Player Knights / PCs (active)
- Millicent (Jessica) - battlefield leader; courtly “unaware” streak; famed for decisive rescues; now Lady of Heywood.
- Drustin (Kevin) - eager and tradition-minded; prone to melancholy; tied to St. Crispin relic story; now lord of starving Yarnbrook.
- Assterius (Patrik) - thoughtful/pragmatic; suffered madness episodes; currently a key “stability vs passion” arc; now lord of Bratton.
- Liam (Steve) - dutiful/logistics; ends up in the center of multiple supernatural bargains/spotlights; now lord of Edington.
- Sir Geraint (BrotherRidge) - joined Session 12; sole survivor of Caradoc’s Dunkerton conroi; sworn to Roderick; now lord of Coulston.
Former Player Knights / PCs (dead/retired)
- Gregory (Robert) - massive Saxon squire; heroic death in the Forest of Gloom.
- Beonred (Beon) (Robert) - Gregory’s younger brother; notable deeds include wyvern kill; now retired.
- Noah (Alan) - squire; killed in the early Irish/ogre fighting.
- Pedivere (Alan) - Alan’s replacement knight after Noah’s death; appears at Downton; GM handwaved him to barely alive, but Alan quit and never returned (out of play).
Player-controlled “loaner” knights
- Sir Kenian - knight commander; player-run by Patrick when Assterius was out (madness).
Royal / Succession figures
- Hlodowig — king of the Franks (aka Clovis).
- Clovis (alias of Hlodowig) — unifier and conqueror leading the Franks; researched ahead of the spring 488 Gaul campaign.
- King of Sussex (unknown) — ruler referenced in the Sussex/Saxon political context.
- Uther Pendragon - inherits Logres; volatile conqueror; central driver of war and terror; his desire for Ygraine drives the siege of Exeter.
- Prince Uther — ruler of the parallel Britain revealed in Session 023.
- Aurelius - slain High King (Bedegraine betrayal); unity figure whose death fractures the realm.
- Sir Madoc - legitimized bastard son of Uther; married to Millicent; father of Meredith; died from Lincoln wounds and was buried at Stonehenge.
- Ygraine — Duchess of Cornwall; her arrival at the White Tower triggers Uther’s dangerous obsession, now driving his assault on Exeter.
- Lucius (Duke of Saxon Shore) - 4-year-old knighted; made Duke of Saxon Shore with regent aunt.
- Syagrius — Gallo-Roman ruler in Gaul who appeals to Uther for aid against the Franks.
Salisbury / Logres lords and power-brokers
- Count Roderick of Salisbury - liege of early campaign; pursuing marriage alliances.
- War Baron Ulfius - major war figure present at Bedegraine.
- Bruce - Roderick’s unsettling agent/analyst; interrogates Drustin about witch-deals and is also named as a lead tied to Sir Madoc’s February kidnapping-by-boat (policed moustache; spiky leather armor).
Player knights / conroi
- Sir Gerry — passes the angelic test and bears the Shield of St. Crispin against the Dragon of the Roman Mine.
Knights / commanders (non-player)
- Sir Corton — knight present at the Sarum feast; amused by Blaine’s lack of progress.
- Sir Jerem - castellan of Duplain; early mission leader.
- Sir Blaine - steward of Levcomagus; implicated in the fairy dragon “gift.”
- Sir Ector - Rachel’s brother; Caer Bannog host.
- Sir Beefy - notorious rival/foe; strength legend grows.
- King Brodin of Malahaut - “Centurion-King”; Roman legatus armor; political pressure point.
- King Lot of Lothian — young king fighting Saxons alongside King Brodin of Malahaut.
- Prince Urion — young Gorre prince who grants hospitality at Gaiholm.
- Prince Bademagu — elder prince of Gorre, away campaigning against Saxons.
- Leodegrance — young lord at Carohaig who aids refugees brought by Sir Geraint.
- Sir Vardilain — Appleby knight/lord who offers the questers a unicorn-horn bargain.
Squires / retainers
- Lilwen — sixteen-year-old Yarnbrook local entrusted by Drustin with relief money during the 489 famine.
- Iorath — Drustin-hired squire for Sir Geraint (son of a rich nobleman).
Ladies / marriage prospects / courts
- Lady Dilwen — court lady who pursues an intoxicated Sir Madoc at the Sarum feast.
- Lady Eadburh of the Vale — Saxon lady at the Sarum feast; possible wife of War Baron Ulfius.
- Damsel Diana — messenger from Lady Wells warning that Excalibur must return to the Ladies of the Lake; Liam has Roderick’s leave to court her, pending proper permission and possible royal objection.
- Lady Ellen of Winchbank - unconventional heiress; ward of the crown; promised to Roderick.
- Lady Rachel of Carbonog - healer; pagan-leaning methods; repeatedly saves PCs.
- Duchess of Silchester - host at Silchester during levy absence.
- Lady Rosalyn - Duke of the March’s daughter; generous and merciful; interested in Drustin, but her father requires him to become a banneret before considering marriage.
