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Red-born, Gold-carved war hero of the Rising; ArchImperator weary of a war he cannot set down.

Bookish exiled heir of House Lune, raised in hiding by Cassius; a gentle scholar haunted by his lost empire.

Grief-numbed, drug-dulled master thief and ex-legionnaire, running heists across Luna's underworld.

Eighteen-year-old Gamma Red of Lagalos, bitter and freckled, scraping by in a squalid Martian relief camp.

Fallen Morning Knight turned wandering guardian of Lysander, seeking redemption on the Belt's fringes.

Romulus au Raa's scarred warrior-daughter, a Rim predator who broke the Pax Ilium chasing a hidden secret.

The magnificent, monstrous 'Minotaur of Mars,' a war criminal of terrifying strength whom Darrow frees from Deepgrave as his key to Venus.

Romulus's warmonger wife, a Venus-born ex-gahja who storms the fortress, arrests her husband, and seizes Io as its Protector.

Darrow and Mustang's brilliant ten-year-old son, grown cold and distant in his father's long absence.

Foul-mouthed one-eyed Howler chief and Darrow's truest friend, now an Imperator and family man.

Romulus au Raa's honorable son, an Olympic Storm Knight of raw, uncompromising purity who shields sister and captives alike.

Darrow's headstrong young Red niece and lancer, eager to prove herself the equal of highborn Golds.

Reigning Sovereign of the Republic and Darrow's wife, ruling a fractious Senate with a cat's smile.

Sevro and Victra's grim, lethal nine-year-old eldest daughter, and Pax's fiercest sparring rival.

The Duke of Hands's towering, eight-fingered Obsidian enforcer, coldly intelligent and gold-toothed.

Snub-nosed Gray legionnaire and Howler, Darrow's steadfast bodyguard and Trigg's surviving sister.

Gentle giant lab-born Obsidian, Ephraim's loyal accomplice, who wields a railgun but refuses to kill.

Insidiously beautiful Pink 'Royal' of the Syndicate who rules Luna's black markets and coerces Ephraim into service.

The one-armed, honor-bound Sovereign of the Rim, who spared Darrow's moon and now condemns his own errant daughter and her rescuers.

Lorn au Arcos's brilliant grandson and Darrow's smirking archLancer, a blade-thin Gold prodigy.

Dido's reptilian nephew and enforcer, an iron-fisted Gold warrior second only to Diomedes in the coup.

Twitchy, temperamental Terran-Green hacker and locksmith for hire on Ephraim's crew.

Fierce, glamorous matriarch of House Barca and shipping magnate; Sevro's wife and Darrow's old comrade.

Octavia's old ArchImperator, the Society's last warlord, driven back to his fortress planet Venus.

A perceptive Pink pleasure-slave of Sungrave whose too-knowing eyes and quiet relief mark her as more than she seems.

Young, mouthy Terran-Red acrobat and cat burglar on Ephraim's crew.

Towering, bald Telemanus heir and gifted artist; Mustang's shrewd political right hand in the Senate.

Romulus's aged mother, who masks a razor-sharp mind behind a performance of drunken, weed-smoking senility.

Giant, red-bearded head of House Telemanus and Darrow's staunchest Gold ally, downed rescuing a Red camp.

Romulus's spidery, malicious son and Quaestor of the Rim, who ordered Seraphina's friend tortured to death.

Serene Telemanus matriarch, Kavax's wife, who helps raise Darrow's family at Silene.

The Rim's legendary aged assassin and krypteia huntress, a casually cruel interrogator serving Romulus au Raa.

Foul-mouthed, brilliant Blue pilot of the Archimedes; a Martian exile from her sect and Lysander's crude aunt-figure.

The richest man in the Republic, a self-made Silver who co-founded the Sons of Ares and rebuilt Luna from Darrow's wars.

Silent Obsidian queen, Ragnar's sister, who unified her people and now stands at Darrow's side.

Kavax au Telemanus's beloved pet fox, a grape-candy-loving companion who 'chooses' Lyria for the house.

Apollonius's dissolute younger brother, who sold him to the Ash Lord for the house's fortune—now taken alive in his own poolside revel.

Stout, bawdy Telemanus warrior with a metal arm; standard-bearer of Darrow's Seventh Legion.

