AMELIA: princess of Sailune.

MILGASIA: a young nobleman, kinsman to the princess.

LEI MAGNUS, CEPHEID: heads of two houses at variance with each other.

Sai Chu Ro: An old Ryuuzoku, cousin to Cepheid.

XELLOS: son to Lei Magnus.

XELLOS’ STAFF: a magickal item bestowed upon Xellos by a great queen which has thoughts of its own and may take over his body at times for its own purposes.

DYNAST: nephew to Lei Magnus, and friend to Xellos.

VALGAAV: nephew to Luna Inverse.

SOUER SYLPHIEL, FRIAR GOURRY: Franciscans.

DILGEAR: servant to Xellos.

VRUUMAGEN, ZANGULUS: servants to Cephied.

ZOLPH: servant to Filia's nurse.

SEAGRAM: servant to Lei Magnus.

Martina : an Apothecary.

Rossburgh Players : Musicians.

Page to Milgasia; another Page; an officer.

ZELAS METALIUM: wife to Lei Magnus.

LUNA INVERSE: wife to Cepheid.

FILIA: daughter to Cepheid.

Auntie Aqua: nurse to Filia.

Citizens of Sailune; several Mazoku and Ryuuzoku, relations to both houses;
Maskers, Guards, Watchmen, Attendants and various Humans.

Lina and Zelgadis: Chorus.

SCENE:  Sailune: Sairaag


PROLOGUE:

{ Lina and Zelgadis sit in two armchairs on either side of a blazingfire.  Zelgadis sips slowly at a cup of coffee, and Lina reads an oldtome.  Suddenly she sighs.
{ “What is it?” Zelgadis queries of her sigh.
{ “I was just remembering Filia” she answers, “Ifonly the Golds hadn’t tried to cover it all up…they really werejust as bad as the Mazoku, in their own way…”
{ Zelgadis sighs as well.  “It’s true.  Theirstory should be told, but no one would ever believe us, you know that.”
{ “But what if we tell it a little differently?” Linasuggests, “Look, this story is similar enough, if we just change afew names…” She hands to Zelgadis the book she has been reading. 
{ He skims through it, understanding soon why she has chosen thisstory before all others to represent their friends.  “I agree,we need only change a name or two, and then it is a story, and no one canclaim any different, but it will still let their story be told.”
{ Together, they begin to read, a Magickal spell changing the wordsas they wish to tell the story, not of Romeo and Juliet, but Xellos and Filia.}

Zelgadis::    Two races, both alike in dignity,
Lina::          In fair Sailune, where we lay our scene,
Zelgadis::     From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Lina::          Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
Zelgadis::    From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
Lina::          A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Zelgadis::    Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Lina::          Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
Zelgadis::    The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
Lina::          And the continuance of their parents' rage,        [10]
Zelgadis::    Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Lina::          Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
Zelgadis::    The which if you with patient ears attend,
Lina::          What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

{The room with its occupants fades out and we begin to see the streetsof Sailune overlaid and fading in:}