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Authors: David Hair
- Amiza al’Ardijah: Calipha of Ardijah
- Renn Bondeau: Rondian former-battlemage, now Caliph of Ardijah
In Lokistan
Mandira Khojana monastery
- Puravai: a Zain master
- Yash: a Zain acolyte
- Gateem: a Zain acolyte
- Aprek: a Zain acolyte
- Kedak: a Zain acolyte
- Haddo: a Zain acolyte
- Sindar: a Zain acolyte
- Fenan: a Zain acolyte
- Bhati: a Zain acolyte
- Joa: a Zain acolyte
- Vekati: a Zain acolyte
- Meero: a Zain acolyte
- Urfin: a Zain acolyte
- Felakan: a Zain monk
- Alaron Mercer: mage, son of Vann and Tesla
- Ramita Ankesharan: Lakh widow of Antonin Meiros
- Dasra and Nasatya: twin newborn sons of Ramita and Antonin Meiros
In Lakh
Baranasi
- Vikash Nooradin: market trader [deceased]
- Ram Sankar: market trader
- Sunita Sankar: Ram’s wife
In southern Lakh
- Ispal Ankesharan: trader; Ramita’s father
- Tanuva Ankesharan: Ispal’s wife; Ramita’s mother
- Jai: Ispal’s son
- Keita: Jai’s wife
From the Past
- Johan Corin (‘Corineus’): Messiah of the Kore
- Selene Corin (‘Corinea’) also known as Lillea Selene Sorades: sister (allegedly), lover and murderer of Johan Corin; personification of feminine evil
- Olfuss Nesti: a deceased King of Javon
- Jarius Langstrit: deceased Noros general
- Echor Borodium: Duke of Argundy (deceased)
- Belonius Vult: Governor of Norostein (deceased)
- Nasette Ledoc: only person in history known to have been transformed from a mage into a Souldrinker
- Attiya Zai: Omali holy man, founder of the Zain order of monasticism
The Blessed Three Hundred
- Sertain: First Emperor of the Rondian Empire
- Baramitius: Ascendant mage and creator of ambrosia, and the Scytale of Corineus
- Berial: Brician Ascendant; mage-ancestor of Alaron Mercer and Elena Anborn
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
There have been a lot of people involved in placing this book in your hands, and I’m very grateful to all of them. It
really
wouldn’t have happened without them. First off, thanks to the wonderful Jo Fletcher for all the skill, experience and wisdom she’s brought to bear; these books are a product of her faith in the ideas and vision of this occasionally errant writer, and it’s impossible for me to express enough gratitude to her!
Thanks also to the rest of the team at Jo Fletcher Books, especially Nicola Budd and Andrew Turner; and to the US team, especially Eric Price and Olivia Taussig; and the wonderful publicists at Wunderkind led by Elena Stokes. Also big thanks (and apologies for the mishmash of languages and accents in the story) to Ryan Neuschafer and the team assembling the audio books. And thanks again to Emily Faccini for the cool maps.
Then there are the regular Moontide team: the test readers; Paul Linton, Kerry Greig and Heather Adams. I’ve said it before but these are the people who keep these books up to snuff and fit for consumption, kind of like a World Health Organisation Special Unit assigned to the Moontide Quartet. Sampling, testing and improving are just some of the duties they perform so well. Thanks so much!
It’s very hard for a story to go from being a file in a computer to a book in a shop without someone to fight its corner and get it noticed by publishers. I’m lucky to be represented by the aforementioned Heather, who runs HMA Literary Agency UK (alongside her husband Mike Bryan). Thank you both once more for opening the doors for me and my dreams, and for being perfect hosts on our last visit to the UK.
As always, my greatest thanks is to my lovely wife Kerry, who has to put up with weird conversation at all hours about imaginary people and their deeds. Her willingness to test-read, edit and proof was massively important to the series, as well as her own imagination in contributing ideas and feedback. I literally crossed half the globe to be with her, and I’ve never regretted a moment.
Finally, shout-outs to my children Brendan and Melissa; my parents Cliff and Biddy, and all my friends, especially Mark, Felix and Stefania, Raj and Hina, Andrew and Brenda, my rakhi-sisters Tanuva and Vidhi, and Keith and Kathryn.
And hello to Jason Isaacs and the Doctors of Wittertainment, of course.
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