The Empire of Time

CHARACTER LIST

Adelbert — Grand Master of the Guild in Asgard, 2747 (part-human bio-mechanisms).

Alekhin — Russian time agent, acting as part of Nevsky’s entourage. A bodyguard.

Alpers — ‘student’ on Four-Oh.

Axel — Chief of the Curonians.

Balk, Hermann — thirteenth-century Hochmeister of the Teutonic order of St Mary’s Hospital in Jerusalem; in charge of the Northern Crusades in wildest Prussia.

Batu — the Great Khan himself, leader of the Mongols in the 13^th century.

Behr, Otto — our narrator; a German ‘Reisende’ or time traveller.

Bella — one of the women at the platform in Four-Oh.

Bobrov — Russian time agent and killer of at least a dozen German agents.

Brigitte — one of the women at the platform in Four-Oh.

Burckel, Albrecht — German time agent and ‘sleeper’ in 2747 AD.

Chkalov, Joseph Maksymovich — otherwise known as Yastryeb, ‘the Hawk’, and Grand Master of Time for the Russians.

Conrad — Brother of the Northern Order (13^th century).

Dankevich, Fedor Ivanovich — Russian time agent. Otto has shot him at least twice, the last time ‘fatally’.

Diederich — German ex-time agent and leading physicist from Four-Oh.

Dieter — eldest of the students at Four-Oh.

Dietrich — Master of the Northern Order, 13^th century.

Ernst – see Kollwitz.

Frederick the Great — Prussian King, Frederick II, known more commonly as ‘Old Fritz’. Fighting against overwhelming odds, he helped Prussia survive the Seven Years War, where he was faced with the alliance of France, Austria and Russia.

Freisler — German ‘Reisende’, or time agent; Hecht’s special henchman – his ‘Jagdhund’ or bloodhound, responsible for doing all the dirty work.

Friedrich, Caspar David — assumed name of ‘Reisende’ Seydlitz in 1836.

Funk, Walther — President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics for the Nazis, in the 20^th century.

Gehlen, Hans — aka ‘the Genewart’. Architect of Four-Oh, scientific genius and inventor of time travel. Has existed for 200 years as a gaseous presence in the midst of the artificial intelligence known as Four-Oh. Twenty-eight years old in 2747.

Goebbels, Paul Joseph — Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany, 20^th century.

Gotz, Carl von — Flugeladjutant to Frederick the Great (18^th century).

Gruber — one of the eight ‘Reisende’ carrying Seydlitz’s DNA. In his early twenties and ‘turned’ by the Russians.

Gudrun — King Manfred’s giant niece, twin to Fricka; also niece to Sygny and Tief. In 28^th century.

Gunner — German ‘Reisende’ or time agent.

Hagen — Manfred’s arrogant giant sixth son; his third wife Gunnhilde’s son.

Haller — student on Four-Oh.

Hecht — ‘The Pike’; Meister of the Germans at Four-Oh.

Hecht, Albrecht — Hecht’s older brother and keeper of the Archives back in time.

Heinrich — “Henny”, Burckel’s friend, a revolutionary (Undrehungar).

Helge — one of the women at the platform in Four-Oh.

Hermann of the Cherusci — known to Rome as Arminius, 1^st century AD.

Heusinger, Klaus — ‘Reisende’, loyal to Four-Oh. Acts as Otto’s secretary in Asgard in 2747.

Hiedler, Johann Georg — itinerant miller and grandfather of Adolf Hitler.

Himmler, Heinrich — Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel, or SS, and leading Nazi figure in 20^th century Germany.

Hitler, Adolf — Führer (‘leader’) of National Socialist or Nazi party, in 20^th century.

Horst — assistant to Diedrich on Four-Oh.

Iaroslavich, Alexander — see Nevsky.

Inge — one of the women at the platform in Four-Oh.

Jodl — armourer for Four-Oh. In his late sixties and an ex- ‘Reisende’ or time agent.

Johannes — Brother of the Northern Order, in 13^th century Prussia.

Kabanov — Russian time agent.

Kalugin, Grigori — Russian time agent and brother of Ivan.

Kalugin, Ivan — Russian time agent and elder brother of Grigori.

Karen — one of the women at the platform in Four-Oh.

Katerina — Otto’s love. See also Razumovsky.

Kollwitz, Ernst — a ‘Reisende’, or time agent. Otto’s best friend and travelling companion; damaged in the Past.

