The Party
- Gnaeus Clodius Ulpius (Aaron) — House Ulpia sorcerer, Time/Warp
- Farraj ibn Ihab al-Rabi (Colin) — House al-Rabi social operator
- Haroun al-Affan (Justin) — Separatist family, Eagle Knights contacts
- Titus Caetronius Surus † — Gnaeus’s bodyguard; killed at The Mirror Lake (S9)
- Ari — bound elf alchemist, walking mystery
The Royal Family (House al-Hakim)
- Sultan Fahim — reformer, secretly ill
- Awad † — the dead Crown Prince
- Baahir — the young heir, twice targeted
- Prince Ikram — the pragmatic second son
- Princess Ensah — Ikram’s daughter, patron of scholars
- Daughters of the Sultan — nine daughters, nine factions
Uncle’s Circle (Uncle’s Men)
- Salmaan ayd-Bara (“Uncle”) — the patron
- Maajid ibn-Salmaan — his eldest, chosen successor, runs the clandestine side
- Ismad ibn-Salmaan — the Captain
- Dolgrim Zum-Akar · Jinan al-Karim · Ahad al-Faruk · Jabari al-Faruk
The Capital (S6–S7)
- Sadiq — elf; quartermaster of the Order of the Eagle; also squired for Naqi al-Akram, and holding something back
- Father Jamar — the Eastern Church priest who lifted Titus’s curse in a night
- Zahir ibn-Zahir — Eagle knight-lieutenant; led the cavalry that cleared the streets after the riot
The Church Research Trail (S7)
- Father Clodius — keeper of the Balventia library at Karven
- Zafara ibn-Zahir — Mother Abbess of Blessed Ensah (Uryula); pre-Empire Church historian, not yet asked the real questions
- Salemon Fouquier — archprelate of Ximes (wherever that is); used (pro/con) divination in the Fifth Crusade, still alive
- Felice D’Oiseaux — secular scholar of Church rituals, University of Touraine
Historical figures from the library (none living): Blessed Augustina — first Most Holy, born Karven · Blessed Vibia — received the Book of Light; the power killed her · Blessed Benedict — his True Divination steered the Third Crusade onto the Betrayer Queen (not Benedicto Malipiero) · Blessed Caterina — the Cardacci wound-taker · Aurelius Balventius — anathematized head of the order of the moon, and a Balventia kinsman · Euglerrand de Tarrand — of the Vigil of the Ten, and of the de Tarrands
The Citadel of Gazra — the Last Owl Knights (S6)
- Visenne de Tarrand — Owl knight, five years a hostage; daughter of the Order of the Swan’s current commander; better with a blade than anyone the party has
- Isabel d’Allais — daughter of the Owl’s last knight commander; gift of beasts; hidden in Hazad since she was thirteen
- Captain Faqir — their jailor · Sister Alia — their spiritual advisor (not Sister Alasia)
- Jean-Marie † · Elysant Peppin † · Marin of Clan Agaddum † (Elysant’s squire; her cousin was on the 1732 demon party) — the three killed with them in Halwa, Fall 1734
Ensah’s Set & Capital Society
- Nusra al-Bushra — Ensah’s companion, poet
- Rasia al-Rabi — attending lady, Farraj’s cousin
- Master Ibek — trade-as-arithmetic scholar
- Master Jahir — religious scholar
- Master Humron — religious scholar, al-Bushra patronage
- Master Zumini — painter, cat-lover
- Safia ibn-Akar — merchant calligrapher, interested in Gnaeus
- Harim al-Faisal — second center of Baahir’s court
Al-Hakim University
- Master Razom — Dean of Theology
- Master Baram — holy sites & obscure lore
- Master Bahadir — mathematician
- Master Najlad — astronomer
- Master Beczat al-Azari — chief archivist
- Berdi — archivist’s assistant
The Nobility
- Decius Tettienus Ulpia — Duke of Auvernius, Gnaeus’s brother
- Silvia Menenia — Gnaeus’s prospective bride; dutiful rather than keen (S8)
- Julius Menenius — Eagle Knight Captain; thinks Gnaeus a “dissipated playboy” (S8)
- Donatello — his elven squire
- Camillia Balventia — Balventia hostess
- Lusia Balventia — Countess of Karvena, candidate bride for Baahir
- Zahir al-Akram — Conservative leader
- Naqi al-Akram — Eagle Knight; the knight Haroun squired for; pulled off Awad’s expedition by his sister’s death, then died of illness at home (S2, S6)
- Rashida al-Sabri — Naqi’s widow; children Sajid and Rim
- Ihab al-Rabi — Modernist leader
- Farouk al-Magdi — Arch-prelate of the City
House Menenia at Castromar (S8)
- Mettius Vesilius Menenius — Duke of Charsanon; floated Opia as the better match
