Dramatis Personae
Captain Lord Henry Baltimore - captain in the army
Doctor Lemuel Rose - battlefield surgeon
Demetrius Aischros - sea captain
Thomas Childress Jr. - gentlemen trader
The 'Red King' - a vampire (aka Haigus)

Sergeant Tomlin - compatriot of Baltimore
Corporal Norwich - compatriot of Baltimore
Nick and another scavenger boy, in the City where Aischros visits

Marie Alena - a school teacher in Gaul, in the 'hospital' in which Dr Rose worked
Lieutenant Agnar - a Nordic soldier in Gaul
Private Harbard - a Nordic soldier in Gaul, possessed by a Bjame (a demon-bear)
Sergeant Egril - a Nordic soldier in Gaul and leader of Harbard's company, killed by Bjame
Hafporr and Skagi - Nordic soldiers in Gaul and members of Harbard's company

Helen - Henry's sister
Lord Richard, the twelfth Baron Baltimore - Henry's father
Elowen (Ellie) Baltimore - Henry's wife

The Monk - A prophet on Trevelyan Island

Alberto Gnecco - a dead man in Italy
An Italian man and his wife - Processioners in funeral of Gnecco; the female is Gnecco's cousin
Dante - a floutist in Cicagne
Caprice - Dante's wife

Duvic - a ship captain, hired to take Childress home to England
Williams - boat captain that ferries Childree to Trevelyn Island

Geoffrey Hoskins - leader of the Childress expedition to Chile
Matteo - provider of Incan artifacts to Childress Importers
Beatriz - Matteo's deceased daughter
Mister Kirk - deckhand on the Childrss expedition to Chile
Nick Forrester - a bearded sailor on the Childress expedition

Max, a vampire killed by Baltimore
Vanessa Kalderas
Grandmother Kalderas