THE BROKEN ISLAND / PEOPLE
Before they
become a story.
Names, relationships and first impressions. Meet the people at the point where the novel begins.
A war-leader for hire
Arthur
Twenty-five, forty horsemen, no crown. A familiar name at the beginning of a less familiar story.
Open character file ↗A farm girl from the rise
Ebbe
EB-buh
She knows the drowned forest well enough to notice when something in it is wrong.
Open character file ↗Arthur’s foster-brother
Cai
KY
A relationship older than the contract that brings the war-band to Lindum.
Open character file ↗Arthur’s oldest friend
Bedwyr
BED-weer
Friendship stands beside family among the bonds of Arthur’s company.
Open character file ↗A king’s daughter of Gwent
Gwenhwyfar
gwen-HOO-ee-var
Eighteen years old, with accounts kept in tally-sticks: a practical introduction to a famous name.
Open character file ↗A young monk-scribe from the west
Iustus
YOOS-tus
A writing hand among people whose lives may never become a written record.
Open character file ↗A man of the western hills
Myrddin
MUR-thin
Grey-haired, called mad: a name and a reputation before the reader has heard his account.
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