Characters in the Riddle of Stars

• Acor of Hel - He was the third king of Hel.
• Aia - She is Har's wife.
• Aloil - He was a wizard of Lungold. Aloil was a wizard is service to the Kings of Ymris for nine hundred years before he went to Lungold.  He vanished along with the entire school of wizards seven hundred years before the start of the series.  Aloil is described as a poet who wrote poetry to the wizard Nun.
• Anoth - Lady Anoth is a physician in the court of the Yrmis kings.  She is an elderly, comforting, dry-voiced woman.
• Arin Amory - She is perhaps the daughter of Wyndon Amory.  It may also be that Cannon Master has a crush on her.
• Arya - She was from Herun.  She is the subject of a riddle.
• Ash - Son and land-heir of Danan Isig.
• Ash Strag - He is a trader from Kraal.
• Astrin Ymris - brother and land-heir of Heureu.  He is described as a young man with lank white hair and white eyes.  When Morgon first meets him he is described as having skin stretched taut, hollow across his strange proud face.  He enjoys exploring the ruined city of the Earth-Masters on the Wind Plain.
• Athol of Hed - Former Prince of Hed.  His wife was Spring Oakland, and he was father to Morgon, Eliard, and Tristan.
• Auber of Aum - a descendent of Peven of Aum.  He went to the the tower of Peven to try to win back the crown of Aum and found the crown gone.  Auber told Mathom of this.
• Awn of An - King of An who deliberately burned part of An to keep it from his enemy.  He lost his land-rule and hung himself.
• Belu - a doomed prince of Yrmis.  He was the twin brother of Bilo.
• Bere -He is the ten or eleven year old son of Vert. He has blunt, black hair and grey eyes. Bere has broad shoulders and a grave, placid face. He trains under his uncle, Ash.
• Bilo - a doomed prince of Ymris.  He was the twin brother of Belu.
• Bri Corbett - He is the ship-master for Mathom of An.
• Cannon Master - He grew up with Morgon of Hed.
• Col of Hel - Col is an ancient lord of Hel.  His harpist owned one of the five surviving harps of Uon of Hel.
• Corrig - He was a shape-changer killed by Morgon at Herun.  He was also a harpist.  He fathered Ylon, King of An, and is thus an ancestor of Raederle's.
• Cron - See Ylcorcronlth.
• Cyn Croeg - He is the lord of Aum with lands in east Aum.  He is a descendant of the kings of Aum.
• Cyone - She was the wife of Mathom of An and the mother of Duac, Rood, and Raederle.
• Danan Isig - Isig is the land-ruler of the land that is likely named after him.  He is well over a thousand years old.  He was as ancient as a tree when Lungold was founded.
• Deth - Name the High One took while hiding from the Earth-Masters' and serving Ghisteslwchlohm. 
• Deth of Herun - See Tirundeth.
• Dhairrhuwyth - or more simply called Rhu, was the fourth Morgol of Herun who built the circles of the City of Circles, or the Crown City.  He structured the Crown City, planning a circle for each of eight riddles his curiosity set to him and he answered.
• Duac - Son and land-heir of Mathom of An.
• El - See Elrhiarhodan.
• Eliard - Eliard is the land-heir of Hed and brother of Morgon.  Eliard is two years younger than his brother Morgon.  He has his father Althol's broad shoulders and big bones, and his fair, feathery hair.
• Elieu of Hel - He is the brother of the Lord of Hel.  He came to Isig two years before Morgon first travels to Isig. He trains under Ash Isig. He has recently begun to do inlays, designs.
• Elore - One of the dead Earth-Masters' children beneath Isig.  Her mother was Rena.
• Elrhiarhodan - or more simply called El, is the current Morgol of Hed.  She is a tall woman with blue-black hair drawn back from her face, that falls without a ripple.
• Eriel - She was the fiancee of Heureu Ymris.  She had dark, shy eyes.  She was killed by the Earth Master who took her form five years before the start of the series.
• Evern the Falconer - An ancient king of Hel.
• Farr of Hel - He was the last king of Hel.
• Fenel of An - He was an ancient king of An.  He lived sometime in the two hundred years after Oen's reign.  It is said he was almost to busy fighting to sire a land-heir.
• Galil Ymris - He was a king of Ymris during a time when the wizard Aloil still served said kings.  He made a great house out of the stones of the Earth-Masters' cities.
• Ghisteslwchlohm - He was the founder of Lungold, the College of Caithnard, and the false High One.
• Goh - She is a guard in the Morgol El's service.
• Grania - She was the wife of Danan Isig.  She is buried in the mines below Isig Mountain.
• Grim Oakland - Morgan's portly overseer.  He is a farmer of Hed with a storage barn like many other farmers of Hed.  He is described as having red-grey brows.  He made have been related to Spring Oakland, the mother of Eliard, Morgon, and Tristan.
• Hagis of An - He was the King of An and grandfather to Mathom of An.  Hagis died in Peven's tower for the lack of a riddle.