- Festinia Titiana — his wife, pregnant
- Aulus Sabucius Menenius — Silvia and Opia’s father
- Opia — Silvia’s sister, 19; likes Gnaeus more
- Drusus Sornatius — Julius and Atilius’s father
- Atilius — cartographer; found the mirror lake on a map
The Pilgrim’s Road (S8–S9)
- Gaius — unmet; tells the diggers at the ruined town where to dig for money
- Mirriam — girl in priestly robes Amani; keeping an old-style shrine to the Maker above the Moon sanctum at The Mirror Lake; welcomed the party as “pilgrims”; mentions a head priest who visits (S9)
Halwa
- Achmed — Uncle’s Factor
- Lindse — the servant girl from Kraus’s Folly, now in Ari’s charge
- Sister Alasia — Alasia Fiermonti; runs the western church, and was Haroun’s love interest during his posting
- Father Ignazio — new formal head of the western church, first in a decade; even Alasia says be careful
- Mamud — desert guide; took the Owl knights to the sanctum too
- Fajan the Younger — freshly violent new head of the Uru clan
- Harbormaster of Halwa — apprentice-hungry heir to an Imperial office; his quarantine keeps the plague out
- Captain Iram — the ship that brought the party
The Sanctums
- Estelle — masked woman in Farraj’s dreams; the only source on what sanctums are
- The Abbot — the talking corpse under the Sanctum of Sethariel
The Phoenix Affair
- Gandolfini † — Knight-Confessor, killed at the drop-off; dean of the University of Krenau
- Madeline Foussard — knight-confessor, seven years a prisoner at Kraus’s Folly, now something else
- Constanza Bethlen — the fugitive Madeline was hunting; tied somehow to the folly’s lord
- Bren · Arnolf — his companions, now in Uncle’s Men’s custody
- Adalberto — Ari’s first master, never met
The West, 1731–1736 (from the GM timeline — none met; see The Fall of the Order of the Owl)
Averoigne — the succession
- Etienne de la Courcel † — the last uncontested king; died naming a bastard daughter heir
- Marie-Celeste de la Courcel † — that heir, murdered two weeks later; raised in a monastery, and Madeline Foussard was appointed her tutor in anticipation of the legitimization
- Marc Abayante † — head of the Order of the Owl, named Regent, killed the same night
- Michel d’Envers † — took the throne by his wife’s blood; accused of the murders; died suddenly 1733
- Estoile de la Courcel — his wife, the late king’s sister, and the whole claim
- Rincon d’Envers — the current King of Averoigne; too disliked to end the war
- Guillaume de Fausseflammes † — Order of the Swan commander, rival claimant, the one man who named d’Envers
- Cataline, Comtesse de Touraine † — his widow; held out three years and got her daughters out
- Daughters of Touraine — Odette, Alphonsine, Eloise; escaped the siege, now guests of the Doge, and claimants to Averoigne
- Louis d’Allissy — Archprelate of Vyones; crowned the man he should have opposed
- Jehanne d’Allais — the bought commander imposed on the Owl (the S6 notes call him Jehan Dalet); fate unrecorded — and he has a daughter, Isabel d’Allais, alive in Hazad
- Charles de Tarrand — the Order of the Swan’s current commander; his house backed Fausseflammes, his daughter is a hostage in Hazad
Morrschatten — the War of the Three Princes
- Matthias Melnich † — Prince of Strelitz, Constanza Bethlen’s guardian and accuser; murdered 1734
- Gunter Melnich — his son and successor
- Prince Udo — sacked Krenau; the university burned
- Amalricht von-Haup † — House Bethlen’s court magician, then Melnich’s; Uncle and Ismad speculate he might have been capable of the Kraus’s Folly circle, unconfirmed; died ~1736
- Kristof Gruben † — lord mayor who took Krenau after the 1720 massacre of the Bethlens; died ~1736
Cardacci
- Alessandro Falieri — Doge of Cardacci since 1721; Fifth Crusade hero; hosts the Daughters of Touraine while recognizing Rincon d’Envers
The Holy City
- Boniface III † — the Most Holy who confirmed d’Allais over the Owl
- Baldessare Malipiero — His Holiness Pious III, elected 1734; the Owl died under him
- Benedicto Malipiero — signed author of On the Summoning of Guardian Spirits — and Pious III’s younger brother, condemned for heresy ~1710 (S6)