Norman Freeholds
Multiplanetary government not associated with the Sollan Empire. Territory in the Veil of Marinus (Norma Arm of the galaxy) comprises most of the front in the Crusade against the Cielcin.
On the Planet Pharos
Admiral Marius Whent
Deceased military dictator of the planet Pharos, formerly an Imperial legate. Defeated by Hadrian Marlowe and the Meidua Red Company.
—His subordinate, EMIL BORDELON, a Norman mercenary and ship’s captain. Famously depraved and disliked by his men.
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Emil Bordelon
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A Norman mercenary and ship’s captain. Famously depraved and disliked by his men. Served under the leadership of deceased military dictator of the planet Pharos, MARIUS WHENT.
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Former captain of the starship Pharaoh. Hired—alongside the Meidua Red Company—to run weapons to freedom fighters on Pharos attempting to overthrow the planetary dictator Marius Whent. Bordelon betrayed the Red Company, delivering his stock of weapons not into the hands of the Resistance, but to Whent himself. His own troops rebelled against him, and his Third Officer, Otavia Corvo, became a member of the Red Company.
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On the Planet Rustam
The Painted Man
A shape-shifting homunculus and crime lord in Rustam’s underbelly. Formerly of Vorgossos.
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Killed in ISD 16219 by Hadrian Marlowe during the Meidua Red Company's mission to find Vorgossos.
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A plagiarius and weapons deal subordinate to THE PAINTED MAN, a shape-shifting homunculus and crime lord in Rustam's underbelly.
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On the Planet Kanthi
Kalas of Maglona
Former solider of the 212th Centaurine Legion. Now contract worker (bounty hunter) for the Wong-Hopper Consortium on the planet Kanthi.
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Gant
Contract worker (bounty hunter) for the Wong-Hopper Consortium on the planet Kanthi. Marksman.
—His partner, KALAS OF MAGLONA
Kalas glanced at the younger man. Gant had the manners of a cat. He dressed like one of the lordlings Kalas had seen swanning about so many an Imperial palace in his day: in a long suit of gray and black, the lapels of crushed velvet, twirling vines embroidered about silver buttons. He wore a wide-brimmed hat that matched, a white feather in its band—and in place of boots he wore buckled shoes and a pair of tight gaiters patterned white-on-white that accentuated the flare of his jodhpurs. He didn’t look like a thug at all. He looked like a procurer, one of the leno who used to come round selling women and boys to the legionnaires when they put in at port. He was the sort of man as like to smile as shoot, the sort of man who fussed about getting blood on his hands but not about the trigger. Kalas did not like him, but he was efficient, and he knew Abhanri City.
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“Man, you know I’m always ready.” Gant flashed his artificially bright smile. He’d had his real teeth shattered two years back when he’d been caught by a lowtown gang, and rather than pay to have a bonecutter regrow them, Gant had opted for ceramic implants.
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Proprietor of Adri's Pub on the planet Kanthi. More than just a pourer of drinks; a maven of the city's underworld activities.
Adri had owned the little pub for more than a decade—going on two, maybe—at any rate far longer than Kalas had been on Kanthi. She’d started it young, and might have been only a year or two his junior. She smiled crookedly up at him, the heavy makeup around her eyes making her look more tired than beautiful—not that Kalas didn’t think she was beautiful. She was the sort of woman they said had aged gracefully, who’d come to the good side of middle aged looking only a little older than she had as a girl. A little wiser, perhaps. A little more sad, with a knowing light in those blue eyes. She was an offworlder like him, yellow hair shot now with gray she hadn’t bothered to hide.
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Extrasolarian aboard the ship The Parliament of Owls. On the planet Kanthi to attend a prearranged meeting with a fence who has Consortium contacts. Potentially a former Jaddian (based on his name).
The Extrasolarian stood nearly seven feet tall on legs bent backwards like the legs of dog. His hands—where they emerged from voluminous black sleeves, looked more like the anatomical sketch of a pair of hands than hands themselves, with tendons and tissue of black carbon like pencil lead. The feet were like cloven hooves shod with titanium, and his face…Kalas had seen less pallor on a corpse. He might have been an albino, so pale was he and hairless, his scalp glistening, studded with mechanical implants behind his ears and along the column of his spine.
“My captain, Lady Marishka, is most grateful that you have found what we required on such short notice, M. Vela,” the Extrasolarian said, and from his hiding place Kalas felt certain that the man’s lips did not move, that his sepulchral voice came instead from somewhere in his chest.
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On the Planet Latarra
Calen Harendotes
The so-called MONARCH of Latarra, an Extrasolarian warlord gathering power in the Veil of Marinus. His banner is an embroidered Golden Falcon with talons spread, fringed with a spiral labyrinth pattern.
—His majordomo, ONEIROS
—His captains:
—ZELAZ, the floating, dwarf-like Exalted Captain of the Hermetic Melancholia.
—EIDHIN, the many-armed, cyclopic Exalted Captain of the Enigma of Hours.
—ARCHAMBAULT, the massive, machine-ape Exalted Captain of the Two Dreams of Spring.
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“There’ve been more attacks along the inner edge of the arm. Five planets razed and emptied.”I seated myself in the nearest chair facing the Emperor, wincing slightly as the legs groaned on marble tile. I hadn’t heard, hadn’t had a meeting with LIO and the War Council in weeks, hadn’t had so much as a word of the situation in the outer provinces. “Is it Dorayaica?”
I ought properly to ask no questions of His Radiance, but the Emperor did not seem to mind. “We think not. They happened in rapid succession and within a few dozen light-years of one another. Dorayaica’s movements have been more precise. Punctuated. No.” Not looking at me, the Emperor shuffled a few of the pages on the table before him. He did not sit. “There have been rumors of a new chieftain among the Extrasolarians. Muddled references to a Monarch on the datanet and from a number of our informants. Apparently several of the old stations we’ve kept eyes on have disappeared. Whether this Monarch is a man or something else entirely is entirely unclear, but the name Calen Harendotes appears as well, several times. Are you familiar?”
“Calen Harendotes?” I repeated. “No, Your Radiance. It sounds like a palatine name.”
“It does. Doubtless some renegade from a house no one’s ever heard of,” the Emperor said. “A pity. We had hoped your time on Vorgossos might have shed some light on the matter.”
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Zelaz
A post-human Exalted captain in service to the Monarch of Latarra. Commander of the Sojourner Hermetic Melancholia.
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Majordomo and chief intermediary of the MONARCH of Latarra, a thin, faceless creature with silver skin and a black hood.
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