Rossalin, Leta, Veres, Keron

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ME & TH, EG & MW, AL, PM, PR, MC, RH, RS & AS, PA, RS, KU, RL, BW & AM, JM

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Arianne, Magus the 7th – in the royal lineage of the Pan-Galactic Imperium, remembered for literature and education
Drt. Arcta Hydraia – scientist & advisor in the field of massive sphere dynamics, a cross-collaborator; smooth, witty and nerdy with a confidence that rarely falters
Drt. Arjun Woollibee, First AIDD – architectural engineer, First Abyssal Inverse Dwelling Designer of The Arch, brother of Bux
Arnelle, Magus the 6th – royal lineage of the Pan-Galactic Imperium, annexed four planets of the Archipelago Federet
Arys Steinman – applied knot mathematician aboard The Arch, old friend of Karma Ilacqua
Dr. Basa – royal doctor to Queen Celeste
Bassel Ayo – a child from Ionos Capital good at putting things together, son of Mirya
Uncle Bo – Vanessa Udar’s Uncle guardian, rather athletic himself
Drt. Buckminster Woollibee, Bux – Arjun’s brother and founding partner of Woollibee & Woollibee, materials scientist
Prince Carlo – the youngest of the Magus royal family children, second son; brown eyes, brown skin, curly black hair
Casper Jacobs – dealer in rarities, has a shop in Alisandre Capital; has a room-based tech interface that he uses to work, communicate & plan; artisthacker
Celeste, Magus the 24th, Her Vast Eminence, Queen, Grandmaria – Queen Regent, head of the royal family and leader of the Pan-Galactic Imperium; dark brown eyes, black-now-grey hair
Chad Dremel – tech half of a minor back-end support business, Substitute Security & Systems; aka cable guys
Queen Ascendant Charlotte – next in the Magus line after Queen Celeste, mother of four, trained military tech pilot, wed to Grant Vario
Cheli – street kid of Anzi on Genesee, community organizer of The Valley
Chrysanthe Renaud, ‘Santhe – talented child gymnast, suffered the Hirylien Affliction
Col – Alisandrian heritage arms dealer & esoterica trader, known independently by Karma and Derringer
Conrah – one of the kids who worked on the Big Project with the Vedani
Prince Cristobal – third of four royal children, first son; studious, enjoys astrography; armchairkid explorer; lightest skin, black hair, like oldest sister, grey eyes
Lieutenant Daguerre-Asahi – aide to General Alisandre Draig Claymore after the Maelstrom Rescue
Dalib, or call him Chip – a capital office worker disguise with a bowler hat
Daniel Renaud – Chrysanthe Renaud’s supportive father
Danila Bautiste – scientist aboard The Arch who is also the volunteer bartender
DephnV768 – someone in Navann’s local lockdown shadownet chat room
Derringer – an independent professional private investigator with good friends; a spooky tracker, can screen his outermost thoughts; possibly older than he seems
D’Orann – a Jennian poet
Draig Claymore, General Alisandre – the Pan-Galactic Imperium’s youngest ever General, holding the place of prime military authority below the monarch; Soleil’s childhood friend; youngest general in the imperial armed forces, older than Soleil, 30
Earne Andem – a widely known contemporary artist
Elgin Conully – a professional extreme sports athlete present for the Oriya Aerial River closing, Kalana Olpan’s partner
Emira Rosh – owner-operated space trucker (Entropy 8) and Starweavers emergency volunteer
Erris of Rahm – an opera that contains the Huntresses’ Aria
Esen – a Hirylienite lab protest organizer
Fred DeWalt – security muscle for Substitute Security & Systems co- owned with Chad Dremel
Mr. G – mysterious caller to Joe’s tavern… okay, it’s General Claymore
Gerard Rienne – royal extended family nobility in Alisandre Capital, Margeaux’s brother
Gerund Aley – a dragonslayer in the vicinity of Alisandre Capital
Georg Hertez – mission chief to General Claymore during the Vortex Anomaly investigation, ancillary to the hunt for Raev Sturlusson
Grant Vario, King Ascendant, King Proxem – Queen Ascendant Charlotte’s military husband, father of the royal children
Gretz Manoukian – owner-operated space trucker & Starweavers emergency volunteer, gayyy!
