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List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales

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====Aerie====
The goose girl. [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]’s daughter and first child. Born in the Palace prison. Changed to a wild goose by Grandmother [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Bent-Bow|Bent-Bow]]. Fostered by the [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Firebird|Firebird]]. She is the last in the line of women descended from the woman who helped the [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Manikarnika|Manikarnika]]. She rescues her mother from the fire with her flock. She goes on a Quest to find the threads of her mother’s tale. A black mare leads her to the Cave where she meets [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Laakea|Laakea]]. In the Underworld, she is midwife to [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Zmeya|Zmeya]]’s child. ''Steppes'' ''Storm''

====Agarfena====
The Violinist of Ajanabh. She is 1/4 Djinn. "Scald"
====Almond-tree ====
Born from [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Aukon|Aukon]]’s severed testicles; he rapes [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Oubilette|Oubilette]]’s mother. ''Storm''

====Amilcar====
The fisherman on the Vareni. He made the woman made of music, and attracted the Lamia [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Vachya|Vachya]]. He became the first Duke of Ajanabh. "Scald"

====The Anchorite.====
See [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Giota|Giota]].

====Arioso====
The jackal-headed tenor of the Ajanabh Opera. "Scald"
====Ash-Queen====
One of the three queens of the Djinn. [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Kohinoor|Kohinoor]]. "Scald"

====Aukon, the Bull-Star====
[[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Oubliette|Oubliette]]’s father. ''Storm''

====Aukai, the Heifer-Star====
[[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Aukon|Aukon]]’s sister. ''Storm''

====Bagdemus====
The red-gold dog-headed monk, or Cynocephaloi, from Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
====Bags====
See Bagdemus. ''Sea''
====Balthazar. ====
The black-and-brown dog-headed monk, or Cynocephaloi, from Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
====Barnabas. ====
The black dog-headed monk, or Cynocephaloi, from Al-a-Nur. Killed by Ragnhild and his brothers. ''Sea''
====The Baron of Baqarah====
[[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Ismail|Ismail]]’s father and [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Magadin|Magadin]]’s, and [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Iolanthe|Iolanthe]]’s husband. ''Steppes''

====Bartholomew====
The white dog-headed monk, or Cynocephaloi, from Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
====The Basilisk====
His tongue was stolen by three snake [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Handmaidens|handmaidens]] of the Snake-Star. He wears an iron mitre. In the Tale of Two Duchesses he befriends [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Orfea|Orfea]]. He is from a serpent’s egg hatched by a hen. ''Steppes'' "Scald"

====The Bee-Star====
He named the Wolf-Star [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Liulfr|Liulfr]]. ''Steppes''

====Bent-Bow====
Grandmother of [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]. She had red hair before it was grey. She was sent to a neighboring village to be taught by their witch-woman, [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Thurayya|Thurayya]]. She gives her starlight blood to [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Aerie|Aerie]]. ''Steppes''
====The Black Papess====
Apostate or false [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Papess|Papess]] installed by the Caliphate in Shadukiam. [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Ragnhild|Ragnhild]]. ''Sea''

====The Boy====
[[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#The girl|The girl]] in the garden tells him stories in the first three books, and in the fourth he reads from her eyelids. He has blond hair. He's the heir to the Sultan's throne and is [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Dinarzad|Dinarzad]]'s younger brother. ''Steppes''

====The Bridle-Star====
Mentioned by [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]. ''Steppes''

====Bryony====
The Poisoner. A boy raised on poison. Twigs sprout from his skin, from all the poisons he has eaten. He watches the poisoning of [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Hind|Hind]] and [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Hadil|Hadil]], the princesses of Amberabad. He cuts off the Unicorn [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Nevinost|Nevinost]]’s horn to make his poisoner’s cup. His parents live in a house on stilts. ''Storm''

====Caliphs====
I have not yet untangled the bits of history about the Caliphates.
=====The First Caliph=====
His hoofprint is referred to. (Maybe a centaur?) Declared the autonomy of Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
=====The Second Caliph=====
During their reign, Al-a-Nur was founded. I think it’s this Caliph who sent [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Ragnhild|Ragnhild]] to be the False Papess and who was at war with the Southern Kingdoms. ''Sea''
=====The Third Caliph=====
=====The Fourth Caliph=====
Current when [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Sigrid of the Ways|Sigrid of the Ways]] (or [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Ulla|Ulla]]) was young. ''Sea''
====The Cinnamon-Star====
Mentioned in The Book of the Scald. "Scald"
====Chayim====
A Monopod from Shadukiam. His wife [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Tova|Tova]] was killed by a Yi necromancer. Chayim and Jin the Griffin go searching for Quri. "Sea"
====Ciriaco, the Hedgehog====
He is turned to a golden ball by Widow, the Soldier. ''Storm''
====The Commander of the Varaahasind====
He beheaded Zmeya. ''Steppes''
====Cook====
The Cook of the Sultan’s Palace, where the boy is sent to work by Dinarzad.
====The Cynocephaloi====
Dog-heads. Three of them come to Sigrid’s home in the north when she is a girl. White (Balthazar), Black and brown(Bartholomew), and red-gold (Bagdemus, or Bags)
====Cveti====
Presbyter of the Tower of Hermaphrodites who becomes the Papess. She takes the name Ghyfran II.
====Dapple====
A Centaur, who raced with Sorrell for the rule of the Eight Kingdoms. ''Steppes''
====Diamond====
One of the Manikarna, the Stone-Stars. She meets Zmeya in the Underworld. ''Storm''
====Dinarzad====
Oldest daughter of the Sultan, and the boy’s sister. She is beaten if the children of the harem escape from the nursery. She is going to be married to a prince who brings her clockwork peacocks. (Her other suitor brought golden clockwork roosters (see Folio). She gives a red fur cloak and a clockwork peacock to the girl. ''Steppes'' ''Sea''
====The Duke’s Son of the Eastern Duchies====
Who tried to kill the Leucrotta. Sent by his father, who wants the Leucrotta skin for assassinating. He was also sent to rescue a maiden in a tower imprisoned by the Wizard Omir. He was rumored to have killed a monarch in some other part of the world. (This is probably someone from Ajanabh.) ''Steppes''
====The Ember-Queen====
One of the three queens of the Djinn. Scald becomes the Ember-Queen. "Scald"
====Ethelred, the Mathematician-King====
Ancestor of the Other Prince. ''Steppes''
====Eyvind====
Bartender and polar bear. He is bartender of the Arm and Trout, a tavern in Muireann. The Marsh King changes him into a man until the Virgin is devoured, the sea turns to gold, and the saints migrate west on the wings of henless eggs. ''Steppes''
====Fahad====
A moth from Varaahasind. He comes to Zmeya and tells her of the Birds’ Tears. ''Storm''
====The Firebird====
Named Lantern. He is a Zhar-Ptitza. He adopts Aerie for two years when she is a gosling. He met Zhajiva in her garden. ''Steppes''
====Flint and Steel, King of the====
One of the three Kings of the Djinn. "Scald"
====Folio====
An inventor and surgeon. She is a brown-skinned, very old woman with hundreds of tiny braids. She is the Rooster-Maker’s daughter, from Muireann. Folio’s mother is a poet. "Scald"
====The Fox-Star====
He is in the cave when Grandmother Bent-Bow sees the Mare and the Wolf-Star. He appears laughing when she later is killed by the Wizard Omir. ''Steppes''
====Galien====
The Navigator with the compass in her belly, installed by Folio, who meets the Sirens. "Scald"
====Giota====
The Anchorite. The Sorella. Pangiota,
====The Girl====
She lives in the Palace Garden. See Sorrow. ''Steppes''
====The golden ball====
Ciriaco, the Hedgehog.
====The glass princess====
See Ostraya.
====Glaucia====
Agarfena’s human grandmother. She had red hair and green eyes. "Scald"
====Golod====
A monster made of teeth and the lord Maciej’s hunger. He eats Shadukiam. ''Storm''
====The Gosling====
See Aerie. ''Steppes''
====The governor of Shadukiam====
He orders Idyll killed. ''Storm''
====Grandmother====
See Bent-Bow. ''Steppes''
====Grass-Stars====
The Grass-Star who fell from the sky and was called Li and was imprisoned in a box in Ajanabh. "Scald"
====Grotteschi the Red====
Born from an Upas tree in the desert. The Sun is her father. A Manticore captured and put into the zoo of Hadil, princess of Amerabad. Hind rescues her and eventually sets her free. They travel together with Taglio. ''Storm''
====Gunde====
Fiercest of the polar bears of the Bear Congress. ''Steppes''
====Ghyfran====
A Papess of Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
====Ghyfran II====
Papess of Al-a-Nur who was Cveti of the Hermaphrodite Tower. 17th Papess. She sent the tongue and breasts of Ragnhild to the Caliphate in a silver box. ''Sea''
====Hadil====
The modest and devout princess of Amberabad, who eats plain bread and prays all day and keeps a zoo. Hind’s sister. She is poisoned so that frogs fall from her lips when she speaks. ''Storm''
====Handmaidens of the Snake-Star====
Three of them met Laakea in the Tinderbox desert. One of them kicks over the pile of Ixora pits, which go up in flames. ''Steppes''
====The Harpoon-Star. Laakea====
Smells of scorched bread and copper filings. He went looking for a Firebird as a present for the Snake-Star, so was haresting the fruits of the Ixora or Torch-Trees of the desrt. He gathers them, scatters them, then gathers them again and uses them to feed the Handmaidens, piling up the pits. Then he goes to the court of King Indrajit, bearing away the body of his sister Zmeya. ''Steppes''
====Hearth-King====
One of the three Kings of the Djinn. Khaamil. "Scald"
====Helia. Alter ego of Knife. The Wizard Omir metamorphoses Knife into a beautiful princess with milk-white skin and yellow hair. The belt of gold and jasper fits her. ''Steppes''
====The Heron-Star====
The Marsh-King. He makes Eyvind into a man. ''Steppes''
====Hind====
The wicked princess of Amberabad, who eats cakes and reads naughty books and likes to be serenaded. She is poisoned, and pearls fall from her lips when she speaks. She befriends the Manticore and later leaves to travel with Taglio. She leaves to go back to Amberabad, but promises to meet Grotteschi again in Ajanabh. She appears in Xide’s workshop in The Dressmaker’s Tale. ''Storm'' "Scald"
====Hour====
The clockwork girl built by Folio. "Scald"
====Idyll====
The winged Ferryman of the underworld. He is a Hsieh, or Yi, peeled from (or dressed in) the Moon. He travelled to the land of the Kappas. He built the Rose Dome of Shadukiam, and was impaled on a diamond turret by the governor of Shadukiam. He cursed the city as he died. ''Storm''
====Immacolata====
The girl made of tea. Tea-maker and shoemaker. She was an odalisque of King Indrajit’s harem, serving Zmeya. She befriends Taglio in the harem. Her mother was Safiyya the shoemaker. Her father was Elpidios the tea-maker. She mourns terribly at the news of Zmeya’s death and is determined to give back the leaf soaked in starlight. ''Storm''
====Iolanthe====
Magadin’s stepmother. Mother of Isaura and Imogen, older than Magadin. She is a widow with vast lands and married Magadin’s father the Baron. Mother of Ismail. The belt of gold and jasper is hers. ''Steppes''
====Ismail====
King in ''Steppes''
====Itto====
The Twinned Star who plants the broken red plank. He dies on the mountaintop with Tomomo’s help. In the Underworld he has a child with Zmeya. "Sea" ''Storm''
====Khaigal====
(A Djinn? the Djinn priests). "Scald"
====The King====
(Usually means King Ismail) ''Steppes''
====King Indrajit====
Also the Raja Indrajit. He has the 144 boar-warriors, the Vahaarasind. He abducted/married Zmeya the Snake-Star. His throne is the Throne of Teeth and he wears a Tusk-Crown. His hall is the Hall of Voices. ''Steppes''
====Kashkash====
The first Djinn. He was in Shadukiam in its early days and ruled over the Djinn Quarter, a terrible ghetto. "Scald"
====Kindling-King====
One of the three Kings of the Djinn. "Scald"
====King Ismail====
Leander’s father. Son of the Baron. King of the Eight Kingdoms and Steward of the Eastlands, Autokrator of the Unified Tribes, Lord of the Thousand Caves. ''Steppes''
====The Kappa====
Turtles with water on the tops of their heads. Gardeners and plant breeders. They invented the Upas, the Ixora, and the roses used for the Rose Dome of Shadukiam.
====Knife====
Also known as the Witch, and Helia. She is from the steppes. Her face is tattooed and scarred. Her sisters were Quiver and Sheath. She was dark, with dark hair before it went grey. ''Steppes''
====Kostya====
Kostya of Vareni-side, from Ajanabh. He buys the Firebird’s feather from the Wizard Omir. "Scald"
====Lantern====
See the Firebird. ''Steppes'' "Scald"
====Laakea====
The Harpoon-Star ''Steppes''
====Leander====
The Prince. He is named after the wild lions of the steppes. Son of Ismail and Helia. Leander of the Eight Kingdoms. He becomes the Maimed King. In later years he goes to Al-a-Nur to live int he Tower of Patricides. ''Steppes''
====The Leucrotta====
The Heron or Marsh-King calls him Beast. He was once rescued by the Witch of the Glen, Knife. He brings Magadin to the village of Muireann. ''Steppes''
====Liulfr====
The Wolf-Star. She is in the Wolf-Cave of the steppes next to the cave of the seven sleepers, the golden wolf of 3 wolves, the others white and black. ''Steppes''
====Lo Shen====
The river goddess of Al-a-Nur. The game is named after her. ''Sea''
====Lock====
The goldfish river-pilot. She leaps over the dam and turns into a maiden, then sheds her skin to become a green dragon. She leaves her child with a man of Ajanabh. (A Duke?) "Scald"
====Maciej====
The Hungry Lord, married to Malgorzata. Eaten by Golod. ''Storm''
====Magadin====
The Beast-girl. She has been metamorphosed by the Wizard Omir to have claws, hooves, webs, fur, fins, and tails. ''Steppes''
====Malgorzata====
Wife of the Hungry Lord. She sacrifices her body parts until she is entirely made of wood and wicker. Her many and distant relatives lay their own lands waste to send food for Maciej. ''Storm''
====The Man Dressed in the Moon====
A Yi, or Hsieh. He bought the boy who became the Necromancer Marsili. He might be Idyll (or Idyll might be the other Yi killed by Jin the Griffin. Or these might be the heretic Hsieh which Idyll refers to.) ''Sea''
====The Manikarnika====
Seven sisters, Stone-Stars. The Pleiades. They changed to women. Jade, Granite, Opal, Garnet, Shale, Iron, and Diamond. They tried to live in the world of men. No one would take them in until the tents of the steppes when a girl with a new baby took them in. The King’s soldiers killed them in the night, with their light pouring into the girl and her baby. ''Steppes''
====The Mare====
The Mare is the night. The Stars were born from the light that’s her blood that seeped through holes she chewed in herself. She gave birth to the world, and people and things and animals and more Stars were her afterbirth. ''Steppes''
====Marsili====
Formerly son of a Sultan, his body was taken by the Man Dressed in the Moon and then by the boy who became the Necromancer. Lover of the Man Dressed in the Moon. ''Sea''
====Mesinyane====
The pig-tamer, a golden-eyed pygmy, who meets Taglio and Immacolata in Vstreycha. Her pig is her father, Femi. She was born in Varaahasind. As a girl, she sees the Harpoon-Star walking away from the city bearing his dead sister, the Snake-Star or Zmeya. She follows the stars. ''Storm''
====The Midwife====
See Aerie. ''Storm''
====The Moon====
She was battered by the wind created when the Stars left for Earth. Her children peeled from her are the Hsien. ''Storm''
====The Moth====
See Fahad. ''Storm''
====The Mourner====
See Wept. ''Storm''
====Nevinost====
The unicorn. Her horn is taken by the poisoner boy, Bryony. She eats Oubilette’s hair. ''Storm''
====Omir====
See The Wizard Omir. ''Steppes''
====Orange as the Sun====
A Hoopoe, mother to many chicks, killed by the Mourner. The Mourner is at the cave composing a lament for the corpse of Tomomo.
====Orfea====
Twin in looks to the Duchess Ulissa of Ajanabh. Daughter to a seamstress. She switches places with Ulisea, wears a dress made of weasel skins, and befriends the Basilisk. "Scald"
====Ostraya====
The Princess of Glass, from the Kingdom of Glass. The Ghost-Librarian and breeder of lizards, practicer of lizard-calculus. ''Storm''
====The Other Prince====
He was sent to kill the Leucrotta (and to rescue his sister, 50 years before Leander). ''Steppes''
====Oubliette====
The huldra of “The Tale of the Twelve Coins” and “The Tale of the Crossing”. Her parents give her a golden ball. She is imprisoned in a house made of sod & tied by her hair, by the Hedgehog Ciriaco. Her hair is shorn by the unicorn Nevinost, who frees her. She takes the silver leaf that is the soul of the girl made of tea to Zmeya in the underworld. She finds the underworld by threatening the almond tree that is her grandfather. ''Storm''
====The Papess====
Leader of Al-a-Nur, always a woman. ''Sea''
====The Pra-Ita====
Hideous monsters with long bony necks and swollen heads and bellies which are enormous jewels. They are the citizens of Shadukiam, eaten and transformed by the monster Golod. ''Storm''
====The Poisoner====
See Bryony. ''Storm''
====The Prince====
See Leander. ''Steppes''
====Quiver====
Knife’s oldest sister. ''Steppes''
====Quri====
A griffin, Jin’s sister. "Sea"
====Rend====
A talking leopard, companion of Ruin, travelling to Urim through the Waste. "Scald"
====Ragnhild====
The Black Papess, or False Papess. In her first incarnation she was a lover of a Caliph who sent her to become Papess. She was killed by Cveti and her army, her tongue and breasts cut away, and manacled to the ground with golden chains. She was reincarnated by a Yi or Hsieh who she then killed. In her second incarnation she wore golden chains dangling from her wrists. ''Sea''
====Ravhi====
The new gardener, seed of Ravhija. ''Steppes''
====Ravhija====
The gardener and pumpkin-tree girl who meets the Firebird, Lantern, steals a feather from him, and who is threatened and then destroyed by the Wizard Omir after he was rid of his iron collar. ''Steppes''
====The Rooster-Maker====
An inventor from Muireann. Folio’s father. "Scald"
====Ruin====
A woman accompanied by the leopard Rend. She is from Ajanabh and has a skin wasting disease. "Scald"
====The Satyr====
A girl of the woods - who marries a Selkie. Her name is Eshkol, and after the Selkie leaves her, she joins the sailors of the Maidenhead. Sea

