Characters

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Entry	Appears in	Notes
Abellaime's late husband	Pretenders to the Thro ch 5	unnamed; his exact robe is worn by Valkazar as a small cruelty
Aeriff	Pretenders to the Thro ch 9-42	senior conjurer of the Helaseach; advises "Legs, joints, just stop them moving" at the third wall; leads the ritual to animate the Gaeledh from the Taela's foundations
Aggregate-of-Humanity	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 4
Alv	House of Open Wounds ch 1-51; Days of Shattered Fait ch 7-49	Guest-Adjutant, Divinati sympathetic healer; insists on taking the blinded scout's burn damage onto her own face and body; continues healing through a crippled arm and a thigh wound; keeps saying "I still have more to give" until her body fails
an assistant	City of Last Chances ch 8-40	one of Culvern's clerks, "poked her beak around the door" at the end of the meeting; part of a staff who stuff fragrant herbs into long-nosed masks and burn their robes weekly
Angilly	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-48	fifteen-year-old orphan at Thorntree House; excels at fencing and outdoor skills but is rated "adequate" in academics; terrorised by fire since the Jarokir incident; confronted and threatened by her aunt into pursuing distinction in her exams
Angilly's father	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1-2	A statlos attached to the garrison's quartermaster office; an Accessory to his wife's authority; physically forces Angilly through a too-small window, dislocating her shoulder and breaking both her forearm bones; turns to save the next child and burns
Annet	Days of Shattered Fait ch 27-41	Fellow-Archivist; arrives unlisted on the Naturae, tries to question locals about the mourning flags, is glowered at and ignored, helps plan their next moves
Arduin oa Galeaff	Pretenders to the Thro ch 3-34	nephew of Hamriddy; humiliated by Devil Jack in the Taela; conspires with Reddaen in the Upper Parlour
Ariet	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1-2	Angilly's dead mother; belonged to Correct Speech; Ostrephy's sister; never "adequate"
Arkanith	Days of Shattered Fait ch 5-44	the Grand Moerend, highest official of the state death cult; summoned before Gorbudan and the corpse, defends Premath's suicide as proper religious practice, is confined under guard by Gorbudan's order
Aspel	Pretenders to the Thro ch 4-42	Cohort-Monitor artillerist commanding crews scattered across the occupied city; channels Valkazar's calculations to fire a precise artillery pattern that punches a twenty-foot breach through a solid wall into unsuspecting lower-city Wards; privately terrified she has become an apostate by following numbers over the Commission's doctrine
Aullaime	City of Last Chances ch 16-45	referred to only as "the conjurer" and "one of the hellieurs"; she descends into the factory, delivers individually drafted contracts to each demon, invokes the final-appendix clause, and demands signatures to send the demons into the streets of Ilmar to kill Palleseen soldiers
Banders	House of Open Wounds ch 2-51; Pretenders to the Thro ch 5-42	former Cohort-Broker, now orderly; scavenged weapons from the dead; found three Pal troopers and recruited them into the group; trains to kill on the Archipelago; kills the last Loruthi soldier; loots Paucelry's pockets
Benallers	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 4-10	Companion-Invigilator, demonist, half-Allorwen; conjures a bloodhound demon that incites a market riot; argues with Tinsly over demonism methodology; the "other one" at the private taverna meeting; vanishes at chapter's end and the Residency staff refuse to acknowledge his existence
Benno	City of Last Chances ch 4-36	a small, mean Vulture thug who hates Ruslav but is assigned to work with him; finds him outside the exhibition to relay orders about Blackmane
Berkely	Days of Shattered Fait ch 35-50	Sage-Broker, Valuations; has relocated Palleseen administration into the palace; confronts Gil about her operation, reveals knowledge of her relationship with Dekamran, insults her personally, and orders her imprisoned
Blackmane	City of Last Chances ch 3-49	Allorwen pawnbroker, sorcerer, and community leader being prepared for execution for the fifth time; a last-minute pardon saves him again. Afterward he returns to his ransacked shop in Mirror Allor and sends a message naming his enemies to the Palleseen spy-master
Brachalven	City of Last Chances ch 34	old man who led the Sisters' efforts over Yennitch Park; executed by Carelia as a Pal informant
Brandery	Pretenders to the Thro ch 4-41	rank: Sage-Monitor - Commanding officer of Resolute Battalion; interrogated by Fowlett over the loss of Eres Ffenegh, the cult defections, and the use of Dead Companies; delivers the plan via Dantell; ordered to take the city in ten days
Brockelsby	City of Last Chances ch 30-46	Fellow-Monitor of Correct Conduct; presumed dead, ten per cent of his troops missing, another twenty-two per cent showing effects of contact with the Reproach
Caeleen	House of Open Wounds ch 9-51; Days of Shattered Fait ch 5-48; Pretenders to the Thro ch 10-42	Maserley's demon companion (succubus); previously Jack's lover; bound by contract to Maserley; explains that the contract is the only thing keeping her in the world and that true freedom means returning to the Worlds Below; calls Jack's desire to free her well-meaning but counterproductive
Callow	House of Open Wounds ch 29-46	Companion-Archivist, leader of the new class; proposes and demonstrates transferring harm to an unwilling, untrained subject (a mouse), asks Alv whether there is any true limit to sympathetic transfer
Carelia	City of Last Chances ch 7-44	Vulture leader and half of the Bitter Sisters; meets Ruslav at the pit's edge, feeds the creature indirectly through a junior recruit, gives orders about the Anchorage and Fleance, speaks of Herons and Pals
Cheryn	City of Last Chances ch 3-27	Vulture ambassador, called "Fish" for obscure reasons; found dead in the hidden cellar with over a dozen stab wounds, killed with "maniac zeal"
Chivvel	House of Open Wounds ch 44	childhood associate who carved her name into the Stick-Man's rear
Conn Leachan	Pretenders to the Thro ch 2-42	the thousand-year-old ghost inhabiting the sword; the founder of Eres Ffenegh, slayer of giants, greatest warrior of his age; his spirit is forcibly extracted and converted into tablethi by a Pal specialist, and Kiffel watches this happen without being able to see or feel the ghost directly
Coregan	Days of Shattered Fait ch 4-19	Custodian, Keeper of the Fifth Key, a minor palace official who holds Gil in his cellar; owes his position to patrons who backed Gorbudan; attempts to lose Gil in the House of Hard Angles
Cosserby	House of Open Wounds ch 8-51	Cohort-Monitor, Sonorist and artificer seconded to the hospital; fabricates and fits prosthetics (arm, fingers, ear) for wounded soldiers; confronts the cost of replacement tablethi with an amputee; is taunted by Ollery; turns back to follow Maric after seeing him arrested
Croskin	Days of Shattered Fait ch 12-48	a demon forced into the form and uniform of a Palleseen soldier; claims rank of Cohort-Monitor, Ventures Department of the army of Pallesand; stranded after his summoner died; meets Caecelian and Enshili at the Sand Gate
Culvern	City of Last Chances ch 9-48	Sage-Invigilator and Perfector of Ilmar; cursed with a putrefying stench and suppurating skin, receives a delegation of Indwellers to make amends for the killing of one of their number
Dalry	Days of Shattered Fait ch 27-41	Sage-Inquirer; very tall, very old, exquisitely educated, has an ancestor on the original Commission; extracts information from locals with quiet courtesy, identifies the toad religion, decides they must visit Angilly
Damashili	Days of Shattered Fait ch 28	cousin of Dekamran; backed Gorbudan, has a son of about three; her house was searched and weapons, tablethi, and money were seized
Dantell	Pretenders to the Thro ch 4-42	Fellow-Archivist, the Stoat; commands Aspel as her magister; watches the breach succeed and internally resolves that Aspel "will all have to go on the pyre"; recalls fleeing the Archipelago because her own clevernesses didn't fit the Commission's view; dispatches Lovern into the Wood
Dantell, 'the Stoat'	Pretenders to the Thro ch 34	The Pals assemble their multi-purpose assault under his guidance
Dekamran	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 8-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 3-48	second son; educated, quiet, soft; cultivated by Angilly as a backup; weeps before her over his mother's absence; the one who kneels to comfort his father at the pools
Doctor Grau	Days of Shattered Fait ch 17	Allorwen spice trader who fled when the Palleseen added Allor to the Sway; now arrested
Dolethi	Days of Shattered Fait ch 8-10	poet; recites ambiguous verses to the Alkhand; offers herself as his token while preserving her position as favourite
Dorae	City of Last Chances ch 21-47	Allorwen antiques dealer in Mirror Allor, marched to the scaffold and hanged; reflects on his quarter-life of subservience and hidden resistance harbours
Dostritsyn	City of Last Chances ch 15-17	ruin-diver on his eighth venture into the Reproach; leads the group; motivated by legend and reputation; abandons his goat and leaves Meraqui behind; emerges at dawn with loot intact
Drathel	Days of Shattered Fait ch 6-48	Palleseen Decanter, rank Fellow-Archivist. Works in the crypt, strings of tablethi around a coffin, preparing to render a body "no more than a corpse." Her wards and the soldiers' protections are of her making. Her ritual is catastrophically disrupted when the House's ghost-trap is broken; the tablethi overcharge, gold runs into the necromantic inscriptions, and her wards burn out. Killed by Premath
Ellaime	City of Last Chances ch 1-39	Allorwen landlady; eats bread in her kitchen, gives Yasnic special rates for priests, bars the door during Nihilostes' visits so the priestess can flee Correct Speech
