The Start of Eternity/meta/characters

In alphabetical order:

Alkeirs
Citizen Alkeirs - only member of the initial crew of the Many Sails who is not a member of the Social Engineering Guild.

Avizeh and Ladislas
Avizeh and Ladislas - Two humans at the Observer Base visited by the Many Sails in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Both members of a human variant subspecies engineered for protogyny.



Daanour
Historian Nadit Daanour - long-time colleague of Wilry. A member of the bipedal Ghreliuw species.

Esselle

 * Roboticist Esselle - member of the genetically modified human subspecies, the Kighiz) Wife of Rewhand.

Fint
Astrogator Fint is an experienced astrogator with long experience working for the Social Engineering Guild, but the journey to Earth's galaxy is Fint's first intergalactic space flight. Fint is a member of the Guiphoa species.

Captain Hooski
Captain Hooski - Captain of the Many Sails for the mission to Earth's galaxy. Member of the Huaoshy species, the first species that developed the hyperspatial jump drive.

Robot Jeed
Robot Jeed - chief cook and bottle washer for the Many Sails



Lorn-Kru
Engineer Lorn-Kru is a Social Engineer specializing in the design of genetic changes that will improve the social dynamics of interactions between different species. Thon is a member of the Ouwui species. The Ouwui are hermaphroditic and do not use terms such as "he" and "she", so the gender neutral pronoun "thon" is applied to Lorn-Kru.

During the time period described in The Start of Eternity, Lorn-Kru is functionally male, but members of the Ouwui species can switch between the production of male and female gametes. Most members of the Ouwui species believe that the choice of being functionally male or female should be based on practicality and rational decisions. Adoption and rigid adherence to a male or female gender identity is viewed as an undesirable personality aberration by most Ouwui.

Many Sails
Many Sails - artificial life form that is an intergalactic space ship with hyperspace drive

Sahiwha Nennoad
Sahiwha Nennoad - member of the Ressese species and leader of the "training mission" to Imfulri.

Commander Orleane
Commander Orleane - physiologically Earth-standard human

Rewhand

 * Geneticist Rewhand - member of the Kighiz human subspecies. Husband of Esselle.

Wilry
Demographer Wilry - experienced demographer of galaxies and member of the Deltrijoshnypwannem species.