Characters Appearing in Void

Katora is the daughter of the Head of the Circle of Experts. She is bored with her life of privilege and is trying to connect with real life. She loves the Wamatuan composer Raggee, though she knows him only through his music.

Mokra Dooni is the galactic empire's foremost fashion maven with a celebrated shop on the capital's main thoroughfare.

A businessman courting Katora.

Raolin is Katora's father.

Native Lalians follow their age-old tradition of dro ranching in the desert surrounding the capital of the galactic empire. From left to right are Galena, her parents, Botthu and Veeda, and their neighbor, Thun. Galena and Thun work alongside Katora in an emergency squad niche.

Quintillion is emperor of the galaxy. He seems to have initiated an age of despair and decay, the Starfall Age.

Raggee is a famous Wamatuan composer said to have been executed before the Great War. Katora has come to love him for his exquisite music. She believes that someone so wonderful must have somehow survived. It is her quest quest to find him.

The former emperor, Thermeon, was said to be dead when Quintillion took the throne, but he has in fact fled to the Andromeda galaxy. As he voyages between galaxies, he tries to integrate his Deep-self with his human self, which Deep-Thermeon regards as a baboon.

A daughter of Thermeon who serves as mind-river of Lal.

Vedina is a daughter of Thermeon who married Quintillion and became his empress.

A son of Thermeon, serving as imperial major.

Kokkiro is the mythical Earth-God who supposedly allowed humans to colonize the galaxy by leading them up the Stairway of Ice on his white horse.

The nurr is a wild animal Quintillion befriends in the desert.

The son of Vedina, born in the desert.

River Rock is Torm's half-brother.

Quixa is Thermeon's favorite daughter, headmistress of the Mindsea Academy of Eltien, in the Code Empire.

Once the galaxy's mastermind, Horl was defeated by Thermeon and fled to the Code Empire, where he became a Sentinel of the Keep. He is Quixa's husband.

Aluna is a time-orphan with no memory of her past life. She finds herself on Mosalno, the Museum Planet, where everything feels new and wonderful.

Tohagun is a son of Thermeon who serves Quintillion on the planet Niom.

Akoz is president of the Andromeda Settlers Association.

From left to right, Andromeda settlers Drolkus, Watro, Slire, Rothor, and Troove.

Satset is the Andromeda settler who won the lottery and got to have the planet named after her.

A bioid employed by the Andromeda settlers.

A son of Thermeon who traveled to Andromeda with him.

The Six Sages are the rulers of the planet Mosalno, and instructors at the famed Orphan School. The Emperor and Head of the Circle must agree on their appointment. Generally, they are retired bureaucrats close to crystallization. From left to right: Oarmin, Ir, Taba, Eons, Roxor, Kist.

Besi is the tragic empress of a long-forgotten era in the galactic empire's history.

Thermeon believes that a goddess-star will someday take human form and marry him.

Deov is a member of the Imperial Minors of the Galactic Empire of the Common Mind. The minors make up the imperial armed forces. On duty, they wear golden armor, with plumes and surcoats in the emperor's colors. The imperial insignia appears on the chest, usually animated.

Doripoe is an imperial minor, Deov's sister.

From left to right: Princess Bruoret, Queen Geirue, Consort Waxee, Duchess Thotchia.

Quintillion feels that Nander pilots alone can ply the Deep without damaging the fabric of spacetime.

Aluna finds this emblem on the Mosalno Museum's most intriguing exhibits. What can it mean?

Rondo is a copy of Kokkiro requested by the Six Sages. They raise him in the museum from infancy, trying to recreate elements of his original's life on Earth.

Mrrmrr is a Fokeean sabertooth whom Aluna meets in the museum and befreinds.

By his own admission, Orgmorgan is the best pilot in the galaxy.

The instructor Orgmorgan finds to teach Aluna Patternistics.

Fuerida, daughter of Orgmorgan, is Aluna's piloting instructor.

Vaz is a man from Longgor assigned by Genetic Algorithms to be Galena's mate. She studies his portrait on her wall in anticipation of his arrival on Lal.

Sanctuary birds were bred on pre-imperial Wamatu to disembowel the victims of ritual sacrifice. The Flashing of Wamatu enabled them to adapt to the Deep, where they established a new civilization, calling themselves zills.

Solot and Olue are students at the Mindsea Academy of Eltien.