by Rypel, T. C.
Milorad Vargo, Flavio’s friend and advisor; husband of Anna
Mongols (Ling and Hu San), antagonists of Gonji with the 3rd Free Company
Mord, King Klann’s sorcerer
Nikolai Nagy, a hostler; friend of Stefan Berenyi
Old Gort, ancient gatekeeper of Vedun
Paolo Sauvini, a wagoner; apprentice to Ignace Obradek
Phlegor, a militant craft-guild leader
Radetzky, a foster
Richard, a castle baker; lover of Lottie Kovacs
Riemann, a German highwayman with the 3rd Free Company
Roric Amsgard, chief provisioner of Vedun; a former Austrian soldier
Salavar the Slayer, vicious, legendary mercenary
Simon Sardonis, mysterious loner sojourning near Vedun
Sophia, mother of Helena
Stanek, a mercenary under Julian
Stefan Berenyi, a hostler; friend and co-worker of Nikolai Nagy
Strom Gundersen, a shepherd; youngest son of Garth
Sylva Monetto, wife of Aldo
Tadeusz, a militiaman
Tiva, a little girl in Eduardo’s bunch
Tralayn, prophetess and councilor in Vedun
Tumo, a cretin giant with Klann’s army
Vaclav, father of Tiva
Verrico, Vedun’s surgeon
Vlad Dobroczy, a farmer; rival of Wilfred Gundersen
Wilfred Gundersen, middle son of Garth; a smith, lover of Genya
William Eddings, an English sundrier in Vedun
Wolverangue, a powerful demon invoked by Mord
Wyvern, a ghastly flying serpent; a familiar of Mord
Yuschak, a farmer
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
T. C. RYPEL—“Ted,” to all who admit to knowing him—is a writer who has divided most of his existence between northeast Ohio and the darker regions of his imagination. He has tilted with the fantastic, in fiction and nonfiction, in most forms that wouldn’t surprise you—novels, film criticism, screenplays—but some that surprise even him. (Would you believe, Irish drinking-ballad lyrics for a Ripley’s Believe It or Not endeavor?)
Gonji is the work for which he is best known, chronicling the historical-fantasy, European sword-and-sorcery adventures of a demon-stalked, metaphysically questing, halfbreed samurai, Gonji Sabatake. A popular adventure-fantasy series in the 1980s, Gonji was curtailed by the original publisher’s cancellation of its entire fantasy line. Now that the series has been revived in new stories, foreign reprints, audiobooks, and the present Borgo Press reissue, Rypel plans to bring a long-promised closure to Gonji’s relentless quest across monster-infested medieval Europe and into strange and unexpected worlds beyond.
