All. His worship was spread throughout the Seven Satrapies by Lucidonius four hundred years before the reign of Prism Gavin Guile.
Orholam: A nickname for a pious slave rower on the Bitter Cob who claimed to have been a reluctant prophet of Orholam. Due to Captain Gunner’s superstitions, he was assigned to the seventh seat in the galley’s ranks.
Pansy: Gunner’s first mate on the Golden Mean.
Parsham, Vell: Freed by Gavin after the False Prism’s War.
Pen, Ulgwar: Leader of the Eighth Stoa, scholar who wrote about shimmercloaks and invisibility.
Pheronike: A spy handler for the White King and a sub-red drafter. It was discovered while he was being executed on Orholam’s Glare that he was hosting the immortal Nabiros.
Polyphrastes: Religious scholar who wrote Dictions.
Presser: A battle-scarred Blackguard.
Proud Hart, Lady: A beloved artist and historian in Dúnbheo.
Ptolos, Euterpe: Satrapah of Ruthgar.
Pullawr, Orea: The White who preceded Karris Guile. A blue/green bichrome who refrained from drafting for decades in order to prolong her life. She served as the White for nearly thirty years before she was assassinated. She was married to Ulbear Rathcore before his death twenty years prior to her own.
Ramir (Ram): A Rekton villager and a bully who was murdered when Rask Garadul destroyed the village.
Rathcore, Marissia: Gavin Guile’s room slave, Orea Pullawr’s granddaughter. A red-haired Blood Forester who was captured by the Ruthgari during the Blood Wars, she served Gavin for more than ten years (since she was eighteen) as his room slave—secretly spying for her grandmother.
Rathcore, Ulbear: The late husband of the White, he has been dead for twenty years. An adroit player of Nine Kings.
Red Leaf, Bram: The rotund, rosy-cheeked ambassador to Satrap Willow Bough of Blood Forest; nobleman who holds land on the Blood Forest coast.
Rhoda: Masseuse for the Blackguard and the White.
Sadah Superviolet: The Parian representative, a superviolet drafter, often the swing vote on the Spectrum.
Samite: One of Karris White Oak’s best friends. Now one-handed after a war wound, she has become a trainer for the Blackguard.
Satish, Ravi: An unscrupulous banker and slaver involved with Aglaia Crassos, and a low-ranking member of the Order of the Broken Eye. From one of the families dispossessed and bankrupted during the False Prism’s War.
Sayeh, Samila: A blue drafter for Gavin Guile’s army. She fought for him in the defense of Garriston.
Seaborn, Phyros: A member of the Omnichrome’s army. He was seven feet tall and fought with two axes. Liv Danavis’s protector and guardian. His family was destroyed by the Guiles after his brother crossed Gavin Guile. Killed by Liv Danavis when he tried to enslave her for the White King.
Shadowblinder, Karris (née Karris Atiriel): A desert princess. She became Karris Shadowblinder before she married Lucidonius, and succeeded him as the second Prism of the Seven Satrapies. She founded the Blackguard.
Sharp, Murder (né Elijah ben-Kaleb): An assassin of the Order of the Broken Eye who has at times worked for Andross Guile when the Order endorsed the assignment.
Shmuel, Rivvyn: A light-skinned Abornean Blackguard. A red drafter who fought particularly bravely in the Wight King’s War.
Siluz, Aurea (Rea): Fourth undersecretary of the Chromeria library. She helps Kip once or twice.
Siofra, Sibéal: A pygmy drafter of Shady Grove.
Spreading Oak, Alexander: The Prism before Gavin Guile. Became a poppy addict shortly after becoming Prism. He spent most of his time hiding in his apartments. Son of Lord Bran Spreading Oak.
Súil: A weak paryl drafter living in Dúnbheo recruited by the Mighty.
Talim, Sayid: A former Prism. He nearly got himself named promachos to face the nonexistent armada he claimed waited beyond the Everdark Gates.
Tallach: A giant grizzly partnered with Conn Ruadhán Arthur. His littermate, Lorcan, was paired with Ruadhán’s twin brother, Rónán.
Tamerah: A Blackguard, a blue monochrome.
Tana: A legacy Blackguard.
Tawleb, High Luxiat: An important luxiat who was mentoring Quentin Naheed and directed him to assassinate Kip Guile. Once discovered, he was executed on Orholam’s Glare by the Iron White.
Tep, Usef: A drafter who fought in the False Prism’s War and later against the Omnichrome’s armies at Garriston. He was also known as the Purple Bear because he was a disjunctive bichrome in red and blue. After the war, he and Samila Sayeh became lovers, despite having fought on opposite sides.
Third Eye (née Polyhymnia): A gifted and powerful Seer, the leader of the original Seers Island inhabitants, and wife of Corvan Danavis before her assassination by Murder Sharp for the Order of the Broken Eye.
Tlatig: One of the Blackguard’s most skilled Archers.
Tzeddig: Blackguard trainer who mentored Samite and Karris’s cohort.
Valor: A mirror slave and former Blackguard trainee.
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