• Hallard Blackdawn - He is a lord of An, with lands in east Hel.
• Har -  Har is the land-ruler of Osterland.  He is well over a thousand years old and was ancient at the time of the founding of Lungold.
• Harl Stone - a farmer of Hed.  He is described as having a shock of hair grey as a grindstone and a body like a sack of grain.
• Hegdis-Noon - A pig in the pig herds of Hel at a time when Nun tended the herd.  What made him special was he had the ability to talk.
• High One, The - Earth-Master and supreme ruler of the land.  He was originally known as Tirnon but has taken the names Deth and Yrth.
• Heureu Ymris - He is the king of Ymris and brother of Astrin Ymris.  He is described as lean, big boned, with dark hair.
• Hugin - The son of the wizard Suth and a vesta.  He has white hair and purple eyes, typical of a vesta.
• Iff - A wizard of Lungold.  He was in service to the Morgols of Herun before going to Lungold.
• Ilon of Yrye -  Ilon was a harpist at the court of Har of Osterland, who offended Har with a song.  In fear his life he fled and harped by himself in the wilderness.  He is the subject of a riddle.
• Ilona - She is one of the dead Earth-Masters' children beneath Isig.
• Imer - She is a guard in the Morgol El's service.
• Ingris - Ingris of Osterland angered Har, the King of Osterland one night when he appeared as an old man at Ingris's door, and Ingris refused to take him in.  So the wolf-King put this curse on him: that if the next stranger who came to Ingris's house did not give his name, then Ingris would die.  And the first stranger who came after Har left was --a certain harpist.  That harpist gave Ingris everything he asked for: songs, tales, the loan of his harp, the history of his travelings--everything but the name Ingris wanted to hear, though Ingris demanded in despair.  But the harpist could give him only one word, each time Ingris asked for his name, and that word, as Ingris heard it, was Death.  So in fear of Har, and in despair of the curse, he felt his heart stop and he died.
• Jarl Aker - A big, red-haired trader with a weal across his face.  He has been dead for two years.  An Earth-Master took his form.  He was missing one of his front teeth.  He got the weal when a loading cable snapped and hit him in the face.
• Kale of An - He was the first king of An.  In despair over the number of the enemy he used a Great Shout and won the battle.
• Kara - She is one of the dead Earth-Masters' children beneath Isig.
• Kern of Hed - Kern was a prince of Hed.  In addition, he is the last known prince of Hed to have had a crown.  The crown was made of silver, with a green jewel in it shaped like a cabbage.  He traded if for twenty barrels of Herun wine.  No prince of Hed has worn a crown since.  The only known riddle to come out of Hed is about Kern.
• Kes - She is a grandchild of Danan Isig.
• Kia - She is a guard in the Morgol El's service.
• Laern - He was a master from the College of Caithnard who went to Peven's Tower and failed to win the game against him.  As a result, he forfeited his life.
• Lathe Wold - The great-grandfather of Eliard, Morgon, and Tristan.
• Lathe Wold's Daughter - She was the grandmother of Eliard, Morgon, and Tristan.  She was a slender, proud woman from south Hed who, like her grandson, had a way of looking at people, remotely, like a fox glancing up from a pile of chicken feathers.
• Lein - He is a kinsman of the High Lords of Marcher (in Ymris).
• Lyle Orn - He is a trader with a ship that has red and yellow sails.
• Lyra - See Lyraluthuin.
• Lyraluthuin - or more simply called Lyra, is the daughter and land-heir to the Morgol El.  She is a girl of fourteen or fifteen. She is a member of the chosen guard of the Morgol.
• Madir - She was a witch who had in her possession books of wizardry that once belonged to the Lungold wizards.  Oen of An built a tower to trap her.  She lived for nearly two hundred years. The land-rulers of An are descended from her.
• Map Hwillion - He is a young lord with lands in south Aum.
• Mara Croeg - She is Cyn Croeg's wife and the Flower of An, the most beautiful woman in the Three Portions of An.
• Mathom of An - He is the land-ruler of An and a talented shape-shifer.
• Meroc Tor - He is the high lord and ruler of Tor.  He is a subject of Heureu Ymris.
• Morgon - Morgon is the Prince of Hed, the Star-Bearer, and later the High One.  Morgon has hair and eyes the color of light beer and takes more after his grandmother than anybody.
• Nemir of the Pigs - An ancient king of Hel.  He could speak the language of both men and pigs.  He had for his pig herder the witch Madir.  He lived either before the time of, during, or sometime in the two hundred years after Oen of An.
• Nun - She was a wizard of Lungold.  She was a wizard in service to Hel.  Her favorite pig of the pig herds of Hel was the speaking pig, Hegdis-Noon.
• Oen of An - King of An who conquered the kingdom of Aum six hundred years before the events of the series.
• Ohm - a shortening of the name Ghisteslwchlohm and the name under which he controls the College of Caithnard
• Ohroe the Cursed - An ancient king of Hel.
