Archimedes Engine Wiki

Characters

People of Exodus: The Archimedes Engine — Uranic aristocrats and rebels, arkship settlers, Celestial royalty and archons, Travelers, and those caught between Dominion order and human liberation. Full spoilers throughout.

Every character page is listed below. For Celestial naming conventions, the royal houses, and figures named only in passing, see the Celestials roster.

Arkship Diligent

  • Josias Aponi

    Owner of the Diligent; orator who turns settlement into liberation politics

  • Eleanor Aponi

    His granddaughter; lieutenant who finds Finn and runs the salvage expeditions

  • Dejean

    Captain of the arkship; professional counterweight to Josias’s politics

  • Elsbeth McQuillan

    Hired armour commander on the Kajval dropship raid

Gondiar: the Jalgori-Tobus and the law

Now and Forever Queens

  • Helena-Chione

    Queen of Wynid; her mindline is usurped to become Helena-Thyra

  • Carolien-Amaia

    Queen of Verak; holds the rotating imperial throne through the crisis

  • Luus

    Queen of Bassa; the Empress who hands the throne to Carolien

  • Ramona-Ursule

    Queen of Nizinsk; hosts Thyra’s politics trial

  • Inessa-Pierina

    Queen of Cheluli; peer seat of the Imperial Accord

  • Zuberi-Dulcina

    Former Queen of Kelowan; the Accord was founded against her

The Wynid court

  • Thyra

    Congregant daughter who wins the trials and seizes Helena’s mindline

  • Clavissa

    Her half-sister; a trial survivor kept close and constrained

  • Bekket

    Uixic count; Thyra’s father; Master of the Court after the coup

  • Lord Jolav

    Helena’s consort and Clavissa’s father; a quiet opposition node

  • Lord Valdier

    Helena’s father; Master of the Court in the coronation era

  • Siskala

    Major of the Royal Tiger Guard; Helena’s “new life” daughter

  • Lord Stethos-Thierry

    Court datamaster; permanently interfaced to answer the queen’s queries

  • Lord Gahiji

    Chief Archon to Helena-Chione; edged out after the coup

  • Malquilvo

    Court parent killed for accusing Thyra after the survival trial

  • Uulana

    The Lyon investigation, and the Shoigu identity that replaces it

Archons and Celestial agents

  • Makaio

    Wynid archon across two hosts; spycraft from the Dolod warning to Gondiar

  • Acelynn

    Chief Archon to Carolien-Amaia of Verak

  • Asahi-Iryna

    Takes Wynid oversight after Makaio, then the pursuit of the Diligent

  • Olomo

    Archon of the Heresy Dominion; Dolod science

  • Sahdiah

    Talloch-Te archon who runs Travelers as deniable sensors

  • Avone-Valerio

    General of the navy fleet that locks Gondiar down

  • Radwarno

    Verak commander ordered to capture the fleeing arkship

  • Dagon

    The Celestial operator behind the Gyvoy Enfoe imposture

Travelers, mercenaries and fixers

  • Gyvoy Enfoe

    The financier identity that steers the Engine plot; a mask worn by Dagon

  • Andino

    Captain of Arcadia’s Moon

  • Marcellu

    Traveler middleman carrying Sahdiah’s brief against the Diligent

  • Medusa

    Assassin who passes from Marcellu’s crew into Sahdiah’s service

  • Liliana

    Mercenary who opens the novel by dumping Finn over the Camurdy Mountains

  • Toše

    Her loud counterpart: the Gondiar bomb and the shot that kills Makaio