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Entry	Appears in	Notes
Accessories	City of Last Chances ch 4-37; House of Open Wounds ch 1-46; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1-5; Days of Shattered Fait ch 12-48; Pretenders to the Thro ch 6-25	the new arrivals are "overwhelmingly Accessories in their uniforms of Whitebelly pale," conscripts from across the Palleseen Sway, many without weapons
Alborandi	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 5-49	mask-wearing monks tending the Waygrove; receive the Alkhand's offerings and continue their work with apparent indifference to the Tesemer display
Allorwen	City of Last Chances ch 1-47; House of Open Wounds ch 7-38; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 4-5; Pretenders to the Thro ch 5-35	presumably sharpening knives after Fleance's theft on their turf
Angilly's parents	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7	Angilly thinks of them and Benallers during the wailing music
Aremir monarchs	House of Open Wounds ch 22	the dynasty that ruled Bracinta for three hundred years across five closely related dynasties
Armiger	City of Last Chances ch 4-49; House of Open Wounds ch 7	aristocratic status; Shantrov Sirovar and Vidsya Sirovar bear it; "Armigine Hill" named for them
Austentarn office	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 2	the Palleseen northern-quarter office of operations, covering island nations before the ice; Ostrephy's assignment
Beast Artist	Days of Shattered Fait ch 8-36	a practitioner who fashions the animated wooden animals used in Taumachy fighting games; invoked as a metaphor for a soulless replica
Bitter Sisters	City of Last Chances ch 4-47
Bracite	House of Open Wounds ch 21-51; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5; Days of Shattered Fait ch 18	of or relating to Bracinta and its people
Carcer	Pretenders to the Thro ch 2-41	the Palleseen term for the Os-Fferegh; in this chapter used specifically for the "hangers-on and lackeys of the Osseach bigwigs"
Commission	City of Last Chances ch 2-40; House of Open Wounds ch 18-30; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 6-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 2-43; Pretenders to the Thro ch 4-40	the Palleseen governing body whose word the Naturae formerly carried; Dalry has an ancestor on the original Commission
Company bearers	House of Open Wounds ch 21	stretcher bearers who follow the first advance to collect casualties
Confiscations	House of Open Wounds ch 17	a department or office where confiscated goods are held; a man there has a box of bezoar specials
Correct Appreciation	City of Last Chances ch 9-49; House of Open Wounds ch 16-17; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 2-6; Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-27	a Palleseen School/prohibition; forbids things "too sweet" as indulgent
Correct Conduct	City of Last Chances ch 5-48; House of Open Wounds ch 8-17; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 2; Days of Shattered Fait ch 27; Pretenders to the Thro ch 4-16	a Palleseen department; military-discipline in character; Angilly considered it as an alternative
Correct Erudition	City of Last Chances ch 1-48; House of Open Wounds ch 11-24; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5; Days of Shattered Fait ch 27-29; Pretenders to the Thro ch 4-21	department mentioned as still learning Bracite decanting techniques
Correct Exchange	City of Last Chances ch 1-48; House of Open Wounds ch 17-50; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 4-5; Days of Shattered Fait ch 27-35; Pretenders to the Thro ch 8-35	department Tinsly jokes they should be in "and we could make some real money"
Cotto	Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-50; Pretenders to the Thro ch 22	the coastal piratical people operating on Alkhalend's docks; identified by the reference as the pirates described in the chapter
Dead Companies	Days of Shattered Fait ch 28-44; Pretenders to the Thro ch 6-40	a Palleseen necromancy sub-department under Pallesand
Decanters	House of Open Wounds ch 5-45; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 4; Days of Shattered Fait ch 7-44; Pretenders to the Thro ch 6-38	the Fellows (including Thurrel) who render down living beings into raw power to fill tablethi; Alv calls them "men like Fellow-Archivist Thurrel"
decanting department	House of Open Wounds ch 7	the Palleseen army department responsible for processing/harvesting magical beings into tablethi
Divinati	City of Last Chances ch 2-47; House of Open Wounds ch 4-50; Pretenders to the Thro ch 28	people of the Divine City, a single coastal city-state south-east of Allor; magicians who live in exacting balance of world-forces; no agriculture, no demon-conjuration; hold Ilmar in contempt; cast out children who fail assessment at sixteen
