Jarl Olaf Henrikson: Jarl of the most populace and cosmopolitan settlement in the Northlands and, as such, commands a great deal of respect and power. He is not even the ruler of Hordaland wherein his city of Halfstead lies, but even the køenig of Hordaland (the closest Northlands equivalent to a king) respects and listens to the words that Jarl Olaf speaks in the mead hall or at the Thing.
Inga Olafsdottir: Jarl Olaf’s eldest daughter, a young woman of sixteen winters. She is of marriageable age and has been known to practice using her wiles on the men of the household. Her behavior is sometimes haughty and insolent, as she is prone to ordering others about. She seems unmindful of the fact that her father’s household is not hers and that she has no status save that of birth, for while birth is regarded, it is not overly regarded in the Northlands.
Fastvi Olafsdottir: The Jarl’s middle daughter is just starting to bloom into womanhood, but has not yet laid aside her wild, childish ways. Barely thirteen, she is friendly where her older sister is imperious, reckless where the elder is cautious, and open where her sister is coy.
Runa Olafsdottir: Little Runa is a different story altogether. She is nine years old, spoiled and precocious. Her birthing was a difficult one, and the midwives of the holdfast were afraid that both child and mother would be lost. It is rumoured that on that night the jarl sent his best huscarls across the Moors and into the Barrow Lands to seek out a seiðkona (wytchsister) to serve as midwife. Although both mother and daughter survived, the child has never been quite right. She seems to see and hear things that are not there, and has on more than one occasion spoken of things she could not know of or of things that occurred well before they happened. Still, the jarl and wife have always doted on her, at least until recently. With the birth of the jarl’s first son last year, that mewling babe has garnered the most attention and Runa has been acting up.
Hallbjorn Bolverkson: Most trusted huscarl to the jarl.
One-Eyed Sven: a semi-retired huscarl. Killed in an avalanche near the palace of Althunak.
Aase: Huscarl
Kraki Hallason: Huscarl.
Sigfastr Wyrmhammer: Trader
Hauk Arinbjornson: Mercenary from Vastavikland. Selflessly died destroying the corpse king of the palace of Althunak.
Graf: Godi and blacksmith
Grimr Wisetooth: skald
Odi: Cunning woman
Solveig Ingasdottir: Skald, scribe's apprentice, washer woman
Thorballa Ozursdottir: Stablemaster
Young Ljot: Huscarl. Body unrecovered from the palace of Althunak. Presumed dead.
