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A Red carved into a Gold, embedded in House Augustus as a secret sword of the rebellion.

Augustus's brilliant daughter and Darrow's Institute love, silent since he left Mars.

The gentle poet of House Mars, Darrow's conscience and a prodigy of astral warfare.

Darrow's truest friend, the fierce one-eyed chief of the Howlers, shipped off to Pluto.

An impetuous, scarred Julii warrior who scorns makeup for her battle-earned scars.

Nero Au Augustus

The cold ArchGovernor of Mars who claims Darrow as his prize and welcomes his own ruin into his house.

Augustus's one-handed serene-monster son, now a shadow media magnate scheming to return home.

The crude Proctor Mars, Sevro's father, now risen to Rage Knight and sent to arrest Augustus's house.

Cassius Au Bellona

Darrow's charming former best friend turned blood-sworn enemy after learning Darrow killed his twin.

The legendary retired Rage Knight and master of the Willow Way, Darrow's secret blade-tutor.

A titanic Stained Obsidian who, believing Darrow a god, slaughters his own masters' men and swears to him.

Karnus Au Bellona

The monstrous eldest Bellona brother, dispatched to hunt Darrow, cornered at the Academy.

The largest and deadliest of the Sovereign's three Furies, her sworn warrior-sisters.

Octavia Au Lune

The Sovereign of the Society, a virtuous paragon who secretly runs assassins and crime syndicates.

Augustus's silken, scarless Politico who ruins reputations with a word and engineers Darrow's fall.

Darrow's drug-addled, wickedly loyal lieutenant of ancient blood, blood-bound as a brother.

The crippled Sons of Ares leader who recruited Darrow, betrayed and killed by a Gray lurcher squad.

Daxo Au Telemanus

Pax's tall, clever elder brother, who backs Augustus against the Sovereign at the gala.

Kavax Au Telemanus

Pax's mighty, fox-cradling father, a slow-tempered giant loyal to Augustus and Darrow.

A long-legged Howler and Roque's beloved, who returns from the Rim to help rescue Darrow.

Victra's beautiful, venomous half-sister, who cut Lea's throat at the Institute to lure Darrow out.

Darrow's scarred, rage-driven former trainer, now a merciless Sons of Ares cell leader on Luna.

Augustus's noble senior lancer and likely heir, a razor-poet who dislikes cruelty.

The Violet Carver who sculpted Darrow into a Gold, now the Sons' beaten, enslaved flesh-artist.

A brash, brilliant lowborn Blue Docker whom Darrow makes captain of the Pax.

The shadowy rebellion that Carved Darrow into a Gold to topple the Society.

Darrow's Pink valet and social advisor, a former Rose courtesan wise in secrets.

Agrippina Au Julii

Victra and Antonia's scheming mother, who betrays Augustus then betrays the Bellona at her daughter's turning.

Darrow's blunt, stroke-marked Red mother, who knows her carved son at a glance and grounds his cause in hard truth.

Darrow's martyred Red wife, hanged for singing the forbidden song; the engine of his rebellion.

The storm-wracked, low-gravity oceanworld of banking and deepsea mining where Lorn au Arcos lives in exile.

The Pink 'winged girl' Mickey once made, reborn as a ruthless Sons of Ares suicide bomber.

A star-shaped trade and communications hub in the asteroid belt where Pliny gathers the coup fleet.

The ruling Gold house of Mars, led by ArchGovernor Nero, that claims Darrow as its sword.

The vengeful curly-haired Gold house waging a bloodfeud against Augustus and Darrow.

Lorn au Arcos's colossal Carver-made pet griffin, kept in a private forest on Europa.

Augustus's six-kilometer dreadnought flagship, seat of his hunted war council.

The Golds' ritual mass planetary invasion by warriors shot from orbit, called by Darrow upon Mars.

Julia Au Bellona

The Bellona matriarch who starves for vengeance, demanding Darrow's heart on a silver tray.

The Jackal's bone-haired lieutenant, disguised as a Pink, who cuts down Lorn au Arcos at the Triumph coup.

Earth's city-moon and seat of the Sovereign, a vertical metropolis of Gold towers over lowColor gutters.

The Sovereign's composed young grandson—and Lorn's grandson—who idolizes the Reaper.

One of the Sovereign's three Furies, the Politico of the trio, who abandons Pliny to his death.

Olympic Knights

The Society's twelve legendary warrior-knights, including the Rage Knight and Morning Knight.

The pride of the Scepter Armada, seized by Darrow through its bridge and renamed for the fallen Pax.

Proctor Jupiter

The hedonistic former Institute Proctor, now Darrow's ally and covert emissary in the Mars war.

Darrow's man-of-war, flagship of his seven-ship Academy fleet.

Kavax au Telemanus's oversized, doted-upon pet fox, an omen-reading companion in House Telemanus.

The Gold war school where students command real fleets in deadly astral war games.

Sevro's wolf-masked band of cruel, loyal killers from the Institute, Darrow's truest soldiers.

The brutal Gold proving ground Darrow won by storming Olympus, seat of the floating Olympus.

The Color-caste empire spanning Mercury to Pluto, ruled by Golds atop an engineered hierarchy.

Tiberius Au Bellona

The Bellona patriarch and Imperator, commanding the house fleet against Darrow over Mars.

The Bellona's massive flagship over Mars, boarded by the Telemanus Titans and found to hide the Sovereign's Praetorians.