梅尔蒂尔·卡拉

Queen Mertel Kalar is the sovereign ruler of Kalar Village, inside the border of El Quixote. In that role, she has helped her people defend the Lost Woods and protect the Fountains of Truth. She is also responsible for ongoing good relations with the humans of El Quixote, and for arranging the system of "semen collection shacks" in El Quixote, which allow for Kalars to find human men willing to breed with them. Mertel is a mother herself, with multiple daughters, although the only daughter she has identified is her former secretary, Lorenzo Kalar, possibly born out of a dalliance with the future King Ben Quixote. During Rocinante's attempts to cause a war between El Quixote and Kalar Village, Mertel was willing to offer Aster a home in the village if he would defend it from their enemies, but he refused and defended the Kalars in a different fashion, ending the war before it could begin. Mertel later offered to aid her daughter Lorenzo in the diplomatic art of being queen, while occasionally flirting with king Ben.