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The Reaper, broken to a fossil in a lightless stone box beneath the Jackal's fortress, wrestling the darkness for his sanity and his life.

Darrow's estranged love, now leader of a Gold coalition and the Second Moon Rebellion against the Sovereign, a world away.

Darrow's truest friend, alive and leading the Sons of Ares, who orchestrates the Reaper's rescue from afar.

Cassius Au Bellona

The Morning Knight, Olympic champion of the Sovereign, who pities the ruined Darrow yet cannot forgive him.

Darrow's fiercely loyal near-lover, secretly survived her sister's bullets and left to rot in a torture cell.

The Sovereign's deadliest Fury, come to Mars to bear the captured Reaper home to Luna for dissection.

Victra's venomous sister, now allied with the Jackal, a poisoned apple bright on the surface and cancerous within.

Ragnar's silent sister, a griffin-riding Valkyrie who arrives to hold her dying brother and quietly recognizes the lie of her gods.

The serene monster who unmade the Reaper in a stone box, now ArchGovernor of Mars waging a war of extermination against the Rising.

A tough freckled Gray of the Sons, who infiltrates the Jackal's prison to free the Reaper alongside her brother Trigg.

Kavax Au Telemanus

The mighty, roaring patriarch of House Telemanus, Pax's father and Mustang's staunchest ally, captured by the Sons.

Octavia's ten-year-old heir, who studies the captured Reaper with wary, brilliant curiosity from the safety of the Sovereign's bunker.

The near-untouchable Silver trillionaire revealed as the Jackal's secret partner—target of the Sons' economic decapitation.

The freed Stained Obsidian giant, prince of the Valkyrie Spires, now Darrow's fiercely loyal brother-in-arms and the beloved Shield of Tinos.

The gentle poet turned undefeated admiral, now supreme commander of the Sovereign's Sword Armada against the Rim.

The handsome, crippled elder statesman of the Sons of Ares, who runs the rebellion's hard governance from Tinos.

The Jackal's bald, eel-eyed favorite killer, captain of his Boneriders since the Institute.

Darrow's grizzled uncle, the drunkard Sons informer turned hardened warrior who led the drill team that broke into Attica.

Octavia Au Lune

The Sovereign of the Society, waging the war from her kilometer-deep Luna bunker—a regal collector who executes Antonia and turns at last to the captured Reaper.

Darrow's brilliant Blue admiral, revealed alive and still commanding the Pax—a hidden naval asset for the Rising.

The honor-bound, cold-blooded Sovereign of the Rim who weighs Darrow's alliance against the Sovereign's peace—and chooses bloodfeud.

Roque's colossal eight-kilometer MoonBreaker flagship at Ilium—an armored dock-city Darrow breaches from within by drilling through its 'impenetrable' hull.

Darrow's captured flagship, the first place to feel like home since Lykos—surviving the Triumph coup under Orion and rejoining the Rising.

The outer-worlds alliance of Moon Lords, led by House Raa and allied to Mustang, waging the Second Moon Rebellion against the Sovereign.

Alia Snowsparrow

The ancient, tyrannical queen of the Valkyrie and Ragnar's mother, who knew her gods were mortal and served them anyway—beheaded by her own daughter.

The floating black fortress-station above the pole where Golds pose as the Obsidians' gods—stormed and gutted by Darrow and the Valkyrie.

The Jackal's seven-peaked mountain citadel on Mars, its splendid halls raised above a prison where the Reaper was boxed in stone.

Darrow's frail, iron-spined mother, who led his funeral dirge believing him dead and now guards him at Tinos.

The gold-and-iron scepter that bestows the right to rule the Society—handed by Lysander to Mustang to legitimize her claim to the Morning Throne.

Daxo Au Telemanus

Kavax's towering son, a Telemanus giant fighting at his father's side when the Sons' raid collides with the summit.

Mustang's two-hundred-year-old dreadnought flagship, where the Gold host performs its Ancestor rite before the battle of Ilium.

Eo's sister, now Kieran's partner and a young mother, whose face is a tender echo of Darrow's martyred wife.

Carved war-beasts of the pole—lion-bodied, eagle-winged mounts ridden by the Valkyrie above the Antarctic ice.

The scarred, rage-driven zealot of the Sons who betrayed Darrow and Ares to the Jackal, then vanished.

The four great moons of Jupiter—Ganymede, Callisto, Io, Europa—heart of the Rim and the arena where Darrow means to break the Sword Armada.

The innermost Galilean moon, a volcanic sulfur hell terraformed into the Rim's breadbasket—where Darrow meets the Moon Lords.

Darrow's elder brother, a gentle Lykos father learning a new trade at Tinos and pinning his hope for his children on the Reaper.

Legio Xiii Dracones

The favored Praetorian legion of the Ash Lord and Aja, thirty thousand elite killers marked with a sea dragon and a marrow-deep hatred of lowColors.

The gentle Pink Rose who taught Darrow Aureate culture, found in Quicksilver's bed and shattered by Sevro before Darrow recognizes him.

The eccentric Violet Carver who first made Darrow a Gold, brought back to Tinos to remake the Reaper and Victra into weapons.

The wisest of the Sovereign's three Furies and Aja's sister, an engineer of oppression burned down by Darrow's rage.

The secret golden-haired son of Darrow and Mustang, hidden through the war and revealed at its end—the future the Rising was fought to build.

Mars's larger moon, hollowed into a vast pincushion trade-hub called the Hive, where wealth towers over ash-lived wage slaves.

A radical, unaffiliated Red paramilitary in Mars's north, poisoned against the Sons by Harmony and massacring highColors.

A wry Red engineer and Sons contact on Phobos who dreams of home and dares the Reaper to raise the Hive's twenty-five million.

The rebellion founded by Ares against Gold rule, now led by Sevro from the hidden base of Tinos and hunted across Mars.

The Sovereign's undefeated Jupiter-bound war fleet under Roque au Fabii—her instrument of fear, and Darrow's chosen prey.

The Sovereign's grotesque, merciless Imperator, who commands the Scepter Armada at Luna and springs the trap to crush the Rising against his anvil.

The Jackal's personal band of killers, marked with the jackal skull, captained by Lilath and drawn even from turncoat Howlers.

Shamed castouts of the Obsidian clans who roam the winter ice devouring men, believing they rise Golden by eating the flesh of gods.

Darrow's elite band of wolfcloaked warriors, now the shock troops of the Sons of Ares under Sevro.

Narol's motley B-squad of lowColor saboteurs and ex-Helldivers, the Sons' specialists in theft and demolition.

The criminal underworld power ruling Phobos's drug trade and slums, paid to hunt the Sons of Ares.

The griffin-riding women warriors of the Valkyrie Spires, sworn now to Sefi the Quiet and the Rising's war on false gods.

The elegant Pink spymaster of the Sons, running intelligence and propaganda from Tinos with quiet authority.

A traitor Howler of House Mars who sold out Darrow's ambush, captured and repentant—murdered by Antonia before she can turn informant.

The Sons of Ares' hidden bastion two kilometers beneath Mars—a stalactite fortress above a swelling, starving refugee city.

Holiday's gentle, deadly younger brother, a Gray of the Sons who reveres the Reaper and refuses to leave him behind.

Valkyrie Spires

A vertiginous stone spine of griffin-nested mountains at the pole, home of the Valkyrie and seat of Queen Alia Snowsparrow.

Romulus's sharp-eyed sister and legate, who receives Darrow on Io and unveils the nuke evidence that damns Roque.