The Related Worlds according to Charmed Life

“There are hundreds of other worlds. They are formed when there is a big event in History like a battle or an earthquake when the result can be two or more quite different things. Both those things happen but they cannot exist together so the worlds split into two worlds which start to go different after that.” “Numbers of worlds have been visited. Those which were best known had been divided into sets, called Series, according to events in History which were the same in them. It was very uncommon for people not to have at least one exact double in a world of the same series - usually people had a whole string of doubles, all along the set.”

The Related Worlds according to The Lives of Christopher Chant

“How many worlds do you think make up the Related Worlds?”

“Twelve,” said Christopher.

“Very good!” said Flavian. “Though, actually, there are more than that, because each world is really a set of worlds, which we call a Series. The only one which is just a single world is Eleven. All the worlds were probably one world to begin with - and then something happened back in prehistory which could have ended up in two contradictory ways. Let’s say a continent blew up. Or it didn’t blow up. The two things couldn’t both be true at once in the same world, so that world became two worlds, side by side but quite separate, one with that continent and one without. And so on, until there were twelve.”

“And did the Series happen the same way?”

“Yes indeed. Take Series Seven which is a mountain series. In prehistory, the earth’s crust must have buckled many more times than it did here. Or Series Five, where all the land became islands, none of them larger than France. Now these are the same right across the Series, but the course of history in each world is different. It’s history that makes the differences. The easiest example is our own Series, Twelve, where our world, which we call World A, is orientated on magic - which is normal for most worlds. But the next world, World B, split off in the Fourteenth Century and turned to science and machinery. The world beyond that, World C, split off in Roman times and became divided into large empires. And it went on like that up to nine. There are usually nine to a Series.”

“Why are they numbered back to front?” Christopher asked.

“Because we think One was the original world of the twelve,” Flavian said. “Anyway, it was the Great Mages of One who first discovered the other worlds, and they did the numbering. Now what do you think makes us call these twelve the Related Worlds?”

“They all speak the same languages.”

Books included in this A-Z are :

• Charmed Life;
• The Lives of Christopher Chant;
• Witch Week;
• Warlock at the Wheel;
• The Sage of Theare

Accredited Witch
Lived in Coven Street and was a friend of the Willing Warlock.

Alice, Aunt
Married to Uncle Charles. Has a daughter called Caroline. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Alina Altun
Thasper’s foster mother. Her own son was eaten by an invisible dragon, so Chrestomanci leaves Thasper with her, after disguising his hair, and she thinks Thasper is her own son, Badien. She was married to a hardworking but not very rich doctor and had two more sons and two daughters. (The Sage of Theare)

Anywhere’s
What Christopher Chant calls the hundreds of valley’s and paths in the Place Between. They are actually worlds in Series’. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Argent, Ralph Weatherby
Pronounced “Rafe”, he is Miranda Chant’s brother and Christopher Chant’s uncle. He wears tweeds, has foxy red hair and a moustache. Also known as The Wraith. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Arm of Asheth
The temple guards in Series 10. They are very fierce and have been known to cross worlds in search of those who have offended. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Asheth Temple Cats
Magical cats from Series 10. Wizards will pay a lot of money for a tiny piece of these cats. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

August Personage
Mrs Sharp’s name for Chrestomanci. (Charmed Life)

Baden Baden
Where Christopher Chant’s mother went to live after he started school. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Badgett, Lady
A cousin of Cosimo Chant. She has a long nose and wrinkles. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Baslam, Mr
Lives in the village near Chrestomanci Castle and sells “Eggsotik Serplys”. Was supposed to have good contacts in London. Gwendolen Chant came to him for her magic supplies when she moved to the Castle and then paid him with enchanted goods which didn’t make him too happy. (Charmed Life)

