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People of Interest
People of Interest
CLAIRVOYANTS
Humans with the ability to commune with the æther. They are identifiable by an aura, the colour of which is related to their specific means of connecting with the spirit world.
Paige Mahoney
Order: Jumper
Type: Dreamwalker
Alias: The Pale Dreamer
Believed to be the only living dreamwalker, Paige was raised by her paternal grandparents on their dairy farm in Munster. In 2048, she was forced to move to England when her father relocated there to work for the Republic of Scion. Paige attended the Ancroft School in Bloomsbury before accepting a job offer from Jaxon Hall, a mime-lord in the clairvoyant syndicate of London. She is now mollisher of his gang, the Seven Seals.
Amelia Denslow
Order: Soothsayer
Type: Astragalomancer
A clairvoyant detained for the nineteenth Bone Season, stationed at the Residence of Queens. She is a seasoned red-jacket who often leads external assignments to London.
Antoinette Carter
Order: Fury
Type: Unknown
One of the celebrity speakers at the protest that preceded the Imbolc Massacre of 2046. Carter hosted a popular TV show, which involved her predicting the future. After narrowly surviving the slaughter on St Stephen’s Green, Carter went into hiding, but continued to speak out against Scion through a pamphlet, Stingy Jack. She is currently a fugitive with a significant bounty on her head.
Beltrame
Order: Medium
Type: Physical
A clairvoyant detained for the nineteenth Bone Season. He currently holds the position of Overseer, making him responsible for the performers’ welfare and training. He lives at Kettell Hall.
Bernard Hock
Order: Sensor
Type: Sniffer
The Chief of Vigilance, who heads the Night Vigilance Division. Despite his clairvoyance, he is a trusted agent of Scion, using his keen abilities as a sniffer to detect and detain his fellow clairvoyants.
Bill Bunbury
An member of the clairvoyant syndicate of London. Bill owns an oxygen bar in I-4, which he uses to facilitate illegal activities.
Carl Dempsey-Brown
Order: Soothsayer
Type: Seer
A clairvoyant detained for the twentieth Bone Season, stationed at the Residence of Oriel.
Charles Lanvin
Order: Augur
Type: Cryomancer
A clairvoyant detained for the nineteenth Bone Season, stationed at the Residence of Queens.
Cyril Foxworth
Order: Augur
Type: Botanomancer
A clairvoyant detained for the nineteenth Bone Season. Cyril is a performer, specialising in drama and dance.
Danica Panić
Order: Fury
Type: Unknown
Alias: The Chained Fury
A member of the Seven Seals. In her early twenties, Danica moved from the Scion Citadel of Belgrade to London, where Nick Nygård prevented her from being detained at an event. Like Nick, she now leads a double life, dividing her time between the syndicate and working as an engineer for Scion. She created a life-support machine for Paige, allowing her to sense the æther at a distance without fear of dying.
David Fitton
A clairvoyant detained for the twentieth Bone Season, stationed at the Residence of Merton.
Divya ‘Ivy’ Jacob
Order: Augur
Type: Chiromancer
A clairvoyant detained for the twentieth Bone Season, stationed at the Residence of Corpus.
Duckett
Order: Soothsayer
Type: Catoptromancer
A clairvoyant detained for the sixteenth Bone Season. A retired performer, he keeps a stockpile of vital supplies in the Rookery, offering them to those who agree to run dangerous errands for his amusement. Duckett was one of the three human survivors of the Novembertide Rebellion of 2039.
Ella Giddings1
A clairvoyant detained for the twentieth Bone Season, stationed at the Residence of Trinity. Aludra Chertan is her keeper.
Eleanor ‘Nell’ Nahid
Order: Guardian
Type: Summoner
A clairvoyant detained for the nineteenth Bone Season. Nell is a performer, specialising in trapeze and aerial silks.
Eliza Renton
Order: Medium
Type: Trance
Alias: The Martyred Muse
A member of the Seven Seals. Eliza was raised by aster dealers in Cheapside and worked for an underground theatre before applying for a job with Jaxon Hall. She is a trance medium who specialises in ethereal forgery – painting copies of famous pieces of art while possessed by the spirits of their creators.
Emil Viklund
Order: Medium
Type: Physical
A clairvoyant detained for the nineteenth Bone Season, stationed at the Residence of Exeter. He is a red-jacket.
