SKENE CAST OF CHARACTERS

No child born on Skene is given the name of someone else living. Thus, every name is unique and there is no need for surnames, although sometimes a Skener will identify her aggie by giving her name as, for example, Yoj la Rosz, or Yoj of Rosz.

Honorific is Nan (no gender distinction.

SPOILER ALERT: Often descriptions of characters gives away future plot developments.

Amya = vetriste on Yanja, partner to Szebel, survivor of polio
Api = Ethicist of Skene when Mill meets Oby, aggie of Oby, partner of Ollow (name means fire in Indonesian)
Asha = Sigrist of Skene, along with partners Ludo and Kint; aggie of Gerra
Balt = pilot who flies the coroner sinner
Briel = child of Mrand, cousin to Gerra, eventual partner of Dodd
Bux = [pronounced boochs using aspirated ch of Hebrew] youngest child of Yerush, Qen and Veida; partner to Yoj and Halling; aggie to Mill, Ndege, Dodd, Prl and Speranz; wandmaler and eventual Sheng Zhang of Rahat
Clun = once lovers with Yoj; lighter pilot who dies when Mill is six months old; partner to Funa
Culisa = second child of Yerush, Qen and Veida; siba to Bux; apprenticing to be part of a goatkeeping Manage on Yagi; (name means direct in Xhosa)
Danaan = child of Iro and Ektr; partner to Rark; lighter pilot whom Halling saves; later explores new secano, helps Halling capture baby levi; (name means way in Tagalog)
Dest = Head Genist before Raisa
Dodd = second child (twin to Ndege) of Bux, Yoj and Halling; dichter when grown (Y)
Ektr = partner of Iro, runs crawler at compost field, aggie to Danaan
Enyi = jigong at Lofthall, fired by Halling (name means friend in Igbo)
Foln = Ethicist of Skene when Bux first partners with Halling and Yoj
Funa = lighter pilot who was partnered with Clun before Clun's death; (name means desire in Zulu)
Gerra = child of Asha, Ludo and Kint, future Sigrist, intimate of Ndege
Gusu = bully child when Yoj was little (name means mouth in Fijian)
Halling = [pronounced hahl - ling with equal emphasis on both syllables] third child of Mwezi and Ng; partner to Yoj and Bux; emma to Mill, Ndege, Dodd, Prl and Speranz; first partnered with Xaya; later some-time lover of Szebel; lighter and then sinner; later Sheng Zhang of Lofthall; grew up on Motu Fling, later lives in Manage on Riesig
Igoz = Sheng Zhang of Lofthall during Halling's time (name means nut in Hebrew) (Y)
Iro = aggie to Danaan; partner of Ektr; runs junkyard on Abfall; secretly helps Halling get parts to make laser weapon for leviathans
Jaln = next-door neighbor to Manage, partner with Ried, owns consignment store
Jyoti = other comadrona, lives on Verzin
Jua = timmer who works on loft and new bed (name means sun in Swahili)
Kiani =
Kint = Sigrist of Skene, along with partners Ludo and Asha; emma of Gerra
Konr = faryaste killed by leviathans in incident where Funa died
Kpahi = youngest child of Moasi and Ktiva (name means shut the door in Lenape)
Ktiva = partner to Ktiva, Halling's oldest siba (name means writing in Hebrew)
Lawa = youngest child of Mwezi and Ng; after graduation works at ejida on Byli, then comes to work at ejida on Riesig; eventual partner of Qala (name means soup in Quechua)
Lmape = lighter pilot who becomes sinner
Ludo = Sigrist of Skene, along with partners Kint and Asha; emma of Gerra
Lurok = elder on Pulo Fling, died and Bux served as wandmaler for her muralMaszon = partner to Veida, lighter, died young
Mayim = sinner whose live was saved by Xaya; she talked Halling to coming back to being a sinner, gave her the map (names means water in Hebrew)
Mill = oldest child of Bux, Yoj and Hallinger; lighter pilot when grown
Moasi = eldest child of Mwezi and Ng; after graduation works as silkworm farmer on Seda, expects to inherit Manage on Motu Fling (name means cat in Navajo)
Mrand = aggie on Hynys who dies giving birth before Veida can arrive; aggie to Briel
Mwezi = aggie to Halling, Moasi, Tu and Lawa; partner to Ng; silkworm worker and haicen; died young; lived on Motu Fling; child of Lranz, Maras and Qalaw (name means moon in Swahili)
Mwiva = oldest child of Moasi and Ktiva
Myrd = second child of Rosz and Nilma; after graduation works as minataur on Exploit and resides there; estranged from family
Naki = (maybe a photographer?)
