Salute the Dark

Adrian Tchaikovsky Salute the Dark

People

Stenwold Maker - Beetle-kinden spymaster and statesman

Cheerwell ‘Che’ Maker - his niece

Tisamon - Mantis-kinden Weaponsmaster

Tynisa - his halfbreed daughter, Stenwold’s ward

Achaeos - Moth-kinden magician, Che’s lover

Atryssa - Tynisa’s mother and Tisamon’s former lover, deceased

Thalric - renegade Wasp-kinden, former Rekef major

Nero - Fly-kinden artist, old friend of Stenwold

Felise Mienn - Dragonfly-kinden duellist

Taki - Solarnese Fly-kinden aviatrix

Lineo Thadspar - Beetle-kinden Speaker for the Collegium Assembly

Balkus - renegade Sarnesh Ant-kinden, Stenwold’s agent

Sperra - Fly-kinden, Stenwold’s agent

Destrachis - Spider-kinden doctor, companion of Felise Mienn

Parops - Tarkesh Ant-kinden, leader of the free Tarkesh

Jons Allanbridge - Beetle-kinden aviator

Plius - foreign Ant-kinden in Sarn, Stenwold’s agent

Prince Minor Salme ‘Salma’ Dien - Dragonfly nobleman, leader of the Landsarmy

Prized of Dragons - Butterfly-kinden, Salma’s lover

Phalmes - Mynan Soldier Beetle-kinden, former brigand, Salma’s lieutenant

Teornis of the Aldanrael - Spider-kinden Aristos and

Lord-Martial Odyssa - Teornis’ chief agent in Solarno

Cesta - Assassin Bug-kinden killer in Solarno

Scobraan - Soldier Beetle-kinden aviator in Solarno

Laetrimae - Mantis-kinden ghost from the Shadow Box

Xaraea - Moth-kinden intelligencer in Tharn

Tegrec - Wasp-kinden major and magician, governor of occupied Tharn

Raeka - Wasp-kinden, Tegrec’s body-slave

Kymene - Mynan Soldier Beetle-kinden, leader of the Mynan resistance

Chyses - Mynan Soldier Beetle-kinden, Kymene’s lieutenant

Hokiak - Scorpion-kinden black-marketeer in Myna

Gryllis - Spider-kinden, Hokiak’s business partner

Alvdan II - Emperor of the Wasps

Seda - his sister

Maxin - Wasp-kinden general, Rekef

Reiner - Wasp-kinden general, Rekef

Brugan - Wasp-kinden general, Rekef

Malkan - Wasp-kinden general, Seventh Army

Latvoc - Wasp-kinden colonel, Rekef, Reiner’s aide

Gan - Wasp-kinden colonel, governor of Szar

Ulther - Wasp-kinden colonel, former governor of Myna, deceased

Axrad - Wasp-kinden lieutenant and aviator

Uctebri the Sarcad - Mosquito-kinden slave and magician

Gjegevey - Woodlouse-kinden slave and advisor

Dariandrephos (‘Drephos’) - halfbreed auxillian-colonel and master artificer

Totho - halfbreed artificer in Drephos’ cadre

Kaszaat - Bee-kinden artificer, in Drephos’ cadre

Big Greyv - Mole Cricket-kinden artificer, in Drephos’ cadre

Places

Capitas - the capital of the Empire

Asta - Wasp staging post for the Lowlands Campaign

Collegium - Beetle-kinden city, home of the Great

College The Commonweal - Dragonfly-kinden state north of the Lowlands, partly occupied by the Empire

The Darakyon - forest, formerly a Mantis stronghold, now haunted

Helleron - Beetle-kinden factory city, occupied

Myna - Soldier Beetle city conquered by the Wasps

Sarn - Ant-kinden city-state allied to Collegium

Solarno - Spider-ruled city on the Exalsee, occupied

Spiderlands - Spider-kinden cities south of the Lowlands, believed rich and endless

Szar - Bee-kinden city, conquered by the Wasps

Tark - Ant-kinden city-state, occupied

Tharn - Moth-kinden hold, occupied

Vek - Ant-kinden city-state, recently at war with Collegium

Organizations and things

The Ancient League - a Moth-Mantis alliance of Dorax, Nethyon and Etheryon

Assembly - the elected ruling body of Collegium, meeting in the Amphiophos

Buoyant Maiden - Jons Allanbridge’s airship

Crystal Standard, Path of Jade, Satin Trail - Solarnese political parties

Esca Volenti - Taki’s orthopter

Great College in Collegium, the cultural heart of the Lowlands

Landsarmy - force of refugees and irregulars led by Salma

Mercers - Dragonfly-kinden order of knights errant

Prowess Forum - duelling venue in Collegium

Rekef - the Wasp Empire’s secret service

Shadow Box - an artefact holding the heart of the Darakyon

Skryres - the magician-leaders of the Moth-kinden

Starnest - great Wasp airship used in the conquest of Solarno

Winged Furies - name for the Wasp Seventh Army

Summary