Elvaer	City of Last Chances ch 16	Allorwen who came over from Mirror Allor to mind the presses; brings news that the Gownhall has ground to a halt under Pal soldiers after an arrest
Emir-Jarl of Farasland	Days of Shattered Fait ch 39
Emlar	City of Last Chances ch 6-45	student; sharpened Lemya's sabre; distributes spare tablethi; is shot in the shoulder and knee by the Palleseen Hands operator's fire
Ennit	House of Open Wounds ch 32	Ollery's wife of ten years; had an affair with a Fellow-Invigilator; was given antidotes by Ollery before the poisoned dinner
Enshili	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 8; Days of Shattered Fait ch 5-48	the Alkhand's daughter ("Caecelian's girl"); Loret's rooftop companion; reveals her father and brothers knew what she was, and that she helped her youngest brother die; her mentor is Caecelian; chooses to stay with Loret at the Cotto cellar rather than flee
Erd Mannet	Pretenders to the Thro ch 12-37	a dead sentry of the Moeribandi Empire, part of the Dead Companies; serves a thousand years of sentry duty in a necropolis, now a "parched cadaver" holding the barricades for the Lich Queen; feels envy toward the living and welcomes demons as "old friends"; marches the woman to the Lich Queen
Ergice	City of Last Chances ch 4-14	Vulture thug; accompanies Benno, is slammed against the wall by Ruslav, then joins in laughing at Benno's chamberpot mishap
Erinael	House of Open Wounds ch 5-45	Chief Accessory Erinael, first Chief of the hospital, former lead medico; dead, rendered down by the Decanters for raw power
Escriby	House of Open Wounds ch 40	named by Lidlet as another soldier whose life depends on the rules
Estern	City of Last Chances ch 30	head of the Impounded Evidence Office, berated by Hegelsy for the raid; explains the fog/mist and the mindless bodies; his people search the evidence and find only the mask missing
Ettek Scerlen	Pretenders to the Thro ch 12-37	long-dead hero whose ghost has now vanished entirely, every vessel destroyed by the demon champion; the Dead Companies' only casualty
Evene	City of Last Chances ch 7-44	half of the Bitter Sisters, leader of the Vultures (referred to as "Aunt Evene"); arrives with a dozen Lodge soldiers to inspect Cheryn's hiding place, questions Langrice, considers punishing Hellgram, ultimately leaves without violence
Festle	House of Open Wounds ch 27-48; Pretenders to the Thro ch 6-40	Cohort-Monitor, a necromantically preserved corpse brought back from battle by Prassel; confronts her with Stiverton's dying accusation ("Betrayed, and your name"); is offered the rank of Companion-Monitor and the concept of The Deathless; accepts
Fisher King	House of Open Wounds ch 7-47; Days of Shattered Fait ch 36-50; Pretenders to the Thro ch 7-42	the sea god appears (visible only to Pope and Vestry) and strikes Vestry down; owes the Pope a sacrifice
Fleance	City of Last Chances ch 3-47	a Heron riverman and gambler hiding at the edge of the Anchorwood, starving and terrified; he watches the beast arrive, loses the thread of his own self-pity, and follows the Indwellers into the city under cover of their mist
Flint Postry	Days of Shattered Fait ch 12-48	Fellow-Monitor, heads the Ventures department; runs the camp; tells war stories; shows Dekamran the military and the demons; his real grin emerges only with Gil
Flob	Pretenders to the Thro ch 12-33	imp killed by the looters; re-summoned as a replacement at the chapter's end
Flockersly	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 6; Days of Shattered Fait ch 28	someone at Outreach Angilly considers writing to, but decides against as an admission of inadequacy
Flockersly's aide	House of Open Wounds ch 10; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 6	tops up tea and brings a second plate of cakes
Foley	House of Open Wounds ch 15-51	Trooper from Lidlet's squad; dying of multiple wounds; healed by God against Palleseen law
Follo	Days of Shattered Fait ch 8-47	the jolly Usrani monk who plays metal-tube bells, laughs loudly, drinks Ramaht, tells bawdy stories, and is dying of something Oathan's medicine only dulls; gives Kilbery a coin
Fosby	House of Open Wounds ch 3-8	Cohort-Monitor, quartermaster; Cosserby's "constant wranglings with the quartermasters" require him to buy supplies through Banders
Fowlett	Pretenders to the Thro ch 28-42	Professor-Inquirer, Inquisitor General; inspects the Dead Company, reviews the siege plan, dismisses the Lich Queen's suggestion to force the gates; shares a past guilt with the Lich Queen
Furenya	City of Last Chances ch 16	oversaw the wards at the Tosthevar factory; also vouched for
Fyon	City of Last Chances ch 21-37	Shrike murderer; had been hanged alongside Lemya previously; led the idea of placing students in overlooking buildings; defends a townhouse against Palleseen soldiers, holds the stairs with furniture and batons; shoots through an exploding armoire of gold; sends the students away and fights alone with knives
Gadders	City of Last Chances ch 23	a broad Palleseen man in shirtsleeves who operates the decanting apparatus with Riechy; bickers about a chipped cup; dismisses the old ceremony of "cleansing superstition"
Galversty	Days of Shattered Fait ch 12-42	Companion-Invigilator, deceased; previously held the squad's bindings, left them "flapping about on the end of the line for far too long"
Gascoln	Pretenders to the Thro ch 17	Abellaime's favourite cousin who proved a contemptuous brute
Ghastron	House of Open Wounds ch 33-40; Pretenders to the Thro ch 1-42	demon familiar bound to Varinecthes for over four centuries; appears as a beautiful youth with serpent's eyes; manages Varinecthes's inherited obligations
Gil's previous aide	Days of Shattered Fait ch 2	invalided out; "could find the Residence without getting knocked on the head and thrown in the harbour" was his only recommendation
God	City of Last Chances ch 1-49; House of Open Wounds ch 4-51; Days of Shattered Fait ch 36; Pretenders to the Thro ch 10-42	divine entity; appears as a tiny, wizened, creased creature (a "wrinkled gnome" with a monkey's agility); had been clinging to Ruslav, left him so as not to spoil his happiness, and runs back to Yasnic's heels; cold, crotchety, senile, healing nobody
Gorbudan	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 8-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 3-47	the Warrior Prince, eldest son; returns from a month-long hunt; argues with his father over foreign policy; favours the Loruthi over the Pals; his accession would shift the balance of power against Pallesand
Goughry	House of Open Wounds ch 18	Companion-Monitor, department head within Third Company; brings the charge against Jack; demands Jack be made an example of; initially refuses to accept Lidlet's transfer
Gowdi	City of Last Chances ch 6-49	Gownhall faculty seated at Vorkovin's table, watching him suspiciously
Grymme	City of Last Chances ch 15-18	ruin-diver, third venture, second with Dostritsyn; saw the Varatsin revels on a solo trip and was changed; fully succumbs to the curse mid-chapter, joining the court's dance
Guame	City of Last Chances ch 2-49	runs a circle house Ochelby patronises; a "skilled conjurer" and "bawd"; the place where Ochelby indulged his "particular kink" earlier that evening and where the straw doll was hung on the wall before being planted in his satchel
Guest-Adjutant Alv	House of Open Wounds ch 21-51	Divinati sympathetic healer; arrives agitated to discover her student cohort was held back without notification; still bears residual healing marks on her face
Hakoran	Days of Shattered Fait ch 22	Emorandi officer commanding Gorbudan's right flank; holds his position with cousins and peasants; encounters Croskin's demon regiment wearing Pal uniforms; fires his baton at the first demon, hits it, but the host overwhelms his line
Halseder	House of Open Wounds ch 30-48; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5	General, Bracite, one-armed, former "chief military boy" before the coup; leads the Bracite delegation from Magnelei; speaks only Bracite, not Pel
Hamriddy	Pretenders to the Thro ch 3-42	grandee of the Osseach of Defiance, spokesman for the city; presents absolute demands, is reduced to silence by Brandery's bludgeoning, and stands at the point of either capitulating or refusing
Havery	House of Open Wounds ch 18	Trooper in Goughry's department; fought Klimmel; already disciplined for brawling
Hegelsy	City of Last Chances ch 5-48	Fellow-Inquirer of Correct Speech (narration notes he will soon be Sage-Inquirer); commands the Palleseen forces surrounding the square; reads terms via an officer; upon receiving Nisbet's warning, orders Vorkovin arrested and a full immediate advance
Hellgram	City of Last Chances ch 3-49; Days of Shattered Fait ch 7-49	bouncer at the Anchorage, foreigner from beyond the Anchorwood; seeks regions of the Reproach he has not yet crossed; searches for his dead wife; unaffected by the Reproach's hold; uses divination tools and a book of tables; remains in the Reproach at chapter's end
Hellgram's wife	City of Last Chances ch 24-42; Days of Shattered Fait ch 45-46	lost in the Anchorwood five years ago; Hellgram believes she is still out there; Langrice privately doubts this
Hervenya	City of Last Chances ch 6-45	student who carries a six-inch knife and wants to be a Shrike; confronts the Raven-affiliated table, starts singing the old factory song
His Tranquillity Oparan	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-49	the Alkhand; referenced as Dekamran's father, "in my father's day, when his reign was young"
Hobbers	House of Open Wounds ch 29-46	a dour-looking girl in the class; repeatedly refuses Callow's hypothetical offers to take his injuries; reacts with a sound as though she herself were stabbed during his demonstration
Hoyst	City of Last Chances ch 5-29	the executioner/hangman, solicitous ("Wouldn't want you to sustain an injury, eh?"), dressed Dorae's rope in silk, fits nooses with a tailor's attention, dances his usual caper but senses the crowd isn't laughing