Divine Light Priesthood	Days of Shattered Fait ch 19	a religious body in Lucibi that declares marriage a lifelong commitment, leaving no escape
Donjon garrison	City of Last Chances ch 37	the regular Palleseen soldiers arrayed on two approaches to Gownhall Square
Emorandi	Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-37	the Usmiat noble class surrounding the Alkhand; Drathel's jab at "gatekeepers" uses the Usmiri word for them
Exceptional Stratagems	House of Open Wounds ch 9; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 4-5	A department Maserley belongs to; "always on the lookout for something we can use"; trumps decanting but not, apparently, Prassel's authority
Faraslandi	Pretenders to the Thro ch 6-22	a people whose proverbs Dantell cites ("if your nets were full of poison devil fish, invite your enemies to a feast"; "Holding the lantern was the best way to stop it shining in your own face")
Faraslendi	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3	the people of Farasland
Faraslendi Seat	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3	the governing authority of Farasland; Correct Appreciation has been sent there to secure mercantile concessions
Fisher's Guild	Pretenders to the Thro ch 3-22	a guild in the Left-city with members who can bring goods past the Palleseen blockade and Os-Fferegh authorities
Forthright	House of Open Wounds ch 4-51	arriving by Gallete island; soldiers, specialists, magicians, and Blessed priests disembarking
Galeaff clan	Pretenders to the Thro ch 34
Galleters	House of Open Wounds ch 20	operate the floating island's descent; their magic and traditions viewed with suspicion by the Pals
Galletes	House of Open Wounds ch 17-39	the reinforcements arrive on "a whole Gallete island," skimming over the landscape
Gownhall	City of Last Chances ch 4-47	faculty in "distinctive robes and flared, square-topped hats" among the crowd
Hegelsy's prisoners	City of Last Chances ch 23	"the Indweller," "that lanky, treason-talking academic," and others Culvern offers to release
Helaseach	Pretenders to the Thro ch 9-41
Herons	City of Last Chances ch 3-41
Higher Orders	House of Open Wounds ch 2-48; Pretenders to the Thro ch 4-40	an authority above the class; Callow reports having spoken to them and that they are "very interested in the wider applications" of sympathetic healing
Hospitallers	Pretenders to the Thro ch 3-42	a healer group (Pals) running the hospital and soup kitchen in the Left-city; some still wear the charcoal-grey jacket
Ib, Pib, and Pob	Pretenders to the Thro ch 12
Ibaleth	Days of Shattered Fait ch 11-37	ogrodons serve as mounts for the Alkhand's convoy; their mahouts are observed with "ornamented orbs"
Ilmari	City of Last Chances ch 2-35; House of Open Wounds ch 6-35; Pretenders to the Thro ch 39
Indwellers	City of Last Chances ch 2-48	half a dozen appear from the trees in mist, wearing sightless wooden masks, cloaks, staves, and strings of snake oil and mummery; they communicate with the beast, receive Nasely's body, and walk through the Palleseen sentries by secret ways into the city
Infernal Accessories	Days of Shattered Fait ch 21	demon soldiers in Palleseen service, wearing dark charcoal regular uniforms; first into baton-fire
Islermen	House of Open Wounds ch 19-44; Days of Shattered Fait ch 26-35; Pretenders to the Thro ch 9-22	an archaic or derogatory name for Pals that God uses; Jack corrects: "They've been Pals for, like, centuries. Not Islermen"
Jarokiri	House of Open Wounds ch 4-51; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1; Days of Shattered Fait ch 7
Killinbraan Nautical Institute	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 8; Days of Shattered Fait ch 13	educational institution at Killinbraan, half Palleseen phal, half Loruthi university; attended by spare children of the wealthy from many nations
Landwards	House of Open Wounds ch 20-50; Pretenders to the Thro ch 31	got into "a fine old pissing competition" during the unloading
Lodges	City of Last Chances ch 3-34	criminal organisations; employ pickpockets, rely on militia and Occupiers to "weed out the worst"
Lor	City of Last Chances ch 12-36; House of Open Wounds ch 4-50; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-45; Pretenders to the Thro ch 1-41	the nation the Palleseen are fighting; has a trade empire with holdings, outposts, and colonies overseas
Loruthi navy	Days of Shattered Fait ch 27	the naval force the Naturae formerly ran blockades against
Loruthi Palatine Council	Days of Shattered Fait ch 2	the governing body that sends Tarcomir as Emissary to Usmai
Loyalty and Oversight	House of Open Wounds ch 2	the branch to which interrogation requests are directed, distinct from Prassel's Necromancy function