Auditor Hayze – city planning staff in Alisandre Capital, populace dynamics advisor to King Proxem Grant Vario
the Hoopoe – a successful teenage DJ musical genius who pulled off a heist, owns a Lurinese treehouse, and is contributing to scientific research as a way of staying out of trouble; a “charming miscreant”; can turn doodads into doohickeys, unlock and plug things together
Iako Shukla – local hero son of the mayor of Alisandre Capital, owns Capitol Cab
General Ionos – part of the Alpha base team for the Vortex Anomaly investigation, Libran federet commander; civilized, moderate, lawful
General Iparia – pursues a vendetta against Raev Sturlusson, Freshwater federet commanding General; his sister died years previous in the Freshwater Consulate collapse staged by the Phronium Triangle
Lieutenant Corporal Iparia – the officer standing in for their absent General during a meeting
Iparia’s sister – dearly beloved who died during the Phronium Triangle attack on the Freshwater Consulate
Isten – a young activist who worked on deciphering the puzzle of the broadcast windows, and was part of the labs demonstration, Leyga’s son
Jae – dynamic schooling teacher for the royal family classroom and one host of Rocket Ride kids show
Jay – Southerpart local grilling runnerbirds by the airlot
Joe – owner of a tavern in Dalmeera with rooms above and below
Vanguard Agent John Weathers – went to investigate a polygonal installation, ran afoul
Kalana Olpan – professional extreme sports athlete at the Oriya Aerial River closing, Elgin Conully’s partner
Karma Ilacqua – professional go-getter for Plexus Corporation, shifting through small divisions
Leanders Aynsdotr – damage control small team manager, Hirylienite; The Logistics Man
Leiv Gruun – Starweavers coordinator and decipherer of legalese, also a space trucker owner-operator; Wendel’s beloved
Leryn Onk – electrical engineer aboard The Arch, good with levers and innovative functions
Leyga – grocery store worker and friend of Navann, Isten’s mom
Louisiane, Magus the 4th – Imperium dynasty monarch, engineered the 2nd expansion route
Lowercase T – voicemasked advice patter on the PPCD bands (it’s Toller)
General Lucay – on the advisory board for the Vortex Anomaly, Pioneer federet commander; gruff, no-nonsense, good natured and anti- intellectual
Councillor Lysander – a mentor to Princessa Mireille
Lysha – the lead voice character in the Huntresses’ Aria from Erris of Rahm
Mara Kamini – the opera singer who voiced Lysha for the royal family reception
Marialain, Magus the 1st – dragonspeaker, began the Pan-Galactic Imperium from single-planet humanity
Mariselle, Magus the 5th – massive interplanetary colonization mastermind
Margeaux Rienne – Soleil’s cousin and bestie, Women in Leadership Symposium organizer, fashion designer
Drt. Maryan Waters – marine biologist aboard the Arch
Mireille, Princessa – second daughter, second of four children in the royal family’s newest generation, reads history; canny about understanding politicians, political schemers and their motives; tan skinned with brown curly hair like their father, brown eyes; has a cutting intellect and deep social awareness
Mirya Ayo – Bassel’s supportive single mother
Navann Ynam – a retired nurse who volunteered to help the hospitalized during the new HA235 outbreak; Leyga and Isten’s adopted elder, puzzle solver
Neris – one of the amazon characters in the Huntresses’ Aria
Oisine, Magus – monarch during the Dragon-Human War
Oloa, Spirit Speaker – dead tribal healer cameo character in the Huntresses’ Aria
Orak’x – Jennian poet
Pleiades Nutts – a phone call pseudonym of the Hoopoe, after the project
Qribu – Mirya’s cousin who showed up to help with the protest buffer zone
Raev Sturlusson – lead organizer of the Phronium Triangle, Signalman coordinator of the allied silenced peoples, notorious public enemy for well over a decade; long dark hair; has personal modifications (like subdermal Vedani tuners), and additionally gained abilities; relations dead, among the very few resilient to the first outbreak of HA235; son of magistrate Rence Sturlusson, continued some of his father’s diplomacy efforts
Random Arriba – military tech pilot, presumed dead, now mercenary; partners with Toledo Vadr
