The Air War (85 page)

Aagen
– Wasp-kinden, Imperial ambassador to Collegium

Aarmon
– Wasp-kinden, leader of the new Imperial Aviation Corps

Aetha
– Wasp-kinden, General Tynan’s daughter-in-law

Amnon
– Beetle-kinden, former First Soldier of Khanaphes

Angved
– Wasp-kinden, Imperial artificer

Aradocles
– Sea-kinden, Edmir of Hermatyre

Arvi
– Fly-kinden, Jodry Drillen’s secretary

Averic
– Wasp-kinden, student at the College

Axrad
– Wasp-kinden pilot

Banjacs Gripshod
– Beetle-kinden artificer

Berjek Gripshod
– Beetle-kinden diplomat

Bola Stormall
– Beetle-kinden aviation artificer

Bordes
– Mynan airman

Breighl (‘Painful’)
– halfbreed spy in Solarno

Bresner
– Wasp-kinden aviator

Brugan
– Wasp-kinden, general of the Rekef

Castre Gorenn
– Dragonfly-kinden, exile

Cheerwell Maker
– Beetle-kinden, Stenwold’s niece

Cherten
– Wasp-kinden colonel, Army Intelligence

Chyses
– Mynan soldier

Corog Breaker
– Beetle-kinden, Master Armsman and pilot

Drephos (Dariandrephos, the Colonel-Auxillian)
– halfbreed artificer, leader of the Iron Glove

Dulci Broadster
– Beetle-kinden social history Master at the College

Edmon
– Mynan airman

Elder Padstock
– Beetle-kinden, chief officer of the Maker’s Own Company

Elser Hardwick
– Beetle-kinden pilot

Erveg
– Wasp-kinden, camp colonel for the Eighth Army

Esmail
– Bug-kinden assassin and spy

Eujen Leadswell
– Beetle-kinden student and agitator

Ferric
– Wasp-kinden, engineer with the Eighth Army

Forra
– Fly-kinden air crew

Franticze
– Bee-kinden pilot flying for Myna

Garvan
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Gerethwy
– Woodlouse-kinden student at the College

Gesa (‘Garvan’)
– female Wasp-kinden major, Army Intelligence

Gizmer
– Fly-kinden air crew

Gjegevey
– Woodlouse-kinden, slave and adviser to Seda

Greenwise Artector
– Beetle-kinden magnate in Helleron

Hallend
– Beetle-kinden student

Harvang
– Wasp-kinden, Rekef colonel

Hasp
– Wasp-kinden major, Slave Corps

Helmess Broiler
– Beetle-kinden Assembler in Collegium, Imperial sympathizer

Hokiak
– Scorpion-kinden merchant in Myna

Honory Bellowern
– Beetle-kinden, Imperial diplomat

Jadis of the Melisandyr
– Spider-kinden, Mycella’s bodyguard and chief aide

Janos Outwright
– Beetle-kinden, chief officer of Outwright’s Pike and Shot

Jodry Drillen
– Beetle-kinden, Speaker for the Assembly

Jons Padstock
– Beetle-kinden soldier, Elder Padstock’s son

Kiin
– Fly-kinden air crew

Kymene
– Mynan leader

Knowles Bellowern
– Beetle-kinden, Imperial colonel in the Consortium

Laszlo
– Fly-kinden, former pirate and friend of Stenwold Maker

Lien
– Wasp-kinden, general of the Engineering Corps

Losel Baldwen
– Beetle-kinden scholar

Ludon
– Wasp-kinden aviator

Lyren
– Wasp-kinden, Tynan’s son

Lissart (‘te Liss’)
– Firefly-kinden agent

Malkan
– Wasp-kinden, general of the Seventh Army, defeated by the Sarnesh at Malkan’s Folly