Mahanic Temple	City of Last Chances ch 1-49	mentioned as an institution that would have "some issues" with the students' religious-freedom demand
Millwright Siblingry	City of Last Chances ch 6
Moerends	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 6-46; Pretenders to the Thro ch 37	priests of the old Imperial death cult who performed the binding ritual on Sorthist and speak of death, reward, and return
Moeribandi	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-50; Pretenders to the Thro ch 20-37	the old empire whose collapse gave rise to the successor states; its name gives rise to the word "Pel"; also called the Dead Empire
New Resources Tactical Department	House of Open Wounds ch 39	the department within Landwards Battalion where Hobbers was placed and where Callow's division operates
Occupiers	City of Last Chances ch 1-10	military force occupying Ilmar; enforce Correct Thought, arrest for Incorrect Speech and Incorrect Exchange
Oloumanni	House of Open Wounds ch 24
Osseach	Pretenders to the Thro ch 3-42	the council governing Eres Ffenegh; Niev's work is "for the Osseach"; Hamriddy serves on it
Pal	City of Last Chances ch 1-49; House of Open Wounds ch 1-50; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-50; Pretenders to the Thro ch 1-41	colloquial adjective for Palleseen, used contemptuously ("This Pal woman," "a Pal baton," "the Pals")
Pal advisor-perfectors	House of Open Wounds ch 22	Palleseen officials who governed Bracinta before the war
Pal soldiers	City of Last Chances ch 16-31	a handful drawn to the factory by the noise; Orvechin glowers at them, considers their involvement unwanted
Perfecture	City of Last Chances ch 1-43	an individual occupied territory; the Ilmari Perfecture is governed by the School of Correct Erudition
provosts	House of Open Wounds ch 25-46	military police who patrol the camp during battle to root out deserters; they challenge the escape column
Ratcatchers	House of Open Wounds ch 7	special squads deployed in Ilmar to capture gods and magical spirits for harvesting
Raven	City of Last Chances ch 6-49
Red Grieving Bat Society	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3	a smuggler cartel that attacked the Rectitude (ship); Lasaret has been meeting them to use their "complete fiat" over shipping
Resolute Battalion	Pretenders to the Thro ch 4-41
ruin-divers	City of Last Chances ch 8-15	a gutter profession in Ilmar, "more than half of them are Allorwen"; trade carries extreme risk/reward ("Two successful trips could set you up for five years... One successful trip was more than half of them ever got")
Sansovaalli	Days of Shattered Fait ch 18	a people from overseas; one veiled member with "a serpent's voice" was a friend to Gorbudan's father and grandfather and is received at court
School of Correct Thought	City of Last Chances ch 22	named by Nihilostes as the institution that "took up where the majority religions of her home ended," enforcing ideological conformity in the occupied territories
Shen	House of Open Wounds ch 17	whose custom of frying spiced meat strips on a griddle off sticks the army adopted because "you could basically do it anywhere you had a fire"
Shrikes	City of Last Chances ch 6-37	Fyon's faction; "anyone who went Shrike was digging a grave"
Siblingries	City of Last Chances ch 10-49	taken from their beds; organisers in mills and factories the Siblingries didn't reach; now held in the Donjon
Spiribandi	Days of Shattered Fait ch 16	order of wandering monks who worship snails (or the concept of "snailness"); they travel with great sacks, take a wandering mendicant life, and come to Usmai from over the Garmoers; the Alkhand must renew church-state bonds with them
Successor States	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7-9; Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-9	the fragmented polities of the former Moeribandi Empire
Tarcomir's two seconds	Days of Shattered Fait ch 2	unnamed Loruthi embassy staff who witness the duel and retrieve their employer's body
Tesemer	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9; Days of Shattered Fait ch 2-36	insects at the lamps are half-jokingly imagined as having been "sent by the Tesemer to complain to the Resident of their demise"; Drathel refers to them as "those bug-mouth gals"
the abandoned gods of Ilmar	City of Last Chances ch 41	the collective degraded, forgotten divinities that survive in the city's filth; diminished to hand-sized figures; they beseech Yasnic for alms and priesthood because his apostasy left a visible "god-shaped gap"
the Alkhand's children	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7	a young man, a boy, and a girl among the onlookers; presumably children of Oparan
the Alkhand's court	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10	the court at Alkhalend; functionaries, poets, musicians; the Alkhand sits in melancholy
