# The Windfairies — Character guide

> Key figures in The Windfairies by Mary De Morgan.

- [Lucilla](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/lucilla.md): Lucilla grows up solitary on the downs, admired by fisher folk for dancing that seems one with the waves, and she turns away every young man who cannot keep her pace. When a shipwrecked sailor swears he can dance as well
- [Hulda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/hulda.md): Hulda stands at the edge of Othmar's choices, whispering cautions he shrugs off as silliness. When the dwarf leads him away with a mule of instruments, her fear proves sharper than his confidence, and she is left behind 
- [Dumb Othmar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/dumb_othmar.md): Othmar dismisses Hulda's warning and leads the dwarf down the road, eager for one more tune. On the hilltop the instruments rise and become singing figures — violin girls, trumpet men, a fat drum — and he sits entranced,
- [Vain Kesta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/vain_kesta.md): Kesta marches through town complaining loudly of the suitors who pursue her, and when the General doubts her looks she insists he ask the men in the street. Undeterred, she presses on to the Duke's garden and offers him 
- [The Ploughman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/the_ploughman.md): Alone in his field, the ploughman is stopped by a voice from the earth and finds a creature like a black lizard that swells into a foot-high woman with an india-rubber face. She detests women, wants no trouble, and deman
- [The Potter's Wife](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/the_potters_wife.md): A domestic character, likely involved in a subplot.
- [The Wife](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/the_wife.md): A generic but sustained character, possibly the ploughman's wife.
- [The Old Gentleman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/the_old_gentleman.md): An elderly character who appears in multiple scenes.
- [Nanina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/nanina.md): Nanina is set to watch a flock beside an old palace, but each night the beautiful shepherd's music pulls her feet into motion and another sheep vanishes. With only one lamb left she weeps beneath a beech tree, ties up it
- [The Gipsy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/the_gipsy.md): A wandering gipsy whose mysterious cup carries old magic, offering help or trouble to those who cross her path.
- [The General](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/the_general.md): A military figure, possibly a minor authority in the story.
- [Adam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/adam.md): A named character with limited but notable appearances.
- [The Old Schoolmaster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/the_old_schoolmaster.md): An educator who appears briefly in the narrative.
- [The Windfairies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_windfairies_se/characters/the_windfairies.md): The windfairies sweep the earth, turn the miller's wheel, and gather by night to dance as lightly as down. They are drawn to Lucilla's loneliness but wary of her kind, warning that no mortal can keep a secret and that br

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