Phyle—Gamma Joet Goez Phyle of Bull Run, Lineage Discontinued (A.D. 5655)

Ivinia—Alpha Lady Mother-of-Commandant Wife-of-Captain Ulec Nemosthene Ivinia née Echtal, and her victory title is Septimilegens

Arthuna Ire Extet—One of her ancestors by marriage through the Ulec line

Callixiroc the Dark—The named weapon of the lineage of Ivinia

Vulpina and Suspinia—young Beta women (Vulpina A.D. 5316) (Suspinia A.D. 4812)

Larz—Kine Larz Quire Slewfoot of Gutter (A.D. 5950)

Larslin Bretchlouder, on whom the character is based

Gibson—a half-Gamma who wrote the Larz of the Gutter cheaplies

Alpha Captain Stheno Alleret Anju of First and Second Bull Run—A soldier mentioned by Larz

Franz, Ardzl, Happy—Other Kine

Nymphs

Oenoe—Oenoe Psthinshayura-Ah of Crocus with Clover and Forsythia (A.D. 6746)

Rayura-Ah—The First of Nature, a twin of Rania

Aura-Ah and Riana-Ah—Her twins

Iatrocrats

Hormagaunt Iatrocrats:

Soorm—Soorm scion Asvid scion Pastor (his original name was Soorm scion Moord scion Elwe) (interred A.D. 7466)

Asvid—his original Satyr-name was Marsyas of Saffron, with Oakwhite, Oleander, Rocket, and Mandrake (these floral symbols represent Wariness of Excess, Independence, Caution, rivalry, honor), born circa A.D. 6850

Behemodont—His pet

Moord scion Elwe—His maker

Asvid of Nettles—His patron

Ormvermin—The watchworm of Asvid

Crile scion Wept and Gload scion Ghollipog—Two Hormagaunts (Gload, A.D. 7520; Crile A.D. 7810)

Short Iatrocrats:

Prissy Pskov and Zouave Zhigansk—two Iatrocracy Burghers (Clade dwellers)

Toil, Drudge, Drench—three Iatrocracy organ-donors

Locusts

Crucxit, Axcit, and Litcec of Seven-Twenty-One North Station (between A.D. 7480 and A.D. 10000)

Blue Men (Simplifers)

Illiance—A Locust Inquiline of the Order of Simplified Vulnerary Aetiology (the Simplifiers, aka the Blue Men); his false-mother-name is Lagniappe (A.D. 8800)

Ull—his Mentor

Orovoy, Naar, Yndelf, Yndech, Ydmoy—Preceptors of Blue Men

Saaev, Aarthroy, Unwing—Blue Men of lower dignity: an Invigilator, a Docent, a Bedel

Aanwen—A Blue Widow; her dignity is Preceptrix

Their Followers

Eie Kafk Ref Rak—One of the Followers, a canine Moreau (Irish Wolfhound)

Ee-ee Krkok Yef Yepp—A Follower (a stately Doberman Pincer)

Ktatch-Ee Yett Ya-Ia—Another Follower (a Collie)

Rirk Refka Kak-Et—Another Follower (a Great Dane)

Linderlings

Keir and Keirthlin (A.D. 8866)

Melusine

Alalloel (A.D. 10100)

Elders

Joua Ja Gomez—Also styled George Washington, sold Cheyenne Mountain to the Order of Malta

RACES OF THE DRAMA

Note on Languages

Noted here are only the dominant or most common languages spoken by the persons of the drama. This does not reflect the demographic distribution of speakers: so, for example, Spanish is listed as the dominant language of the world in the time of the Concordat, even though there were more Sinospherics (who spoke Chinese) than Hispanospherics (who spoke Spanish or Portuguese).

