Secondary Characters, by Family or Place Associations, who feature most prominently in the Heliodyssey Quintet, as set in 59/1938

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Always Ararat

ARARAT, Rhea

also known as Rhea Sangati; born in 1860(?); parents unknown but believed to have been Magister Joseph Mandam's sister, possibly his twin; polyandrous, had Olympias Kinesis by Azrael Sangati in 1888, Mata Avar by an unknown father (presumably Sedon St Synne) in 1900, and Medea Annulis by Aeetes Tauri in 1904;

thought to have been mother of Etzel Sangati (b: 1905) by Bleda Sangati; somehow connected to Master Devas, Pyrame Silverstar and Nergal Vetala; never aged after having Olympias born Sangati; some believe Barsine Mandam stole Nergal Vetala from Mama Rhea at the moment of her conception or birth; that Norma, the Deadly Druidess who killed Celestine D'Angelo in 1923, was Rhea aging again;

initial affiliation: Anthean Sisterhood; became co-superior (along with Leonora D'Angelo) in 1895 when Kyprian Somata, the then Master of Weir, withdrew from the Outer Earth; also associated with Athenans, Hellions, Korants and Ophirants; presumed to have died during Summoning of 1920 but could have been Norma in 1923, though not Miracle Maenad in 1938;

Mycenae, 1916

The Scythian was easily twenty years older than the Sicilian witch and a good decade the Metisse's senior. Was also much more highly skilled. Had to be wearing a Serpent Splendour, a seeming that gave her the look of a woman in her late twenties and therefore around the same age as the elder Angelic. The vampire of 1895, the one slain by the Italian-Sicilian when she was not much older than her baby sister was now, had been her first husband. Its brother was her current one.

A wanderer of both the weird and the wonderful, she was a one-time rival of the two Sicilians' mother; was, like Leonora, a Sister Superior of the Antediluvian Sisterhood before a bout of madness Antheans diagnosed as maenadism led to her disgrace. Supposedly approaching seven years sane again, possibly as a direct result of having the girl-child with her, her abilities were undiminished; might even have been ameliorated by the experience of losing then recovering her mind.

As such she could have come from literally almost anywhere. The last time she had written to either of them it was from the Altai Mountains of Southern Siberia, from a place she called Pazyryk. Neither of the other women had heard of it before; could not find it on any map. The former Godling described it as having something to do with the Mongolian-born Temuchin, who was better known in the west as Genghis Khan.

Fifteen hundred years before the Great Khan began his decades of brutal conquest, it may have been a far-flung outpost of the Persian Empire. Long, long before that, however, it may have been the birthplace of what eventually became the Chinese race, -- after Anthea's Ark landed atop Mt Ararat and humanity's great diaspora of approaching six thousand years ago began in earnest of course.

And Ararat was Mama Rhea's matrilineal last name!

-- from the first chapter of the 2002 Revision of "The Moloch Manoeuvres"

"Would that I had the opportunity to know my mother as you did. What I most remember about her was that she was beautiful, -- one who never aged, so I'm told. What I am offering you is based on her recipe, for want of a better word. Considering she was nearly sixty when she was murdered, I would say that is a strong recommendation for my proposal." -- Medea Annulis to Hulga Faust, from 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'

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"Rhea was a regular Kala of the Hindus. She murdered and ate her many husbands. Murdered and ate any baby boys she bore but for the last, -- if Etzel is hers, which I doubt very much. Bathed in the blood of infants she slaughtered. Conducted hideous initiation rites for post-pubescent maidens. And, if they failed to pass the menstrual mustard as if were, she would cut them apart and bathe in their blood too."

-- Hulga Faust to Medea Annulis, from 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'

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"Whatever else she may or may not have been, Rhea thought men were cattle, those who took everything and gave nothing back."

"Other than shit and sperm," Medea qualified, not that she necessarily disagreed with the Volsung matriarch"

-- from 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'

It begins with Memory of the Angels killing Daemonic Rhea. That happened right here in Rome back in 1923, when she was 14 years old. Rhea, who was going by the name of Norma in those days, deserved it too. Only the day before, down south in the Antheans' Pompeii Shelter at the foot of Mt. Vesuvius, Rhea/Norma kidnapped two year old Baby Virginia from the Ants' refuge and had not only murdered but mutilated then immolated Memory's oldest sister, Celestine D'Angelo. So why didn't those with Rhea-Norma retaliate, kill Memory as easily as they did the Celestial Superior?

-- from the synopsis to "To the Devil his Duel"

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"Clymene [born Catreus become Atreides] personally knows Miracle Maenad, Corn Queen of Apple Isle, Sedon's Human Eye-Land, on the other side of Trigon's Kore Gap. And who is she, other than an acolyte of that mysteriously missing Master Deva, Divine Coueranna, myrionymous Kore herself? Mystery Might suspects Miracle's Rhea Ararat, the unaging mother of the late Olympias nee Sangati then Kinesis, Mata now Avar, Medea now Annulis (who, after being driven off the Outer Earth by Sorciere and Granny Garuda in the later stages of 'The Moloch Manoeuvres', has taken refuge on Ap Isle), and the recently deceased Count Molech (Etzel Sangati)."

-- from the teaser to 'Helioddity'

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Mata and Medea are gypsies. Their mother was the long dead Rhea, nee Ararat, become (Mrs Azrael) Sangati, who may have been Magister Joseph Mandam's [twin] sister. M+M's older sister was Olympias, born Sangati, become Kinesis, but always Ararat, who was last seen alive during the Simultaneous Summonings of 1920.

-- from the synopsis to 'Baltic Nightmares'

When Pyrame Silverstar humanized the Memory Entity they – rather, she – took on an approximation of Rhea [nee Ararat Sangati], yes, but it was actually an approximation of Machine-Memory’s possible template, Mnemosyne D’Angelo, who [not only was still alive but who] did look somewhat like Rhea had. Equally so, the real Rhea, and the real Barsine, bore a distinct resemblance to Nergal Vetala, albeit without the fangs, sallow complexion, third eye, distinctive greenishness and thumbs on the wrong hands.

-- from the synopsis to 'Young Death and Uncle Abe Chaos'

"You already knew Barsine was a reborn Vetala?" asked Jesse.

"We kind of had to know, didn't we," Akbar acknowledged. "Her mother was Olympias by then Kinesis but initially Sangati."

"As in Azrael Sangati, Count Molech's uncle?"

"Yes. While Olympias' mother was ..."

"Rhea Ararat, Azrael's wife."

"And Old Joe's twin sister."

"Who I might have come back as," piped up Tethys again. "Had I not been still alive in '88."

"When she died giving birth to Olympias." Amazingly enough, young Mandam found himself following them without too much difficulty. Must be the air in here, he figured. The air of the Head, that is. The air in the tavern was appropriately dank, musty, and very nearly impossible to breathe.

"Of course," he carried on, just to show how well he was following them, "Rhea was born with Vetala inside her, which explains how she stayed alive long enough to bear Mata, Medea, and probably Etzel Sangati, Count Molech, by a variety of different men including Azrael's brother, Bleda."

"Oh, I know who her men were," offered Tethys. "One thing I'm not altogether sure about, though, is whether Rhea had Medea or Etzel. They were born too close together for her to have had both of them, that's for certain. Myself, I think it was Etzel but I guess that's neither here nor there any more."

"The vampire in both '95 and '20 was Rhea/Vetala I presume."

"Actually, no. Vampires are infertile. Even if the only thing that kept her going was the Nergalid, Rhea had kids into the mid-zeroes. Had she turned herself before then even Vetala couldn't have walked about in the daylight, ate normal food, make love and bear children. Same goes for Barsine."

