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.
Remembered primarily as either an audacious warrior-king or a vicious tyrant, Auriwandalo has remained a popular figure in stories, poems, and dramas. Among the most famous operas in Realmgard is a six-part epic Natlian retelling of Auriwandalo's life, reign, and death in battle in Aurora — famously, the fifth part consists solely of his death monologue.
Elder sister of the famous pirate Jonathan Fryte, Catherine Fryte was first inspired to join the Porthaven Marines — Porthaven's elite maritime forces responsible for upholding the city-state's Admiralty law — upon hearing the news that her brother had been abducted by pirates.
Cassius also refined the current Realmgardian zodiac, which are still used as the star-signs to each month of the calendar.
Although he was caught by surprise by the assassin leaping out of the crowd of supplicants at a meeting of his court, Eysteinn responded by instinctively headbutting him as he lunged at Eysteinn. Words of this exploit spread quickly across Hrimfax and Eysteinn came to be called "Iron-Brow."
The byname "Circle-Farer" refers the fact that the Hrifamxi sailor Hallvard Rognvaldson refers to the fact that he is the first known individual to have circumnagivated the entire continent of Realmgard.
Viewed by some as the reincarnation of King Caelin, come to unite the Kingdoms of the Sea in their darkest hour, Caedmon is one of the major figures in the long wars between the Middelmerish petty kingdoms and the invading Hrimfaxi Vikings.
The noble — and particularly royal — bloodlines of Realmgard often create a complicated web and relation and dynastic claims. The complicated saga of the succession of the Gallicantien and Middelmerish thrones culminated in the invasion of Middelmere by the Gallicantien King Thibault II.