Ezekiel ‘Zeke’ Sáenz
Order: Fury
Type: Unreadable
Alias: The Black Diamond
A member of the Seven Seals. Born in Mexico, Zeke later moved to Boston to live with his younger half-sister, Nadine Arnett, while she was at college. Formerly a whisperer, he is now unreadable.
Felix Coombs
Order: Augur
Type: Hydromancer
Alias: Lucky
A clairvoyant detained for the twentieth Bone Season, stationed at the Residence of Trinity. Aludra Chertan is his keeper.
Gail Fisher
Order: Soothsayer
Type: Seer
An amaurotic detained for the nineteenth Bone Season, stationed at the Residence of Magdalen. Gail formerly lived at Queens with her keeper, Alsafi Sualocin. Upon realising Gail had a condition that required frequent medication, Alsafi allowed her to move to Magdalen, which needed a night porter. Gail takes the bulk of the responsibility for maintaining the buildings.
Guy Morrow
Order: Soothsayer
Type: Dactylomancer
A clairvoyant detained for the nineteenth Bone Season. Formerly a successful tailor in Leeds, he is now a performer, specialising in dexterity skills.
Hector Grinslathe
Order: Soothsayer
Type: Macharomancer
Alias: Haymarket Hector
Underlord of the Scion Citadel of London and head of the Unnatural Assembly.
Jaxon Hall
Order: Guardian
Type: Binder
Alias: The White Binder
Mime-lord of I-4 and head of the Seven Seals. He lives in Seven Dials, a district in Covent Garden. Although he is Paige’s employer, she knows very little of his past. Jaxon is a powerful binder, able to exert sole command over multiple spirits.
Joseph Biwott
Order: Sensor
Type: Polyglot
A clairvoyant detained for the twentieth Bone Season, stationed at the Residence of Merton.
Julian Amesbury
A clairvoyant detained for the twentieth Bone Season, stationed at the Residence of Trinity. Julian grew up in London and has spent most of his life trying to blend in with the amaurotic population.
Kathy Lorimer
Order: Augur
Type: Rhabdomancer
A clairvoyant detained for the nineteenth Bone Season, stationed at the Residence of Exeter. She is a red-jacket.
Layla Stern
A clairvoyant detained for the twentieth Bone Season, stationed at the Residence of Trinity.
Liss Rymore
Order: Soothsayer
Type: Cartomancer
A clairvoyant detained for the nineteenth Bone Season. As a child, Liss moved from Inverness to London with her parents, Arthur Lin and Imogen Rymore, who had fallen on hard times. Since Imogen was amaurotic, the syndicate turned the couple away. They later died of lung fever. Left to fend for herself, Liss fell prey to a sting, resulting in her imprisonment in the Tower of London. After three years, she was transported to Oxford. She is now a performer, specialising in aerial silks.
Lotte Gordon
Order: Medium
Type: Physical
A clairvoyant detained for the nineteenth Bone Season. She is a performer, specialising in acrobatics and contortion.
Michael Wren
Order: Fury
Type: Unreadable
Alias: Birdy
A clairvoyant detained for the nineteenth Bone Season, stationed at the Residence of Magdalen. He takes responsibility for housekeeping.
Nadine Arnett
Order: Sensor
Type: Whisperer
Alias: The Silent Bell
A member of the Seven Seals. Born and raised in Québec, she moved to Boston in early 2056 to share an apartment with her halfbrother, Zeke. In 2057, the siblings joined a student trip to the Grand Conference in London, where Jaxon Hall convinced them to join the underworld.
Nicklas ‘Nick’ Nygård
Order: Jumper
Type: Oracle
Paige’s best friend, who saved her from a poltergeist when she was a child and later brought her into the Seven Seals. Nick grew up in the Scion Republic of Sweden, where he discovered a natural affinity for the sciences. Following the murder of his younger sister, Karolina, Nick resolved to bring Scion down. Now living in London, he leads a double life as both a committed member of the Seven Seals and a Scion employee.
Ognena Maria
Order: Augur
Type: Pyromancer
Mime-queen of I-5.
Oliver Viklund
Order: Medium
Type: Physical
A clairvoyant detained for the nineteenth Bone Season, stationed at the Residence of Exeter. He is a red-jacket.
