Dragon Wing - Characters

Characters

Alfred Montbank

Alfred Montbank is a powerful Sartan who disguises himself as a weak and bumbling human for fear of being tempted to interfere with mensch lives. In Dragon Wing, he spends much of the book pretending to be Bane's loyal chamberlain; in actuality, he's keeping an eye on Bane's potential to stir up trouble. He uses his magic a number of times in this book—saving Bane's life from a fallen tree, saving Hugh's life from Bane's poison, and spying in the High Realms. With Bane's discovery of his true race, Alfred is unable to hide any more.

Bane

Bane is King Stephen's "adopted" son—forced on Stephen and Anne by a charm that made them dote on him despite their loathing. He is first seen as a sweet and innocent child who is nevertheless an assassin's target, but his cruelty, cunning, and ruthlessness are soon shown as he nearly murders the man hired to murder him. Though Bane longs to be reunited with his true parents, he quickly loses affection for them when his mother shows weakness and his father fails to include Bane in his plans. Bane ultimately looks out for himself alone. In The Hand of Chaos, readers learn that he adjusts well to life in the Nexus following Haplo's abduction of him at the end of Dragon Wing.

Dog

This nameless dog is not the average house pet, but rather a unique and intelligent companion of Haplo's. The dog has a strange tendency to appear in unexpected places, seemingly scaling ladders and escaping explosions in ways a normal dog couldn't. In Dragon Wing, the dog's exact nature isn't clear; it's certainly not a regular dog, but it won't be explained until The Seventh Gate.

Haplo

A loner in every sense of the word (his name is the Greek prefix for single), Haplo misses little but keeps his own council. Mild and almost unassuming for most of the book, he is nonetheless driven by his mission, and shows great emotion when confronting Alfred. Haplo is a Patryn, the ancient enemy of the Sartan, and is sent by his lord to scout the worlds before the Patryn conquest his lord has planned.

Hugh the Hand

An infamous assassin, Hugh was raised by Kir Monks after the death of his mother. His father, an aristocrat, abandoned Hugh's mother shortly after his birth. Hugh took revenge on his father after leaving the Kir Monks, sending himself down a path that would eventually lead to him becoming the most feared assassin in Arianus.

Iridal

Bane's real mother and wife of Sinistrad. A member of the mysteriarchs.

Jarre

Limbeck's girlfriend, who must constantly deal with his absent-minded ways. She is very supportive of him despite being not-so-keen on his unusual vision.

King Stephen

The current king of the human realm, ruler of both Volkaran and Uylandia via his marriage to Queen Anne. Though the marriage was originally for political convenience, the two have come to love one another dearly.

Limbeck Bolttightener

A dwarf with too many questions, he is awed by much of what he sees over the course of the book. He has not lost his childlike capacity to wonder, a value that Jarre (at least) values highly. He is considerably myopic.

Lord of the Nexus

Leader of the Patryns and the first of their race to escape the Labyrinth. It is he who learns of the existence of Death Gate and the four worlds. At this point in the series, he is also the only one of his people to return to the Labyrinth, saving the lives of his fellow people.

By Serpent Mage, the Lord is calling himself "Xar," which a footnote explains as a corruption of the word "tsar" and/or "caesar."

Sinistrad

Bane's real father, husband of Iridal and leader of the mysteriarchs.