Ib	Pretenders to the Thro ch 12-33	imp who survived the looter chase and sat on Quellery's shoulder
Isildor	City of Last Chances ch 5	Allorwen community figure to whom Blackmane sends a note urging the community to brace for further incursions
Istreddy	Pretenders to the Thro ch 4-42	Cohort-Broker, Diviner and former Lycanthropist; brings in a new uniform stitched with special seams for the Lycanthropists' transformation; has been redeployed to the front as a monster for the living advance; reveals fragments of his Archipelago past
Isvillich Tosthevar	City of Last Chances ch 16	Armiger youth, son and heir presumptive of the factory owner; arrives drunk, shouts at workers, threatens wage dockings, is cowed by Orvechin's physical presence
Ivarn Ostravar	City of Last Chances ch 3-47	imprisoned Maestro of the Gownhall; interrogated once by Hegelsy; reflects on the stolen warding bundle, his political self-image ("the Great Nationalist"), and the Indweller beside him; receives Lemya, Ruslav, Yasnic, Fyon, Dorae, and Tobriant into the cells
Jarushan	Days of Shattered Fait ch 31	distant royal cousin; reportedly joined the Tesemer and had his tongue cut out
Jem	City of Last Chances ch 3-49	Divinati bartender at the Anchorage; re-set the severed tendons in Hellgram's right hand, woven binding magic through it; keeps trying to move the Allorwen to the cellar; does not want Hellgram to leave
Johanger Tulmueric	City of Last Chances ch 3-25	Loruthi merchant of the cartel, based in Ilmar six months a year; stays in his rooms during the unrest; is murdered by Fleance with a knife while being interrogated for "the ward"
Kaele	Pretenders to the Thro ch 5-42	one of the Pandaemonium's working girls; owns the nightgown Kiffel ea Leachan wore; a Left-city girl who also practises conjuration; relays the Palleseen ultimatum to the table
Kaethlien ea Galeaff	Pretenders to the Thro ch 42	"Aunt Kaet"; receives public credit for continuing the war effort after Hamriddy's death; Niev notes nobody saw her near fighting
Kakrops	Days of Shattered Fait ch 8-50	the frog god; coaxed from the cave at the pools, painted with warlike stick-man scenes; "eyes, big as a torso each, had goggled at everything with the same vacancy as Happy Jack"
Kaleithi	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 3-49	the former Alkhani; walked into the pools three years ago to join the Alborandi; has not returned; will never be Oparan's wife again regardless
Kass	Days of Shattered Fait ch 23	Ibaleth Great Mother; may have sent the Ibaleth war-party to Dekamran to hedge her bets, or they may be renegades; the chapter notes both possibilities
Kebler	Pretenders to the Thro ch 16	administrative clerk who owes Quellery a favour
Kiffel ea Leachan	Pretenders to the Thro ch 2-42	champion of Eres Ffenegh; recognises the former The Mouth of the Sea, observes the defectors, feels the sword's empathy for the dead, resolves to walk to the Dead Companies to warn them, learns the armour's true origin, is dressed in it by Usrach and walks out toward the enemy lines
Kilbery	House of Open Wounds ch 19-46; Days of Shattered Fait ch 7-49	Ollery's ward, called "the boy" and "the kid" in this chapter; assists Ollery carrying the crate to the Gallete village
Kilbery's son	Days of Shattered Fait ch 7	the big man's delinquent teenage son; called a "waste of space," later shambles in with a bulging satchel on deliveries, shoves past Gil
Killingly	House of Open Wounds ch 27-37	Fellow-Inquirer and field necromancer who attained the rank extremely young; speaks for the department's military-strategic side; authorises a waiver forcing Prassel to harvest ghosts from hospital deaths
Klimmel	House of Open Wounds ch 15-40	Trooper, regular soldier; left behind in the rout; kills a Loruthi with a knife; is gutted by baton-shot; swears the no-harm oath and is healed; resents the mercy
Kosha	City of Last Chances ch 1-41; House of Open Wounds ch 43-51	previous priest of God, dead; taught Yasnic, raised him in the faith when Ilmar was tolerant and they had three rooms above a tanner's
Langrice	City of Last Chances ch 2-49	keeper of the Anchorage; intermediary between the city and the Wood under the old covenant; confronts the Varatsin Duke, deals with Blackmane over the warding bundle, sends off the Allorwen and students
Lasaret	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3-5	has taken up a Sage's post on the Archipelago; his promotion is what created the Fellow vacancy Angilly filled; "Lasaret always said. Sometimes you had to play fast and loose with who you made happy"
Lemya	City of Last Chances ch 4-47	student at the barricades around Gownhall Square; has a crossbow, a flag, and a sabre sharpened by Emlar; later distributes water, wine, and tablethi; leads a push of a dining table over the barricade; vaults the barricade; watches Emlar get shot
Lhisamena	Days of Shattered Fait ch 3-26	Preceptor of the Tesemer; speaks in the True Speech; after a moment of apparent resistance, rides out on her hookloper and proclaims Gorbudan Alkhand; fights in the melee atop her mount, killing the Ibaleth mahout
Lidlet	House of Open Wounds ch 15-51	trooper and stretcher-bearer, "jug-eared, tough, the trooper's trooper," grew up poor on the Archipelago (homeland), adherent of God "through a legal loophole"; carries the wounded Cosserby through the mud after her fellow bearer deserts them, prays to God, negotiates a deal with Him, and cannot bring herself to abandon Cosserby
Life Of Dead Trees	House of Open Wounds ch 7-34	ancient nature spirit on Jack's shoulder, described as a tree god or god of rot; dances one final time, releasing spores that make the Loruthi forget Jack and Masty, then crumbles to fungus and woodlice
Llamienn	Pretenders to the Thro ch 17	Abellaime's aunt who tried to mould her into a doppelganger and caned her
Lochiver	House of Open Wounds ch 1-47	Accessory, Jarokiri former priest and flautist; at the fire, rages about debts owed by the Pallessans for Erinael and for his temple, mentions an engineer wanting to weaponise his "sacred exudation"
Loret	Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-50	Cohort-Invigilator, aide to Gil; freezes in terror during the howdah fight; is kicked over the rail by the Tesemer assassin; on the ground reveals a storm/tempest power ("the thunder," "the lash of the storm") that frightens a Louse Monk into retreat; afterward cannot explain what possessed her
Lougann oa Haelish	Pretenders to the Thro ch 42	of the Shipwrights; commended for the defence of Pencewort Ward
Lovern	Pretenders to the Thro ch 4-42	Cohort-Monitor, Left-Eye Brigade breacher; leads his surviving half-dozen into the Wood on Dantell's calculated heading; loses one man to a fish-lizard beast; holds to a simple vision of home and Anders as his private perfection
Magister Fallery	Days of Shattered Fait ch 17	Palleseen who held an import-export warehouse beyond the Water Lanes; fled down the Peor road
Maserley	House of Open Wounds ch 9-51; Pretenders to the Thro ch 15-39	Fellow-Invigilator; recognizes Masty as a former hospital menial; confronts Jack; tries to walk out with Jack and execute everyone; is compelled by Caeleen to kneel, bark, and flee into the Realms Below
Maserley's quartermaster	House of Open Wounds ch 35	unnamed quartermaster who notes Bracinta is the "Money-basket for the whole Loruthi Sway"; goes pale when threatened
Masty	House of Open Wounds ch 3-51	Bracite orderly in the experimental hospital department, attached to Forthright Battalion; grew up in the army from age seven/eight, formerly an underage camp familiar; absent from the department during Maric Jack's kidnapping; challenged, shoved, and flogged by Tunly during a night walkabout; salved by Ollery; confesses to Banders that the department is "home"
Mazdek	House of Open Wounds ch 5-46	the Chastising/Cleansing Flame, Tallifer's diminished god; "slithered out of her sleeve onto the table to look into the candle's wavering"; a tiny flame, the last ember of her faith
Mazdek, Chastiser of the Unclean	House of Open Wounds ch 45	a divine being associated with Tallifer, described as nibbling at her fingers "like being bitten by a cup of hot water"
Megget	House of Open Wounds ch 23	Cohort-Inquirer, duty officer; dismisses Tunly's charge, notes Masty is Forthright's man in a conjoined camp, gives six strokes "for malingering or something" to appease Tunly
Meller	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3	Sage-Inquirer, head of the whole Palleseen operation in Farasland; conducts the disciplinary hearing, exonerates Lasaret on the strength of a sealed report, and hands Angilly over to Lasaret's authority
Mellister	Pretenders to the Thro ch 7-42	rank: Fellow-Inquirer - former Correct Speech inquisitor, now leads the Hospitallers; confronts the Pal vanguard as an Inquirer, is beaten; prays God not to heal her; shoots herself to open her old wound, then shoots Brandery dead
Meraqui	City of Last Chances ch 15-17	ruin-diver, third venture; needs money for family in Mirror Allor and debts to the Lodges; provides paper charms to the group; charms expire; lost to the Reproach
Murredy	City of Last Chances ch 11	member of Shrievsby's squad; urges them to move, then turns and speaks in the delusional courtly voice of the Reproach; killed by the beast from the Anchorwood
Nasely	City of Last Chances ch 2-30	Companion-Archivist, Ochelby's secretary (twenty years old); watches the trees at the Anchorage, cannot see through them; flees back along the path when the beasts attack, abandoning Ochelby
Niev ea Galeaff	Pretenders to the Thro ch 3-42	niece of Hamriddy; acts as de facto commander at the Gaelensreach despite holding no formal authority; channels her uncle's rhetoric; gives the order to bring the wall down; joins the final stand at the gate
Nihilostes	City of Last Chances ch 19-32	foreign priestess of Zenotheus; visits with tea, attempts to convert Yasnic, offers a pain phial to Ruslav, fades into the crowd at the end with a look suggesting she will exploit the arrest
