Characters in the Deltora Quest series

The Deltora series features a wide line of characters, both important and minor. The series also features many different monsters and creatures that appeared in all of the many different books. This article is a list of the many different characters and creatures that have appeared in the Deltora series.

Lief was raised as a blacksmith's son in the run-down city of Del after the invasion. Hot-headed and impatient at the start of the series, all he wanted to do was go out and explore the city. On the night of his sixteenth birthday, he leaves on his father's quest to restore the Belt of Deltora, the only thing that can save their land and the heir from the tyranny of the Shadow Lord. As he is barely 16, his parents chose a companion to travel with him: Barda (whom Lief originally thought to be a beggar), the former captain of the palace guards, and son to Jarred and Endon's nursemaid Min. He gains more companions in the Forests of Silence: Jasmine the "wild girl" and her two animal friends. Lief is courageous, very trustworthy, and withstands any and all temptations to surrender his quest. His friends and family gave him more than enough strength to carry on in even the most dire situations. The fact that he was raised with the people of Del and not of isolated makes him a good king to his people. During the quests, he grows not only in bravery, but in wisdom and patience. It is at the end of the original quest for the Belt that Lief learns of his past and that he is the true heir to the throne.

In the second series, Lief is secretive of his task of finding an heir to save his people from the Shadowlands, and he and Jasmine both hate the secrecy. He and Doom find his distant cousin Marilen to wear the Belt, while Lief bears a false one made in the forge. In the third book of the second series, it is revealed that Lief is in love with Jasmine.

In the third series, Lief is more himself again: less secretive and more open. During this time, he uncovers a plot to rot Deltora via the "Four Sisters", concocted by the Shadow Lord hundreds of years earlier. He then sets off on another journey to awaken the dragons of Deltora and destroy the Sisters with Jasmine and Barda. At the end of the Dragons of Deltora series, Lief marries Jasmine and has three children, named after their parents: Anna, the eldest, and the twins Endon and Jarred and now there are 2 Jarred's.

A man of great strength and conviction. Before the Shadow Lord took control of Deltora, Barda was a guard at the palace of Del. His mother Min was a great gossiper and the nursemaid to young Jarred and Endon; late one night she overheard the Shadow Lord's plot to take control of Deltora. Scared, she told the news to King Endon, who believed she was mistaken and had merely been dreaming. Several hours later she was murdered for what she knew. Fearing for his own life, Barda fled the palace shortly before the Shadow Lord invaded Deltora.

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