Jamie (Rally Cry)

James was a Yankee soldier who was transported to Valdennia through the Tunnel of Light. It isn't entirely clear whether he was a private in the 35th Maine, or an artilleryman of the 44th New York, although it should be noted that Pat O'Donald seemed to be familiar with him and called him Jamie.

James was one of the soldiers who went to Suzdal as an escort for Colonel Keane, who had just made an agreement to serve the boyar, Ivor Ivorovich. James joined some Yankee men having a drink in a bar in Suzdal, on the main square and very close to the boyar's palace. During their time in the bar, James and a Suzdalian named Boris became involved in a deadly fight.

While the Suzdalians claimed that O'Donald's men had started a fight for no reason, before James hit Boris with a chair leg, O'Donald gave Keane his side of the tale: 'We was having a nice sociable drink. I even stood those blackguards a round, I did. Then one of them tried to pick Jamie boy's pocket, and that after we'd stood 'em a drink! So Jamie punched him one. A beautiful blow it was, right to the jaw. Then that Boris fellow was on him with a knife. Well, we all set to, trying to pull that thieving bastard back. Jamie got stuck, but by the saints he still had the strength to pick up a chair leg and send that devil sprawling. Well, we cleaned them out of here, and before you could shake a stick this mob starts to form outside crying for blood.'

James had been stabbed in the chest by Boris, and his lung was punctured. A angry mob formed, and O'Donald's men were cornered when Keane turned up to deal with the incident. Keane and Boyar Ivor could not agree on a course of action (Ivor wanted James executed), but they were interrupted by an attack on a nearby village by a force from Novrod, and Keane was required to protect the boyar's lands.

Kathleen O'Reilly tended to James, and two men were ordered to take him back to the palace, but he died soon after. As a result, Ivor considered the issue settled.