Akbar took his cue and finished up what Tethys began. "'95's Vampire Prime was Azrael whereas, in all likelihood, '20's initial bloodsucker was Brother Bleda. They turned themselves after impregnating any number of future Maker Mothers."

"I gather the Sangatis had the same father but different mothers."

"Would appear so. Azrael was seven years older than Bleda."

"Appear? In all likelihood?"

"Sharp as a tack, your boy," noted Tethys.

"As a vampire's fang, more like," smiled the much more massive Kronokronos.

-- from 'In the Company of Chaos'

Rhea Ararat's her-story was largely recounted in Mole-6 whereas her fate was recounted in Mole-8; there's a note as to the identity of her father here; there's an entry on the false notion that Rhea was the Miracle Maenad who conceived, but didn't give birth to the Trigon Triplets here;

see also Witches, Norma the Deadly Druidess, Pyrame Silverstar, Nergal Vetala, Miracle Maenad, Olympias Kinesis, Mata Avar, Medea Annulis, Etzel Sangati; Eden Nightingale;

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D'ANGELO, Celestine

Huh? Who? How? What, other than just about everything, is so special about her?; well, as a child she once had a cat named Bast;

As if in answer to her question, Mnemosyne and Virginia touched each other on their nearest shoulders. Between them shimmered the ghostly figure of an evanescent woman of indeterminate age whose hair was silver and whose body, such as it was, seemed composed of a rainbow. Even though most thought her dead for a decade and a half, when Sorciere was still in diapers and Fish barely out of them, Hush and the other two fully conscious Antheans instantly realized what, rather who, this was.

It was the spirit, the ghost, the soul self, of the famous Celeste Mannering, of the Celestial Superior -- arguably, as many members of the Sisterhood believed back then, of Flowery Anthea herself. Forever detached from her own body, which had been hacked apart and immolated by the demonic Druidess, the one Memory had known simply as Norma, in 1923, this was all that was left of Celestine D'Angelo!

-- from 'Celestial Intercession', a chapter of 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'

D'ANGELO, Dolores

also known as Sister Sorrow, in 1938 she's the apparently childless, Anthean Mother Superior who helped raise Virginia ("Ginny") Mannering at request of Abe Ryne circa 1929/30;

knows nothing about the Inner Earth of Sedon's Head, where Master Kyprian Somata is the Whole Earth's Anthean Mother Superior; once had a cat named Bast;

see Witches, Superior Sorrow, Diego Rivera, Thalassa, Aires, and various other relations listed under D'Angelo;

D'ANGELO, Leonora (nee Tedesco)

b. 1865, d. 1920; wife of Michael D'Angelo; mother of Celestine, Raphael, Dolores, and Mnemosyne D'Angelo; co-Superior of Anthean Sisterhood along with Rhea Ararat from 1895 until 1909; possible connection to Meroudys Artha, one of Dand Tariqartha's faerie children, and Eden Nightingale, Abe Ryne's first wife, has never been demonstrated undeniably; reportedly once had a cat named Bast;

see also Witches, Trigon Triplets

RIVERA, Diego

husband of Dolores nee D'Angelo, foster father of Virginia Mannering;

St SYNNE, Sophia become D'Angelo

born in 1906, the daughter of Sedon St Synne and Louise nee Riel; sister Cybele, who disappeared along with their mother in the Himalayan Valley of the Visionaries during the Godling Guild's Summoning of 1920; Sophia not only survived the Summoning (pregnant with Anita), she was still alive and evidently well in 1980;

mother by Raphael D'Angelo of, in order, Anita (Nita), Peter (the supranormal version of Demon Land), Claudia (Cloud, had a cat named Bast at the start of 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'), Leandro (Amoeba Prime), Gabriel (Klarion - possibly the supra version of Djinn Domitian, Mithras's main male Heliodromus at the time of 'Feeling Theocidal'), Gloriella (Radiant Rider), Marcello (at least officially), Tereza, Anna Maria, Belificent and John Paul (Bloodfist); adoptive mother of the Terrible Twins (later the Elemental Twins) Aires ('Airhead') and Thalassa ('Sea Stuff'), both of whom were Summoning Children like Nita;

A very devout Roman Catholic reputedly gifted with Prayer Power; she became the living receptacle of Faceless Strife during the tail end of 'Helios on the Moon', which was set in 1980; also appeared, most prominently, in 'The Moloch Manoeuvres', which was set in 1938, and ' Ringleader's Revenge', which was set in 1955, 1960 and 1964/5;

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The Family Dre'Ath

| Angus Dre'Ath | Bruce Dre'Ath | Gilda nee O'Ryan Dre'Ath | Elaine nee Dre'Ath Maxwell | Rebecca ("Becky") Elizabeth nee Maxwell Dre'Ath | Lilabet Dre'Ath | Maxwell Dre'Ath | Nathan Dre'Ath | Sean Dre'Ath | The 4 Skullians |

DRE'ATH, Angus

DRE'ATH, Bruce

DRE'ATH, Gilda

DRE'ATH, Elaine (Maxwell)

- daughter of Angus and Gilda, their eldest child, once married to Jock Maxwell, mother of Dinah and Dana; although mentioned earlier, doesn't appear until 'Coueranna's Curse'; helps mother Gilda run the Dre'Ath's North Sea hospice, where the 4 Skullians live and work;

"If only a real little girl hadn't been kidnapped in Scotland by, presumably, a bunch of changeling Selkies, faeries all."

-- from the teaser to 'Coueranna's Curse'

"There are three Dre'Ath grandchildren. Elaine, the Dre'Aths' eldest and only girl, had two of them, twins, by Jock Maxwell, who's among those still searching for the Galvin-Shekmet party lost in Africa toward the end of December 1937. Their names were Dinah and Dana.

"Elaine and Jock were divorced after Dana died of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), what in '38 was commonly referred to as Crib Death. Dinah, a blonde, ordinary girl around seven, lives with her mom at the Family Dre'Aths' North Sea hospice, which Elaine runs on a day-to-day basis. Sooth said again, as always in these synopses, Kore-12 opens with Dinah having a vision of her long dead twin.

"... Elaine thought faeries were targeting Dinah, the same as they didn't just target dead-Dana around six years previously. They got Dana then. Left a magicked stock of wood in her crib, didn't they?"

-- from the synopsis to 'Fear Dark'

DRE'ATH, Rebecca ("Becky") Elizabeth nee Maxwell

-sister of Jock Maxwell, wife of Sean Dre'Ath, mother of Lilabet;

DRE'ATH, Elizabeth (best known as Lilabet; also referred to a Baby Betty in 1938 serials)

- daughter of Becky nee Maxwell and Sean Dre'Ath; born in 1937; grows up to become a Cosmicaptain who was apparently killed during the Launching of the Cosmic Express;

DRE'ATH, Maxwell

also known as Magus Maxius; son of Angus and Gilda nee O'Ryan Dre'Ath; sister: Elaine Maxwell (mother of Dana and Dinah by Jock Maxwell, before they were divorced); brothers by Angus and Gilda: Sean and Nathan; brothers by Angus and his 'faerie' wives: the four Skullians, Homer (blind), Jubal (crippled), Gregory (mentally challenged), & Mycroft (deaf); as such is the Seventh Son of a Seventh son;

"Unaware of the confrontation going on in the Grey just beyond the family villa, Mnemosyne D'Angelo has taken seventeen year old Maxwell Dre'Ath to bed. It's his first time but for Memory of the Angels, well, she's an Afrite, a Lovely Lady, a worshipper of Aphrodite.