====Scald====
A Djinn. She was one of the three Queens of Kash, the Ember-Queen. She was born from the smoke of Zmeya’s fire touching Sorrow’s eyelids. "Scald"
====The Selkie====
His name is Shroud, and he marries the Satyr Eshkol. (Story told in Taglio’s tale in the Book of the Scald, and in the Tale of the Skin in the Book of the Sea.) He also rescues Galien in the Book of the Scald. Scald, Sea.

====Seven====
The farmer’s boy, seventh son of a seventh son, who ended up in Marrow and who, in the main frame story of ''Storm'', “The Tale of the Crossing”, travels to the underworld to find his friend Oubliette. He has one arm. ''Storm''

====The Seven Sleepers====
The Seven Sisters. See the Manikarnika. ''Steppes''
====Sheath====
Knife’s older sister. ''Steppes''
====Simeon====
The Giant who stayed in Ajanabh; the gate-giant. "Scald"
====The Skin-Peddler====

====The Snake-Star====
Zmeya. Concubine of King Indrajit. ''Steppes''
====Snow====
Orphan from Ajanabh. Her family emigrates to Muireann. Her hair turns grey when they die. She is befriended by Sigrid the Net-weaver. She also appears as a small child in The Tale of the Giant Who Stayed. ''Sea'' "Scald"
====Sigrid the Netweaver====
St. Sigrid of the Ways. She befriends Snow. She was formerly the polar bear Ulla, who loved and was loved by Eyvind.
====St. Sigrid of the Nest====
The original St. Sigrid. ''Sea''
====Sigrid (the doorkeeper)====
The doorkeeper at the tower in Al-a-Nur, who tells stories to Sigrid the Netweaver. ''Sea''
====The Sirens====
Three bird-women in the highest tower of Ajanabh. Their names are Chadir, Ashni, and Nyd. "Scald"
====Sleeve====
The recluse or Bell Spider, who works for Kostya and lives in the Bell Tower of Ajanabh. Her 8 legs are partly severed and replaced with needles. She was captured as an infant by the poisoner Bryony. "Scald"
====The Sorella====
The sisters Pangiota, Legiota, Magiota. When Legiota and Magiota sacrifice themselves for Zmeya, Pangiota becomes Giota, all of the Sorella at once. The Griffin Quri's children become the next Sorella after Giota. Sea.

====Sorrell====
Centaur King of the Eight Kingdoms. He ruled the Palace between the white and black rivers, served by the Wizard Omir, before Ismail killed him. ''Steppes''
====Solace====
Raised by the Firebird, Lantern, as his daughter in the ruined Bell Tower of Ajanabh. She is told by Aerie that she’s Zmeya’s daughter. "Scald"
====Sorrow====
Zmeya’s daughter born in the underworld. She is the girl in the garden. Aerie watches over her and gave her her knife. Hat tip to Tess of the D’Urbervilles. -Storm- "Scald"
====The Stars====
There are stars who are the holes full of light in the Mare’s side, who scorch wherever they walk; and other stars who don’t and who were born from the Mare as actual children. ''Steppes''
====Suhail====
A Djinn from Kash. Agarfena’s grandfather. Married Glaucia. "Scald"
====The Sultan====
Dinarzad and the boy’s father. ''Sea''
====Another Sultan====
The one marrying Dinarzad. ''Storm''
====Taglio====
A Gaselli, with gazelle-hooves. He dresses in green. The Gaselli lure humans to their doom and drink their blood and perhaps eat them. Taglio castrated himself out of devotion to the Heifer-Star. He travels pulling a caravan with Grotteschi. He worked as a eunuch in the harem of King Indrajit and meets Zmeya and the woman made of tea, there. Oubilette and Seven travel with him. He’s looking for the entrance to the Underworld so he can bring Immacolata’s leaf to Zmeya. ''Storm''
====Thurayya====
Teacher of Grandmother Bent-Bow. (Thurayya = Pleiades in Arabic) ''Steppes''
====Tinder-Queen====
One of the three queens of the Djinn. "Scald"
====Ulissa====
The Duchess of Ajanabh, daughter of the Duke. She trades places with Orfea and becomes an actress. She has blond hair and blue eyes. "Scald"
====The Unicorn====
See Nevinost. ''Storm''
====Vachya====
The Lamia. She is three-breasted and blue, sings beautifully, and her grandmother is a sea-serpent lamia who discovers that drinking human blood gets her pregnant. Vachya eats the woman made of music and coughs up golden coins. "Scald"
====The Varaahasind====
The Teeth of the Boar. The 144 warriors of King Indrajit. They feast on the corpse of Zmeya and are destroyed by her. Their bodies vanish each into a single tooth (Boar’s teeth) ''Steppes''
====Vhummin====
Vhummin of Marrow, third daughter of Orris, formerly of Shadukiam. She worked in the Asaad, the Great Market. She was eaten by the monster Golod and became one of the Pra-Ita, and a foreman of the Mint after the ruin of Shadukiam, telling her tale to Seven and Oubilette. ''Storm''
====Weasel====
Enemy of the serpent and Basilisk. ''Scald''

====Wept====
A harpy. She guards the cave entrance to the Underworld and exacts a price from Oubilette and Seven. She wears a hoopoe’s beak. ''Storm''
====Widow====
The Soldier. A farmer girl. Her two older brothers go off to become mercenaries in war, and later she follows them. Her lungs and skin are destroyed by chemical weapons. She is stationed in the Kingdom of the Hedgehogs, and turns the hedgehogs into metal balls. ''Storm''
====The Witch====
See [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]. ''Steppes''

====The Witch of the Glen====
See [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]. ''Steppes''

====The Wizard====
See the Wizard Omir ''Steppes''
====The Wizard Omir====
The conjuror. Omir Doulios. Son of carrot farmers. The boy who found Death. A tall man with grey dreadlocks and an iron collar, and blue and brown robes. After he is rid of his collar at the death of King Indrajit he visits Ravhija and steals a Firebird feather; then his neck is pale, he wears red clothing, and controls a blue flame in his palm. Seeing the Harpoon-Star and the Snake-Star together obsessed him, as did metamorphosis. He kept the Firebird in an ivory cage, but sold him and his feather to a man in Ajanabh. He wore long red robes and had no collar when he came to the race of the Centaurs of the Eight Kingdom and bargained with Sorrel, becoming his doulios or slave and collared again. ''Steppes''
====The other Wizard====
King Indrajit’s wizard before Omir, a short man who calls himself Death to the young Omir. (Or am I confusing something?) ''Steppes''
====The Wolf-Star====
Liulfr. ''Steppes''
====Xide====
The Weaver in Ajanabh who teaches Sleeve. "Scald"
====Yashna====
Papess of Al-a-Nur when Ragnhild returned, in Sigrid’s youth. She is an older woman, with dark black skin. ''Sea''

====Yaya====
The Nursemaid of Prince Leander. ''Steppes''
====Yazo-who-was-born-at-the-bottom-of-winter====
A Kappa who was a great engineer of plants and who proved that tipping out the water of kappa skulls was a bad idea. Yoi’s friend.
====Yoi-who-was-born-in-the-evening====
A Kappa who bargained with Idyll, trading cucumbers for nearly-immortal roses. Yazo’s friend.
====Zmeya====
The Snake-Star. She is captured and married to King Indrajit, and has 14 sons and daughters, infant stars who die just before she dies. In the Underworld she gives birth to another child, child of Itto and of Immacolata’s leaf. ''Steppes'' ''Storm''

[[Category:Orphan's Tales]]

List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales

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====Aerie====
The goose girl. [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]’s daughter and first child. Born in the Palace prison. Changed to a wild goose by Grandmother [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Bent-Bow|Bent-Bow]]. Fostered by the [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Firebird|Firebird]]. She is the last in the line of women descended from the woman who helped the [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Manikarnika|Manikarnika]]. She rescues her mother from the fire with her flock. She goes on a Quest to find the threads of her mother’s tale. A black mare leads her to the Cave where she meets [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Laakea|Laakea]]. In the Underworld, she is midwife to [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Zmeya|Zmeya]]’s child. ''Steppes'' ''Storm''

====Agarfena====
The Violinist of Ajanabh. She is 1/4 Djinn. "Scald"
====Almond-tree ====
Born from [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Aukon|Aukon]]’s severed testicles; he rapes [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Oubilette|Oubilette]]’s mother. ''Storm''

====Amilcar====
The fisherman on the Vareni. He made the woman made of music, and attracted the Lamia [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Vachya|Vachya]]. He became the first Duke of Ajanabh. "Scald"

====The Anchorite.====
See [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Giota|Giota]].

