List of Deltora Quest Characters

List Of Deltora Quest Characters

The Deltora series features a wide line of characters, both important and minor. The series also features many different monsters and creatures that appeared in all of the many different books. This article is a list of the many different characters and creatures that have appeared in the Deltora series.

Lief was raised as a blacksmith's son in the run-down city of Del after the invasion. Hot-headed and impatient at the start of the series, all he wanted to do was go out and explore the city. On the night of his sixteenth birthday, he leaves on his father's quest to restore the Belt of Deltora, the only thing that can save their land and the heir from the tyranny of the Shadow Lord. As he is barely 16, his parents chose a companion to travel with him: Barda (whom Lief originally thought to be a beggar), the former captain of the palace guards, and son to Endon and Jarred's nursemaid Min. He gains more companions in the Forests of Silence: Jasmine the "wild girl" and her two animal friends. Lief is courageous, very trustworthy, and withstands any and all temptations to surrender his quest. His friends and family gave him more than enough strength to carry on in even the most dire situations. The fact that he was raised with the people of Del and not of isolated makes him a good king to his people. During the quests, he grows not only in bravery, but in wisdom and patience. It is at the end of the original quest for the Belt that Lief learns of his past and that he is the true heir to the throne.

In the second series, Lief is secretive of his task of finding an heir to save his people from the Shadowlands, and he and Jasmine both hate the secrecy. He and Doom find his distant cousin Marilen to wear the Belt, while Lief bears a false one made in the forge. In the third book of the second series, it is revealed that Lief is in love with Jasmine.

In the third series, Lief is more himself again: less secretive and more open. During this time, he uncovers a plot to rot Deltora via the "Four Sisters", concocted by the Shadow Lord hundreds of years earlier. He then sets off on another journey to awaken the dragons of Deltora and destroy the Sisters with Jasmine and Barda. At the end of the Dragons of Deltora series, Lief marries Jasmine and has three children, named after their parents: Anna, the eldest, and the twins Endon and Jarred and now there are two Jarred's.

A large, bearded man of great strength and conviction. Before the Shadow Lord took control of Deltora, Barda was a guard at the palace in Del. His mother Min was a great gossiper and the nursemaid to young Jarred and Endon; late one night she overheard the Shadow Lord's plot to take control of Deltora. Scared, she told the news to King Endon, who believed she was mistaken and had merely been dreaming. Several hours later she was murdered for what she knew. Fearing for his own life, Barda fled the palace shortly before the Shadow Lord invaded Deltora.

Through the darkness of the night, Barda stumbled upon what he thought to be Jarred and Anna hurrying the king and queen away. In truth, what he saw was the plan the four friends had hatched in order to keep the heir safe. Endon returned and, thinking Barda was a spy, knocked him unconscious. While asleep, Barda rambled aloud his fears and Endon and Sharn realized he was a friend. When he woke up, the Shadow Lord had already invaded. Endon and Sharn told Barda and they enlisted his aid in searching for the lost gems of the Belt of Deltora.

For the next sixteen years, Barda disguised himself as a beggar to discover information vital to the Quest. He became the bodyguard of Endon and Sharn's child Lief, albeit without the semi-arrogant Lief's knowledge thereof. Upon Lief's sixteenth birthday Barda reveals himself to Lief and the quest for the gems of Deltora begins. Though Barda is at first annoyed to travel encumbered by a child, he quickly learns to see Lief as more of a help than a hindrance. Barda's skill in swordsmanship is second to none, and his courage and wits have seen his companions and himself through several tight places. He holds a genuine, paternal affection for Lief (and, to a lesser degree, Jasmine). His loyalty to his king makes him a good friend, though he can at times grow fierce and defensive.

In Deltora Shadowlands, Barda is reinstated as the captain of the palace guards. When Jasmine and Glock journey to the Shadowlands, Barda accompanies Lief to find them. At the end of the series, he marries Lindal and has six children with her.

He is also Mins son...