# Lud-in-the-Mist — Character guide

> Key figures in Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees.

- [Master Nathaniel Chanticleer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/master_nathaniel_chanticleer.md): Master Nathaniel Chanticleer presides over Lud-in-the-Mist's Senate and countinghouse, a man of property, parties, and quiet routine. Yet a buried childhood terror of fairy fruit and the hills beyond the Debatable Land k
- [Master Ambrose Honeysuckle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/master_ambrose_honeysuckle.md): Master Ambrose Honeysuckle sits on the Bench and in the Senate, a square, formidable man who prefers facts to fancies and runs his household and affairs with the same firm hand. His daughter Moonlove's wild behavior and 
- [Ranulph Chanticleer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/ranulph_chanticleer.md): Ranulph Chanticleer is the only son of the mayor, treated more as an heirloom than a child by a father distracted by office and habit. Quiet and withdrawn at his father's parties, he is drawn to things the respectable ci
- [Endymion Leer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/endymion_leer.md): Endymion Leer arrived in Lud-in-the-Mist thirty years ago from nowhere, and his skill and learning have made him indispensable even to those who distrust him. He treats rich and poor alike, writes the official history of
- [Dame Marigold Chanticleer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/dame_marigold_chanticleer.md): Dame Marigold Chanticleer knows her husband's sensitive Chanticleer nerves too well to burden him with household troubles, and she bears the family's anxieties largely alone. Practical and steady where Nathaniel is dream
- [Hazel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/hazel.md): Hazel Gibberty keeps her family's farm with a fierce sense of propriety and a deep distrust of her grandfather's new wife, whose outlandish ways and unholy fodder offend her. When Master Nathaniel falls ill under her roo
- [Miss Primrose Crabapple](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/miss_primrose_crabapple.md): Miss Primrose once presided over the education of Lud's most respectable women, drilling them in decorum while privately nursing a mystical devotion to 'true womanliness' and the great privilege of having been born a woo
- [Mistress Ivy Peppercorn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/mistress_ivy_peppercorn.md): Mistress Ivy keeps rooms, keeps accounts, and keeps her own counsel, deflecting nosy questions with a suspicious look and a well-placed sigh for her late husband. She knows the country talk about her father's death — how
- [Mumchance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/mumchance.md): Wherever trouble spreads through Lud, Captain Mumchance arrives first with exhortations, condolences, and a helpful suggestion about who is really to blame — and somehow that someone is always Master Nathaniel Chanticlee
- [Hempie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/hempie.md): Hempie has served the Chanticleers since before Nathaniel could walk, and her placid darning conceals a memory stocked with lullabies, superstitions, and heirlooms no respectable Dorimarite would admit to owning. She spe
- [Prunella Chanticleer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/prunella_chanticleer.md): Prunella has her father's sensitivity and none of his caution, and she has already scandalized Lud by sampling fairy fruit and by doing wicked impressions of Miss Primrose's most treasured pronouncements. She moves throu
- [Diggory Carp](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/diggory_carp.md): A fisherman who discovers strange fairy fruit in his nets.
- [Duke Aubrey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/duke_aubrey.md): The legendary ruler of Dorimare who laughed himself off his throne.
- [Mother Tibbs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/mother_tibbs.md): An old woman who sells herbal remedies and knows fairy medicine.
- [Master Polydore Vigil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/master_polydore_vigil.md): A scholarly recluse who studies fairy history and lore.
- [Ebeneezor Prim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/ebenezor_prim.md): A town official who enforces anti-fairy laws with zeal.
- [Portunus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/portunus.md): A mysterious old goatherd living on the border of Fairyland.
- [Moonlove Honeysuckle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/moonlove_honeysuckle.md): Ambrose's daughter, a quiet girl with a secret connection to fairy fruit.
- [Christopher Pugwalker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/christopher_pugwalker.md): A constable who investigates the fairy fruit smuggling ring.
- [Toby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/toby.md): A young boy who works in the Chanticleer household.
- [Dame Jessamine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/dame_jessamine.md): A neighbor and friend of Dame Marigold.
- [Willy Wisp](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/willy_wisp.md): A wandering peddler who brings news from the countryside.
- [Jane Harrison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/jane_harrison.md): The legendary founder of Lud-in-the-Mist, now a folk memory.
- [Peter Pease](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/peter_pease.md): A young boy who accompanies Ranulph on his adventures.
- [Master Josiah Chanticleer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/master_josiah_chanticleer.md): Nathaniel's deceased father, a strict upholder of anti-fairy laws.
- [Jeremiah Gibberty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/jeremiah_gibberty.md): A farmer whose land borders Fairyland and who trades in fairy fruit.
- [Sebastian Thug](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/sebastian_thug.md): A rough character involved in the illegal fairy fruit trade.
- [Clementina Gibberty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/clementina_gibberty.md): Jeremiah's wife, who knows more about fairy fruit than she admits.
- [Bawdy Bess](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/characters/bawdy_bess.md): A tavern keeper who caters to sailors and smugglers.

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