Blademan: A Blackguard watch captain. He led one of the skimmers in the battle at Ruic Head, along with Gavin Guile and Watch Captain Tempus.
Blue-Eyed Demons, the: A mercenary band that fought for Dazen Guile’s army.
Blunt: A Blackguard watch captain.
Borig, Janus: An old woman, she claimed to be a Demiurgos and a Mirror, creating true Nine Kings cards.
Brightwater, Aheyyad: Orange drafter, grandson of Tala. A defender of Garriston, the designer of Garriston’s Brightwater Wall; dubbed Aheyyad Brightwater by Prism Gavin Guile.
Bursar: The Omnichrome’s treasury adviser. She was originally a minor secretary for the secretary of the treasury of Paria.
Burshward, Captain: An Angari captain. He chose to dare the Everdark Gates because he’d heard rumors of the wealth beyond, and because of his vision from his god, Mot. Mortal enemy of Gunner.
Burshward, Gillan: Captain Burshward’s brother, now short a leg due to an encounter with Gunner.
Buskin: Along with Tugertent and Tlatig, one of the best archers Commander Ironfist had on the approach to Ruic Head.
Caelia Green: A talented drafter, a dwarf, and formerly a servant of the Third Eye.
Cairn, Evie: A healer from Blood Forest.
Carver Black: A non-drafter, as is traditional for the Black. He is the chief administrator of the Seven Satrapies. Though he has a voice on the Spectrum, he has no vote.
Carvingen, Odess: A drafter and defender of Garriston.
Cavair, Paz: Commander of the Blue Bastards at the Great Pyramid of Ru.
Cezilia: A servant/bodyguard to the Third Eye. A fourth-generation Seers Islander.
Clara: A servant/bodyguard to the Third Eye.
Comán, Cu: A nobleman and leader of Dúnbheo.
Companions’ Mother: Head of the Omnichrome’s army’s prostitute guild.
Coran, Adraea: Blessed. Said, ‘War is a horror.’
Cordelia: A willowy female Blackguard. An Archer.
Coreen: An old widow of Blood Forest. Despite her humble isolation, she seems to speak for or with Orholam.
Corfu, Ramia: A powerful, extremely handsome young blue drafter. One of the Color Prince’s favorites.
Corzin, Eleph: An Abornean blue drafter, a defender of Garriston.
Counselor, the: A legendary figure. Author of The Counselor to Kings, which advised such cruel methods of government that not even he followed them when he ruled.
Cracks: A singularly ugly young Blackguard.
Crassos, Aglaia: A young noblewoman and drafter at the Chromeria. She is the youngest daughter of an important Ruthgari family, a sadist who enjoys the pain she inflicts on her slaves. Has a powerful hatred of both the Guiles and Teia.
Crassos, Governor: Elder brother of Aglaia Crassos; the last governor of Garriston.
Crassos, Ismene: A middle-aged cousin of Aglaia Crassos.
Cruxer: He was perhaps the most talented Blackguard of his era, now one of the Mighty.
Daelos: A Blackguard, very small, but intelligent and talented with blue. Left behind at the Chromeria when he was gravely injured fighting as one of the Mighty.
Dagnar Zelan: One of the original Blackguard. He served Lucidonius after converting to his cause.
Dagnu the Thirteenth: One of the legendary Nine Kings. Together with the red drafters of his time, wiped out the blues to the last child.
Dakan, Dayan: A thug for hire on Big Jasper.
Danavis, Aliviana (Liv): Daughter of Corvan Danavis. A yellow/superviolet bichrome drafter from Tyrea, she serves the White King. Formerly a discipula at the Chromeria whose contract was owned by the Ruthgari, supervised by Aglaia Crassos. Grew up in Rekton with Kip Guile.
Danavis, Corvan: A red drafter. A scion of one of the great Ruthgari families, he was also the most brilliant general of the age and the primary reason for Dazen Guile’s success in battle. Now the satrap of Seers Island and married to the Third Eye.
Danavis, Ell: The second wife of Corvan Danavis. She was murdered by an assassin three years after their marriage.
Danavis, Erethanna: A green drafter serving Count Nassos in western Ruthgar; Liv Danavis’s cousin.
Danavis, Qora: A Tyrean noblewoman; first wife of Corvan Danavis, mother of Liv Danavis.
Dancing Spear, Ikkin: A Blackguard famed for his fighting abilities in the Jadmar Rebellion.
Darjan: Legendary drafter at the time of Lucidonius and Karris Shadowblinder.
Delara, Naftalie: A woman from a prominent family whom Andross was going to ‘let’ Gavin marry. An ally of Andross Guile.
