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• Annika Fridasdottor: "Annika the Woolgatherer" - "Annika the Rabbit" - Second engineer aboard Phatéon; Källa's sister; Has thick, black, corkscrew curly hair end brown eyes
• David Kentewess: "David Ingasson" - A vulcanologist; Has a mechanical left hand, mechanical legs and an optical contraption (looks like a monocle) embedded into his temple, which shields his left eye with a dark, reflective lens; Has pale scars raking the left side of his face and hairline with several wide, ragged strips running diagonally from his forehead to his cheek; Is tall and lean with straight black hair that falls to his wide shoulders and dark eyes; Is about 28 years old
• Källa Hildegardsdottor: "Källa the Shieldmaiden" - Annika's exiled sister; Hildegard's daughter; Has black hair and dark eyes
• Frida Kárasdottor: Annika's mother; Hildegard's true love; Had vibrant red hair before going gray
• Hildegard Helgasdottor: Källa's mother; Frida's true love; Has graying black hair and dark eyes
• Inga Helgasdottor: David's mother; Stone's wife; Had black hair and dark eyes
• Stone Kentewess: David's father; Inga's husband; A machinist; Owned a velocipedal shop
• Lucia Kentewess: Physician aboard Phatéon for the last ten years; David's aunt by marriage and the only family he has left; Has blonde hair
• Patrick Dooley: David's friend; A digger; Is bald with a graying brown beard; Has a wiry body
• Regnier Goltzius: A young Dutchman; A botanist; Has a pointed red beard and curling mustache; The youngest son of a cousin to the Grand Duchess of Erie (one of the Scientific Society of New Leiden's most generous patrons)
• Hanna and the Englishwomen: More than a century ago they killed a Dutch prince's son in order to secure their freedom; They fled to Iceland and founded the hidden village of Hannasvik.
• Captain Vashon: Airship captain; A tall impressive woman with iron threading through the black hair at her temples
• Chief Leroux: Head engineer aboard Phatéon; Is almost 70 years old; Has white hair and a deeply lined face; Is tall with a bony frame; Is going deaf
• Elena Pickart: Second mate aboard Phatéon; Annika's friend and one of her roommates; Has chestnut hair
• Marguerite: The steward's assistant aboard Phatéon; One of Annika's roommates; An older woman
• Mary Chandler: Third engineer aboard Phatéon; One of Annika's roommates; Has freckles and vibrant red hair; Is unfaithfully married
• Komlan: A man of average size; Carries a polished walking stick with a silver wolf's head with chips of amber for eyes; Works for Paolo di Fiore
• Inoue Nanami: David's colleague; She floated a jellyfish balloon over Krakatoa
• Mary Longcreek: A botanist; Is experienced, dedicated and familiar with plant growth recovery following volcanic eruptions
• The Blacksmith: "Negrüi" - Head of the Blacksmith Guild; The only person outside of Xanadu who can manipulate the nanoagents necessary to create mechanical flesh; No one knows his real name; Every inch of his skin that is not covered by his clothing is the pale gray of mechanical flesh, shaped to mimic human features; Even his face is mechanical flesh and his eyes are silver prosthetics
• Emily: David's former fiancée
• Paolo di Fiore: Lorenzo's father; The man who attempted to build a machine inside the heart of an artificial mountain; Is responsible for the deaths of many people including David's mother and uncle and is the reason that David now has so many prosthetics; Was put in an insanitarium after the accident on Inoka Mountain; Is losing most of his dark hair
• Lorenzo di Fiore: Paolo's son; Is just a bit older than David; Wears a neatly trimmed beard
• Olaf di Fiore: A small dark-haired boy with dark eyes; 2 years old
• Monsieur Dubois: Crew member aboard Phatéon; A young man with a scraggle of a mustache
• García: First engineer aboard Phatéon; 40 years old
• Maria Madalena Neves: A young Lusitanian woman; Is heading to Heimaey with her nurse; Her grandmother was from Sweden; Is beautiful with long, dark, curly hair and blue eyes
• Sula: A Black Irish boy aboard Phatéon
• Mr. James: First mate aboard Phatéon; A tall, thin man; Has a wife and two children
• Archimedes Fox: "Wolfram Gunther-Baptiste" - Yasmeen's husband; An adventurer, antiquities salvager, guide and treasure hunter; Has shaggy brown hair streaked with gold and emerald eyes; Is tall and fit with wide shoulders, narrow hips and a deep tan; About 29 years old
• Mr. Otto: Navigator aboard Phatéon; A young brown-haired man; He pines for a woman; Is rather fond of whiskey
• Monsieur Collin: Purser aboard Phatéon; Madame Collin's husband; On older man with gray hair; His jacket won't buckle over his stomach
• Madame Collin: Steward aboard Phatéon; Monsieur Collin's wife; Has a beautiful singing voice
• Josephine Ayres: A French poet
• Ursula Ylvasdottor: Captain of Freya's Cloak; A Huldrene
• Lisbet Camillesdottor: Annika's best friend from home; Camille's daughter; Has long blonde hair, lavender blue eyes and freckles over her pale cheeks
• Vladís Annasdottor: Owns the general store in Smoke Cove; A Huldrene; Mother of two grown men; Has iron-gray hair; Was the captain of her own ship before opening her store
• Camille: Lisbet's mother; A blacksmith; Has long blonde hair
• Rutger Fatbottom: Annika's troll
• Svenson: A fisherman in Smoke Cove
• Austra Longears: A troll
• Jonah: A whale