====Arioso====
The jackal-headed tenor of the Ajanabh Opera. "Scald"
====Ash-Queen====
One of the three queens of the Djinn. [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Kohinoor|Kohinoor]]. "Scald"

====Aukon, the Bull-Star====
[[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Oubliette|Oubliette]]’s father. ''Storm''

====Aukai, the Heifer-Star====
[[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Aukon|Aukon]]’s sister. ''Storm''

====Bagdemus====
The red-gold dog-headed monk, or Cynocephaloi, from Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
====Bags====
See Bagdemus. ''Sea''
====Balthazar. ====
The black-and-brown dog-headed monk, or Cynocephaloi, from Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
====Barnabas. ====
The black dog-headed monk, or Cynocephaloi, from Al-a-Nur. Killed by Ragnhild and his brothers. ''Sea''
====The Baron of Baqarah====
[[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Ismail|Ismail]]’s father and [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Magadin|Magadin]]’s, and [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Iolanthe|Iolanthe]]’s husband. ''Steppes''

====Bartholomew====
The white dog-headed monk, or Cynocephaloi, from Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
====The Basilisk====
His tongue was stolen by three snake [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Handmaidens|handmaidens]] of the Snake-Star. He wears an iron mitre. In the Tale of Two Duchesses he befriends [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Orfea|Orfea]]. He is from a serpent’s egg hatched by a hen. ''Steppes'' "Scald"

====The Bee-Star====
He named the Wolf-Star [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Liulfr|Liulfr]]. ''Steppes''

====Bent-Bow====
Grandmother of [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]. She had red hair before it was grey. She was sent to a neighboring village to be taught by their witch-woman, [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Thurayya|Thurayya]]. She gives her starlight blood to [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Aerie|Aerie]]. ''Steppes''
====The Black Papess====
Apostate or false [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Papess|Papess]] installed by the Caliphate in Shadukiam. [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Ragnhild|Ragnhild]]. ''Sea''

====The Boy====
[[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#The girl|The girl]] in the garden tells him stories in the first three books, and in the fourth he reads from her eyelids. He has blond hair. He's the heir to the Sultan's throne and is [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Dinarzad|Dinarzad]]'s younger brother. ''Steppes''

====The Bridle-Star====
Mentioned by [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]. ''Steppes''

====Bryony====
The Poisoner. A boy raised on poison. Twigs sprout from his skin, from all the poisons he has eaten. He watches the poisoning of [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Hind|Hind]] and [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Hadil|Hadil]], the princesses of Amberabad. He cuts off the Unicorn [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Nevinost|Nevinost]]’s horn to make his poisoner’s cup. His parents live in a house on stilts. ''Storm''

====Caliphs====
I have not yet untangled the bits of history about the Caliphates.
=====The First Caliph=====
His hoofprint is referred to. (Maybe a centaur?) Declared the autonomy of Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
=====The Second Caliph=====
During their reign, Al-a-Nur was founded. I think it’s this Caliph who sent [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Ragnhild|Ragnhild]] to be the False Papess and who was at war with the Southern Kingdoms. ''Sea''
=====The Third Caliph=====
=====The Fourth Caliph=====
Current when [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Sigrid of the Ways|Sigrid of the Ways]] (or [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Ulla|Ulla]]) was young. ''Sea''
====The Cinnamon-Star====
Mentioned in The Book of the Scald. "Scald"
====Chayim====
A Monopod from Shadukiam. His wife [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Tova|Tova]] was killed by a Yi necromancer. Chayim and Jin the Griffin go searching for Quri. "Sea"
====Ciriaco, the Hedgehog====
He is turned to a golden ball by Widow, the Soldier. ''Storm''
====The Commander of the Varaahasind====
He beheaded Zmeya. ''Steppes''
====Cook====
The Cook of the Sultan’s Palace, where the boy is sent to work by Dinarzad.
====The Cynocephaloi====
Dog-heads. Three of them come to Sigrid’s home in the north when she is a girl. White (Balthazar), Black and brown(Bartholomew), and red-gold (Bagdemus, or Bags)
====Cveti====
Presbyter of the Tower of Hermaphrodites who becomes the Papess. She takes the name Ghyfran II.
====Dapple====
A Centaur, who raced with Sorrell for the rule of the Eight Kingdoms. ''Steppes''
====Diamond====
One of the Manikarna, the Stone-Stars. She meets Zmeya in the Underworld. ''Storm''
====Dinarzad====
Oldest daughter of the Sultan, and the boy’s sister. She is beaten if the children of the harem escape from the nursery. She is going to be married to a prince who brings her clockwork peacocks. (Her other suitor brought golden clockwork roosters (see Folio). She gives a red fur cloak and a clockwork peacock to the girl. ''Steppes'' ''Sea''
====The Duke’s Son of the Eastern Duchies====
Who tried to kill the Leucrotta. Sent by his father, who wants the Leucrotta skin for assassinating. He was also sent to rescue a maiden in a tower imprisoned by the Wizard Omir. He was rumored to have killed a monarch in some other part of the world. (This is probably someone from Ajanabh.) ''Steppes''
====The Ember-Queen====
One of the three queens of the Djinn. Scald becomes the Ember-Queen. "Scald"
====Ethelred, the Mathematician-King====
Ancestor of the Other Prince. ''Steppes''
====Eyvind====
Bartender and polar bear. He is bartender of the Arm and Trout, a tavern in Muireann. The Marsh King changes him into a man until the Virgin is devoured, the sea turns to gold, and the saints migrate west on the wings of henless eggs. ''Steppes''
====Fahad====
A moth from Varaahasind. He comes to Zmeya and tells her of the Birds’ Tears. ''Storm''
====The Firebird====
Named Lantern. He is a Zhar-Ptitza. He adopts Aerie for two years when she is a gosling. He met Zhajiva in her garden. ''Steppes''
====Flint and Steel, King of the====
One of the three Kings of the Djinn. "Scald"
====Folio====
An inventor and surgeon. She is a brown-skinned, very old woman with hundreds of tiny braids. She is the Rooster-Maker’s daughter, from Muireann. Folio’s mother is a poet. "Scald"
====The Fox-Star====
He is in the cave when Grandmother Bent-Bow sees the Mare and the Wolf-Star. He appears laughing when she later is killed by the Wizard Omir. ''Steppes''
====Galien====
The Navigator with the compass in her belly, installed by Folio, who meets the Sirens. "Scald"
====Giota====
The Anchorite. The Sorella. Pangiota,
====The Girl====
She lives in the Palace Garden. See Sorrow. ''Steppes''
====The golden ball====
Ciriaco, the Hedgehog.
====The glass princess====
See Ostraya.
====Glaucia====
Agarfena’s human grandmother. She had red hair and green eyes. "Scald"
====Golod====
A monster made of teeth and the lord Maciej’s hunger. He eats Shadukiam. ''Storm''
====The Gosling====
See Aerie. ''Steppes''
====The governor of Shadukiam====
He orders Idyll killed. ''Storm''
====Grandmother====
See Bent-Bow. ''Steppes''
====Grass-Stars====
The Grass-Star who fell from the sky and was called Li and was imprisoned in a box in Ajanabh. "Scald"
====Grotteschi the Red====
Born from an Upas tree in the desert. The Sun is her father. A Manticore captured and put into the zoo of Hadil, princess of Amerabad. Hind rescues her and eventually sets her free. They travel together with Taglio. ''Storm''
====Gunde====
Fiercest of the polar bears of the Bear Congress. ''Steppes''
====Ghyfran====
A Papess of Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
====Ghyfran II====
Papess of Al-a-Nur who was Cveti of the Hermaphrodite Tower. 17th Papess. She sent the tongue and breasts of Ragnhild to the Caliphate in a silver box. ''Sea''
====Hadil====
The modest and devout princess of Amberabad, who eats plain bread and prays all day and keeps a zoo. Hind’s sister. She is poisoned so that frogs fall from her lips when she speaks. ''Storm''
====Handmaidens of the Snake-Star====
Three of them met Laakea in the Tinderbox desert. One of them kicks over the pile of Ixora pits, which go up in flames. ''Steppes''
====The Harpoon-Star. Laakea====
Smells of scorched bread and copper filings. He went looking for a Firebird as a present for the Snake-Star, so was haresting the fruits of the Ixora or Torch-Trees of the desrt. He gathers them, scatters them, then gathers them again and uses them to feed the Handmaidens, piling up the pits. Then he goes to the court of King Indrajit, bearing away the body of his sister Zmeya. ''Steppes''
====Hearth-King====
One of the three Kings of the Djinn. Khaamil. "Scald"
====Helia. Alter ego of Knife. The Wizard Omir metamorphoses Knife into a beautiful princess with milk-white skin and yellow hair. The belt of gold and jasper fits her. ''Steppes''
====The Heron-Star====
The Marsh-King. He makes Eyvind into a man. ''Steppes''
====Hind====
The wicked princess of Amberabad, who eats cakes and reads naughty books and likes to be serenaded. She is poisoned, and pearls fall from her lips when she speaks. She befriends the Manticore and later leaves to travel with Taglio. She leaves to go back to Amberabad, but promises to meet Grotteschi again in Ajanabh. She appears in Xide’s workshop in The Dressmaker’s Tale. ''Storm'' "Scald"
====Hour====
The clockwork girl built by Folio. "Scald"
====Idyll====
The winged Ferryman of the underworld. He is a Hsieh, or Yi, peeled from (or dressed in) the Moon. He travelled to the land of the Kappas. He built the Rose Dome of Shadukiam, and was impaled on a diamond turret by the governor of Shadukiam. He cursed the city as he died. ''Storm''
====Immacolata====
The girl made of tea. Tea-maker and shoemaker. She was an odalisque of King Indrajit’s harem, serving Zmeya. She befriends Taglio in the harem. Her mother was Safiyya the shoemaker. Her father was Elpidios the tea-maker. She mourns terribly at the news of Zmeya’s death and is determined to give back the leaf soaked in starlight. ''Storm''
====Iolanthe====
Magadin’s stepmother. Mother of Isaura and Imogen, older than Magadin. She is a widow with vast lands and married Magadin’s father the Baron. Mother of Ismail. The belt of gold and jasper is hers. ''Steppes''
====Ismail====
King in ''Steppes''
====Itto====
The Twinned Star who plants the broken red plank. He dies on the mountaintop with Tomomo’s help. In the Underworld he has a child with Zmeya. "Sea" ''Storm''
====Khaigal====
(A Djinn? the Djinn priests). "Scald"
====The King====
(Usually means King Ismail) ''Steppes''
====King Indrajit====
Also the Raja Indrajit. He has the 144 boar-warriors, the Vahaarasind. He abducted/married Zmeya the Snake-Star. His throne is the Throne of Teeth and he wears a Tusk-Crown. His hall is the Hall of Voices. ''Steppes''
====Kashkash====
The first Djinn. He was in Shadukiam in its early days and ruled over the Djinn Quarter, a terrible ghetto. "Scald"
====Kindling-King====
One of the three Kings of the Djinn. "Scald"
====King Ismail====
Leander’s father. Son of the Baron. King of the Eight Kingdoms and Steward of the Eastlands, Autokrator of the Unified Tribes, Lord of the Thousand Caves. ''Steppes''
====The Kappa====
Turtles with water on the tops of their heads. Gardeners and plant breeders. They invented the Upas, the Ixora, and the roses used for the Rose Dome of Shadukiam.
====Knife====
Also known as the Witch, and Helia. She is from the steppes. Her face is tattooed and scarred. Her sisters were Quiver and Sheath. She was dark, with dark hair before it went grey. ''Steppes''
====Kostya====
Kostya of Vareni-side, from Ajanabh. He buys the Firebird’s feather from the Wizard Omir. "Scald"
====Lantern====
See the Firebird. ''Steppes'' "Scald"
====Laakea====
The Harpoon-Star ''Steppes''
====Leander====
The Prince. He is named after the wild lions of the steppes. Son of Ismail and Helia. Leander of the Eight Kingdoms. He becomes the Maimed King. In later years he goes to Al-a-Nur to live int he Tower of Patricides. ''Steppes''
====The Leucrotta====
The Heron or Marsh-King calls him Beast. He was once rescued by the Witch of the Glen, Knife. He brings Magadin to the village of Muireann. ''Steppes''
====Liulfr====
The Wolf-Star. She is in the Wolf-Cave of the steppes next to the cave of the seven sleepers, the golden wolf of 3 wolves, the others white and black. ''Steppes''
====Lo Shen====
The river goddess of Al-a-Nur. The game is named after her. ''Sea''
====Lock====
The goldfish river-pilot. She leaps over the dam and turns into a maiden, then sheds her skin to become a green dragon. She leaves her child with a man of Ajanabh. (A Duke?) "Scald"
====Maciej====
The Hungry Lord, married to Malgorzata. Eaten by Golod. ''Storm''
====Magadin====
The Beast-girl. She has been metamorphosed by the Wizard Omir to have claws, hooves, webs, fur, fins, and tails. ''Steppes''
====Malgorzata====
Wife of the Hungry Lord. She sacrifices her body parts until she is entirely made of wood and wicker. Her many and distant relatives lay their own lands waste to send food for Maciej. ''Storm''
====The Man Dressed in the Moon====
A Yi, or Hsieh. He bought the boy who became the Necromancer Marsili. He might be Idyll (or Idyll might be the other Yi killed by Jin the Griffin. Or these might be the heretic Hsieh which Idyll refers to.) ''Sea''
====The Manikarnika====
Seven sisters, Stone-Stars. The Pleiades. They changed to women. Jade, Granite, Opal, Garnet, Shale, Iron, and Diamond. They tried to live in the world of men. No one would take them in until the tents of the steppes when a girl with a new baby took them in. The King’s soldiers killed them in the night, with their light pouring into the girl and her baby. ''Steppes''
====The Mare====
The Mare is the night. The Stars were born from the light that’s her blood that seeped through holes she chewed in herself. She gave birth to the world, and people and things and animals and more Stars were her afterbirth. ''Steppes''
====Marsili====
Formerly son of a Sultan, his body was taken by the Man Dressed in the Moon and then by the boy who became the Necromancer. Lover of the Man Dressed in the Moon. ''Sea''
====Mesinyane====
The pig-tamer, a golden-eyed pygmy, who meets Taglio and Immacolata in Vstreycha. Her pig is her father, Femi. She was born in Varaahasind. As a girl, she sees the Harpoon-Star walking away from the city bearing his dead sister, the Snake-Star or Zmeya. She follows the stars. ''Storm''
====The Midwife====
See Aerie. ''Storm''
====The Moon====
She was battered by the wind created when the Stars left for Earth. Her children peeled from her are the Hsien. ''Storm''
====The Moth====
See Fahad. ''Storm''
====The Mourner====
See Wept. ''Storm''
====Nevinost====
The unicorn. Her horn is taken by the poisoner boy, Bryony. She eats Oubilette’s hair. ''Storm''
====Omir====
See The Wizard Omir. ''Steppes''
====Orange as the Sun====
A Hoopoe, mother to many chicks, killed by the Mourner. The Mourner is at the cave composing a lament for the corpse of Tomomo.
====Orfea====
Twin in looks to the Duchess Ulissa of Ajanabh. Daughter to a seamstress. She switches places with Ulisea, wears a dress made of weasel skins, and befriends the Basilisk. "Scald"
====Ostraya====
The Princess of Glass, from the Kingdom of Glass. The Ghost-Librarian and breeder of lizards, practicer of lizard-calculus. ''Storm''
====The Other Prince====
He was sent to kill the Leucrotta (and to rescue his sister, 50 years before Leander). ''Steppes''
====Oubliette====
The huldra of “The Tale of the Twelve Coins” and “The Tale of the Crossing”. Her parents give her a golden ball. She is imprisoned in a house made of sod & tied by her hair, by the Hedgehog Ciriaco. Her hair is shorn by the unicorn Nevinost, who frees her. She takes the silver leaf that is the soul of the girl made of tea to Zmeya in the underworld. She finds the underworld by threatening the almond tree that is her grandfather. ''Storm''
====The Papess====
Leader of Al-a-Nur, always a woman. ''Sea''
====The Pra-Ita====
Hideous monsters with long bony necks and swollen heads and bellies which are enormous jewels. They are the citizens of Shadukiam, eaten and transformed by the monster Golod. ''Storm''
====The Poisoner====
See Bryony. ''Storm''
====The Prince====
See Leander. ''Steppes''
====Quiver====
Knife’s oldest sister. ''Steppes''
====Quri====
A griffin, Jin’s sister. "Sea"
====Rend====
A talking leopard, companion of Ruin, travelling to Urim through the Waste. "Scald"
====Ragnhild====
The Black Papess, or False Papess. In her first incarnation she was a lover of a Caliph who sent her to become Papess. She was killed by Cveti and her army, her tongue and breasts cut away, and manacled to the ground with golden chains. She was reincarnated by a Yi or Hsieh who she then killed. In her second incarnation she wore golden chains dangling from her wrists. ''Sea''
====Ravhi====
The new gardener, seed of Ravhija. ''Steppes''
====Ravhija====
The gardener and pumpkin-tree girl who meets the Firebird, Lantern, steals a feather from him, and who is threatened and then destroyed by the Wizard Omir after he was rid of his iron collar. ''Steppes''
====The Rooster-Maker====
An inventor from Muireann. Folio’s father. "Scald"
====Ruin====
A woman accompanied by the leopard Rend. She is from Ajanabh and has a skin wasting disease. "Scald"
====The Satyr====
A girl of the woods - who marries a Selkie. Her name is Eshkol, and after the Selkie leaves her, she joins the sailors of the Maidenhead. Sea

