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- Anno Domini 1094
Quote
"Another day in this carnival of souls"
"Another nights ends, end as quickly as it goes"
"The memories are shadows; ink on the page"
"And I can't seem to find my way home"
"All the places I've been and things I've seen"
"A million stories that made up a million shattered dreams"
"The faces of people I'll never see again"
"And I can't seem to find my way home"
-- Far From Home by Five Finger Death Punch
History of the Pageant
Places of Interest and the Dwellers Within
St.Calenda's Wandering Pageant, Odeum & Lunar Fair is made up of numerous locations, great and small, that make up the warp and weft of not only the day-to-day entertainments, but of the behind the scenes pageant members lives, loves and tribulations. The pageant comprises seventy odd wagons and half as many tents, but only twenty or so seem to have enough significance to count as landmarks in the nebulous night-scape of this traveling circus. Many of the locales serve as focal points for pageant-goers and pageant-folk alike.
New Abilities Associated with the Pageant
- Secrets: St. Calenda's Wandering Pageant Anyone who deals with the circus for a period of time gains some level of knowledge about its inhabitants and the magic around it. This knowledge reflects that.
Athenaeum
The Athenaeum, an ancient term that literally means the Temple of Athena, is used within the pageant to mean the collective wisdom of diviners and wonder workers. It is not so much a place, although there is a tent referred to as such, rather it is a title for the mystics, much like a cabal or coven. Of course, even within St.Calenda's Wandering Pageant, not all of the mystics are truly gifted, some are outright charlatans, while others who had no innate gift of their own chose to bargained with dark powers for otherwise unattainable abilities.
Mystics
 Calixto
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The Spanish Astrologer is a handsome, kindly seeming, fortuneteller whose true mystical gift lies in the speed with which he can establish trust and how well he can read the emotions of others. {Spaniard}
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 Bekhet
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Lady "Beckett" has been with the pageant for as long as anyone can remember and is of Egyptian origin. She is the most senior and powerful of the mystics, often serving as a mentor to other will-workers and is the longtime companion of Bes the Dwarf.
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 Rambert
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The Oneiromancer {Spaniard} [An Established Member for about 100 years.]
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 Mordblund
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Simon Magus or The Thaumturge {Danish} [A New Member, Mordblund joined the pageant in the autumn of 1095.]
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 Artemisia
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The Eastern Oracle {Turkish} [An Established Member for about 75 years.]
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Bestiarium
The Bestiarium is the medieval equivalent of a zoo, which is housed, fed, and cared for by beast-handlers whose sole purpose it is to keep the animals alive and healthy for the wonder of the audience. The beasts and their handlers live side-by-side and are mutually dependent, indeed sometimes its difficult to know which of the animals within bestiarium are for spectacle and which are truly the handlers.
Beasts & Handlers
 Arkadi
This old, brown bear male, dances and performs tricks for the visitor's children. He possesses an uncanny knack for knowing what tricks the children want. While he is a brown bear, his fur is mostly gray and no one knows how old he is, except perhaps for Bogdan the Russian. Both Arkadi and Bogdan were recruited into the pageant by Vulo Vodach when the pageant last came to Veliky Novgorod in the lands of the Rus. -- {} -- See: Bogdan
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 Phython
-- A serpent over twenty-five feet long, the pattern of its black and gold scales are unheard of in the known world. In the darkest hours of the night, it can sometimes be heard to speak with sibilant hissings in alien dead tongues. All those save its blind handlers must take care to avoid its hypnotic gaze and more than one pageant member has perished, swallowed whole by the dark serpent. Phython has been an exhibit of the pageant for as long as anyone can remember. -- {}
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 Bogdan -- The Bear Trainer -- {A man of the Rus} -- See: Arkadi
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 Garsea -- Apprentice Bear Trainer {Northern Spain}
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 Joukahainen -- The Beast Healer, known by his diminutive Jouko, joined the pageant at the same time as his friend Sámi who was seduced into the Erotes of Venus. He possesses a gift for handling beasts. {Finland} [New Member]
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 Wilkin -- Fodder Boy {England}
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The Grotesquery
 Giulia -- The pageant's resident bearded lady and its primary gossip. {Roman woman}
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Canvas of the Mother
Appearance:
Background: The "Canvas of the Mother" is a red and white striped tent that serves as the main venue of the larger performances. In later days such tents would become more common, but in the years between the fall of the Old Empire and the Wars of Christ, this tent was a one-of-a-kind artistic and engineering marvel. Its story goes something like this, many years ago - no one really remembers when, Mauritanus led the Pageant to the farthest East in search of new acts and new markets for the Pageant to sell its wares. In distant Cathay, the Pageant came to a city larger than any seen before and there the entertainers remained for several seasons.