Bell, Miss Effisa
Christopher Chant called her “The Last Governess”, because she was the last one to look after him before he was sent to school. She pretends to be dull and drab but has a smile of “hidden prettiness”. She was really working for Ralph Weatherby and had a house in Kensington. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Bernard
A Financial Wizard who works for Chrestomanci, he talks about stocks and shares to everyone he meets and at every meal. He advised Mrs Sharp on what to do with the five pounds he gave her for the cat, Fiddle and she made quite a bit of money. (Charmed Life)

Bessemer, Miss Maud
The Housekeeper at Chrestomanci Castle. (Charmed Life)

Bethi
The Goddesses white Asheth Temple Cat from Series 10. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Bone-fire
What they burn witches on. The burnings used to be held in the Market Square before they were moved inside the walls of the gaols. (Witch Week)

Book of Heaven
The God of Prophecy’s reference book. (The Sage of Theare)

Bowbridge
The nearest train station and village to Chrestomanci Castle.

Brentwell Services
Where the car that the Willing Warlock stole ran out of petrol. (Warlock at the Wheel)

Brubeck, Mr
Takes Class 2Y at Larwood House for music, which he is addicted to. (Witch Week)

Cadwallender, Miss
The Headmistress at Larwood House. (Witch Week)

Caroline
Christopher Chant’s cousin. Father is Charles, Mother is Alice. She is three years younger than Christopher and lives in Surrey. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Cat
Eric Chant's nickname. (Charmed Life)

Cat
The name of the houseboy in Alina’s house who brings Thasper a message from Chrestomanci. He was sacked just after. (The Sage of Theare)

Celestial Gallery
Struck by lightening just after the Sage of Dissolution has finished speaking. (The Sage of Theare)

Chant, Caroline Mary
Eric and Gwendolen’s Mother. (Charmed Life)

Chant, Christopher
He has black curly hair and coal black eyes. He appears vain and wears a blank look when he is thinking his hardest. He was tall as a child.
He lost his first life in Series 10 while spirit travelling when he was impaled on a spear. He returned to his own world and a curtain pole fell into his chest.
He lost his second life in a trap set by Chrestomanci to catch the Wraith in series 10. When he returned to his body he was hit on the head by a cricket bat wielded by Oneir.
His third life was lost as he fell out of one of the ruined towers at Chrestomanci Castle.
His fourth life went when he lost his footing in the Place Between. When he returned, he fell down a staircase after being reprimanded by Gabrielle deWitt.
His fifth life was lost while, when travelling in series 8, he was burnt by a dragon. When he returned, he was burnt while trying to magically light a fire.
His sixth life was placed in a wall by the Goddess so that she could travel between worlds. It was recovered afterwards.
His ninth life was removed and placed in a curtain ring by Miss Rosalie at the orders of Gabrielle deWitt, so that Christopher would take more care in the future.
His seventh life was lost trying to recover Gabrielle deWitt from Eleven.
He grew up and became Chrestomanci. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)
Summoned to Theare while in bed with flu (The Sage of Theare). He wears elaborate dressing gowns.
Summoned to Larwood Forrest to help Class 2Y (Witch Week)

Chant, Cosimo
Father of Christopher Chant. He dresses well, has lots of well-combed back black hair with a neat parting. He is an Enchanter who specialises in horoscopes. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Chant, Eric Emelius
Also known as Cat. He is a nine-lived enchanter. His parents were killed in the Saucy Nancy Disaster leaving his only relative his sister Gwendolen. (Charmed Life)

Chant, Francis John
Eric and Gwendolen’s Father. He married his cousin, Caroline Mary Chant against all advice and refused to let Chrestomanci ensure that his children were born without magic which caused a huge rift between himself and the enchanter. (Charmed Life)

Chant, Gwendolen
Eric Chant’s sister. She was a ruthless, selfish witch who caused Chrestomanci quite a bit of trouble at mealtimes when she conjoured up all sorts of things which he couldn't deal with due to the silver cutlery. (Charmed Life).

