(I) Significant Characters In This Novel.

(Prince Audemars Macleod)

Main Character, Male, Aged 18, barely escaped from the kingdom when the rebels had managed to subdue the guards and massacred nearly everyone inside the keep, including his parents and his twin sister.

Their reasons were unclear but this would be part of the Hundred Years War that raged from that era. Pillaging and looting seem to be a common practise among the rebels and villains as they took advantage of the dire situation that ravages throughout Medieval England during that period.

(Heather Lanford)

Prince Audemars' long time childhood friend, aged 17, that he had stumbled across somewhere in the wild forest, together with the rest of the escapees when Prince Audemars escaped from his burning keep.

Heather was running away from the kingdom together with the Levi's. Her parents were deceased some years back and were 'adopted' by the Levi's as both the Lanford's and Levi's household were close-knit and can be considered as brothers.

(Ben Chowdry)

Male, aged 30, one of the survivors from the Kingdom of Darlington. His main profession was as a carpenter.

One evening, while he was securing the fallen branches and logs with some twine before hailing them back to his woodshed, Ben noticed a horde of rebels armed with weapons and burning torches making their way towards the kingdom's gates.

Ben's family was putting up in a makeshift woodshed some distance away from the kingdom during the day so that he and his wife could keep an eye on their children while they worked in the fields nearby.

Upon discovering the horde of rebels that were marching their way towards the kingdom's gates, he quickly gathered his woodcutter buddy of the impending troubles before he ran towards the woodshed where his family were.

(Crystal Chowdry)

Female, aged 26, wife of Ben Chowdry. Her main profession was as a livestock herder.

She would rear chicken, ducks, pheasants, sheep and dairy cows as assigned by her employer. With her knowledge as a livestock herder, she was able to construct coops and pens for the animals that she tended and she was quite independent and proficient at her job.

With the guidance of her husband, Ben, she was able to perform basic maintenance of the sheds that housed that livestock herself. Seeing her diligent work and independence, the employer she worked for was generous enough to let her raise her own livestock.

During the first sign of trouble as alerted by Ben, they both immediately bundled their children and took several essentials with them and ran away from their makeshift shed, leaving their permanent home inside the kingdom.

(Devon Chowdry)

Male, aged 5, son of the Chowdry's

(Ellen Chowdry)

Female, aged 3, daughter of the Chowdry's

(Frank Gardner)

Male, aged 32, one of the survivors from the Kingdom of Darlington. His main profession was as a woodcutter.

Likewise, Frank was alerted by Ben when he saw the rebels heading towards the kingdom's gates, armed with weapons and torches.

Fearing for the safety of his family, they quickly gathered the necessary essentials and ran deeper into the wild forest, away from the path where the horde of rebels came from.

(Gwen Gardner)

Female, aged 27, wife of Frank Gardner. Her main profession was as a hunter.

Skilled with archery and setting traps for wild game, she had taken a path where women would rather not partake. It was a very gruelling and a test of one's patience as a hunter.

However, for the love of nature and wildlife, coupled with the adrenaline whenever her nooked arrow was aimed at a wild game, she knew to be a hunter meant survival as well as an added advantage, a fighting one.

She had made her own short and longbow herself as well as arrows which were non-tipped for feathered preys, while some were topped with a stone, bronze or iron heads for a variety of preys.

After each kill, she would carefully skin them to make pelts and prepare their meat to make jerky so that it could last longer in the wild.

These pelts and jerky would then be sold on the market within the kingdom during the Lord's Day or exchanged with other goods by means of barter trade.

(Harry Gardner)

Male, twin, aged 7, son of the Gardner's.

(Imelda Gardner)

Female, twin, aged 7, daughter of the Gardner's.

(Jack Levi)

Male, aged 55. One of the survivors from the Kingdom of Darlington. His main profession was as a Blacksmith.

He was trained in Blacksmithing when he was very young and life was pretty hard. As a Blacksmith, one has to ensure up to 14 hours in the Blacksmithing room, facing the hot furnace and hammering ores into ingots and ingots into shapes of desired tools and weapons.

During his younger days, he was fascinated at toolmaking and loved to experiment working on pieces of bronze or Iron to make into small knives and farming tools. He would sell them through his friends and neighbours for a small sum of coins.

That got him hooked into Blacksmithing and he undertook a 24 months apprenticeship as young Blacksmith at the age of 14. Since then he had been tinkering to cater to the townsfolk which required certain designs of tools or machine parts.

(Kayla Levi)

Female, aged 54. Wife of Jack Levi. Her main profession was as a Herbalist and Gatherer.

She was self-taught by her grandmother when she was only 6 years old and learnt to identify roots, herbs and majority of the plants to aid common ailment as well as an ingredient for cooking.

She managed to learn how to properly cultivate the herbs and plants so that it would not become extinct over time. She had made a few planting beds and she had managed to grow rows of herbs and plants that could supply the townfolks of Darlington.

With her vast knowledge and green fingers, it proved to be very beneficial for her part somewhere later in this novel.

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Just in. A new character that will be a new arc in this novel.

Andy Cole, Male, 16

Gong Farmer, Arrowsmith, Fletcher

(moves about with the Pagans Witches from Knaresborough Cave)

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