In this unnamed city, Mauritanus encountered an artisan in the medium of silk and was enchanted with the beautiful pavilions that this man made for the authorities of the great city. When Mauritanus asked how much such a silken tent would cost, the artisan laughed and said such wondrous palaces of silk were not for foreigners or mere nomads. The Master of Ceremonies was not so easily dissuaded and in turn asked the artisan his hearts desire? The artisan was an old man at this point and as he and his equally elderly wife had failed to produce children, he honestly replied -- a son to follow me in my craft. Mauritanus gravely nodded in understanding and asked if he might give the artisan's wife a gift, a potion that would insure her fecundity and give the elderly couple a child. At first the artisan was dubious, but the Master of Ceremonies promised him a son if his wife drank the elixir. The elderly artisan in silk took the foreigners potion to his wife and told her what the strange dark man had said. The elderly couple were so desperate for a son, or any child, that they used the potion and coupled thereafter.
A season passed and the artisan's elderly wife began to show the signs of pregnancy, when this became clear the artisan went to see Mauritanus among the pageanteers and falling to his knees he thanked the dark stranger. Mauritanus smiled and raised the artisan to his feet and once again asked the old man to make a silk pavilion for the pageant, the artisan could scarcely refuse even though his people would see him as a traitor for creating such a magnificent palace of silk for a group of foreign entertainers. The Master of Ceremonies gave to the old man a list of demanding specifications for the pavilion, the materials needed were quite expensive, but Mauritanus provided chests of gold to purchase such quantities of silk as would be required and to find the rarest red dyes needed to color the silk.
In the end, the grand pavilion was completed, but when Mauritanus came to collect the old artisan's opus he came upon the household in mourning for the old man who had passed away with the completion of his finest work. The grieving widow chose to receive the foreign entertainer for she was also a new mother and wished to thanks him personally. The meeting took place in the mourning tent and there the old woman and Master of Ceremonies spoke for some time. When their conversation ended, she and her entire household brought the grand pavilion to the Pageant and left their old lives behind.
Characteristics:
Contents:
Lodge of the Dervishes
 Salome -- Wife of the Serpent -- {} []
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 Sunniva -- The Wolf-dancer -- {A young Saxon woman married to Eadwulf} [New Member]
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 Chanda -- The Fire Dancer {Indian} []
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Zhu Family of Acrobats
A family of Chinese acrobats.
Michelakos Family of Jugglers
A family of Byzantine performers.
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Other Performers
 Saskia -- The Knife Thrower {} [Germanic]
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| [[ |200px]] Hrothgar -- nickname {} [Anglo-Saxon]
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| [[ |200px]] Dui -- The Pict {} [Germanic]
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Arcadia Minor
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The court of the Erlking is the least definable structure in the pageant, it serves as both boundary and border with the outside world. A double wall of heavily stained canvas serves to delineate the pageant from its mundane physical location, and thus the court possesses an indistinct liminal character, it is also a distinct if ephemeral place where the fae who travel with the pageant gather together in imitation of their long lost Arcadia.
Fae Courtiers
House of the Profligate
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Retinue of Venus
The Erotes
[[ |200px]] Mehdi --
An attractive young Persian boy recently acquired by the Erotes to replace two recently deceased sacred whores. {} [New Member]
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[[ |200px]] Nahum --
A beautiful Syrian brother and sister fused together by the pageant-master Mauritanus Vedastus after one too many escape attempts; they now serve as the camp's hermaphroditic prostitute. {} [Syrian]
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[[ |200px]] Rasmus --
A Danish youth whose athletic body and sexual stamina make him the work-horse of the Erotes, but whose own love never seems to be fulfilled. {} [New Member]
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 Sámi --
A warrior of Finland whose love of sweet southern wines and lust for more refined pleasures drew him into the pageant and he now serves the retinue as both protector and jailer. {} []
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 Frater Eadweard --
The Saxon priest has only just joined the Erotes, but he has quickly come to fill the recently vacant role of "Hymenaeus", an ancient position long held
by an older male, usually a priest of one sort or another who officiates the acts of "sacred prostitution" giving these pleasures a acceptability. {} [New Member]
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Brotherhood of the Blade
For centuries uncounted, the Brotherhood of the Blade (only its latest name) have served the wandering pageant as security. The Brotherhood is currently about three dozen strong, but is made up of smaller groups like the Four Horsemen and the Sons of Hercules. Although the guardsmen make up the bulk of the Brotherhood, the other two groups are more prestigious as equestrians and strongmen and there is more than a little strife between individuals and cliques that can lead to occasional dust-ups. It is Vulo Vodach who currently leads the Brotherhood and it is he who is responsible for ending the regular brawls and occasional melees that take place between members over lost lovers, wounded pride and too much drink.