Chant, Janet
One of Gwendolen’s doubles from another world that came to fill the space left by Gwendolen’s departure. When Gwendolen left for good, Janet got to stay at the Castle with Eric Chant. (Charmed Life)

Chant, Julia
Daughter of Christopher Chant and Millie (The Living Goddess of Ashath), sister to Roger. She is a witch and uses magic by tying a knot in her handkerchief. She is a little fat, as a child, and is not allowed to eat marmalade. (Charmed Life)

Chant, Millie
Christopher Chant’s wife and Roger and Julia’s Mother. She used to be the Living Asheth and took the name Millie after the series of school adventures entitled “Millie Goes to School”

Chant, Miranda
Mother of Christopher Chant. She is a sorceress. She wears wide silk skirts with lots of frills and draperies. She has huge, lustrous eyes, a perfect figure and piles of glossy rich brown curls. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Charles, Uncle
Christopher Chant’s father’s brother. Lives in Surrey. Married to Aunt Alice. Daughter, Caroline and son, Francis. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Chrestomanci
Pronounced “Krest-oh-man-see”.
This is the title of a government post that can only be filled by a nine-lived enchanter. “That makes him strong enough to control the practice of witchcraft throughout this world and several others. The Government has given him that task. For this reason you will hear some people call him the Chrestomanci. The post bears that title.” (The Lives of Christopher Chant)
His job is to “make sure the world isn’t run entirely by witches. He has to make sure witches don’t get out into worlds where there isn’t so much magic and play havoc there.” He has a large magical staff of government employees to help him. If you say the name once, there is a good chance that he will “accidentally appear”. Say the name three times and he will be summoned at once from what ever he is doing, no matter how inconvenient to himself.
Chrestomanci’s that we know of:
Benjamin Allworthy (pre deWitt), Gabriel deWitt (The Lives of Christopher Chant), Christopher Chant and then Eric Chant. Christopher Chant was summoned to Theare while he was in bed with flu (The Sage of Theare).
It was Christopher Chant who rescued the children at Larwood House (Witch Week)

Chrestomanci Castle
The Castle is grey and turreted. There is a new part “with a spread of windows and a flag flying above.” As you approach up the gravel drive, you see a grand front door. If you go past this door you approach an obscure door hidden by a mass of rhododendron trees. The walls of the Castle are three feet thick and there are lots of staircases and corridors. The new part is carpeted and pictures hang on clean white walls. The old part has walls of whitewashed stone. Michael Saunders workshop is in the old part of the castle up a winding staircase. (Charmed Life)
The Gardens have “grand trees - dark, layered cedars and big elms”, lawns and flowers. They are watched over by gardeners who appear as soon as you pick something. There is a dell which contains Chrestomanci’s garden and the Gateway to Elsewhere.
The castle was taken over by the government about 200 years before The Lives of Christopher Chant, when the last wicked enchanter was beheaded.

City Bank
The bank the Willing Warlock tried to rob with a toy pistol. (Warlock at the Wheel).

Crossley, Harold
Called “Teddy” because of the hymn “Gladly my cross I’d bear” - everyone sings “Crossly my glad-eyed bear” because he is “glad-eyed” and keen. He is in love with Miss Hodge and has the misfortune to take Class 2Y at Larwood House. (Witch Week)

Devvy
Homework at Larwood House (Witch Week)

deWitt, Gabriel
Chrestomanci before Christopher Chant. He was the strongest enchanter in the world. “6 foot 6 of skinny old man”. Lots of white hair, white face and hands, jutted eyebrows, “cheeks that stood out in wide peaks, making the eyes between them sunken and staring.” A “hooked beak of a nose”. “The rest of the old mans face went into a small, sharp point, containing a long grim mouth.” When he was younger he didn’t want to be Chrestomanci, but by middle age he had become resigned to the idea. He still has 8 lives left at the beginning of the book. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Dragon
See: Dragon’s blood; Saunders, Michael; Invisible Dragons

Dragon’s Blood
A magical ingredient banned from use because of its supposed tendency to take a life when used. It is obtained from dragons, dried into powder form and used in very strong charms. Michael Saunders has some in his workshop and it is obtainable on the black market. Mr Baslam sold some to Gwendolen Chant for £50 an ounce. (Charmed Life) The Wraith smuggled it by the cartload. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Dressing Gowns
Christopher Chant has a predilection for very fancy dressing gowns and here are some of them from Charmed Life: pink and orange with a bright scarlet lining; green with gold dragons; sky blue with golden lions. In The Sage of Theare, he wore a long black robe embroidered with yellow comets and the inside was yellow with black comets.

