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Tuscarora woman is a shaman, the “singer” for her village. She tells Claire of a prophetic dream, gives her guidance in finding and using herbs of the area, and when she is mistakenly killed, leaves her amulet—a leather pouch containing a raw sapphire, among other things—to Claire. [Drums]

Due de Neve—a French noble. [Dragonfly]

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†O’Brien (m)—a Jacobite spy. [Dragonfly]

†Lord Ogilvie (m)—a prominent Jacobite. [Dragonfly] Mary Oliphant (m)—Roger MacKenzie’s great-great-grandmother. Married six times, but bore children only with Jeremiah MacKenzie, her “bonny lad.” [Drums]

Patsy Olivier—the Frasers’ inadvertent hostess in Georgia after they are shipwrecked by a hurricane; mistress of Les Perles plantation. [Voyager]

Onakara—one of Ian’s hunting companions, from the village of Anna Ooka. Entrusted by Jamie and Ian with the disposal of Roger Wakefield, he sells Roger to the Mohawk, and later leads Claire, Jamie, and Ian to Snake-town, where Roger is held. [Drums]

†Due d’Orléans (m)—brother of Louis XV. [Dragonfly]

Joe Orr (m)—resident near Lallybroch, acquaintance of Ian and Jenny Murray. [Outlander]

Osbert—Brianna’s private name for her unborn child, later named (officially) Jemmy. [Drums]

†O’Sullivan (m)—one of Charles Stuart’s companions, later put in charge of the Highland army’s commissary arrangements, to ill effect. [Dragonfly]

Otter-Tooth—see “Ta’wineonawira.”

Mr. Overholt—the purser of the Porpoise. [Voyager]

P

M. Pamplemousse11—a minor French official. [Dragonfly]

Mrs. Patterson—landlady of the Worlds End Pub on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. [Voyager]

Paul—pageboy to the Comtesse St. Germain. [Dragonfly]

Madame de Pérignon—a member of the French Court. [Dragonfly]

†Duke of Perth (m)—another commander of Charles Stuart’s army. [Dragonfly]

Peter—a drover; sees monster at Loch Ness with Claire, and later testifies against her at the witch trial. [Outlander]

Phaedre—Jocasta Cameron’s body slave. Observant and intelligent, she becomes Claire’s secret ally, helping to discover the identity and whereabouts of the runaway slave Pollyanne. [Drums]

†Philip, King of Spain—the third of the Bourbon monarchs, with ties (reluctantly acknowledged) to the Catholic Stuart dynasty. [Dragonfly]

†Mrs. Pinckney (m)—a plantation owner in South Carolina, famed for her introduction of domestic silk production. [Drums]

Ping An (“Peaceful One”)—a tame pelican; Mr. Willoughby’s pet fishing bird, who dislikes loud noises. [Voyager]

†Lord Pitsligo (m)—a Jacobite supporter, who raised men for Charles Stuart. [Dragonfly]

†Plato—M. Fleche’s medical assistant.

Pollyanne—a slave recently acquired from Africa, with a talent for healing and the use of herbs. Living in the slave quarters near the sawmill, she provides both excuse and scapegoat for the murder of Lissa Garver in the mill. In order to save her from execution under the law of bloodshed, the Frasers smuggle her away to the mountains, where John Quincy Myers helps her find a place of refuge among the Tuscarora. [Drums]

Pompey—one of the slaves working at River Run’s turpentine camp; disfigured in a pitch explosion. [Drums]

Captain Portis—captain of one of Jared’s ships. [Dragonfly]

Elias Pound—the young seaman who helps Claire during the typhoid epidemic on board the Porpoise, before dying of the disease himself. [Voyager]

M. and Mme. Prudhomme—members of the French Court, who attend the Royal stud at Argentan with Jamie and Claire. [Dragonfly]

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Colonel Harry Quarry12—John Grey’s predecessor as Governor of Ardsmuir Prison. [Voyager]

Don Francisco de la Quintana—Spanish envoy, sent by Phillip of Spain to assess the Jacobite Rising. [Dragonfly]

R

Captain Raines—captain of the Artemis; drowned in a storm off Hispaniola. [Voyager]

Madame de Ramage—friend of Louise de Rohan. [Dragonfly]

Georges, Vicomte de Rambeau—a Court fop with an eye for the ladies; husband of the jealous Vicomtesse. [Dragonfly]

La Vicomtesse de Rambeau—a noble lady of violent and jealous temperament; much