Stenwold Maker - Beetle-kinden spymaster and statesman
Cheerwell ‘Che’ Maker - his niece
Tisamon - Mantis-kinden Weaponsmaster
Tynisa - his halfbreed daughter, Stenwold’s ward
Achaeos - Moth-kinden magician, Che’s lover
Atryssa - Tynisa’s mother and Tisamon’s former lover, deceased
Thalric - renegade Wasp-kinden, former Rekef major
Nero - Fly-kinden artist, old friend of Stenwold
Felise Mienn - Dragonfly-kinden duellist
Taki - Solarnese Fly-kinden aviatrix
Lineo Thadspar - Beetle-kinden Speaker for the Collegium Assembly
Balkus - renegade Sarnesh Ant-kinden, Stenwold’s agent
Sperra - Fly-kinden, Stenwold’s agent
Destrachis - Spider-kinden doctor, companion of Felise Mienn
Parops - Tarkesh Ant-kinden, leader of the free Tarkesh
Jons Allanbridge - Beetle-kinden aviator
Plius - foreign Ant-kinden in Sarn, Stenwold’s agent
Prince Minor Salme ‘Salma’ Dien - Dragonfly nobleman, leader of the Landsarmy
Prized of Dragons - Butterfly-kinden, Salma’s lover
Phalmes - Mynan Soldier Beetle-kinden, former brigand, Salma’s lieutenant
Teornis of the Aldanrael - Spider-kinden Aristos and
Lord-Martial Odyssa - Teornis’ chief agent in Solarno
Cesta - Assassin Bug-kinden killer in Solarno
Scobraan - Soldier Beetle-kinden aviator in Solarno
Laetrimae - Mantis-kinden ghost from the Shadow Box
Xaraea - Moth-kinden intelligencer in Tharn
Tegrec - Wasp-kinden major and magician, governor of occupied Tharn
Raeka - Wasp-kinden, Tegrec’s body-slave
Kymene - Mynan Soldier Beetle-kinden, leader of the Mynan resistance
Chyses - Mynan Soldier Beetle-kinden, Kymene’s lieutenant
Hokiak - Scorpion-kinden black-marketeer in Myna
Gryllis - Spider-kinden, Hokiak’s business partner
Alvdan II - Emperor of the Wasps
Seda - his sister
Maxin - Wasp-kinden general, Rekef
Reiner - Wasp-kinden general, Rekef
Brugan - Wasp-kinden general, Rekef
Malkan - Wasp-kinden general, Seventh Army
Latvoc - Wasp-kinden colonel, Rekef, Reiner’s aide
Gan - Wasp-kinden colonel, governor of Szar
Ulther - Wasp-kinden colonel, former governor of Myna, deceased
Axrad - Wasp-kinden lieutenant and aviator
Uctebri the Sarcad - Mosquito-kinden slave and magician
Gjegevey - Woodlouse-kinden slave and advisor
Dariandrephos (‘Drephos’) - halfbreed auxillian-colonel and master artificer
Totho - halfbreed artificer in Drephos’ cadre
Kaszaat - Bee-kinden artificer, in Drephos’ cadre
Big Greyv - Mole Cricket-kinden artificer, in Drephos’ cadre