She considers love, make that love-making, an offering to the Great Goddess. What she does not realize is what young Dre'Ath's Summoning Heritage has granted him, -- the ability to turn innate supras into actual ones."

- from the synopsis to 'Wayfarers of the Weird'

DRE'ATH, Nathan

Megaera nee Kinesis Zeross wasn't misnamed after all. Her given name is the same as one of the three Female Furies [the 'Eumenides' {a euphemistic name meaning, in Greek, 'the kind ones'} or the 'Erinyes' {their correct and most common name, meaning 'the angry ones'}]. Four-fingered Meg's given name means 'Grudge'.

Meg fully intended to confront Nathan with his crimes [a rape and a {consequential} homicide] before they [his parents, Angus and Gilda] arrived. That way she would have him sorted out before she took him away, -- or killed him, which she was also prepared to do, if he or his parents ignored her allegations. She wanted to give him a chance to confess his guilt, freely and without coercion, in front of his parents and the rest of his family. Count Molech may have been a charlatan, a phony, a Melancholy Magician or whatever, but he did not deserve the fate that befell him. Nathan did.

-- from the synopsis to 'Glowing Gonads'

"Shooting seals does not a legend make, mate," said Wildman Dervish Furie [Gentleman Jervis Murray's codename when he's in his 'Werewolf in Shorts' mode.

"Yeah? Take a closer look, gruesome." Nathan Dre'Ath was proud of himself. He bent over the Selkie's corpse, dug his fingers into the bullet holes, and began to pull away its skin. Underneath it, as dead as the seal appeared to be, was a human being, a man covered with red hair and powerful muscles; a man, he had to admit, who did look a lot like him.

"That's Fear Dark, brawn-for-brains. I just killed a living nightmare."

-- from the synopsis to 'Apis Isle'

DRE'ATH, Sean

- firstborn son of Angus and Gilda nee O'Ryan Dre'ath; husband of Becky nee Maxwell, father of Lilabet; brother of Elaine, Nate and Max; half-brother of the 4 Skullians;

"Sean Dre'Ath did not stay at the Hotel for the Alliance's final session. He took a cab back to the D'Angelos' villa. Felt so bad about letting himself be sucked in by Ginny's wiles, not to mention her fetching eyes, that he wanted to try to explain his misbehaviour, to put it mildly, to his wife, Rebecca Elizabeth nee Maxwell."

-- from the synopsis to "To the Devil his Duel"

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"As capable as Nita [Anita D'Angelo] was at nearly everything she tried, she needed help with the children. Three at once, Gloriel, Aranyani, and Marcello, plus a crying baby and a couple of potentially volcanic parents, were a bit much.

"Becky Dre'Ath suddenly slumped forward. Something blew out the back of Sean's left shoulder and upper chest. Blood, gore, and slivers of bone covered her, the kids, the playpen, the toys, even the walls. Something else came out of the air, -- no, out of little Aran!

"Some one! A silver streak! A quicksilver-quick shriek of a horrible-headed or hideously-helmeted harridan all in silver and wearing Quicksilver's, Mercury's, talarial winged boots! With silver snakes slither-struggling out of its, her, silver scalp only to end up going nowhere!

"Then certain things were not there any more. The quicksilver killer, Sean Dre'Ath, and most of what passed for her mind; her precious but, as was no secret, ever-fragile sanity. Don't scream, Nita told herself. She did not need to, -- the kids did it for her!"

-- from 'To the Devil his Duel'

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"The female of the two Silver Arrow Assassins, Sagitta aka Artemis nee Zeross Hyperenor, brings Sean Dre'Ath, what's left of him, into the Nebuland tent set up within the ancient, remarkably still-mostly-standing Roman Colosseum. Turns out it wasn't her who put him into his misery however. In fact, she's the reason he's still alive. Alive, that is, unless Count Molech kills him for despoiling his intended, Virginia Mannering, earlier that day."

-- from the synopsis to 'To the Devil a Son'

SKULLIAN

the four Skullians are Homer (blind), Jubal (crippled), Gregory (mentally challenged), & Mycroft (deaf); their father was Angus Dre'Ath; conceived during the Simultaneous Summonings of 1920, as revealed in 'The Volsung Variations' their mothers were faeries who died nursing them;

also in 'The Volsung Variations' Hush tells their stepmother, Mama Goldie, that among those she travelled to fairyland with were "four feeorin half-breeds capable of much more than just doing Max's bidding";

That Mycroft 'Mickey' Skullian, a deaf-mute, brought Helios's message to Memory [of the Angels], and used Max's voice, tells you something of what's happening to the 4 Skullians since the return of their youngest half-brother, Maxwell 'Max' Dre'Ath (Magus Maxius) to Scotland.

Max, the master of all the tellies, as he described himself when he called himself Telemax and hooked up with the Sorority of Sausages in the revised version of 'The Moloch Manoeuvres', is making the blind see (Homer) and the deaf both hear and speak (Mycroft). As for what's he's working on with the other two, Jubal, who's so leg-crippled he's confined to a wheelchair, and Gregory, who's a simple-minded near-giant, guess what?, we'll have to wait for a later chapter to find that out.

-- from the synopsis to 'Scattered Brains'

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AREMAR, Candace nee Dugas

- wife of Diomedes Aremar, the Ark's skipper; older sister of Camille Dugas, the Supra Saint code-named Clair du Lune ('Moonlight'); presumed mother of James Aremar, captain of the UNES Liberty in 1980;

"The Ark's 'mom' isn't the chief cook and bottle washer but she does oversee the chief cook and makes him wash the bottles."

-- from the synopsis to 'Dancing with Devils'

AREMAR, Diomedes

- the Ark's skipper; husband of Candace nee Dugas; presumed father of James Aremar, captain of the UNES Liberty in 1980;

CREEL, Raul, Doctor

- Ship's doctor, Charan's Ark circa 1938; father of Paul Creel, physician on Centauri Island in 1980;

DIS L'ORCA, Hadrian

- presumed father of Salvatore Dis L'Orca; also appears during 'Ringleader's Revenge';

"Berchta von Alptraum (born Faust always Volsung) is Brunhild's mother and Tanith's aunt. She's brought with her the bastard, Sigurd Lancz, whom she believes is her child by Donar Lancz. Sigurd is the only other preteen aboard besides the Ryne children. In addition to Brunhild, Tanith and Sigurd, Berchta's more or less responsible for Dark, Dulles and Dis L'Orca. That's because Dark and Dulles's fathers work for Berchta's husband, the Baron, while Dis L'Orca, whose parents were killed during the Spanish Civil War, lives at the Baron's Hamburg home."

-- from the synopsis to 'Dancing with Devils'

DARK, Immanuel

- in 'The Volsung Variations' (Volvar-2, properly entitled "Faerie Fight"), Dark is described as the Domdaniel-deviant; there's more on him here;

"Berchta von Alptraum (born Faust always Volsung) is Brunhild's mother and Tanith's aunt. She's brought with her the bastard, Sigurd Lancz, whom she believes is her child by Donar Lancz. Sigurd is the only other preteen aboard besides the Ryne children. In addition to Brunhild, Tanith and Sigurd, Berchta's more or less responsible for Dark, Dulles and Dis L'Orca. That's because Dark and Dulles's fathers work for Berchta's husband, the Baron, while Dis L'Orca, whose parents were killed during the Spanish Civil War, lives at the Baron's Hamburg home."

