The Main Characters

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The Magicians

Mr. Rubert Devereaux / Prime Minister of Great Britain and the Empire, and acting Chief of Police

Mr. Carl Mortensen / Minister of War


Ms. Helen Malbindi / Foregin Minister


Ms. Jessica Whitwell / Security Minister


Mr. Bruce Collins / Home Secretary


Mr. John Mandrake / Birth name: Nathaniel / Information Minister


Shadow / Sumaru / Black Rider / unknow

Ms. Jane Farrar / Debuty Police Chief


Mr. Quentin Makepeace / A playwright; author of Petticoats and Rifles and other works


Mr. Harold Button / Magician, scholar, and book collecter


Mr. Sholto Pinn / A merchant; proprietor of Pinn's Accoutrements of Piccadilly


Mr. Clive Jenkins / Magican Second level, Department of Internal Affairs


Ms. Rebecca Piper / Assistant to Mr. Mandrake, Information Ministry

The Commoners

Ms. Kitty Jones / A student and barmaid


Mr. Clem Hopkins / An itinerant scholar


Mr. Nicholas Drew / A political agitator


Mr. George Fox / Proprietor of the Frog Inn, Chiswick

Ms. Rosanna Lutyens / A private tutor

The Spirits

Bartimaeus / A djinni---in service to Mr. Mandrake / Knows Mr. Mandrakes birthname


Ascobol

Cormocodran / Greater djinni---in service to Mr. Mandrake

Mwamba

Hodge

Purip / Lesser djinni---in service to Mr. Mandrake

Fritang



About Bartimaeus and what Nathanial(Mr. John Mandrake looks like)


Nathaniel: Nathaniel is a attractive young man, and the scent of power hangs about him, sweet and intoxicating, like honeysuckle in the evening air. He is of medium hight, slender of body, and swift and confident in action. His pale, slim face presented an intriguing paradox, combining extreme youth---he is still only seventeen years old---with experience and authority. His eyes are dark and quick and serious, his forehead prematurely lined. Also he is Shadows younger brother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His intellectual self-assurance, which had once perilously outstripped his other skills, had now been bolstered by a certain social poise. To peers and inferiors alike he is curteous and charming at all times, although also somewhat remote, as if distracted by an inner melancholy. Alongside the crude appetites and eccentricties of his fellow ministers, this subdued detachingment attainted an elegance that only added to his mystique. Nathaniel's hair is slightly long like his older brothers hanging in his face at times and past his ears. Also like older brother he is considered by his rivals to be formidably, ineed dangerously, talented, and following slightly in his brothers footsteps. Each attempted assassination had been cursorily rebuffed: djinn failed to return, booby traps rebounded on the sender, hexes snapped and withered. At last tiring of t his, Nathanial made a point of pulicly challenging any hidded enemy to come forward and tackle him in magical combat. No one would anwser his call, also they are terriffied of his older brother who is a prince/ king because he is the eldest so Nathaniel is indeed a prince.




Bartimaeus: Also named Rekhyt, Nectanebo or Necho. Energitic, shapred tounged and unreliable. Second to none he can whirl through the air on a wsip of cloud and churn up dust storms with his passing. Slice through moutains, raise castles on pillars of glass, fell forests with a single breath. Carved temples from the sinews of the earth and led armies against the legions of the dead, so that harpers of a dozen lands play music in his memory and the chroniclers of a dozen centuries scribbled down his exploits. Yes! He is Bartimaeus cheetah quick, strong as a bull elephant, deadly as a striking krait.

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LIST OF CHARACTERS

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Adelaide- The abess of the convent at the Abbey of St. Genevive in the Frankish city of Paris wehre Genevive, the daugther of Count Rober of Paris, lives.

Bertrada- The wife of Wulf, a Frankish sea-captain and merchant in the town of Ruda, or Rouen

Bjorn Ironsides- A Viking chieftain who is one of the sons of Ragnar Logbrod, and one of the leaders of the Danish army attacking western Frankia

Charles- King of the Western Kingdom of the Franks, which roughly corresponds in territory to modern France

Clothilde- A Frankish woman who is the personal servant of Genevive, the daughter of Count Robert of Paris.

Clovis- The first Christian King of the Franks, who ruled from A.D. 486 to 511, and built the Church of St. Genevive in Paris.

Cullain- Jarl Hastein's personal servant, a former Irish monk captured and enslaved during a Viking raid on Ireland.