Delara Orange: The Atashian member of the Spectrum. She represents Orange and is a forty-year-old orange/red bichrome nearing the end of her life. Her predecessor in the seat was her mother, who devised the rotating scheme for Garriston. General Caul Azmith and the satrapah of Paria are her cousins.
Delarias, the: A family in Rekton.
Delauria, Katalina (Lina): Kip Guile’s mother. She is of Parian or Ilytian extraction and is a haze addict.
Delclara, Micael: A quarryman and a Rekton villager.
Delclara, Miss: The matriarch of the Delclara family in Rekton.
Delclara, Zalo: A quarryman, one of the Delclara sons.
Deleah: A slave woman in Andross Guile’s household.
Delelo, Galan: A master sergeant in the Omnichrome’s army. He escorted Liv Danavis to the gates of Garriston.
Delmarta, Gad: A young Tyrean general from Garriston, he commanded Dazen Guile’s army. Took the city of Ru and publicly massacred the royal family and its retainers. Garriston was later burnt in revenge.
Delucia, Neta: A member of the ruling council of Idoss (i.e., a city mother) before its fall.
Demistocles: A prophet and a mentor of prophets.
Diakoptês: An ambiguous term. Literally ‘He who rends asunder,’ but a looser translation could be ‘Breaker.’ In Braxian belief, both the name (or perhaps title?) of Lucidonius and the name or title of a similar figure (or possibly a reincarnation of Lucidonius?) who will come again to break or heal the Cracked Lands.
Djur: A Blackguard, he died fighting in the White King’s War.
Droose: One of Gunner’s shipmates.
Eden, Veliki: A military commander known for his integrity and for being one of the greatest strategists of all time.
Elelyōn: Another name for Orholam, from the Old Parian, meaning ‘God Most High.’
Elessia: A Blackguard. Killed in the White King’s War.
Elio: A bully in Kip Guile’s barracks. Kip broke his arm.
Elos, Gaspar: A green wight, he saved Kip Guile’s life in Rekton.
Erastophenes: A legendary general.
Erato: A Blackguard scrub who has it in for Kip Guile.
Essel: A Blackguard Archer.
Euterpe: A friend of Teia’s. She was a slave. Her owners lost everything in a drought and rented her to the Laurion silver mine brothels for five months. She never recovered.
Eutheos: A captain and hero of Dazen Guile’s army, and later a member of Ruthgar’s military.
Falling Leaf, Deedee: A green drafter. Her failing health inspired a number of veteran drafters who were also her friends to take the Freeing at Garriston.
Farjad, Farid: A nobleman and ally of Dazen Guile’s once Dazen promised him the Atashian throne during the False Prism’s War.
Farseer, Horas: Another ally of Dazen Guile’s, the bandit king of the Blue-Eyed Demons. Gavin Guile killed him after the False Prism’s War.
Fell: A female Blackguard, the smallest in the force, she excels at acrobatic moves.
Ferkudi: A member of the Mighty, a blue/green bichrome who excels at grappling. Gifted with spotty intelligence.
Finer: A Blackguard seen in one of the cards.
Fisk: He trains the scrubs with drills and conditioning. He barely beat Karris White Oak during their own test to enter the Blackguard.
Flamehands: An Ilytian drafter and defender of Garriston.
Fukkelot: On
e of Gavin Guile’s oarmates, he swears unceasingly under stress.
Gaeros: One of Aglaia Crassos’s slaves.
Galaea: Karris White Oak’s maid, and betrayer.
Galden, Jens: A magister at the Chromeria, a red drafter with a grudge against Kip Guile.
Galib: A polychrome at the Chromeria.
Gallos: A stableman at Garriston.
Garadul, Perses: Appointed satrap of Tyrea after Ruy Gonzalo was defeated by the Prism’s forces in the False Prism’s War. Perses was the father of Rask Garadul. He worked to eradicate the bandits plaguing Tyrea after the war.
Garadul, Rask: A satrap who declared himself king of Tyrea; his father was Perses Garadul.
Garret: One of Conn Arthur’s Ghosts.
Gates, Anjali: A semiretired senior diplomat in the Chromeria.
Gazzin, Griv: A green drafter who fought alongside Zee Oakenshield.
Gerain: An old man in Garriston who exhorted people to join King Garadul.
Gerrad: A student at the Chromeria.
Gevison: A poet of a heroic bent. He wrote The Wanderer’s Last Journey.
Gloriana: A Blackguard nunk from the cohort behind Teia.
Golden Briar, Cathán: Cousin to both Arys Greenveil and Ela Jorvis. Eva Golden Briar’s elder brother.
