List of characters in The Deptford Mice
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A list of fictional characters featured in Robin Jarvis
's novel
series, The Deptford Mice
. Also listed are characters appearing in the prequel
s, The Deptford Histories and The Deptford Mouselets, as well as the sequel
The Deptford Mice Almanack.
, and the main protagonist
of the books. She is the daughter of Albert and Gwen Brown, and the sister of Arthur Brown. She was born on the 2nd of January in the empty house in Deptford
inhabited by the mice.
Audrey loves dressing in lace and ribbons and especially loves a pair of silver bells which Twit the field mouse
had given her. She is very headstrong but also very brave and courageous.
Audrey's story begins when she is given The Anti-Cat Charm by The Green Mouse in The Dark Portal
. This leads her into the sewers where she confronts Jupiter at his altar. She throws the mousebrass at the evil cat god and he was sent to his doom.
In The Crystal Prison
, she is forced by the Starwife, ruler of the squirrel
s in Greenwich Park
, to accompany the rat
Madame Akkikuyu to Fennywolde, a cornfield inhabited by Twit and many other fieldmice. After Hodge, Whortle and Jenkin are mysteriously murdered, the fieldmice begin to think that Audrey had killed them. They become convinced she is a witch and are about to hang her, but Twit invokes the Gallow's Law and marries her in order to save her, which fufilles the bats prophecy in The Dark Portal about Twit being a "witch husband".
Audrey then returns to the Skirtings, leaving her husband behind. When the Starwife comes to the Skirtings in The Final Reckoning
, she chooses Audrey to succeed her. This is a destiny that the mouse struggles against at first, tossing the Silver Acorn pendant down the cellar steps in anger.
After the Starwife dies and her body is burned in a pyre
, Audrey finds a snowdrop
flower in the ashes. She uses this to defeat the spirit of Jupiter once and for all.
Then, after digging through the cellar
, she finds the silver acorn and takes it up to the observatory hill to become the new Starwife and reigns for ten years. However, when black squirrels arrive in Greenwich in The Deptford Mice Almanack
, she is ousted from office by the mysterious squirrelmaid Morella. What became of Audrey after that is currently unknown.
and the cousin of Oswald Chitter. His nickname comes from the fact that many of the characters consider him to be dim-witted and a twit
, but he ends up proving them wrong.
who speaks with a cockney
accent and has a cheeky attitude.
In the beginning of The Dark Portal, Albert succumbs to the magical powers of the Grille in the basement of the empty house in Deptford and wanders into the sewers. Frightened and alone, he remembers that the Great Spring Festival is approaching; this year his son and daughter will receive their mousebrasses, and he will probably miss it.
Trying to find his way out of the sewers, Albert stumbles across Piccadilly, a young grey mouse from the city, and the two quickly become friends. The two soon come upon a large chamber in which is a portal with a candle on each side. They both realise that this is the altar of Jupiter. As they listen, Jupiter's lieutenant, Morgan, is discussing something with the being in the darkness.
Albert decides to go closer so he can hear the conversation more clearly, ignoring Piccadilly's protests. Albert is quickly caught by Morgan, and Jupiter orders his lieutenant to give the mouse to him so he can peel him himself.
After telling Piccadilly to run, Albert also tosses his mousebrass at him, instructing him to give it to "Gwennie."
When Piccadilly meets Audrey and tells her what happened, she becomes angry with him and doesn't want to believe that her father is dead. But after Jupiter is defeated, the spirit of Albert appears to her, and she finally accepts his death.
In the end of The Final Reckoning, Albert's ghost appears once more to Audrey, telling her that he loves her, her brother and her mother, and that he understands the affection that is growing between Gwen and Thomas Triton and wishes them joy. Then he leads the ghost of Piccadilly to the other side.
in Greenwich
. He has sailed across the world, but is now retired, though he is still haunted by a mysterious event that happened in his past.
, who lives in a chamber underneath an oak
tree. She wears a silver
acorn
pendant
and possesses a shiny black disc known as the Starglass, with which she can see into the future. She has good intentions though she can seem cruel.
.
Audrey Brown confronts him at the end of the novel and finds that he is a monstrous cat. She throws her mousebrass at him and he falls into and is drowned in the sewer water. When his body washes up on the shore near the River Thames
, it is tossed into a fire and burned.
