Hugo van Helsen

Hugo van Helsen is one of the main antagonists in the story. He constantley attempts to ruin the Windjammer family and even appeals to the court of merchants to ban the Windjammer family of any further trading till he had been repaid.

Family
Hugo van Helsen only current family is his daughter, Jade van Helsen. Jade is shown to resent her father but takes her father's side when Adam says that it is his fualt that his family is in 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 also revealed that Hugo van Helsen used to have wife who past on.