The Scarecrow

CHARACTERS

Abanaban: chief vassal

Aggulli (or Aghulli): a sage and leader, recently assassinated

Ah’llum (or Ahallum): the hero, the tribe’s head warrior

Amasis the Younger: a noble elder

Asaruf: a noble elder

Asen’fru: tax administrator

Chief Merchant: the man with two veils, de facto head of the chamber of commerce

Emmamma: the tribe’s venerable elder, a nobleman, and the oldest man in the tribe

Imaswan Wandarran: spokesman for the Council of Nobles

Itinerant Diviner: handsome, black diviner with special gifts

Leader: a deceased poet compelled by Tuareg culture and his tribal elders to lead a Tuareg tribe

Master of the Sign: African sage consulted by the sorcerer

Scarecrow (sorcerer, leader, strategist, governor, and various other epithets): an inhabitant of the Spirit World who becomes the ruler of the New Waw Oasis; Wantahet or his avatar

Tayetti: commander of the anti-gold campaign in The Puppet

Tomb Maiden or Priestess: the deceased leader’s bride and medium