Tartaros, PAS'S loyal son, the god of thieves and commerce.

Thyone, a minor goddess of the LONG SUN WHORL.

Tigridia, a client of the Honorable Order of the Seekers for Truth and Penitence.

Tongue, one of HORN'S brothers.

Trivigaunte, a foreign city south of VIRON ruled by women.

Calde Tussah, SILK'S adoptive father.

Typhon, the ancient tyrant whose personality became PAS.

VADSIG, a servant girl in AANVAGEN'S house.

Vanished Gods, the presumed gods of the NEIGHBORS.

Vanished People, another name for the NEIGHBORS.

Mysire Advocaat Vent, the advocate assigned the narrator by the court.

Versregal, Captain Strik's wife.

VIRON, the city in which most of the action in The Book of the Long Sun took place.

Private Vlug, a legerman of DORP.

Wapen, a discontented young man of DORP.

Weasel, CAPSICUM'S grandson.

The WHORL, a spaceship whose vast interior cavity constitutes a small world-originally, an asteroid.

Captain WIJZER, the trader from DORP who directed HORN to Pajarocu.

Willet, the name assumed by a Trivigaunti spy.

Master Xiphias, an old fencing master.

Ziek, a merchant of DORP.

To My Hosts,

I am the silent presence in your house, the young woman who lies abed by day as by night. The woman who is to be brought before your judges, sleeping.

Tried, sleeping.

And condemned, still sleeping, to slide down into death.

Have you wondered whether I breathe at all? Do you sometimes lay a feather on my lips? I think you must. I feel you at my bedside.

None but my father can wake me.

Ask Aanvagen.

Let him sleep in a chair beside me, and I will wake.

Ask Aanvagen.

Let him hold my hand in his. Call him Horn, for the sound of that horn will awaken me. Let him come to me, and you will see me wake.