Blood of the Mantis

People

Stenwold Maker – Beetle-kinden spymaster and statesman

Cheerwell ‘Che’ Maker – his niece

Tisamon – Mantis-kinden Weaponsmaster

Tynisa – his halfbreed daughter, Weaponsmaster

Achaeos – Moth-kinden magician, Che’s lover

Nero – Fly-kinden artist

Arianna – Spider-kinden, Stenwold’s lover, former Rekef agent

Balkus – Ant-kinden, agent of Stenwold, renegade from Sarn

Sperra – Fly-kinden, agent of Stenwold

Thalric – Wasp-kinden, former Rekef major, now renegade

Teornis of the Aldanrael – Spider-kinden Aristos

Gaved – Wasp-kinden mercenary

Felise Mienn – Dragonfly-kinden duellist

Destrachis – Spider-kinden doctor and companion of Felise Mienn

Parops – Tarkesh Ant-kinden soldier, now in exile

Salma (Prince Salme Dien) – Dragonfly-kinden nobleman

Prized of Dragons – formerly Grief in Chains, Salma’s Butterfly-kinden lover

Alvdan II – the Wasp Emperor

Seda – Alvdan’s sister and one surviving relative

Maxin – Wasp-kinden general in the Rekef

Reiner – Wasp-kinden general in the Rekef

Brugan – Wasp-kinden general in the Rekef

Malkan – Wasp-kinden, general of the Seventh Army (the ‘Winged Furies’)

Uctebri the Sarcad – Mosquito-kinden magician, Alvdan’s slave

Gjegevey – Woodlouse-kinden, imperial advisor

Dariandrephos (‘Drephos’) – halfbreed artificer and imperial colonel

Totho – halfbreed artificer in Drephos’s cadre

Kaszaat – Bee-kinden artificer in Drephos’s cadre

Big Greyv – Mole Cricket-kinden artificer in Drephos’s cadre

Scyla – Spider-kinden spy, magician and thief

Lineo Thadspar – Beetle-kinden Speaker for the Collegiate Assembly

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

Odyssa – Spider-kinden agent of the Rekef