Tilda Lee
Order: Sensor
Type: Whisperer
A clairvoyant detained for the twentieth Bone Season, stationed at the Residence of Oriel. Tilda was born in Liverpool and came to London to find work. She takes purple aster as a means of coping with her clairvoyance, which causes her to hear spirits’ voices in Gloss, a language she does not understand.
The Wicked Lady
Order: Augur
Type: Pyromancer
Mime-queen of II-6.
William Linwood
Order: Soothsayer
Type: Seer
A clairvoyant who Paige meets on a train leaving Inquisitors Cross.
REPHAIM
Immortal humanoids of the Netherworld, a decayed and uninhabitable dimension that once served as an intermediary realm between the æther and the corporeal world. Rephaim exhibit similar abilities to clairvoyant humans.2
Arcturus Mesarthim
Warden of the Mesarthim and blood-consort of the Rephaim through his union with Nashira Sargas. Arcturus is the only Rephaite stationed at the Residence of Magdalen. He is known to the humans of Oxford as Warden.
Alsafi Sualocin
A Rephaite stationed at the Residence of Queens. He is a trusted confidant of Nashira Sargas and frequently serves as an intermediary between London and Oxford, occasionally travelling as far as Paris.
Aludra Chertan
A Rephaite stationed at the Residence of Trinity. She is responsible for confiscating and scrutinising prisoners’ belongings.
Castor Sargas
A Rephaite formerly stationed at the Residence of Balliol, where he made a sport of targeting the amaurotics. He has since left Oxford to work alongside Vindemiatrix Sargas, one of the two blood-heirs.
Kraz Sargas
One of the two blood-heirs of the Rephaim. His female counterpart is Vindemiatrix Sargas, who does not live in Oxford.
Gomeisa Sargas
Warden of the Sargas and one of the two blood-sovereigns of the Rephaim, sharing his power with Nashira. He lives in London, where he acts as an advisor to the Grand Inquisitor of England, Frank Weaver.
Merope Sualocin
A Rephaite stationed at the Residence of Balliol. She oversees physical drills, which she leads on Port Meadow.
Nashira Sargas
Suzerain of the Republic of Scion and one of the two blood-sovereigns of the Rephaim. She is stationed at the Residence of the Suzerain – formerly All Souls College – and shares her power with Gomeisa Sargas.
Nembus Sheratan
A Rephaite stationed at the Residence of Exeter.
Pleione Sualocin
A Rephaite stationed at the Residence of Merton. She usually takes responsibility for ‘welcoming’ newcomers to Oxford.
Situla Mesarthim
A Rephaite stationed at the Residence of Corpus.
Suhail Chertan
A Rephaite stationed at the Residence of Balliol. He holds authority over the Rookery.
Tertius Chertan
A Rephaite stationed at the Residence of Queens.
Terebellum Sheratan
A Rephaite stationed at the Residence of Oriel, more often known as Terebell.
Thuban Sargas
A Rephaite stationed at the Residence of Corpus. He is feared throughout the city for his sadistic tendencies.
AMAUROTICS
Humans who are not clairvoyant, sometimes known as rotties. They have no connection to the spirit world and are unable to sense it.3
Abberline Mayfield †
The former Grand Inquisitor of the Republic of Scion England, who oversaw the invasion of Ireland. Upon his sudden death in 2054, he was superseded by his Minister for Finance, Frank Weaver.
Alice Heron
A Scion key worker who lives in the apartment next door to Colin Mahoney.
Aloïs Mynatt
Grand Raconteur of the Scion Republic of France.
Birgitta Tjäder
Chief of Vigilance in the Scion Citadel of Stockholm and commander of the Second Inquisitorial Division. Tjäder is notorious for her ruthless adherence to Inquisitorial law. She is the archenemy of Nick Nygård, whose sister was murdered by soldiers under her command.
Cathal Bell
The former Minister for Foreign Affairs in Ireland. Though he was popular with the general public, Bell was secretly plotting against his own country, culminating in the Imbolc Massacre (also known as the Dublin Incursion) of 2046. Despite his loyalty to Scion, he was passed over as Grand Inquisitor of Ireland. He lives in London.