-- from the synopsis to 'Dancing with Devils'

- or, as Hush [born Pandora Mannering] characterizes him to Mama Goldie [Gilda nee O'Ryan Dre'Ath] in VolVar-1 :

"A Lightray Lancelot with a contrary surname ..."

there's a gold-mining box referring to Dark, who's still alive in 1980, here; see also Gloriella D'Angelo Dark;

Tanith von Blut didn’t want to be left out. “If I’m going to have to traipse off with a Society of Suicides led by a silliness-spouting Sister Shark [Fisherwoman] and with a bunch of teenagers no older, or not much older, than me, including a French girl calling herself Moonlight and a Brit calling himself Dark Brilliance, shouldn't I get a codename too?”

“That’s Brilliant,” Immanuel Dark objected. “Mister Brilliant to you.”

“Brill Brit sounds better,” giggled Camille Dugas, whose codename did mean moonlight. “Sinister Shark isn’t bad, though.”

-- from the synopsis to 'Aegis-Jesus'

as Mr Brilliant, Dark was also a member of the King's Own Crimefighters and the King Conquerors

DUGAS, Camille

- a French-born and initially strictly French-speaking Summoning Child; younger sister of Candace become Aremar; as a member of SOS, the Sorority of Sausages, from 'The Moloch Manoeuvres', her codename was 'Icicles for Arms'; later, as part of SOS, the Society of Suicides, she decided to change it to 'Clair du Lune', meaning 'Moonlight';

- in 'The Volsung Variations' Hush says of Camille that she thinks of her as a "moonbeam matter-slinger ... a lunartic, a Loon-Arctic, since she gives cold shots an entirely new meaning";

"Sea's twin, Aires, has been busy himself, bedding Camille ("Icicles for Arms") Dugas. Which leads to an unexpected development on her part. As Ted Mayhew puts to the Great Man: "We've an airhead in the hold."

Then Nightingale and the Baroness saw Loxus, Ted, Diomedes, Leonardo Starrus, and a few of their men go down below guns already drawn. They followed; were caught up short by what they saw. Almost as if she had a magnet embedded in her cranium, Camille Dugas, the Summoning Aged younger sister of Captain Aremar's wife, Candace, was apparently adhering to the metallic roof of the hold by her skull!"

-- from the synopsis to "Supras Awakening"

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"Aires D'Angelo dumped Camille Dugas after she went all air-heady on him and took up with Memory, his Afrite of an adoptive aunt."

-- from the synopsis to 'Jesse Does a Jesus'

DULLES, Andrew 'Droid'

"Berchta von Alptraum (born Faust always Volsung) is Brunhild's mother and Tanith's aunt. She's brought with her the bastard, Sigurd Lancz, whom she believes is her child by Donar Lancz. Sigurd is the only other preteen aboard besides the Ryne children. In addition to Brunhild, Tanith and Sigurd, Berchta's more or less responsible for Dark, Dulles and Dis L'Orca. That's because Dark and Dulles's fathers work for Berchta's husband, the Baron, while Dis L'Orca, whose parents were killed during the Spanish Civil War, lives at the Baron's Hamburg home."

-- from the synopsis to 'Dancing with Devils'

TOMBSTONE, Will

"Will Tombstone, Grave's Head, Kid Cemetery, was one supra who did not have to shoot straight. All he had to do was pull the trigger. His bullets went wherever he wanted them to, -- even around corners."

-- from the synopsis to 'Dragon Joe'

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DJINN

sometimes addressed as Heliodromus; see also Ghoster;

"He was odd too, this fellow Etzel addressed as Djinn. Dressed like one as well, in a turban and silken garments, as if he was a genie straight out of Aladdin's lamp or a Persian Magus ..." -- from 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'

"Sangati's be-turbaned manservant, a huge Turk or Arab who looked like he should have no shirt on and a scimitar in his waistband ..."

-- from 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'

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"When you consider Airhead and Sea Stuff are on Charan's Ark steaming across the Mediterranean to Egypt right about now, all the supra-plotline threads are finally knitting together. Are just a couple of more to add. One of them is Pyrame's other idea about how to keep Helios away from his parents-to-be.

Heliosophos believed his first ever identity, the one he did not so much assume as was given during his first lifetime, was that of Kadmon Heliopolis, the son of Agenor Heliopolis and Argiope nee Zeross. In order to protect Agenor and Bright Face Silverstar hoped to hide them in Djinn's Nebuland.

Was not a bad idea. The Heliodromus of Lazareme had a reputation as an accommodating devil. However, besides the fact, as the Master pointed out to her, she was in no position to put her idea into practise, there were some problems with Pyrame's plan. One was that Djinn may have lost his protectorate on January the Fourteenth on the Outer Earth.

Another's who Djinn's hanging around with nowadays. Scum-coming tuna-tune-soon, the Redstripe Rockfish return of ... Dugong-don't Mississippi-miss it!

-- from the synopsis to 'Old King Kad'

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"Delphi and I aren't exactly fishtail-fans of yours, Djinn. Among other things you tautog-tattooed us onto your anchovy-arm and, after we got away, you thornback-threatened to parboil Delphi and serve her to us for diamondback terrapin dinner. Besides, even if we were deadhead-heading the same direction, why would I trust a double-dogfish-dealing devil? Everything I've been tentacle-taught goes agate-against guppy-gobbling-gabbing with, let alone triton-trusting, a damn devazur!"

Shortly thereafter, the Heliodromus of Lazareme says to Fisherwoman:

"Then you have heard more than me, deva-daughter. Though I doubt [Anti-Patriarch] Cain is capable of being raised anew."

As it happens, if Ulysses Heliopolis, 5938's Taurus of Apple Isle, is Heliosophos, the Male Entity, which he apparently is, and if in his first lifetime he was Cain, Slayer of Abel, which he might have been, Djinn could be wrong about that. Could even be wrong about Fish, Scylla Nereid, being a deva-daughter; that is say about her being a deviant.

Then again, in both cases, he might be right. Fish certainly is not wrong when she calls Djinn a devil. He is a Master Deva, a third generational devil and a damn devazur, as she also puts it.

-- from the synopsis to 'Discussing Deviants'

Dancing with devils occurs on Aegean Trigon.

"What is it, mistress?" [Djinn the jinn required.]

"Open your damn eyes, Ghostie," Fisherwoman exclaimed, suddenly no longer fishifying. "All three of them! The omphalos is surrounded by stepping stones. And we're inside its Circe-Circle."

They started appearing off the agates around them: two by two, man and woman, holding hands: Clymene and Pelops Atreides, Roxanne and Alexandros Kinesis, Angelo and Megaera Zeross, Artemis and Nester Hyperenor, -- though they were undeniably in Sagitta and Sagittarius mode now --, and, lastly, Agenor Heliopolis with Sorciere, Solace Sunrise.

Agenor was holding Sorciere's hand but he was also holding a gun to her temple.

-- from the synopsis to 'Dancing with Devils'

HENT, Mesmer

- the Dutch-born supra code-named Mr Attraction; in 'The Volsung Variations' Hush refers to him as "Mister-Mesmer Attraction-Hent from the Force-Firm of Hither Thither & Hold";

"Unfortunately for Apsyrtus Annulis, Laodice Atreides is leaning toward Mesmer Hent, a Dutch-born Summoning Child she first met a couple of years before on Crete, which was when and where Mesmer's parents were killed caving. Now as good as an adopted von Alptraum, he too is staying on the estate with the Volsungs."

