Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn

EDIT: guessed the characters correctly!

They are Simon Mooncalf/Pilgrim, Simeon Snowlock, Prince Jiriki and Princess Miriamele from the (long) fantasy series Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams. Probably my favorite fantasy series - even though it is very long, I reread it every couple of years.

I've been drawing the main characters from my favorite series of books. (No, not Harry Potter. Nor Twilight, lol.)

I always feel lame saying outright what I was aiming at drawing. Isn't the point of art to be able to communicate without words? If no one can recognize these characters, either no one has read the series they're from or the drawings are unrecognizable. I'm curious to know either way.

So here's the deal -- I will continue to update this with new drawings of characters from this series until someone can guess what series it is. First person to guess correctly (and name all the characters) gets... like a free drawing or something.

a hint: the ginger is the main character
another hint: the 2nd is still the ginger, just older.

it should be getting easier...

progress gifs = here and here