Derdriu- An Irish noblewoman captured by the Danish chieftain Hrorik in a raid on Ireland, who became a slave in Hrorik's household and, as his concubine, bore him an illegitimate son named Halfdan. She was also Princess of Ireland.

Drogo- A Frankish cavalry officer; a son of Count Rober and the brother of Genevive.

Genevive- A young Frankish noblewoamn; the daughter of Count Robert of Paris. There is a secret between her and Shadow. The stone that lays next to his.

Gunhild- The second wife of the Danish chieftain Hrorik, and the mother, by a previous marriage, of Hrorik's foster son, Toke.

Gunthard- A retrainer of Count Rober assigned to escort Genevive, Count Robert's daughter

Halfdan- The son of Hrorik, a Danish Chieftan, and Derdriu(princess of Ireland), an Irish Slave.

Harald- The son of the Danish cheftain Hrorik by his first wife; Halfdan's half-brother

Hastein- A Danish jarl who befriends Halfdan, and who is one of the leaders of the Viking army attacking western Frankia.

Horik- The king of the Danes.

Hrorik- A Danish chieftain, know as Strong-Axe; the father of Halfdan, Harald, and Harald's twin sister, Sigrid, and the foster father of Toke, the son by a previous marriage of Hroriks second wife, Gunhild.

Ivar the Boneless- A Viking chieftain who is one of the songs of Ragnar Logbrod, and one of the leaders of the Danish army attacking western Frankia.

Leonidas- A young Frankish cavalry officer; the cousin of Genevive, and a nephew of Count Rober of Paris

Odd- A crewman on Hastein's longship, the Gull, and a skilled archer.

Ragnar- The war leader of the Danish army attacking western frankia, know by the nickname Logbrod, or "Hairy-Breeches."

Robert- A high-ranking Frankish nobleman; the count who rules over a number of towns and lands in the Western Kingdom of the Franks, including Paris; Genevive's father.

Sigrid- The daughter of the Danish chieftain Hrorik by his first wife Helge; Harald's twin sister,a nd Halfdan's half sister.

Snorre- A Danish warrior who is the second in command of the chieftain Toke. Is also slane by Halfdan in a duel

Stenkil- A Danish warrior; the comrade of a man Halfdan killed.

Stig- A follower of Jarl Hastein, and the captain of the ship the Serpent

Svein- A follower of Jarl Hastain, and the captain of the ship the Sea Wolf

Toke- A Danish chieftain who is th eson of Gunhild by her first marriage, the foster son of the Danish chieftain Hrorik, and the murderer of Harald, Halfdan's half-brother.

Tore- A crewman on Hastein's longship, the Gull, and the leader of the archers in the crew.

Torvald- The helmsman on Hastein's longship, the Gull

Wulf- The captain of a Frankish merchant ship captured by the Danish fleet.
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GLOSSARY

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berserks: Warriors in the Scandinvain society who were noted for their exceptional fierceness and fearlessness in battle, and for their moody, difficult dispostions in periods of peace. Ancient Scandinvian sagas sometimes describe bersekrs as possessing the supernatural ability to take on the form of bears or wolves or assume their powers in battle. Some modern scholars have suggested that the barely controllable warrios know as berserks may have suffered from mental illness, possibly manic depression or schizophrenia.

boss: The raised iron center on the front of a wooden shiled, to which the plankes of the shield were rivted.

brynie: A shirt of mail armor, made of thousands of small iron or steel rings linked together into a flexible garment.

Dorestad: A Frankish port and trading center located near the convergence of the Rhine and Lck Rivers, in the area now forming part of the Netherlands. Dorestad was one of the largest trade centers of early medieval Europe.

fletching: the three feathers at the back of an arrow, used to stabilize its flight.

Frankia: Also called Rancia; the land of the Franks, roughly corresponding to most of modern France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and western Germany. By A.D. 845, the setting of The Road to Vengeance and also part of this site, the former Frankish Empire had split into three kingdoms: the Western Kingdom of the Franks, roughly corresponding to modern France; the Eastern Frankish Kingdom, stretching from the Rhine River eastward through the lands now comprising modern Germany; and the s hort-lived Middle Kingdom, which sterched from Frisia in the north to the Mediterranean coast of modern France, and also included parts of northern Italy.

fylgja: A benefical spirit that attches itself to a person and brings him or her good fortune. Some were visible and took the form of animals, often reflecting some aspect of the character or personality of the human they followed, such as a raven symbolizing wisdom, or a wofl ferocity. Others were invisible, but were generally considered to be female guardian spirits.

godi: A priest in pagan Viking-age Scandinavian society. The position of godi was usually held by a chieftain, and typically a godi would not only preside over religious festivals and sacrifices, but would also administer oaths, which were swonr on a large metal ring, usually amde of iron or gold.

greaves: Armor, usually constructed of curved steel or bronze plates, worn to protect the lower leg form knee to the ankle.