- Lady Llylla (Shisha) - wealthy and beautiful; infamous cruelty to servants.
- Lady Triamors - heiress of Lickeyend; introduced by Dubricus.
- Lady Rhianneth - Sir Marius’ wife; manipulative; corrected source of Madoc’s prior scandal and possible child.
- Baroness Pomponia - Frankish Saxon Shore ruler; political maneuverer; carrying Assterius’s bastard child.
- Clotilde — young visionary of Wildenburg nearly burned for murders actually caused by werewolves; warned of the Lord of Wildenburg and Michael’s silver prophecy.
- Lady Appleby — widowed Appleby lady whose family was devastated by Gore and Malahaut raids.
- Jacqueline of Appleby — Lady Appleby’s hidden daughter, eager to leave Appleby.
Clergy / holy figures
- Meredith — nun at St. Mary Bethlehem and mother of Sir Madoc.
- Meredith (daughter of Madoc and Millicent) — battleborn daughter of Millicent and Sir Madoc, born at Lincoln and named after Madoc’s mother.
- Archbishop Dubricus - senior church authority; directs Geraint/Asterius toward a restorative quest and gives the fisherman/crown vision pointing from Glastonbury toward Loch Lomond.
- Abbot of Wells - humiliated victim of Wells incident.
- Bishop of Caen — clergy in Caen who officiates the rushed marriage of Millicent and Sir Madoc.
- Brother Maynard - monk involved in the sorceress swap.
- Brother Llewelyn - Bath abbey monk; points to York plans.
- Bishop Bertrand of Bristol — politically ambitious Bishop of Bristol; lends Saint Brigid’s Flying Cauldron for a costly deposit.
- Joseph of Arimathea (lore) - Grail tradition linked to Glastonbury.
- Brother Nerovens — holy man from the Castle of Salt with chirurgery; joins the crown/Grail quest north.
Wizards / fae / supernatural actors
- Merlin - wizard; repeatedly adjacent to major conspiracies; Session 023 reveals a parallel-world Merlin distinct from the party’s own Merlin.
- Drimant - blue-robed neutral chronicler (Ladies of the Lake trained); warns of omens.
- Red Sorceress (Glastonbury) - captured then escapes by swapping with Maynard.
- Lady Niev - woman in white tied to fairy dragon egg.
- Lady Wells - Lady of Wells; one of the Ladies of the Lake who receives the returned sword at Wells.
- Guido (The Guide) - child navigator provided by Lady Wells; leads the conroi to/through the Frome Stones route into the Otherworld.
- Elf Smith of Pengam Green — otherworldly smith at the Pengam Green “Reawakening Fair”; repairs Excalibur; takes commissions.
- The Woman in White (Silchester) - mysterious white-cloaked castle visitor.
- Unknown name - Woman in White (White Stag) - rides a white stag with glowing antlers.
- Elvish Damsel of Appleby Forest — singing fey woman who guides Millicent in Appleby forest.
- Silver-Haired Woman of Loch Lomond — mysterious naked silver-haired woman who leads the questers toward the Loch Lomond fountain.
- Fox-girl of the Forest of Gloom — reported fox-fae driven off with cold iron near the Forest of Gloom.
- Black Knight at the Well — vision figure blocking passage to a hilltop well.
Saxons / northern war figures
- Eosa “the Giant” Horsason - King of the Deira Saxons; ransom/torque; York parley.
- King Wihtlaeg of the Angles — child King of the Angles captured alive at Peterborough after Sir Madoc chose mercy.
- Ælflaed - Eosa’s daughter; magical slippers; Wilderspool mission.
- Rori of Newark — castellan; allies against Eosa’s warband.
Other NPCs / stubs (auto-listed)
- Earl of Jagent — lord of Jagent whose daughter is locked away due to a dragon-abduction prophecy.
- Daughter of the Earl of Jagent — tower-bound daughter of the Earl of Jagent; an oracle foretold she would be abducted by a dragon.
- Knight Commander Caradoc — burns Dunkerton; conroi slaughtered by a giant.
- Madam Eva — mystic near Wilderspool; warns of taboos; reads Liam.
- Maewyn Succat — Christian priest freed from a pit near Wilderspool.
- Marius Gallus — Gallo-Roman quartermaster met at Caen; befriends Liam and offers access to javelins.
- Baron of Winchbank
- Castellan of Vagon
- Duke Edaris of the March
- Duke Erof of Cornwall — husband of Ygraine; reconciled with Uther for the spring 490 northern march, but Uther’s renewed desire for Ygraine strains the peace and leads to the siege of Exeter.
- Duke Ulfius of Silchester
- King Cadwy of Summerland
- Sir Leo
- Sir Marius of Caerwent
- Squire Aspara
- Squire Leo
- Unknown name - Rachel’s hedge knight brother
- Unnamed Messenger (Wells)
- Lord of Wildenburg — revealed after death as one of the werewolves haunting Wildenburg.