the army	House of Open Wounds ch 51
the Boat Cult	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 4	formerly a dread cult "worshipping benthic monstrosities beyond human comprehension" among Torne shipyard dockers; now de-godded into a social club tolerated as a safety valve
the Church of the Fisher King	Pretenders to the Thro ch 18	the sea-cult body the Pope of Tides speaks for; he asserts "confidence in its allies"
the Committee	House of Open Wounds ch 27	body whose authority extends a soldier's duty beyond death; mentioned by Stiverton without further identification
the conclave of sea gods	Pretenders to the Thro ch 9	a loose alliance of seagoing faiths (pirate gods, trader gods, fish, squid, and boat gods) allied by ritual against the Palleseen; Eres Ffenegh is their fixed point in the water
The death squads	Pretenders to the Thro ch 35	units sent to the Archipelago to cull unarmed Palleseen soldiers and prisoners suspected of religious belief; Istreddy and other Lycanthropists were used as enforcers
The Deathless	House of Open Wounds ch 33-48	Prassel's proposed program of soldiers who sign up in advance for post-mortem service, with ranks, honours, and pensions for families
the Draymen	City of Last Chances ch 10	cart drivers in Ilmar; half won't take an Allorwen passenger
the Ducal Guard	City of Last Chances ch 9
The embassy from Hell	Pretenders to the Thro ch 42	Hell's first embassy in the World Above, situated in Eres Ffenegh behind the old gate; "how else shall we maintain our first embassy in the World Above?"
the Fever Lodge expatriates	Days of Shattered Fait ch 32	the household itself as a chosen family: "Basically perfect company, if you had horrors in your past you didn't want people judging you for." Members take aliases; "Nobody who lives under our roof goes by their real name."
the Fifteen-Minute Men	Days of Shattered Fait ch 28; Pretenders to the Thro ch 8-35	another military formation implicated in the Loruthi war; similarly suspect after the war
the Fiver Lodge	Days of Shattered Fait ch 17
the Gallete magician-engineers	House of Open Wounds ch 19	calibrate the crystal web keeping the island aloft; watch Thurrel and Maserley anxiously
the Gosht	Days of Shattered Fait ch 31	the people of Goshumai; their savage archers once installed a puppet infant on the throne
the Halberandi monks	Days of Shattered Fait ch 11	an order of "magic-hoarders" who use the cord and send killers after those who wrong them; Drathel antagonised them
the Hospital Department	House of Open Wounds ch 18-19	the unit Jack, Ollery, Lidlet, Masty, Tallifer, Lochiver, Banders, and Alv serve in; has "no troopers in the department"
the Invigilators	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 2	the Palleseen security/censorship caste; Ostrephy's corps; Angilly initially conflates them entirely with Correct Appreciation
the invisibles	City of Last Chances ch 49	the forgotten gods visible only to Yasnic, who crowd outside the Anchorage's door
The Iron Magnates	Pretenders to the Thro ch 39	those who "reigned" in Hell and sold Caeleen; she fights them there
the Kings Below	City of Last Chances ch 10-43; House of Open Wounds ch 9-50; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5; Days of Shattered Fait ch 24-48; Pretenders to the Thro ch 10-42	rulers of the Infernal Realms who sold the demon in a batch contract; the original contracts stipulated return to their "pens" / "cells"
the Knife-Bearers	City of Last Chances ch 3	"the cats that thought like men"; extinct, possibly; once owned by the Duke of Ilmar; their ivory tusks are unique artefacts
The legion of Hell	Pretenders to the Thro ch 41	a full military force of demons that marches through the Gaelensreach gates and the Pandaemonium at the chapter's close; includes demons wielding twisted metal staves set with flaming embers, "the homage" to Pal batons
the lizards	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10	a sapient species that goads the armoured beasts, does "people-things," has its own district outside Alkhalend, and comes from the Waygrove
the Lodge crooks	City of Last Chances ch 10	high-ranking criminal leaders who take sexual services from Mother Guame in lieu of protection money
the Moderates	Pretenders to the Thro ch 9	a Families-adjacent faction in the Osseach, "cordially rival" to the Families but allied for the siege
the new class	House of Open Wounds ch 29	twelve young Palleseen fresh from the phalanstery, Callow's cohort, all of whom have "got notes" from a veteran of Alv's first class and studied the theory in advance
the Os-Fferegh patrons	Pretenders to the Thro ch 17	unnamed local dignitaries who arrive at the chapter's close, "done up like they were attending some grandee's funeral"
