Matthew: farseeker with deep probe abilities, slave in the Red Land

Merret: powerful coercer with beastspeaking Talent, heartfasted to Blyss

Miky: Empath guilden and twin sister to Angina, gifted musician

Miryum: leader of the Coercer-knights

Moss: son of deposed head Councilman Radost

Mouse: son of Sabatien

Nerat: Agyllian healer

Noviny: former Councilman of Saithwold and grandfather to Wenda

Obernewtyn, Jacob: wealthy Beforetime friend and benefactor of Hannah Seraphim

Okan: defective with healing Talent washed ashore on the Land

Olinden: teknoguilder

Oma: Norselander, first shipmate to Helva, shipmaster

Per Vallon: Norseland village leader and kinehelt or king’s hand

Powyrs: captain of The Cutter

Radost: head Councilman of Sutrium, father of Analivia, Moss and Bergold

Rasial: white dog with coercive abilities

Reul: teknoguilder

Reuvan: former seaman, right hand to Brydda Llewellyn

Rheagor: pack leader of the Brildane

Roland: Healer guildmaster

Rolf: chieftain of Halfmoon Bay

Rushton: master of Obernewtyn, halfbrother of Stephen Seraphim, Misfit with latent Talent

Sabatien: ex-Herder priest, father of Mouse, leader of Norseland rebels

Salamander: slave trader and mysterious shipmaster of the Black Ship, ally of Ariel

Sarn: farseeker

Seely: unTalented girl, once nanny to Gavyn, now companion and assistant to Jak

Selmar: Talented Misfit killed by Ariel’s mad dogs

Sendari: horse who travels with the gypsies

Seraphims: Hannah, director of the Beforetime Reichler Clinic; Lukas, first master of Obernewtyn; Michael, son of Lukas and Marisa, father to Rushton and Stephen

Sharna: dog and friend to Elspeth

Sover: coercer with a secondary Talent for empathy

Straaka: Sadorian tribesman under Jakoby, heartfasted to Miryum

Swallow: D’rekta of the Twentyfamilies gypsies half brother to Iriny, grandson of Maire

Tomash: farseeker

Vega, Madam: head guardian at Obernewtyn, killed while trying to torture Rushton

Vinderlin: mare who travels with the gypsies

Wenda: granddaughter of Noviny

Wila: farseeker

Zade: stallion, Obernewtyn horse

Zarak: beastspeaker and farseeker, son of Khuria

Question and Answer with ISOBELLE CARMODY

Question & Answer with
ISOBELLE CARMODY

What inspired you to write the Obernewtyn series?

Like a lot of children growing up at the same time as me, in the aftermath of the Manhattan Project and the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, I was afraid that adults were going to destroy the world and I thought it would be by war or some terrible bomb. I felt my helplessness to do anything about it very keenly. I always wondered if human beings would learn anything if it happened and some of them / us survived.