arden at the Roof of the World

Home

The History

The Literature

The Literature

The Locations

The Mythology

The Spirituality

The Characters

 

In Order of Appearance:

The Women

Gwenaella

Adelie

Élise

Garcenda

Galiana

Kavundi

The Men

Wigandus

David

al Rashid

Jigme

Wigandus grew up in the court of Thuringia in the Holy Roman Empire.  He and his best friend, the young Gottlieb von Eshenbach, spent their youths training to be knights and dreaming of great deeds in the line of the stories Gottlieb's father would tell of Parzival.

When word came that the French King was summoning knights from all of Christendom to take up a crusade against the Infidel, they rode off together to answer the summons.  Unfortunately, Gottlieb fell in on the journey, leaving Wigandus to carry out his friend's dying wish that he become a great knight in the tradition of his father's stories.