Kamet: An enslaved Setran, private secretary to Nahuseresh.

Kepet: A Setran slave dealer in the Mede empire.

Kununigadak the Devourer: A terrifying monster who guards the gates of the underworld in the stories of Immakuk and Ennikar.

Lader: A very unpleasant cousin of Eugenides. Deceased.

Laecdomon: A disruptive member of Aristogiton’s squad in the Attolian guard and an agent of Baron Erondites.

Laela: A slave in the househould of Nahuseresh. A friend of Kamet’s.

Lamion: One of Eugenides’s attendants.

Lavia: One of Attolia’s attendants.

Legarus: One of the men in Aristogiton’s squad in the guard. He is quite beautiful and uses it to what he thinks is his advantage.

Luria: One of Attolia’s attendants.

Lyopidus: The mortal brother of the god Eugenides. Jealous of his brother’s powers, he asked Eugenides to steal the Sky’s lightning bolts and died when they set the world on fire.

The magus: One of the king’s most powerful advisors; a scholar.

Marin: One of Nahuseresh’s dancing girls. He and Kamet were both in love with her.

Marina Erondites Susa: The only daughter of the Baron Erondites, she was disinherited when she married against her father’s will.

Medander: One of the king of Attolia’s attendants.

Melheret: The Mede ambassador to Attolia.

Meridite: An Eddisian goddess. Mother of armorer Horreon.

Minister of War: Eugenides’s father.

Minos: An Attolian baron. Publicly a supporter of the queen.

Miras: One of the new gods of Attolia, god of light and arrows. Worshiped by soldiers.

Moira: Messenger goddess of the Eddisian pantheon and also a record keeper. Her name means fate.

Motis: Became an attendant when two of the king’s attendants were retired. Motis and Drusis are brothers.

Nahuseresh: The Mede ambassador to Attolia. Nephew of the emperor; younger brother of the heir to the emperor. He attempted to woo the queen of Attolia as a means to her throne and failed.

Neheeled: Nahuseresh’s older brother, heir to the Mede Empire.

Ne Malia: Mede goddess of the moon, fertility, and rebirth.

Nine Gods: The main pantheon of the new Attolian gods. They defeated the giants.

Nuri: A Mede god of the river and the flood.

Olcthemenes: In the Eddisian stories of the old gods, Olcthemenes was the tailor who turned a blanket into a suit of clothes for the god Eugenides.

Olmia: In the Eddisian stories of the old gods, Olmia the weaver made a hat from bird feathers for the god Eugenides.

Onarkus: The head of the queen of Attolia’s kitchen.

Oneis: A heroic figure from the Epic of Oneis.

The Oracle: Oracle and high priestess at the new temple being built for Hephestia above the palace in Attolia.

Ornon: A minster to the queen of Eddis. Ambassador to Attolia. Subsequently Attolia’s ambassador to the Mede empire.

Orutus: Secretary of Attolia’s archives, which is to say, her master of spies.

Pegistus: Attolia’s Minister of War.

Pelles: One of Eugenides’s attendants.

Periphys: A goddess, one of the lighter winds.

Permindor of Nilos: Also called Perminder of Sounis, he was proposed by Sophos to be a new attendant to the high king.

Petrus: Attolia’s personal physician for years.

Pheris Mostrus Erondites: The nephew of Dite and Sejanus, and the firstborn grandson of Marina, the only daughter of the Baron Erondites. He shares his name with his grandfather who is Erondites.

Philia: One of the goddesses of the Attolian pantheon. She is goddess of mercy.

Philologos: Youngest but highest ranking of Eugenides’s attendants.

Phoros: A baron in Eddis; father of Agape, Hegite, and two other daughters.

Phresine: Oldest of Attolia’s attendants.

Piloxides: A general of Attolia’s armed forces.

Pol: Captain of Sophos’s father’s guard; a soldier.

Polemus: A new attendant to the king.

Polyfemus: One of the giants who supposedly built the old walls of Sounis’s prison and the roads of Eddis.

Proas: An Eddisian god of green and growing things.

Prokep: A Mede god; a statue of him was made by the sculptor Sudesh.

Queen of the Night: Sister of Death and mother of Unse-Sek.

Relius: He was the secretary of the Archives, with many, many, lovers; one of whom turned out to be a spy for the Mede Emperor.

Roamanj: A caravan master who hires Costis and Kamet as guards.

Sejanus: The youngest child of Baron Erondites.

Senabid: A character in skits, a slave who makes a fool of his master.

Shef: A slave dealer in the Mede Empire.

Shesmegah: In the Mede pantheon, goddess of mercy, forgiveness, and second chances.

Silla: One of the Queen of Attolia’s attendants.

Sky (god): Created by Earth, he is the second god in the Eddisian pantheon.

Snap: Also called Pepper. Pheris’s pony.

Sophos (Useless the Younger): Apprentice of the magus; future duke; nephew of the king and his heir. He becomes king of Sounis.

Sotis: One of Eugenides’s senior attendants.

Sounis: Sophos’s uncle and king of Sounis. He had no children of his own. In exchange for his half-brother’s support he has named his nephew, Sophos, as his heir.

Stadicos: One of Attolia’s barons, corrupted by the Mede ambassador, Nahuseresh.

Stenides: Eugenides’s brother, a watchmaker.

Susa: One of Attolia’s barons. Devious, but not necessarily an enemy of the queen. He is baron over the lands where Costis’s family has their farm.

Teleus: The captain of the Royal Guard. He only has one lover.

Temenus: Gen’s brother, a soldier.

Tenep: Usually the most gentle of the gods, she turns her anger on the world when Ennikar steals from her.

Thales: Wrote about the basic elements of the universe; Eugenides was copying his scroll before he went on his mission to Attolia.

Thalia: Costis’s younger sister.

Themis: Erondites recruits Themis and hopes to make her the king’s mistress, but Eugenides only dances with Themis’s younger sister, Heiro.

Therespides: An Eddisian known for his philandering. Also known for selling information to anyone who will pay him.

Timos: Cousin of Eugenides and Eddis. He dies stopping Attolia’s advance up the main pass into Eddis.

Titus: Gen’s cousin who once broke several of Gen’s ribs in a beating.

Trokides: A general of Sounis’s armed forces

Ula: Goddess of the hearth and healing.

Unse-Sek: A terrible monster that roamed the isthmus in the stories of Immakuk and Ennikar, child of the Queen of the Night.

Verimius: One of the king’s attendants. He has a wife and various lovers until he was sent home from the Attolian court.

Witch of Urkell: In the Epic of Immakuk and Ennikar, she is Ennikar’s lover and the daughter of Ninur.

Xanthe: Eddis’s most senior attendant.

Xenophon: One of Eddis’s generals.

Xikander: One of the king’s less pleasant attendants. Poor Gen has so many unpleasant attendants. Xikander and Xikos are brothers.

Xikos: Another one of the king’s unpleasant attendants. Xikander and Xikos are brothers.

Zerchus: A cook in Attolia’s kitchens.