Novice Dragoneer

CAST OF CHARACTERS

THE DRAGONS

AGRATH, a silver

AURUE, a gray

THE LODGER, an ancient red-and-black-striped recluse

VITHLEEN, a very fast green

AUSPEREX, a male elder

TARESSCON, a senior green

SHRENTINE, patroness of the dragon dancers

CUNESCIOUS, a young copper

MNASMANUS, a mighty purple

FALBERRWRATH, a veteran red

FESPANARAX THE RECKLESS, a prisoner of the Galantine Baronies

THE SERPENTINE AND ITS ACADEMY

ILETH, a novice from an orphans’ lodge in the Freesand

ANNIS HEEM STRATH, dragoneer to Agrath

SANTEEL DUN TROOT, a novice from a distinguished family

YAEL DUSKIRK, an apprentice with the feeders

CASEEN THE MASTER OF NOVICES, a veteran dragoneer disfigured by battle

JOAI, a fixer of battered flesh and empty stomachs

THE MATRON, supervisor of the female novices at the Manor

GALIA, an apprentice from the streets of Sammerdam

QUITH, a novice

GORGANTERN, an aging apprentice

KESS, the archivist

JEROTH, a cook

ROGUSS HEEM DEKLAMP, Charge of the Serpentine

RAPOTO VOR CLAYMASS, an apprentice from wealth from Jotun

PASFA SLENG, a wingman from Zland

PREECE, a wingman

GRIFF, an apprentice in the Cellars

ZANTE, a novice under Griff’s wing

GOWAN, apprentice archivist

HAEL DUN HUSS, a dragoneer of distinction

DATH AMRITS, a dragoneer often in the company of Dun Huss and the Borderlander

THE BORDERLANDER, a dragoneer from the North

AMONG THE DANCERS

OTTAVIA IMPERENE, Charge of the Dragon Dancers

PEAK, a senior dancer and muse

ZUSYA, a most talkative friend

SHATHA, the oldest dancer

VII, the daughter of a seamstress

TASSA, a senior dancer

FYTH, a new recruit

DAX, a musician of Vyenn

NOTABLES OF THE VALE REPUBLIC

FALTH, servant to the Name Dun Troot

STANTHOFF, an Auxiliary in the Cleft

LEITH, a fishing boat captain

THE DUN TROOTS, concerned parents

THE GALANTINE BARONIES

BARON HRYASMESS, a kindly lord

THE BARONESS, a busy mother

TAF, the Baron’s daughter

YOUNG AZAL OF CHAPALAINE, the Baron’s son

DANDAS, a Baronet and distant relation to Baron Hryasmess

RANYA, of the Tribals