LUBAI: green priest serving at the Lunar Orbital Complex.

LUNAR ORBITAL COMPLEX: military and civilian base established in the rubble of Earth's Moon.

MAGE-IMPERATOR: the god-emperor of the Ildiran Empire.

MANTA: cruiser-class battleship in Confederation Defense Forces.

MEDUSA: large cephalopod from Rhejak; its meat is considered a delicacy.

MIJISTRA: Ildiran capital city.

MO: Domestic compy at Orli Covitz's compy laboratory.

MOSBACH, PROFESSOR MICHAELA: one of Shareen Fitzkellum's teachers on Earth.

MUREE'N: halfbreed daughter of Nira and a warrior kithman, a skilled fighter, student of Yazra'h.

NADD: green priest serving aboard the Kutuzov.

NEW PORTUGAL: Confederation planet, home of a university and also known for its wines.

NEWSTATION: large orbiting station above planet Auridia, the new Roamer center of government. The Roamer school Academ is also nearby.

NIGHTSHADE: Shana Rei occultation barrier.

NIRA: green priest consort of Mage-Imperator Jora'h, mother of five halfbreed children: Osira'h, Rod'h, Gale'nh, Tamo'l, and Muree'n.

OK: compy owned by Xander Brindle.

OKIAH: name given to derelict space city inhabited by clan Reeves.

OKIAH, KOTTO: renowned but eccentric Roamer scientist.

ONTHOS: alien race, builders of derelict space city claimed by clan Reeves.

ORBITAL RESEARCH SPHERE (ORS): isolated medical research satellite orbiting Pergamus.

ORFINO: architectural specialist working on Eljiid.

OSIRA'H: daughter of Nira and Jora'h, bred to have unusual telepathic abilities.

OSQUIVEL: ringed gas giant, former site of Kellum shipyards.

PANNEBAKER, ALEC: one of Lee Iswander's deputies at the Sheol lava-processing facility.

PAOLUS, DR. BENJAMIN: foremost neurological researcher on Earth.

PASTERNAK, SHAREEN: lost love of Del Kellum, killed by hydrogues on a skymine. Shareen Fitzkellum is named after her.

PATTON, DILLON: weapons officer aboard the Kutuzov.

PELLIERI, KAM: desert geologist working on Eljiid.

PEPPERFLOWER TEA: Roamer beverage.

PERGAMUS: secure medical research facility owned and managed by Zoe Alakis.

PERONI, CESCA: former Roamer Speaker, wife of Jess Tamblyn; together they run the Academ school complex for Roamer children.

PETER, KING: ruler of Confederation, married to Queen Estarra, with two children, Reynald and Arita.

PIGEON: small trading ship at Vuoral.

PLUMAS: frozen moon with deep liquid oceans, site of Tamblyn clan water industry.

POWER BLOCK: energy source made of a charged film, folded and packed inside a shell.

PRIME DESIGNATE: eldest noble-born son of the Mage-Imperator, and successor.

PRIMORDIAL OOZE: trade name of one of Del Kellum's distillations from Kuivahr.

PRISDIAMOND: rare precious gem found on several Confederation planets.

PRISM PALACE: crystalline palace of the Ildiran Mage-Imperator.

PRODIGAL SON: Garrison Reeves's ship, formerly an Iswander Industries vessel.

PROUD MARY: Kett Shipping vessel formerly piloted by Mary Coven.

QORLISS: Confederation planet.

QRONHA: binary star in the Horizon Cluster, two of the "seven suns" in the Ildiran sky.

RAINDROP: Rlinda Kett's pet name for Reyn.

RAMAH: Confederation planet.

REEVES, DALE: brother of Garrison, second son of Olaf Reeves.

REEVES, ELISA: wife of Garrison and mother of Seth, deputy of Lee Iswander at the Sheol lava mines. Also goes by her maiden name of Elisa Enturi.

REEVES, GARRISON: Roamer worker at the Sheol lava-processing facility. He is married to Elisa, father of Seth. He is the son of clan head Olaf Reeves, brother of Dale.

REEVES, INDIRA: Retroamer.

REEVES, JAMIE: young son of Dale Reeves.

REEVES, OLAF: gruff clan head, leader of the "Retroamers," isolationist Roamers who are trying to rebuild the wreckage of Rendezvous. Father of Garrison and Dale.

