Her parents died when the Jin Empire was conquered by the Mongols and she swears vengeance on Yelü Chucai, whom she blames for her losses.

Wanyan Ping ( 完顏萍 Wányán Píng) is a descendant of the imperial clan of the former Jin Empire.

Yelü Yan ( 耶律燕 Yēlǜ Yàn) is Yelü Qi's younger sister who marries Wu Dunru.

Towards the end of the novel, he marries Guo Fu and succeeds Lu Youjiao as the chief of the Beggars' Gang. He is also Zhou Botong's secret apprentice.

Yelü Qi ( 耶律齊 Yēlǜ Qí) is a son of Yelü Chucai and a descendant of the imperial clan of the former Liao Empire.

The Wu brothers believe Yang Guo and give up on Guo Fu they eventually marry Yelü Yan and Wanyan Ping respectively, and are said to be expecting children with their wives near the end of the novel. However, Yang Guo resolves their dispute by lying that Guo Fu's parents have agreed to let him marry her. Both of them have a crush on Guo Fu and, at one point, nearly fight each other to the death to win her love. The boys were then raised by Guo Jing and Huang Rong, who also taught them martial arts. After their mother died, their father became insane and went missing for years.

Wu Dunru ( 武敦儒 Wǔ Dūnrú) and Wu Xiuwen ( 武修文 Wǔ Xiūwén) are Wu Santong's sons.

The sequel, The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, reveals that 14 years after the events of The Return of the Condor Heroes, he died along with Guo Jing and Huang Rong during the Battle of Xiangyang.

Guo Polu ( 郭破虜 Guō Pòlǔ) is Guo Xiang's twin brother.

In her middle age, she becomes a Buddhist nun and establishes the Emei School. She is nicknamed 'Little Eastern Heretic' ( 小東邪) after her maternal grandfather, 'Eastern Heretic' Huang Yaoshi. When she was a newborn baby, she was abducted by Li Mochou but was saved by Yang Guo, whom she has a crush on when she grows up.

Guo Xiang ( 郭襄 Guō Xiāng) is Guo Jing and Huang Rong's younger daughter.

At one point, she gets into a heated quarrel with Yang Guo while confronting him about how he lied to the Wu brothers that her parents have agreed to let him marry her, and ends up slicing off his right arm with a sword. Even though she is beautiful and attractive, she is spoiled and insolent and has been rather unfriendly towards Yang Guo since they were young.

Guo Fu ( 郭芙 Guō Fú) is Guo Jing and Huang Rong's elder daughter.

See also: Template:Guo Jing and Huang Rong's family tree After accomplishing a high level of proficiency in swordplay, Yang Guo ventures out with the Condor to search for Xiaolongnü and reunite with her. As he has lost his right arm, Yang Guo trains relentlessly and overcomes his disability to use Dugu Qiubai's Heavy Iron Sword with only one arm. Yang Guo learns Dugu Qiubai's swordplay techniques from the Condor. Several years after his death, the Condor encounters Yang Guo by coincidence while he was fighting with a giant serpent.

After roaming the land for years and failing to find someone who can rival him in swordplay, Dugu Qiubai came to a cave near a forest and spent the rest of his life there as a hermit. The Divine Condor ( 神鵰 shéndiāo) is a giant eagle-like creature living alone in a valley and a former companion of the swordsman Dugu Qiubai.

Some of these characters are fictionalised personas of, or are based on, actual historical figures, such as Wang Chongyang, Qiu Chuji, Duan Zhixing, Kublai Khan and Yelü Chucai. The following is a list of characters from the wuxia novel The Return of the Condor Heroes by Jin Yong.

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