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• “Annika, daughter of Frida," he said softly. "Daughter of Kára, daughter of Astrid, daughter of Agnes, daughter of Jane.”

  David Kentewess

• “Inga, daughter of Helga, daughter of Sigrid, daughter of Ursula, daughter of Hanna.”

  David Kentewess

• “What I told you is true-I want to love someone first. Man or woman, I don't care. I want to feel as if my guts are riveted together, to feel as if I would do anything just for a kiss, or a touch, or to see them. I want to feel as if I can't live without them, and if I have to...if I HAVE to live without them, I want to feel as if every moment I had with them was worth a lifetime of love. And I want to be loved in that way in return.”

  Annika Fridasdottor

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Iceland
• Phatéon: A Vashon airship; A large cargo carrier
• The New World
• Hannasvik, Iceland: A hidden village on Iceland's western shore.
• Africa
• Europe
• Atlantic Ocean
• Castile
• Navarra: in Castile
• Johannesland
• Far Maghreb
• Manhattan City: in Johannesland
• Oyapock: Liberé's capital city
• Liberé
• Orinoco River
• Port-au-Prince: in the Caribbean Sea
• Caribbean Sea
• England
• Morocco
• Lusitania
• Bergen: in Norway
• Norway
• Australia
• Inoka River
• Great Muddy River
• Krakatoa
• Tzapotépetl
• New Leiden
• The Pacific Islands
• Academy of Sciences
• Erie: in Johannesland
• Monaghan: in Ireland
• Ballyduff: in Ireland
• Ireland
• Vik: in Iceland
• Smoke Cove: in Iceland
• Höfn: in Iceland
• Inoka Mountain
• Aztlán
• Heimaey: "Hymen Island" - in the Vestmann Islands; An island off the south coast of Iceland; Is inhabited only by women; Some Catholic families send their unmanageable daughters there to keep them pure for advantageous marriages.
• Vestmann Islands
• Nova Lagos
• Sweden
• South America
• Scandinavia
• The Ivory Market: A truly terrible and dangerous place on the west coast of Africa
• North Sea
• Yellow Rock Mountains
• Freya's Cloak: A sailing ship
• Winding Rock
• Katla: A volcano in Iceland
• Thor's Spring

Organizations edit see section history

• The Horde: Was originally the Mongol Horde, which moved east and west from Mongolia, occupying and taking over territory.
• The Vashons: "The Flying Vashons" - A famous French aviator family
• Scientific Society of New Leiden: Add a description of this organization.

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Glossary edit see section history

• Bounders: The Brits who are descended from the English who fled the Horde before the towers went up, and who are now returning to England.
• Buggers: The English and Welsh who lived under the Horde occupation and who are infected by nanoagents.
• Nanoagents: "Bugs" - The tiny machines that are used like an infection to (a) control and/or alter a population, or (b) create zombies.
• Huldrene: What the women of Hannasvik are called.
• Megalodons: "Meg" - Giant sharks altered and bred by the Horde until they were aggressive and territorial; A full-grown megalodon could leave a ship rudderless or damage the hull; The shark's armored plating makes it very hard to kill; The best course is just avoiding them.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Heart of Steel, and followed by Untitled Iron Sea #4 (A Novel of the Iron Seas).

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Meljean Brook (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Claudio Marinesco (Photographer) - Cover Photo
2. Rita Frangie (Cover Artist) - Cover Design
3. Kristin del Rosario (Designer) - Interior Text Design

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Notes for Parents edit see section history

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Romance › Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost
• Books › Literature & Fiction

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Meljean Brook: The Iron Seas page

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history