the Palatine Minister of Foreign Affairs	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9	Loruthi body to which Tarcomir reports; its dispatches grow increasingly hysterical about Palleseen encroachment
the Palleseen	City of Last Chances ch 2-37; House of Open Wounds ch 31-49; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 3-40; Pretenders to the Thro ch 13	referred to throughout as "the Pals"; the occupying power; their officials in the Palleseen Sway "retain the crude local forms of punishment"
the Pals who decanted the sword	Pretenders to the Thro ch 7	unnamed Palleseen operatives who performed the decanting; Kiff recalls a "weaselly Pal" officiating
The revolutionaries of Hell	Pretenders to the Thro ch 42	the faction that overthrew the Kings Below; their law is "No kings, no masters"; they seek access to Above and an embassy, not conquest
the rivermen	City of Last Chances ch 8	a couple in the next cell, possibly riverfolk smugglers or associates of "the man who had been at Langrice's table"
the Sand Lanes bravos	Days of Shattered Fait ch 48	local gangsters and irregulars joining the Usmiat uprising
the School of Correct Speech	City of Last Chances ch 5-49; House of Open Wounds ch 1-51; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 17-29; Pretenders to the Thro ch 6-41	torturers three tents from the hospital, plying their trade on captured spies and enemy soldiers.
the Schools	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1-3	the institutional divisions of Palleseen governance; the Inquirers are the disciplinary arm across them
the Scotolaries of Hell	Pretenders to the Thro ch 34	the ruling body the demon assassin rejects; used synonymously with the Kings Below in the assassin's revolutionary cry
the sentries at the old wall	Pretenders to the Thro ch 4	greet Lovern cheerily; stamp by a tablethi-charged heater; Lovern knows their names
the Sirovar family	City of Last Chances ch 3-35	an Armiger house; livery is a quartered shield with harp, crossed scimitars and doubled shells, owl removed post-Occupation; Sachemel was the former head, now dead
the twenty Palleseen soldiers	City of Last Chances ch 2	Ochelby's armed escort; fire batons at the beasts; most are eaten
the Usmiat	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7-10; Days of Shattered Fait ch 10-22	people of Usmai
the viziers of Bracinta	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5	consortium of viziers who called in outside aid after the succession crisis; almost exclusively men; each claims to await the true king while stealing from the treasury
the Whitefish	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3	a dissenting group in Farasland seeking to overthrow the Jarl-Amir and instal his cousin-in-exile; Lasaret expects them to become a problem in about a year
the Zenotheus cult	House of Open Wounds ch 24	a hidden murder-cult of Oloumanni conscripts embedded within the Landwards Battalion Accessories; sacrifices priests of other gods by garotting and burying them in consecrated hollows; operates under tenets of survival, hiddenness, and breeding chaos
Third Company	House of Open Wounds ch 18-19	a military company under Goughry's department-head; source of the brawling incident
three godlings	House of Open Wounds ch 42	the count of deities held in Jack's box; drained in one act into "around nine artillery rounds or a hundred charged batons"
Unnaturals	House of Open Wounds ch 11-13; Days of Shattered Fait ch 26-28; Pretenders to the Thro ch 11-40	military classification (as exacting as "cavalry") for non-human combatants: corpses, bound demons, Sonori constructs; originally the terror weapons of conquered peoples, now a routine arm of the Pal army
Urbek	Pretenders to the Thro ch 22	a people from "warmer climes," scattered among the pirate crew
Usrani	Days of Shattered Fait ch 8-48	monastic order; their monastery holds a "treasure of singular value" Drathel wants
Valuations	Days of Shattered Fait ch 37-41	the Palleseen department that "administers," coming behind the "knowers" and ahead of the "doers" to "tot up all the accounts to determine just what was known and what must be done"; it runs the Sway
Varatsin	City of Last Chances ch 17-47	ancient family whose curse is named alongside Tatiana Eleretsin's ghost
Ventures	Days of Shattered Fait ch 12-37	a new Palleseen department outside the regular chain of command, headed by Flint Postry; Gil is unsure whether it sits under Outreach or stands independently
Vultures	City of Last Chances ch 3-49	not named directly; implied by the resistance cell members (Fyon the Shrike, the student girl, the Indweller) being rounded up alongside
Alv's attendants	House of Open Wounds ch 1	Divinati trainees learning sympathetic healing; "They're all bloodied."
