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The far-travelled Amazon heroine Gladia's most famous deed was her slaying of the Aciarian Hydra, in which she was aided by Zardax, one of the Three Great Sages of Ancient Realmgard.

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.

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.