| Aidan:
a mysterious traveller, direct descendant
from the Askar folk, who is loyal to the Webster sisters.
Ursula calls on him to help in their hour of need.
Angelo
Signorelli: an
American GI from World War II who is unknowingly caught
up in the Webster sisters' business.
Askar:
the ancient civilisation amongst
whom the Webster sisters once lived as princesses.
Austin
Pickering: a strange
ghost hunter who keeps a constant vigil on the Wyrd Museum
and whose dearest wish is to get inside its doors.
Belial:
a powerful demon from the darkness
of time, sometimes called Beli Ya'al, now imprisoned within
The Separate Collection.
Celandine
Webster: the middle Webster
sister, known as Skuld in her youth. As one of the Fates,
it was her role to weave the cloth which shaped the destiny
of the world.
Crow
Doll: grotesque bird-woman
effigy through which Woden recruits and controls the Valkyrie.
Edie
Dorkins: impish eight
year old girl who lost her mortal family in the Blitz.
She was plucked out of the past by Ursula Webster to be
a daughter to the three sisters.
Frost
Giants: the Lords of
Ice and Dark who once ruled the land and kept it in perpetual
turmoil.
Glastonbury:
place of pilgrimage in Somerset,
also known in olden times as Ynnis Witrin and the Isle
of Apples.
Jean
Evans: a young woman
from World War II whose fate is entangled with that of
Angelo Signorelli.
Loom
of Destiny: the instrument
that shapes the fate of mankind, carved from a bough cut
from the World Tree.
Neil
Chapman: 11 year old
boy who comes to live at the Wyrd Museum when his father,
Brian, takes on the job of caretaker. Little does he know
that Ursula Webster has chosen him to help her find and
bring back Edie Dorkins out of the past.
Nirinel:
the last withering root of the
Yggdrasill, in the protection of the Websters.
Peter
Galloway: A devout but
misguided vicar who is used by Woden in his plot to overthrow
the sisters.
Ravens:
two servants of Woden, named
Thought and Memory; birds with the power of human speech.
When revived from the dead, Thought returned to serve
his master while Memory chose to side with Neil and was
given a new name - Quoth.
Sacred
Well:
the source of the fountain in the
yard of the Wyrd Museum. Now dry, its divine water once
nourished Nirinel.
Separate
Collection, The: apparently
a collection of weird and wonderful historical exhibits,
but actually a stronghold for dangerous and magical objects
that could harm ordinary mortals or be used for evil if
they fell into the wrong hands.
Ted:
a battered teddy bear
and tortured soul who accompanies Neil into the past on
the orders of Ursula Webster, in exchange for a chance
to save the lives of those dear to him.
Tommy:
barmy old tramp who lives in Glastonbury
and believes in angels.
Ursula
Webster: The
eldest of the Webster sisters, known as Urdr. As one of
the Fates, it was her role to cut the thread of destiny
when the time came. Now a fearsome old lady, she dominates
her two senile siblings and anyone whom she meets.
Valkyrie:
the twelve servants of Woden;
ferocious bird-women who destroy all who get in their
way.
Veronica
Webster: the youngest
Webster sister, known as Verdandi in her youth and once
the most beautiful. As one of the Fates, it was her role
to measure the thread from which the cloth was woven on
the loom of destiny.
Webster
sisters: collectively
know as the Fates, the Nornir, the Loom Maidens and the
Spinners of the Wood.
Woden:
the Websters' deadliest enemy, intent
on their downfall, also known as the Gallows God and the
Allfather.
Wyrd
Museum: ancient building
in the East End of London, housing and protecting the
Webster Sisters and The Seperate Collection. Its history
stretches back to the days of Askar's fall and its function
as a building alters as appropriate to the time. Past
manifestations include woodland shrine, leper hospital,
plague house, orphanage, workhouse and lunatic asylum.
Yggdrasill:
also known as the World Tree,
a giant, magnificent ash that once nurtured the world
and connected heaven and earth.
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