Nisbet	City of Last Chances ch 30-48	Fellow-Broker of Correct Exchange; filed her own report placing blame for the Liberation Way clash on Hegelsy, recommended for promotion by Culvern
Ochelby	City of Last Chances ch 2-49	Sage-Archivist of the School of Correct Erudition, second most senior academic of the Ilmari Perfecture; arrives at the Anchorage with an escort to join the Indwellers' crossing into the Anchorwood; his warding bundle is swapped for a straw doll and he is killed by the Anchorwood beasts
Ollery	House of Open Wounds ch 1-51; Days of Shattered Fait ch 8-49	rank: Chief Accessory; epithet: the Butcher; alchemist and lead medico; leads Jack through the camp and delivers a warning about the fate of the previous Chief; arranges Jack's introduction to Semprellaime; shares reagents and long-standing favours with her
Ollery's son	House of Open Wounds ch 2-5	a boy of ten or twelve who minds the cauldrons; demonstrates the uniform means "we're soldiers"
Orhuhst	Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-50	Hullseer of the Cotto pirates; stands on the deck of the Jagged Hand That Feeds at twilight and presides over a sea-ceremony feeding Kakrops's flesh to the ocean; calls Loret "girl" with "almost paternal" approval
Orvechin	City of Last Chances ch 6-39	Father and leader of the Siblingries; a millwright who tracks his working-muck boots onto the carpets of the Armiger district as deliberate provocation; negotiates with Vidsya Sirovar for Raven solidarity ahead of a planned workers' strike
Orvechin's wife	City of Last Chances ch 28	told where he was when the Pals came looking for him
Orvost, the Divine Bull	City of Last Chances ch 23-41	a once-mighty bull god with brass hooves and gold-doored temples; forgotten for hundreds of years; God's former rival
Osten	City of Last Chances ch 35	named by Shantrov as a possible troop-mover; turns out nobody was coming
Ostrephy	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 2-8	Fellow-Invigilator, Austentarn office, Outreach department; Ariet's sister; ambushes Angilly in the common room, strikes her, and threatens her with the Fleigh Isles mines to force academic distinction; uses a lit taper to break through Angilly's fire-avoidance
Otal Kimbree	Pretenders to the Thro ch 12-25	dead Moeribandi guard; one of the few distinct names among the merged Dead Companies
Ottovar	Pretenders to the Thro ch 17	Abellaime's uncle who controlled family assets and the Sable Lodge privileges
Palinet	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 7-50	Sage-Invigilator, Palleseen Resident in Peor; fussy little woman with a prosthetic brass-and-wood hand; briefs Angilly on the Successor States and Pal's position in Peor
Paucelry	House of Open Wounds ch 15	Trooper, regular soldier; left behind in the rout; killed in the skirmish with the Loruthi; his body is looted by Banders
Peppel	House of Open Wounds ch 3	Watch Statlos who delivers the prisoner Maric to Banders with a demi-squad escort; loses his pen to her petty theft
Perfector of Eres Ffenegh	Pretenders to the Thro ch 6-9
Perfector of Ilmar	House of Open Wounds ch 9
Petric Lesselkin	City of Last Chances ch 28	scrapherd of the Siblingries; his brother was beaten and arrested that night; present at both meetings; steals a silver spoon from the Sirovar townhouse as they leave
Petric Lesselkin's brother	City of Last Chances ch 28	beaten in the face and struck with a baton during arrest; children witnessed it; now in the cells
Pib	Pretenders to the Thro ch 12-33	imp killed by the looters; re-summoned as a replacement at the chapter's end
Pirisytes	House of Open Wounds ch 20-34	Accessory (Whitebelly) in Landwards Battalion, secretly a priest of a hidden Oloumanni "sneaky god"; watches Forthright disembark, identifies Blessed priests as future sacrifices
Plummel	City of Last Chances ch 11	member of Shrievsby's squad; reports seeing Nasely, then responds to the starvelings in antique Maric, revealing she has gone native
Plussly	House of Open Wounds ch 6	Fellow-Archivist who works with the hospital's medicines
Pob	Pretenders to the Thro ch 12-33	imp who warns Quellery he is being watched ("Watched, watched")
Porvilleau	City of Last Chances ch 22-39	Maestro at Gownhall; sat with Vorkovin overnight drafting demands
Prassel	House of Open Wounds ch 1-51; Pretenders to the Thro ch 6-42	necromancer, promoted from Fellow-Inquirer to Acting-Sage-Inquirer; confirmed as officer in command of the Experimental Necromancy department at Landwards; reveals she killed Stiverton by cutting his tablethi belt; offers Festle the rank of Companion-Monitor to head a new program
Prassel's aide	House of Open Wounds ch 2	a scarred, limping man serving as Prassel's orderly; spills her tea, is sent to Ollery for medicine
Pravil	City of Last Chances ch 33	another drunk Armiger servant; pushes Yasnic and sneers at him
Premath	Days of Shattered Fait ch 5-50	the Third Son of the Alkhand, now the Immortal Dead Emperor. Wakes in the crypt as the House's necromantic charge is disrupted. Milk-coloured eyes, greyish skin. Kills Drathel with a stone-clawed grip. Emerges from the House and wanders north toward "the cold necropolis of his new kin."
Quellery	Pretenders to the Thro ch 4-42	rank: Companion-Invigilator (formerly Cohort-Invigilator) - demonist Specialist sent by Dantell to place five ward-sigils on copper plaques in enemy-held streets; lost an arm and both eyes to demon contracts; sees the world in its true misery without his corrective dark glasses
Reddaen	Pretenders to the Thro ch 7-27	chief enforcer of the Pope of Tides; brings news of Devil Jack's arrival, resents the Mouth of the Sea's authority, departs when ordered
Riechy	City of Last Chances ch 23	a younger Palleseen woman who works the decanting equipment alongside Gadders; shows more sympathy toward Yasnic; pins her hair in a bun, wears black-painted nails, a slotted leather mask, and goggles
Riggel	City of Last Chances ch 30	the third person who vanished from the Office; a search is underway but seems futile
Ruslav	City of Last Chances ch 1-49	Vulture thug; stares at a painting left for him by Lemya, burns matches without lighting a fire, violently puts down Benno and Ergice to reassert dominance, then meets Carelia at the pit and accepts orders to visit the Anchorage
Sachemel Sirovar	City of Last Chances ch 7-35	dead former head of the Sirovar family and voice of the Ravens in resistance gatherings
Samellers	Days of Shattered Fait ch 35-50	Cohort-Invigilator, Gil's newly assigned aide; fresh from the Archipelago, gleaming and overly courteous; Gil suspects he is Berkely's creature and refuses his company to the interview
Scaffesty	House of Open Wounds ch 21-50	Professor-Invigilator, "Old Eyeball" to the soldiers of Landwards; has one eye, leather patch over the other; confirms Prassel's promotion; presides over the Higher Orders meeting; deals with the Bracite delegation; orders a military show of force for the coronation
Sergyen the chandler	City of Last Chances ch 4	a man the Vultures went to "chastise" for talking to the wrong people; has fled the city or been killed
Shantrov Sirovar	City of Last Chances ch 4-47	Armiger student and artist; killed a Palleseen soldier with his family sword; paraded on shoulders in an antique military jacket; struggles with the reality of killing; visits his studio with Ruslav; is ultimately extracted by his cousin Vidsya with Armiger cavalry
Shark Queen	Days of Shattered Fait ch 40-50
Sherm	House of Open Wounds ch 18-39	Fellow-Inquirer, jurisdictionally senior to Prassel in non-corpse matters; runs disciplinary tribunals for Higher Orders; chairs this proceeding; cheerful about his work even sentencing mutineers to death
Shevorn	City of Last Chances ch 36	Vulture thug; sent below to scout
Shrievsby	City of Last Chances ch 1-37	collaborator who rooked Blackmane; now "lost" (referenced from prior chapter)
Shrike	City of Last Chances ch 5-37
Sier Lioban	Days of Shattered Fait ch 17	patriarch of a big Emorandi clan; exiled
Sindler	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5	young team member, fixer and translator; good at picking up languages superficially; from an orphanage; no influential aunts; loyal and sharp
Skilby	House of Open Wounds ch 29-46	male student, eager to be Callow's friend; produces the wooden box containing the mouse Callow uses for his demonstration
Sorthist	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7-9; Days of Shattered Fait ch 3-48	the Serpent's Fang, Oparan's dead brother, bound as a ghost inside his own skull by a Moerend ritual; over decades of confinement comes to love Oparan; counsels him against foolishness; is finally released when Oparan shatters the skull
Spectacles	House of Open Wounds ch 4	neat, slightly portly Palleseen man with round eyeglasses and hinged extra lenses; measures wound-stumps with callipers and tape, records missing limbs
Spinnerly	House of Open Wounds ch 22	the duty Companion; Banders has an angle on his preferred weed flavour
Sssssy	Days of Shattered Fait ch 30	Cohort-Monitor, an Ibaleth in Flint's command staff; a lizard drinking from a bowl, referred to as "sons of bitches" by Flint and corrected to "lasses" by Gil
Steggers	Days of Shattered Fait ch 26-48	Companion-Monitor; arrives with a column of reinforcements, defers to Flint's command
Stiverton	House of Open Wounds ch 27-50	Sage-Archivist, now dead; commanded the Experimental Necromancy department; Prassel cut his tablethi belt so his robe fell off, leaving him defenceless before a "hydra of angry, displaced ghosts"; had been recommending Prassel's replacement before his death
Storry	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 8-10	Angilly's aide and clerk; panics at her request for a rapier, holds a skia badly, signals her that the stranger is important, attends her after the duel
Sturge	House of Open Wounds ch 5-50	divine being; god of filth; blind and almost mindless; lives in Lochiver's breeches; his secretions are the Effluent of Sturge