After this, in The Crystal Prison
, Jupiter's ghost speaks through a tattoo on the fortune-teller Madame Akkikuyu's ear, claiming that he was Nicodemus, a spirit trapped in limbo. When the rat agrees to help him, it is revealed that Jupiter wants to take over her body since his was destroyed. Akkikuyu kills herself before this happens.
Unfortunately, this enables the spirit of Jupiter to return. When Alison Sedge breaks Akkikuyu's crystal ball, Jupiter is free. In the final book of the trilogy, The Final Reckoning
, he smothers the world in an eternal winter. He steals the Starwife's Starglass, and uses this to remove the stars from the sky. Before he can do anything else, however, Audrey confronts him once more. She throws a snowdrop flower into his mouth, and this condemns him to the doom of life throughout eternity. Jupiter's backstory was revealed in The Alchymist's Cat
, where it is revealed that his real name is Leech, a runty black kitten who resented his brother, the real Jupiter, eventually murdering him and usurping his power before journeying to the sewers.
from Morocco
who poses as a fortune teller, though she has no real magical powers until she deals with jupiter, who gives her magical abilities. She is the only non-evil rat in the trilogy.
brothers who can see into the future.
But despite the fact that she and Jenkin Nettle grew apart for this very reason, it is clear that she still loves him.
When Audrey Brown comes to Fennywolde, Alison becomes very jealous because Jenkin seems to take a liking to her. After Jenkin is killed by Mahooot the owl, Alison blames Audrey for what had happened. Even after she realizes that the spirit of Jupiter is behind everything, she still hates Audrey.
Ever hurt over the death of Jenkin, Alison goes mad and stops taking care of herself. Her appearance becomes so frightful that some even consider her a witch.
When the strange black squirrel Morella arrives in Greenwich in The Deptford Mice Almanack, it is noted that she looks very much like the young Alison. The connection between the two has not been revealed as of yet.
Jenkin's father acts very cruel to him, giving the young mouse beatings if he does something Isaac finds unacceptable. Deep down, Isaac does love his son, but always blames him for the death of his wife Meg who died giving birth to Jenkin.
Once, Jenkin had been in love with Alison Sedge, but after she received her Sign of Grace and Beauty their relationship ended because she had become vain.
When Audrey Brown visits the field, Jenkin is immediately attracted to her. One night he gets her out of bed and tells her he was planning to build a nest around The Hall of Corn and he wants to share it with her. He proposes to her but she turns him down, saying that she knows that he and Alison are meant to be together.
Soon after this, though, Jenkin and Audrey are chased out of the field by the now evil, animate corn doll. However, when they reach the edge of the field, the corn doll stops chasing them. At first they think they are out of danger, until Mahooot the owl picks Jenkin up in his talons, carrying him into the sky.
Sadly, Jenkin is killed and eaten by Mahooot, and Isaac discovers the owl pellet containing his son's mousebrass soon after.
, the first book in The Deptford Histories, set in London
in the 1660s. He is left an orphan after his father dies and heads to London to claim his inheritance. However once there he is attacked by two thieves and happens upon finding shelter in Spittle's alchemist shop. He is then promptly made his assistant and sent to do his every bidding. On one of his tasks he comes across a cat and her kittens and brings them back to the shop. Eventually he discovers the truth as to why he was kidnapped by Spittle and escapes him leaving the burning capital behind carrying the last kitten that survived.
who forces Will to become his assistant and slave. Unbeknownst to Will Spittle is actually his uncle who is intent on claiming his inheritance from his dead father. Towards the end of the book Spittle tries to murder Will.
whom Dr. Spittle makes his familiar
.
-coloured sister of Jupiter and Leech, who hates to see the two fight. She is later dissected by Elias Spittle in the Alchemist's Cat.
of The Oaken Throne
. She goes on a journey to become the Starwife in the story, which is set in the Middle Ages
.
in The Oaken Throne
. He wants to become a warrior like his late father and fight the squirrels, the enemies of the bats. He later meets Ysabelle and, at first very reluctantly, accompanies her in her traveling.
mole
who becomes one of Ysabelle's traveling companions.
with a lame leg.
of Ninnia.
. She is the priestess of Mabb.
.
captain in the city of Hara, located in India
.
. She is gentle and kind, unlike the other rats who live in the sewers of London.
s from Mongolia
who are a part of Muff's act.
, but is the main character in Whortle's Hope
, which takes place the summer before the events of the former.