-- from the synopsis to 'Baltic Nightmares'

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MANDAM, Mary Magdalene nee Ryne

- born 1900; died 1933 in a ship off Cyprus that was heading towards the Alliance of Man's gathering in Rome to discuss the Summoning Children;

- twin sister of Loxus Abraham Ryne; parents: Charan Noah Ryne & Athena nee Kinesis;

- definite mother of Jesus Mandam by Magister Joseph Mandam; believed she was Barsine's mother as well, though Jesse looked more like a Ryne whereas Barsine looked more like a Kinesis; in other words, her twins looked nothing alike;

- sickly most of her life; deeply religious; many suspected she was a natural born witch but old Joe refused to allow her to get any proper training;

see also Lamia, Lamiae, and a gold-mining box from 'The Volsung Variations' here;

The Magdalene died giving birth to Thea. She wouldn't be a lamia if she hadn't. That Thea's was a phantom pregnancy and the Magdalene had herself a phantom midwife, that was detailed in VamVar-1. If a phantom pregnancy and a phantom midwife don't qualify her as one of the world's weirdest wraiths, I'll eat my weird-writer credentials -- with salt!

Jesus Mandam may have been her Summoning Child. So too might have been Virginia Mannering. Even though she looked somewhat like her mother, Athena born Kinesis, Barsine Mandam probably wasn't her daughter. Beyond that I don't care to comment at this time.

... from the synopsis to "Grave Gravy", the 3rd chapter of 'The Vampire Variations';

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MANDAM, Barsine

Barsine Mandam is, dependent on who's doing the talking, Jesus Mandam's identically aged full-sister or half-sister or absolute non-sister. Although brought up as his twin, there are many who believe they had different mothers and possibly even different fathers.

She's another lookalike for Rhea Ararat and, until we discover what's become of her in 'Coueranna's Curse', she's mostly regarded as just one of a number of those who went missing in the Congo around the Winter Solstice of 1937;

- a Summoning Child born on Christmas Day 1920, the same day her half-brother, Jesus, was born to Mary Magdalene nee Ryne and Magister Joseph Mandam; brought up as Jesse's twin sister even though the Magdalene believed she did not belong to her; a talented photographer.

- if she wasn't the Magdalene's daughter then her mother may have been one of those who died giving birth nine months after the Summoning of 1920; was with Magister Mandam and others in the Eastern Congo when they discovered the Tholos Tomb for Pygmies and its link to Cleopatra's Bath in very early January 1936; was one of those lost around Xmas 1937 on the Galvin/Shekmet expedition to the Eastern Congo in a quest for the Fountain of Youth;

- plays an important role in 'Coueranna's Curse' and is a central character in 'The Vampire Variations'; various nicknames include Barstool (because she enjoyed the good life), Sandbar (this from Fisherwoman), Sunshine (from her father) and Bat-Bait (which she coined herself because Athenan War Witches realized she was an incarnation of Nergal Vetala and, as such, Janna Fangfingers and her vamps were after her);

"There are a surprising number of candidates for Count Molech's attentions. One is Barsine Mandam, Magister Joseph Mandam's Summoning-Aged daughter, whose mother may or may not have been the Magister's wife, Mary Magdalene born Ryne, who died ever so mysteriously at sea in April 1933. (And if Barsine's mother wasn't the Magdalene, was therefore unknown, she, the real mother, could have died giving her, Barsine, birth, couldn't she?)"

-- from the synopsis to 'Her Story in the Making'

---

"Barsine Mandam's the vampire!" Valfreja Volsung could not believe her mother's words.

"Potential vampire, Freya," Hulga [Faust, always Volsung] corrected her. "Etzel Sangati, Count Molech, was only a potential vampire, recall."

from 'Coueranna's Curse'

- the above quote, from Kore-1, proves prescient; Barsine was born with Nergal Vetala, the vampire in terms of the PHANTACEA Mythos, inside her; hence her rather unlikely survival after as per here;

The real Barsine bore a distinct resemblance to Nergal Vetala, albeit without the fangs, sallow complexion, third eye, distinctive greenishness and thumbs on the wrong hands. So, had he [Young Death] seen [through Abe Chaos in Berlin] Barsine with Vetala unmistakably shining through her or had he seen Vetala shining through some other, and otherwise unknown, shell of hers?

-- from the synopsis to 'Young Death and Uncle Abe Chaos'

- Donar Lancz, the self-proclaimed Teutonic Templar, asks himself much the same question when, later on in 'Coueranna's Curse', he encounters the man with the solitary name of Abaddon's companion at Castle Nightmare, a beauty calling herself Norma (also no last name):

And what about this Norma? Who was she really? Lancz had two thoughts on that as well. They were not whether she was devil or angel; human or something entirely else. They were not whether Norma was her real name or not. He was sure she was no Norma. What he could not decide was whether she was Rhea Ararat or her Summoning Child of a niece, the daughter of Olympias nee Sangati Kinesis. He was pretty sure it was the latter.

Was pretty sure she was Barsine Mandam.

... from "Cry Chaos", the 7th chapter of 'Coueranna's Curse'

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MANITOULIN (Shamanitoulin)

A Cheyenne Medicine Man who rescued the infant Sedon St Synne at the Battle of Little Big Horn and raised him alongside Louise nee Riel (who eventually became Sed-son's wife and the birthmother of both Sophia become D'Angelo and Cybele St Synne). Years later Shamanitoulin, as he was nicknamed, also raised John Sundown and Solace (Sorciere) Sunrise. He may have been Sorciere's father by Louise.

As a Wayfarer in the Weird he could send himself psychically to Sed-son, Lamia Lou, Sundown and Sorciere. He figured prominently in 'The Moloch Manoeuvres', which was serialized beginning in 1996, and appears quite extensively in 'The Vampire Variations', which began its serialization in 2006;

Three-quarters of a century old or damn near, the sightless man was quite the sight. Wiry rather than frail, he was also steel-grey rather than steel-eyed due to the fact his eyes were blindfolded with a leather strap. His lips were rouged; a blood-red third eye was outlined inside a black triangle in the centre of his forehead; and black and white stripes not unlike chevrons were drawn on his cheek.

He was dressed in white buckskin leggings and moccasins, a sleeveless buffalo cloak or 'star blanket' with the fur turned outwards, and a buffalo hat or 'issiwun' with the horns pointing up. Although he wore a multi-layered, multi-coloured beaded necklace across his chest, his perhaps surprisingly muscular arms were bare; had animalistic or fetishistic symbols etched up and down them.

While he was not about to wrassle a bear or outrace a deer anymore, he still looked capable of climbing his native Rocky Mountains, if not exactly running up them as he did in his youth. He had a leather 'wampum pouch' filled with not even Sorciere knew what strapped about his waist and carried what he called a Speaking Stick. It was quite grotesque, a spear with the severed head of a huge raven impaled atop it and black feathers collaring underneath it.

from "Semi-Sisters Three", the 1st chapter of 'The Vampire Variations'

"Manitoulin's a manatee." [Sorciere (Solace nee Sunrise) said to Barsine Mandam on the coast of Ophir-Moorset in mid-Balek 5938]

"Actually I'm right here." The Blind Shaman, at least his spirit self, noticeably minus his crow head crowned Speaking Stick but otherwise much as he appeared in the Gypsium Shelter, was standing on the beach grinning happily.

"And Horny Head's her own self by the way. Her name too. Also isn't all manatee. Or narwhal for that matter."

"Has some faerie blood in her," said Sorciere. "Can shift shapes. Quite the beauty, isn't she?"

Bump must have been worse than Barsine thought. Had addled her senses. She thought to swoon. Didn't bother. Not because it would give Vetala an easy out either. Didn't want to waste the time. Much more interesting being conscious right now. Wouldn't want to miss that. Barsine had never seen a unicorn before.

Let alone one walking out of the sea.