====Scald====
A Djinn. She was one of the three Queens of Kash, the Ember-Queen. She was born from the smoke of Zmeya’s fire touching Sorrow’s eyelids. "Scald"
====The Selkie====
His name is Shroud, and he marries the Satyr Eshkol. (Story told in Taglio’s tale in the Book of the Scald, and in the Tale of the Skin in the Book of the Sea.) He also rescues Galien in the Book of the Scald. Scald, Sea.

====Seven====
The farmer’s boy, seventh son of a seventh son, who ended up in Marrow and who, in the main frame story of ''Storm'', “The Tale of the Crossing”, travels to the underworld to find his friend Oubliette. He has one arm. ''Storm''

====The Seven Sleepers====
The Seven Sisters. See the Manikarnika. ''Steppes''
====Sheath====
Knife’s older sister. ''Steppes''
====Simeon====
The Giant who stayed in Ajanabh; the gate-giant. "Scald"
====The Skin-Peddler====

====The Snake-Star====
Zmeya. Concubine of King Indrajit. ''Steppes''
====Snow====
Orphan from Ajanabh. Her family emigrates to Muireann. Her hair turns grey when they die. She is befriended by Sigrid the Net-weaver. She also appears as a small child in The Tale of the Giant Who Stayed. ''Sea'' "Scald"
====Sigrid the Netweaver====
St. Sigrid of the Ways. She befriends Snow. She was formerly the polar bear Ulla, who loved and was loved by Eyvind.
====St. Sigrid of the Nest====
The original St. Sigrid. ''Sea''
====Sigrid (the doorkeeper)====
The doorkeeper at the tower in Al-a-Nur, who tells stories to Sigrid the Netweaver. ''Sea''
====The Sirens====
Three bird-women in the highest tower of Ajanabh. Their names are Chadir, Ashni, and Nyd. "Scald"
====Sleeve====
The recluse or Bell Spider, who works for Kostya and lives in the Bell Tower of Ajanabh. Her 8 legs are partly severed and replaced with needles. She was captured as an infant by the poisoner Bryony. "Scald"
====The Sorella====
Pangiota, (look up the other names) ''Steppes''
====Sorrell====
Centaur King of the Eight Kingdoms. He ruled the Palace between the white and black rivers, served by the Wizard Omir, before Ismail killed him. ''Steppes''
====Solace====
Raised by the Firebird, Lantern, as his daughter in the ruined Bell Tower of Ajanabh. She is told by Aerie that she’s Zmeya’s daughter. "Scald"
====Sorrow====
Zmeya’s daughter born in the underworld. She is the girl in the garden. Aerie watches over her and gave her her knife. Hat tip to Tess of the D’Urbervilles. -Storm- "Scald"
====The Stars====
There are stars who are the holes full of light in the Mare’s side, who scorch wherever they walk; and other stars who don’t and who were born from the Mare as actual children. ''Steppes''
====Suhail====
A Djinn from Kash. Agarfena’s grandfather. Married Glaucia. "Scald"
====The Sultan====
Dinarzad and the boy’s father. ''Sea''
====Another Sultan====
The one marrying Dinarzad. ''Storm''
====Taglio====
A Gaselli, with gazelle-hooves. He dresses in green. The Gaselli lure humans to their doom and drink their blood and perhaps eat them. Taglio castrated himself out of devotion to the Heifer-Star. He travels pulling a caravan with Grotteschi. He worked as a eunuch in the harem of King Indrajit and meets Zmeya and the woman made of tea, there. Oubilette and Seven travel with him. He’s looking for the entrance to the Underworld so he can bring Immacolata’s leaf to Zmeya. ''Storm''
====Thurayya====
Teacher of Grandmother Bent-Bow. (Thurayya = Pleiades in Arabic) ''Steppes''
====Tinder-Queen====
One of the three queens of the Djinn. "Scald"
====Ulissa====
The Duchess of Ajanabh, daughter of the Duke. She trades places with Orfea and becomes an actress. She has blond hair and blue eyes. "Scald"
====The Unicorn====
See Nevinost. ''Storm''
====Vachya====
The Lamia. She is three-breasted and blue, sings beautifully, and her grandmother is a sea-serpent lamia who discovers that drinking human blood gets her pregnant. Vachya eats the woman made of music and coughs up golden coins. "Scald"
====The Varaahasind====
The Teeth of the Boar. The 144 warriors of King Indrajit. They feast on the corpse of Zmeya and are destroyed by her. Their bodies vanish each into a single tooth (Boar’s teeth) ''Steppes''
====Vhummin====
Vhummin of Marrow, third daughter of Orris, formerly of Shadukiam. She worked in the Asaad, the Great Market. She was eaten by the monster Golod and became one of the Pra-Ita, and a foreman of the Mint after the ruin of Shadukiam, telling her tale to Seven and Oubilette. ''Storm''
====Weasel====
Enemy of the serpent and Basilisk. ''Scald''

====Wept====
A harpy. She guards the cave entrance to the Underworld and exacts a price from Oubilette and Seven. She wears a hoopoe’s beak. ''Storm''
====Widow====
The Soldier. A farmer girl. Her two older brothers go off to become mercenaries in war, and later she follows them. Her lungs and skin are destroyed by chemical weapons. She is stationed in the Kingdom of the Hedgehogs, and turns the hedgehogs into metal balls. ''Storm''
====The Witch====
See [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]. ''Steppes''

====The Witch of the Glen====
See [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]. ''Steppes''

====The Wizard====
See the Wizard Omir ''Steppes''
====The Wizard Omir====
The conjuror. Omir Doulios. Son of carrot farmers. The boy who found Death. A tall man with grey dreadlocks and an iron collar, and blue and brown robes. After he is rid of his collar at the death of King Indrajit he visits Ravhija and steals a Firebird feather; then his neck is pale, he wears red clothing, and controls a blue flame in his palm. Seeing the Harpoon-Star and the Snake-Star together obsessed him, as did metamorphosis. He kept the Firebird in an ivory cage, but sold him and his feather to a man in Ajanabh. He wore long red robes and had no collar when he came to the race of the Centaurs of the Eight Kingdom and bargained with Sorrel, becoming his doulios or slave and collared again. ''Steppes''
====The other Wizard====
King Indrajit’s wizard before Omir, a short man who calls himself Death to the young Omir. (Or am I confusing something?) ''Steppes''
====The Wolf-Star====
Liulfr. ''Steppes''
====Xide====
The Weaver in Ajanabh who teaches Sleeve. "Scald"
====Yashna====
Papess of Al-a-Nur when Ragnhild returned, in Sigrid’s youth. She is an older woman, with dark black skin. ''Sea''

====Yaya====
The Nursemaid of Prince Leander. ''Steppes''
====Yazo-who-was-born-at-the-bottom-of-winter====
A Kappa who was a great engineer of plants and who proved that tipping out the water of kappa skulls was a bad idea. Yoi’s friend.
====Yoi-who-was-born-in-the-evening====
A Kappa who bargained with Idyll, trading cucumbers for nearly-immortal roses. Yazo’s friend.
====Zmeya====
The Snake-Star. She is captured and married to King Indrajit, and has 14 sons and daughters, infant stars who die just before she dies. In the Underworld she gives birth to another child, child of Itto and of Immacolata’s leaf. ''Steppes'' ''Storm''

[[Category:Orphan's Tales]]

List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales

2008-07-30T07:10:32Z

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Note: This is still a draft. Do feel free to wikify the names. For comments or suggestions please use the discussion page... --[[User:Liz Henry|Liz Henry]] 10:14, 30 December 2007 (PST)

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====Aerie====
The goose girl. [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]’s daughter and first child. Born in the Palace prison. Changed to a wild goose by Grandmother [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Bent-Bow|Bent-Bow]]. Fostered by the [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Firebird|Firebird]]. She is the last in the line of women descended from the woman who helped the [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Manikarnika|Manikarnika]]. She rescues her mother from the fire with her flock. She goes on a Quest to find the threads of her mother’s tale. A black mare leads her to the Cave where she meets [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Laakea|Laakea]]. In the Underworld, she is midwife to [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Zmeya|Zmeya]]’s child. ''Steppes'' ''Storm''

====Agarfena====
The Violinist of Ajanabh. She is 1/4 Djinn. "Scald"
====Almond-tree ====
Born from [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Aukon|Aukon]]’s severed testicles; he rapes [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Oubilette|Oubilette]]’s mother. ''Storm''

====Amilcar====
The fisherman on the Vareni. He made the woman made of music, and attracted the Lamia [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Vachya|Vachya]]. He became the first Duke of Ajanabh. "Scald"

====The Anchorite.====
See [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Giota|Giota]].

