trak , orphaned , cross-breed apprentice to baelock , eighteen debrah megai ( meg ) , old goblin living in the woods nam and drag claydigger , potters wreen wormclaw , metal smith and rival of baelock dungoth , myrels dog legendary persons and deities mikol blackface , earths first metal smith earth spirit , creator deity who was split in two by septan to form : tironock kan , evil presence shenal ken , weakened earth spirit bretwalda and eastland king red , first of that name , king of bretwalda queem meriem , king reds wife joelfrey the brave , queen meriems deceased father baron teiber of westland , commander of king reds military lord ran teiber , son of baron teiber stev kleyman , captain of king reds guard queen fae , warrior queen of eastland strand beedle , king reds alchemist lukin and stam , baron teibers soldiers king fangdor , king of a land south of eastland the underworld queen mothers , rulers of the main hive beneath holy mountain ghad samraet , rebel commander of the underworld military terrin samraet , ghads son lejant silverworm , commander of a white goblin army about the author in my previous lives i have been an organic chemist , military pilot and a pathologistall fantasy tales in their own right .