.
who travels to Greenwich Park
ten years after the events of The Final Reckoning
. He is a writer and an artist, and The Deptford Mice Almanack
is written as though he is its author.
Soon after her arrival, Morella's father barges into Audrey Scuttle's chamber and takes the silver acorn from her neck. Then Morella becomes the new Starwife as the 'Usurping Mouse'is chased away. Strangely, Morella greatly resembles the field mouse Alison Sedge, though the significance of this has never fully been revealed.
and a friend of Gervase Brightkin, though he considers him to be more of a nuisance.
Robin Jarvis
Robin Jarvis is a British children's novelist, who writes fantasy novels, often about anthropomorphic rodents and small mammals – especially mice – and Tudor times...
's novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
series, The Deptford Mice
The Deptford Mice
The Deptford Mice is a trilogy of novels by Robin Jarvis. They follow the story of a group of mice living in Deptford, London as they fight an evil cat god named Jupiter.-The Dark Portal:...
. Also listed are characters appearing in the prequel
Prequel
A prequel is a work that supplements a previously completed one, and has an earlier time setting.The widely recognized term was a 20th-century neologism, and a portmanteau from pre- and sequel...
s, The Deptford Histories and The Deptford Mouselets, as well as the sequel
Sequel
A sequel is a narrative, documental, or other work of literature, film, theatre, or music that continues the story of or expands upon issues presented in some previous work...
The Deptford Mice Almanack.
Audrey Brown
Audrey Brown (later Audrey Scuttle) is a house mouseHouse mouse
The house mouse is a small rodent, a mouse, one of the most numerous species of the genus Mus.As a wild animal the house mouse mainly lives associated with humans, causing damage to crops and stored food....
, and the main protagonist
Protagonist
A protagonist is the main character of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to most identify...
of the books. She is the daughter of Albert and Gwen Brown, and the sister of Arthur Brown. She was born on the 2nd of January in the empty house in Deptford
Deptford
Deptford is a district of south London, England, located on the south bank of the River Thames. It is named after a ford of the River Ravensbourne, and from the mid 16th century to the late 19th was home to Deptford Dockyard, the first of the Royal Navy Dockyards.Deptford and the docks are...
inhabited by the mice.
Audrey loves dressing in lace and ribbons and especially loves a pair of silver bells which Twit the field mouse
Field mouse
Field mouse may refer to:*in Europe, Asia and north Africa, one of several species of mice in genus Apodemus*in North America, a small vole such as the Meadow Vole*in South America, one of several species of mice in genus Akodon...
had given her. She is very headstrong but also very brave and courageous.
Audrey's story begins when she is given The Anti-Cat Charm by The Green Mouse in The Dark Portal
The Dark Portal
The Dark Portal is the first book in the Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis . It was a runner-up for the 1989 Smarties Book Prize.-Plot summary:...
. This leads her into the sewers where she confronts Jupiter at his altar. She throws the mousebrass at the evil cat god and he was sent to his doom.
In The Crystal Prison
The Crystal Prison
The Crystal Prison is the second novel in the Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis .-Plot:Oswald is ill and he's hours from death. While Twit and Piccadilly vow to return to their home, Thomas arrives, telling Audrey that she must join him on a journey to Greenwich to speak to the Starwife...
, she is forced by the Starwife, ruler of the squirrel
Squirrel
Squirrels belong to a large family of small or medium-sized rodents called the Sciuridae. The family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots , flying squirrels, and prairie dogs. Squirrels are indigenous to the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa and have been introduced to Australia...
s in Greenwich Park
Greenwich Park
Greenwich Park is a former hunting park in Greenwich and one of the largest single green spaces in south east London. One of the Royal Parks of London, and the first to be enclosed , it covers , and is part of the Greenwich World Heritage Site. It commands fine views over the River Thames, Isle of...
, to accompany the rat
Rat
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea. "True rats" are members of the genus Rattus, the most important of which to humans are the black rat, Rattus rattus, and the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus...
Madame Akkikuyu to Fennywolde, a cornfield inhabited by Twit and many other fieldmice. After Hodge, Whortle and Jenkin are mysteriously murdered, the fieldmice begin to think that Audrey had killed them. They become convinced she is a witch and are about to hang her, but Twit invokes the Gallow's Law and marries her in order to save her, which fufilles the bats prophecy in The Dark Portal about Twit being a "witch husband".