====Arioso====
The jackal-headed tenor of the Ajanabh Opera. "Scald"
====Ash-Queen====
One of the three queens of the Djinn. [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Kohinoor|Kohinoor]]. "Scald"

====Aukon, the Bull-Star====
[[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Oubliette|Oubliette]]’s father. ''Storm''

====Aukai, the Heifer-Star====
[[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Aukon|Aukon]]’s sister. ''Storm''

====Bagdemus====
The red-gold dog-headed monk, or Cynocephaloi, from Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
====Bags====
See Bagdemus. ''Sea''
====Balthazar. ====
The black-and-brown dog-headed monk, or Cynocephaloi, from Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
====Barnabas. ====
The black dog-headed monk, or Cynocephaloi, from Al-a-Nur. Killed by Ragnhild and his brothers. ''Sea''
====The Baron of Baqarah====
[[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Ismail|Ismail]]’s father and [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Magadin|Magadin]]’s, and [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Iolanthe|Iolanthe]]’s husband. ''Steppes''

====Bartholomew====
The white dog-headed monk, or Cynocephaloi, from Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
====The Basilisk====
His tongue was stolen by three snake [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Handmaidens|handmaidens]] of the Snake-Star. He wears an iron mitre. In the Tale of Two Duchesses he befriends [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Orfea|Orfea]]. He is from a serpent’s egg hatched by a hen. ''Steppes'' "Scald"

====The Bee-Star====
He named the Wolf-Star [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Liulfr|Liulfr]]. ''Steppes''

====Bent-Bow====
Grandmother of [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]. She had red hair before it was grey. She was sent to a neighboring village to be taught by their witch-woman, [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Thurayya|Thurayya]]. She gives her starlight blood to [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Aerie|Aerie]]. ''Steppes''
====The Black Papess====
Apostate or false [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Papess|Papess]] installed by the Caliphate in Shadukiam. [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Ragnhild|Ragnhild]]. ''Sea''

====The Boy====
[[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#The girl|The girl]] in the garden tells him stories in the first three books, and in the fourth he reads from her eyelids. He has blond hair. He's the heir to the Sultan's throne and is [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Dinarzad|Dinarzad]]'s younger brother. ''Steppes''

====The Bridle-Star====
Mentioned by [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]. ''Steppes''

====Bryony====
The Poisoner. A boy raised on poison. Twigs sprout from his skin, from all the poisons he has eaten. He watches the poisoning of [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Hind|Hind]] and [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Hadil|Hadil]], the princesses of Amberabad. He cuts off the Unicorn [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Nevinost|Nevinost]]’s horn to make his poisoner’s cup. His parents live in a house on stilts. ''Storm''

====Caliphs====
I have not yet untangled the bits of history about the Caliphates.
=====The First Caliph=====
His hoofprint is referred to. (Maybe a centaur?) Declared the autonomy of Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
=====The Second Caliph=====
During their reign, Al-a-Nur was founded. I think it’s this Caliph who sent [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Ragnhild|Ragnhild]] to be the False Papess and who was at war with the Southern Kingdoms. ''Sea''
=====The Third Caliph=====
=====The Fourth Caliph=====
Current when [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Sigrid of the Ways|Sigrid of the Ways]] (or [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Ulla|Ulla]]) was young. ''Sea''
====The Cinnamon-Star====
Mentioned in The Book of the Scald. "Scald"
====Chayim====
A Monopod from Shadukiam. His wife [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Tova|Tova]] was killed by a Yi necromancer. Chayim and Jin the Griffin go searching for Quri. "Sea"
====Ciriaco, the Hedgehog====
He is turned to a golden ball by Widow, the Soldier. ''Storm''
====The Commander of the Varaahasind====
He beheaded Zmeya. ''Steppes''
====Cook====
The Cook of the Sultan’s Palace, where the boy is sent to work by Dinarzad.
====The Cynocephaloi====
Dog-heads. Three of them come to Sigrid’s home in the north when she is a girl. White (Balthazar), Black and brown(Bartholomew), and red-gold (Bagdemus, or Bags)
====Cveti====
Presbyter of the Tower of Hermaphrodites who becomes the Papess. She takes the name Ghyfran II.
====Dapple====
A Centaur, who raced with Sorrell for the rule of the Eight Kingdoms. ''Steppes''
====Diamond====
One of the Manikarna, the Stone-Stars. She meets Zmeya in the Underworld. ''Storm''
====Dinarzad====
Oldest daughter of the Sultan, and the boy’s sister. She is beaten if the children of the harem escape from the nursery. She is going to be married to a prince who brings her clockwork peacocks. (Her other suitor brought golden clockwork roosters (see Folio). She gives a red fur cloak and a clockwork peacock to the girl. ''Steppes'' ''Sea''
====The Duke’s Son of the Eastern Duchies====
Who tried to kill the Leucrotta. Sent by his father, who wants the Leucrotta skin for assassinating. He was also sent to rescue a maiden in a tower imprisoned by the Wizard Omir. He was rumored to have killed a monarch in some other part of the world. (This is probably someone from Ajanabh.) ''Steppes''
====The Ember-Queen====
One of the three queens of the Djinn. Scald becomes the Ember-Queen. "Scald"
====Ethelred, the Mathematician-King====
Ancestor of the Other Prince. ''Steppes''
====Eyvind====
Bartender and polar bear. He is bartender of the Arm and Trout, a tavern in Muireann. The Marsh King changes him into a man until the Virgin is devoured, the sea turns to gold, and the saints migrate west on the wings of henless eggs. ''Steppes''
====Fahad====
A moth from Varaahasind. He comes to Zmeya and tells her of the Birds’ Tears. ''Storm''
====The Firebird====
Named Lantern. He is a Zhar-Ptitza. He adopts Aerie for two years when she is a gosling. He met Zhajiva in her garden. ''Steppes''
====Flint and Steel, King of the====
One of the three Kings of the Djinn. "Scald"
====Folio====
An inventor and surgeon. She is a brown-skinned, very old woman with hundreds of tiny braids. She is the Rooster-Maker’s daughter, from Muireann. Folio’s mother is a poet. "Scald"
====The Fox-Star====
He is in the cave when Grandmother Bent-Bow sees the Mare and the Wolf-Star. He appears laughing when she later is killed by the Wizard Omir. ''Steppes''
====Galien====
The Navigator with the compass in her belly, installed by Folio, who meets the Sirens. "Scald"
====Giota====
The Anchorite. The Sorella. Pangiota,
====The Girl====
She lives in the Palace Garden. See Sorrow. ''Steppes''
====The golden ball====
Ciriaco, the Hedgehog.
====The glass princess====
See Ostraya.
====Glaucia====
Agarfena’s human grandmother. She had red hair and green eyes. "Scald"
====Golod====
A monster made of teeth and the lord Maciej’s hunger. He eats Shadukiam. ''Storm''
====The Gosling====
See Aerie. ''Steppes''
====The governor of Shadukiam====
He orders Idyll killed. ''Storm''
====Grandmother====
See Bent-Bow. ''Steppes''
====Grass-Stars====
The Grass-Star who fell from the sky and was called Li and was imprisoned in a box in Ajanabh. "Scald"
====Grotteschi the Red====
Born from an Upas tree in the desert. The Sun is her father. A Manticore captured and put into the zoo of Hadil, princess of Amerabad. Hind rescues her and eventually sets her free. They travel together with Taglio. ''Storm''
====Gunde====
Fiercest of the polar bears of the Bear Congress. ''Steppes''
====Ghyfran====
A Papess of Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
====Ghyfran II====
Papess of Al-a-Nur who was Cveti of the Hermaphrodite Tower. 17th Papess. She sent the tongue and breasts of Ragnhild to the Caliphate in a silver box. ''Sea''
====Hadil====
The modest and devout princess of Amberabad, who eats plain bread and prays all day and keeps a zoo. Hind’s sister. She is poisoned so that frogs fall from her lips when she speaks. ''Storm''
====Handmaidens of the Snake-Star====
Three of them met Laakea in the Tinderbox desert. One of them kicks over the pile of Ixora pits, which go up in flames. ''Steppes''
====The Harpoon-Star. Laakea====
Smells of scorched bread and copper filings. He went looking for a Firebird as a present for the Snake-Star, so was haresting the fruits of the Ixora or Torch-Trees of the desrt. He gathers them, scatters them, then gathers them again and uses them to feed the Handmaidens, piling up the pits. Then he goes to the court of King Indrajit, bearing away the body of his sister Zmeya. ''Steppes''
====Hearth-King====
One of the three Kings of the Djinn. Khaamil. "Scald"
====Helia. Alter ego of Knife. The Wizard Omir metamorphoses Knife into a beautiful princess with milk-white skin and yellow hair. The belt of gold and jasper fits her. ''Steppes''
====The Heron-Star====
The Marsh-King. He makes Eyvind into a man. ''Steppes''
====Hind====
The wicked princess of Amberabad, who eats cakes and reads naughty books and likes to be serenaded. She is poisoned, and pearls fall from her lips when she speaks. She befriends the Manticore and later leaves to travel with Taglio. She leaves to go back to Amberabad, but promises to meet Grotteschi again in Ajanabh. She appears in Xide’s workshop in The Dressmaker’s Tale. ''Storm'' "Scald"
====Hour====
The clockwork girl built by Folio. "Scald"
====Idyll====
The winged Ferryman of the underworld. He is a Hsieh, or Yi, peeled from (or dressed in) the Moon. He travelled to the land of the Kappas. He built the Rose Dome of Shadukiam, and was impaled on a diamond turret by the governor of Shadukiam. He cursed the city as he died. ''Storm''
====Immacolata====
The girl made of tea. Tea-maker and shoemaker. She was an odalisque of King Indrajit’s harem, serving Zmeya. She befriends Taglio in the harem. Her mother was Safiyya the shoemaker. Her father was Elpidios the tea-maker. She mourns terribly at the news of Zmeya’s death and is determined to give back the leaf soaked in starlight. ''Storm''
====Iolanthe====
Magadin’s stepmother. Mother of Isaura and Imogen, older than Magadin. She is a widow with vast lands and married Magadin’s father the Baron. Mother of Ismail. The belt of gold and jasper is hers. ''Steppes''
====Ismail====
King in ''Steppes''
====Itto====
The Twinned Star who plants the broken red plank. He dies on the mountaintop with Tomomo’s help. In the Underworld he has a child with Zmeya. "Sea" ''Storm''
====Khaigal====
(A Djinn? the Djinn priests). "Scald"
====The King====
(Usually means King Ismail) ''Steppes''
====King Indrajit====
Also the Raja Indrajit. He has the 144 boar-warriors, the Vahaarasind. He abducted/married Zmeya the Snake-Star. His throne is the Throne of Teeth and he wears a Tusk-Crown. His hall is the Hall of Voices. ''Steppes''
====Kashkash====
The first Djinn. He was in Shadukiam in its early days and ruled over the Djinn Quarter, a terrible ghetto. "Scald"
====Kindling-King====
One of the three Kings of the Djinn. "Scald"
====King Ismail====
Leander’s father. Son of the Baron. King of the Eight Kingdoms and Steward of the Eastlands, Autokrator of the Unified Tribes, Lord of the Thousand Caves. ''Steppes''
====The Kappa====
Turtles with water on the tops of their heads. Gardeners and plant breeders. They invented the Upas, the Ixora, and the roses used for the Rose Dome of Shadukiam.
====Knife====
Also known as the Witch, and Helia. She is from the steppes. Her face is tattooed and scarred. Her sisters were Quiver and Sheath. She was dark, with dark hair before it went grey. ''Steppes''
====Kostya====
Kostya of Vareni-side, from Ajanabh. He buys the Firebird’s feather from the Wizard Omir. "Scald"
====Lantern====
See the Firebird. ''Steppes'' "Scald"
====Laakea====
The Harpoon-Star ''Steppes''
====Leander====
The Prince. He is named after the wild lions of the steppes. Son of Ismail and Helia. Leander of the Eight Kingdoms. He becomes the Maimed King. In later years he goes to Al-a-Nur to live int he Tower of Patricides. ''Steppes''
====The Leucrotta====
The Heron or Marsh-King calls him Beast. He was once rescued by the Witch of the Glen, Knife. He brings Magadin to the village of Muireann. ''Steppes''
====Liulfr====
The Wolf-Star. She is in the Wolf-Cave of the steppes next to the cave of the seven sleepers, the golden wolf of 3 wolves, the others white and black. ''Steppes''
====Lo Shen====
The river goddess of Al-a-Nur. The game is named after her. ''Sea''
====Lock====
The goldfish river-pilot. She leaps over the dam and turns into a maiden, then sheds her skin to become a green dragon. She leaves her child with a man of Ajanabh. (A Duke?) "Scald"
====Maciej====
The Hungry Lord, married to Malgorzata. Eaten by Golod. ''Storm''
====Magadin====
The Beast-girl. She has been metamorphosed by the Wizard Omir to have claws, hooves, webs, fur, fins, and tails. ''Steppes''
====Malgorzata====
Wife of the Hungry Lord. She sacrifices her body parts until she is entirely made of wood and wicker. Her many and distant relatives lay their own lands waste to send food for Maciej. ''Storm''
====The Man Dressed in the Moon====
A Yi, or Hsieh. He bought the boy who became the Necromancer Marsili. He might be Idyll (or Idyll might be the other Yi killed by Jin the Griffin. Or these might be the heretic Hsieh which Idyll refers to.) ''Sea''
====The Manikarnika====
Seven sisters, Stone-Stars. The Pleiades. They changed to women. Jade, Granite, Opal, Garnet, Shale, Iron, and Diamond. They tried to live in the world of men. No one would take them in until the tents of the steppes when a girl with a new baby took them in. The King’s soldiers killed them in the night, with their light pouring into the girl and her baby. ''Steppes''
====The Mare====
The Mare is the night. The Stars were born from the light that’s her blood that seeped through holes she chewed in herself. She gave birth to the world, and people and things and animals and more Stars were her afterbirth. ''Steppes''
====Marsili====
Formerly son of a Sultan, his body was taken by the Man Dressed in the Moon and then by the boy who became the Necromancer. Lover of the Man Dressed in the Moon. ''Sea''
====Mesinyane====
The pig-tamer, a golden-eyed pygmy, who meets Taglio and Immacolata in Vstreycha. Her pig is her father, Femi. She was born in Varaahasind. As a girl, she sees the Harpoon-Star walking away from the city bearing his dead sister, the Snake-Star or Zmeya. She follows the stars. ''Storm''
====The Midwife====
See Aerie. ''Storm''
====The Moon====
She was battered by the wind created when the Stars left for Earth. Her children peeled from her are the Hsien. ''Storm''
====The Moth====
See Fahad. ''Storm''
====The Mourner====
See Wept. ''Storm''
====Nevinost====
The unicorn. Her horn is taken by the poisoner boy, Bryony. She eats Oubilette’s hair. ''Storm''
====Omir====
See The Wizard Omir. ''Steppes''
====Orange as the Sun====
A Hoopoe, mother to many chicks, killed by the Mourner. The Mourner is at the cave composing a lament for the corpse of Tomomo.
====Orfea====
Twin in looks to the Duchess Ulissa of Ajanabh. Daughter to a seamstress. She switches places with Ulisea, wears a dress made of weasel skins, and befriends the Basilisk. "Scald"
====Ostraya====
The Princess of Glass, from the Kingdom of Glass. The Ghost-Librarian and breeder of lizards, practicer of lizard-calculus. ''Storm''
====The Other Prince====
He was sent to kill the Leucrotta (and to rescue his sister, 50 years before Leander). ''Steppes''
====Oubliette====
The huldra of “The Tale of the Twelve Coins” and “The Tale of the Crossing”. Her parents give her a golden ball. She is imprisoned in a house made of sod & tied by her hair, by the Hedgehog Ciriaco. Her hair is shorn by the unicorn Nevinost, who frees her. She takes the silver leaf that is the soul of the girl made of tea to Zmeya in the underworld. She finds the underworld by threatening the almond tree that is her grandfather. ''Storm''
====The Papess====
Leader of Al-a-Nur, always a woman. ''Sea''
====The Pra-Ita====
Hideous monsters with long bony necks and swollen heads and bellies which are enormous jewels. They are the citizens of Shadukiam, eaten and transformed by the monster Golod. ''Storm''
====The Poisoner====
See Bryony. ''Storm''
====The Prince====
See Leander. ''Steppes''
====Quiver====
Knife’s oldest sister. ''Steppes''
====Quri====
A griffin, Jin’s sister. "Sea"
====Rend====
A talking leopard, companion of Ruin, travelling to Urim through the Waste. "Scald"
====Ragnhild====
The Black Papess, or False Papess. In her first incarnation she was a lover of a Caliph who sent her to become Papess. She was killed by Cveti and her army, her tongue and breasts cut away, and manacled to the ground with golden chains. She was reincarnated by a Yi or Hsieh who she then killed. In her second incarnation she wore golden chains dangling from her wrists. ''Sea''
====Ravhi====
The new gardener, seed of Ravhija. ''Steppes''
====Ravhija====
The gardener and pumpkin-tree girl who meets the Firebird, Lantern, steals a feather from him, and who is threatened and then destroyed by the Wizard Omir after he was rid of his iron collar. ''Steppes''
====The Rooster-Maker====
An inventor from Muireann. Folio’s father. "Scald"
====Ruin====
A woman accompanied by the leopard Rend. She is from Ajanabh and has a skin wasting disease. "Scald"
====The Satyr====
A girl of the woods - who marries a Selkie. Her name is Eshkol, and after the Selkie leaves her, she joins the sailors of the Maidenhead. Sea