Tallifer	House of Open Wounds ch 5-51	Chief Accessory running the experimental hospital department of Forthright Battalion; former Jarokiri priest of Mazdek, the Chastising Flame, now a surgeon patching Palleseen wounds; carries the fire god in her pocket; cold, competent, irritated at being sidelined
Tally	Days of Shattered Fait ch 7-49	Jarokiri Surgeon at the Fever Lodge; an Accessory and former priestess, de facto matriarch of the group. Hears of the Salient first, worries it means "more boots on the streets," tells the Reckoner to get Jack to check readiness
Tarcomir	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 2-47	Loruthi diplomat and Angilly's counterpart/opposite number; handsome, bearded, an entertaining raconteur and dancer; spends Gorbudan's time in Usmai, edging out Palleseen influence; offers Angilly favours regarding suppression of a monk order
Targallen	Pretenders to the Thro ch 21	author of a work on Parabolic Lensing; "Islerwoman, I taught Targallen" (Valkazar)
Tatiana Eleretsin	City of Last Chances ch 45	dead sorceress of the Varatsin court, loved music, held lovers thrall, burned; her ghost is the possession afflicting Lemya
Teerasla	Days of Shattered Fait ch 8-48	a Tesemer Louse Speaker who keeps the mews at the palace; one arm gone at the shoulder, feels phantom pain in it; has a segmented tongue-thing; keeps Windsaws; startles when Kilbery moves suddenly
Temsel	City of Last Chances ch 9-10	Palleseen Invigilator of School of Correct Appreciation (Invigilators); conducts the second interrogation with "hungry curiosity" about Guame's conjuration practices; positions as "directly under the Perfector"
the Accessory	Days of Shattered Fait ch 33	a Peost soldier who steps between the falx and Flint; killed
the Alkhand's brother	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 8	dead; his skull is kept by the Alkhand as a warning about the succession struggle
the Alkhand's dead brother	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10
the Alkhand's mother	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 8	entered the pools and took the mask; walked out of the Alkhand's life
the Alkhand's youngest son	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10	"does nothing but learn mantras and play with bones"
the Anchorwood beast	City of Last Chances ch 2-20	grotesque fish-headed creature from the Anchorwood that hunts Nasely and Ruslav through the streets
the Artist	Days of Shattered Fait ch 28	a wooden-animal maker from the Sand Lanes; petitions Dekamran about Pal soldiers looting his workshop beyond what the Alkhand's writ authorized
The big Pal soldier	Pretenders to the Thro ch 2	broad-shouldered, fair-haired, good-looking, with a gold prosthetic left eye bearing "minuscule, intricate sigils" and neat surgical scarring; pins Kiffel during the extraction, then helps her up, escorts her through the Pal camp, returns her Crabshell mail and the ruined sword, apologises, and urges her to persuade her people to surrender before winter
the boy	City of Last Chances ch 5; House of Open Wounds ch 26-41; Days of Shattered Fait ch 26-36	an Allorwen errand-child of about eleven who reports on the Pals' searches and the raid on Mother Guame's; Blackmane sends him with money, a note to Mother Isildor, and orders to find Fleance
the Butcher's ward	House of Open Wounds ch 39
the cart driver	City of Last Chances ch 10-28	Allorwen alchemist's servant who gives Mother Guame a lift down Liberation Way toward the river
the Companion-Inquirer	House of Open Wounds ch 4	political officer with a nasal voice; demands the spy be saved for his intelligence, berates the necromancer
The Correct Speech Inquirer	Days of Shattered Fait ch 29	a Sage-Inquirer of Correct Speech who arrived unannounced to meet privately with Angilly; then departed for the Waygrove with the two fugitives
the counterpart in Peor	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9	Angilly's Palleseen counterpart whose reports home are cheery because Peor is being liberated under Pal control
the dancing woman	City of Last Chances ch 46	a fugitive who steps forward from the group in a daze, executing a pirouette and holding out her hand as though expecting a partner
The Dead Emperor	Days of Shattered Fait ch 45; Pretenders to the Thro ch 6-42	Lich Queen's spiritual consort, borne in a palanquin by four armoured figures; views the world from "the far side of mortality"; articulates a philosophy in which the second Empire needs no god, only correct living; the Lich Queen finds his clarity horrifying
the demon	City of Last Chances ch 16	a vast, horned, copper-skinned demon bound to the Tosthevar presses; it broke free because the Kings Below rounded it up as a political dissident in the Infernal Realms; shows "the look of betrayal" when re-bound
the demon assassin	Pretenders to the Thro ch 34	A four-armed bug-demon with stolen human eyes, sent by the Kings Below to kill Jack; defects mid-strike, shouting Caeleen's revolutionary creed
The demon squire	Pretenders to the Thro ch 37	the ancient demon at the woman's side, consecrated to a false faith; speaks in the proper imperial tongue; its "stony steel voice" echoes in Erd Mannet's skull; delivers the challenge
the Divinati woman	City of Last Chances ch 2; House of Open Wounds ch 8	small woman behind the bar at the Anchorage; not local, Divinati by appearance
the Duke of Ilmar	City of Last Chances ch 3	former ruler; "the unmourned Duke of Ilmar had two fighting hawks on his shield"; dead
the Dusarch of Lucibi	Days of Shattered Fait ch 20	historical counter-example of a ruler cursed and partially devoured yet still governing
the duty Inquirer	House of Open Wounds ch 39	unnamed woman conducting the inquest into Hobbers' death; reprimands Alv for gaps in her curriculum but takes no disciplinary action
the Eunuch of Goshumai	Days of Shattered Fait ch 20	historical counter-example of a mutilated ruler
the factory woman	City of Last Chances ch 41-45	unnamed Allorwen-accented leader of the hidden group; distributes food, commands the safe-houses network, vows "a sorcerer's revenge" on the Palleseen; splits off toward the Hammer Districts
the Faraslandi sea cult priestess	Days of Shattered Fait ch 17	"that woman who did the magic fish thing"; arrested
the Fellow-Inquirer from Political Oversight	House of Open Wounds ch 49	a senior officer who just left Mother Semprellaime's wagon; part of the political jockeying over the delegation
the Fisher's Guild contact	Pretenders to the Thro ch 3	unnamed lanky man with a fish-hook scar and a badly maimed left hand; Niev's smuggler contact for bringing goods past the Palleseen blockade; waits at a nearby table, interrupted by Kiff and Devil Jack
the frog god of Usmai	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 6-9	local deity, a large frog, asleep in its cave near the pools; Angilly was admitted by its monks and found it underwhelming
the Galeaff chief	Pretenders to the Thro ch 15	well-dressed member of the Galeaff clan bearing clan colours; leads the attack on Jack; a former client of the Pandaemonium
the Galeaff cultist	Pretenders to the Thro ch 15	junior Galeaff clan member wearing a cast-off Palleseen jacket stitched with maritime icons; devotee of the sea gods who wants to reclaim the Lighthouse and make himself Pope
the Gallete herbalist	House of Open Wounds ch 19	elder of the village; trades herbs grown in island-magic soil with Ollery; speaks "truly barbarous Pel"
the glassworker	City of Last Chances ch 22-36	refugee whose name Blackmane cannot recall
the Gownhall maestro	City of Last Chances ch 9-13	a Gownhall master brought in after Guame; she knows he will not be beaten or racked, only mildly inconvenienced
the Ibaleth mahout	Days of Shattered Fait ch 11-15	an unnamed female Ibaleth, four feet nose to haunches with a six-foot tail, painted in red and bronze designs; handles the ogrodon, holds a goad and an ornate Usmiat baton
The informant	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7; Days of Shattered Fait ch 29	an unnamed woman marked by Drathel after arriving in Alkhalend carrying something unnatural; serves as Angilly's aide but now feeds Drathel intelligence about a Correct Speech visit and the Waygrove escapees
the Jarl-Amir	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3	the unpopular ruler of Farasland whose cousin-in-exile the the Whitefish support
the Jarl-Amir's cousin-in-exile	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3	the the Whitefish's pretender
The last priest of Ffen	Pretenders to the Thro ch 5	performed the binding that sealed the temple and animated the stone guardians
the lead Indweller	City of Last Chances ch 2-40	masked guide of the Indwellers; speaks to Ochelby, permits only his party to cross; shot and killed by Ochelby during the beast attack; gender uncertain to Ochelby (he decides "the woman")
the lean Pal officer	House of Open Wounds ch 13	monocled Palleseen officer with seniority over Prassel and Maserley; issues the advance order, references "Uncle" wanting the ground under the Sway by evening, dismisses Caeleen's combat value
the madman	City of Last Chances ch 35	a beggar dressed as an Indweller in a wooden mask, clings to the coach, attacks and kills Vidsya Sirovar demanding an unnamed object ("it"), then corners Shantrov Sirovar at the edge of the Reproach
the Maric bodyguard	Days of Shattered Fait ch 17	the Maric bodyguard - role: present - the pimp's punchy Maric sellsword; scalp cut; stitched up; "someone anticipating repeat business"
the Maric merchant	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9	a merchant from Maric mistaken by locals for an ambassador; has no idea what is happening
the messenger from the Donjon	City of Last Chances ch 29-39	clerk who reports the Vulture assault on the Donjon to Hegelsy
the nameless demon	City of Last Chances ch 43	a demon bound in a factory circle; formerly a craftsman who "woven straw to gold, raised palaces for emperors," now reduced to turning a wheel; his name is locked by contract until his bondage ends
