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.
APPENDIX II
Index of Places
ARC-EN-CIEL, CONVENT OF NOTRE DAME D' — royal convent and school just outside Rhemuth.
ARDEVALA — a holding of Michon de Courcy.
ARKELLA — manor of Sir Evan Sullivan, north of Ratharkin; location of a Portal.
ARX FIDEI SEMINARY — one of the principal seminaries in Gwynedd, north of Rhemuth.
BELDOUR — capital city of Torenth.
BREMAGNE — kingdom across the Southern Sea from Gwynedd.
CAERIESSE — legendary land that sank beneath the sea.
CARTHANELLE — royal manor north of Nyford, summer seat of the Dukes of Carthmoor.
CARTHMOOR — holding of Prince Richard Duke of Carthmoor.
CASSAN — duchy in northwest Gwynedd.
CASTEL DEARG — Jared McLain's seat in Kierney.
CASTLE CYNFYN — seat of the Earl of Lendour, in the town of Cynfyn.
CASTLE RUNDEL — an hour's ride from Culdi.
COAMER MOUNTAINS — mountain range marking part of the border between Gwynedd and Torenth.
CONCARADINE — free port on the River Eirian.
COROTH — capital of Corwyn.
CORWYN — ancient duchy in southeast Gwynedd, seat of the Deryni dukes of Corwyn.
CUILTEINE — marcher town in the southwest of Gwynedd.
CYNFYN — capital of Lendour, and Keryell's seat.
DESSE — northernmost navigable point on the River Eirian, several hours' ride south of Rhemuth.
DHASSA — free holy city in the Lendour Mountains.
DJELLARDA — capital of the princely state of Andelon.
EASTMARCH — county in northeast Gwynedd.
FESSY — village in Bremagne, site of an apparition seen near an ancient holy well, where the Ordre de Notre Dame d'Arc-en-Ciel began.
GWYNEDD — principal kingdom of the Eleven Kingdoms, seat of the Haldane kings.
HOWICCE — kingdom linked with the Kingdom of Llannedd, southwest of Gwynedd.
JACA — sovereign principality, one of the Forcinn States.
JENADUR — Sé Trelawney's family seat.
KHELDISH RIDING — portion of the old Principality of Kheldour.
KHELDOUR — ancient principality in northern Gwynedd.
KlERNEY — earldom in northwest of Gwynedd, a secondary holding of the Dukes of Cassan.
KILLINGFORD — site of a decisive battle in the great Gwynedd-Torenth War of 1025.
KILTUIN — small river-port town in Corwyn, north of Coroth.
KlNDALOO — a village north of Ratharkin and Arkella, in Meara.
LEND OUR — earldom north of Corwyn.
LLANNEDD — Kingdom linked with the Kingdom of Howicce, southwest of Gwynedd.
MARLEY — earldom in northeast Gwynedd.
MEARA — formerly independent principality west of Gwynedd, now a province of Gwynedd.
MORGANHALL — Sir Kenneth Morgan's estate.
NUR HALLAJ — sovereign principality adjacent to the Forcinn States.
NUR SAYYID — great university in R'Kassi.
NYFORD — capital of Carthmoor; ancient market town and port.
ORSALIA — ancient name of part of Trailia, whence derives the title «Hort of Orsal».
PURPLE MARCH, THE — area north and west of Rhemuth, adjoining Kierney.
PWYLLHELI — capital of Llannedd.
RATHARKIN — provincial capital of Meara.
REMIGNY — capital of Bremagne.
RHANAME — great seminary in R'Kassi.
RHEMUTH — capital of Gwynedd.
RHENDALL — county in northeast Gwynedd.
RHONDEVALA — where Michon's son Aurelien and Jessamy's eldest daughter live.
R'KASSI — kingdom to the south of the Forcinn States, famous for its horses.
ST. BRIDGET'S ABBEY — convent near Cùilteine.
ST. HILARY'S WITHIN-THE-WALLS — royal basilica adjoining the royal palace in Rhemuth.
SOSTRA — a Corwyn town adjacent to the Torenthi county of the same name.
TORENTH — principal kingdom east of Gwynedd.
TRALIA — more recent name of the sovereign principality ruled by the Hort of Orsal.
TRANSHA — small border county in northwest Gwynedd.
TRE-ARILAN — ancestral home of the Arilan family.
TRURILL — barony between Gwynedd and Meara.
VALORET — former capital of Gwynedd; seat of the Archbishop of Valoret, Primate of All Gwynedd.