Chapter 3

Character List

Inside the Pale

Élin Patraena, Regent

Jaxon Tangshi, her Senior Forecaster

Hekili, Master of the Immortal Wereguard

Tad, a young serviceman

Jeris, Tad’s senior and first partner

Hallen, Laylene, Milo: other service personnel

Adaeze Patraena, a young paramount

The Canini

Tinashe, a canine matriarch

Orfeo, Tinashe’s friend, an aged and wise canine

Mashtuk, descendant of Tinashe and scout for her pack

Zélie, descendant of Orfeo, later Mashtuk’s mate

Callan, a canine pack leader

Aegle, a young canine of Callan’s pack

Waleen, a canine pack leader

The Tribes

Kilimajara, Huntmistress of the Storm tribe

Feather, her grandson, hunter and scout for the Storm

Afon of the Rainbow, Hadar of the River, Tehuano of the Terran, Tierre of the Green: other hunt masters of Broad Plain

Marin, a senior elder of the Storm

The Settlement

Valkirra Adelriksdottir, the Chief

Talis Jarisson, her spouse

Charm, Jasper and Cushla, their children

Dane Friirsson and his wife Raysa, tailors of the middle town

Jana and Brettin, their twin daughters

Freya Janasdottir, the child of Jana and the tribesman Feather

Maya, Lady of the Temple

Iver, Olinna, Anielka: district representatives on the Settlement’s council

Equii: horse-like animals who have renounced their power of speech

Rat-terriers: small dogs who live with the settlers

The Wild Creatures

Wild Men: some humans walk Broad Plain in small family groups or in lawless groups. They do not abide by tribal rules and live in a reduced state.

Outclans: some smaller groups are loosely allied with the major tribes but prefer to live in smaller, family-based groups. The Outclans tend to reject some of the tribes’ strict rules about the use of the land and resources.

Ferals: these are manufactured creatures that exist solely as killing and feeding machines, with no capacity for rational thinking. They come in a variety of body shapes, sizes, and weaponry and are remnants of the armies that plundered society during the Conflagration.

Vulpini: fox-like creatures that hunt the Broad Plain, posing a danger to all live beings.

Ursini: large, white-furred predators who mostly live south of Broad Plain, beyond the Broken Ranges.

Mammonites: enormous flying creatures that once dominated the plain; the mammonites are now rarely seen.

Other animals: longneck deer, patchwork hares, ovines, mastodons, mammonites, wood-adders, strikebeasts, lizards, skinks, blue tongue lizards, crocodylli, pantheras.