... from "Rafting Towards Medusa", the 5th chapter of 'The Vampire Variations'

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ST SYNNE, Louise (Riel)

Manitoulin's adopted daughter, a Metis born of unknown parents in an unspecified year, Shamanitoulin brought her up alongside Sedon St Synne, whom she eventually married and by whom she evidently had two daughters: Sophia eventually D'Angelo and Cybele (Apple Isle's Miracle Maenad from as early as 5938);

"Another mystery that's solved is the identity of Sorciere's parents. Dad was Shaman Manitoulin, Wayfarer in the Weird, -- the Cheyenne Medicine Man who raised both her and Johnny as well as, going back to the 1870s, none other than Sedon St Synne, the father of Sophia now D'Angelo and, if only possibly, of Cybele St Synne, the person who brought Strife out of Big Shelter.

"Mom, as Sorciere had long felt, was St Synne's wife, Louise nee Riel."

-- from the synopsis to "Garuda Garrulous"

see Athenan Witches, lamiae, lamia and Iraches

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On Centauri Island

CREEL, Paul, Doctor

DULLES, Adolph (Dolph)

"Adolph Dulles came to work on the Island two years earlier after graduating from the Houston Academy of Man. Now twenty-seven, Dolph had been raised by Jock and Bonita Maxwell, Max's foster parents, -- might even be Max's bastard --, and was now Maxwell's right hand man."; -- from 'Centauri Island'

HANNIBAL, George, Lawyer

"He controlled the purse strings, or thought he did at least. Kinesis wanted the stars, Hannibal offered him the moon, and Centauri signed for the sun.";

-- from 'Centauri Island'

LINDQUIST, Doctor Connie

One of Alpha Centauri's untouchables, the Fatman's personal physician and performed much the same function, as head of the medical team, for the members of the Express's crew; possessed of the devil named Aphropsyche Morningstar (All-Eyes).

PARAJA, Roderick

One of Alpha Centauri's untouchables, possessed of the devil named Djerrid Ruin (Byron's Green Man).

"Big Max was so relaxed he fell asleep while waiting for the monorail to take him to the subterranean launch pad. He was awakened by one of Centauri's Untouchables, an East Indian Engineer by the name of Roderick Paraja. Like Dr. Samarand, Yataghan Sentalli, Connie Lindquist, George Hannibal, Demios Sarpedon, and maybe as many as seven or eight others on the Island, the fatman never allowed him to check their credentials. Of course he had clandestinely tried anyhow. And had come up with sweet baby zilch!

"As he opened his eyes to regard Rod, he suddenly had a glimmering of why that was. For the briefest second he spotted a third eye closing on Paraja's forehead!"

--from the synopsis to O. J. Maxwell

SAMARAND, Doctor Hiyati

" ... chain-smoking oriental; Samarand was Project Centauri's overseer ... the fatman's personal 'scientocrat', -- an odd word coined by Centauri to explain Samarand's role as both supervising scientist and chief bureaucrat. Alpha was only interested in results; technical details he left to Kinesis and Samarand. In their years together, they rarely spoken outside the work site but, on the job, they got things done."

-- from 'Centauri Island'

SENTALLI, Yataghan

Alpha Centauri's son (by Emeralda nee Plantagenet) and bodyguard; one of the Fatman's untouchables; somewhat dim-witted & greenish-skinned; on the Inner Earth of Sedon's Head he commonly uses the surname of Montressor; husband of Janna St Peche-Montressor;

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DAEMONICUS

"Meanwhile, off the coast of Centauri Island, lurks a huge fish packer flying a Japanese flag. It is no ordinary fish packer, however. It is also more than just a spy vessel. It is the base of WORLD, a Sixties' terrorist organization reorganized by Salvatore Dis L'Orca to destroy the Express moments after it is launched; that is, before it reaches escape velocity. Dis L'Orca, though, is just the titular head of WORLD, which stands for the Worldwide Order with the Right to Life and Death. The real mastermind is a conceivably non-human and certainly supranormally gifted three-eyed abomination who calls himself Daemonicus."

- from the synopsis to "Mind Tap"

While that turned out to be something of a red herring (I did say conceivably), a certain never-remembered devil did turn out to be long distance pulling Daemonicus's strings; he also, when he appeared to anyone as anything other than 'a mass of darkness with a pink face and two many fingers, with too many joints on them, on two pink hands', looked a great deal like this description of WORLD's Daemonicus:

"Appearing out of nowhere came the swirling, ectoplasmic shape they had come to fear as Daemonicus. While rationally it couldn't be there, the brimstone stench, the way it made one's skin sweat and itch, the way it made one's ears ring and hair stand on end, the way it made one's bowels tighten, made one want to kneel down and pray for forgiveness, -- all were unmistakable. The hellacious, incessantly smiling wraith was there and it was terrifying.

"With a flat-topped mitre that completely covered its hair and neck, it looking like a clean-shaven Greek Orthodox bishop. Its black raiment, so typical of that priesthood, reinforced the image. Facially, the creature had dramatically boned, starkly pink skin, thin, purplish lips upturned in a perpetual rictus grin, gleaming bright teeth, two hollow, white eyes, and a third one, just above the bridge of its nose, about where its eyebrows almost met. It was slender but strong-looking, with extraordinarily long fingers and nails as thick and as sharp as claws. Its robe had pockets and was held together by a glowing sash. From its neck dangled a pair of shrunken skulls that also glowed. When it was in a coercive mood, both men had seen it produce and play a glowing pan-pipe."

-- from 'Centauri Island'

as per the above quote, in 1980's 'Centauri Island' Solomon Mandam had hold of his form for quite some time (until their thought-mother, Lady Guillotine, sorted them both out, Sol's twin sister Balkis simultaneously had hold of Faceless Strife);

Sedon St Synne (as Judge Warlock) had hold of his form in 1938's 'The Volsung Variations';

see also the Smiling Fiend ; there's an entry on the pre-Genesea Daemonicus over on the Essential Characters page;

DIS L'ORCA, Salvatore

"Salvatore Dis L'Orca was a Spaniard born in Equatorial Africa in the early forties. A vain man, he sported a black and silver-etched goatee and moustache. Thin-lipped, with jutting cheek bones and a down-turned nose that looked, in silhouette, like a shark's fin, his forehead was somehow scrunched forward. The outer edges of his bushy eyebrows arched sharply upwards. He parted his hair down the middle and his greying forelocks were deliberately combed to resemble a set of stubby horns.

As always, he wore tinted glasses. Those who'd seen his unshaded eyes described them as two blood-soaked orbs with tiny, pinpoint pupils. As was his habit, he was dressed formally, like the Spanish Don he was, in a tightly-tailored, red matador's jacket, side-striped, equally red pants, a white, flowery shirt and a string tie. He walked with a bad limp, due to the fact that he had a clubbed right foot. To help him along and, equally importantly, to add to his image as a man of power, he carried an opera cane, complete with retractable blade.

"Although his late father, Hadrian Dis L'Orca, had been a respected psychiatrist then a Spanish diplomat under Franco, Salvatore made, and squandered, huge amounts of money privately, as a dealer in contraband. He worked for anyone who paid enough, -- and certainly Daemonicus paid more than enough for what he had to do. Most of his colleagues figured he was a brilliant junkie. In truth, he was addicted to heroin, the primary good he smuggled around the world."

-- from 'Centauri Island'

MIND, Major Milo

"Milo Mind was a major but not in India, not like his father and grandfather before him. At the beginning of the Second World War, Mind postponed enrolling in medical school and enlisted in the British Army. During the retreat to Dunkirk, he was captured and spent the rest of the war in various POW camps. At least that was the official version. There were those who claimed he collaborated with the Nazis in some of their most insidious experiments. He was cleared of those charges after the war and went on to become a famed neurosurgeon, the best in the world. The late forties and throughout the fifties, when he worked for Loxus Ryne as part of the Alliance of Man, were his glory days."

