Gaston
Gaston is the son of Jacques and Guillemette, who despite his youth is already clearly destined for great things, or at least things as great as can be expected of a villager. He is tall and strong and handsome, and both responsible and witty. He is skilled at the things a man ought to be skilled at — repairs, fencing, scything, farming — and once killed a charging wolf with a hurled spear at thirty paces. He is elder brother of Colin and Perrette, and is apprenticed to his father as a blacksmith.