APPENDIX A

Dramatis Personae

Last interment date in square brackets

Hermeticists

Menelaus Illation Montrose

Melchor de Ulloa—Master of the Witches

Narcís Santdionís de Rei D’Aragó—Master of the Chimerae

Sarmento i Illa d’Or—Master of the Nymphs

Venture Reyes y Pastor—Master of the Hormagaunts

Jaume Coronimas—Master of the Locusts

Ximen del Azarchel—Master of the World

Ghosts

Exarchel—the Dreagh or emulation of Del Azarchel

Exo-exarchel—the backup template of Exarchel expelled into space

Exulloa, Exarago, Exillador, Excoronimas, Exynglingas, and Expastor—emulations

Scholar

Rada Lwa—Intermediately Evolved Learned Scholar Rada-Lwa Chwal Sequitur Argent-Montrose; Psychoi, brain augment to level 257, and a servant of De Ulloa [A.D. 3090]

Cryonarch

Scipio—Advocate-General Scipio Cognition Montrose of the World Concordat, Regent at Large, Lord Protector of the Dead, Director of the Endymion Hibernation Syndicate, aka Glorified Scipio Cognition Montrose, Endorcist of One and a Half Donations [A.D. 2519]

Knight Hospitalier

Sir Guy—His Excellency Grandmaster Emeritus Guiden von Hompesch zu Bolheim [A.D. 2509]

Savant

Ctesibius—Glorified Ctesibius Zant, Endocist of Three Donatives, Servant of the Machine [A.D. 2525]

Sylph

Trey—Third or Trey Soaring Azurine (tentative) [A.D. 2537]

Soaring Azurine, her aeroscaphe

Giant

Bashan—Dr. Bashan Christopher Colligorant Hugh-Jones [A.D. 3033]

Witches

Mickey—Melechemoshemyazanagual Onmyoji de Concepcion, Padre Bruja-Stregone of Donna Verdant Coven from the Holy Fortress at Williamsburg; his true name is Mictlanagualzin of the Dark Science Research Coven [A.D. 4733]

Fatin—Fatin Simon Fay, a maiden from the Simon Families period [circa A.D. 3300]

Fuamnach—a crone of the Whalesong Coven

Ajuoga—a crone of the Stone Telling Coven

Lilura—a crone of the Clear Green Coven

Louhi—a crone of the Self-Esteem Pro-Choice Coven

Lorelei—a mother of the Mystic Crystal Revelation Coven

Drosselmeyer—a Warlock of the Old Iron Dreams Coven of Detroit

Crowley, Castaneda, and Twardowski of Wkra—other Warlocks

Heron—Heron of the Automaton Workers Coven Local 101, a factory hand from the Butlerian Restoration [A.D. 4455]

Parnassus—Parnassus of the Golden Golem Coven of Lake Superior, an apothecary from the Nameless Empire period [A.D. 4490]

Various mundanes (lower-caste Witches)—12 Demonstrators (their warrior caste), a hunter, a farmer, a vintner, a mason, a factory hand, and an alchemist

Chimerae

Daae—Alpha Captain Varuman Aemileus Daae of Uttarakhand, Osaka, Bombay, Yumbulangang, and other actions in the South China Theater; the Varuman blood derives from the Osterman, from the Homo sapiens, and Canis lupus [A.D. 5402]

Yuen—Alpha-Steadholder Extet Minnethales Yuen of Richmond, Third and Second Manassas, Antietam, and various actions against Pirates; the Yuen are of the Original Experiment Set, from Homo sapiens and Puma concolor [A.D. 4881]

Grislac—his weapon

Arroglint the Fortunate—the named weapon of his lineage

Anubis—High-Beta Sterling Xenius Anubis of Mt. Erebus Dependent College, 102nd Civic Control Division, attached to the Pennsylvania 3rd Legion; genetics unknown, line unknown, possibly Crotalinae; the “Virginianized” version of this name is Ir-Beta Sterlingas Xeniopater Anupsu-phalangetor Erebumontsangil [A.D. 5292]

Rock—his weapon

Phyle—Gamma Joet Goez Phyle of Bull Run, lineage discontinued

Ivinia—Alpha Lady Mother-of-Commandant Wife-of-Captain Ulec Nemosthene Ivinia nee Echtal; her victory title is Septimilegens

Callixiroc the Dark—the named weapon of the lineage of Ivinia

 

Vulpina—a young Beta women’s auxiliary [A.D. 5316]

Suspinia—a young Beta women’s auxiliary; originally named Handmaiden Seven of the Suspiring Nature Coven of Nome [A.D. 4812]

 

Kine

Larz—Kine Larz Quire Slewfoot of Gutter [A.D. 5950]

Franz, Ardzl, and Happy—other Kine

Nymphs

Oenoe—Oenoe Psthinshayura-Ah of Crocus with Clover and Forsythia [A.D. 6746]

Aea, Daeira, Ianassa, and Thysa—other Nymphs

Celaineus, Argennos, Aegicoros, and Omester—He-Nymphs, also called Satyrs

Iatrocrats

Soorm—Archormagaunt, also called Asvid the Old Man; originally, a Satyr named Marsyas of Saffron, with Oakwhite, Oleander, Rocket, and Mandrake [A.D. 7466]

Gload scion Ghollipog—Hormagaunt [A.D. 7520]

Crile scion Wept—Hormagaunt [A.D. 7810]

Prissy Pskov and Zouave Zhigansk—Clade-dwellers

Toil, Drudge, and Drench—Donors

Locusts

True Locusts (Onyx Men)

Crucxit, Axcit, and Litcec of Seven Twenty-One North Station [date not given: anywhere between A.D. 7480 and A.D. 10000, most likely circa A.D. 8000]

 

Inquiline Locusts (Blue Men)

Illiance—Illiance Vroy, a Locust Inquiline of the Order of Simplified Vulnerary Aetiology (the Simplifiers, aka the Blue Men); his false-mother-name is Lagniappe [A.D. 8800]

Ull—Ull Ynglingas, Illiance’s Mentor

Orovoy, Naar, Yndelf, Yndech, and Ydmoy—Preceptors; Naar is the machinist

Saaev, Aarthroy, and Unwing—Blue Men of lower dignity: an Invigilator, a Docent, and a Bedel

Aanwen—Aanwen Leel, a Blue Widow; her dignity is Preceptrix

22 others, names not given

 

Tendrilless Locusts (Gray Men, also called Linderlings)

Keir and Keirthlin—Linder Keir Laialin and Linder Keirthlin Laialin of Northeastern Region, Fifteenth Configuration [A.D. 8866]

 

Followers

Eie Kafk Ref Rak—a canine Moreau (Irish wolfhound)

Ee-ee Krkok Yef Yepp—(a stately Doberman Pinscher)

Ktatch-Ee Yett Ya-Ia—(a Collie)

Rirk Refka Kak-Et—a Great Dane

196 others, names not given

Melusines

Alalloel—Alalloel u lal rir Lree, also called Alalloel of the Lree, Eighteenth Configuration [A.D. 10100]

Legion—Alalloel when compiled and updated to the standards of the Final Stipulation of the Noösphere Protocols; also called the Finality, these are Melusine openly loyal to Del Azarchel

Swan

Anserine—Alalloel of the Anserine, a Paramount of the Second Humanity, of unlimited mental configuration; occupying the same nervous system as Alalloel, the exact nature of her continuity of persona is subject to debate