The Lilim: Three old women of great power. Semele plots to find the star first and restore her own youth, but the witch-queen curses her so that she will never perceive the star in any way. On their first encounter, Semele drugs the witch-queen's food with a magical substance that causes her to speak only the truth, thus forcing her to blurt out the truth of the fallen star. The witch-queen knew Semele as Ditchwater Sal when she was "a young chit of a thing". Madame Semele/Ditchwater Sal: A witch, and a member of the Sisterhood to which the Lilim belong. She is later revealed to be the Lady Una, only daughter of the Lord of Stormhold, and Tristran's birth mother. When not toiling for the witch-woman, she is kept in the form of a multicoloured bird chained by a silver thread to a Gypsy wagon. Una suffers constant abuse at the hands of Madame Semele, being beaten and called a "slattern". Una: A cat-eared faerie girl of great beauty who works as a slave for Madame Semele until released by an improbable occurrence that fulfills the conditions of her debt. In comparison with his brothers, he is benevolent, compassionate and reasonable. Lord Primus: The oldest of the Lords of Stormhold. He is, by nature, a skilled assassin and has succeeded in murdering the majority of his family. Lord Septimus: The youngest and most ruthless of the Lords of Stormhold. The dead sons appear as ghostly observers, while the living sons constantly plot to kill each other to succeed their father as Lord of Stormhold. Daughter Una is named for a feminine form of the Latin unum, meaning one. The sons are imaginatively named, in Latin, Second, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth (all dead) and First, Third and Seventh (living). At the beginning of Stardust, he has four dead sons (Secundus, Quartus, Quintus, and Sextus) and three living ones (Primus, Tertius, and Septimus), in addition to his long-lost daughter Una. The Lord of Stormhold: The eighty-first Lord of Stormhold is an old man who rules Stormhold until his death. She ultimately marries a man called Monday and thereby unwittingly frees Tristran's mother, Lady Una, from slavery. Although Tristran is infatuated with her, she does not return his feelings and does not take his promise to bring her the fallen star seriously at first. She is the daughter of Bridget Comfrey and Tommy Forester. Victoria Forester: A resident of Wall described as "the most beautiful girl for a hundred miles around". He is married to Daisy, who is the mother of Tristran's half-sister Louisa. Prior to this, he had bought a crystal snowdrop from this girl, and later gives the flower to Tristran. He visited the Wall Market to find a gift for his sweetheart Daisy Hempstock, and ended up fathering Tristran by Madame Semele's abused slave Faerie girl, Lady Una. Main character in the beginning of the book. When Tristran realises his love for her, he abandons his courtship of Victoria Forester, and Yvaine marries him despite their inability to have children. She is pursued by the Lilim and the surviving sons of the Lord of Stormhold, who want her for their own reasons. Yvaine appears to be immortal, but not invulnerable. Yvaine: A fallen star, which Tristran vows to find and bring to Victoria Forester. Tristran foolishly promises to retrieve a fallen star for the girl he wants to be his sweetheart, Victoria (see below), and so unexpectedly finds the beautiful Yvaine. #STARDUST BOOK MOVIE#
Tristran Thorn: The book's main character (renamed "Tristan" in the movie adaptation ), a half-Faerie, half-human boy raised by his father Dunstan Thorn and stepmother Daisy, whom he believes to be his mother.The majority of the book takes place seventeen years later, starting around October 1856. The story begins in late April 1839, as John William Draper had just photographed the Moon and Charles Dickens was serialising Oliver Twist. Gaiman has also occasionally made references to writing a sequel, or at least another book concerning the village of Wall.
In 2007, a film based on the novel was released to generally positive reviews. It is concerned with the adventures of a young man from the village of Wall, which borders the magical land of Faerie. Stardust has a different tone and style from most of Gaiman's prose fiction, being consciously written in the tradition of pre- Tolkien English fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsany and Hope Mirrlees. Stardust is a 1999 fantasy novel by British writer Neil Gaiman, usually published with illustrations by Charles Vess.
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