KHAN RAHMAN FAMILY CLAN: MAIN PLAYERS

Kaikobad: Emissary, drunkard, polymath

Indelbed: His son, a little boy of no particular importance

Butloo: Their butler

Grand-Uncle Sikkim: Patriarch of the Khan Rahmans

Vulubir Khan Rahman, the Ambassador: Kaikobad’s cousin, one of the stalwarts of the Khan Rahmans

Juny: Badass wife of the Ambassador, loan shark to the djinn

Rais: Their son, a wastrel

Uncle Pappo: An eminent doctor and Khan Rahman by marriage

Barrister Asif: Well-respected legal counsel for the family

Barabas: Patron djinn of the Khan Rahman clan*

*For more on the djinn players, please see the glossary (page 399), which includes complete lists of djinn types and djinns relevant to this story; also see the appendices, which include the charming djinn nursery rhyme “The Charnel Road,” as well as an excerpt from the Register of Kings, by His Excellency, the Grand Ifrit Mohandas, the Most Efficacious, Lord of the Frozen Waters and the Lands Therein, Holder of One Hundred Patents.