Gonji: The Soul Within the Steel: The Deathwind Trilogy, Book Two (61 page)

Luba,
a vicious mercenary

Lydia Benedetto,
wife of councilor Michael

Mark Benedetto,
young brother of Michael

Michael Benedetto,
protégé of Council Elder Flavio

Miklos Zarek,
a fisherman

Milorad Vargo,
Flavio’s friend and advisor; husband of Anna

Mongols (Ling and Hu San),
antagonists of Gonji with the 3
^rd
Free Company

Mord,
King Klann’s sorcerer

Nikolai Nagy,
a hostler; friend of Stefan Berenyi

Old Gort,
ancient gatekeeper of Vedun

Paolo Sauvini,
a wagoner; apprentice to Ignace Obradek

Phlegor,
a militant craft-guild leader

Radetzky,
a foster

Richard,
a castle baker; lover of Lottie Kovacs

Riemann,
a German highwayman with the 3
^rd
Free Company

Roric Amsgard,
chief provisioner of Vedun; a former Austrian soldier

Salavar the Slayer,
vicious, legendary mercenary

Simon Sardonis,
mysterious loner sojourning near Vedun

Sophia,
mother of Helena

Stanek,
a mercenary under Julian

Stefan Berenyi,
a hostler; friend and co-worker of Nikolai Nagy

Strom Gundersen,
a shepherd; youngest son of Garth

Sylva Monetto,
wife of Aldo

Tadeusz,
a militiaman

Tiva,
a little girl in Eduardo’s bunch

Tralayn,
prophetess and councilor in Vedun

Tumo,
a cretin giant with Klann’s army

Vaclav,
father of Tiva

Verrico,
Vedun’s surgeon

Vlad Dobroczy,
a farmer; rival of Wilfred Gundersen

Wilfred Gundersen,
middle son of Garth; a smith, lover of Genya

William Eddings,
an English sundrier in Vedun

Wolverangue,
a powerful demon invoked by Mord

Wyvern,
a ghastly flying serpent; a familiar of Mord

Yuschak,
a farmer

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

T. C. RYPEL
—“Ted,” to all who admit to knowing him—is a writer who has divided most of his existence between northeast Ohio and the darker regions of his imagination. He has tilted with the fantastic, in fiction and nonfiction, in most forms that wouldn’t surprise you—novels, film criticism, screenplays—but some that surprise even him. (Would you believe, Irish drinking-ballad lyrics for a
Ripley’s Believe It or Not
endeavor?)

Gonji
is the work for which he is best known, chronicling the historical-fantasy, European sword-and-sorcery adventures of a demon-stalked, metaphysically questing, halfbreed samurai, Gonji Sabatake. A popular adventure-fantasy series in the 1980s,
Gonji
was curtailed by the original publisher’s cancellation of its entire fantasy line. Now that the series has been revived in new stories, foreign reprints, audiobooks, and the present Borgo Press reissue, Rypel plans to bring a long-promised closure to Gonji’s relentless quest across monster-infested medieval Europe and into strange and unexpected worlds beyond.