the new king of Bracinta	House of Open Wounds ch 49	Bracinta now has a new king; a royal reception is being planned for him
the new Perfector	House of Open Wounds ch 7	a Palleseen officer from Correct Erudition sent to Ilmar to harvest magic for tablethi; raided the Guildhall and Armigers; deployed Ratcatchers to capture gods; caught Jack smuggling them out
the Old Duke	City of Last Chances ch 4-40	predecessors in the ducal seat, once resident on the other side of the river, bearing the Varatsin coat of arms; their knowledge of the Indwellers died with them
The Old Man in the Motley Dressing Gown	Pretenders to the Thro ch 13	an older patron at the Pandaemonium breakfast table; advocates surrender to the Palleseen over civic pride
the old woman	Days of Shattered Fait ch 24; Pretenders to the Thro ch 17	Abellaime's teacher who taught her only half what she needed
the Pal musician	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9	hosted alongside the poet to reasonable crowds
the Pal pimp	Days of Shattered Fait ch 17	the Pal pimp - role: present - a local Sand Lanes businessman; beaten up by a husband; brought to the Lodge for treatment
the Pal woman	Days of Shattered Fait ch 17	a Palleseen woman held in the Reproach; Ivarn wants her found and moved to safety as leverage
The Palleseen officer	City of Last Chances ch 45	demands surrender from the alley; threatens execution for resistance
the Peost messenger	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10	a skinny Peost dressed as a Usmiat, delivering Palinet's report
The poet	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9-10; Pretenders to the Thro ch 12-37	"that poet" whose prating of living things first made Erd Mannet think of sun, sky, and a living heart
the priestess	House of Open Wounds ch 8; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1-4	A Jarokiri combatant with "a face like the sun," burning like robes, striding through the compound mud and making things ignite with gestures; described by the narrator as a "sacrificer of children, a slave to monstrous divinities"
the provost Cohort-Monitor	House of Open Wounds ch 31	unnamed old officer commanding the provosts; recognizes Ollery, calls him "Murderer," fires a rod at him, then orders the group arrested
the Resident	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5-6; Days of Shattered Fait ch 8-32	Pallesand's diplomatic anchor in Bracinta; unnamed solid woman with "more than a whiff of Aunt Ostrephy about her"; unimpressed by the demon incident; outranks Angilly
the Sage-Archivist of the School of Correct Erudition	City of Last Chances ch 1	second most powerful man in the Perfecture's hierarchy; killed in the Anchorwood that night
the Senior Strategic Secretary	Pretenders to the Thro ch 6	the crooked official from whom Dantell acquired her attachment orders at ruinous cost
the skinny prince	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9	one of Oparan's other two children; a youth with unhealthy eyes
the spy	House of Open Wounds ch 4-6	unnamed injured man; a hole spirals open in his shoulder-neck junction, dragging him and his ghost toward oblivion; healed by God at the chapter's end
the stabbed Pal woman	Days of Shattered Fait ch 8	Hullseer Orhuhst's "niece-cousin"; was stabbed; Kilbery was part of the party that brought her (or someone cut up) to the Lodge
the Statlo messenger	House of Open Wounds ch 44	delivers the summons to Banders, escorts her to Thurrel's decantary
the student girl	City of Last Chances ch 1-26	ground-floor lodger with her own fireplace, arrived two weeks ago; asks Yasnic to bless "an endeavour" (an art exhibition), gives him a blanket despite his refusal to perform a false blessing
the Tosthevar foreman	City of Last Chances ch 16	factory foreman who fetches Orvechin; bullied by Isvillich, reports the demon has broken its wards
the unmasked Indweller	City of Last Chances ch 31	Indweller who shared Hegelsy's cells with Ivarn; sits motionless in the cellar, briefly animates during the fog as though reaching for someone, then goes still again
the Usmiat girl	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 8-42	Usmiat human girl with a sword; stands behind Wattery, attacks her, delivers a gouge across her shoulders during the struggle
The Warden of the House of Hard Angles	Days of Shattered Fait ch 4-49	possibly present as "the current master of the prison, who was simultaneously its highest-profile prisoner"; something stirs in the dark of the House's interior, causing Coregan to back down
the watcher	City of Last Chances ch 38; Pretenders to the Thro ch 33	unnamed small woman, a professional eyewitness and contract assassin working for "employers"; observes the march from an attic room, takes notes, then kills Father Orvechin with a baton bolt and departs to report success
The Wave Knife	Pretenders to the Thro ch 22-42	the pirate vessel itself, a hundred and thirty feet, three masts; arrives in the harbour and later tacks out past the horizon
The weasel	Pretenders to the Thro ch 2	a Pal woman from "a very particular department" in the ruins of the Customs House; extracts the ghost's power from the sword using leaden lozenges and wire, converting it into charged tablethi; described as having a sly, weasel-like face and a crooked, too-jointed body; leaves without watching Kiffel's full breakdown
the Whitebelly lookout	House of Open Wounds ch 34	unnamed conscript serving as lookout; shot while standing against the sky, killing him and leaving his stretcher team short
The woman	Pretenders to the Thro ch 37	walks from the enemy lines bearing antique mail that "smelled of some young cult still wet from the sea," a mutinous demon-sword she keeps sheathed, and an ancient demon consecrated to "some false faith"; challenges the Lich Queen to "a duel of words"; "become like a priest," refusing blood and strength
the woman in Ochelby's retinue	City of Last Chances ch 3	flees north from the Anchorwood pursued by the beast, screaming that the Sage-Archivist is dead
the Wood's ambassador	City of Last Chances ch 20	arrested by the Palleseen at some earlier point; Fleance used the confusion to slip into the trees
the younger Moerend	Days of Shattered Fait ch 39	translates Arkanith's speech into Pel
The Youth with Beautiful Eyes	Pretenders to the Thro ch 13	sits beside Kaele at breakfast; reports the Dead Companies' position outside the square
the youth with the standard	City of Last Chances ch 46-47	a thin, dirty youth in an antique military coat with an empty scabbard, carrying a splintered spar topped with a twisted verdigrised bronze sigil; he bows to the dancing woman and rallies the Reproach's host
Thurrel	House of Open Wounds ch 9-51	Fellow-Archivist, a Decanter; pours alcohol into every cup offered, laments the magical waste of the battle, walks with Prassel and invites her for a drink; they have known each other since the phalanstery
Tinsly	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5	Cohort-Invigilator, former prose censor turned demonist; prefers bulk-contracted Kings Below demons over bespoke Allorwen-style conjuration; loathes complexity; bureaucrat temperament
Tlemitch	Pretenders to the Thro ch 41-42	rank: Fellow-Archivist - counter-cursing specialist on Fowlett's staff; a half-Maric in charcoal-greys with a white streak in her hair; hard-faced and equally solitary
Tobriant	City of Last Chances ch 21-47	Allorwen furniture maker/carpenter, protests innocence ("I just make cabinets and chairs!"), is cuffed and kicked by guards, weeps before the drop; Dorae believes him blamelessly honest
Tobriant's wife	City of Last Chances ch 36	refugee, herded up from the cellar
Tomelly	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 4	Cohort-Invigilator, barely twenty, new to the team; abstainer; killed off-page by Woret while independently chasing leads; body found by Angilly and Benallers
Tosthevar the elder	City of Last Chances ch 16	Isvillich's father, factory owner; Orvechin expects penalties from him
Tunly	House of Open Wounds ch 23	Cohort-Monitor of Landwards Battalion, drunk; grabs Masty for lacking an "excursion permit," drags him to the duty tent, demands flogging
Ullers	House of Open Wounds ch 38	Cohort-Invigilator; the prisoner is accused of being her "intimate confidante"; "served her own turn in a chair like this very recently"
Useless	City of Last Chances ch 7	Heron who commissioned Fleance's theft; tried by the Bitter Sisters, falls into the pit and is killed by the centipede-demon
Usrach	Pretenders to the Thro ch 5-42	demon doorman and old temple guardian of the Pandaemonium; dressed in the Crabshell armour with reverence, reveals it was never Conn Leachan's but sacred temple mail consecrated to Ffen, walks out with Kiff
Valkazar	Pretenders to the Thro ch 5-42	demon majordomo of the Pandaemonium; appeared to Aspel in a dream, guided her hands, provided the calculations for the artillery pattern; their relationship is contractual and teacher-student, though Aspel experiences it with an intimacy she has felt with no human
Varatsin Duke	City of Last Chances ch 5-47	named as one authority whose turf is the Anchorage, alongside the Pals and the city
Varinecthes	House of Open Wounds ch 33-40; Pretenders to the Thro ch 1-42	Lord of the Tower; a thousand-year-old sorcerer; operates a flying tower, pours liquid fire on the battlefield, launches imps, attempts a sun-lance
Varlechev	City of Last Chances ch 16	Maric conjurer who drew the contracts at the Tosthevar factory; Aullaime vouches for his competence
Vesalreder	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5	one of the prominent viziers in Magnelei; balding, soft-looking, bony-nosed; warns Angilly about the "foxes" unrest; uses the Pal presence as public shield for his own corruption; his sack-bundling is the solution to Angilly's problem
Vestry	Pretenders to the Thro ch 5-39	"the Pal woman, one of the defectors"; sits with Valkazar, listening "more intently than Jack thought he'd ever seen anyone attend to anything."
