Individual Members
Some prominent Lords and Ladies of the Instrumentality:
- Lord Jestocost, descendant of Lady Goroke
- Lady Panc Ashash (as a posthumous personality recording)
- Lord Femtiosex
- Lord Sto Odin
- Lord Crudelta
- Lady Alice More, partner of the seventh Lord Jestocost.
- Lady Arabella Underwood
- Lady Johanna Gnade
The names Goroke, Femtiosex, Sto Odin and Panc Ashash are number-word names of the type common during the Instrumentality's decadent period: "five-six" in Japanese is Go-Roku, in Hindi it is Panc-Ashash, and in Swedish Femtiosex (literally "fifty-six"). 'Tiga-belas' and 'Veesey-koosey', the names of supporting and main characters of the Instrumentality story Think Blue, Count Two, also mean 'thirteen' (Indonesian tiga and belas) and 'five-six' (Finnish viisi and kuusi), respectively. Sto Odin is "a hundred and one" in Russian. The name Jestocost is based on the word for "cruelty" in Russian (жестокость), and Crudelta is the equivalent in Italian (crudeltà, feminine). Gnade is a German word meaning "grace" or "mercy".
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