While I was reading through Brechalon, I began updating the (ironically incomplete) complete list of characters from Senta and the Steel Dragon.  I included every character with a name and in Brechalon, came up with 65 people.  Fifteen are only mentioned, usually because they are long-dead historical figures.

What surprised me is that only only five of the 50 appearing characters get killed in the course of this book.  Fear not.  Many others get killed in later volumes.

There are a few characters who appear only in book 0, and that seems like sort of a waste.  I think I might resurrect a few in The Sorceress and her Lovers.  I’ve already pulled several lizzies, that I had never intended to use again, from earlier books.  I like to bring characters back like that.  It seems to me to add a little realism to the story, especially when you have a relatively limited setting, like a colony across the sea from the rest of the civilized world.