Major Popol — commanding the first battalion of the Rostod Regiment.

Captain Lasmark — a poor captain with the Rostod Regiment.

Colonel Vinkler — courageous commanding officer of the Thirteenth Regiment.

Mitterick’s Division

General Mitterick — a professional soldier with much chin and little loyalty, described as sharp but reckless.

Colonel Opker — his chief of staff.

Lieutenant Dimbik — an unconfident young officer on Mitterick’s staff.

Meed’s Division

Lord Governor Meed — an amateur soldier with a neck like a turtle, in peacetime the governor of Angland, described as hating Northmen like a pig hates butchers.

Colonel Harod dan Brock — an honest and hard-working member of Meed’s staff, the son of a notorious traitor.

Finree dan Brock — Colonel Brock’s venomously ambitious wife, the daughter of Lord Marshal Kroy.

Colonel Brint — senior on Meed’s staff, an old friend of the king.

Aliz dan Brint — Colonel Brint’s naive young wife.

Captain Hardrick — an officer on Meed’s staff, affecting tight trousers.

The Dogman’s Loyalists

The Dogman — Chief of those Northmen fighting with the Union. An old companion of the Bloody-Nine, once a close friend of Black Dow, now his bitter enemy.

Red-Hat — the Dogman’s Second, who wears a red hood.

Hardbread — a Named Man of long experience, leading a dozen for the Dogman.

Redcrow — one of Hardbread’s Carls.

THE NORTH
In and Around Skarling’s Chair