• Peven of Aum -  Peven was a Lord of Aum.  He was bound to his tower, by Oen of An and has remained bound by the Kings of An for the past five hundred years.  Peven was forced to wander the earth as a ghost after he killed seven of his sons with misued wizardry, and then himself in sorrow and shame.  Peven had a standing wager going that no one could win a riddle-game with him.  If he were bested in his riddle-game the challengers reward would be the crown of the Kings of Aum; however, should the challenger lose they paid with their lives.  Many from the three portions of An, and even some riddle-masters from Caithnard have challenged him and failed to defeat him.  Morgon of An is the only person to ever have defeated Peven.  Morgon even told him the names of all his sons, since Peven could no longer remember them all.  Peven took most of his knowledge from books of wizardry that had belonged to Madir, and before that to the Lungold Wizards.
• Raederle - She is the daughter of Mathom of An.  She has a pale, high-boned face and a long, fine mass of red hair.  She is known as the second most beautiful woman in An, after Hap Hwillion's sister.
• Raith of Hel - He is described by Rood as having a "face beaten out of gold and a heart like a rotten tooth." 
• Re of Aum - He offended an ancient lord of Hel, and in trying to insure his safety, allowed the lord of Hel to trap him on his own estate.
• Rena - She was an Earth-Master.  According to her daughter Elore, she could speak every language of the earth.
• Rhu - See Dhairrhuwyth.
• Rood - Son and later land-heir to Mathom of An.  He studied at the College of Caithnard and took the black of mastery.
• Rork Umber - High Lord of Umber in Ymris.  He is described as a tall, richly dressed, bright red-haired man.
• Rustin Kor - He is a trader.
• Seric - He is the High One's watcher; trained by the wizards at Lungold.
• Sil Wold - A farmer of Hed.  He is likely a relative of Eliard, Morgon, and Tristan.
• Snog Nutt - He is Morgon's pigherder.
• Sol - He was the son of Danan Isig.  Sol was killed by Earth-Masters near the heart of Isig Mountain.
• Spring Oakland - She was the wife of Athol of Hed and the mother of Morgon, Eliard, and Tristan. 
• Suny - The young daughter of Vert. She is a toddler with black hair.
• Suth - He was a wizard of Lungold.  In his youth, he is known to have been 'wild'.  During these wild years, he tutored Har in shape-changing.
• Talies - He was a wizard of Lungold.  Before going to Lungold, he was in service to the kings of An and Aum.
• Tel - He is master at the College of Caithnard.  This master is described as having a frail voice.  His face is sparse and parchment-colored.
• Teril - He is the son of Rork Umber.
• Thisten of Aum - He is the current Lord of Aum.  He is described by Rood as being "soft as a bay and too old to climb into be without help." 
• Tir - Son of Tirnon, the High One.  He gives Yrth's Sword to Morgon.
• Tirnon - Master of Earth and Wind.  This is the original name of the High One.  His son was Tir.
• Tirundeth - He was the harpist of the Morgol Cron six hundred years before the start of the series.
• Tor Oakland - an old farmer at least 70 years of age from Hed.
• Torbec Rye - He is a trader.
• Trika - She is a guard in the Morgol El's service.
• Trist - He is one of the dead Earth-Masters' children beneath Isig.  He apparently was a talented shape-shifter.  He could shape the vesta among other things.
• Tristan - Tristan is the sister of Morgon and Eliard of Hed.  A year before the death of ther parents, she is described as having been a thin, brown reed of a girl, prone to walking field walls barefoot and whistling through her teeth.  Now, however, she spends most of her time scowling at herself in the mirror and, of course, anyone in range beyond them.   Tristan has flighty black hair and a small, triangular face and looks very much like her mother.
• Uon - He was a harpmaker in Hel three centuries before the events of Riddle of Stars.  Only five of his harps survived to the current day.
• Ustin of Aum - He was the last king of Aum, and he died in sorrow over its conquering. The strings of his broken harp were used by Deth to make his harp.
• Vert - She is the daughter of Danan Isig. She has many children, amongst them a son Bere and a daughter Suny. She is a slender woman with hair the color of pine bark. Her husband is a trader and spends most of his time out at sea.
• Wyndon Amory - He is a farmer of Hed.  He lives and has a storage barn in east Hed.
• Xel - a wild-white cat with ice blue eyes given to Astrin Ymris by Danan Isig.
• Ylcorcronlth - or more simply called Cron was the Morgol of Herun six hundred years before the start of the series.  His harpist was named Tirunedeth
• Ylon - He was an ancient king of An.  He was the son of a queen of An and the shape-shifter Corrig.
• Yrth - Name the High One took when he posed as a wizard.  Under this guise he created the Starred Harp and Sword.
• Zec of Hicon - Around one hundred years before the founding of Lungold, he did the inlay for Yrth's harp. He was trained by Sol.  He was from Herun.