Caylor—a legendary knight and prince

Celebrants of Mother Night—Qar order/subspecies/cult

Chakkai—a people of the southern Perikalese mountains

Chaven—physician and astrologer to the Eddon family

Chert Blue Quartz—a Funderling, Opal’s husband

Cheryazi—Qinnitan’s sister

Children of the Emerald Fire—a Qar tribe

Cinnabar—a Funderling magister

Collum Dyer—one of Vansen’s soldiers

Conary—proprietor of the Quiller’s Mint

Conoric, Sivonnic, and Iellic tribes—“primitive” tribes who lived on Eion before conquest by the southern continent of Xand Crooked—Qar name for Kupilas

Daikonas Vo—a Perikalese White Hound

Dandelon—a character in Hewney’s King Nikolos

Dawet dan-Faar—envoy from Hierosol

Dawtrey—a legendary knight, sometimes called “Elf-spelled”

Devona—a goddess, aka “Devona of the Harp”

Devonai kings—ancient line of Hiersoline royalty

Dimakos Heavyhand—one of the last chieftains of the Gray Companies

Doirrean—young Prince Olin’s nursemaid

Donal Murroy—onetime captain of the Southmarch royal guard

Dowan Birch—a player in Makewell’s Men

Dreamless—also known as “Night Men”

Drows—a race behind the Shadowline, related to Funderlings

Durstin Crowel—baron of Graylock

Ealga Flaxen-Hair—former queen of March Kingdoms, wife of King Aduan

Earth Elders—Funderling guardian spirits

Effir dan-Mozan—a Tuani merchant

Eilis—Merolanna’s maid

Elan M’Cory—sister-in-law of Caradon Tolly

Ena—a young Skimmer girl, Back-on-Sunset-Tide clan

Enander II—king of Syan

Eneas—son of Enander, prince of Syan and heir to throne

Erasmios Jino—Marquis of Athnia, aide to King Enander of Syan

Eri—Chaven’s oldest brother

Eril—an Akuanis family servant

Erilo—god of harvest

Erivor—god of waters

Erlon Meaher—a court poet in Southmarch, rival of Tinwright

Eshervat—Xixian name for Erivor

Estir Makewell—sister of Pedder Makewell

Fanu—a relative of Idite

Febis—cousin of the autarch

Feival Ulian—a player in Makewell’s Men

Ferras Vansen—captain of the Southmarch royal guard Finn Teodoros—a writer

Four Sunsets—the fairy who owned Dragonfly

Funderlings—sometimes known as “delvers,” small people who specialize in stonecraft

Gailon Tolly, Duke of Summerfield—an Eddon family cousin

Geral Kelty—one of the Southmarch guards lost behind the Shadowline

Gil—a potboy at the Quiller’s Mint

Grandfather Sulfur—a Funderling elder of the Metamorphic Brothers

Gray Companies—mercenaries and landless men turned bandits in wake of the Great Death

Great Mother—goddess worshipped in Tuan

Gregor—a laundry worker

Gregor of Syan—a famous bard

Guard of Elementals—a tribe of the Qar

Gyir—a Qar, Yasammez’ captain, aka “Gyir the Storm Lantern”

Habbili—a god, the crippled son of Nushash

Harsar—Ynnir’s counselor

Hendon Tolly—youngest of the Tolly brothers, Guardian of Southmarch

Hesper—King of Jellon, betrayer of King Olin

Hijam Marukh, aka “Stoneheart”—captain of the autarch’s Leopard guards

Hiliometes—a legendary demigod and hero

Idite—Effir dan-Mozan’s wife

Ikelis Johar—High Polemarch (chief general) of Xis

Iomer M’Sivon—Baron of Landers Port

Irinnis—foreman of military engineers, Hierosol

Jacinth Malachite—a female magister

Jeddin—chief of the autarch’s Leopard guards

Karal—king of Syan killed by Qar at Coldgray Moor Kaspar Dyelos—Chaven’s mentor, aka “Warlock of Krace” Kayyin—“real” name of Gil the potboy

Kearn Tinwright—Matt Tinwright’s father, a tutor

Kellick Eddon—great-grandnephew of Anglin, first of Eddon family

March Kings

Kelofas—a Hierosoline noble

Kendrick Eddon—prince regent of Southmarch, eldest son of King Olin Kernios—god of earth and death, one of the Trigon brothers King Nikolos—Syan monarch who moved the Trigon out of Hierosol Kiril—Pelaya’s brother

Krisanthe—Queen Meriel’s mother, the twins’ grandmother Kupilas—god of healing, also known as “Habbili” and “Crooked” Lady Simeon—a lady-in-waiting during the twins’ youth Lander III—son of Karal, king of Syan, aka “Lander the Good,” “Lander