NETTLE, HORN'S wife, the mother of HOOF, HIDE, and Sinew, co-author of The Book of the Long Sun.

NEW VIRON, a town on BLUE founded by colonists from VIRON.

OLIVINE, a chem, Maytera MARBLE'S daughter.

Onorifica, a servant girl in the household of the Duko of Blanko.

OREB, a talking night chough.

The OUTSIDER, the god of things outside the LONG SUN WHORL.

Oxlip, one of HORN'S sisters.

Pajarocu, a phantom town on BLUE'S western continent.

Parel, a servant girl of DORP.

PAS, the father of the gods of the LONG SUN WHORL.

PIG, the name assumed by a blind wanderer.

QUADRIFONS, the god of doors and crossroads, and much else.

Patera Quetzal, an inhumu, once the Prolocutor of VIRON.

Patera REMORA, the Prolocutor of NEW VIRON.

RAJAN, the title of the ruler of GAON.

Rajya Mantri, an advisor to the RAJAN of GAON.

Maytera ROSE, an elderly sibyl, now dead.

Roti, one of Hari Mau's followers.

General Saba, a Trivigaunti officer.

The Seanettle, a yawl, a kind of two-masted boat having a mainmast and a small mizzen.

SEAWRACK, the young woman given to HORN by the Mother.

Shadelow, BLUE'S western continent, so named by HORN.

Patera SILK, a former calde of VIRON.

Sinew, the oldest of HORN and NETTLE'S three sons.

SHORT SUN, the sun orbited by the WHORL.

SMOOTHBONE, a shopkeeper of VIRON, HORN'S father.

Spider, a spy-catcher of VIRON.

Stag, a son of SMOOTHBONE by his second wife.

Captain Strik, a trader of DORP who once befriended HORN.

Mysire Advocaat TAAL, the advocate engaged by BEROEP and others to defend the narrator.

Tallow, one of HORN'S brothers.

Tansy, HOUND'S wife.