Kondrashov, Alexi — Russian time agent, brother to Mikhail.

Kondrashov, Mikhail — Russian time agent and brother to Alexi.

Kramer, Hans — red-haired ‘Reisende’.

Krauss, Phillipe — double-agent, working for the Russians and responsible for ‘turning’ eight German time agents.

Kravchuk, Oleg Alekseevich — agent of the Mongols in 13^th century Russia, and – in some time-lines – married to Katerina.

Kubhart, Klaus — Ernst’s replacement in 13^th century Russia.

Kurst, Herr — innkeeper in Dollersheim in Austria in 1836.

Lavrov — Russian time agent.

Leni — female courier in Four-Oh.

Lili — one of the women at the platform in Four-Oh.

Locke — one of the eight German time agents ‘turned’ by the Russians.

Lothar — German head of translations at Four-Oh; expert on ge’not.

Luder — Brother of the Northern Order (13^th century).

Luwer, Hans — artefacts expert, based on Four-Oh. Uses his other selves to multi-task. Has a woman somewhere in Time.

Manfred — King of Greater Germany for 87 years. Three times the size of normal humans, he is a tenth-generation ‘Adel’.

Manfred — three-year-old son of Gehlen.

Manninger, Lucius — alias of Otto in Asgard in 2747 – acting as the envoy of the Confederation of American States.

Maria — grandmother of Adolf Hitler, but actually a female Russian time agent.

Matteus — young student at Four-Oh.

Mindaugas — Grand Prince of Lithuania.

Muller — innkeeper of the Black Eagle tavern in Potsdam in 1759.

Muller — student on Four-Oh.

Nemtsov, Alexandr Davydovitch — Russian time agent, working in the Mechanist Age (23^rd – 25^th centuries).

Nevsky — Alexander Iaroslavich, Russian orthodox Prince of Novgorod in the 13^th century. Victor of the Battle on the Ice (on Lake Peipus) in April 1242; a battle which ends the expansive Northern Crusades.

Oleg — Razumovsky’s steward.

Ooris — Neanderthal female back in the Haven.

Otto — see Behr.

Petsch — greatest artist for a thousand years; living in 28^th century.

Postovsky — Russian time agent.

Razumovsky, Katerina — eternal love of Otto Behr. Daughter of Mikhail. Lives in Novgorod in the 13^th century.

Razumovsky, Masha — wife to Mikhail and mother of Katerina.

Razumovsky, Mikhail — rich boyar, living in Novgorod in the 13^th century. Father of Katerina.

Reichenau, Gudrun — ‘daughter’ of Michael (he claims).

Reichenau, Michael — Dopplegehirn, and Supervisor of Werkstatt 9. Also somehow involved in time travel.

Ribbentrop, Joachim von — Foreign Minister for Nazi Germany, 20^th century.

Ritter — German time agent.

Rothaarige — ‘the red-haired one’, manager of the club of the same name in Neu Berlin in 2747.

Schmidt, Andreas — alias for Russian time agent Dankevich.

Schmidt — home owner in Berlin in 1759.

Schwarz — one of the eight ‘turned’ by the Russians, and carrying Seydlitz’s DNA.

Seydlitz, Friedrich — advisor to Frederick the Great, and one of the greatest cavalry generals of the 18^th century.

Seydlitz, Max — ‘Reisende’, in charge of Project Barbarossa, an attempt to change history in Hitler’s favour.

Streicher, Julius — Nazi Gauleiter of Nuremberg, in 20^th century.

Subodei — Mongol chief in 13^th century.

Sygny — King Manfred’s aunt, assassinated in 2747.

Taysen — stable owner and ostler in Potsdam in 1759.

Tief — Chancellor to King Manfred in Asgard (2747). Uncle to Princess Gudrun. ‘Adel’.

Tomas — young student at Four-Oh.

Urte — one of the women at the platform in Four-Oh. In love with Otto. Also an expert physicist, technician and mathematician.

Vyshinski — trader in 13^th century Novgorod.

Werner — Brother of the Northern Crusade, in 13^th century Prussia.

Werner — gene surgeon in the Neu Berlin of 2747.

Yastryeb — see Chkalov. Grand Master of Time for the Russians.

Zarah — most senior of the women who run Four-Oh’s operating systems. Sweet on Otto.

Zieten, Hans Joachim von — cavalry general in Prussian army, and advisor to Frederick the Great.