A mutilated, tongueless old Obsidian found imprisoned in Deepgrave—part shaman, part guard—who guides Darrow's raid and joins the Howlers.

White-haired Obsidian hero and ArchWarden of the Republic, a true believer in law over any man.

Cassius's aging Whisper-class corvette; the wandering home of Lysander, Cassius, and Pytha.

Deepspace Obsidian raiders descended from those who fled the Society's culling; cannibal pirates of the dark.

Assimilation Camp 121

A squalid, overcrowded Republic relief camp on Mars's Cimmerian Plains where freed miners rot forgotten.

The Ash Lord's surviving daughter, secret commander of his forces, who lured Darrow from his fleet and now sails to destroy it over Mercury.

Lyria's pretty, hopeful married older sister, holding their broken family together in Camp 121.

The Raa's sacred dueling amphitheater in Sungrave, where centuries of Rim Golds have settled quarrels in blood on white marble.

Ascetic Copper Tribune and 'Incorruptible' voice of reason in the Senate; occasional ally of the Sovereign.

Wisecracking veteran Howler, Pebble's husband, who jokes his way through the dread of the undersea raid.

Darrow's best pilot and the worlds' most famous ace; laconic Blue leader of Warlock Squadron.

Darrow's old Red mentor turned senator; founder of the Vox Populi and his principled Senate opponent.

Darrow's freed Red mother, who tends Silene's gardens as penance for surviving the mines.

Deepgrave Prison

A four-hundred-year-old crawling prison that drags across Earth's ocean floor, caging the Republic's worst war criminals.

Gaia's ancient, devoted Stained Obsidian bodyguard, who guides Lysander through the tunnels only to be maimed and left behind when the boy betrays the plan.

The imperious ArchKnight of the Olympic Knights, who presides over Romulus's trial and, bound by the Fates' charge, pronounces the death sentence.

Imperious matriarch of the shattered House Bellona and Cassius's mother, now the Ash Lord's emissary of peace.

Darrow's optimistic, rail-thin brother and the Howlers' engineering chief, kept clear of the fighting to come.

A wheedling, bigoted Green tech-fence of Hyperion's Bazaar, dealer in ghost tech and hidden military-grade contraband.

House Telemanus's aged Yellow physician and botanist, a lonely, grief-touched old man who befriends Lyria and grows deadly flowers.

Ava's sweet, blind young son and Lyria's beloved favorite nephew in the camp.

The ancient razor of the first Gold overlord Silenius au Lune, stolen from the Hyperion Museum.

Foul-mouthed, metal-legged Howler munitions expert; a proudly 'analog' Red demolitions hand.

Quicksilver's stolen snow-white Xiphos-class Venusian frigate, a stealthy luxury warship Darrow uses to slip toward Venus.

Cherubic, indomitable veteran Howler—the 'mother of the pack'—who has seen more battles than Ragnar ever did.

The masked, all-powerful ruler of the Syndicate, who reveals she owns Ephraim's very ship and seizes it by remote to reclaim the children.

Vengeful Red marauders on Mars who purge the Gamma clans as collaborators with the fallen Golds.

The insular, honor-bound Gold power of the Jupiter system, ruled by House Raa and closed to outsiders for a decade.

The multi-Color free state Darrow and Mustang built from the ashes of the Gold Society.

The greatest city of Io, a necropolis of dragon-carved stone spires atop the eighteen-kilometer mountain Boösaule, seat of House Raa.

Sevro's elite wolf-cloaked strike unit, born at the Institute, now Darrow's bodyguards.

A rising criminal empire swallowing Luna's freelance talent, hunted by the Sovereign's task force.

Darrow's former steward turned the Sovereign's spymaster—an elegant Pink who will do anything, including torture, to recover the stolen children.

Lyria's gentle, book-writing younger brother, gunned down by the Red Hand as he plays man of the house.

Romulus's sister and finest wartime captain, a lean, droll veteran of guerrilla war against Octavia.

Dancer's lowColor socialist Senate party demanding proportional power against Gold influence.

Nihilistic, monster-tattooed Green cyber officer whose hacking blinds Deepgrave's defenses for the Howlers.

Kavax's dutiful, rule-bound daughter, a dreamy-eyed Telemanus medic who serves as her father's conscience of protocol.