Clara Barnes
A former student at the Ancroft School in Bloomsbury. Clara and her friends would often make fun of Paige.
Colin Mahoney
Paige’s father. Formerly known as Cóilín Ó Mathúna, he was a forensic pathologist and spent most of his life in Dublin, away from his family. During the Molly Riots, he was identified as a person of potential value to the Republic of Scion. Under intense pressure from Cathal Bell, Cóilín agreed to move to London. Expecting Ireland to fall to the anchor, he took Paige with him and anglicised their names. He lives on the secure Barbican Estate among other Scion key workers.
Crina Nistor
An amaurotic detained for the nineteenth Bone Season.
Evelyn Ancroft
Schoolmistress of the Ancroft School in Bloomsbury, which was founded by her grandmother. She is a known anchorite (see glossary) who frequently targeted Paige.
Fazal Osman
An amaurotic detained for the nineteenth Bone Season. Fazal was initially assigned to the Residence of Balliol, where Castor Sargas targeted him for standing up for his fellow amaurotics. He was quietly transferred to Magdalen, where he lives on a permanent basis as the day porter and gardener.
Finn Mac Cárthaigh4
Paige’s older cousin through her paternal aunt. Finn was a history student at Trinity College in Dublin. He took Paige to the protest that preceded the Imbolc Massacre and is presumed to have been killed in the ensuing bloodbath, along with his fiancée – Kayleigh Ni Dhornáin – and their closest friends: Anjali Roy, Oscar Keeley, and Temiloluwa Adisa. The only confirmed survivor of the tightknit group was Laoise Ní Cheallaigh, who had not been able to reach the protest.
Frank Weaver
The incumbent Grand Inquisitor of the Republic of Scion England. He succeeded Abberline Mayfield.
Kayleigh Ní Dhornáin †
A student at Trinity College who was believed to have been one of the first people killed in the Imbolc Massacre of 2046. Kay was engaged to Paige’s cousin, Finn.
Nita Patel †
An amaurotic detained for the nineteenth Bone Season. Nita was stationed at the Residence of Queens and did her best to provide for the performers, especially during the winter.
Radmilo Arežina
An official from the Scion Republic of Serbia.
Reuben Evans
A student at the University of Scion London, who Paige meets at a flash house, Dance upon Nothing.
Sandra McCarthy
Paige’s paternal aunt. Born Alastríona Ní Mhathúna, she used Sandra as a nickname and often gave an anglicised form of her birth name after leaving Tipperary. At the time of the Dublin Incursion, she worked at a hospital in Dún Laoghaire and was living with her spouse and their son, Finn.
Scarlett Burnish
Grand Raconteur of the Republic of Scion England. A fashion icon who is well-liked among the amaurotics of Scion, she reads the approved news and distributes propaganda on the flagship broadcast network, ScionEye.
Sebastian Pearce
An amaurotic detained for the twentieth Bone Season. Seb drew unwanted and dangerous attention when he was subjected to a prank by students at his school, who planted an illegal shew stone in his satchel.
Suzette Fortin
A former student at the Ancroft School in Bloomsbury. Raised in the Scion Citadel of Paris, Suzette befriended Paige5 in their second year at Ancroft. They lost touch after Paige joined the Seven Seals, whereupon Jaxon instructed her to sever or restrict contact with the amaurotics in her life.
1Ella’s surname was originally Parsons – specified in The Mime Order – but on reflection, this surname is unlikely to have survived in Scion.
2The names listed in this section are pseudonyms. Since the true Glossolalic names of the Rephaim are impossible for most humans to articulate, on Earth they use the names of stars – often associated with divinity and fate, and set high above humans.
3It is rare, but possible, for a clairvoyant to become amaurotic through the process of spirit shock (see glossary).
4The modern Irish spelling of this name is Fionn, while Finn is the anglicised form. During my revision of The Bone Season, I considered amending it, since I imagine Paige’s cousin being a staunch opponent of anglicisation. However, since Finn is also the Old Irish spelling – something I suspected he might appreciate – I eventually decided to keep his name as it was in the original.
5Unlike the majority of her classmates, Suzette had not absorbed the hibernophobic sentiment that spread across the Scion Republic of England in the wake of the Molly Riots. In France, this sentiment manifested as a suspicion of Bretons.