Audrey then returns to the Skirtings, leaving her husband behind. When the Starwife comes to the Skirtings in The Final Reckoning
The Final Reckoning
The Final Reckoning is the third novel in the Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis .-Plot summary:The ghostly spirit of Jupiter is back, more powerful than ever before...
, she chooses Audrey to succeed her. This is a destiny that the mouse struggles against at first, tossing the Silver Acorn pendant down the cellar steps in anger.
After the Starwife dies and her body is burned in a pyre
Pyre
A pyre , also known as a funeral pyre, is a structure, usually made of wood, for burning a body as part of a funeral rite...
, Audrey finds a snowdrop
Snowdrop
Galanthus is a small genus of about 20 species of bulbous herbaceous plants in the Amaryllis family, subfamily Amaryllidoideae...
flower in the ashes. She uses this to defeat the spirit of Jupiter once and for all.
Then, after digging through the cellar
Basement
__FORCETOC__A basement is one or more floors of a building that are either completely or partially below the ground floor. Basements are typically used as a utility space for a building where such items as the furnace, water heater, breaker panel or fuse box, car park, and air-conditioning system...
, she finds the silver acorn and takes it up to the observatory hill to become the new Starwife and reigns for ten years. However, when black squirrels arrive in Greenwich in The Deptford Mice Almanack
The Deptford Mice Almanack
The Deptford Mice Almanack is a book to accompany the Deptford Mice and Histories Trilogies by Robin Jarvis. It was first published in 1997.-Synopsis:...
, she is ousted from office by the mysterious squirrelmaid Morella. What became of Audrey after that is currently unknown.
William "Twit" Scuttle
William Scuttle, or Twit, is a field mouseField mouse
Field mouse may refer to:*in Europe, Asia and north Africa, one of several species of mice in genus Apodemus*in North America, a small vole such as the Meadow Vole*in South America, one of several species of mice in genus Akodon...
and the cousin of Oswald Chitter. His nickname comes from the fact that many of the characters consider him to be dim-witted and a twit
Idiot
An idiot, dolt, or dullard is a mentally deficient person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way. Archaically the word mome has also been used. The similar terms moron, imbecile, and cretin have all gained specialized meanings in modern times. An idiot is...
, but he ends up proving them wrong.
Oswald Chitter
Oswald Chitter is an albino mouse, and so is quite sickly. He is taller than the other mice, and because of this on one occasion was mistaken for a rat.Piccadilly
Piccadilly is a grey mouse from the cityCity of London
The City of London is a small area within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which the modern conurbation grew and has held city status since time immemorial. The City’s boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, and it is now only a tiny part of...
who speaks with a cockney
Cockney
The term Cockney has both geographical and linguistic associations. Geographically and culturally, it often refers to working class Londoners, particularly those in the East End...
accent and has a cheeky attitude.
Albert Brown
Albert Brown is the husband of Gwen Brown and the father of Arthur and Audrey.In the beginning of The Dark Portal, Albert succumbs to the magical powers of the Grille in the basement of the empty house in Deptford and wanders into the sewers. Frightened and alone, he remembers that the Great Spring Festival is approaching; this year his son and daughter will receive their mousebrasses, and he will probably miss it.
Trying to find his way out of the sewers, Albert stumbles across Piccadilly, a young grey mouse from the city, and the two quickly become friends. The two soon come upon a large chamber in which is a portal with a candle on each side. They both realise that this is the altar of Jupiter. As they listen, Jupiter's lieutenant, Morgan, is discussing something with the being in the darkness.
Albert decides to go closer so he can hear the conversation more clearly, ignoring Piccadilly's protests. Albert is quickly caught by Morgan, and Jupiter orders his lieutenant to give the mouse to him so he can peel him himself.
After telling Piccadilly to run, Albert also tosses his mousebrass at him, instructing him to give it to "Gwennie."
When Piccadilly meets Audrey and tells her what happened, she becomes angry with him and doesn't want to believe that her father is dead. But after Jupiter is defeated, the spirit of Albert appears to her, and she finally accepts his death.
In the end of The Final Reckoning, Albert's ghost appears once more to Audrey, telling her that he loves her, her brother and her mother, and that he understands the affection that is growing between Gwen and Thomas Triton and wishes them joy. Then he leads the ghost of Piccadilly to the other side.