Vidsya Sirovar	City of Last Chances ch 3-35	Armiger matriarch of the Sirovar family and Raven leader; younger than typical Armiger matriarchs; publicly performs the role of hedonist and ineffectual rake but is in fact a shrewd operator; hosts the negotiation and withholds full commitment to the strike
Vinchec	City of Last Chances ch 33	a drunk Armiger servant at the Pledge (taproom) who tells a joke about learning Pel via the tablethi word; is forced to pay for the room
Vorkovin	City of Last Chances ch 6-49	Maestro of the music faculty at Gownhall; spent the night drafting demands with Gowdi, Porvilleau, and students; volunteers as ambassador under the flag of parlay; is arrested by Hegelsy's order mid-parlay
Vorkovin's handler	City of Last Chances ch 49	unnamed Invigilator of the School of Correct Appreciation assigned as Vorkovin's constant shadow; Langrice knows she indulges vices at Mother Guame's circle house
Vortez	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3	a priest of the Seadragon cult, called "my old friend" by Lasaret; followed by Angilly to his temple
Wattery	Days of Shattered Fait ch 37-48	Fellow-Invigilator demonist; arrives to re-contract the squad with short individual contracts before sending them Below; is killed by Caecelian 'the Viper' invoking a contractual word
Widow	House of Open Wounds ch 6-49; Pretenders to the Thro ch 3-42	the Widow; runs the Pandaemonium by fear; reflects on her family's abuse in Allor, the Pal invasion that collapsed her vengeance, and her forced marriage to a grand demon; inspects the Upper Parlour, then greets arriving Os-Fferegh patrons
Woret	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 4	Cohort-Broker in Correct Exchange; works the garrison storerooms; kills Tomelly and attacks Angilly and Benallers with a sacred amulet; stabbed to death by Angilly
Yasnic	City of Last Chances ch 1-49; House of Open Wounds ch 2-51; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9; Days of Shattered Fait ch 7-49; Pretenders to the Thro ch 3-42	beggar and priest of God outside the Anchorage; Lemya befriends him, learns he is the last of his faith and that his god is "quite useless"; reveals the Sage-Archivist's death; shields Lemya from the soldiers
Zenotheus	City of Last Chances ch 19-22; House of Open Wounds ch 24-50	scorpionfly god of chaos; Nihilostes received her commandments from his mandibles in a subterranean temple
Zenotheus, Scorpionfly God of Chaos	City of Last Chances ch 32
A Bracite shawm player	House of Open Wounds ch 40	plays loudly near Jack and Varney; paid by Varney to leave
A skittering chitinous thing with six limbs	Days of Shattered Fait ch 24	wears two sets of uniform breeches, a baton sloped across its armoured back; arrives at Croskin's heels
A winged demon with a hide of bristling quills	Days of Shattered Fait ch 24	wears a Pal jacket tied about its neck; lands near Croskin
An unnamed old bald man	Days of Shattered Fait ch 9	dressed like a prison monk, painted to look like a corpse; brings forward the skull-shaped clay jars and speaks the rite in a non-Usmiri tongue
An unnamed young woman	Days of Shattered Fait ch 9	drapes a garland over Loret's neck and looks at her suggestively
At least two unnamed deities	House of Open Wounds ch 1	"at least two actual deities currently in the tent and assisting with proceedings."
Enshili's youngest brother	Days of Shattered Fait ch 36	the only sibling who cared for Enshili; "made himself dead" with her help
his wife	City of Last Chances ch 16	Orvechin's spouse, a day-shift mill-line worker; awake beside him when the demon screams
Kaele's client	Pretenders to the Thro ch 34	A pasty-white militia officer pressed into the corner of the guest room
Runkel	House of Open Wounds ch 8-45	Sage-Monitor, commanding officer of the Forthright Battalion, called "Uncle" by Prassel; arrives as an "unofficial observer" to the tribunal; pronounces the sentence and the policy that the hospital must not cause soldiers to fear fighting
Semprellaime's aunt	House of Open Wounds ch 25	Allorwen conjurer of the old tradition, taken by the Palleseen armies when they marched into Allor, taught Semprellaime her skills but beat her for wrong wordings
The apprentice	City of Last Chances ch 28	brings the scrap cart to ferry the three delegates to the Sirovar townhouse
the bearded orderly	House of Open Wounds ch 4	thin foreigner with a pointed beard and aquiline nose; assists with stretchers and translating
The beery shopkeeper	City of Last Chances ch 49	unnamed man on a bar stool whom Langrice glares at to clear a seat for Yasnic
the big woman	City of Last Chances ch 33	unnamed patron who slams a hammer on the Armiger men's table and orders them to leave
the boy across the table	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1	"No manners"; smells smoke, spits out his rotten ammie
the burn victim	House of Open Wounds ch 4	unnamed woman whose jaw is half gone; stretchered out for Spectacles to assess
the coachman	City of Last Chances ch 35	drives the Sirovar coach, obeying Vidsya's orders, is later unseen (implied killed by the demon steeds' disappearance)
The demon champion	Pretenders to the Thro ch 37	the entity that fought and destroyed all of Ettek Scerlen's many bodies; called "the ancient foe of the Empire"
The demon in the woman's form	Pretenders to the Thro ch 10	conjured by Jack; wears the face of his dead beloved; pretends yearning to lure him into a fatal touch; ultimately bound by his contract to search for the woman Below
The Divinati healer	Days of Shattered Fait ch 24	unnamed figure Caecelian resolves to destroy alongside the old woman and Oathan
The drunk tenant	Pretenders to the Thro ch 26	shouts at the artillery engines from the boarding house
The duty Cohort-Monitor	Pretenders to the Thro ch 11	spoke briefly with Dantell about leaving a gap front-and-centre for the new Unnaturals
the elbow-jabber	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1	A boy who had been jamming his elbow into Angilly's arm a week before; she elbowed him in the ear and was brought before the teacher
the engineer	House of Open Wounds ch 39
the faceless crowned figure	City of Last Chances ch 46	"tall and elegant and faceless, in its bustling hand a gold-topped cane, atop its shapeless head a coronet. Its long cape scurried behind it on a thousand clawed feet"; described as part of the Reproach's host and later approaching the troops as "that hideous, rat-crawling figure"
the fencing student	Days of Shattered Fait ch 7-17	"the girl, the sullen one"; Caecelian's favourite student; not seen near the Lodge since Gorbudan entered the city; Kilbery chews his knuckles over her absence
the fencing teacher	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 2	unnamed teacher who set up the fencing ring at Thorntree House and talks about "the drive to dominate and succeed"
the fire-eater	House of Open Wounds ch 26	performer in the square who breathes fire in the shape of a phoenix using a glowing bug
the foreign woman	City of Last Chances ch 34	immigrant priest of a bug god; urges the Vultures to unite against the Pals; executed by Evene and fed to the creature in the pit
The girl with red demon eyes and the quick sword	Days of Shattered Fait ch 50	unnamed friend of Loret; her retinue crouches on the deck; demon eyes see "things the way they really were"; Orhuhst would welcome demon marines she might bring
the giving monk	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10	a shorter, stockier Alborandi who blocks Angilly's path and thrusts the necklace into her hand
the glittering youth at the bar	Pretenders to the Thro ch 7	a demon with butterfly-shimmer skin who pours drinks in the Upper Parlour
The goat	City of Last Chances ch 17	Dostritsyn's slightly drunk goat; transforms into a barded destrier mid-chapter; Dostritsyn releases its leash
the grand demon	Pretenders to the Thro ch 17	unnamed grand demon to whom Abellaime was ritually married for family status; the reason she is called the Widow
the guard with the broken leg	Days of Shattered Fait ch 8	a female palace guard who showed Kilbery a knife-disarming twist and told him about fighting a Tesemer
the gutshot officer	House of Open Wounds ch 33	unnamed Palleseen officer on the operating table, gripping a wooden bit
The healer	City of Last Chances ch 24	unnamed; condemned to hang for "Working Against the Perfecture"; Blackmane calls him a charlatan
the husband	Days of Shattered Fait ch 17
The Ilmari girl	City of Last Chances ch 24	new hire at the Anchorage; Jem is training her; Langrice predicts she won't last
The junior recruit	City of Last Chances ch 14	a terrified boy who empties a stained leather sack of meat chunks into the pit to feed the Bitter Sisters' pet
The lead monk	Days of Shattered Fait ch 29	the broad-waisted head of the monastic order whose cellar Drathel has inspected; can only tell her to leave, lacking the authority to stop her under the new Alkhand's writ
the leather-aproned surgeon	House of Open Wounds ch 33	unnamed surgeon from the next tent, hands blistered and burned
The liveried flunky	City of Last Chances ch 28	grudgingly admits Orvechin at the Sirovar townhouse door
the lizard mahout	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10	a goad-holding lizard who drives the armoured beast
the lizard-rider	House of Open Wounds ch 13	a Loruthi mercenary in the beast's howdah; has a sinuous lizard body, licks its eyes with a blue tongue, grackles commands
The machinist	City of Last Chances ch 22	solid woman beside Nihilostes at the canteen; angry convert to Zenotheus's message since her son died in a machine
the mad king	City of Last Chances ch 10	ruler of Teleomarn, held under house arrest by the Occupiers
the mahout	Days of Shattered Fait ch 33	Ibaleth woman who drives Flint's ogrodon with a goad
the man in the doorway	City of Last Chances ch 33	unnamed solid man who blocks the exit and forces the Armiger men to settle their tabs
the man with shrapnelled spine and pelvis	House of Open Wounds ch 1	Patients given double or triple doses from the black flask; marked for Prassel
The man with the shattered skull	House of Open Wounds ch 1	Patients given double or triple doses from the black flask; marked for Prassel
the Maric youth	City of Last Chances ch 12	a street vandal trying to sell a broken magical cat statue to Blackmane; haggled down to five pence
