The people

The Women

Rowan Amhill: A Hillgift woman. Eighteen, romantic, fervent... and as stubborn as the hill
Tansy Ironblade Amhill: Rowan's prosaic mother
Lilias: Tansy's and Sorrel's sister; a crossover
Mallow: Rowan's great-grandmother, who wore the thornfair gown

Hazel Roseward: Rowan's slightly younger cousin. Teasing, sunny-natured … and loyal
Sorrel Roseward: Tansy's and Lilias' sister and Hazel's mother.
Rubus Sweetbriar Roseward- Twin to Redberry

Genista dar Whin: A hillfayre woman, one of the last pure bloods. Mischievous, capricious, trapped by tradition and blood

Clover dar Rowan: A gift to the hill, young, curious and embracing

Mullein Hyssop: The herbwarden. Earthy, wise and bearing more than a spoonful of hillfayre blood
Fen: Mullein's daughter

Briar: Mullein's great-great-great aunt
​Dame Nettle: a teacher at the cradle school
​Marigold Byway: a teacher at the cradle school
Barberry: A stepmother with a strong hand and a warm heart
Cress Blessdown: a Hillgift woman with a pony that has hill blood. Cress has twin sons: Rush and Reed
​Daisy Marle: woolwoman of Hillgift
Dame Yarrow: last Lady May. Old, tenacious and regretful
Anise: Yarrow's sister: dec.
Thrift​: Ash Coleman's deceased Cliffbloomer mother
Bloss Stepwater: An old friend of Rowan's; now a Crossover living in Cliffbloom
Bellheather Stepwater: Bloss' mother and a kindly gossip
Maythorn: a hillfayre woman; ancestor of both Flynt and Mullein
​Rose Greensheaf: Flynt's ancestor; a Lady May
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The Men

Ashwin Coleman: A Hillgifter man. Eighteen, withdrawn, overworked but with a romantic heart
Teak Coleman: Ash's grumpy father

Con Amhill: Tansy's husband and Rowan's mother
Larch Roseward: Sorrel's husband and Hazel's mother
Redberry Roseward: twin to Rubus Sweetbriar

​Flynt dan Apfel: A hillfayre man. The hill lord, whose dash of clod (villager) blood shapes his customs

Bryn dan Ash​: A gift to the hill, romantic, adventurous and hopeful

Ebon dan Oak: Half-brother to Flynt
Sard dan Heysa dar Willow: a hillfayre man who has a lot of clod blood. 
​The Marshfayre: One of the last of the marshfayre men
Heron dan Vetch: a marshfayre Genista mentions as a possible ancestor of Ash 
Pine Hemlock: A Hillgift man
Lucerne Thimblewood: Pine's apprentice
Bracken Halfacre: A Hillgift man
Lich Halfacre: Bracken Halfacre's wild son
Ling Stepwater: son of Bellheather and brother of Bloss;  married to a Twentystoner Crossover
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The Others

Talfryn: the hillfayre pony: a shaggy pale grey belonging to Flynt
Brighteyes aka The cat from the hill: calico companion to Dame Yarrow
​Piper: the skewbald pony belonging to Cress Blessdown in the village
Flutewood: Fernborn's dam and Piper's grandam; a pony from the hill
Flower: Daughter of Flutewood and dam of Piper
Fernborn: a grey hillfayre pony with a parti-coloured mane and mismatched eyes. 
Mab, Dessie, Mel and Demma: cows belonging to Sorrel Roseward
Cushie: Mullein Hyssop's cow
​Tessin: the pony belonging to Rowan Amhill's family 
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