Hospitaliers—Latin

Hermeticists—Spanish and English

Scholars—Korrekthotspeek (an English dialect)

Savants—Merikan

Sylphs—Spanish/Nipponese/Merikan pidgin

Giants—Anglatino

Witches—Virginian

Chimerae—Chimerical, albeit the lettered classes spoke Virginian, at least in the western hemisphere before the Social Wars

Nymphs—Natural, also called Nymph; there is no written form of the language

Hormagaunts—Iatric, albeit an earlier form of the language is called Leech

Locusts—Intertextual; this language is still in use by the Blue Men and the Linderlings

The language used by the Followers or dog things is not called by name, but it is described as sounding like barking

Melusine—Although not mentioned in the text, the language is called Verbal (a spoken version of Glyphic, based on Monument symbol logic sets)

Note on the Theory of Intelligent Design

It is commonly regarded that the several subspecies of man arising during the Hermetic Millennia were created by the special intervention of posthuman beings called the Hermetic Order or Hermeticists, albeit the widespread destruction of all forms of electronic record during the Ecpyrosis (A.D. 2525) makes confirmation difficult.

Among the Witches it is taught that mankind was created by the bones of the men of the previous world of the “Sixth Sun” recovered from the netherworld of Mictlan by venture of the archimage Houdini. Both textual and archaeological evidence favor the Witch theory, but the Intelligent Design theory is given here for reasons of completeness. The Chimerae teach that they were created by the genetic sciences of the Witches as Moreaus are. The Nymphs do not make theories. Hormagaunts not only favor the Intelligent Design theory, but their ancestor lists are also carefully forged to put the Red Hermeticist, Pastor, at the head of each. The Locusts believe a variant of the theory, but list the Locust scientist Seir as the creator of the race. How the Locust race can be created by a Locust is a mystery best left to theologians to explain.

Notwithstanding, tradition names the creator of each of the subspecies as follows:

Giants—Menelaus Montrose

Albeit many traditions give the creator’s name as Thucydides Montrose, or as His Holiness Sixtus VI. The notable features of Giants are their posthuman level intelligence, vast cranial capacity, and great size.

Witches—Melchor de Ulloa

The females enjoy greatly expanded life spans, as well as neural modifications in those brain areas associated with intuitive thought, pattern-seeking, and dreaming.

Chimera—Narcís D’Aragó

The Chimerae have animal DNA spliced into their code. Despite the popular error, Chimerae look like human beings to the unpracticed eye, and do not have beastlike faces or fur or tails. The Chimerae are disease resistant and hardened to endure levels of radioactivity lethal to unmodified human beings. Note that the Kine, who retain Witch atavisms, are longer lived than their masters.

Nymphs—Sarmento i Illa D’Or

The Nymphs are bred for exaggerated sexual allure and response both in male and female, as well as sensitivity and vulnerability to a wide array of pharmacological stimulants, depressants, and hallucinogens. The pleasure centers of the brain are enlarged.

Hormagaunts—Father Reyes y Pastor

The Hormagaunts are modified to have voluntary control over their bodily tissue rejection mechanism, and to write and edit captured genetic material into their sperm by means of microscopic viral and nanotechnological manipulator cells. This enables them to add captured organs to their bodies, and to absorb and copy genetic information by ingesting samples. The Hormagaunt race has no fixed phenotype. A variant called Clades do not have so wide a range of variation, but manifest an allergy-causing mechanism to drive away persons of alien genetic arrangement; i.e., non-twins. It is not commonly recognized that the Locusts and Hormagaunts occupied the world at the same time, in competition with each other for most of their existence that ranges from vicious to ferocious to genocidal.

Locusts—Jaume Coronimas

Locusts have extensive neural modification, which allows them to use their brain matter as a neural emulator. Neural connection and calculation speed are similar to Giant brain structures. They posses a primary and secondary heart, as well as finer nerves with higher neural transmission speeds than humans. Most notably are the two golden tendrils that allow the Locusts to exchange subjective neural information radiotelepathically. Despite the popular error, Locusts cannot only not read human minds, who do not have broadcast organs of this type, but they also cannot read the minds of any Locust whose nervous system is not precisely organized to the same mental form and format. Despite the popular error, not all Locust races are dwarfish and bald: this applies only to variant races after the time of the Fifth Configuration, circa 8000–8700.