bearers	House of Open Wounds ch 1	Carry stretchers and set down the wounded, then retreat
Blackmane's nineteen fugitives	City of Last Chances ch 47	Allorwen refugees sheltering in the Anchorage's cellars
brimstone-tainted lineages	Pretenders to the Thro ch 17	the great old Allorwen mage-lord families, including Abellaime's kin
catwolf	House of Open Wounds ch 24	a creature Tallifer names as a real danger in Bracinta
catwolves	House of Open Wounds ch 28	feline-canine creatures whose statues flank the stadium gates; Masty states the last of them were hunted down two generations ago because only kings could own them
Coregan's servants	Days of Shattered Fait ch 4	armed with bludgeons, knives, and one skia; hesitate at the prison doors
crab bees	Pretenders to the Thro ch 5
Culvern's servants	City of Last Chances ch 13	masked attendants with "leather snouts like gargantuan shrews"; one scribbles the requisition
factory hellieurs	House of Open Wounds ch 25; Days of Shattered Fait ch 24	a type of modern demonist who cheat demons and deal with the Kings Below for massed labour
Gorbudan's retainers	Days of Shattered Fait ch 15	a small armed guard Gorbudan brought; seize Dekamran; fight and die in the melee
Hoyst's trusties	City of Last Chances ch 26	unnamed assistants who "hauled the levers in perfect unison, practised as clock-tower figures"
ideologue, maritime investor, a man with a nephew - minor petitioners at the dinner	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
Infantry regulars	House of Open Wounds ch 1	Carry stretchers and set down the wounded, then retreat
Mill demons	City of Last Chances ch 45
Other demons	Days of Shattered Fait ch 24	"some she felt crawling up the walls like lizards," "others flew, circling in the night overhead"
other demons in adjacent pens	City of Last Chances ch 43	the conjurer's "fellows"; one demands "What have we done?" and another says "This is madness"; the POV demon is described as one of "a job lot of twenty" sold by the Kings Below
Pal soldiers at the door	Days of Shattered Fait ch 39	arrive to escort (imprison) Dekamran after the meeting
Palace servants with spades	Days of Shattered Fait ch 9	fill in the child-sized grave
Palleseen sentries	City of Last Chances ch 3-20	two men at the Anchorwood edge who miss the beast entirely, then bungle the response; reinforcements arrive but accomplish nothing
Palleseen soldiers	City of Last Chances ch 4-36	found ransacking Blackmane's shop when Ruslav and Benno arrive
People at the barricade	Pretenders to the Thro ch 2	roughly twenty onlookers on the free-city side who watch Kiffel return; "Witnesses only"
phalanstery	House of Open Wounds ch 2-46; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1-6; Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-47; Pretenders to the Thro ch 6-40	the training institution where Maserley, Thurrel, and Prassel were raised together as teenagers; basic officer training selecting by metrics and family
resistance	City of Last Chances ch 10-27
Stretcher bearers	House of Open Wounds ch 3	a dozen arriving with wounded at chapter's end
table squad	City of Last Chances ch 39	a grouping of students who share a table; used as a unit designation during the fighting
the armed palace guards	Days of Shattered Fait ch 2	half-dozen palace staff with batons who arrest Gil
the armoured beasts	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10	vast scaled horned creatures, "the armoured, unstoppable fist of Usmai's armies," used as transport and war machines
The border guards	Days of Shattered Fait ch 22	twenty part-timers near retirement who calculate rice taxes; unanimously declare Dekamran the rightful Alkhand; march behind the royal ogrodon
The Butcher's assistants	House of Open Wounds ch 1	Unnamed staff cutting, stitching, scouring, decontaminating; "a collection of miscreants and misfits not otherwise seen this side of the army paymaster's rolls."
