Krag

Maskull

Krag is a mysterious, manipulative figure who guides and tests Maskull on his journey, often with harsh and cryptic motives.

Nightspore

Krag and Nightspore are allied in a cosmic mission, working together to guide and test Maskull toward ultimate truth.

Crystalman

Crystalman and Krag are eternal cosmic adversaries, representing the forces of illusion and truth respectively.

Gangnet

Gangnet and Krag are acquaintances who share a mutual awareness of the deeper forces at play in the world.

Maskull

Krag is a mysterious, manipulative figure who guides and tests Maskull on his journey, often with harsh and cryptic motives.

Maskull

Krag is a mysterious, manipulative figure who guides and tests Maskull on his journey, often with harsh and cryptic motives.

Nightspore

Krag and Nightspore are allied in a cosmic mission, working together to guide and test Maskull toward ultimate truth.

Nightspore

Krag and Nightspore are allied in a cosmic mission, working together to guide and test Maskull toward ultimate truth.

Crystalman

Crystalman and Krag are eternal cosmic adversaries, representing the forces of illusion and truth respectively.

Gangnet

Gangnet and Krag are acquaintances who share a mutual awareness of the deeper forces at play in the world.

Crystalman

Crystalman and Krag are eternal cosmic adversaries, representing the forces of illusion and truth respectively.

Gangnet

Gangnet and Krag are acquaintances who share a mutual awareness of the deeper forces at play in the world.

I: The Séance

Bursts into the room unannounced; a thick, shortish man with a large head and piercing voice; thumps Faull and addresses the phantom youth.

II: In the Street

Reveals the journey to Tormance, provides a lens to view Arcturus, and insists Maskull and Nightspore join him.

III: Starkness

Referenced as the orchestrator of the journey; his message is found in the form of the bottles.

IV: The Voice

Implied to have returned; the tower gate is found open.

The Night of Departure

The enigmatic pilot who orchestrates the departure, performs the wounding, and pilots the crystal torpedo with savage intentness.

VI: Joiwind

Referred to by Joiwind as the author of evil and misery, whom Maskull knows but conceals his relationship with.

X: Tydomin

Mentioned by Maskull as having been seen in his vision, prompting his awakening.

XIII: The Wombflash Forest

Appears in the spectral procession, stabbing the phantom Maskull with a knife before vanishing.

Swaylone's Island

Mentioned in Gleameil's legend as a spirit that dogs Shaping's footsteps, joining love to death, sex to shame, etc., and without whom the world would lose its beauty.

Leehallfae

Referenced indirectly through Maskull's arm wound, which reacts to the life stream.

XX: Barey

Hostile toward Gangnet, mocks pleasure, and ultimately announces Maskull's death, appearing in a vision striking a bloodred spot.

XXI: Muspel

Krag guides Nightspore to the gate of Muspel, revealing himself as Surtur and the embodiment of pain. He waits outside as Nightspore enters, returning to the struggle against Crystalman.