REEVES, SCOTT: young son of Dale Reeves.

REEVES, SENDRA: wife of Dale Reeves, formerly Sendra Detemer.

REEVES, SETH: ten-year-old son of Garrison Reeves.

RELLEKER: Terran colony planet, home of Orli Covitz's compy laboratory.

REMORA: small attack ship in Confederation Defense Forces.

RENDEZVOUS: asteroid cluster, former center of Roamer government. Destroyed by the Earth Defense Forces, but clan Reeves attempted reconstruction for years.

RETROAMERS: mocking term for the isolationist clan Reeves.

REYN, PRINCE: son of King Peter and Queen Estarra, in line to be the Confederation's next King. His full name is Reynald.

RHEINDIC CO: Klikiss world, serves as a nexus for humans using the Klikiss transportal network for travel among planets.

RHEJAK: watery planet with habitable reefs, known for large cephalopods called medusas.

RICKS, SAM: candidate for Speaker of the Roamer clans.

ROAMERS: loose confederation of independent humans, primary producers of ekti stardrive fuel, often disparagingly called "space gypsies."

ROBERTS, BRANSON: Rlinda Kett's favorite ex-husband, affectionately called BeBob.

ROD'H: older halfbreed son of Nira, fathered by Dobro Designate Udru'h as part of the secret breeding program.

ROHANDAS, HOWARD: fellow student with Shareen Fitzkellum on Earth.

SAGA OF SEVEN SUNS: historical and legendary epic of the Ildiran civilization.

SALIBA, SHARON: sensor technician aboard the Kutuzov.

SANDOVAL, SHERI: representative from the Roamers to the Confederation.

SAREIN: sister of Estarra and Celli, lives in self-imposed exile in the Wild.

SEPTA: small battle group of seven ships in the Ildiran Solar Navy.

SEWARD, ISHA: retiring Speaker for the Roamer clans, successor to Del Kellum.

SHANA REI: fearsome creatures of darkness that preyed upon the Ildiran Empire long ago.

SHELUD: green priest, brother of Aelin.

SHEOL: binary planet under heavy tidal stresses, site of lava-mining operations led by Lee Iswander.

SHIZZ: Roamer curse.

SKYMINE: ekti-harvesting facility in the clouds of a gas giant planet, usually operated by Roamers.

SKYSPHERE: audience chamber of the Prism Palace.

SOLIMAR: green priest, married to Celli, who tends a terrarium dome in Fireheart Station.

SONG OF THE BREEDEX, THE: Klikiss historical chronicle transcribed and translated by Anton and Margaret Colicos.

SPEAKER: Roamer leader.

SPIRAL ARM: the section of the Milky Way Galaxy settled by the Ildiran Empire and Terran colonies.

SWIMMER: otterlike Ildiran kith that spend most of their time in the ocean.

SWOOPER: small skybike used around skymining operations.

TAIT, MATTHEW: navigator aboard the Kutuzov.

TAL: military rank in Ildiran Solar Navy, cohort commander.

TAMBLYN, JESS: one of the heads of Academ school, married to Cesca Peroni.

TAMBLYN, TASIA: administrator of Kett Shipping, married to Robb Brindle, father of Xander.

TAMBORR'S DEMENTIA: disease being studied on Pergamus.

TAMO'L: one of Nira's halfbreed children, daughter of a lens kithman. She runs sanctuary domes for misbreeds on the planet Kuivahr.

TARKER: architectural specialist working on Eljiid.

TELINK: instantaneous communication used by green priests via the worldtrees.

TERITHA: Roamer colony, site of a disaster caused by failed life support.

TERRAN HANSEATIC LEAGUE: former commerce-based government of Earth and Terran colonies, dissolved after the death of Chairman Basil Wenceslas at the end of the Elemental War. Also called the Hansa.

THEROC: forested planet, home of the sentient worldtrees.

THERON: a native of Theroc.

THISM: faint racial telepathic network, centered on the Mage-Imperator, that binds all Ildiran people.

THREE H'S: Admirals Handies, Harvard, and Haroun in the CDF.

TOM ROM: guardian and majordomo of Zoe Alakis.

TORA'M: Ildiran swimmer kithman on Kuivahr.

TORINO, MILLI: Garrison's supervisor at the Lunar Orbital Complex.