the crowd on the Portbridge	City of Last Chances ch 35	processional of banners, flags, children, "bright faces" marching west to east, whom Shantrov mistakes for a general rising
The cultists	House of Open Wounds ch 24	half a dozen Oloumanni conscripts wearing cloth masks; carry out the capture, binding, and attempted strangulation; one nearly fumbles the garotte
the dancers	City of Last Chances ch 35	emaciated figures dancing hand-in-hand in the ruins of the Reproach, the voice that speaks to Shantrov
the deserters	House of Open Wounds ch 47
the displaced people	Pretenders to the Thro ch 29
The dozen assassins	Days of Shattered Fait ch 6	hooded, masked, knifed; wait in the prison for Drathel to be freed; the "chief assassin" calls her a "tomb-robber"
the escort	Days of Shattered Fait ch 7
the four students unloading the wagon	City of Last Chances ch 4	paste-faced students moving crates; Ruslav startles them by muscling a crate
the fugitives	City of Last Chances ch 46	a "decent-sized group of Ilmari" with wounded among them, trapped by Brocklesby's ring of soldiers
the guards	City of Last Chances ch 9	present in the room during Temsel's interrogation, stationed at the back
The Guilds	Pretenders to the Thro ch 17	local power groups in Eres Ffenegh with the same resentful relationship to Abellaime
the itinerant priests or magicians or quacks	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5	do brisk business in ritual cleansing after the demon incident
The living allies	Pretenders to the Thro ch 37	shout demands from behind the barricades at the woman; their conduct "would not uphold the Emperor's honour"
The local magicians	Pretenders to the Thro ch 37	unleashed "briefly animated stones" (cf. Gaeledh) against the Dead Companies
the looters	Pretenders to the Thro ch 33	unnamed Carcer civilians, "without a complete uniform between them," who chase Quellery; two of his imps die in the pursuit
the masked priests	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7	two Alborandi who appear, hand Kaleithi a mask, and leave with her
the messengers	Days of Shattered Fait ch 25	soldiers who burst into the room with news that Dekamran's assault has begun
the officers	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1	Dine at the top table; one flips his plate and bellows the alarm about a curse attack
the orphanages	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5	institution providing education and rank badges to "no-prospect no-parent gutter brats"
The other pirates aboard the ship	Days of Shattered Fait ch 1	"about a dozen men and women" who laugh at Loret; unnamed
The palace servants escort	Days of Shattered Fait ch 6	a dozen servants with cleavers and rapiers in bright clothing; serve as protection via the Alkhand's writ; will not pass the gates of the House
the prisoners	House of Open Wounds ch 46
the rank and file soldiers	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1	Some run for the door, others clutch batons as though the fire can be shot
the resistance factions	City of Last Chances ch 3
The snooty woman and three servants	Days of Shattered Fait ch 19	palace staff sent to retrieve Enshili; all four are killed by Caecelian
the students	City of Last Chances ch 39
The two Armigers' retainers	City of Last Chances ch 49	unnamed soft-looking men buying an artefact from Blackmane
the two sharpshooters	Days of Shattered Fait ch 33	Palleseen soldiers whose shots stagger the Louse Speaker, allowing Flint to finish him; commended by Flint
the two soldiers	City of Last Chances ch 48	Culvern's men, faces hidden behind leather snouts; hold Hegelsy while the mask is forced onto him
the two women at the exhibition	City of Last Chances ch 4	visitors with "pinched-lemon faces" who discuss a painting without buying
Three silent patients with shattered bone	House of Open Wounds ch 1	Shards erupted from within; saved for surgery
Three unnamed old monks	Days of Shattered Fait ch 44	the last of Arkanith's chanting order; they rush Drathel and are killed by her tablethi-powered rods
Three unnamed Pal regular soldiers	House of Open Wounds ch 40	present in Lidlet's tent; hand over the sheaf of papers; one touches Jack's box
Three unnamed troopers	Days of Shattered Fait ch 41	Valuations soldiers who accompany Flint; level batons at Gil
Various dock workers, porters, a Palleseen merchant, a diminutive local woman, the tavernkeeper	Days of Shattered Fait ch 27	locals and expatriates from whom information is extracted
workers	City of Last Chances ch 10-16