# The Sea Hawk — Character guide

> Key figures in The Sea Hawk by Rafael Sabatini.

- [Sir Oliver Tressilian](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/sir_oliver_tressilian.md): Sir Oliver Tressilian is the master of Penarrow, a startlingly Italianate manor on the Cornish coast, a man of youth, fortune, and good digestion who takes his ease while others scheme. His world is one of family rivalry
- [Mistress Rosamund Godolphin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/rosamund_godolphin.md): Rosamund Godolphin moves in the tense borderland between the Tressilian and Godolphin families, where old grievances and new desires collide. When confronted by a man who claims to own her body and soul, she answers with
- [Sakr-el-Bahr](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/sakr_el_bahr.md): Sakr-el-Bahr commands a galeasse in the corsair fleet, a man whose name alone quiets murmurs and whose counsel Asad-ed-Din both needs and resents. Six months chained to a galley oar forged him into something harder than 
- [Marzak](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/marzak.md): Marzak-ben-Asad occupies the uneasy position of heir to Algiers while watching a renegade captain command the loyalty his birthright should ensure. He is quick to panic when danger threatens and quicker to lash out at th
- [Asad-ed-Din](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/asad_ed_din.md): Asad-ed-Din, the Lion of the Faith, rules Algiers with a voice that once hurled men into death without protest, but he has lain too long in port while his fleets sailed under other captains. When his crew murmurs for Sak
- [Master Lionel Tressilian](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/master_lionel_tressilian.md): Lionel Tressilian shares blood with Oliver but none of his strength, a man whose first instinct under threat is to strike at those closest to him. When cornered, he lashes out with the cruelest weapon he has, the accusat
- [Sir John Killigrew](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/sir_john_killigrew.md): Sir John Killigrew moves through Cornish society as a man of standing whose friendship with the Tressilians gives him a stake in their fortunes. When suspicion and betrayal tear the family apart, his instinct to uphold o
- [Jasper Leigh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/jasper_leigh.md): Master Leigh is the kind of mariner who would trepan his own mother for a purse of gold, and he proves it when he delivers Sir Oliver into the hands of his enemies. Yet he is no mere villain: his cowardice, his greed, an
- [Fenzileh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/fenzileh.md): Fenzileh rules the lesser women of Asad-ed-Din's harem with a rod and a whisper, her authority exceeding even the Basha's in the small tyrannies of the household. Her consuming desire is to see her son Marzak raised abov
- [Lord Henry Goade](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/lord_henry_goade.md): Lord Henry Goade is a man of the world, at home in courts and on ships, whose clear eye and steady nerve make him a natural ally to the friendless. When Oliver returns to England under the shadow of his brother's treache
- [Master Peter Godolphin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/master_peter_godolphin.md): Rosamund's brother, a gentleman of Cornwall.
- [Tsamanni](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/tsamanni.md): A wily wazeer in the court of Algiers.
- [Ali](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/ali.md): A corsair captain loyal to Sakr-el-Bahr.
- [Biskaine-el-Borak](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/biskaine_el_borak.md): A trusted lieutenant of Sakr-el-Bahr.
- [Ayoub-el-Samin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/ayoub_el_samin.md): A wazeer in Algiers, often advising Asad.
- [Vigitello](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/vigitello.md): An Italian renegade in Algiers.
- [Ralph Tressilian](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/ralph_tressilian.md): Oliver's deceased brother, mentioned in backstory.
- [The Skipper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/the_skipper.md): An unnamed ship's skipper.
- [Nick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sea_hawk_se/characters/nick.md): An old servant or sailor.

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