Leofsig

Leofsig was a Forthwegian soldier.

He took part in the ill-fated initial invasion of Algarve and was captured when it turned into rout. At the captives' camp he stood up for the Kaunian captives, who suffered bullying and insults from both the Algarvian guards and racist fellow prisoners. He was sent to share with Kaunians the degrading work of digging latrines - which gots him also a share in the escape tunnel which the Kaunians secretly dug.

On his return to his home in Gromheort, he continued to stand up for the Kaunians, and broake up a promising relationship because his girlfriend - who could have become his wife - turned out to be an anti-Kaunian racist.

Things eventually came to a head over the issue of his brother Ealstan living with Vanai, a Kaunian woman. The family living room became in effect a battlefield, and Leofsig was killed by his cousin Sidroc, an anti-Kaunian racist and collaborator with the Algarvians.