Sword Brethren
 Arnviðr -- The Varagarian {Russian} []
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 Tariel -- The Knight in the Panther's Skin {Georgian} []
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 Æthelred -- The Hammer {Saxon Smith} [New Member]
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The Four Horsemen
Obviously, the four horsemen are equestrians, and as such they stand well above the other pageant performers because they are warriors who ride, rather than walk.
 Vulo Vodach -- The First Horseman {Bulgarian} [Vulo is an old member who has been with the pageant for centuries.]
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 Mercuzio Tiberus -- The Second Horseman {Turkish} [An Established Member who has been with the pageant for about 75 years.]
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 Kriemhild -- The Carolinian {A Frankish Knight of Charlemagne} [New]
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Sons of Hercules (strongmen)
| [[ |200px]] Gianni -- Gianni as the Venetian Hercules prefers to be called, is the eldest of the strongmen, a first among equals and the mentor of all new strongmen; he is well liked by all. {Venetian} []
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The Mithraeum
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The Brotherhood carries with it an ancient tent and stone alter that they call the Mithraeum, where in they hold their solder's rites of passage and the occasional duel. When the pageant comes to a new place and remains over a fortnight, a long trench is dug and the ancient tent put over it, then the tent is covered with loose earth because the rites of Mithra are supposed to be practiced in underground temples.
Odeum
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The Odeum serves as the locus of all dramatic and musical performances. But like many places within the domain of the pageant, it is amorphous, being made up of a dozen pageant-wagons that serve as a mobile stage upon which performances are streamed to the masses as the wagons pass through village or town. Alternatively, the pageant wagons can set up in a fixed location, in which case the wagons form up into a circle, cutting out sights and sounds of the greater pageant and delineating the circled wagons as a magical-mysterious place called the "Theater".
Actors
| [[ |200px]] Mervyn -- The Chief Narrator / Script Writer {Welsh}
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| [[ |200px]] Gennadi -- The Heroic Knight and fair brother of Semyon, the Blackguard {Russian}
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| [[ |200px]] Semyon -- The Blackguard, the dark brother of Gennadi, the Heroic Knight {Russian}
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Storytellers
 Theodoric -- The Storyteller among pageant goers, but the pageant players know him better as The Goth.
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Minstrels
| [[ |200px]] Eleftherios -- First Castrato joined the pageant under the reign of the Byzantine empress Aelia Eudoxia. A strict taskmaster, he demands only the best of his castrati singers. {Byzantine} []
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| [[ |200px]] Julian Fabel -- Pan Pipes/ Dancer/ Dancing Rat trainer {} []
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Playwright
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Pavilion of Asclepius
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Therapeutae (healers)
 Fedelmid -- Abortionist / Midwife {Celt} [Ancient member]
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 Blagoy -- Barbar-Surgeon {Bulgarian} [Junior member - 100 years]
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 Massimo Riva -- Exorcist {Italian} [20 years] -- Former Priest
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 Alban Barre -- The pageant's only plague doctor, he is a significant earner in times of plague, the rest of the time he is the principle coffin maker. {Frankish}
- [New member -- 5 years] -- Former physician to the Capetian king Philip I - the Amorous -- Banished by his king for some failure or other.
