Courtney Chetwynde

Courtney Chetwynde is one of the main characters from the Pendragon series.

Courtney Chetwynde has always had an interest in Bobby Pendragon, the Lead Traveler in the Pendragon series. In the first book in the series, The Merchant of Death, Courtney is fourteen years old, but by book ten, The Soldiers of Halla, she is twenty-three.

She and Bobby's friend Mark Dimond are Bobby's acolytes. They keep his journals secret from the other citizens of Second Earth. After a dangerous incident involving the Traveler's nemesis, Saint Dane, Mark and Courtney decide to stow Bobby's journals in a bank vault, in Stony Brook, Connecticut, where they live.

Owing to a complex series of events, involving Saint Dane disguised as a teenage boy becoming Courtney's romantic interest, Courtney is forced into a near fatal "accident" and is saved by Mark and his newfound friend Andy Mitchell. After several grueling months in the hospital, Courtney recovers, but finds herself in the middle of a storm of events, including the death of Mark's parents and the unmasking of Andy Mitchell as Saint Dane. In the seventh book, he tells Courtney there was always an Andy Mitchell, he just wasn't who everyone thought he was.

As a finale to The Quillian Games, Courtney joins Bobby in a quest to find Mark, who has, in his grief, travelled through the Flume (a wormhole through time and space) and is presumed to have joined forces with Saint Dane.

Eventually, in The Pilgrams of Rayne, Courtney finds Mark who inlists on a passenger ship from New York to London, on which he destroys Forge. Mark then rejoins Courtney as an acolyte.

In Raven Rise, Courtney and Mark attempt to stop Alexander Naymeer from taking over Earth and Halla with Ravinia. They eventually fail and in the end are sucked into the flume and Courtney is sent to Black Water.

She ends up in Eelong and becomes a leader of the exiled from Second Earth. She leads them to Black Water and joins the gars, giving them new technology and creating a home for five years before Bobby shows. Courtney participates in both of the final battles and, in the epilogue, marries Bobby and becomes a producer, successful varsity volleyball player and varsity softball player.