Aracthus: An Eddisian god. Associated with the River Aracthus.

Aristogiton: A friend of Costis and a soldier in the Attolian guard. Costis borrows his name when he needs an alias.

Artadorus: An Attolian baron enmeshed in the schemes of Baron Erondites. At the baron’s suggestion, he misreports the kind of grain he grows in order to pay less in taxes.

Attolia: Irene, queen of Attolia.

Aulus: An Eddisian soldier and minor prince of Eddis enlisted as an ad hoc nanny for the king of Attolia.

Benno: A guard hired by Roamanj to accompany his caravan.

Boagus: An Eddisian soldier and babysitter of Eugenides.

Brinna: The head cook in Attolia’s kitchens.

Cassa: Owner of the honeyed hives in the Mede epic of Immakuk and Ennikar.

Chloe: A younger attendant of Attolia.

Cleon: One of Eugenides’s attendants.

Cleon (the other Cleon): Gen and Eddis’s cousin.

Cletus: An Attolian baron, supporter of the queen.

Costis: Costis Ormentiedes, a soldier in the Attolian guard. He is unwillingly embroiled in the politics of the court by Eugenides.

Crodes: A soldier of Eddis. Cousin to the queen and to Eugenides.

Death: Lord of the Underworld. Brother of the Queen of the Night.

Dionis: One of Eugenides’s attendants.

Diurnes: A member of Costis’s squad in the Attolian guard.

Earth: The origin goddess in the Eddisian creation stories.

Eddis: Helen, queen of Eddis.

Efkis: An Attolian baron. Because of Eugenides’s schemes, he was thought to have betrayed the Queen of Attolia.

Elia: One of the queen of Attolia’s attendants.

Enkelis: An ambitious lieutenant in the Attolian guard, briefly promoted to captain by the queen of Attolia.

Ennikar: One of the heroes in the Mede epic of Immakuk and Ennikar.

Ephrata: An Attolian baron.

Erondites: An Attolian baron, one of Attolia’s oldest enemies. Father of Erondites the Younger and Sejanus.

Erondites the Younger, called Dite: Baron Erondites’s son and one of Attolia’s most fervent supporters.

Eugenides: An Eddisian who served as the queen’s thief of Eddis before becoming king of Attolia. Also called Gen.

Eugenides: The Eddisians’ god of thieves.

Galen: Eddis’s palace physician.

Ghasnuvidas: Emperor of the Mede. He has been diagnosed with an incurable disease that leaves lesions on the skin, and he has passed over his own sons in order to name his nephew as his heir.

Godekker: An escaped slave living in hiding in Zaboar. He agrees to hide Kamet and Costis.

Hamiathes: A mythological king of Eddis. To reward him, he was given Hamiathes’s Gift, which conferred immortality and the throne of Eddis.

Hegite: Daughter of the Eddisian baron Phoros. Older sister of Agape.

Heiro: Daughter of one of the barons in the Attolian court. Eugenides dances with her but not with her older sister, Themis.

Hemke: A shepherd on the salt flats of the Mede empire.

Hephestia: The Great Goddess. Head of the Eddisian pantheon. Goddess of volcanoes. She is the daughter of Earth and Sky. They have given her the power of their lightning bolts and earthquakes.

Hespira: In the Eddisian story of Hespira and Horreon, she was lured to the underworld by the goddess Meridite, who wanted her to marry Horreon, Meridite’s son.

Hilarion: The oldest of Eugenides’s attendants.

Hippias: An Attolian baron. He becomes the secretary of the archives after Relius is arrested for treason.

Horreon: An Eddisian god, the son of the goddess Meridite. He was a blacksmith who made magical armor forged in the fire of the Hephestial Mountain.

Ileia: One of Attolia’s younger attendants.

Imenia: Among the most senior of Attolia’s attendants.

Immakuk: One of the heroes from the Mede epic of Immakuk and Ennikar.

Ion: One of Eugenides’s attendants

Ion (the other Ion): He is a faithless attendant of Sophos, king of Sounis

Iolanthe: One of Attolia’s attendants.

Jeffa: The former secretary of Nahuseresh. When he died, Kamet took his place.

Kamet: An enslaved Setran, private secretary to Nahuseresh.

Kepet: A Setran slave dealer in the Mede empire.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.