Nelo—papermaker of Dolo Village, patriarch of the Koolhan family.

Niss—a sapient computer lent to Streaker by Tymbrimi intelligence agents.

Old Ones—general term for the “retired” races of the Fractal World.

One-of-a-Kind—an ancient mulc spider assigned to decompose a ruin high in the Rimmer mountains.

Orley, Thomas—a Terragens agent assigned to Streaker, lost at Kithrup. Husband of Gillian Baskin.

Ozawa, Danel—deputy sage, knowing hidden secrets of Human Sept.

Peepoe—a female dolphin; geneticist and nurse on Streaker.

Phwhoon-dau—the hoonish High Sage.

Pincer-Tip—a red qheuen friend of Alvin’s, who carved the bathyscaphe Wuphon’s Dream out of a tree trunk.

Prity—a neo-chimpanzee; Sara’s servant, skilled at math imagery.

Purofsky—a sage of Biblos, specializing in arcane physics.

Rann—leader of the Danik humans aboard the Rothen ship.

Rety—a human sooner, she fled her savage band’s hidden offshoot colony in the Gray Hills.

Ro-kenn—a Rothen “lord” whose human followers included Rann, Ling, Besh, and Kunn.

Ro-pol—possibly Ro-kenn’s mate, killed before Battle of the Glade.

Shen, Jeni—a human militia sergeant.

Strong, Lena—part of Danel Ozawa’s expedition to the Gray Hills.

Suessi, Hannes—engineer on Streaker, cyborg modified by Old Ones.

Taine—a Biblos scholar who once courted Sara Koolhan.

Tsh’t—a female dolphin, once Streaker’s fifth-in-command, now sharing command with Gillian Baskin.