Dright
The leader of Eleven. He is thousands of years old and maintains his life by eating someone’s soul when his power fails. He is called High Father of the Sept and is King, Priest and Chief Magician. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Dulcinea’s Ponies
Slang term for broomsticks named after Dulcinea Wilkes. (Witch Week)

Day of Festival
The one day in every year when the Living Asheth rides through the city in Series 10 and blesses it. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Eleven
A world that is not in a series. The Dright didn’t want any competition from other worlds. The people there believe in pride and appearance. The weather is controlled and the people live outside. They don’t use fire to cook as they summon their food, so they regard fire users as inferior. They admire people who cheat and lie out of loyalty. The more fur and ornaments worn, the more important the person. Important people always stand. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Erica
One of the maids at Chrestomanci Castle. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Euphemia
One of the maids at Chrestomanci Castle, she has a boyfriend called Will Suggins. (Charmed Life)

Exams
The witches exams are: First, Second, Third and Fourth Grade Magic exams, then Advanced Magic. (Charmed Life)

Felperin Brothers
Worked for the Wraith. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Fenning
One of Christopher Chant’s friends. He is small and no good at cricket. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Festival of Water
This is held yearly on Theare and only water dieties are allowed to be present. It is at this event that Imperion announces that the Sage of Dissolution has been born. (The Sage of Theare)

Fiddle
The cat that started out as Eric Chant’s violin until Gwendolen used Eric’s fourth life to transform it when she couldn’t bear his playing. Chrestomanci sent Bernard to Wolvercote to buy Fiddle and bring him to Chrestomanci Castle. (Charmed Life)

Francis
Cousin of Christopher Chant and the same age. Son of Charles. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Frazier
One of the footmen at Chrestomanci Castle. (Charmed Life)

French Wizard
Jean-Pierre. A swindler who sends all his clients who want to hide to Earth where they will have magic. (Warlock at the Wheel)

Gatehouse, The Old
The Larwood branch of the Witches Escape Route. It looks like a strange red-brick castle. The Escape Route was closed down but the way through to the other, safe world, was hidden under coal in the cellar and not found. (Witch Week)

Gate House School For Girls
The school the girls from Larwood House go to when the two worlds merge. The Head is Miss Cadwallader. (Witch Week)

Gateway to Elsewhere
The Gateway to Elsewhere is in the grounds of Chrestomanci Castle. It can only be approached if you are not looking at it directly. You have to walk towards it while looking at it out of the corner of your eye. As you approach, you go through a magical garden where all the seasons are present, one after another. At last you come to a small bowl of meadowland surrounded by trees. There is an apple tree inside with a small spring bubbling up from nowhere at its roots and disappearing again. The tree overhangs an old ruined arch and the top stone of the arch has fallen down and sits at the foot of the apple tree. When activated, the air between the gateway quivers like it is being heated, then it mists up, then turns milky, then dark. The darkness clears away to the corners and another world is revealed.

