This article lists the various minor fictional characters who appear in Through Darkest Europe. These characters play, at best, a peripheral role in the novel. While they were usually given a name, some weren't. Most were simply mentioned or had a very brief, unimportant speaking role that did not impact the plot, and never appeared again.
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Abdallah ibn-al-Zubayr
Abdallah ibn-al-Zubayr was the author of Concerning the Development of Natural Creatures Through Time, which first popularized the evolutionary theory.[1]
See also
- Charles Darwin, on whom Abdallah appears to be based.
Ablanalp
Ablanalp was a Turk who invented aerosol spray in the late 14th century AH.[2]
Adolphus
Father Adolphus was the Aquinist Corrector of München. His message to followers emphasized Jesus' statement in Matthew 10:34: "I came to bring not peace, but a sword."[3]
Gianfranco Albertazzi
Gianfranco Albertazzi was a professor at the Ducal University of Rome, and an expert on the Aquinist movement and international relations. He opined in a 2018 televised interview that the sudden wave of Aquinist uprisings around the globe represented a carefully premeditated organization, and not spontaneous mob violence. He speculated that chaos was a means to an end for these fanatics, if not an end in itself, and warned that this violence would lower the outside world's already negative image of Europeans.[4]
Svetozar Boroevic
Cardinal Svetozar Boroevic was second-in-command over the papal guards, among his many other important posts in the Vatican. He was also a secret Aquinist, and complicit in planting Maria Conti in Grand Duke Cosimo's entourage. When the government issued a phony report that the conspirators had been fingered by a comrade's confession, Boroevic revealed himself by fleeing. Italian authorities had little chance of capturing him.[5]
Giulia Cadorna
Giulia Cadorna (b. c. 1970) was a surgeon on the staff of the hospital of San Agostino in Rome, Italy. This was an unusual accomplishment for a European woman. Dr. Cadorna had studied medicine at the madrasa of Alexandria, Egypt. In a televised interview, Dr. Cadorna warned Italian women that their choices in life would be housewifery or nunnery under Aquinist rule.[6]
Annarita Pezzola, while on Grand Duke Cosimo's staff, had met Dr. Cadorna several times, and considered her a hero for Italian women.[7]
Dino Crocetti
Dino Crocetti (b. c. 1958) was Naples' leading crime figure.
Crown Prince of Portugal
The Crown Prince of Portugal attended the funeral of Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Italy in Rome. He and his bodyguards were the only Portuguese people present.[8]
Dauphin of France
The Dauphin was the son of King Jean XXIII, and heir to the throne of France. In AD 2018, the Dauphin attended the funeral of Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Italy in Rome, and was wounded when Aquinists attacked the procession with gunfire. After being treated with field medic work by his English counterpart and a Maghribi investigator, the Dauphin was taken to a local hospital with competent security.
Literary comment
In OTL, the title Dauphin (dolphin, from a heraldry symbol) was used for the heirs apparent to the French throne from 1350 until 1791, and again during the interval of 1824-1830.
Dawud al-Buwayhidi
Dawud al-Buwayhidi was a popular singer from Iraq. Even people in the Grand Duchy of Italy listened to him on occasion.[9]
Enrico (driver)
Enrico was an errand runner in the service of Dino Crocetti, a Neapolitan organized crime boss. He drove Khalid al-Zarzisi and Dawud ibn Musa from their hotel to an interview with the boss, and back again. All the while, Enrico drove like a madman with a callous disregard for life and limb, which is to say, in the typical Italian style.[10]
Faruq al-Ghaznavi was an Indian warlord in the 14th century AH. During the Indian conflicts, Faruq engineered the systematic killing of four million Tamils, who were killed not because they were enemy combatants, but simply because they were Tamils. Faruq's regime was defeated by enemy nations, and he was put on trial for crimes against mankind, found guilty, and decapitated. In his last photographs, Faruq appeared a mild, unassuming man (much like his grandfather, a chicken farmer), who looked nothing like a mass murderer. A lifetime later, Faruq was regarded the world over as the most evil man who ever lived.[11]
In 1439 AH, Aquinist terrorists in Italy issued broadsheets proclaiming admiration for Faruq's methods.[12]
Literary comment
Faruq's title, and precisely what nation he ruled, are unclear. He is listed as a Head of State for convenience.
See also
- Adolf Hitler, on whom Faruq appears to be based.
Giorgio
Giorgio was a personal valet of Pope Marcellus IX. He was highly intelligent, and clearly regarded by the Pope as trustworthy. However, the trust did not extend to allowing Giorgio to be in the room while Marcellus discussed sensitive information with the Maghribi agents.[13]
Giuseppe
Duke Giuseppe (b. c. 2002) was the second son of Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Italy. He was not allowed to attend his father's funeral, as his older brother Lorenzo sent him away as a designated survivor. This was Lorenzo's sole concession to the caution which his advisers entreated. Indeed, the procession was attacked by Aquinists, although Lorenzo survived the assassination attempt.