Golden Briar, Dónal: A Blood Forest nobleman and leader of a minor military catastrophe.
Golden Briar, Eva: A Blood Forest noblewoman Andross Guile was going to let Gavin choose to marry.
Goldeneyes, Tawenza: A yellow drafter. She teaches only the three most talented yellows each year at the Chromeria. A notorious misandrist.
Goldthorn: A magister at the Chromeria. Barely three years older than her disciples, she teaches the superviolet class.
Gonzalo: A farrier’s son of Atan’s Town in Darjan’s time. A simpleton.
Gonzalo, Ruy: A Tyrean satrap who sided with Dazen Guile during the False Prism’s War.
Goss: A Parian Blackguard inductee, one of the best fighters, and a member of the Mighty before he was killed by the Lightguard.
Gracia: A mountain Parian scrub. She’s taller than most of the boys.
Grandpa Sé: Served Darien Guile and Selena Oakenshield. Garret’s great-great-grandfather.
Grass, Evi: A drafter and defender of Garriston. She is a green/yellow bichrome from Blood Forest, and is a superchromat.
Grazner: A Blackguard scrub. Kip Guile broke his will in a bout.
Green, Jerrosh: Along with Dervani Malargos, he was one of the best green drafters in the Omnichrome’s army, and a Blood Robe. Killed by the Omnichrome before the Battle of Ru.
Greenveil, Arys: The Sub-red on the Spectrum. A Blood Forester, cousin of Jia Tolver, sister to Ana Jorvis’s mother, Ela. Her parents were killed in the war by Lunna Green’s brothers. She has twelve children by twelve different men and is pregnant with the thirteenth.
Greenveil, Ben-Oni: Arys Greenveil’s thirteenth child. His name means ‘son of my agony.’
Greenveil, Jalen: Arys Greenveil’s third child.
Greyling, Gavin: A Blackguard. He is the younger brother of Gill Greyling, named after Gavin Guile. He is the handsomer of the two brothers.
Greyling, Gill: A Blackguard. He is the elder brother of Gavin Greyling, and the more intelligent of the two.
Greyling, Ithiel: Father of Gill and Gavin Greyling.
Grinwoody: Andross Guile’s chief slave and right hand. He is barely a drafter, but Andross pulled strings to get him into training for the Blackguard, where he made friends and learned secrets. He made it all the way through Blackguard training, and on oath day decided to sign with Lord Guile instead, a betrayal the Blackguards remember.
Guile, Abel: Andross Guile’s elder brother and the heir to the Guile ‘fortune’ before he signed it over.
Guile, Andross: Father of Gavin, Dazen, and Sevastian Guile. He drafts yellow through sub-red, although he is primarily known for drafting red, as that was his position on the Spectrum. He took a place on the Spectrum despite being from Blood Forest, which already had a representative, by claiming that his lands in Ruthgar qualified him for the seat. Now the promachos.
Guile, Darien: Andross Guile’s great-grandfather. He married Zee Oakenshield’s daughter as a resolution to their war.
Guile, Dazen: Younger brother of Gavin. He fell in love with Karris White Oak and triggered the False Prism’s War when ‘he’ burnt down her family compound, killing everyone within.
Guile, Draccos: Andross Guile’s father. Hero of the Aghbalu Campaign. Notorious for gambling an entire hyparchy for the hand of a woman, the young Orea Pullawr, on a horse race. He lost the race, the woman, and his family’s entire fortune. It was revealed decades later that his opponent, Juldaw Rathcore, had cheated. The Spectrum refused to expel the Rathcores at that time, leaving the Guiles as wool traders. Implicated in the murder of his brother, but as the only witnesses were slaves whose testimony was thereby inadmissible, the case wasn’t prosecuted by local magistrates or the satraps. (Orea ended up later marrying Juldaw’s brother.)
Guile, Felia: Wife of Andross Guile. The mother of Gavin and Dazen, a cousin of the Atashian royal family, she was an orange drafter. Freed at Garriston just before the great battle. Her mother was courted by Ulbear Rathcore before he met Orea Pullawr.
Guile, Galatius: A Guile ancestor, a drunk and a gambler, important mainly because he married the woman who became known as Iron Ataea Guile.
Guile, Gavin: The Prism. Two years older than Dazen, he was appointed Prism at age thirteen.
Guile, Iron Ataea: Member of a small noble family that provided champion racehorses for Ruthgar and Blood Forest. She stole Galatius Guile’s heart and reshaped the Guile family’s destiny.
Guile, Kip: The illegitimate Tyrean son of Gavin Guile and Katalina Delauria. He is a superchromat and a full-spectrum polychrome.
