CHARACTER LIST

Below is the Character List included for reference at the beginning of The Light of Our Yesterdays     

Guide to Characters by Group

Characters from Early 21st Century AD

Homeland Security and CIA Personnel:

  • Christian Huxley, Senior Terrorism Investigator, Department of Homeland Security

  • Kira Sampson (Huxley’s assistant)

  • Deputy Undersecretary Blount (Huxley’s boss)

  • Ken Mayer, Central Intelligence Agency

Huxley’s Friends & Family:

  • Adona Huxley, Christian’s mother

  • Hanna Elverman, Christian’s one-time fiancé

  • Kadir al-Razin al-Asr, Christian’s Harvard roommate

Israelis:

  • Captain Yadin, Aman Security Agency

  • Major Margolin, Aman Security Agency

  • Col. Brickner, Commander, Ramat David Airbase

  • Jacob Rosenthal, Israeli chemist

  • Rosenthal’s two daughters

  • Mr. Riese, bodyguard to the Rosenthals

Afghans and U.S. Personnel Appearing in Afghanistan:

  • Abdul Saboor Anwari

  • Karim, Anwari’s brother

  • Captain Granger, Captain, U.S. Army (friend of Anwari)

  • Half-Moon Mole (unnamed OGA or “Other Governmental Agency” employee)

  • Imam Rahini

Vatican Personnel:

  • Sonatina D’Amare, Deputy Director, Vatican Museums

  • Col. Zaugg, Commander of the Swiss Guard

  • Antony Cepini, Director of the Corp of Gendarmerie

  • Cardinal Armondo Fine, a former Catholic Cardinal

Members of Ungues Pardi:

  • Pardus, also known as the Ghost Leopard

  • Dracoratio, thought to be Pardus’s lieutenant, possibly an alias of Esnanimen Kharun Udani, a former security agent with the United Arab Emirates

  • Baqir Najwa (possibly a member)

Others:

  • Jonathan Stirling, Professor of Archaeology and Acting Associate Director, Tel Megiddo Archaeological Excavation Site

  • Lieutenant Patismio, Chief Investigator, Italian Carabinieri

  • Dante Tocelli, Sapienza student and Tel Megiddo intern

  • Ahmed Jinnah, Analyst and Investigator, Pakistan Nuclear Security Agency (acquaintance of Huxley from Pakistani interrogation days)

Characters from 1890s AH

Technologists of Roma:

  • Tomadus, prominent technologist and merchant

  • Stephanus, Tomadus’s top assistant

  • Batu, Tomadus’s friend and brain technologist

  • Ratan, psyche-technologist

  • Peregrine, former astro-technologist (later, a friend to Tomadus)

Officials of Roma, the Three Empires & their Permitted Religions:

  • First Consul Khansensius, leader of Romanus Protectorate

  • General Faisil, General in Sunni Muslim Empire

  • General Khameni, General in Shiite Muslim Empire

  • The Governor of the Palestinian Province

  • Abh Beyth Diyn of Jerusalem (Jewish leader)

  • Grand Imam of Palestinian Province (Islamic leader)

Demoseps in Tonquizalixco Tetepe:

  • Yohanan, one of the main leaders of the Demoseps (the “Boy on the Cover”)

  • Decima, a Romanus supporting the Demoseps (Quintillus’s daughter)

  • Raanan, principal Demosep leader

  • Achak, Demosep operative and good friend to Yohanan

  • Dekanawida, Demosep operative

  • Eliezer, Demosep operative

Romani in Tonquizalixco Tetepe:

  • Quintillus, prominent Romanus merchant living in New Åarhus, New Jutland (Decima’s father)

  • Jochi, a Tetepian adopted by a Romanus family (Yohanan’s sister)

Juteslams:

  • King Skjöldr

  • Vice Regent Hugleikr (right hand to the king)

  • Ædlehelten (young boy on train)

Members of the Way:

  • Isa, the man in the white robes, preacher and leader of the Way

  • Maryam, Isa’s mother

  • Adin, one of the Ten (very large, simple man loyal to Isa)

  • Simeon, one of the Ten (Jewish)

  • Atuf, one of the Ten (Muslim)

  • Diego, one of the Ten (Jewish)

  • Anders, one of the Ten (Muslim)

Aztecs:

  • Emperor Acamapichtli X, Emperor of the Aztec Empire

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