Thomas Triton
Thomas Triton, referred to as a midshipmouse, lives on the Cutty SarkCutty Sark
The Cutty Sark is a clipper ship. Built in 1869, she served as a merchant vessel , and then as a training ship until being put on public display in 1954...
in Greenwich
Greenwich
Greenwich is a district of south London, England, located in the London Borough of Greenwich.Greenwich is best known for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time...
. He has sailed across the world, but is now retired, though he is still haunted by a mysterious event that happened in his past.
The Starwife
The Starwife is the ancient leader of the squirrels in Greenwich ParkGreenwich Park
Greenwich Park is a former hunting park in Greenwich and one of the largest single green spaces in south east London. One of the Royal Parks of London, and the first to be enclosed , it covers , and is part of the Greenwich World Heritage Site. It commands fine views over the River Thames, Isle of...
, who lives in a chamber underneath an oak
Oak
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus , of which about 600 species exist. "Oak" may also appear in the names of species in related genera, notably Lithocarpus...
tree. She wears a silver
Silver
Silver is a metallic chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal...
acorn
Acorn
The acorn, or oak nut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives . It usually contains a single seed , enclosed in a tough, leathery shell, and borne in a cup-shaped cupule. Acorns vary from 1–6 cm long and 0.8–4 cm broad...
pendant
Pendant
A pendant is a loose-hanging piece of jewellery, generally attached by a small loop to a necklace, when the ensemble may be known as a "pendant necklace". A pendant earring is an earring with a piece hanging down. In modern French "pendant" is the gerund form of “hanging”...
and possesses a shiny black disc known as the Starglass, with which she can see into the future. She has good intentions though she can seem cruel.
Jupiter
Jupiter is the mysterious god of the rats who live in the sewers of London in The Dark PortalThe Dark Portal
The Dark Portal is the first book in the Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis . It was a runner-up for the 1989 Smarties Book Prize.-Plot summary:...
.
Audrey Brown confronts him at the end of the novel and finds that he is a monstrous cat. She throws her mousebrass at him and he falls into and is drowned in the sewer water. When his body washes up on the shore near the River Thames
River Thames
The River Thames flows through southern England. It is the longest river entirely in England and the second longest in the United Kingdom. While it is best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows alongside several other towns and cities, including Oxford,...
, it is tossed into a fire and burned.
After this, in The Crystal Prison
The Crystal Prison
The Crystal Prison is the second novel in the Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis .-Plot:Oswald is ill and he's hours from death. While Twit and Piccadilly vow to return to their home, Thomas arrives, telling Audrey that she must join him on a journey to Greenwich to speak to the Starwife...
, Jupiter's ghost speaks through a tattoo on the fortune-teller Madame Akkikuyu's ear, claiming that he was Nicodemus, a spirit trapped in limbo. When the rat agrees to help him, it is revealed that Jupiter wants to take over her body since his was destroyed. Akkikuyu kills herself before this happens.
Unfortunately, this enables the spirit of Jupiter to return. When Alison Sedge breaks Akkikuyu's crystal ball, Jupiter is free. In the final book of the trilogy, The Final Reckoning
The Final Reckoning
The Final Reckoning is the third novel in the Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis .-Plot summary:The ghostly spirit of Jupiter is back, more powerful than ever before...
, he smothers the world in an eternal winter. He steals the Starwife's Starglass, and uses this to remove the stars from the sky. Before he can do anything else, however, Audrey confronts him once more. She throws a snowdrop flower into his mouth, and this condemns him to the doom of life throughout eternity. Jupiter's backstory was revealed in The Alchymist's Cat
The Alchymist's Cat
The Alchemist's Cat is the first book in The Deptford Histories series by Robin Jarvis. It was published in 1991. It is a fantasy book set in 1660s London and provides background material for Jarvis' earlier Deptford Mice series...
, where it is revealed that his real name is Leech, a runty black kitten who resented his brother, the real Jupiter, eventually murdering him and usurping his power before journeying to the sewers.
Madame Akkikuyu
Madame Akkikuyu is a black ratBlack Rat
The black rat is a common long-tailed rodent of the genus Rattus in the subfamily Murinae . The species originated in tropical Asia and spread through the Near East in Roman times before reaching Europe by the 1st century and spreading with Europeans across the world.-Taxonomy:The black rat was...
from Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
who poses as a fortune teller, though she has no real magical powers until she deals with jupiter, who gives her magical abilities. She is the only non-evil rat in the trilogy.
