Plainsmen - people of the tribes indigeneous to the Great Southern Plain - or, as they call it, the Earthsky

Pleyr - a member of the Brotherhood of the Wheel

Poal - a guardsman of House Suth on the island

Poppy - a girl of the Twostone tribe

Quenthas - a pair of syblings of the Sinistral Ichorians

Qusata - a God Emperor and Molochite and Nephron's great-grandfather

Rale - a man of the Suth household

Ranegale - a Plainsman of the Ochre tribe, brother to Loskai, son of Harth and Crowrane

Ravan - a Plainsman youth, son of Akaisha and Stormrane and half-brother to Fern

Right-Hanus - the individual whose brain occupies the right half of the head of the sybling Hanuses

Right-Quentha - the woman who forms the right half of the sybling Quenthas

Rud - a member of the Brotherhood of the Wheel