Mike Stearns

This list is based on the 1632 series, also known as the 1632-verse or Ring of Fire series, an alternate history book series and sub-series.

The list is maintained alphabetically, by last name then first name, but individuals of particular note may have their own section as a link to point from other articles.

Balthazar Abrabanel is a Jewish Marrano physician, courier and sometimes spy, is a fictional member of the historical Abrabanel family. He inadvertently arrived in the outskirts of Grantville while fleeing for his life with his daughter Rebecca Abrabanel. While having a heart attack in a coach, Balthazar was tended to by Dr. James Nichols. The posse led by Mike Stearns dealt roughly with the pursuing mercenaries chasing the small family. He later recovered and settled in Grantville, where he gave his blessing to the marriage of Mike Stearns to Rebecca and also contacted his extended family, and secured financial backing for what became the New United States.

Bernadette Adducci was a former nun, policewoman and social worker in Grantville; aunt of Tony Adducci in Basel. In 1634: The Bavarian Crisis Bernadette provides a diplomatic conduit for the escaping Archduchess of Austria in her flight from Maximilian I to the arms of Don Fernando, King in the Netherlands.

Tony Adducci, Jr. is a radio operator that serves Ambassadoress Diane Jackson in the embassy to Basel, Switzerland in 1634: The Bavarian Crisis. Under her directed hints, Tony manages to creatively "lose in processing" a message he has just verbalized to her as he transcribed the Morse code, enabling her to honestly say in a confrontational meeting just after that she has "seen no such message", which helps the negotiations as the spill over from the crisis hits the politics in Basel.

Susanna Allegretti is an apprentice seamstress from the South Tyrol region of northern Italy, and frequently at odds with her new mistress—head seamstress —Frau Stecher—who is a spy for the Habsburg factotums keeping an eye on the Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria. The two young women manage to form a relationship nonetheless, and Maria Anna charges Susanna with assisting her advisor and friend, the dowager sister of the Spanish diplomat Cardinal Bedmar, Dona Mencia de Mendoza.

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