Saga of Pliocene Exile

Aiken Drum is a gifted, charming, normally chromosomed man of high intelligence, raised on Dalriada, who is a natural crook and leader.

Elizabeth, a former farspeaker, lost her metapsychic powers after an accident and cannot project even a simple message despite repeated therapy attempts.

Seventeen-year-old star of ring-hockey on Acadie, who rides a three-ton verrul and has never fallen in her first professional season.

Tanu Battlemaster and Lord of Goriah in Brittany; can levitate fifty riders by psychokinesis.

Gomnol identifies Marc as the leader of the invaders, a Concilium magnate and brother of Jon Remillard, who is Jack the Bodiless.

Mercy operates the marshaling channel in a control room, cueing the pageant's flower girls, courtiers, filler voices, birds, butterflies and breezes.

Annamaria is a 37-year-old nun who has worked at the Hospice for fifteen years and is burnt out, with a faith that has shriveled.

Stein is a huge, hard-drinking, berserker-tempered drill-rig operator who fantasizes about being a Viking and believes he is the best bore-zapper in Lisboa.

Culluket is a redactive Interrogator who most resembles his mother; the Host rarely seek him for healing, as some think he is too zealous in scrutinizing pain.

Madame waits upstairs with refreshment for Guderian and his visitors.

Sharn-Mes and Pallol plan to engineer the humans' deaths and to control Felice.

Giant Native American, last chief of the Wallawalla and former Washington Supreme Court justice; Sergeant at Arms and Warlord in Chief of the Lowlives.