Jean XXIII of France
King Jean XXIII of France joined with the enlightened nations of the world in the fight against terrorism in AD 2018.[14] An Aquinist suicide bomber attacked a podium where the king was speaking, killing a general and a police official. The king survived with non-life-threatening injuries, although he probably permanently lost the hearing in one ear.[15]
Shortly before this, Jean's son and heir had survived a gunshot wound during the Aquinst attack on the funeral of Grand Duke Cosimo III in Rome, Italy.[16]
Fabio Lancelotti
Fabio Lancelotti was the first assistant to the Minister of the Interior of the Grand Duchy of Italy. He was also a secret Aquinist, and complicit in planting Maria Conti in Grand Duke Cosimo's entourage. When the government issued a phony report that the conspirators had been fingered by a comrade's confession, Lancelotti revealed himself by fleeing. Italian authorities had little chance of capturing him.[17]
Lisarh ibn Yahsub
Lisarh ibn Yahsub was a Maghribi archaeologist in charge of an expedition to Pompeii.[18]
Luigi (Aquinist)
Luigi was a guard at the Aquinist Seminary in Rome. His most apparent traits were extreme irritability and a low intelligence. Visitors and co-workers alike found him off-putting.
Luisa
Luisa was a cigar girl working in the palace of Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Italy. She was a statuesque blonde, noted for her beauty. She was killed by Maria Conti's bomb which killed Cosimo as the primary target.[19]
Martino of Padua
Martino of Padua, whose birth name was Andrea Assarotti, was an Aquinist priest.
Masud
Masud was a city investigator in Tunis. He knew enough people to get his nephew Khalid al-Zarzisi started as a Maghribi agent. Masud died sometime prior to AH 1439.[20]
Enrico Pavarotti
Enrico Pavarotti was a captain in the army of the Grand Duchy of Italy. He was short and fat, with a resonant tenor voice, a bushy black mustache, a tendency to make theatrical gestures, and a fondness for good dining. Pavarotti deputized Khalid al-Zarzisi and Dawud ibn Musa into his service in Florence, and was with them during their baptism of fire in a fight against the local Aquinists.[21]
Literary comment
The captain's name is a reference to legendary opera tenors Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) and Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007). His physical description very closely matches the latter.
Persian tourist
A little man with a Persian accent was visiting Rome, searching for the Mausoleum of Augustus. He asked a local where this could be found, and the man pointed him in the proper direction. However, the "local" was in fact Dawud ibn Musa, an undercover agent from the Maghrib, who did not really know where the tomb was, but did not want to admit this and break cover. Dawud told his partner Khalid al-Zarzisi that if his guess about the tomb turned out to be wrong, someone else would come to point the Persian in the right direction.[22]
Prince of Wales
The incumbent Prince of Wales represented the Kingdom of England at the funeral of Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Italy in Rome.[23] He survived the Aquinist attack without injury, and helped bandage the wounded Dauphin of France. After the area was properly secured, the Prince and Khalid al-Zarzisi lamented the fact that there will be many people throughout Europe who will be celebrating the attack.[24]
Prior to the funeral, Khalid noticed that the European dignitaries wore older style court dress, and that only the Prince of Wales managed to wear his without looking ridiculous.[25]
Sarah
Sarah was the wife of Dawud ibn Musa. Like her husband, she had long been fond of Khalid al-Zarzisi and was sad when his marriage broke apart.
Gottlieb Schrempf
Gottlieb Schrempf was a German Aquinist from the Archbishopric of Ochsenhausen, captured in Italy by Grand Ducal forces. At his interrogation, he recited Aquinist doctrine like clockwork and proved immune to logic.[26]
Thane of Cawdor
The incumbent Thane of Cawdor represented the Kingdom of Scotland at the funeral of Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Italy. Khalid al-Zarzisi couldn't gauge the importance of the Thane's title compared with the titles of other attendees.[27]
Tunis Marriage Bureau Clerk
A mousy little man of about fifty, with a neat beard going gray, was a clerk in the Marriage Bureau in Room 227 of the Tunis casbah (city hall). This man performed the wedding of Khalid al-Zarzisi and Annarita Pezzola, with Dawud ibn Musa as witness. The clerk smiled at the diversity of the party - a Muslim groom, a Christian bride, and a Jewish witness. Dawud found the man so helpful that he uncharacteristically gave him an extra tip.[28]
Umar ibn Abd-al-Aziz
Umar ibn Abd-al-Aziz was the Maghribi envoy to the Grand Duchy of Italy. Khalid al-Zarzisi and Dawud ibn Musa reported to him during their mission in that country.
Pietro Vaccaro
Pietro Vaccaro, police prefect of Naples, was understood to be in cooperation with Dino Crocetti, the city's leading organized crime boss. Khalid al-Zarzisi and Dawud ibn Musa very carefully blackmailed Vaccaro into arranging a meeting between them and Crocetti.[29]
References
- ↑ Through Darkest Europe, pg. 28, HC.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 224.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 194.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 276-277.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 293-294.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 195-196.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 196, 209.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 86.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 34, 66.
- ↑ Ibid, p. 174-178.
- ↑ Ibid., pg. 50.
- ↑ Ibid., pg. 111.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 189-192.
- ↑ Ibid., pg. 106.
- ↑ Ibid., pg. 184.
- ↑ Ibid., 86-97.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 293-294.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 167-171.
- ↑ Ibid., pp. 75-81.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 298.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 155-162.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 33.
- ↑ Ibid., loc. 1445-1473, ebook.
- ↑ Ibid., loc. 1445-1473.
- ↑ Ibid., loc. 1352.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 147-149.
- ↑ Ibid., loc. 1295.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 310-311.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 172-173.
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