Grief – Butterfly-kinden, Monarch of Princep Salmae
Gude – Fly-kinden helmswoman of the Tidenfree crew
Haelyn – Sepia-kinden Kerebroi, majordomo to Claeon
Heiracles – Krakind Kerebroi, insurgent leader
Helmess Broiler – Beetle-kinden Assembler
Honory Bellowern – Beetle-kinden, Imperial diplomat
Isseleema – Spider-kinden ship-owner
Jaclen Courser – Beetle-kinden ship’s master
Janos Outwright – Beetle-kinden, Chief Officer of the Merchant Companies
Jodry Drillen – Beetle-kinden Assembler
Jons Allanbridge – Beetle-kinden aviator
Kratia – Tseni Ant-kinden ambassador
Laszlo – Fly-kinden factor of the Tidenfree crew
Lej (‘Spillage’) – Greatclaw Onychoi engineer, of Wys’s crew
Lerean – Dart-kinden Kerebroi wanderer
Lineo Thadspar – Beetle-kinden, former speaker for the Assembly – died during the war
Lyess – Medusoi Pelagist
Malius – Vekken Ant-kinden ambassador
Mandir – Smallclaw Onychoi, the Man of the Hot Stations
Marcantor – Dart-kinden Kerebroi in Aradocles’ service
Marteus – Ant-kinden chief officer of the Coldstone Company
Maxel Gainer – Beetle-kinden artificer, Tseitus’s apprentice
Menes – Krakind Kerebroi assassin in Claeon’s service
Nemoctes – Wayfarer-kinden Kerebroi, leader of the Pelagists
Ordly Penhold – Beetle-kinden merchant
Paladrya – Krakind Kerebroi tutor to Aradocles
Partreyn – Beetle-kinden deputy speaker of the Assembly
Pellectes – Krakind Kerebroi, leader of the Littoralists
Phylles – Polypoi member of Wys’s crew
Piera – Fly-kinden of the Tidenfree crew
Plius – Tseni Ant-kinden agent, died during the war
Praeda Rakespear – Beetle-kinden academic
Pserry – Gribbern’s beast
Rones Failwright – Beetle-kinden Assembler, shipping magnate
Rosander – Greatclaw Onychoi, Nauarch of the Thousand Spines train
Salme Dien (‘Salma’) – Dragonfly-kinden noble, died during the war
Santiren – Dart-kinden Kerebroi in the service of Aradocles
Sfayot – Roach-kinden chancellor of Princep Salmae
Stenwold Maker – Beetle-kinden spymaster and statesman
Teornis of the Aldanrael – Spider-kinden Aristoi
Termes – Vekken Ant-kinden ambassador
Thalric – Wasp-kinden former Rekef agent and Regent
Theomen – Krakind Kerebroi assassin in Claeon’s service
Three-City Alliance – Myna, Szar and Maynes; cities formerly under the control of the Empire
Tisamon – Mantis-kinden Weaponsmaster, died during the war
Tolly Aimark – Beetle-kinden ship’s master
Tomasso – Fly-kinden master of the Tidenfree
Tseitus – Tseni Ant-kinden artificer
Tynisa – halfbreed Weaponsmaster, daughter of Tisamon
Tyresia – Spider-kinden information broker
Varante – Dragonfly-kinden leader of Teornis’s cadre
Wys – Smallclaw Onychoi mercenary
Places
Arvandine – trading post at the edge of the Felyal
Capitas – capital of the Empire
Collegium – Beetle city, heart of the Lowlands
Deep Seep – sea-kinden colony
Everis – Spider-kinden island city
Felyal – Mantis-kinden forest, now mostly burned
Grand Atoll – sea-kinden colony off Tsen
Helleron – Beetle-kinden industrial city
Hermatyre – sea-kinden colony
The Hot Stations – sea-kinden industrial colony
Kanateris – Spider-kinden pirate town
Khanaphes – ancient Beetle-kinden city
Merro – Fly-kinden town
Princep Salmae – city newly founded by war refugees
Sarn – Ant-kinden city allied with Collegium
Seldis – Spider-kinden city
Siennis – Spider-kinden city
Sonn – Beetle-kinden city in the Empire
Tark – Ant-kinden city, devastated during the war
Tsen – Ant-kinden city on the far west coast of the Lowlands
Vek – Ant-kinden city recently at war with Collegium
Organizations and things
Amphiophos – the seat of Collegiate government
Assembly – the governing body of Collegium, elected by Lots
Benthist – a member of a nomadic sea-kinden group
Coldstone Company – a Collegium merchant company
Edmir – the governor of a sea-kinden colony
Isseleema’s Floating Game – a floating gaming house
Lots – the election of Collegiate Assemblers
Maker’s Own – a Collegium merchant company
Migrating Home – Jaclen Courser’s merchant ship
Nauarch – the leader of a Benthist train
Obligist – a sea-kinden living in a colony
Outwright’s Pike and Shot – a Collegium merchant company
Pelagist – a sea-kinden that leads a solitary, travelling life
Pelter – Tolly Aimark’s ship
Rekef – the Imperial secret service
Speaker – the leader of the Collegiate Assembly
Storm Locust – Ebris of the Ganbrodiel’s ship
Thousand Spines Train – Rosander’s followers
Tidenfree – Tomasso’s ship
Tseitan – Maxel Gainer’s submersible
Very Blade – pirate vessel
Windlass – Jons Allanbridge’s airship