Gingerbread men
These are a confectionery made of ginger which, once baked, run around the room and try to escape, thus making eating them more fun as you have to catch them first. (Charmed Life)

Goddess
An enchantress in her own right, she was brought up as The Living Asheth in Series 10. Christopher Chant gave her some Millie Goes to School type books which she fell in love with. When she escaped to Christopher Chants world she insisted on being called Millie. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Golden Heart Square
The Sage of Dissolution turned down the lodgings here. (The Sage of Theare)

Great Zond
King of the Gods. (The Sage of Theare)

Green, Estelle
Copies Theresa Mullett’s crazes in Class 2Y. She has soft brown eyes and soft wriggly curls. She talks a lot. Her mother is in prison for helping witches in the Witches Underground Escape Route. (Witch Week)

Grigg, Karen
In Class 2Y at Larwood House. She copies Theresa Mullett’s crazes. (Witch Week)

Half Moon Street
Where Thasper met himself and called Chrestomanci. (The Sage of Theare)

Harbury Services
Where the Willing Warlock stopped the car for ice cream. (Warlock at the Wheel)

Harvest Moon Street
The Sage of Dissolution was living here. It caught fire. (The Sage of Theare)

Hodge, Miss Eileen
One of the teachers at Larwood House. She is a small, neat person with tidy hair who wears neat grey skirts and blouses. She would like to marry Mr Wentworth. (Witch Week)

If Worlds
What the gods of Theare say that mankind calls the Related Worlds. (The Sage of Theare)

Imperion
God of the Sun and God of Prophecy. He is a High God. (The Sage of Theare)

Inquisitors
Witch hunters with enormous powers to arrest anyone on the merest suspicion of witchcraft. (Witch Week)

Invisible Dragons
These live in the rivers of Theare and lurk under bridges. If people don’t want to answer questions they say “oh, go and ask an invisible dragon”. (The Sage of Theare)

Jemima Jane
A little girl who is in the back seat of a car when the Willing Warlock steals it. Her real name is Prudence but she has been told by her father (Kathusa) not to give her real name to strangers as they could use it magically. She drives the Willing Warlock mad by asking lots of questions and she likes to go driving. (Warlock at the Wheel)

Journal Time
Half an hour every day when the pupils of Larwood House write their private thoughts. Only to be interrupted by a serious emergency. (Witch Week)

Kathusa
A financial wizard. Prudence’s father. Described as a small man in a pinstripe suit. Chrestomanci’s agent in this world, it is his job to collect all the people that Jean Pierre sends across. (Warlock at the Wheel)

Kingdom of Splendour Hall
This blew up as people were leaving after the Sage of Dissolution finished speaking. (The Sage of Theare)

Larkins, Miss
The Clairvoyant from Coven Street, Wolvercote. She told Eric his fortune, thus enabling Chrestomanci to discover the general area of his whereabouts and warn him to be more careful. A warning that Eric didn’t understand. Her spirit guides names are Bobby and Dodo. After Eric and Gwendolen moved to Chrestomanci Castle she was rewarded by a grateful client and set up in a salon in Bond Street. (Charmed Life)

Larkins, Mr
Owner of a junk shop in Wolvercote which also sold “exotic supplies”, including ingredients for magic. (Charmed Life)

Larwood House
A boarding school in Hertfordshire run by the Government for Witch Orphans and children with other problems. The building is of purplish brick and has long corridors painted in caterpillar green with very white dormitories. (Witch Week)

Littleton, Inquisitor
A small man in blue pinstriped suit with a blunt chin and little, watery eyes. In the other, safe world, he works as a janitor at Portway Oaks Comprehensive. (Witch Week)

Living Asheth
See also, Goddess. A girl with the mark of the cat on her foot who is chosen to become the embodiment of Asheth. She is kept in the Temple of Asheth and paraded through the streets one day in every year. She can manifest Asheth’s extra arms. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Lowood House School
Where the fictitious Millie goes to school. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Mary
One of the maids at Chrestomanci Castle, she has red hair. (Charmed Life)

Matches
The book of nine matches that Gwendolen bound up Eric’s lives into by using his third life. They are described as having “bright red heads with yellowish, oily paper below and bright white cardboard underneath”. (Charmed Life)

Medium
A professional spirit traveller has to have a medium to keep him anchored while he travels and be ready to call him back in case of trouble, to keep him warm and make sure he is not woken. Mediums usually work with music. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Morgan, Charles
In Class 2Y at Larwood House. He wears glasses and is famous for his nasty looks. He loathes Larwood and everyone in it, especially Theresa Mullet, Simon Silverson and Dan Smith. He has a sister named Burnadine. (Witch Week)

