Cast of Characters

Dramatic Characters:

• Antioch, Dwarf Inventor
• Louis Leopold Belpaire, Artist for 'Le Soir Illustré'
• Jean-Michel du Pont-de-la-Vierge, Captain and Helmsman of the merchant airship Nuage d'Or
• Capitano Mateo Falcone
• Constance de Forrest, Faerie Lady (Dame Verte)
• Olivia Libertad Díaz Rodríguez, Merchant of Fashionable Goods
• Fiona Adelia Rohling, Antiquarian
• Lord Domintius Swiftwing, Dragon Lord

Host Characters Descriptions:

Passengers of the Airship Parsifal:

• Seton Jalgar, Author: A novelist of rising popularity and formerly a reporter, Seton comes from Austria, and until lately made his home in Wien.  He sports mud red-brown hair, a moustache, and his eyes are a mild blue-green.
• Timur Kapkin: Well-tanned, with a prominent, well-kept waxed mustache, and lots of small wrinkles around the corners of his eyes, Kapkin is dressed in a conservative suit of light gray with white pin-stripes, a dark gray bowler hat, and well-shined italian leather shoes.
• Markus Kohl, Stage Magician: Half a head shorter than your average Europan, with wavy blonde hair.  Skinny and wiry, The Astounding Markus always has a glint in his eye.  Markus is always dressed in stylish charcoal suits.  When not performing, he offsets his clothes with cool lemon accessories.
• Kuromizu Ketsuke Osada, Dragon Lady: a tall (1m80, or almost 6'), slender young woman; her hair is long and black as the purest jet, either drawn tightly into a very long pony tail reaching her slim waist, or piled up in an elegant knot held by combs of ivory and tortoise-shell.  Her eyes are also black as night, so dark that no pupil can be seen.  She dresses either in traditional upper-class Japanese garb, or in Worth gowns.
• Catherine Palmer, Adventuress: tall (1m75, or 5'9"), slim and very attractive, with brown hair and green eyes, dressed fashionably.  She comes from London, but has also lived in Switzerland and in Paris, and so speaks fluent French.
• Clara Wieck Schumann, musician: a beautiful woman in her early fifties, and foremost pianist in New Europa, widow of composer Robert Schumann.  Her hair is still mostly dark brown, despite the gray filigree in it, and her complexion is pale.  Her features are delicate and sensitive, and her eyes hold a certain sadness.
• Elisabeth Schumann, débutante and violinist: a slight young girl in her mid-teens.  There can be little doubt that she is Clara Schumann's daughter, for her features are very similar.
• Vizier Esrar Giray Sefìk, special ambassador for the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire: a tall and thin man with skin the colour of burnished oak, with dark eyes and a well-trimmed black beard.  He wears rich Ottoman clothing of red brocade, with gold tracery and yellow feathers.  (Currently played by Lurker Dave Handy).
• Lord Árdghal Cianán Toirdhealbhach, Daoine Sidhe Lord: Tall, slender, dressed like a British dandy, with hair the pale colour of platinum, a nearly metallic tone a bit warmer than silver, which no human can approach by nature or craft.  His eyes are a deep, pupil-less blue, and the effect is made slightly incongruous by the monocle he wears.  Speaks with an Irish accent.
• Lucien Trichepot, confidence man for the Comtessa de Genere: a nondescript little man, about 1m73 (5'8"), of slight build, sporting a well-waxed dark brown mustache.  He is wearing good quality travel clothes, in sensible dark gray, a greatcoat, and a bowler hat.
• Baron Oktav von Strolz-Mader, Austrian ambassador in Brussels: portly man in his late fifties with an air of authority, wearing an extravagant dress uniform of the Austrian army.  His face is ruddy, sporting outrageous sideburns of the type that started going out of style about ten years ago, and his pale blue eyes twinkle with good humour.
• Hauptman (Captain) Fredrick von Weissenbach, aide-de-camp to baron von Strolz-Mader: tall and thin, with a soft voice; never volunteers any comments, limiting himself to answering direct questions.  He wears a uniform with many decorations for valour.
• Abdelhassìb Zàhed, secretary to vizier Sefìk: a man of average human height, perhaps 1m75 (5'9" or so); his beard is curly, kept somewhat longer than his master's, and peppered with gray.  His lavishly elegant Ottoman clothing is carefully tailored to draw attention away from a stomach somewhat thicker than perfection; he keeps to sober but elegant silks in dark blue tones, embellished with silver trimming.

Crew of the Airship Parsifal:

• Captain Rolf von Vietinghoff, Koeniglich Bayerisch Aerokriegsmarine, 1st Aerotransport Division, Captain of the Parsifal.He sports a brown beard with silver threads running through it, and under it his face is lean and sharp.  His piercing eyes and firm handshake are those of a man of action.
• Leutnant Wilhelm von Locke, Koeniglich Bayerisch Aerokriegsmarine, 1st Aerotransport Division, First Officer of the Parsifal: a dapper young man of about thirty, with sandy blond hair, a well trimmed beard, and laughing blue eyes.  He wears his dashing uniform with great panache, with the ribbons of several decorations on his chest.  (Currently played by Lurker Stephen Everett).
• Fraü Patrizia Ehrenburg, Koeniglich Bayerisch Aerokriegsmarine, 1st Aerotransport Division, Sorcerous Security Officer on the Parsifal.  Rather petite, no more than 1m60 (5'3") and of slight build; she is perhaps forty-five years old, but her blond hair, piled up to add to her height, does not show a trace of grey, and her figure is excellent.  She wears the uniform of the Royal Bavarian Aeronavy - and wears it well.  She is in charge of all thaumic security measures for the Parsifal.  Fraü Ehrenburg also teaches Military Sorcery at the Royal Military Academy of Munich.
• Dierck Birnbaum, Purser of the Parsifal: A pleasant, tall and slightly portly man in his mid-forties, close-shaven except for spectacular sideburns, with thinning blonde hair receding rapidly from his forehead.  He wears little round gold-rim glasses far down his nose to read, but usually removes them to speak to female passengers.