Author: J.B. Norman

For his famously unimpeachable personal integrity and honour, Dispositor has become a legendary figure, particularly revered in Porthaven and highly-regarded throughout the rest of Realmgard as a model patriot and civil servant.

Either famous or infamous as one of the exceedingly few pirates in the history of Realmgard to have never laid eyes upon the ocean, the outlaw Gregor von Plündern spent several decades as a major thorn in the side of the Dukes of Middlesbrooke before going on to become one of Middlebrooke's most famous chefs after several improbable twists of fate.

Although Orlando Aristotele was recognised as one of the Natalian language's finest poets even within his own lifetime, he spent most of his adult life as a civil servant in the government of the Duchy of Mercurio. Given the turbulent state of Natalian politics, this saw Orlando imperilled by torch and pitchfork wielding mobs, bandits, assassins, kidnappers, the armies of rival Natalian states, floods, thunderstorms, and at least one ill-tempered wild boar.

Descended from a noble house whose members were originally vassals of Emperor Theobald in the Principality of Marca Muntanya — now one of the constituent polities of the Kingdom of Pelayo — Arnau the Traveller was one of several Realmgardian adventurers to carve out his own domain in the continent of Laodike.