Orfeo and Eldritch
Orfeo and Eldritch are two batBat
Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera "hand" and pteron "wing") whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, glide rather than fly,...
brothers who can see into the future.
Alison Sedge
Alison Sedge is a field mouse who appears in The Crystal Prison. When she received her Sign of Grace and Beauty mousebrass in the summer before the events of the novel, she began teasing boys and took great care of her appearance.But despite the fact that she and Jenkin Nettle grew apart for this very reason, it is clear that she still loves him.
When Audrey Brown comes to Fennywolde, Alison becomes very jealous because Jenkin seems to take a liking to her. After Jenkin is killed by Mahooot the owl, Alison blames Audrey for what had happened. Even after she realizes that the spirit of Jupiter is behind everything, she still hates Audrey.
Ever hurt over the death of Jenkin, Alison goes mad and stops taking care of herself. Her appearance becomes so frightful that some even consider her a witch.
When the strange black squirrel Morella arrives in Greenwich in The Deptford Mice Almanack, it is noted that she looks very much like the young Alison. The connection between the two has not been revealed as of yet.
Jenkin Nettle
Jenkin Nettle is a field mouse who appears in The Crystal Prison, and is the son of Isaac Nettle.Jenkin's father acts very cruel to him, giving the young mouse beatings if he does something Isaac finds unacceptable. Deep down, Isaac does love his son, but always blames him for the death of his wife Meg who died giving birth to Jenkin.
Once, Jenkin had been in love with Alison Sedge, but after she received her Sign of Grace and Beauty their relationship ended because she had become vain.
When Audrey Brown visits the field, Jenkin is immediately attracted to her. One night he gets her out of bed and tells her he was planning to build a nest around The Hall of Corn and he wants to share it with her. He proposes to her but she turns him down, saying that she knows that he and Alison are meant to be together.
Soon after this, though, Jenkin and Audrey are chased out of the field by the now evil, animate corn doll. However, when they reach the edge of the field, the corn doll stops chasing them. At first they think they are out of danger, until Mahooot the owl picks Jenkin up in his talons, carrying him into the sky.
Sadly, Jenkin is killed and eaten by Mahooot, and Isaac discovers the owl pellet containing his son's mousebrass soon after.
Marty
Marty is a friend of Piccadilly's. He lives in the mouse community of Holeborn in the city, and has an unusual zigzag pattern of fur on his back.The Green Mouse
The Green Mouse is a magical figure in woodland mythology. He is the essence of all growing things whose power is at its height in the summertime.William Godwin
William Godwin, or Will, is a young boy who is one of the main characters in The Alchymist's CatThe Alchymist's Cat
The Alchemist's Cat is the first book in The Deptford Histories series by Robin Jarvis. It was published in 1991. It is a fantasy book set in 1660s London and provides background material for Jarvis' earlier Deptford Mice series...
, the first book in The Deptford Histories, set in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
in the 1660s. He is left an orphan after his father dies and heads to London to claim his inheritance. However once there he is attacked by two thieves and happens upon finding shelter in Spittle's alchemist shop. He is then promptly made his assistant and sent to do his every bidding. On one of his tasks he comes across a cat and her kittens and brings them back to the shop. Eventually he discovers the truth as to why he was kidnapped by Spittle and escapes him leaving the burning capital behind carrying the last kitten that survived.
Elias Theophrastus Spittle
Elias Theophrastus Spittle is an evil alchemistAlchemy
Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners’ claims to profound powers were known from antiquity. The defining objectives of alchemy are varied; these include the creation of the fabled philosopher's stone possessing powers including the capability of turning base...
who forces Will to become his assistant and slave. Unbeknownst to Will Spittle is actually his uncle who is intent on claiming his inheritance from his dead father. Towards the end of the book Spittle tries to murder Will.
Jupiter
Jupiter is the title character of The Alchymist's Cat. He is a striped ginger-coloured kittenKitten
A kitten is a juvenile domesticated cat.The young of big cats are called cubs rather than kittens. Either term may be used for the young of smaller wild felids such as ocelots, caracals, and lynx, but "kitten" is usually more common for these species....
whom Dr. Spittle makes his familiar
Familiar spirit
In European folklore and folk-belief of the Medieval and Early Modern periods, familiar spirits were supernatural entities believed to assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic...
.
