Lord Luthor Astin-Shin-Mataro

A Mandari man, Minister of Finance for the county and formerly of the Marinus office of the Wong-Hopper Consortium.

—Their children:

—DORIAN MATARO, presumptive heir to the County of [Emesh](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/index-of-worlds/page/emesh), a young man in the year of his Ephebeia.

—His friend, MELANDRA, a patrician from a loyal family in Borosevo.

—ANAÏS MATARO, a young and canny socialite.