-- from 'Centauri Island'

- inventor of the mind-tap implanted in the head of OJ Maxwell prior to the start of Centauri Island

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NIARCHOS, Ferdinand

- governor of New Iraxas, the petroleum-producing, north-easternmost province in the sub-continental territory of the Corporate State of Greater Godbad, in 5980;

Weird Ferd, as he (Jordan Tethys) shamelessly, sometimes to his face, thought of Ferdinand Niarchos, wasn’t the result Gomez’s post-terminal tumescence. Couldn’t be. He was in his late thirties or early forties and Gomez hadn’t died until 5964, not much more than 16-years ago now. Tethys wasn’t so certain about Weirdo’s own children; the ones he acknowledged as his. To the best of his recollection none of them were even in their mid-teens.

Yet Ferdinand sure had a lot of them for a fellow who wasn’t even married. Then again, since when had marriage, any more so than monogamy, been a prerequisite for being a dad?

... from "Janna Fangfingers", the third mini-novel extracted from "The Thousand Days of Disbelief"

NIARCHOS, Gomez

“Ferdinand Niarchos is outside and he’s brought word from his father,” Janna St Peche-Montressor, Centauri's daughter-in-law, announced.

Now this was almost as interesting as the story he’d been telling the Fatman, thought the legendary 30-Year Man (Jordan Tethys). Ferdinand’s father, Gomez Niarchos, was dead. He had, however, survived death as a Dead Thing Walking. Fortunately for his friends and relatives, Gomez was a Sangazur-animated Dead Thing rather than a Haddazur-motivated zombie.

There was a substantial difference, in all senses of the word ‘substantial’. Sangazurs were symbiotic. They actually preserved a corpse’s living intelligence, their in-life individuality. In other words; in return for a body to call their home they as good as prolonged a person’s lifetime. On top of that, there were on record occasions when they, the Sangazurs, preserved a person’s fertility.

... from "Janna Fangfingers", the third mini-novel extracted from "The Thousand Days of Disbelief"

ST PECHE-MONTRESSOR, Janna

- Alpha Centauri's daughter-in-law; Yataghan's wife; a Lovely Lady Afrite as well as an Athenan War Witch; Tethys nicknames her JPM because he knows the highborn Byronic, APM All-Eyes, often occupies her;

And a very pulchritudinous physicality it was too, rivalling that of the incomparable Harmony Unity, as always admired the 30-Year Man [Jordan Tethys].

“You’re fired,” Centauri snapped.

“Fired?” repeated Janna St Peche-Montressor.

She appeared confused, somewhere between shaking and smirking. Of course, if APM All-Eyes was inside her, her uncertain-sounding response might be attributable to Byron’s Venus. A devil’s proper reaction when his or her Great God of a father says you’re fired is to spontaneously combust. Which would be a terrible waste of all that pulchritude.

... from "Janna Fangfingers", the third mini-novel extracted from "The Thousand Days of Disbelief"

TETHYS, Jordan

• also known as 'The Legendary 30-Year Man', 'The Legendarian' and '30-Beers';
• claims to be a deviant, meaning one or both of his parents were possessed when he was conceived circa 4000 YD (Year 0 AD) by the Lazaremists Rumour and Titanic Metis (Wisdom of Lazareme);
• has Rumour's Tvasitar Talisman, a Brainrock quill, which he uses in a variety of ways, including drawing himself as well as inanimate objects and those who give him permission anywhere on the Hidden Headworld; can do the same thing beyond the Dome but only once he's gone beyond Cathonia via All of Incain or some other method;
• nicknamed 30-Beers due to his deviancy-condoned, daily consumption of beer, mostly pilsners;
• dies but comes back inside the bodies of his mortally wounded or terminally ill children or grandchildren, who immediately regain their health but whose personalities he supplants, becoming dominant; consequently makes sure he has many children during his many incarnations;
• hates coming back inside one of his daughters or granddaughters not just because giving birth hurts but because it's easier for a man to have offspring than a woman; men don't need a nine months' pregnancy for one thing;
• some say he was a devic suicide known as Rumour of Lazareme; others say that Rumour was kidnapped by faeries circa 4000 YD, that he thereafter became a faerie and that his dust renders mortals Tomcat 'Squirrelly' Tattletail (who so bedevilled Datong Harmonia, the Unity of Balance as well as Panharmonium, prior to "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", wherein their story will be properly told I'm sure);
• some say his fairy god lover was the Master Deva Wintry Moira (aka Chance or Fata Fortuna, Lazareme's Luck), whom he rescued from Cathonia, by drawing her out of it, prior to "The 1000 Days of Disbelief"; some also say that Lady Luck had to be possessing all of Future-Jordy's mothers; that if she wasn't then he couldn't come back inside of said children or grandchildren;
• appears throughout PHANTACEA Mythos Print Publications:
  • 'Forever & 40 Days', wherein he also acts as a narrator;
  • 'Feeling Theocidal', wherein, as per here, he plays a major role; and
  • in all three parts of 'The Thousand Days of Disbelief', which has yet to be published in its entirety – though two augmented mini-novels extracted from it have (and can still be ordered), namely "The Death's Head Hellion" and "Contagion Collectors";
• also appears in the web-serials:
  • 'The Trigregos Gambit', until he flees to Tympani, the Isle of the Undying One;
  • 'Helios on the Moon', wherein he returns to Aka Godbad City just in time to, sort of, save the day;
  • 'The Weirdness of Cabalarkon', wherein he reacquaints himself with many old friends and at least one old enemy; and
  • 'Psychodrama', wherein his latest 30-Year lifetime may – all too predictably, as well as painfully – end prematurely (all of the above are set in 19/5980 or '81);
  • plus, at least one of his earlier incarnations also features in 'The Volsung Variations', which is set in 5938;
• We learn in Volvar that this incarnation of Jordan Tethys married a non-mantel woman living in Temporis by the Tsukyomi Tornado; by her he had triplet daughters: Ukemoshi, Katatribe and Yomikune, all of whom appear in Volvar and some of the later web-serials;
• Also in Volvar Young Joseph Mandam alleges Jordy was Magister Mandam until the Simultaneous Summonings of 19/5920; if true then the original Joseph Mandam was Jordy's son or grandson;

"Jordan Tethys was a hardened man in his late forties. He wore a scruffy checked jacket, an open-necked tee-shirt underneath, blue jeans and sandals. On his head was a peaked, tweed cap, pincushioned with feathers. His face was lined, particularly around the mouth, the eyes, and his forehead. He was white but his skin was brownly tanned, like old parchment. Understandably so. Tethys was a street person. He liked it that way, sleeping under cardboard boxes, spending most of his time outdoors. He also had a scar, which he never talked about, in the lower part of his forehead, just about where his eyebrows would have met if they kept growing. It looked more like an incision that had never quite healed than anything else.

"Little strands of twisted hair wormed out from underneath his cap. They might have passed for rat's tails but Centauri knew better. They were the severed tails of tee-tees, a talking rodent indigenous to the area. And Jordan Tethys could read their braille-like squiggles, ridges, dips and gaps ... translate then tell tales out of tee-tee tails."

-- from 'The Launching of the Cosmic Express' Tetralogy

Jordan Tethys' tale, his rendition of his own personal history as opposed to the tales he told to make a living, was one of the most bizarre Jess had ever heard. As near as he could make out, this Legendarian also referred to himself as the Thirty Years Man for a very good reason. He lived no more than thirty years in any given lifetime but Death never claimed him as it did others.