Ravl Pliskin – Plexus Corp. founder and technology inventor, a hotshot startup who revolutionized travelgate technology with his drive arch module designs; also an ovoid kayaker; created the current, most stable technological incarnation of the intergalactic drive archway; has a number of private science and charity arms running the Arch within the Pliskin Program (charity arm bringing medical resources to outer worlds*), which is his pet interest; from the same batch of Hirylien survivors as Sturlusson, but never very interested in his motivations; much older than Raev, installed first new drive modules six years before the fall of Old Hirylien
Rence Sturlusson – a magistrate when the feuding stopped on Hirylien; Raev’s father; was beginning a contact communication with Vedani, possible technologies and culture exchange without deferring to Imperium higher authorities, and thus may have been viewed as a lineage predominance threat
Rianoire, Magus – a dynasty monarch of terrifying infamy, generally least favorite
Ricardio, Magus – the first of the small number of Magus Kings
Rochelle, Magus – established federet organization for the Pan- Galactic Imperium
Roznmyk – city official advising King Proxem Grant Vario
Saer – cleaning staff aboard The Arch
Sakhana, Marius Nikolai – the lost prince of Babylon Magus, in The Lay of Sakhana & Zoe
Saris – job correspondent to Karma Ilacqua
Signalman – the name given to Raev Sturlusson by peoples in collusion
Silas – staff at Oriya Aerial River Parkway, old friend of Derringer
Soleil, Scion Princess, Princess Ascendant – the eldest of the new Magus generation, first daughter and scion of the line; alabaster skin & black hair, grey eyes; dubbed by some as the Shield of the Imperium
Srevz – Jennian poet
Sujen – renowned tailor of the Skandarian villages
Teryj Lakos – Hirylienite agent found in Ionos
Toledo Vadr – a military tech pilot, Random Arriba’s partner in crime
Toller – a young teen ex-fighter on the streets of Genesee; a good friend to have; street traveling kid; black hair, copper skin, golden eyes
Lieutenant Corporal Tyson Sorens, Technician Lead – son of General Ionos, working the Vortex Anomaly investigation; personnel contact aboard Photuris Vortex Alpha 3
Vanessa Udar – HA235 survivor, a teen cross country athlete who gets involved and excels
Verne ‘Bobcat’ Trosper – Raev Sturlusson’s cool but fierce agent protector
Lector Una Ixa – astrography instructor at the observatory in Alisandre Capital
Wendel Harper, Captain – former shuttle driver, now Starweaver emergency volunteer space trucking owner-operator of Drift 9; beloved of Leiv; meditates, reads; she reliably respects autonomy and has a surprising amount of fealty for a non-authoritarian
Yleon – the third mekani operator in the Big Project
Yrenn Tiches – disguise volunteer persona for Soleil at the Women in Leadership Symposium
Zarae – a fellow scientist aboard The Arch, does sundress day with Marian Waters
Zoe, Viridis Merida – changeling princess of another dimension, becomes the gem healer by Sakhana’s side in the Lay of Sakhana and Zoe

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Acamar – dark matter, between space, threshold, flow stop
Akralnar – Acamar’s twin in another universe; this phenomenon is unique to them
Arctyri – cold current, temperature air water, freeze/condense, swift & far
Arkuda, Dragon Councillor – aka Sunshine, light as received, catalyst/messenger/force, photons; primary Dragon liaison to the Pan-Galactic Imperium, in the role of Dragon Councillor; knowledge person/communicator. Has a personal affinity for human society, and likes er job; the 3rd Dragon Councillor in the history of the Imperium; is great at telling us about things. Hands like a human’s covered in scale mail, golden-white, shining and sharp.
“This name Arkuda was given to me a long time ago by the first people who gave my image a name. It meant “dog-horse”, because that’s how my face looked to them. I still give it to people as my name, it’s easy to speak.”
Grymmatos – grammar, structure, stone, materialization and form, basalt, tools
Hamurlae – forging, transformation, collective process, the work of excellence
Kyridi – the note of transcendence, in song and otherwise, dopamine
Myricotl – new growth, tip & top, incipient development, plants,
Ottokad – architecture, form of dwelling, space shaping, bismuth
Rhizoa – underground, sensing, concealed or hidden life
Saga – story, narrative, chain of awareness, time as personal