List of Septimus Heap Characters - Minor Characters

Minor Characters

Gringe the gatekeeper

The gatekeeper of the North Gate, who is initially very wary of Magyk, including everything to do with the Heaps. However he shares a passion for Counter-Feet with Silas Heap, and when this common interest is found, hostilities end. Simon Heap is still a sore spot for them.

Rupert Gringe

Son of Gringe, and Lucy's older brother. He is apprenticed to Jannit Marten, so as to avoid being drafted into the young army, and works with her and Nicko Heap down at the Boatyard. However, he dislikes Simon Heap, and challenges him upon sight.

Alice Nettles

Born as Iona Pot, Alice was Alther Mella's girlfriend, but when their separate careers took off, she became Customs officer of the Port, and didn't see Alther much before his death, something she regrets. She was killed while trying to prevent Etheldredda murdering Jenna in Physik. Her ghost at present stays in the courtyard of the Palace where she was murdered, with Alther keeping her company.

Maureen and Kevin

Mostly playing background roles, Kevin was originally the Supreme Custodian's Night servant. One night, he accidentally dropped the Royal Crown, denting it, and he was thrown into the dungeons. He was accidentally released a week later and worked in the palace Kitchens, and soon progressed to Chief Potato Peeler. Maureen was the youngest Kitchen maid at the time when she saw the Heap's dog rush past the garbage shoot during their escape. Afterward she started having nightmares about wolves, and she began having sleeping problems. It became so bad the she fell asleep, and a sheep she was meant to be watching over was set aflame. Kevin managed to save her and put the sheep out, and Maureen was demoted to assistant potato peeler. Three weeks later they ran away together to start a better life in the Port. They began to start saving up for their own cafe. Kevin was taken on as a cook for a round-the-world voyage, and Maureen worked in a small inn owned by Florie Bundie, saving up tips, and living in a cupboard beneath the stairs. Kevin eventually returned with enough money to buy their own shop, and they know work in the Harbor and Docke Pie Shop.

Jannit Marten

The boatbuilder of the Castle, originally from the sheeplands. Jannit is an extremely hard-working and self-sufficient woman. Nicko Heap and Gringe's son Rupert are apprenticed to her.

Spit Fyre

Septimus' beloved dragon who is extremely lazy. He is seemingly always wanting food. Jenna found his egg in an underground cave in Magyk and, thinking it was just a rock, gave it to Septimus, and he was hatched in Flyte. Spit Fyre used to stay in the Wizard Tower courtyard but Marcia shifted him to the Palace gardens when the courtyard became too messy.

Dragon-Boat

It is a real dragon who once decided to be a dragon boat to save her master, the first ExtraOrdinary Wizard Hotep-Ra. She was attacked by Simon Heap at the end of the second book and at present lays broken in Jannit Marten's boatyard. The Dragon-Boat is critically praised as one of Sage's original ideas and is used to great effect at the climax. The final ingredient to fully heal the dragon boat is found by Jenna in Physik, but Sage (rather curiously) has yet to write a scene for it to be used.

Sally Mullin

She is Sarah's friend and runs the "Sally Mullin Tea and Ale House", which was burnt down in Magyk but later rebuilt, near the port at the Castle. She generally fills in Sarah with the stories going round in the Castle.

Boggart

The Boggart is a Marsh creature and very close to Zelda. He stays in a mud patch just off Draggen Island in the Marram Marshes. He has a good knowledge of the marshes and wishes to be left alone during the day. He was shot in Magyk by Merrin Meredith but later he recovered.

Morwenna Mould

The Witch mother of the Wendron Witches, she promised that the witches will never attack people from the Castle when Silas saved her once from wolverines, but breaks her oath when she did not get Jenna as her own in a bargain she made with Ephaniah Grebe.

Jillie Djinn

Chief Hermetic Scribe at the Manuscriptorium. She is somewhat stubborn, strict and annoyingly officious and is not on good terms with Marcia. She is very strict about time and does not care to lose a single second. She dies during the events of Darke.

Milo Banda

Jenna's biological father, he appeared in Flyte but went off for a voyage again. He returns in Syren as a main protagonist.

Boris Catchpole

Former young Army deputy hunter, Boris is at present working as a SubWizard in the Wizard Tower. Learning later, much to his horror, that one of the Young Army, boy 412, is now apprenticed to Marcia Overstrand.

Ephaniah Grebe

The restorer of documents at the Manuscriptorium. A half-man half-rat, Ephaniah helps Jenna restore Nicko's map of the House of Foryx.

Tertius Fume

The First Chief Hermetic Scribe. Tertius Fume is disliked by all for his general unpleasantness. He is especially loathed by Marcia Overstrand. He has no respect for women and held the office as ExtraOrdinary wizard for seven days as a replacement. He was Banished in Darke by Marcia Overstrand to the Darke Halls.

Hotep-Ra

The first ExtraOrdinary Wizard. He was the one who built the Wizard Tower. The Dragon-Boat belongs to him. He resides now in the House of Foryx.

Talmar Ray Bell

Hotep-Ra's apprentice, who now resides with him in the House of Foryx.

Julius Pike

The ExtraOrdinary Wizard 500 years past. He was a good friend of Marcellus Pye, and loved his apprentice, Syrah Syara, like his daughter.

Syrah Syara

Julius Pike's apprentice. She returned his fatherly love dearly, and she even attempted to punch Tertius Fume in the face when she was appointed to go on the Queste. She spent 500 years on an island following her escape from the Questing Guards, and was possessed by a Syren, which halted her aging. When Septimus meets her, they become instant friends. He subsequently saves her from her possession, but she falls into a coma when she learns of Pike's death. Her fate is unclear, but Septimus visits her every day. She may or may not have developed romantic feelings for Septimus.