Principal Cast
The Empire
Seda, Empress of the Wasps
General Tynan, Second Army
General Marent, Third Army
General Brugan, Rekef
General Lien, Engineers
Colonel Varsec, Engineers
Colonel Brakker, First Army
Colonel Nessen, governor of Helleron
Honory Bellowern, Beetle diplomat
Major Vrakir, Red Watch
Major Vorken, Slave Corps
Major Oski, Fly-kinden, Engineers
Captain-Auxillian Ernain, Bee-kinden, Engineers
Merva, wife of Edvic, governor of Solarno
Lieutenant-Auxillian Gannic, Engineers
Tisamon, Seda’s undead guardian
Collegiates and their Allies
Stenwold Maker, Beetle-kinden War Master, missing, believed dead
Straessa ‘the Antspider’, officer, Coldstone Company
Eujen Leadswell, Beetle-kinden officer, Students’ Company
Castre Gorenn, Dragonfly-kinden, Coldstone Company
Laszlo, Fly-kinden agent, former pirate
Kymene, Beetle-kinden commander, free Mynans
Tactician Milus, Sarnesh Ant-kinden
Sperra, Fly-kinden, agent from Princep Salma
Balkus, commander, renegade Sarnesh from Princep Salma
Sartaea te Mosca, Fly-kinden magician and lecturer
Poll Awlbreaker, Beetle-kinden artificer
Metyssa, Spider-kinden writer
Raullo Mummers, Beetle-kinden artist
Lissart, Firefly-kinden agent, prisoner of Milus
Aagen, renegade Wasp-kinden, now of Princep Salma
Others
Cheerwell Maker, ‘Che’, niece of Stenwold, magician
Thalric, Wasp-kinden renegade, her lover
Tynisa, halfbreed Weaponsmaster, Tisamon’s daughter
Maure, halfbreed magician
Esmail, Assassin Bug spy
Dariandrephos, ‘Drephos’, halfbreed master artificer and leader of the Iron Glove
Totho, his second, halfbreed artificer
Messel
Orothelin
The Hermit