Jade van Helsen

Family
Jade van Helsen is daughter to the moneylender,  Hugo van Helsen. Jade is shown to resent her father but takes his side when Adam blames him for his families ruin. Jade doesn't believe that her father will marry her to anyone just for benefeit and seems honestly horriefied when Hugo van Helsen tells Augustus Windjammer that he will form an alliance through marriage with a rich english family. It is revealed in the story that Jade lost her mother, supposabley at a young age.

Adam Windjammer
At first Adam resents Jade but he gradually begins like her. When she first meets Adam she sympathises with him and tells him that she lost her mother and she can relate to his situation but Adam dismisses her as a van Helsen.