Mullett, Theresa
A model pupil in Class 2Y at Larwood House. She leads a group of cronies and starts crazes. (Witch Week)

Music Lessons
When Gwendolen wanted to practice magic and the Mayor of Wolvercote disapproved, Mrs Sharp called them “Music Lessons”. She then decided to give Eric proper music lessons and so he began to learn to play the violin. (Charmed Life)

Nestara
Imperions mortal woman. She has a child called Thasper. (The Sage of Theare)

New Unicorn Street
Thasper had a door slammed in his face while enquiring about the Sage of Dissolution. (The Sage of Theare)

Nine Lived Enchanter
“People with nine lives only happen when, for one reason or another there are no counterparts of them living in any other world. Then the lives that would have been spread out over a whole set of worlds get concentrated in one person. And so do all the talents those other people might have had. They are extremely rare.”

Nostrum, Henry
A Necromancer in Wolvercote until the abortive coup upon Chrestomanci, whereupon he was stripped of his powers. (Charmed Life)

Nostrum, William
Henry Nostrum’s brother. He has a cast in his left eye which continually worried Eric Chant as he wasn’t sure which way the wizard was looking at any one time. Mr Nostrum was a well to do wizard who had a practice in Eastbourne before being stripped of his powers by Chrestomanci. (Charmed Life)

Ock
God of all Oceans. Equal in status to Imperion. (The Sage of Theare)

Oneir
One of Christopher Chant’s school friends. He is of medium build. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Otherwhere’s
What the priestesses in Series 10 call the Related Worlds. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Partridge Pleasaunce Street
The Sage of Dissolution moved quickly from here to Fauntel Square, then to Strong Wind Boulevard, then to Station Street. (The Sage of Theare)

Pawson, Dr
A Cambridge Don and the most eminent Diviner in the country. He lived in Trumpington Road, Cambridge and was “vastly, hugely, grossly fat” with “vast purple jowls” and brown teeth that lay “higgledy-piggledy in all directions like a fence trampled by cows.” He glided around magically in his armchair. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Pawson, Mrs
Dr Pawson’s mother. She was bedridden, had white hair and was famous for her “visitations”. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Penge School, Surrey
Christopher Chant’s boarding school. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Phillips, Miss
The girls gym teacher at Larwood House. (Witch Week)

Pilgrim, Nan
In Class 2Y at Larwood House. Her real name is Dulcinea, named after Dulcinea Wilkes - the Archwitch. She is plump and unfit and has a nack of describing things. (Witch Week)

Place Between, The
The way to the Anywhere’s. Large muddy brown rocky areas with towering shapeless walls that go up and up. A formless wet mist hangs everywhere. Thousands of valleys lead off into other worlds. The Place Between likes to return everything to its rightful place and pushes Christopher home when he travels through. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Pluckiest Boy in School, The
The book given to Charles Morgan to write lines from. (Witch Week)

Portway Oaks
A ring of beech trees below Larwood Forrest. (Witch Week)

Portway Oaks Comprehensive
A day school for boys which 2Y are at when the two worlds merge. The Headmaster is Mr Wentworth. (Witch Week)

Prophecy, God of
Imperion. (The Sage of Theare)

Proudfoot
Bethi’s kitten. It had seven claws on one foot and was as adorable as Throgmorton was repulsive. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Proudfoot, Mother
The woman who looks after the Goddess in Series 10. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Questions of Dissolution
The book that the Sage of Dissolution writes. (The Sage of Theare)

Road of the Four Lions No 403
The Sage of Dissolution was rumoured to be living here. It burnt down in the night. (The Sage of Theare)