====Scald====
A Djinn. She was one of the three Queens of Kash, the Ember-Queen. She was born from the smoke of Zmeya’s fire touching Sorrow’s eyelids. "Scald"
====The Selkie====
He marries the Satyr. (story told in Taglio’s tale..) He also rescues Galien in the Book of the Scald. "Scald"
====Seven====
The farmer’s boy, seventh son of a seventh son, who ended up in Marrow and who, in the main frame story of ''Storm'', “The Tale of the Crossing”, travels to the underworld to find his friend Oubliette. He has one arm. ''Storm''

====The Seven Sleepers====
The Seven Sisters. See the Manikarnika. ''Steppes''
====Sheath====
Knife’s older sister. ''Steppes''
====Simeon====
The Giant who stayed in Ajanabh; the gate-giant. "Scald"
====The Skin-Peddler====

====The Snake-Star====
Zmeya. Concubine of King Indrajit. ''Steppes''
====Snow====
Orphan from Ajanabh. Her family emigrates to Muireann. Her hair turns grey when they die. She is befriended by Sigrid the Net-weaver. She also appears as a small child in The Tale of the Giant Who Stayed. ''Sea'' "Scald"
====Sigrid the Netweaver====
St. Sigrid of the Ways. She befriends Snow. She was formerly the polar bear Ulla, who loved and was loved by Eyvind.
====St. Sigrid of the Nest====
The original St. Sigrid. ''Sea''
====Sigrid (the doorkeeper)====
The doorkeeper at the tower in Al-a-Nur, who tells stories to Sigrid the Netweaver. ''Sea''
====The Sirens====
Three bird-women in the highest tower of Ajanabh. Their names are Chadir, Ashni, and Nyd. "Scald"
====Sleeve====
The recluse or Bell Spider, who works for Kostya and lives in the Bell Tower of Ajanabh. Her 8 legs are partly severed and replaced with needles. She was captured as an infant by the poisoner Bryony. "Scald"
====The Sorella====
Pangiota, (look up the other names) ''Steppes''
====Sorrell====
Centaur King of the Eight Kingdoms. He ruled the Palace between the white and black rivers, served by the Wizard Omir, before Ismail killed him. ''Steppes''
====Solace====
Raised by the Firebird, Lantern, as his daughter in the ruined Bell Tower of Ajanabh. She is told by Aerie that she’s Zmeya’s daughter. "Scald"
====Sorrow====
Zmeya’s daughter born in the underworld. She is the girl in the garden. Aerie watches over her and gave her her knife. Hat tip to Tess of the D’Urbervilles. -Storm- "Scald"
====The Stars====
There are stars who are the holes full of light in the Mare’s side, who scorch wherever they walk; and other stars who don’t and who were born from the Mare as actual children. ''Steppes''
====Suhail====
A Djinn from Kash. Agarfena’s grandfather. Married Glaucia. "Scald"
====The Sultan====
Dinarzad and the boy’s father. ''Sea''
====Another Sultan====
The one marrying Dinarzad. ''Storm''
====Taglio====
A Gaselli, with gazelle-hooves. He dresses in green. The Gaselli lure humans to their doom and drink their blood and perhaps eat them. Taglio castrated himself out of devotion to the Heifer-Star. He travels pulling a caravan with Grotteschi. He worked as a eunuch in the harem of King Indrajit and meets Zmeya and the woman made of tea, there. Oubilette and Seven travel with him. He’s looking for the entrance to the Underworld so he can bring Immacolata’s leaf to Zmeya. ''Storm''
====Thurayya====
Teacher of Grandmother Bent-Bow. (Thurayya = Pleiades in Arabic) ''Steppes''
====Tinder-Queen====
One of the three queens of the Djinn. "Scald"
====Ulissa====
The Duchess of Ajanabh, daughter of the Duke. She trades places with Orfea and becomes an actress. She has blond hair and blue eyes. "Scald"
====The Unicorn====
See Nevinost. ''Storm''
====Vachya====
The Lamia. She is three-breasted and blue, sings beautifully, and her grandmother is a sea-serpent lamia who discovers that drinking human blood gets her pregnant. Vachya eats the woman made of music and coughs up golden coins. "Scald"
====The Varaahasind====
The Teeth of the Boar. The 144 warriors of King Indrajit. They feast on the corpse of Zmeya and are destroyed by her. Their bodies vanish each into a single tooth (Boar’s teeth) ''Steppes''
====Vhummin====
Vhummin of Marrow, third daughter of Orris, formerly of Shadukiam. She worked in the Asaad, the Great Market. She was eaten by the monster Golod and became one of the Pra-Ita, and a foreman of the Mint after the ruin of Shadukiam, telling her tale to Seven and Oubilette. ''Storm''
====Weasel====
Enemy of the serpent and Basilisk. ''Scald''

====Wept====
A harpy. She guards the cave entrance to the Underworld and exacts a price from Oubilette and Seven. She wears a hoopoe’s beak. ''Storm''
====Widow====
The Soldier. A farmer girl. Her two older brothers go off to become mercenaries in war, and later she follows them. Her lungs and skin are destroyed by chemical weapons. She is stationed in the Kingdom of the Hedgehogs, and turns the hedgehogs into metal balls. ''Storm''
====The Witch====
See [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]. ''Steppes''

====The Witch of the Glen====
See [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]. ''Steppes''

====The Wizard====
See the Wizard Omir ''Steppes''
====The Wizard Omir====
The conjuror. Omir Doulios. Son of carrot farmers. The boy who found Death. A tall man with grey dreadlocks and an iron collar, and blue and brown robes. After he is rid of his collar at the death of King Indrajit he visits Ravhija and steals a Firebird feather; then his neck is pale, he wears red clothing, and controls a blue flame in his palm. Seeing the Harpoon-Star and the Snake-Star together obsessed him, as did metamorphosis. He kept the Firebird in an ivory cage, but sold him and his feather to a man in Ajanabh. He wore long red robes and had no collar when he came to the race of the Centaurs of the Eight Kingdom and bargained with Sorrel, becoming his doulios or slave and collared again. ''Steppes''
====The other Wizard====
King Indrajit’s wizard before Omir, a short man who calls himself Death to the young Omir. (Or am I confusing something?) ''Steppes''
====The Wolf-Star====
Liulfr. ''Steppes''
====Xide====
The Weaver in Ajanabh who teaches Sleeve. "Scald"
====Yashna====
Papess of Al-a-Nur when Ragnhild returned, in Sigrid’s youth. She is an older woman, with dark black skin. ''Sea''

====Yaya====
The Nursemaid of Prince Leander. ''Steppes''
====Yazo-who-was-born-at-the-bottom-of-winter====
A Kappa who was a great engineer of plants and who proved that tipping out the water of kappa skulls was a bad idea. Yoi’s friend.
====Yoi-who-was-born-in-the-evening====
A Kappa who bargained with Idyll, trading cucumbers for nearly-immortal roses. Yazo’s friend.
====Zmeya====
The Snake-Star. She is captured and married to King Indrajit, and has 14 sons and daughters, infant stars who die just before she dies. In the Underworld she gives birth to another child, child of Itto and of Immacolata’s leaf. ''Steppes'' ''Storm''

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List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales

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====Aerie====
The goose girl. [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]’s daughter and first child. Born in the Palace prison. Changed to a wild goose by Grandmother [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Bent-Bow|Bent-Bow]]. Fostered by the [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Firebird|Firebird]]. She is the last in the line of women descended from the woman who helped the [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Manikarnika|Manikarnika]]. She rescues her mother from the fire with her flock. She goes on a Quest to find the threads of her mother’s tale. A black mare leads her to the Cave where she meets [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Laakea|Laakea]]. In the Underworld, she is midwife to [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Zmeya|Zmeya]]’s child. ''Steppes'' ''Storm''

====Agarfena====
The Violinist of Ajanabh. She is 1/4 Djinn. "Scald"
====Almond-tree ====
Born from [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Aukon|Aukon]]’s severed testicles; he rapes [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Oubilette|Oubilette]]’s mother. ''Storm''

====Amilcar====
The fisherman on the Vareni. He made the woman made of music, and attracted the Lamia [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Vachya|Vachya]]. He became the first Duke of Ajanabh. "Scald"

====The Anchorite.====
See [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Giota|Giota]].

