Elantia – Elantia, called Tia, is the daughter of the chieftain of a village located in Southwest Britannia, what is now Devon and Cornwall. The Romans had invaded Britain years earlier but made peace with her tribe and turned north. She has one brother, Tancorix, who although younger is bigger than she is. Daughter of a seer, she has spent her life learning to hear messages from the goddess Brigid. She has blond hair and deep blue eyes.
Quintus/Quin – Quin is a military tribune in the Second Augusta Legion. Prior to his six years in Britannia, he spent eight years in Germania. He is the fifth of five sons and has one younger sister. His father told him to stay in the army and not come home after the standard five or six years a privileged son would spend in battle. He was closer to his tutor, a Greek slave named Attalos, than his father, though his mother adores him.
Paulos – Paulos is an apostle of Jesus, sent by God to carry the gospel to the Gentiles. He is about 60 years old, with thinning brown hair and a beard. A leatherworker by trade, he often talks with his hands. He speaks softly and has a warm smile. By the time he visits Philippi, he has, among other things, been stoned and left for dead at the hands of the Jews.
Timotheos – Nicknamed Timos, he is the youngest of Paulo’s companions. He has a Greek father and a Jewish mother. When Paulos came through Timos’s hometown of Lystra on his first missionary journey, he shared the gospel with Timos, his mother, and his grandmother, who all eagerly accepted it. On Paulos’s second journey, Timos joined them, just before they went to Philippi. He knows the Scriptures well, having been taught by his mother and grandmother.
Loukas – a Greek physician and resident of Philippi. He is tall and thin, and loves to talk about the gospel and medicine with equal ease and excitement. He was born in Antioch, where he first heard the gospel.
Silas – A Jewish man, and ministry partner of Paulos. About the same age as Paulos, Silas laughs easily and has white hair and a full white beard. Although chiefly thought of as Paulos’s companion, he is a leader of the church in Antioch in his own right, with a deep knowledge of the Scriptures.
Lydia – a woman of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey). Lydia is a former slave and a widow. She took over her husband’s cloth-dyeing business and is now fairly wealthy. Neither Roman nor Greek, she has more freedom as a woman in Macedonia. She has long, brown curls, deep brown eyes, and skin the color of walnuts.
Gallus – the magistrate of Philippi. Quite young to be a praetor, he used his family’s connections in Rome to win the position. He is short and wiry and very ambitious, seeking to use his wealth and power for his and own gain and not for the good of his fellow Philippians.
Decimus – the second of the two-man magistracy. He is much older than Gallus but fears Gallus’s constant threats of retribution from Rome. He is kind and thoughtful, and also humble. Unlike Gallus, he does not ear the purple-bordered toga to which he is entitled, preferring his every-day tunic.