Names in Superluminary
I recently posted in this place my notes of the role playing game on which my pulp serial SUPERLUMINARY is based. Some reader asked me about the names, which for a variety of reasons, I changed.
For the convenience of any curious readers, let me post here the list of characters of the drama.
| Title | Name | Child of | Stratonic Tech |
| Lord Terra | Evripades Zenon Telthexorthopolis | Warptech | |
| Lord Pluto | Darius Tell | Xianxiang | (Invisibility, paralysis) |
| Lord Neptune | Eleftherios Tell | Aquarine | (Gravitics) |
| Lord Uranus | Spyridon Tell | Isabella | (Astropsionics) |
| Lord Saturn | Geras Tell | Ranidaayani | (Timewarp, Palaeoscope) |
| Lord Jupiter | Bromius Tell | Ranidaayani | (Electromagnetism) |
| Lady Ceres | Zoë Romanov | Filchingmort | (Vitalism) |
| Lady Vesta | Marina Savage | Aquarine | (Theropathy) |
| Lady Pallas | Aspasia Tell | Filchingmort | (Various mental abilities) |
| Lord Mars | Thucydides Tell | Isabella | (Antimatter) |
| Lady Luna | Penthesilia Tell | Lord Jupiter, Clia | (Dream reading, insanity) |
| Fr. Beast | Anargyros | Isabella | (Metanthropy) |
| Lady Venus | Nephelethea Cimon | Ranidaayani | (Mind Control) |
| Lord Mercury | Procopius Tell | Filchingmort | (Disinertia, Contortion) |
- Nephelethea Cimon, Lady Venus married Anchises Cimon, Duke of Schleswig Holstein Sonderberg Plon Rethwisch, who died under mysterious circumstances.
- Marina Savage, Lady Vesta, married Hunter Savage, a Neolithic from Antarctica.
- Zoë Romanov, Lady Ceres, married the Nicolas III, Czar of all the Russias.
- Xianxiang means Beautiful Perfume. She is the genetic descendant of the last Manchu
- Aquarine is the first Atlantean, the first human race created by pantropy.
- Isabella is Her Most Royal Catholic Majesty of the Holy Roman Empire of Brazil
- Ranidaayani is Rani of Greater Tibet. She is a psychic, a daayani.
- Filchingmort is President, sole Senator and Justice, and Crime Queen of post-apocalyptic America. (The name is thief cant for she-thief.)
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
September 16, 2016 @ 6:49 am
