Authors: Dorothy Dunnett
Jan Dłlugosz, royal tutor, national historian, canon of Cracow
Jan Ostrórog, royal tutor, political writer, Castellan of Poznan
Archbishop Gregory of Sanok, Primate of Poland
Thomas Halkerston, Scots merchant in Danzig
Stephen Lawson of Haddington, the same
William Simpson, the same
James Lauder, the same
Germany and other Hanseatic League
Emperor Frederick III of the House of Habsburg
Archduke Maximilian, his son
Heinrich Castorp, merchant of Lübeck
France and Lorraine
René, Duke of Anjou, Count of Provence and titular King of Naples and Sicily; father of former Queen Margaret of England
René II, Duke of Lorraine, grandson of King René
Bernard de Moncourt, seigneur de Chouzy, kinsman of Clémence de Coulanges