====Arioso====
The jackal-headed tenor of the Ajanabh Opera. "Scald"
====Ash-Queen====
One of the three queens of the Djinn. [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Kohinoor|Kohinoor]]. "Scald"

====Aukon, the Bull-Star====
[[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Oubliette|Oubliette]]’s father. ''Storm''

====Aukai, the Heifer-Star====
[[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Aukon|Aukon]]’s sister. ''Storm''

====Bagdemus====
The red-gold dog-headed monk, or Cynocephaloi, from Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
====Bags====
See Bagdemus. ''Sea''
====Balthazar. ====
The black-and-brown dog-headed monk, or Cynocephaloi, from Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
====Barnabas. ====
The black dog-headed monk, or Cynocephaloi, from Al-a-Nur. Killed by Ragnhild and his brothers. ''Sea''
====The Baron of Baqarah====
[[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Ismail|Ismail]]’s father and [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Magadin|Magadin]]’s, and [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Iolanthe|Iolanthe]]’s husband. ''Steppes''

====Bartholomew====
The white dog-headed monk, or Cynocephaloi, from Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
====The Basilisk====
His tongue was stolen by three snake [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Handmaidens|handmaidens]] of the Snake-Star. He wears an iron mitre. In the Tale of Two Duchesses he befriends [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Orfea|Orfea]]. He is from a serpent’s egg hatched by a hen. ''Steppes'' "Scald"

====The Bee-Star====
He named the Wolf-Star [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Liulfr|Liulfr]]. ''Steppes''

====Bent-Bow====
Grandmother of [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]. She had red hair before it was grey. She was sent to a neighboring village to be taught by their witch-woman, [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Thurayya|Thurayya]]. She gives her starlight blood to [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Aerie|Aerie]]. ''Steppes''
====The Black Papess====
Apostate or false [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Papess|Papess]] installed by the Caliphate in Shadukiam. [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Ragnhild|Ragnhild]]. ''Sea''

====The Boy====
[[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#The girl|The girl]] in the garden tells him stories in the first three books, and in the fourth he reads from her eyelids. He has blond hair. He's the heir to the Sultan's throne and is [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Dinarzad|Dinarzad]]'s younger brother. ''Steppes''

====The Bridle-Star====
Mentioned by [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]. ''Steppes''

====Bryony====
The Poisoner. A boy raised on poison. Twigs sprout from his skin, from all the poisons he has eaten. He watches the poisoning of [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Hind|Hind]] and [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Hadil|Hadil]], the princesses of Amberabad. He cuts off the Unicorn [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Nevinost|Nevinost]]’s horn to make his poisoner’s cup. His parents live in a house on stilts. ''Storm''

====Caliphs====
I have not yet untangled the bits of history about the Caliphates.
=====The First Caliph=====
His hoofprint is referred to. (Maybe a centaur?) Declared the autonomy of Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
=====The Second Caliph=====
During their reign, Al-a-Nur was founded. I think it’s this Caliph who sent [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Ragnhild|Ragnhild]] to be the False Papess and who was at war with the Southern Kingdoms. ''Sea''
=====The Third Caliph=====
=====The Fourth Caliph=====
Current when [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Sigrid of the Ways|Sigrid of the Ways]] (or [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Ulla|Ulla]]) was young. ''Sea''
====The Cinnamon-Star====
Mentioned in The Book of the Scald. "Scald"
====Chayim====
A Monopod from Shadukiam. His wife [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Tova|Tova]] was killed by a Yi necromancer. Chayim and Jin the Griffin go searching for Quri. "Sea"
====Ciriaco, the Hedgehog====
He is turned to a golden ball by Widow, the Soldier. ''Storm''
====The Commander of the Varaahasind====
He beheaded Zmeya. ''Steppes''
====Cook====
The Cook of the Sultan’s Palace, where the boy is sent to work by Dinarzad.
====The Cynocephaloi====
Dog-heads. Three of them come to Sigrid’s home in the north when she is a girl. White (Balthazar), Black and brown(Bartholomew), and red-gold (Bagdemus, or Bags)
====Cveti====
Presbyter of the Tower of Hermaphrodites who becomes the Papess. She takes the name Ghyfran II.
====Dapple====
A Centaur, who raced with Sorrell for the rule of the Eight Kingdoms. ''Steppes''
====Diamond====
One of the Manikarna, the Stone-Stars. She meets Zmeya in the Underworld. ''Storm''
====Dinarzad====
Oldest daughter of the Sultan, and the boy’s sister. She is beaten if the children of the harem escape from the nursery. She is going to be married to a prince who brings her clockwork peacocks. (Her other suitor brought golden clockwork roosters (see Folio). She gives a red fur cloak and a clockwork peacock to the girl. ''Steppes'' ''Sea''
====The Duke’s Son of the Eastern Duchies====
Who tried to kill the Leucrotta. Sent by his father, who wants the Leucrotta skin for assassinating. He was also sent to rescue a maiden in a tower imprisoned by the Wizard Omir. He was rumored to have killed a monarch in some other part of the world. (This is probably someone from Ajanabh.) ''Steppes''
====The Ember-Queen====
One of the three queens of the Djinn. Scald becomes the Ember-Queen. "Scald"
====Ethelred, the Mathematician-King====
Ancestor of the Other Prince. ''Steppes''
====Eyvind====
Bartender and polar bear. He is bartender of the Arm and Trout, a tavern in Muireann. The Marsh King changes him into a man until the Virgin is devoured, the sea turns to gold, and the saints migrate west on the wings of henless eggs. ''Steppes''
====Fahad====
A moth from Varaahasind. He comes to Zmeya and tells her of the Birds’ Tears. ''Storm''
====The Firebird====
Named Lantern. He is a Zhar-Ptitza. He adopts Aerie for two years when she is a gosling. He met Zhajiva in her garden. ''Steppes''
====Flint and Steel, King of the====
One of the three Kings of the Djinn. "Scald"
====Folio====
An inventor and surgeon. She is a brown-skinned, very old woman with hundreds of tiny braids. She is the Rooster-Maker’s daughter, from Muireann. Folio’s mother is a poet. "Scald"
====The Fox-Star====
He is in the cave when Grandmother Bent-Bow sees the Mare and the Wolf-Star. He appears laughing when she later is killed by the Wizard Omir. ''Steppes''
====Galien====
The Navigator with the compass in her belly, installed by Folio, who meets the Sirens. "Scald"
====Giota====
The Anchorite. The Sorella. Pangiota,
====The Girl====
She lives in the Palace Garden. See Sorrow. ''Steppes''
====The golden ball====
Ciriaco, the Hedgehog.
====The glass princess====
See Ostraya.
====Glaucia====
Agarfena’s human grandmother. She had red hair and green eyes. "Scald"
====Golod====
A monster made of teeth and the lord Maciej’s hunger. He eats Shadukiam. ''Storm''
====The Gosling====
See Aerie. ''Steppes''
====The governor of Shadukiam====
He orders Idyll killed. ''Storm''
====Grandmother====
See Bent-Bow. ''Steppes''
====Grass-Stars====
The Grass-Star who fell from the sky and was called Li and was imprisoned in a box in Ajanabh. "Scald"
====Grotteschi the Red====
Born from an Upas tree in the desert. The Sun is her father. A Manticore captured and put into the zoo of Hadil, princess of Amerabad. Hind rescues her and eventually sets her free. They travel together with Taglio. ''Storm''
====Gunde====
Fiercest of the polar bears of the Bear Congress. ''Steppes''
====Ghyfran====
A Papess of Al-a-Nur. ''Sea''
====Ghyfran II====
Papess of Al-a-Nur who was Cveti of the Hermaphrodite Tower. 17th Papess. She sent the tongue and breasts of Ragnhild to the Caliphate in a silver box. ''Sea''
====Hadil====
The modest and devout princess of Amberabad, who eats plain bread and prays all day and keeps a zoo. Hind’s sister. She is poisoned so that frogs fall from her lips when she speaks. ''Storm''
====Handmaidens of the Snake-Star====
Three of them met Laakea in the Tinderbox desert. One of them kicks over the pile of Ixora pits, which go up in flames. ''Steppes''
====The Harpoon-Star. Laakea====
Smells of scorched bread and copper filings. He went looking for a Firebird as a present for the Snake-Star, so was haresting the fruits of the Ixora or Torch-Trees of the desrt. He gathers them, scatters them, then gathers them again and uses them to feed the Handmaidens, piling up the pits. Then he goes to the court of King Indrajit, bearing away the body of his sister Zmeya. ''Steppes''
====Hearth-King====
One of the three Kings of the Djinn. Khaamil. "Scald"
====Helia. Alter ego of Knife. The Wizard Omir metamorphoses Knife into a beautiful princess with milk-white skin and yellow hair. The belt of gold and jasper fits her. ''Steppes''
====The Heron-Star====
The Marsh-King. He makes Eyvind into a man. ''Steppes''
====Hind====
The wicked princess of Amberabad, who eats cakes and reads naughty books and likes to be serenaded. She is poisoned, and pearls fall from her lips when she speaks. She befriends the Manticore and later leaves to travel with Taglio. She leaves to go back to Amberabad, but promises to meet Grotteschi again in Ajanabh. She appears in Xide’s workshop in The Dressmaker’s Tale. ''Storm'' "Scald"
====Hour====
The clockwork girl built by Folio. "Scald"
====Idyll====
The winged Ferryman of the underworld. He is a Hsieh, or Yi, peeled from (or dressed in) the Moon. He travelled to the land of the Kappas. He built the Rose Dome of Shadukiam, and was impaled on a diamond turret by the governor of Shadukiam. He cursed the city as he died. ''Storm''
====Immacolata====
The girl made of tea. Tea-maker and shoemaker. She was an odalisque of King Indrajit’s harem, serving Zmeya. She befriends Taglio in the harem. Her mother was Safiyya the shoemaker. Her father was Elpidios the tea-maker. She mourns terribly at the news of Zmeya’s death and is determined to give back the leaf soaked in starlight. ''Storm''
====Iolanthe====
Magadin’s stepmother. Mother of Isaura and Imogen, older than Magadin. She is a widow with vast lands and married Magadin’s father the Baron. Mother of Ismail. The belt of gold and jasper is hers. ''Steppes''
====Ismail====
King in ''Steppes''
====Itto====
The Twinned Star who plants the broken red plank. He dies on the mountaintop with Tomomo’s help. In the Underworld he has a child with Zmeya. "Sea" ''Storm''
====Khaigal====
(A Djinn? the Djinn priests). "Scald"
====The King====
(Usually means King Ismail) ''Steppes''
====King Indrajit====
Also the Raja Indrajit. He has the 144 boar-warriors, the Vahaarasind. He abducted/married Zmeya the Snake-Star. His throne is the Throne of Teeth and he wears a Tusk-Crown. His hall is the Hall of Voices. ''Steppes''
====Kashkash====
The first Djinn. He was in Shadukiam in its early days and ruled over the Djinn Quarter, a terrible ghetto. "Scald"
====Kindling-King====
One of the three Kings of the Djinn. "Scald"
====King Ismail====
Leander’s father. Son of the Baron. King of the Eight Kingdoms and Steward of the Eastlands, Autokrator of the Unified Tribes, Lord of the Thousand Caves. ''Steppes''
====The Kappa====
Turtles with water on the tops of their heads. Gardeners and plant breeders. They invented the Upas, the Ixora, and the roses used for the Rose Dome of Shadukiam.
====Knife====
Also known as the Witch, and Helia. She is from the steppes. Her face is tattooed and scarred. Her sisters were Quiver and Sheath. She was dark, with dark hair before it went grey. ''Steppes''
====Kostya====
Kostya of Vareni-side, from Ajanabh. He buys the Firebird’s feather from the Wizard Omir. "Scald"
====Lantern====
See the Firebird. ''Steppes'' "Scald"
====Laakea====
The Harpoon-Star ''Steppes''
====Leander====
The Prince. He is named after the wild lions of the steppes. Son of Ismail and Helia. Leander of the Eight Kingdoms. He becomes the Maimed King. In later years he goes to Al-a-Nur to live int he Tower of Patricides. ''Steppes''
====The Leucrotta====
The Heron or Marsh-King calls him Beast. He was once rescued by the Witch of the Glen, Knife. He brings Magadin to the village of Muireann. ''Steppes''
====Liulfr====
The Wolf-Star. She is in the Wolf-Cave of the steppes next to the cave of the seven sleepers, the golden wolf of 3 wolves, the others white and black. ''Steppes''
====Lo Shen====
The river goddess of Al-a-Nur. The game is named after her. ''Sea''
====Lock====
The goldfish river-pilot. She leaps over the dam and turns into a maiden, then sheds her skin to become a green dragon. She leaves her child with a man of Ajanabh. (A Duke?) "Scald"
====Maciej====
The Hungry Lord, married to Malgorzata. Eaten by Golod. ''Storm''
====Magadin====
The Beast-girl. She has been metamorphosed by the Wizard Omir to have claws, hooves, webs, fur, fins, and tails. ''Steppes''
====Malgorzata====
Wife of the Hungry Lord. She sacrifices her body parts until she is entirely made of wood and wicker. Her many and distant relatives lay their own lands waste to send food for Maciej. ''Storm''
====The Man Dressed in the Moon====
A Yi, or Hsieh. He bought the boy who became the Necromancer Marsili. He might be Idyll (or Idyll might be the other Yi killed by Jin the Griffin. Or these might be the heretic Hsieh which Idyll refers to.) ''Sea''
====The Manikarnika====
Seven sisters, Stone-Stars. The Pleiades. They changed to women. Jade, Granite, Opal, Garnet, Shale, Iron, and Diamond. They tried to live in the world of men. No one would take them in until the tents of the steppes when a girl with a new baby took them in. The King’s soldiers killed them in the night, with their light pouring into the girl and her baby. ''Steppes''
====The Mare====
The Mare is the night. The Stars were born from the light that’s her blood that seeped through holes she chewed in herself. She gave birth to the world, and people and things and animals and more Stars were her afterbirth. ''Steppes''
====Marsili====
Formerly son of a Sultan, his body was taken by the Man Dressed in the Moon and then by the boy who became the Necromancer. Lover of the Man Dressed in the Moon. ''Sea''
====Mesinyane====
The pig-tamer, a golden-eyed pygmy, who meets Taglio and Immacolata in Vstreycha. Her pig is her father, Femi. She was born in Varaahasind. As a girl, she sees the Harpoon-Star walking away from the city bearing his dead sister, the Snake-Star or Zmeya. She follows the stars. ''Storm''
====The Midwife====
See Aerie. ''Storm''
====The Moon====
She was battered by the wind created when the Stars left for Earth. Her children peeled from her are the Hsien. ''Storm''
====The Moth====
See Fahad. ''Storm''
====The Mourner====
See Wept. ''Storm''
====Nevinost====
The unicorn. Her horn is taken by the poisoner boy, Bryony. She eats Oubilette’s hair. ''Storm''
====Omir====
See The Wizard Omir. ''Steppes''
====Orange as the Sun====
A Hoopoe, mother to many chicks, killed by the Mourner. The Mourner is at the cave composing a lament for the corpse of Tomomo.
====Orfea====
Twin in looks to the Duchess Ulissa of Ajanabh. Daughter to a seamstress. She switches places with Ulisea, wears a dress made of weasel skins, and befriends the Basilisk. "Scald"
====Ostraya====
The Princess of Glass, from the Kingdom of Glass. The Ghost-Librarian and breeder of lizards, practicer of lizard-calculus. ''Storm''
====The Other Prince====
He was sent to kill the Leucrotta (and to rescue his sister, 50 years before Leander). ''Steppes''
====Oubliette====
The huldra of “The Tale of the Twelve Coins” and “The Tale of the Crossing”. Her parents give her a golden ball. She is imprisoned in a house made of sod & tied by her hair, by the Hedgehog Ciriaco. Her hair is shorn by the unicorn Nevinost, who frees her. She takes the silver leaf that is the soul of the girl made of tea to Zmeya in the underworld. She finds the underworld by threatening the almond tree that is her grandfather. ''Storm''
====The Papess====
Leader of Al-a-Nur, always a woman. ''Sea''
====The Pra-Ita====
Hideous monsters with long bony necks and swollen heads and bellies which are enormous jewels. They are the citizens of Shadukiam, eaten and transformed by the monster Golod. ''Storm''
====The Poisoner====
See Bryony. ''Storm''
====The Prince====
See Leander. ''Steppes''
====Quiver====
Knife’s oldest sister. ''Steppes''
====Quri====
A griffin, Jin’s sister. "Sea"
====Rend====
A talking leopard, companion of Ruin, travelling to Urim through the Waste. "Scald"
====Ragnhild====
The Black Papess, or False Papess. In her first incarnation she was a lover of a Caliph who sent her to become Papess. She was killed by Cveti and her army, her tongue and breasts cut away, and manacled to the ground with golden chains. She was reincarnated by a Yi or Hsieh who she then killed. In her second incarnation she wore golden chains dangling from her wrists. ''Sea''
====Ravhi====
The new gardener, seed of Ravhija. ''Steppes''
====Ravhija====
The gardener and pumpkin-tree girl who meets the Firebird, Lantern, steals a feather from him, and who is threatened and then destroyed by the Wizard Omir after he was rid of his iron collar. ''Steppes''
====The Rooster-Maker====
An inventor from Muireann. Folio’s father. "Scald"
====Ruin====
A woman accompanied by the leopard Rend. She is from Ajanabh and has a skin wasting disease. "Scald"
====The Satyr====
A girl of the woods - who marries a Selkie. Her name is Eshkol, and after the Selkie leaves her, she joins the sailors of the Maidenhead. Sea