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Shanty of Fools
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The lodgings and performance venue of the pageant's collective of fools, the shanty is a ramshackle structure formed of spare sackcloth, rope, odds and ends and fallen logs. While distinctly unimpressive as seen from without, once inside the Shanty visitors and pageant-folk who are not fools themselves become lost in a maze of clothbound corridors whose dimensions far exceed normal expectations. But the Shanty is not a maze, so much as a labyrinth which leads the brave ever deeper towards a central chamber called the "Tabernacle". All along the corridors of the shanty-labyrinth are recesses in which scenes are played out for the paying visitors and for those who trespass within the private sanctum of the fools. These scenes are supposed to serve as a series of morality plays meant to remind the visitor-folk of their ethical and spiritual obligations and what might await them after death should they they fail to keep faith. But, all-too-often, these performances do the opposite, revealing the holes in medieval life and presenting the visitor with a distinct emotional or moral dilemma which they must solve if they wish to escape the Shanty by reaching the central "Tabernacle of Fools". All too often, however, visitors who enter are never seen again and it is assumed by those within their communities that they simply ran away with the pageant.
Tabernacle of Fools
Fools
 Wan Lady -- ' {Missing since October of 1094}
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Quote: "Three mages, a Cappadocian vampire and a whole slough of sad clowns." -- Rambert the Oneriomancer
Tent of Dionysus
This tent is the central meeting point for pageant-folk and pageant-goers, a place of refuge that is both commissary and watering-hole, but it is also the axis around which the pageant community revolves.
Drudges
 Sender -- The Jew {Sender is a Alexandrian Jew and serves as the the pageant's treasurer. He serves directly beneath Vulo Vodach and publicly he is the second most important official of the pageant.}
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 Rodolph -- The Mess sergeant of the pageant is a wide bodied Frank slowly going to flab. He joined the pageant during its sojourn in England after his discharge from the army of William the Conqueror. To his friends he is Rudy and his many lovers Rudy-Bear. {Frankish} []
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 Maurizio -- The pageant's main handyman and the lead roustabout. {Florentine} []
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 Argont -- The Hammer as Argont is called, is an elderly mass of muscle who serves as the pageant's smith. While there is no question of his skill at the forge, his origins lie in mystery, though some say he is from Crete or Cyprus. {} []
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 Divan -- The Finder {} []
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 Vítor -- The lead animal groom {Galician} []
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| [[ |200px]] Fermin -- The leader of the supply crew, who make trips into villages and towns, he supplements his earnings with petty theft. {Basque} []
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| [[ |200px]] Ratan Orell -- ' {Stock drudge} [Ancient member]
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Yellow Tents
| [[ |200px]] Ignatius -- The Pyromancer {} []
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 Anush -- The Candy Maker {} []
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Serafin Family of Fire Eaters
Ashes & Dust: - Dead Pageanteers
 Sahak -- The Conjurer {Armenian vampire of the Ravnos}
His Fate: Sahak had the misfortune to cross paths with a most disagreeable mage, a member of the Hermetic House of Tremere, named Lord Casmir in Nürnberg during the late days of April in 1094 A.D. Sadly, he played with fire and he got burned. Although he did not die the final death then and there, later during the day his body was consumed from within and he was no more. He left behind a few friends, several ghoul pets and a young protégé named Kesali.
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 Bes -- The Elder Dwarf -- {The Egyptian dwarf named Bes has been with the Pageant as long as anyone can remember.}
His Fate: Bes' tryst with the witch Godiva ended, unexpectedly, when Godiva in an attempt to save him, teleported him five feet down beneath the earth of his tent after he was poisoned by a unknown assassin. While Bes is dead, he will not remain that way for more than a few decades for as a member of the Shem-su-Heru (Egyptian Mummy), he is immortal and will be reborn. How he will feel about Godiva when he returns is anyone's guess.
