Alanna: The First Adventure Characters

Gender TroubleIn Alanna Trebond's world, boys rule and girls drool—or at least, their life options do. When we meet 10-year-old Alanna, she's about to be sent to the convent along with all the ot...

A Princely DudeWhen Alanna first sees Jonathan in the palace, he walks in some other pages, so there's not necessarily anything to set him apart from the rest…except that there kind of is. Unlike...

King of ThievesAlanna first gets a gander at George in the capital's marketplace: "The lean young man grinned, white teeth flashing in his tanned face" (1.109). (Ooh, we think we might like this gu...

Alanna's twin brother Thom looks just like her, with red hair and purple eyes. Plus they both have some magical ability. But that's about it for similarities. As Maude observes, "The only person in...

This loyal servant not only raised Alanna but also protects her secret at court. What's his deal? Well, we're going to get into that. How about starting with his resume? As the narrator tells us, "...

Maude is the village healer of Trebond, and she helped raise Alanna and Thom. They must've been a handful, because she can't wait to pass them off to someone else: "The woman had been looking forwa...

This rumpled knight is every absent-minded teacher you've ever had all rolled into one fuzzy little ball. He teaches history to the pages and becomes something of a mentor to Alanna. She first meet...

Duke Roger is Jonathan's cousin…which puts him next in line for the throne.Oh gee, no need to keep our eye on this one at all. Well, to be honest, we might find ourselves glancing over his way. H...

Ralon is a "tall, gangling boy of nearly fourteen…a sneer on his thick mouth. He had cold blue eyes and sandy-blond hair that flopped over his forehead" (2.36). Plus he has "crooked teeth" (2.37)...

The son of the Duke of Naxen, Gary is a "large young man with chestnut hair and eyes" (2.71). He offers to sponsor "Alan" during his first day at court, and he kindly shows her the ropes. Aw. BFFs...

When Alanna first goes to the capital, she meets her noble sponsor, who is "tall and thin, with dull brown hair that fell into his muddy brown eyes. Though he was plain looking, there was something...

This friendly page is "big, with tightly curled brown hair and coal-black eyes" (2.49). He's quick to become friends with Alanna, and soon she "had become a favorite with Raoul, and he didn't care...

One of the pages who's friends with Jonathan and his crew, Alex is a "slim, dark boy" (2.71). Apparently he's pretty good at math, since Gary advises Alanna to ask him for help with her math homewo...

This "shy blond" page (2.71) is friends with Jonathan, Raoul, and the rest of the group. He's one of the first victims of the Sweating Fever, and his death jars Alanna into using her Gift to help h...

As a lowly page, Alanna doesn't see the king of Tortall up close and personal very often. She does know that he's usually smiling, though, which makes it a big deal when he enters Jonathan's chambe...

One of the first to come down with the Sweating Fever, Lianne remains weak throughout the story. She's pretty much a wreck when she visits her sick son, her eyes "bright with tears" (4.127). Of cou...

One of the palace servants who works in the stables, Stefan also reports to the King of Thieves, forming part of his intricate network of spies. Stefan is "a short, blond youth with pale eyes and r...

A "slender young man in royal livery" (1.119), Timon is one of the many palace servants. He shows Alanna around at first, and reassures her that "she would soon learn her way around" the palace (2....

When Geoffrey shows up at court in Alanna's second year as a page, Alanna's no longer the newest kid on the block—plus, he has to begin sword training with Sklaw when Alanna does. Alanna says tha...

Douglass is one of the young pages who Alanna first meets when she reaches the palace. He's a "stocky blond page" (2.51) who truthfully reports to Jonathan that Ralon started bullying "Alan" withou...

A young page, Sacherell is the first person Alanna has a sword duel with while in training with Sklaw. Even though Sacherell is one of Alanna's friends, in their first duel he "looked like a menaci...

The palace healer must be pretty good at his job—so it's odd that the Sweating Fever drains him so thoroughly. As he admits to Alanna when she comes to help Jonathan, "I'm very tired" (4.78). He...

This dude is the head of the Palace Guard, and he has the dubious honor of training new pages in swordsmanship. As you'd expect from someone named Sklaw, he's "a hard-bitten old mercenary with a pa...

Also known as the Nameless Ones, the Ysandir are an ancient race of immortals that have been confined to the Black City. There are ten of them, tall men and women, "so beautiful that it hurt to loo...

George's mother is "a tall woman, with her son's twinkling hazel eyes and an air of command. Only a single streak of white in her chestnut hair revealed her to be a little more than middle-aged" (6...

This old man is the innkeeper at the Dancing Dove. He's one of George's men, which means he'll relay messages for Alanna and that kind of thing. Alanna affectionately calls him "old drunk" (5.115)...

Rispah is a "tall, chesty redhead" (3.161) whom Alanna encounters in the Dancing Dove. George introduces her as "the Queen of the ladies who follow the Rogue" (3.168). Nice. We suspect that this is...

This Bazhir man is the governor of Persopolis Castle. He is tall "with walnut brown skin, glossy black hair and a trimmed black mustache. His large dark eyes were framed with long black lashes" (7....

Lord Martin rules the Great Southern Desert, a fact that does not seem to thrill him. Perhaps related to this is the fact that he's constantly wandering around "stern-faced" (6.275). Oh snap!Alanna...

The only time we see Lord Alan in the book is in the very beginning, when he tells his children that being sent away "is my decision. We need not discuss it" (1.1). So, he's not exactly the ideal i...

This guy works for Sir Myles, serving as the majordomo of Barony Olau. He agrees with Sir Myles's decision to not take any servants when he and Alanna go exploring the ruins near the castle. The pl...

This "scowling old man" (2.18) takes Alanna's measurements for her page uniform. While he's grumpy the whole time, he's also professional and quick, and he doesn't require Alanna to take off her cl...

When Alanna and Coram leave Trebond, they stay at an inn the first night. Coram winds up drunk, but luckily these are helpful folks: "The innkeeper helped him to bed while his wife fussed over 'the...

Most of the teachers who instruct the pages at court are priests. The one who teaches math happens to be particularly stern, such as when he informs Alanna that math "is a building block…Without...