====Scald====
A Djinn. She was one of the three Queens of Kash, the Ember-Queen. She was born from the smoke of Zmeya’s fire touching Sorrow’s eyelids. "Scald"
====The Selkie====
He marries the Satyr. (story told in Taglio’s tale..) He also rescues Galien in the Book of the Scald. "Scald"
====Seven====
The farmer’s boy, seventh son of a seventh son, who ended up in Marrow and who, in the main frame story of ''Storm'', “The Tale of the Crossing”, travels to the underworld to find his friend Oubilette. He has one arm. ''Storm''
====The Seven Sleepers====
The Seven Sisters. See the Manikarnika. ''Steppes''
====Sheath====
Knife’s older sister. ''Steppes''
====Simeon====
The Giant who stayed in Ajanabh; the gate-giant. "Scald"
====The Skin-Peddler====

====The Snake-Star====
Zmeya. Concubine of King Indrajit. ''Steppes''
====Snow====
Orphan from Ajanabh. Her family emigrates to Muireann. Her hair turns grey when they die. She is befriended by Sigrid the Net-weaver. She also appears as a small child in The Tale of the Giant Who Stayed. ''Sea'' "Scald"
====Sigrid the Netweaver====
St. Sigrid of the Ways. She befriends Snow. She was formerly the polar bear Ulla, who loved and was loved by Eyvind.
====St. Sigrid of the Nest====
The original St. Sigrid. ''Sea''
====Sigrid (the doorkeeper)====
The doorkeeper at the tower in Al-a-Nur, who tells stories to Sigrid the Netweaver. ''Sea''
====The Sirens====
Three bird-women in the highest tower of Ajanabh. Their names are Chadir, Ashni, and Nyd. "Scald"
====Sleeve====
The recluse or Bell Spider, who works for Kostya and lives in the Bell Tower of Ajanabh. Her 8 legs are partly severed and replaced with needles. She was captured as an infant by the poisoner Bryony. "Scald"
====The Sorella====
Pangiota, (look up the other names) ''Steppes''
====Sorrell====
Centaur King of the Eight Kingdoms. He ruled the Palace between the white and black rivers, served by the Wizard Omir, before Ismail killed him. ''Steppes''
====Solace====
Raised by the Firebird, Lantern, as his daughter in the ruined Bell Tower of Ajanabh. She is told by Aerie that she’s Zmeya’s daughter. "Scald"
====Sorrow====
Zmeya’s daughter born in the underworld. She is the girl in the garden. Aerie watches over her and gave her her knife. Hat tip to Tess of the D’Urbervilles. -Storm- "Scald"
====The Stars====
There are stars who are the holes full of light in the Mare’s side, who scorch wherever they walk; and other stars who don’t and who were born from the Mare as actual children. ''Steppes''
====Suhail====
A Djinn from Kash. Agarfena’s grandfather. Married Glaucia. "Scald"
====The Sultan====
Dinarzad and the boy’s father. ''Sea''
====Another Sultan====
The one marrying Dinarzad. ''Storm''
====Taglio====
A Gaselli, with gazelle-hooves. He dresses in green. The Gaselli lure humans to their doom and drink their blood and perhaps eat them. Taglio castrated himself out of devotion to the Heifer-Star. He travels pulling a caravan with Grotteschi. He worked as a eunuch in the harem of King Indrajit and meets Zmeya and the woman made of tea, there. Oubilette and Seven travel with him. He’s looking for the entrance to the Underworld so he can bring Immacolata’s leaf to Zmeya. ''Storm''
====Thurayya====
Teacher of Grandmother Bent-Bow. (Thurayya = Pleiades in Arabic) ''Steppes''
====Tinder-Queen====
One of the three queens of the Djinn. "Scald"
====Ulissa====
The Duchess of Ajanabh, daughter of the Duke. She trades places with Orfea and becomes an actress. She has blond hair and blue eyes. "Scald"
====The Unicorn====
See Nevinost. ''Storm''
====Vachya====
The Lamia. She is three-breasted and blue, sings beautifully, and her grandmother is a sea-serpent lamia who discovers that drinking human blood gets her pregnant. Vachya eats the woman made of music and coughs up golden coins. "Scald"
====The Varaahasind====
The Teeth of the Boar. The 144 warriors of King Indrajit. They feast on the corpse of Zmeya and are destroyed by her. Their bodies vanish each into a single tooth (Boar’s teeth) ''Steppes''
====Vhummin====
Vhummin of Marrow, third daughter of Orris, formerly of Shadukiam. She worked in the Asaad, the Great Market. She was eaten by the monster Golod and became one of the Pra-Ita, and a foreman of the Mint after the ruin of Shadukiam, telling her tale to Seven and Oubilette. ''Storm''
====Weasel====
Enemy of the serpent and Basilisk. ''Scald''

====Wept====
A harpy. She guards the cave entrance to the Underworld and exacts a price from Oubilette and Seven. She wears a hoopoe’s beak. ''Storm''
====Widow====
The Soldier. A farmer girl. Her two older brothers go off to become mercenaries in war, and later she follows them. Her lungs and skin are destroyed by chemical weapons. She is stationed in the Kingdom of the Hedgehogs, and turns the hedgehogs into metal balls. ''Storm''
====The Witch====
See [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]. ''Steppes''

====The Witch of the Glen====
See [[List of Characters in The Orphan's Tales#Knife|Knife]]. ''Steppes''

====The Wizard====
See the Wizard Omir ''Steppes''
====The Wizard Omir====
The conjuror. Omir Doulios. Son of carrot farmers. The boy who found Death. A tall man with grey dreadlocks and an iron collar, and blue and brown robes. After he is rid of his collar at the death of King Indrajit he visits Ravhija and steals a Firebird feather; then his neck is pale, he wears red clothing, and controls a blue flame in his palm. Seeing the Harpoon-Star and the Snake-Star together obsessed him, as did metamorphosis. He kept the Firebird in an ivory cage, but sold him and his feather to a man in Ajanabh. He wore long red robes and had no collar when he came to the race of the Centaurs of the Eight Kingdom and bargained with Sorrel, becoming his doulios or slave and collared again. ''Steppes''
====The other Wizard====
King Indrajit’s wizard before Omir, a short man who calls himself Death to the young Omir. (Or am I confusing something?) ''Steppes''
====The Wolf-Star====
Liulfr. ''Steppes''
====Xide====
The Weaver in Ajanabh who teaches Sleeve. "Scald"
====Yashna====
Papess of Al-a-Nur when Ragnhild returned, in Sigrid’s youth. She is an older woman, with dark black skin. ''Sea''

====Yaya====
The Nursemaid of Prince Leander. ''Steppes''
====Yazo-who-was-born-at-the-bottom-of-winter====
A Kappa who was a great engineer of plants and who proved that tipping out the water of kappa skulls was a bad idea. Yoi’s friend.
====Yoi-who-was-born-in-the-evening====
A Kappa who bargained with Idyll, trading cucumbers for nearly-immortal roses. Yazo’s friend.
====Zmeya====
The Snake-Star. She is captured and married to King Indrajit, and has 14 sons and daughters, infant stars who die just before she dies. In the Underworld she gives birth to another child, child of Itto and of Immacolata’s leaf. ''Steppes'' ''Storm''

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