HUALING (华菱 | Huálíng)—Formerly the Flower Immortal.

FEIMAO (翡懋 | Fěimào)—An archer of the Celestial Army who helped defeat Xiangliu, the nine-headed serpent.

CLOUD WALL~DEMON REALM

WENZHI (文智 | Wénzhì)—Second son of King Wenming and the third-ranked Noble Consort. Crown Prince of the Cloud Wall, formerly Captain of the Celestial Army.

WENSHUANG (文爽 | Wénshuǎng)—Eldest son of King Wenming and the first-ranked Virtuous Consort. Formerly Crown Prince of the Cloud Wall.

WENMING (文铭 | Wénmíng)—King of the Cloud Wall, also known as the Demon Realm after their separation from the Celestial Kingdom.

VIRTUOUS CONSORT—First-ranked consort to King Wenming, mother to Prince Wenshuang.

NOBLE CONSORT—Third-ranked consort to King Wenming, mother to Prince Wenzhi.

MENGQI (梦绮 | Mèngqǐ)—Captain of the Cloud Wall Army.

EASTERN SEA

YANXI (彦熙 | Yànxī)—Eldest prince of the Eastern Sea and the heir to the throne.

YANMING (彦明 | Yànmíng)—Youngest prince of the Eastern Sea, brother to Prince Yanxi.

YANZHENG (彦峥 | Yànzhēng)—King of the Eastern Sea, father to Prince Yanxi and Yanming.

ANMEI (安美 | Ānměi)—A high-ranking lady at the Eastern Sea Court, and governess to Prince Yanming.

SOUTHERN SEA

SUIHE (绥河 | Suíhé)—Queen of the Southern Sea.

PING’YI (平一 | Píngyī)—Eldest daughter of the Chief Attendant of the Southern Sea, and sister to Ping’er.

BINGWEN (炳文 | Bǐngwén)—A renown shell merchant in the Southern Sea.

PHOENIX KINGDOM

FENGMEI (凤美 | Fèngměi)—Princess of the Phoenix Kingdom, daughter to Queen Fengjin. Formerly betrothed to Crown Prince Liwei of the Celestial Kingdom.

FENGJIN (凤金 | Fèngjīn)—Queen of the Phoenix Kingdom.

THE SUN

XIHE (羲和 | Xīhé)—Sun Goddess and mother to the ten sunbirds.

SUNBIRDS—The ten children of Lady Xihe, nine of whom were slain by the mortal archer Houyi. Only one remains to light the realms.

THE FOUR DRAGONS AND RIVERS

LONG DRAGON—The leader of the Four Dragons from the Eastern Sea. Creator of the Changjiang (长江) in the Mortal Realm, also known as the Long River.

BLACK DRAGON—Formed the Heilongjiang (黑龙江), also known as the Black River in the Mortal Realm.

PEARL DRAGON—Formed the Zhujiang (珠江), the Pearl River in the Mortal Realm.

YELLOW DRAGON—Formed the Huanghe (黄河), the Yellow River in the Mortal Realm.

HOUYI (后羿 | Hòuyì)—Husband to Chang’e, the Moon Goddess, father to Xingyin. Dragon Lord and slayer of the sunbirds, shooting down nine of the ten.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My deepest and most heartfelt thanks to the readers of Daughter of the Moon Goddess, who followed Xingyin into Heart of the Sun Warrior. Hearing from you has helped me through the hard times of which there were many in the writing of this book. To the booksellers and librarians who took a chance on the duology, who read it and placed it into the hands of others—I am so grateful.