Roberts, Mordecai
He was born in Eleven and sent by the leader of Eleven to work for Chrestomanci so he could betray him. He is a fully trained magician and spirit traveller who’s spirit name is Tacroy. He is strong, young, rather squarely and sturdily built, with a roundish coffee coloured face and merry-looking hazel eyes. He has curly hair “coiled tight like a mass of little pale brown springs”. He is the Castle’s cricket teams best bowler and is in love with Miss Rosalie. To gather information for the Dright of Eleven, he became trusted by Chrestomanci, for whom he was trying to catch the Wraith. Instead, he became a double agent and worked as a smuggler for the Wraith. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Rosalie, Miss
Chief assistant to deWitt. She regards him as Dear and Adorable. She is a very good batswoman in the cricket team. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Sage of Dissolution
It was prophesied that this sage would question everything and bring down the exquisite order of heaven and cast all the gods into disorder. (The Sage of Theare)

Saucy Nancy Disaster
The Saucy Nancy is the paddle steamer that sank, killing Eric and Gwendolen’s parents. (Charmed Life)

Saunders, Michael
One of the wizards employed to help Chrestomanci. He teaches Julia and Robert Chant and then Eric and Gwendolen Chant when they move to the castle. He goes through phases and loves to discuss them at the dinner table and bored Eric Chant to death with talk of art. He had a workshop with a five pointed star on the floor, various trestle tables covered in magical equipment, books, scrolls and jars, a cresset hanging from the ceiling and a small dragon who he rescued and who helped him with his spells. (Charmed Life)

Series 1
Trains go through rings high up on pilons. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Series 2
A maze of bridges over a tangle of rivers filled with giant eels. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Series 5
Lots of islands and mermaids. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Series 6
In the grip of an ice age. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Series 7
Mountains and glaciers, but surprisingly hot. He heat caused tropical growth. “It was like looking at the North Pole and the Equator at once.” (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Series 8
Bleak and stony, cold. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Series 10
An “Arabian Knight’s” kind of world with snake charmers and temples. It is a hot world. The people worship Asheth. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Series 11
Eleven is not a series as it is just one world. See Eleven. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Series 12
Chrestomanci’s home world. The French won the Battle of Agincourt and Richard II was on the throne until long after Agincourt. Only rich people have cars but there are trains. Atlantis is what we would call America and is ruled by the Inca’s. Charles the 7th is on the throne. There are no aeroplanes, no Ghandi, Einstein, Walt Disney, Reggae or Christopher Columbus.

Sharp, Ellen
Mrs Ellen Sharp looked after Gwendolen and Eric when their parents died. She is a certified witch and lived downstairs from the Chant’s so, after the accident, Eric and Gwendolen moved downstairs. She’s not a very good witch and Eric didn’t feel very happy eating her gingerbread men which, instead of running away, lay upon the plate and waved their arms and legs feebly. (Charmed Life)

Shrine of Asheth
Where the statue of Asheth is kept. It is a statue of a woman with four arms, is solid gold at the front and hung with gold. Only initiates are allowed access. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Silver
Whenever he is touching silver Christopher Chant is unable to perform even the slightest piece of magic and has to tell the truth. His father cast his strongest spells to make silver neutral after his horoscope told him that silver would mean danger or death to Christopher. It took a visit to Dr Pawson who told Christopher to empty his pockets to make him realise his potential and become the next Chrestomanci. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)When he became Chrestomanci and had to deal with Gwendolen Chant he found mealtimes annoying as the cutlery was made of silver. (Charmed Life)

Silverson, Simon
The lead boy in Class 2Y at Larwood House. He is a bully and likes to hit Brian Wentworth. He locks everything he owns. (Witch Week)

Simonson, Dr
A medical magician with a pointed grey beard. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Singh, Nirupam
In Class 2Y at Larwood House. He is a tall Indian boy with a strong personality and a profile like a “chubby hawk”. His brother was burned in Delhi and his mother was burned for trying to save him. (Witch Week)

Small Unction Sublime Concert Hall
This is the first time that Thasper hears of the Sage speaking. It is burnt down by the next day. (The Sage of Theare)