Marsene
– Mynan airwoman

Marteus
– Ant-kinden renegade, chief officer of Coldstone Company

Mittoc
– Wasp-kinden, colonel of Engineers with Second Army

Morkaris
– Spider-kinden, Mycella’s mercenary adjutant

Mycella of the Aldanrael
– Spider Lady-Martial

Mylus
– Ant-kinden, slave to General Tynan

Nishaana
– Wasp-kinden aviator

Ostrec
– Wasp-kinden, Quartermaster Corps and Rekef

Paladrya
– Sea-kinden, advisrr to Aradocles and friend of Stenwold Maker

Parops
– Ant-kinden of Tark

Pendry Goswell
– Beetle-kinden pilot

Pingge
– Fly-kinden air crew

Praeda Rakespear
– Beetle-kinden scholar, lover of Amnon

Raullo Mummers
– Beetle-kinden artist

Te Remi
– Fly-kinden taverner in Solarno

Reyna Pullard
– Beetle-kinden, assistant to Banjacs Gripshod

Te Riel
– Fly-kinden agent in Solarno

Roder
– Wasp-kinden, general of the Eighth Army

Salthric
– Wasp-kinden, Broken Sword Father

Sartaea te Mosca
– Moth-trained Fly-kinden, lecturer at the College

Scain
– Wasp-kinden aviator

Seda I
– Empress of the Wasps

Shawmair
– Solarnese pilot

Sherten
– Wasp-kinden, Rekef agent

Shoel Jhin
– Grasshopper-kinden slave

Stenwold Maker
– Beetle-kinden, War Master of Collegium

Straessa (‘the Antspider’)
– halfbreed student at the College

Taki (Te Schola Taki-Amre)
– Solarnese Fly-kinden aviatrix

Taxus
– halfbreed pilot from Tark

Tegrec
– Moth-trained Wasp-kinden, Tharen ambassador to the Empire

Tiadro
– Fly-kinden air crew

Tisamon
– Mantis-kinden Weaponsmaster

Toek
– Scorpion camp north of Solarno

Totho
– halfbreed artificer, second-in-command of the Iron Glove

Tynan
– Wasp-kinden, general of the Second Army

Uctebri
– Mosquito-kinden, magician killed by Tisamon

Varsec
– Wasp-kinden, aviation artificer

Vecter
– Wasp-kinden, colonel of the Rekef

Vorses
– Mynan airman

Willem Reader
– Beetle-kinden aviation artificer

Xaraea
– Moth-kinden agent

Capitas
– capital of the Empire

Chasme
– city of renegades on the Exalsee

Collegium
– Beetle city-state

Commonweal
– Dragonfly domain north of the Lowlands

Coretsy
– salt mine near Myna

Darakyon
– Mantis forest, formerly haunted

Dorax
– Moth retreat

Egel
– Fly warren

Etheryon
– Mantis hold

Everis
– Spider island city

Felyal
– Mantis hold and forest

Helleron
– Beetle city-state

Kes
– Ant island city-state

Khanaphes
– ancient Beetle city-state

Malkan’s Folly
– battlefield, now site of Sarnesh fortress

Maynes
– Ant city-state, formerly part of the Empire

Merro
– Fly warren

Myna
– Beetle city-state, formerly part of the Empire

Nethyon
– Mantis hold

Princep Salma
– city founded by refugees of the last war

Sarn
– Ant city-state, ally of Collegium

Seldis
– Spider city

Skiel
– Imperial town

Solarno
– Beetle city on the Exalsee

Sonn
– Beetle city in the Empire

Spiderlands
– large domain south of the Lowlands

Szar
– Bee city-state, formerly part of the Empire

Tark
– Ant city-state

Tharn
– Moth retreat

Three-city Alliance
– Myna, Szar and Maynes

Vek
– Ant city-state, recently at peace with Collegium

Amphiophos
– Collegiate centre of government

Arcanum
– Moth secret service

Aristoi
– the Spider-kinden ruling class

Army Intelligence
– Imperial army corps

Assembly
– Collegiate ruling body

Aviation Corps
– Imperial army corps, part of the Engineers

Battle of the Rails
– battle in which Malkan’s Seventh Army defeated the Sarnesh

Broken Sword
– pacifist cult within the Empire

Coldstone Company
– Collegiate Merchant Company, motto:
In Our Enemies’ Robes

Consensus
– Mynan ruling body

Consortium of the Honest
– mercantile arm of the Empire

Corta Obscura
and

Corta Lucida
– Solarnese ruling bodies

Cranefly
– Mynan flying machine

Crystal Standard
– Solarnese political party

Eighth Army
– commanded by General Roder

Engineering Corps
(‘the Engineers’) – Imperial army corps

Esca Magni
– Taki’s orthopter

Esca Volenti
– Taki’s previous orthopter, destroyed in liberation of Myna

Farsphex
– new Imperial model of orthopter

Fierce Lady
– Mynan flying machine piloted by Marsene

Firebug
– new Solarnese model of orthopter

Fourth Army
– ‘the Barbs’, destroyed by Felyen Mantids in the last war

Great College
– Collegiate centre of learning

Greatshotter
– new Iron Glove-developed artillery

Iron Glove
– artificing cartel led by Drephos out of Chasme

Maker’s Own
– Collegiate Merchant Company, motto:
Through the Gate

Malkan’s Stand/Malkan’s Folly
– Sarnesh defeat of the Empire, now Sarnesh fortress

Outwright’s Pike and Shot
– Collegiate Merchant Company, motto:
Outright Victory or Death

Pacemark
– Mynan orthopter piloted by Edmon

Path of Jade
– Solarnese political party

Prowess Forum
– Collegiate duelling school

Quartermaster Corps
– Imperial army corps

Red Anvil
– Mynan flying machine

Rekef
– Imperial secret service, divided into Inlander and Outlander

Satin Trail
– Solarnese political party

Second Army
– ‘the Gears’, commanded by General Tynan

Seventh Army
– ‘the Winged Furies’, Malkan’s command, destroyed by Sarnesh in the last war

Slave Corps
– Imperial army corps

Sontaken
– passenger airship

Spearflight
– Imperial model of orthopter

Stonefly
– Mynan orthopter piloted by Vorses

Stormreader
– Collegiate model of orthopter

Sweet Fire
– Mynan fixed-wing flier

Tserinet
– Mynan orthopter piloted by Franticze

Twelve-year War
– Imperial war against the Commonweal

Wanderer
– Mynan orthopter piloted by Bordes