Guile, Memnon: A legendary wanderer who was cursed by a witch and murdered by his brother on his return home.
Guile, Sevastian: The youngest Guile brother. He was murdered by a blue wight when Gavin was thirteen and Dazen was eleven.
Guile, Zymun: A young drafter and former member of the Omnichrome’s army. Also known as Zymun White Oak, he claims to be the son of Karris and Gavin Guile and has been declared Prism-elect.
Gunner: An Ilytian pirate. His first underdeck command was as cannoneer on the Aved Barayah. He later became captain of the Bitter Cob.
Gwafa: A legendary Blackguard.
Hada: Handmaid to Tazerwalt, princess of the Tlaglanu.
Ham-haldita, Kata: Corregidor of Idoss before its fall. Ally of the Color Prince.
Hammer, Enki: The Lord Commandant of the Armies of Paria and the Nuqaba’s consort. Killed by Karris Guile.
Harl, Pan: A Blackguard inductee. His ancestors were slaves for the last eight generations. Killed in the White King’s War.
Helel: A member of the Order, she masqueraded as a teacher in the Chromeria and tried to murder Kip Guile.
Hena: A magister at the Chromeria who teaches a class on luxin construction.
Hezik: A Blackguard whose mother commanded a pirate hunter in the Narrows. He could shoot cannons fairly accurately.
Hill, Ruarc: A nobleman and leader of Dúnbheo.
Holdfast: A Blackguard. His son is Cruxer and his widow is Inana, another Blackguard.
Holvar, Jin: A woman who entered the Blackguard the same year as Karris White Oak, though she is a few years younger.
Hrozak, Grath: A sadist who murdered hundreds personally, and was well-known for his brutal military tactics.
Idus: A Blackguard scrub.
Inana: Cruxer’s mother, and a Blackguard. Widow of Holdfast, a Blackguard.
Incaros: One of Aglaia Crassos’s room slaves.
Ironfist (birth name Harrdun): Commander of the Blackguard, a blue drafter. Parian.
Isabel (Isa): A pretty young girl in Rekton.
Izza: Karris White Oak’s childhood slave-tutor.
Izîl-Udad: The
Nuqaba’s former husband. A cripple.
Izem Blue: A legendary drafter and a defender of Garriston under Gavin Guile.
Izem Red: A defender of Garriston under Gavin Guile. He fought for Gavin during the False Prism’s War. A Parian drafter of red with incredible speed, he wore his ghotra in the shape of a cobra’s hood.
Jade: A female Blackguard.
Jalal: A Parian storekeeper who sells kopi.
Jarae: One of the Guile house slaves when Gavin and Dazen were children.
Jo’El, Seer: An ancient prophet, a Third Eye known for his promises of restoration following a coming devastation.
Jorvis, Ana: A superviolet/blue bichrome, student at the Chromeria, one of the women Andross Guile would have allowed Gavin to marry. Died in suspicious circumstances after she attempted to seduce Gavin by entering his rooms at night. The death was ruled a suicide, but the family claims it was murder.
Jorvis, Demnos: Ana Jorvis’s father, and Arys Greenveil’s brother-in-law, married to Ela Jorvis.
Jorvis, Ela: Sister of Arys Greenveil, wife of Demnos Jorvis, Blood Forester, mother to Ana Jorvis.
Jorvis, High Luxiat: One of the six High Luxiats during Gavin Guile’s first Freeing.
Jorvis, Jason: Brother to Ana, son of Ela and Demnos. Killed by Karris White Oak during the choosing of the White.
Jumber, Norl: A Blackguard, a casualty of the Omnichrome’s War.
Jun: A Blackguard scrub.
Kadah: Formerly a magister at the Chromeria who taught drafting basics. Now a researcher for the Chromeria.
Kalif: A Blackguard.
Kallea: Teia’s sister; married to a butcher.
Kalligenaea, Lady Phoebe: A yellow superchromat with finer luxin control than even Gavin Guile.
Kallikrates: Teia’s father. He ran the silk route as a trader before losing everything due to his wife’s lavish lifestyle.
Kamal, Amrit: One of the White King’s generals.
Keftar, Graystone: A green drafter and Blackguard scrub. He’s an athletic, dark-skinned son of a rich family that paid for him to be trained before he came to the Chromeria.
Kerea: A Blackguard and an Archer.
Klytos Blue: The Blue on the Spectrum. He represents Ilyta, though he is a Ruthgari. A coward and Andross Guile’s tool.
Kyros: Dazen Guile’s childhood tutor.
Laya: A Blackguard who drafted red, present at the Battle of Garriston. Later killed in the Omnichrome’s War.