Smith, Dan
In Class 2Y at Larwood House. He is a bad boy. He likes to spy on seniors and their girlfriends and pick on other members of his class. (Witch Week)

Snakes
Gwendolen turned Julia Chant’s skirt into snakes at the dinner table. (Charmed Life)

Sphere of Forgetfulness
A silver globe, neither transparent nor opaque which Imperion placed Thasper in, not moving or growing, until it was opened seven years later by Chrestomanci. (The Sage of Theare)

Stained Glass
The church near Chrestomanci Castle has stained glass windows. When Gwendolen went to a service there she made them come alive where they fought and danced around, unbeknownst to the vicar. (Charmed Life)

Suggins, Will
Euphemia’s “young man”. A warlock. (Charmed Life)

Tacroy
The spirit name of Mordecai Roberts. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Temple, Flavian
Sent by deWitt to examine Christopher Chant for his suitability to become Chrestomanci. He became Christopher’s tutor. He wore his collars too tight and had no sense of humour. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Thasper
Son of Imperion and Nestara. He is described as a beautiful child, fair haired and blue eyed. He was slow learning to speak because he wanted to ask questions. (The Sage of Theare)

The Three Bears
What everyone at his school called Christopher Chant, Oneir and Fenning. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Theare
A world where heaven is very well organised by the Gods. (The Sage of Theare)

Throgmorton
An Asheth Temple Cat. He is a smelly, scratching, bullying, magical cat that can understand speech and “tear strips through ordinary magic”. He is ginger with a stripy, snake-like tail and one ear higher than the other. He says “Wong” a lot. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Towers, Mr
The PE teacher at Larwood House. (Witch Week)

Wraith, The
A very successful smuggler operating through London. His gang smuggled weapons from Series One, mermaid parts from Series 5, magic mushroom essence and eternal fire from Series 10, eel livers from Series 2, poison balm from Series 6, dream juice from Series 9 as well as cartloads of dragons blood. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Wentworth, Mr
Deputy Head at Larwood House. He throws chalk at people. His son is Brian in 2Y.

Wentworth, Brian
Son of the Deputy Head. He is in Class 2Y at Larwood House. He is a small boy, who looks young for his age. He sings well and is good at things but he is a loner and is bullied by most of the class. When not being the victim, he is quite willing to torment someone else. He is described as “small, perky and irritating with it”. (Witch Week)

White Hart
The Inn near Chrestomanci Castle. (Charmed Life)

Widdershins
Anticlockwise.

Wilkes, Dulcinea
1760-1790. The Arcwitch. She tried to stop witches being persecuted. She was “young, pretty, clever and hot-tempered”. She was born in Steeple Bumstead, Essex and moved to London in 1781 where she took a leading part in the Witches Uprising of 1789. She was arrested and burned. (Witch Week)

Wilkinson, Mr
An elderly sorcerer who looked after Chrestomanci Castle library. (The Lives of Christopher Chant)

Willing Warlock
Lived in Coven Lane, Wolvercote near Eric and Gwendolen until he and the some others tried to put paid to Chrestomanci whereupon he was stripped of his magic. (Charmed Life) He then escaped to another world (ours?) until he was caught. (Warlock at the Wheel). A bulky young man in need of a shave.

Witch Detectors
Used by the Inquisitors, they are machines in black boxes which always find a witch. (Witch Week)

Witchcraft Emergency Act
Passed after the second uprising, it gives Inquisitors enormous powers to arrest someone on the merest suspicion of witchcraft. (Witch Week)

Witches Uprising, 1789
The witches were protesting against being persecuted and burnt. When people wouldn’t stop, Dulcinea Wilkes worked some spells which caused people to be terrified of witchcraft which resulted in a lot of bone-fires and strict laws. (Witch Week)

Wolvercote
The town where Eric and Gwendolen grew up. 26 Coven Street, Wolvercote, England. (Charmed Life)

Zond
King of the Gods of Theare. (The Sage of Theare)