CHARACTERS
Angus Gration – Agent ZX, police officer working with Woden’s Brethren Anien – elf Bill Backhouse – tabloid journalist, Jake’s adversary Bob Tomkins – managing director of STI Limited Conrad Maxwell – Gauleiter of Doncaster branch of Woden’s Brethren Chief Constable Alexander Chris Gurney – artist, painted mural of Vanaheim in Temple of Freya, joined Heathenism Dakras – elf Detective Inspector Harris – Humberside Police Gilbert Gombrich – Woden’s Brethren, Gauleiter for the North of England Huxley Adams-Wessex – Jake’s employer and friend Hyssith – elf, Liffi’s close friend Ietys – elf Jake Conley – Liffi’s husband, real estate development manager, developed Red Horse Vale Theme Park, descendant of Saxons Ken Robinson – two meters tall, heathen, sculptor, sculpted Freya statue for Liffi’s temple King Aelfric – elfin king Liffi Wyther – real name Ethel, Jake’s handbound wife, neo-pagan, descendant of Saxons Martin Szewronski – tall, muscular, tattooed, blond hair, white supremacist, tried to r**e Liffi Walter Anderton – Tawny Owl code name, Doncaster branch of Woden’s Brethren WPC Fortey – Humberside PoliceLOCATIONS
Aelfheim – land of elves Barholm, Lincolnshire Eoforwic Filey Goodmanham, East Yorkshire – site of high shrine of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria; temple of Woden Humber Bridge Lindisfarena, 750 A.D. Lower Quinton, Warwickshire Market Weighton – location of a land agent’s office that would help get Freya’s Heathen temple built Midgard – Earth Wolds Way YorkshireTERMS
Brosinga mene – goddess’s necklace døkkálfar – the Black Elves folk folkishness Freya – goddess Liffi worships Freya’s Folk – non-profit organization created by Liffi Gauleiter - a political official governing a district under Nazi rule heathen Heathenism Heathenry Kreisleiter - a political official governing a county under Nazi rule neo-Nazi neo-pagan Neo-Paganism Nine Noble Virtues of Heathenism pagan paganism Saxons Saint Helen’s Well – one of two holy wells in Goodmanham Sparrowhawk – Woden’s Brethren member code name STI Limited – Statues, Transports and Installation Limited Tawny Owl – Woden’s Brethren member code name the Lady’s Well – one of two holy wells in Goodmanham the Red Horse Vale Theme Park– developed by Jake the Church the Venerable Bede white supremacist Whitehall Woden’s Brethren – ultra-nationalist, neo-Nazi group Wolds Way – public footpath in Yorkshire