Contents

PART- 1

Chapter 1

Snorre – Snorre the Unruly, a Viking

Asa – Snorre’s mother

Bjorn – Snorre’s brother

Torgunn – Bjorn’s wife

Ulf the Greyhound – a famous Viking warrior who led raids into England. Also known as Ulf of Borresta. He was a famous Runemaster also

Svein Gaptooth – also a famous Viking warrior. Not to be confused with Svein Forkbeard, who conquered England

Burya – son of Chief Artiga of the Kyla Pechenegs

Artiga – the Chief of the Kyla Pecheneg tribe who gives an assignment to Snorre

Rybor – a rogue of the Uze tribe, killed by Snorre

Chapter 2

Sriverma – scholar, soldier and traveller

Charushila – a lady of Kanyakubja who takes Sriverma under her wing Shresthi Virbhadra – her husband

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Mallarjun – an Army Captain and veteran soldier

Acharya Prabuddha – a sage and a teacher

Chapter 3

Erga – a Pecheneg soldier who later turns rogue

Ishmail – a merchant

Abu, Jamil, Ibn Salat – companion merchants of Ishmail Lyrga – initially, Snorre’s deputy, and later, boon companion Zyov – another of Snorre’s small band of faithfuls

Martya – member of Snorre’s band

Prince Kurya – Pecheneg chief

Aziz Beg – Aide to Karim Khan Khanid, Governor of Kashgar

Chapter 4

Tribikram – son of Shresthi Gopaldas of Hansi

Padmalobha – Tribikram’s wife

Shresthi Gopaldas – a rich merchant and financier of Hansi

Chapter 5

Rabten Lama – a monk belonging to Nechung Gompa, who is charged with recovering copies of sacred books and manuscripts destroyed in the pogrom against Buddhists in Tibet

Prince Ösung – Prince of Tibet, and successor to the throne

Prince Ytride – Prince of Tibet and aspirant to the throne. Brother of Prince Osung

Saif – a muleteer, and part of Sriverma’s retinue

Tsering – a Tibetan guide searching for his family

Kuban – another muleteer

PART - 2

Chapter 8

Tsewang Lama – Tibetan mystic and Sriverma’s Guru

Chapter 10

Chö-jor Lama – Abbot of Ritugembi Gompa and a mystic

Pema – Daughter of Lord Wangmo, a noble high up in the court of Prince Ytride

Chapter 12

Tokmeh – Captain of the bodyguard of Lady Pema

Tsehten and Puntsok – bodyguards

Kelsong – Lady Pema’s handmaiden

Tenzin Lama – Chief Lama of the Monastery of Teknang (Teknang Gompa)

Chapter 13

Trinleh Lama – chief of the Nechung Gompa

Wangmo – a noble, father of Lady Pema. An evil man

Dargyeh – Captain of Wangmo’s guards, who later switches sides

Chapter 14

Rinchen Lama – spiritual adviser to Lady Pema and the go-between with Lord Wengbo

Wengbo – a great noble high up in the court of Prince Ösung. Kūnchen – Wengbo’s adviser

Chapter 15

Jinpoh Lama – mystic, and senior Lama of Samye Gompa

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Chapter 18

Joongneh – shaman of Lord Wangmo

Karmeh – chamberlain of Lord Wangmo

Tsehten – a noble in the court of Prince Ytride. Pema had been promised to his son

Chapter 19

Yangkey – minister in the court of Prince Ytride

Norgay – adviser to Lord Yangkey

Chapter 20

Rigzin – a warlord

Chapter 23

Adirath aka Jaipal – son of Charushila and Virbhadra

Prabahan – Captain of Police

Srimala – A girl who Sriverma proposes to marry, but is killed due to the miscarriage of Sriverma’s plans

Chapter 24

Oleg the Seer – adventurer and usurper of the throne of Kiev