Stardust Characters

Thorny Origins We first meet Tristran when, as an infant, he's thrust into the gap in the wall in a basket. The guards hear him crying, and then see his "red, bawling face, with screwed-up littl...

Bitter and Broken We hear the star before we see her. She falls into a glade, and a "high clear, female voice" says "ow" and then "Fuck" (3.105), presumably because of the pain of falling to earth...

Witch with a Mission The oldest Lilim lives with her two sisters in a cottage in the woods. It's a dreary existence—"They took it in turns to sleep in the big bed, to make the supper, to set sna...

Ordinary (But Seeking His Heart's Desire) When we first meet Dunstan, he's eighteen and pretty ordinary what with his "nut-brown hair, and nut-brown eyes, and nut-brown freckles." He's also "mid...

All Chained Up When Dunstan first sees this woman at the Faerie Market, she seems very striking, and very obviously not human: […] she smiled widely at him with white teeth in a dusky face....

Helpless Hag? This "iron-haired old woman" (5.55) drives a brightly-painted gypsy wagon around Faerie, parking it by Wall for the market once every nine years. She sells beautiful glass flowers, a...

Heart-Breaking Beauty The daughter of Tommy Forester and Bridget Comfrey, Victoria is, to Tristran, "the most beautiful girl in the British Isles" (2.11). He's not alone in having this opinion e...

Hospitality Ahoy When Dunstan Thorn rents out his cottage for the Faerie Market and ends up sleeping in the cow byre, he has an unexpected visitor at night. Someone comes in to take shelter from...

The eldest son of the 81st Lord of Stormhold is hopeful about his chances of succession. His age shows, though: "Primus, the oldest, with white hairs in his thick brown beard, his nose aquiline, hi...

Tertius is the third son of the 81st Lord of Stormhold (try saying that ten times fast). Here's how he looks at their father's deathbed: "His beard red-and-golden, his eyes a tawny brown, looked wa...

The seventh and youngest son of the 81st Lord of Stormhold, Septimus is a bit of a puzzle: "Septimus, his black beard still coming in, tall and crowlike, looked blank, as he always looked blank" (3...

Tristran falls asleep under this tree, and wakes up to her talking to him. She gushes about the Lord of the Forest, Pan, who told her to look out for Tristran and give him a hand, er, branch. She a...

This guy is described as "the tall gentleman in the black silk top hat" who came to Wall "all the way up from London" (1.52). He offers to share his dinner at the (full) inn with Dunstan, and then...

This is the gal who young Dunstan Thorn has a crush on. She's described as "a young woman of similar practicality" (1.40). Dunstan's courtship strategies reflect this: "They would walk, on fair eve...

This guy is the innkeeper and bartender of Wall. He has a striking appearance compared to the rest of the plain-looking inhabitants of the town: "Mr. Bromios was tall, and his skin was olive; his b...

When Dunstan Thorn is a teenager, Bridget's around the same age as he is, and "widely regarded as the most beautiful pot-girl in living memory" (1.26). She works for Mr. Bromios and is apparently s...

Tommy seems like a sweet guy, though he isn't apparently too good in a fight: Alum Bey easily wins when they have a scuffle over Bridget Comfrey. This seems to work in Tommy's favor, though, since...

Tristran's little sister, Louisa, acts like a pain in the butt toward him. She teases him about his odd appearance and the weird things he says. This is apparently just the way she is: "Louisa was...

This forty-five-year old shop owner is wealthy and has a huge crush on Victoria Forester. In fact, he asks her for her hand in marriage right before Tristran swears to fetch a falling star for Vict...

Dunstan's mother, Mrs. Thorn, seems to want the best for her son, so when Mrs. Hempstock comes around saying that Daisy is pining away for him, Mrs. Thorn collaborates on a plan to get the two kids...

Daisy's mother visits Dunstan's mother for tea and scheming, in order to get their kids fixed up and married already. Mrs. Hempstock has clearly thought this through, since she says, "'Hempstock wo...

We first see the Lord of Stormhold on his deathbed. He has to decide the matter of succession, since he has three surviving sons. Back in his day, he killed all of his siblings before this could've...

Secundus Secundus is second-born Stormhold son, who's dead and gone (but still hanging around, like you do). Quintus Quintus is the fifth son of the Lord of Stormhold, and was murdered by Septim...