Leech
Leech is the jealous brother of Jupiter. At the end of the book, it turns out that he, rather than his brother, is the villain Jupiter in the main Deptford Mice books.Dab
Dab is the gentle, tortoiseshellTortoiseshell cat
Tortoiseshell describes a coat coloring found mostly in female cats. Cats of this color are mottled, with patches of orange or cream and chocolate, black or blue. They are sometimes called torties...
-coloured sister of Jupiter and Leech, who hates to see the two fight. She is later dissected by Elias Spittle in the Alchemist's Cat.
Ysabelle
Ysabelle is the young squirrel maiden protagonistProtagonist
A protagonist is the main character of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to most identify...
of The Oaken Throne
The Oaken Throne
The Oaken Throne is the second novel in the Deptford Histories Trilogy by Robin Jarvis .-Plot summary:Set hundreds of years before the Deptford Mice Trilogy in the Middle Ages, the story tells the tale of the squirrel maiden Ysabelle, daughter of the ruler of the Hazel Realm, Lady Ninnia, and...
. She goes on a journey to become the Starwife in the story, which is set in the Middle Ages
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
.
Vespertilio
Vespertilio is a young batBat
Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera "hand" and pteron "wing") whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, glide rather than fly,...
in The Oaken Throne
The Oaken Throne
The Oaken Throne is the second novel in the Deptford Histories Trilogy by Robin Jarvis .-Plot summary:Set hundreds of years before the Deptford Mice Trilogy in the Middle Ages, the story tells the tale of the squirrel maiden Ysabelle, daughter of the ruler of the Hazel Realm, Lady Ninnia, and...
. He wants to become a warrior like his late father and fight the squirrels, the enemies of the bats. He later meets Ysabelle and, at first very reluctantly, accompanies her in her traveling.
Giraldus
Giraldus is a leprousLeprosy
Leprosy or Hansen's disease is a chronic disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Named after physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen, leprosy is primarily a granulomatous disease of the peripheral nerves and mucosa of the upper respiratory tract; skin lesions...
mole
Mole (animal)
Moles are small cylindrical mammals adapted to a subterranean lifestyle. They have velvety fur; tiny or invisible ears and eyes; and short, powerful limbs with large paws oriented for digging. The term is especially and most properly used for the true moles, those of the Talpidae family in the...
who becomes one of Ysabelle's traveling companions.
Tysle Symkim
Tysle Symkim is Giraldus's friend and guide, a shrewShrew
A shrew or shrew mouse is a small molelike mammal classified in the order Soricomorpha. True shrews are also not to be confused with West Indies shrews, treeshrews, otter shrews, or elephant shrews, which belong to different families or orders.Although its external appearance is generally that of...
with a lame leg.
Lady Ninnia
Lady Ninnia is the Queen of the Hazel Realm and the mother of Ysabelle.Lord Cyllinus
Lord Cyllinus is the father of Ysabelle and the consortMarriage
Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged in a variety of ways, depending on the culture or subculture in which it is found...
of Ninnia.
Morwenna
Morwenna is an evil squirrel who betrayed the realm of GreenreachGreenwich
Greenwich is a district of south London, England, located in the London Borough of Greenwich.Greenwich is best known for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time...
. She is the priestess of Mabb.
The Ancient
The Ancient is the messenger of the moon goddess, who came to Earth in the form of a hare.Woodget Pipple
Woodget Pipple is the field mouse friend of Thomas Stubbs (later known as Thomas Triton), who appears in ThomasThomas (novel)
Thomas is the third novel in the Deptford Histories Trilogy by Robin Jarvis .-Plot summary:Thomas tells of the midshipmouse Thomas Triton's adventures when he was young. He and his friend Woodget Pipple become embroiled in the hideous schemes of the Scale, the followers of the evil serpent god...
.
Mulligan
Mulligan is a mouse sailor who befriends Thomas and Woodget on their trip on the Calliope.Dahrem Ruhar
Dahrem Ruhar is an evil adept of the serpent god Sarpedon, who gains the trust of Thomas, Woodget and Mulligan disguised as a mouse named Dimmy.Chattan Giri
Chattan Giri is a mongooseMongoose
Mongoose are a family of 33 living species of small carnivorans from southern Eurasia and mainland Africa. Four additional species from Madagascar in the subfamily Galidiinae, which were previously classified in this family, are also referred to as "mongooses" or "mongoose-like"...
captain in the city of Hara, located in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
.
