Alan Barrington | Lawyer. Senior partner at the international law firm Eliot Falconer.
Ardashir Rashidi | Proprietor of QED (a Lucerna diner). Iranian friend of Kari and Malory.
Baltasar Enciso Recio | Spanish aristocrat. Owner of a ranch, Doña Socorro, in the Extremadura, Spain. Professor of International Law, classicist, and student of Greek and Roman Stoicism.
Bernice Enright | Head of the Ancient Studies Program at Rayneval University. Founder of the Polybius Institute, an organization she set up to study the ancient Afro-Eurasian world.
Blair Davidson | Senior RCMP officer. Presently assigned to INTERPOL Ottawa.
Crispin Munk | Curator of the Ortelius Society's Map Library.
Deimos | In Greek mythology, he is the god of Dread. The name is one Kari employs when she speaks of the man who murdered Jemail al-Nasiri and who continues to haunt her. She does not know his identity.
Gabrielle Galante ("Lady GG") | Founder and CEO of the Decameron Group, a company that produces specialized information for corporate clients.
Gina Vasari | Historian and associate professor at Rayneval University. Formerly a pilot situated in Yellowknife and also a businesswoman working in Vancouver.
Giorgio Toscani | Defrocked Jesuit. One of Kari's former teachers.
Hans Eric Ramm | CEO of Ramm EGI (Ramm Engineering Group International). Also head of Argo Navis, a holding company with several subsidiaries.
Harry Dacken | Gina Vasari's long-time beloved.
Idris ben Marius | Avalti chieftain. Kari's father. Presently active in North Africa and the Sahara.
Jacob Elon | Owner of Great Expectations, an antiquarian bookstore in Lucerna.
Jemail al-Nasiri | Sufi and scholar. Deceased. Kari's former teacher and spiritual guide.
Kari LaMarca | Herself.
Khalid | Avalti warrior and mercenary. Works with Idris and Sabra. Miriam LaMarca's lover.
Konstantin Varga | Principal of Abrau Capital, a Wall Street hedge fund.
Malory Ballantyne | Himself.
Miriam LaMarca | Professor of History at Rayneval University.
Orla Carnahan | Homicide detective, Lucerna Municipal Police.
Ryker | Lava-Ströme operative. One-time member of the British Royal Navy's elite commando unit (the Special Boat Service). Malory's loyal friend.
Sabra Qadira | Heads the FLS, the Frente para la Liberación Saharauis, a rebel movement working for the independence of the Sahrawi homeland in Western Sahara. Mother of Kari and Tahar. Her birth name was Margrethe von Dalberg.
Sterling Armitage | Former corporate lawyer. Commodore of the Lucerna Yacht Club. Member of Rayneval's Governing Council.
Tahar Cavallería | Kari's half-brother. Heads an NGO that assists Sahrawis now living in Algerian refugee camps. Also runs a clandestine operation that supplies arms and other assistance to Sabra Qadira's FLS.
Tamara Santillana | Historian. In the Eternity's Sunrise cycle, she is associated with CNAS, the Centre for North American Studies at Rayneval University. In the subsequent cycles, she is teaching at Yale.
Theresa Imperatore | Head of Lava-Ströme International (an international private intelligence firm with headquarters in London). Malory's sometime employer. He usually refers to her as "the Contessa."
Toby Pritchard | Doctoral student in history at Rayneval University. Sailor, tennis player, and all-round athlete.
Xiu Shuxian | Engineer trained at MIT. Employed as Hans Eric Ramm's personal assistant.
Zuni Kashani | Classical scholar. Specialist in the libraries of the ancient world. Taught Malory at Oxford and later at Cambridge.