The mathematician	City of Last Chances ch 22	Gownhall academic who has said nothing but "the precedent" for days; possibly hiding a guilty secret
the merchant factor	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7	fellow passenger on the coastal trader; boasts of knowing the Successor Coast; cannot explain the ceremony
the messenger	Pretenders to the Thro ch 28	a young soldier, "far too neat and pressed to be any of theirs," delivering the dispatch from Correct Speech
The mill-hand	City of Last Chances ch 22	speaks sourly that "someone's pointed them at us"
the mocking monk	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10	a heavyset, scarred Alborandi who mimics Angilly's posture, then listens to her confession
The moustachioed bravo	Days of Shattered Fait ch 36	speaks in low tones of who is fleeing the Lanes
The nameless girl	City of Last Chances ch 37	student fighting alongside Fyon in the townhouse; darts down to strip ammunition from a dead Pal and is killed by three shots
The nature thing	House of Open Wounds ch 10	a divine being with Jack; sprinkles isfel onto his plate; Banders glimpses "a little face, hard and savage beneath the slanted brim of an old-timey sea hat. The jut of a bone harpoon head"
the necromancer	House of Open Wounds ch 4	gloved woman, surgeon of peculiar specialisation; tries to extract the spy's ghost/knowledge using copper flasks and catgut tubes; the Maric recognises her as the officer who sent him to Banders
the notary	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3	birdlike woman in an Accessory's pale uniform; records the proceedings
the officer with the ear	House of Open Wounds ch 8	a Fellow; had an ear shot off; receives a tin prosthetic ear and reacts to the restored hearing
The old bald woman from the previous night	Days of Shattered Fait ch 6	the one who answered Loret's door the night before; now understood to be a Moerend monk, not a guard
the old girl at the far end	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 4	reads news dispatches aloud in the officer's mess; unnamed
the old man at the monastery	Days of Shattered Fait ch 16	un-named local leader of the village; questioned at sword-point, reveals the news from the Alborandi compound
The old man with the furnace	City of Last Chances ch 22	keeps the academics' furnace burning through a demon contract fifty years old; reports the maestros are up in arms
the old man with the moustache	Pretenders to the Thro ch 18	leads the Carcer/Osseach delegation at the table; tries to defend his allies, is cut off by Brandery
the old surgeon	House of Open Wounds ch 4	hawkish, hollow-cheeked woman with a red streak in her white hair; amputates the burned woman's arm with a heated saw
the old woman in the catwolf skin	House of Open Wounds ch 50	unnamed; places the crown on Feder's head during the coronation
The old woman who keeps house	Pretenders to the Thro ch 26	in the boarding house; wails when Kiff descends in clattering mail
The olive-skinned man with the weak beard	House of Open Wounds ch 1	An orderly who "somehow always manifests just when he's needed and only then." Helps haul the woman onto Ollery's table
the one-handed thug	City of Last Chances ch 8	Lodges prisoner in the adjacent cell, "taken up for violence or larceny and doubtless destined for the noose"
the other bearer	House of Open Wounds ch 36	Lidlet's fellow stretcher-bearer; declares Cosserby dead, refuses to continue, swears "Fuck the officers and fuck you," and runs off into the night; Lidlet does not know his name
the Pal girl	Days of Shattered Fait ch 42	human girl of Palleseen descent, "hard to look at. Like the sun on water"; carries the contract scrap Caecelian wrote; holds a pearl-bladed knife
The Pal officer who reads the terms	City of Last Chances ch 37	unnamed officer under the flag of parlay; reads the Palleseen ultimatum and is flummoxed by Vorkovin's parlay demand
the palace functionary	Days of Shattered Fait ch 2	unnamed non-combatant palace staff who orders the armed guards to take Gil
the pale youth with heavy-lidded eyes	Pretenders to the Thro ch 20	a server who brings drinks at the table
the pompous functionary	Days of Shattered Fait ch 8	a palace man who directs cleaning staff, prays to Kakrops for his piles, buys Oathan's unguent in private; never says thank you
the priest	City of Last Chances ch 42	unnamed priest present in the taproom; has "some story of his own"; Jem explains the situation to him; Hellgram does not listen to him
the profiteer	Pretenders to the Thro ch 15	owner of the cellar; sold Jack space hoping for Abellaime's favour; alerted the two men to the sulphur smell
the quartermaster's clerk	Pretenders to the Thro ch 4	Quellery had "set his eye on" him; runs past announcing reinforcements
the renegade	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9	tracked down by Angilly on her turf and handed over to Correct Speech
the riverfolk leader	City of Last Chances ch 7	"a lean old boy in a grey coat, fingerless gloves and a russet scarf," speaks for the Herons/smugglers/boat people
the scarecrow figure	City of Last Chances ch 11	a "gone native" inhabitant of the Reproach who calls himself Count Dirovesnic; addresses Plummel and Shrievsby in antique Maric; shot dead by Shrievsby
the shaved-headed man	House of Open Wounds ch 30	local hostage Banders uses as a guide through the palace
The smuggler	Days of Shattered Fait ch 36	a big Palleseen man who hands Caecelian herbs and tablethi cheaply
the tableth-maker	City of Last Chances ch 18	unnamed person who gave Ruslav the pirated activation word for his rod
the tall bony outlander	City of Last Chances ch 2	employee at the Anchorage; proffers mulled cider; a traveller, lost, searching for his wife; came through the grove
the teacher	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1	A Cohort-Archivist with two other full-time jobs; opens the refectory door unwisely, catching his uniform shirt ablaze
the thing in the palanquin	Pretenders to the Thro ch 14	"the equally-horrible-but-ideologically-worse thing" behind the Lich Queen; speaks in a language Dantell does not know; the Lich Queen receives its instruction as "unwelcome but expected news"
the thuggish lout	City of Last Chances ch 26	unnamed prisoner who railed and sulked in the cells; the crowd ignores him
the translator	Days of Shattered Fait ch 33	Peost linguist serving Flint; translates between Usmiri, Peost, and Pel; killed by the Louse Speaker's falx
The unnamed girl	City of Last Chances ch 22	Vulture, barely more than a girl, exalting at running word between the Bitter Sisters and the Gownhall
the unnamed Pal officer	City of Last Chances ch 39	officer left in charge at Gownhall after Hegelsy departs; gives the order to hang Ivarn
the unseen voice	City of Last Chances ch 31
the woman officer	City of Last Chances ch 33	a Palleseen soldier drinking inside Mother Guame's circle house with a young male companion
the woman with absent innards	House of Open Wounds ch 1	Patients given double or triple doses from the black flask; marked for Prassel
The woman with filed teeth	Days of Shattered Fait ch 1	pirate aboard the ship; unnamed
the woman with the arm	House of Open Wounds ch 8	amputee missing an arm at the shoulder; receives the prosthetic, is moved by it, then refuses it over the cost of tablethi replacements
The woman with the badly set leg	House of Open Wounds ch 1	Patient. Leg improperly splinted by "some infantry regular with pretensions of erudition"; necromantic munition fused the bone. Ollery rebreaks and repairs the leg
the woman with the filed teeth	Days of Shattered Fait ch 40	a Cotto champion, "beloved of the sea"; places a permanent ink-mark on Loret's shoulder; flicks hus into Loret's eyes
The woman with the Palleseen coat and piscine tattoos	Days of Shattered Fait ch 1	pirate aboard the ship; pours the drink; unnamed
The woman without a hand	House of Open Wounds ch 1	Patient; stump cauterised by point-blank baton discharge. Ollery gives her a philtre
the young man	City of Last Chances ch 33	a Palleseen soldier with the woman officer
the young soldier	Pretenders to the Thro ch 29	an ex-soldier of the Hospitallers who missed a briefing on Loruthi minefields; wakes Mellister from a brief doze to report that someone in the tent has woken
the young woman	Pretenders to the Thro ch 18	possibly the old man's daughter; whispers urgently into his ear when Mellister erupts
Two unnamed Guild representatives	Pretenders to the Thro ch 36	arrive late, probably stranded since the attack on the Lighthouse
Two unnamed militia officers	Pretenders to the Thro ch 36	present at the council; one suggests shooting the defectors as saboteurs, the other calls the Pals "fuckers" to the Mouth's face
Two unnamed Palleseen commandos	Pretenders to the Thro ch 27	one is found dead (carved open from behind), one is stabbed by a manifestation of the Fisher King and falls from the window
Unnamed clan representative	Pretenders to the Thro ch 36	arrives late, one step off the Osseach
unnamed cloth merchant, ship's master, mill-owner	Days of Shattered Fait ch 34	unnamed cloth merchant, ship's master, mill-owner/ideologue, maritime investor, a man with a nephew - minor petitioners at the dinner
Unnamed court doyenne in an ogrodon howdah	Days of Shattered Fait ch 15	brandishes a sword, shouts for Dekamran and the rule of law
Unnamed courtier	Days of Shattered Fait ch 15	grabbed by Gorbudan; stammers "The mask... He took the mask"
unnamed medic carrying a box	House of Open Wounds ch 20	"a little man there, carrying one side of a big crate marked with Pal medico symbols" with "a box on his back that was decidedly not uniform issue"; Pirisytes identifies him as "Blessed"
unnamed nature deity	House of Open Wounds ch 15	a wood/nature spirit in Jack's box with "the mask and the woodlice"; pointed toward the sea; turned the monster aside during the battle
unnamed other Blessed priests	House of Open Wounds ch 20	"others, too. Not quite as priestly as that one, but most definitely consecrated to some foreign god or other"
Unnamed woman drawing a skia	Days of Shattered Fait ch 15	beheaded by a Tesemer falx early in the melee
Usmiat merchants	Days of Shattered Fait ch 23	bring wagons of supplies to Flint's camp