One “new” name on this list, Morgan, was announced in the press release in April. These two characters are likely only mentioned in passing, since they died thirty years earlier. The names John and Pryrates also appear on the new list. It remains to be seen who now rule these lands. ![]() Also not mentioned are Count Streawe, Duke Varellan, Lector Velligis, Queen Inahwen, and March-thane Fikolmij, who were the rulers, respectively, of Perdruin, Nabban, Mother Church, Hernystir, and High Thrithing thirty years earlier. However, the original press release has indicated that Derra and Deornoth will have a role to play in the new series. Notably absent are Rachel, Father Strangyeard, Sludig, and Josua’s twin children Derra and Deornoth. Hyara (Vorzheva’s sister) and Pasevalles (the young boy in Nabban) also appear on the list. Count Eolair of Hernystir, Duke Isgrimnur of Rimmersgard, Jeremias, Binabik, Sisqinanamook, Tiamak, Prince Josua and Lady Vorzheva also appear on the character list, indicating that they will return in the new series as well. Simon and Miriamele return in “The Witchwood Crown”.Īmong the returning mortal characters will be King Simon and Queen Miriamele, who have apparently ruled Osten Ard for the last thirty years. Some, including Kulva, Jhesa, Ommu and Makho, may be non-Gardenborn names. Alternately, the character names ending in vowels may be new Sithi characters. Names ending in -i and -o are likely Norn males. Names ending with a -u and -a are likely to be female Norns. The names Rinan and Khibi-Ya follow formats similar to Niskie and Dwarrow names, respectively. Among these are Nezeru, Takeru, Tsoja/Tsoji, Saojemi, Viyeki, Rinan, Khibi-Ya, and possibly Kulva, Jhesa, Ommu, and Makho. Many new names on the list, however, do appear to be Gardenborn names. Because the name of the third novel in the new series was announced as The Navigator’s Children, it seems likely that the Dwarrows and Niskies will have some part to play in “The Last King of Osten Ard”, but the names Yis-fidri, Yis-hadra, Sho-vennae, Imai-an and Nin Reisu, all Dwarrow or Niskie characters from “Memory, Sorrow and Thorn”, do not appear on the new character list. ![]() No other previously-seen Gardenborn names appeared on Williams’ new character list. The part that Akhenabi will play is as yet unknown the embittered Norns were defeated and seemingly broken at the end of “Memory, Sorrow and Thorn”, leaving interesting possibilities in the new novels, set thirty years after the end of To Green Angel Tower. Utuk’ku is expected to be a major antagonist in the new series, as one of the few major villains left at the end of the original series. Two of the names on the published character list are Utuk’ku the Norn Queen and Akhenabi, both of whom were antagonists in “Memory, Sorrow and Thorn”. In fact, Williams has stated that the immortal Norns will have an important role to play in the new series. With Jao e-Tinukai’i likely sidelined, the focus of the Gardenborn part of the story seems to be Nakkiga, the frozen city of the Norns, in the far north above Black Rimmersgard. Attempts by the Sithi to reach Hakatri via the Master Witnesses have all failed, indicating that he was far away from Osten Ard, or possibly no longer even alive. But Hakatri was badly burned a thousand (or so) years earlier, and has apparently not set foot in Osten Ard for centuries. Hakatri’s doings were legendary even among the Sithi. ![]() However, even the possibility of Hakatri’s return sets the stage for a possible major conflict between the humans and the Gardenborn once more. It is not certain that Hakatri will return in the new series, or if he is simply a character mentioned in passing. The only other “returning” Sithi character on the list is Hakatri i-Sa’onserei, son of Amerasu Ship-born and Iyu’unigato the Erl King, and brother to Ineluki the Storm King who played a major role in the destruction of the mortal world in “Memory, Sorrow and Thorn”. Hakatri, son of Amerasu and Iyu’unigato, may reappear in the new series.
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