PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

The Blacks:

King Little Black

The Queen, his wife

Black Harrah, the Queen’s lover

Young Harrah, his son

A bastard son of Farin the Black

The Reds:

Red Senlin

Red Senlin’s Son (later King)

Sennred, Red Senlin’s younger son

Redhand

Old Redhand, his father

Younger Redhand, his brother

Caredd, his wife

Mother Caredd

Fauconred

The Just:

Nyamé, whose name is called Nod

The Neither-nor

Adar

The Grays:

Mariadn, the Arbiter

Learned Redhand, Redhand’s brother and later Arbiter

Endwives, Ser and Norin

And a nameless one from Elsewhere
called variously

Visitor

Secretary

Recorder