Fleabee
Fleabee is a young female rat who appears in Fleabee's FortuneFleabee's Fortune
Fleabee's Fortune is the first book in the Deptford Mouselets Series by Robin Jarvis .-Synopsis:The story, taking place in the year before the events of The Dark Portal, is about a young ratgirl named Fleabee, who is unlike the rest of her kind. She is gentle and does not want to harm anything...
. She is gentle and kind, unlike the other rats who live in the sewers of London.
Klakkweena
Klakkweena is Fleabee's mother, the wife of Rancid Alf and the daughter of Black Ratchet.Tilik and Vasili
Tilik and Vasili are gerbilGerbil
A gerbil is a small mammal of the order Rodentia. Once known simply as "desert rats", the gerbil subfamily includes about 110 species of African, Indian, and Asian rodents, including sand rats and jirds, all of which are adapted to arid habitats...
s from Mongolia
Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...
who are a part of Muff's act.
Whortle Nep
Whortle Nep first appears in The Crystal PrisonThe Crystal Prison
The Crystal Prison is the second novel in the Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis .-Plot:Oswald is ill and he's hours from death. While Twit and Piccadilly vow to return to their home, Thomas arrives, telling Audrey that she must join him on a journey to Greenwich to speak to the Starwife...
, but is the main character in Whortle's Hope
Whortle's Hope
Whortle's Hope is the second novel in the Deptford Mouselets Series by Robin Jarvis .-Synopsis:In the story, which takes place in the summer before the events of The Crystal Prison, it is almost the time of the Fennywolde games, when the young field mice compete to see who will have the honour of...
, which takes place the summer before the events of the former.
Willibald, Woppenfrake and Firgild
Willibald, Woppenfrake and Firgild are three magical watervole brothers who appear in Whortle's Hope.Virianna
Virianna is the mother of Willibald, Woppenfrake and Firgild and the priestess of the Green who lived during the time of Fenlyn Purfote.Ogmund
Ogmund is the nephew of the bat brothers Orfeo and Eldritch, who appears in Ogmund's GiftOgmund's Gift
Ogmund's Gift is the third novel in the Deptford Mouselets Series by Robin Jarvis .-Synopsis:Ogmund's Gift will be about the unruly nephew of Orfeo and Eldritch, two of the mystical bats in Deptford. Ogmund would rather be a mouse, but instead he must learn to harness his growing magical powers....
.
Gervase Brightkin
Gervase Brightkin is a red squirrelRed Squirrel
The red squirrel or Eurasian red squirrel is a species of tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus common throughout Eurasia...
who travels to Greenwich Park
Greenwich Park
Greenwich Park is a former hunting park in Greenwich and one of the largest single green spaces in south east London. One of the Royal Parks of London, and the first to be enclosed , it covers , and is part of the Greenwich World Heritage Site. It commands fine views over the River Thames, Isle of...
ten years after the events of The Final Reckoning
The Final Reckoning
The Final Reckoning is the third novel in the Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis .-Plot summary:The ghostly spirit of Jupiter is back, more powerful than ever before...
. He is a writer and an artist, and The Deptford Mice Almanack
The Deptford Mice Almanack
The Deptford Mice Almanack is a book to accompany the Deptford Mice and Histories Trilogies by Robin Jarvis. It was first published in 1997.-Synopsis:...
is written as though he is its author.
Morella
Morella is a mysterious black squirrel maiden who comes to Greenwich with her father Modequai ten years after the events of The Final Reckoning. Her appearance is quite a shock, as black squirrels were thought to be a dead race. It is rumoured that she and her father are the last surviving members of the Hawthorn Realm, one of the five royal houses of black squirrels.Soon after her arrival, Morella's father barges into Audrey Scuttle's chamber and takes the silver acorn from her neck. Then Morella becomes the new Starwife as the 'Usurping Mouse'is chased away. Strangely, Morella greatly resembles the field mouse Alison Sedge, though the significance of this has never fully been revealed.
Pirkin Gim Gim
Pirkin Gim Gim is a hedgehogHedgehog
A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae and the order Erinaceomorpha. There are 17 species of hedgehog in five genera, found through parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and New Zealand . There are no hedgehogs native to Australia, and no living species native to the Americas...
and a friend of Gervase Brightkin, though he considers him to be more of a nuisance.