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 Kesali -- An orphaned Roma girl, who has been taken in by the pageant; she has recently taken shelter with Giulia the bearded-lady after the death of her friend Sahak. [Deceased]
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| Aldo -- The Retinue's latest acquisition, Aldo's child's body and adult attitude make him a valuable commodity and he also serves to control his more emotional brother Theo. {} [Deceased]
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| [[ |200px]] Theotleip -- The second of the Retinue's most recent additions, his athletic body, boyish ways and beauty serve to make him a jewel among the Erotes whose services do not come cheap. A favorite among homosexual pedophiles, he serves as the most recent honey-pot of the Erotes. {} [New Member]
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 Belenus -- The Erlking {Deceased: Killed in Rome by Frater Eadweard, October of 1094 A.D.}
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Calixto
Bekhet
Rambert
Mordblund
Artemisia
Arkadi
Phython
Nagendra -- The Serpent Handler {} []
Bogdan -- The Bear Trainer -- {A man of the Rus} -- See: Arkadi
Garsea -- Apprentice Bear Trainer {Northern Spain}
Joukahainen -- The Beast Healer, known by his diminutive Jouko, joined the pageant at the same time as his friend Sámi who was seduced into the Erotes of Venus. He possesses a gift for handling beasts. {Finland} [New Member]
Wilkin -- Fodder Boy {England}
Giulia -- The pageant's resident bearded lady and its primary gossip. {Roman woman}
Gibbering Orlevski -- ' {} []
Spiuni --
Salome -- Wife of the Serpent -- {} []
Sunniva -- The Wolf-dancer -- {A young Saxon woman married to Eadwulf} [New Member]
Chanda -- The Fire Dancer {Indian} []
Adebola Kader -- Alternian Belly Dancer {Egyptian(Alternian)} []
Zhu Zan -- ()
Zhu An -- ()
Zhu Chen -- ()
Zhu Xia -- ()
Aref Shirazi -- Lord of Archers {} [Persian]
Dobroslav -- Sword Swallower {} [Slavic]
Saskia -- The Knife Thrower {} [Germanic]
Mongfind -- The Princess {} [Pictish]
Astarte -- The Autumn Queen
Arianrhod merch Dôn -- Daughter of the Moon
Cai Kirk -- ()
Anthea Ingríðr -- ()
Sophia Árpád -- 
Ilaria -- [New]
Armen -- 
Sámi -- 
Frater Eadweard -- 
Arnviðr -- The Varagarian {Russian} []
Tariel -- The Knight in the Panther's Skin {Georgian} []
Æthelred -- The Hammer {Saxon Smith} [New Member]
Jamal Endymion -- Moorish Knight (Fáris) {North Africa} []
Vulo Vodach -- The First Horseman {Bulgarian} [Vulo is an old member who has been with the pageant for centuries.]
Mercuzio Tiberus -- The Second Horseman {Turkish} [An Established Member who has been with the pageant for about 75 years.]
Kriemhild -- The Carolinian {A Frankish Knight of Charlemagne} [New]
Mauritanus Vedastus -- Ringmaster & Master of Ceremonies {African}
Theodoric -- The Storyteller among pageant goers, but the pageant players know him better as The Goth.
Fedelmid -- Abortionist / Midwife {Celt} [Ancient member]
Blagoy -- Barbar-Surgeon {Bulgarian} [Junior member - 100 years]
Massimo Riva -- Exorcist {Italian} [20 years] -- Former Priest
Alban Barre -- The pageant's only plague doctor, he is a significant earner in times of plague, the rest of the time he is the principle coffin maker. {Frankish}
Nabil ibn Saqr -- The King Fool {Persian}
Wan Lady -- ' {Missing since October of 1094}
Hellequin -- ' {}
Bozho -- ' {}
Lothar Duncan -- Lord Vintner
Sender -- The Jew {Sender is a Alexandrian Jew and serves as the the pageant's treasurer. He serves directly beneath Vulo Vodach and publicly he is the second most important official of the pageant.}
Rais Ignatius --
Rodolph -- The Mess sergeant of the pageant is a wide bodied Frank slowly going to flab. He joined the pageant during its sojourn in England after his discharge from the army of William the Conqueror. To his friends he is Rudy and his many lovers Rudy-Bear. {Frankish} []
Maurizio -- The pageant's main handyman and the lead roustabout. {Florentine} []
Argont -- The Hammer as Argont is called, is an elderly mass of muscle who serves as the pageant's smith. While there is no question of his skill at the forge, his origins lie in mystery, though some say he is from Crete or Cyprus. {} []
Divan -- The Finder {} []
Vítor -- The lead animal groom {Galician} []
Aegon Nightshade -- Errand Boy -- {Germanic Hungarian} [New Member]
Shereen Attar -- Incense Seller {} []
Anush -- The Candy Maker {} []
Sahak -- The Conjurer {Armenian vampire of the Ravnos}
Bes -- The Elder Dwarf -- {The Egyptian dwarf named Bes has been with the Pageant as long as anyone can remember.}
Kesali -- An orphaned Roma girl, who has been taken in by the pageant; she has recently taken shelter with Giulia the bearded-lady after the death of her friend Sahak. [Deceased]
Belenus -- The Erlking {Deceased: Killed in Rome by Frater Eadweard, October of 1094 A.D.}
Einarr -- The Giant {} []