Ndege = second child (twin to Dodd) of Bux, Yoj and Halling; sigrist when grown (name means bird in Swahili)
Ng = emma to Halling, Moasi, Tu and Lawa; partner to Mwezi, later lover of Qen; faryaste to Seda, keramiker (fertile Y); lived first on Motu Fling, then in Manage on Riesig
Nilma = emma to Yoj, Myrd and Owera; partner to Rosz; works as qigong on Yanja; lives on Isola Fling intermittently; child of Amyr and Malin
Oby = child of Api and Ollow, intimate of Mill
Okano = Astronomer
Ollow = partner of Api, emma of Oby; saltmaker
Owera = third child of Rosz and Nilma; after graduation works as qigong on Yanja; (name means wind in Mohawk)
Paha = oldest child of Yerush, Qen and Veida; siba to Bux; partnered as waadvogel on Beras; (name means hill in Sioux)
Pank = child of Veida's sib, eventually moves from Beras to partner with Tu, Halling's siba; aggie of Nk
Prl = fourth child of Bux, Yoj and Halling; genist when grown
Qala = radio operator at Lofthall; eventual secretary to Lofthall Sheng Zhang and partner to Lawa (Y)
Qen = emma to Bux, Paha and Culisa; partner to Yerush and Veida; later lover of Ng; leraar; grew up on Byli; child of Ndigo, Curak and Lisan; (unknown XXY)
Qiro = woman on Bosco, goes into labor and is delivered by Veida
Raisa = genist at time of leave to aggie for Bux, Yoj and Halling; old friend and sometime lover of Yerush
Rark = lighter, partner of Danaan
Ried = next-door neighbor, night shift curandera, has affair with Bux
Rosz = aggie to Yoj, Myrd and Owera; partner to Nilma; lives on Isola Fling; faryaste to Yanja, haichen, takashrashon; grew up on Isola; child of Dodoj and Tawer
Schla = sinner and wrangler, former lover of Bux
Sonne = municipal water worker, former lover of Yoj
Speranz = fifth child of Bux, Yoj and Halling; leraar and keramiker when grown; partner to Tlunu
Szebel = Halling's some-time lover on Yanja; mathematician to the vetriste guild
Tabeeya = neighbor on the lane in Riesig (name means nature in Arabic)
Tche = resident of Krk Fling whose partner Zra is killed by leviathan while she is gathering kelp on cortices of Krk
Tlochin = partner to Paha, lives on Beras (name means onion in Navajo)
Tlunu = child of Xaya's sib, eventual partner of Speranz; pilot
Tu = second child of Mwezi and Ng; after graduation works as silkworm farmer on Seda; eventually partners with Pank, child of Veida's sib; emma of Nk
Ubal = childhood friend of Yerush
Vants = second child of Moasi and Ktiva (Y)
Veida = emma to Bux, Paha and Culisa; partner to Yerush and Qen; first partner was Maszon; was originally a lighter, retired after Maszon's death and became comadrona; grew up on Beras; child of Espara and Hamt (name means fish in Icelandic)
Wiaki = partner of Szebel, massive yanjanger (name means abundance in Lenape) (Y)
Xaya = first lover and partner of Halling; lighter who died young; sibemma to Tlunu
Xichon = aggie on Argile who calls for services of Veida
Yalewa = less than completely competent pilot at Lofthall (name means woman in Fijian)
Yerush = aggie to Bux, Paha and Culisa; partner to Veida and Qen; only child of B'ruch and Melli; gakusha in history and teaches at University; sometimes elected ethicist; some-time lover of Raisa, later lover to Ng; grew up in Manage on Riesig and inherited it
Yoj = [pronounced yosh with long o] oldest child of Rosz and Nilma; partner to Halling and Bux; emma to Mill, Ndege, Dodd, Prl and Speranz; dichter and later gakusha as well; grew up on Isola Fling, later lives in Manage on Riesig
ZaMa = apprentice Archivist who agrees to train Yoj
Z'bef = schoolchum of Yoj's who is convicted of murder and sent to exile on Peisuo
Zra = resident of Krk Fling (partner of Tche) who is eaten by leviathan as she is gathering kelp on the cortices of Krk
Zeman = Sheng Zhang of Lofthall during time of Veida

Yerush's aggie = B'ruch
Yerush's emma = Melli
Qen's aggie = Ndigo
Qen's emma = Curak
Qen's emma = Lisan
Veida's aggie = Espara
Veida's emma = Hamt
Ng's aggie = Hala
Ng's emma = Vantu
Mwezi's aggie = Lranz
Mwezi's emma = Maras
Mwezi's emma = Walaw
Rosz's aggie = Dodoj
Rosz's emma = Tawer
Nilma's aggie = Amyr
Nilma's emma = Malin
Moasi and Ktiva's children: Mwiva, Vants, Kpahi


Copyright 2007 Maggie Jochild