baron of the Purple March, permanent royal governor of Ratharkin replacing the murdered Iolo Melandry.
MALGAR DE FIRENZA, FATHER — new chaplain and music master at Arc-en-Ciel after Septimus de Nore.
MARIE STEPHANIA DE CORWYN — younger daughter of Keryell Earl of Lendour and Stevana de Corwyn; twin to Ahern de Corwyn.
MEGORY FITZMARTIN — a principal lady-in-waiting to Queen Richeldis.
MICHAEL OF KHELDOUR, ARCHBISHOP — Archbishop of Valoret and Primate of All Gwynedd.
MICHAEL MACDONALD, SIR — husband of Princess Onora of Meara.
MICHENDRA VASTOUNI, PRINCESS — younger daughter of Prince Mikhail of Andelon.
MICHON DE COURCY, LORD — member of the Camberian Council.
MIKHAIL VASTOUNI, PRINCE — sovereign Prince of Andelon and nephew of Prince Khoren.
MIRANDA, LADY — a lady-in-waiting to Queen Richeldis.
MORIAN DU JOUX (AP LEWYS), SIR — brother of Jessamy, and Deryni.
MUNGO, FATHER — a chaplain in the royal household.
MURIELLA, LADY — a lady-in-waiting to Queen Richeldis.
NED — a gardener at Rhemuth Castle.
NIDIAN AP PEDR — a citizen of Ratharkin.