In terms of oblivion, neither did reincarnation. For he did not reincarnate as such. What happened, Tethys explained, hardly ever slurring his words as he did so, was kind of like a transferal of consciousness.

His body died, yes, and it didn't come back, no. However, his mind never died. Instead it found a new home, a new body, usually one about twenty years old by then and of either sex, though more often than not male. In doing so, his entirely displaced the previous occupant's personality.

It wasn't a kind of psychic murder, he cautioned. Or even possession in the daemonic sense, he was quick to add. The spirit, the soul, the very essence of the dying person did die. Or did whatever dying folks do when they leave their body.

However, the spiritually now-abandoned body recovered, albeit with a new mentality, -- Jordan's mentality. This was great for the former occupant's loved ones but Tethys had learned not to hang around too long after his apparent recovery. His personality was simply too dominant, too distinctive.

Was pointless to pretend he was someone he wasn't; even if, as often happened, had apparently happened in this case, that someone was one of his predecessor-bodies' own children.

from 'In the Company of Chaos'

"Jordan Tethys, the legendary 30-Year Man, being able to draw someone, anyone, anywhere against his or her will? Can't be! Unless of course something else happened to Jordy (aka also 30-Beers) during 1920's Simultaneous Summonings; something that we don't know about as yet. Might the fact he asks Tanith (by now code-named Cousin Constellation) to call him Pictor or Painter, after a constellation in the southern hemisphere, mean it's her, not him, doing unto Herr Hel Helios what Helios wanted to do unto her?"

-- from the synopsis to 'Subterranean Trigon'

There are plenty more quotes re the Legendarian as he appears in 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' trilogy here;

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HOLGATSON, Thartarre Sraddha

• High Priest of the brown-robed priests and priestesses of Sraddha during the 1980 novels and story sequences, in particular 'The Trigregos Gambit'; also appeared during the PHANTACEA comic book series, where he showed up on the back cover of pH-6;
• likely mother: Barsine Mandam;
• all male priests take Sraddha as their middle name; all female priestesses take Janna as their middle name; priests and priestesses alike shave their heads;
• the Smiling Fiend speaks through Thartarre in 'Sedon's Stooge', which is preserved online;

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MOIRNOIR, Auguste

• also known as Young Death, the Black Death and Hush's Gush;
• as a trickster, be he a faerie or a devolved Utopian, his most borderline useful trick seems to be a knack for possessing and thereby animating the dearly and not-so-dearly departed;
• he doesn't call it 'raising the dead' because, unless they're already occupied by Sangazurs or Vetalazurs, they don't stay raised once he abandons them;
• there have been at least a couple of exceptions to that, however; the most widely chronicled in the web-serials thus far is Berchta von Alptraum's Sigurd Lancz (who's more likely a son of Etzel Sangati than Donar Lancz);
• in those cases he's apparently managed to provide them with an enduring life force; that is to say, without him having to stay inside them, somehow providing them with an animus of their own;
• the secret of how he does that was revealed in "Sister Grandmother", the short story contained in 'Forever & 40 Days - The Genesis of PHANTACEA', which can still be ordered;
• as for why he's often referred to as Hush's Gush, the answer is there's a reason for the oft-repeated line first heard in 'The Moloch Manoeuvres': "Killing the disgusting little peckerhead is like giving him a free airline ticket!"; as per here, it isn't just freshly killed dead things he can thereby get to via between-space either;
• the Male Trickster appeared in most of the 1938 novels and story sequences (notably 'Coueranna's Curse', wherein he briefly became a vampire, and 'The Vampire Variations', wherein, as per below, he woke up inside of Abe Chaos, a devic suicide);
• over twenty years later, as per here and here, he contributed some of his usual, howsoever unwholesome, yet both useful and highly significant, tricks to the overall murderous mayhem coursing through 'Ringleader's Revenge';
• in 'The Trigregos Gambit', unaged as ever, he served under Thartarre Holgatson as the Brown Robes' Chief Revenant;
• like his female counterpart, Young Life (Hush Mannering), he claims to be a devil-cursed, perpetual 7-year old who has been 7 since he turned 17 and fathered his second child, a daughter this time, who was born on Mithramas Day 5920 Year of the Dome (YD);
• in that version of his-story he was born Augustus Nauroz, the only son of Ubris Nauroz and Chryseis nee Somata, the daughter of the then Master of Weir, Kyprian ("Copperhead") Somata;
• by Pandora Mannering, Augustus was the father of Saladin Devason and Morgianna become Sarpedon;
• as per immediately below, the Demon Child (Tralalorn, a fairly major character in "Feeling Theocidal") either killed or devolved (as in faerie-dusted) Augustus and wife Pandora in Morg's birth room on Tantalar 25, 5920;

The following BLOCKQUOTE comes from the first chapter of the 2002 Revision of "The Moloch Manoeuvres"

Elsewhere, in the Weirdom of Cabalarkon, as Augustus Nauroz Somata, heir-apparent to the Mastery of Weir, looked on proudly, his young, ever-whimsical, but nevertheless strong-willed wife was giving birth her second child in a year. It was a girl this time but it was only one.

One too many, said the Scythian entering the birth room completely unannounced. With her was her apparently seven year old sister-daughter, a child with two different coloured eyes and otherwise jet black, silver-streaked hair.

"Devolve her! Devolve them both, Tralalorn!" The apparent child, this Tralalorn, suddenly had a third eye. She obliged this apparent mother of hers, this seemingly Rhea of the Ararats, who had also developed an extra eye just as suddenly.

An instant six or seven year old himself, Augustus charged the two devils. The Scythian materialized a moon-sickle in her left hand. Sliced it through the neck, shoulder and chest of the on-rushing Master-In-Waiting.

'Thus die all who defy me!' whatever-she-was shrieked archly.

Whether he died or not, Augustus was no longer there. And neither was his corpse!

-- from "Blood Beasts Prime"

As Thartarre Sraddha Holgatson's Chief Revenant in 5980 Year of the Dome, he's primarily responsible for occupying and, indeed, overwhelming the Ambulatory Dead, whom the Brown Robes enslave when they don't use them to heat their monastery. It isn't just Hadd's Dead Things he can occupy, however:

"Oh, it's just you," recognized the Devalord of Temporis [Dand Tariqartha, in 5938 YD]. "What're you doing in there, you little fay fuck? He isn't dead."

Augustus maybe Nauroz, the black-as-midnight, apparent seven year old trickster, complete with tattered opera outfit, short shorts, and half-crushed top hat, wafted out of the near-giant's body [that is, Unholy Abaddon's body] and came solid. He lit his ever-present cigar in the tent-flames and exhaled into the old, as in old-looking, devil's face.

"Trying to get a decent night's sleep, grampus. Not much in the way of safer places for that than inside Uncle Abe, wouldn't you say? And, as for being dead, he's close enough for my purposes."

-- from "Monolithic Monotony", the 8th chapter of 'The Volsung Variations'

NOTE: The mouse-over behind the Male Trickster collage is: "Collage made up of various images suggestive of Young Death, the Male Trickster; prepared by Jim McPherson, 2007, using his own photos as well as images taken from Web"; I took the long-serving shot of the adult skeleton in Playa Del Carmen, Yucatan, Mexico; I took the shot, through glass, of the 3 similar-looking black characters wearing top hats and red/yellow loincloths at the British Museum in London, England; the rest of the images are from the Web, though I've a picture of the baby half-skeleton taken a the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City; the text along the side reads: "Auguste Moirnoir as Young Death"; the rest of the text reads: "The Male Trickster"; return to collage

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