Sumner Kagan's alter-egos edit

• Sumner Kagan: The novel's hero, an overweight rebellious young man from a dysfunctional single-parent family. Father of Corby.
• The Eth: One of Sumner Kagan's alter-egos, a powerful being created by accident by the Delph's fears.
• Lotus Face: The name the Serbota tribe give to Sumner Kagan because of a facial scar in the shape of a lotus.
• Sugarat: One of Sumner Kagan's alternate identities, an unlikely vigilante who exacts a brutal revenge on local gangs that have negatively affected his life in some way.^[1]

Sumner's companions edit

• Corby: A voor, child of Jeanlu and Sumner Kagan. Eventually he puts his mind into Sumner Kagan's body.
• Nefandi: An artificial man bioengineered by the eo. He serves the godmind called the Delph in return for a drugless brain stimulator called Coobla.
• Dice: An inmate at a military prison called Meat City who befriends Sumner Kagan.
• Ardent Fang: A member of the mutant Serbota tribe.
• Drift: A né, also a member of the Serbota tribe and a genderless being with telepathic abilities.^[1]

Minor characters edit

• Zelda: Sumner Kagan's mother, who makes a living as a spirit guide.
• Johnny Yesterday: A lodger at Sumner Kagan's mother's house. An old man whose genetic mutations allow for "deep mind" abilities, which occasionally manifest themselves telekenetically.
• Jeanlu: A voor, who lives in the Rigalu salt flats. Mother of Corby.
• Broux: The commander of Meat City who trains Sumner Kagan.
• Bonescrolls: A long-lived being who has had many different bodies. He has powerful mutant abilities and is a protector of the Serbota tribe.^[1]

The Delph edit

• The Delph: A godmind whose powerful mental abilities are waning.
• Jac Halevy-Cohen: A mutant from an earlier time whose mental abilities evolve him into the Delph.^[1]

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