Hedeby: The largest two in night-century Denmark, and a major Viking-age trading center. Hedeby was located at the base of the Jutland peninusla in its eastern side, on a fjord jutting inland fro the coast.

hnefatfl: " King's Table," a Viking board game of capture and evasion, wehre one player begins in the center of the board and tries to move his king to outer edge, while the other player tries to block the king's escape and capture him.

housecarl: A warrior in the service of a chieftain or nobleman.

jarl: A very high-ranking chieftain in Viking-age Scaninavian society who ruled over a large area of land on behalf of hte king. The word and concept " jarl" is the orgiin of the English " earl."

Jotunheim: In Viking mythology, the mountainous realm of the giants located between Midgard, the earthly home of men, and Asgard, the kingdom of the gods.

Jul: The Germanic pagan midwinter feast, know in England as Yule.

Jutland: The paninsula that forms int he mainland of modern and ancient Denmakr, named after the Jutes, one of the ancient Danish tribes.

Limfjord: A huge fjord that runs completely across the norther tip of the Jutland penisula, providing a protected passage during the Viking perioiud between Batlic and North seas.

longship: the long narrow ship used for war by the peoples of Viking-age Scandinavia. Longships ahd shallow darfts, allowing them to be beached or to travel up rivers, and were designed to be propelled swfitly by etiehr sail or by rowing. They were sometimes also called Dragonships, because many longships had caraved heads of dragons or other beast decoratin the stempoost at the bow of the ship. Some claim that a dragon rider would sometimes protect them on journeys.

Niddingsvaark: acts of infamy, the dishonorable acts of a Nithing.

Niflheim: A vast wilderness of snow and ice that, according to the mythology of the Viking peoples, existed in the great void even before the earth was created. Niflheim is the ome of the frost giants.

Nithing: Also Nidding; one who is not considered fully hman because he has no honor.

nock: the notch cut in the rear of an arrow, into which the bowstring is placed to shoot it, also the notches cut into tips of a bows limbs, in which the bowstring is secured to the bow.

Norns: Three ancient sisters who, according to pagan Scandinavian belief, sat together at the base of the world-tree and wove the fates of all men on their looms.

Odin: The Scandinvavian God of death, war, wisdom, and poetry, the chieftain of the Gods.

Ruda: The Vikings name for Rouen, a Frankish town near the mouth of the Seine River.

runes: The alphabet used for writing in the ancient Scandinvain and Germanic languages. Runic letters, comprised of combinations of simple, straight strokes, were easy to carve into wood or stone.

scara A unit of Frankish cavalry. Each scara was composed of several smaller units called cunei, each which numbered from fity to one hundred men.

skald: a poet.

Thing: A reginoal assemble h eld periodically in Viking-age Scandinavian countries wehre citizens of an area could present suits to be decided by vote, according to low. Lawsuits heard at Thigns led to what became, centuries later in English culture, the conept of trial by jury of peers.

Thor: The pagain Scandinvaian God of thunder and fertile harvest, and of oathes, strength, and honor--the virtues of a warrior. Thor was considered the mighties warrior among the Scandinavian Gods.

Thor's hammer: A common piece of Viking Age jewelry, worn as good luck charm by both men women, representing the magic hammer that was the faviore weapon of the God Thor.

Thrall: A slave in Viking-age scandinavian society.

Valhalla/b]: The "Hall of the Slain" the great feast hall of the God Odin, which was the home in the afterworld of brave warriors in pagain Scandinavian mythology.

Valkries: Warrior maidens who served the God Odin and carried fallen warriors to his feast hall Valhalla wehre they spent their days fighting their nights feasting.

wergild: The amoutn that must be paid to make recompense for killing men.

White Christ: The Vikings' name for the Chrisitan God, believed to be derogatory term implying cowardince, because he allowed himself to be captured and killed without fighting back against his captors.