Important Characters
- Lanik Mueller - main character, heir apparent of the Mueller throne, radical regenerative.
- Ensel Mueller - Lanik's father, king of Mueller.
- Dinte Mueller - Lanik's brother, later was impersonated by a second Lanik Mueller (regrown from a loose organ) who had learned the powers of the "illuders".
- Helmut (Schwartz) - Lanik's friend who discovers him dying in Schwartz, offering him help and curing him of his radical regenerative state.
- Mwabao Mawa (Nkumai) - de facto ruler of the Nkumai, later found to be an "illuder".
- Saranna (Mueller) - the love of Lanik's life.
- Lord Barton (Britton) - a Lord in Britton who helps Lanik learn of the "illuders".
- Glain (Britton) - a man Lanik lives with for about a year.
- Man-Who-Fell-on-His-Ass (Ku Kuei) - the first of the Ku Kuei Lanik met.
- Man-Who-Knows-It-All (Ku Kuei) - a Ku Kuei who taught Lanik and Saranna how to control time.
- Percy Barton (Britton) - Lord Barton's "son", actually an "illuder".
- Ruva (Mueller) - Ensel's wife.
- Vran (Britton) - Glain's wife.
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