Characters appearing in Seep

Morning Glory and her husband, Orgmorgan, are the first to join. She feels burdened by the responsibility of having started the whole mess, so he advises her to have a few drinks to settle her mind. Luckily he also has a duplicate in the Poba-verse, so both of her selves have a partner.

Though he came up with the idea of the dance, Horl has never done it before and is not the most talented dancer. He just tags along after Quixa, who is far more athletic than he. Once they seep into deeper levels, this will no longer matter.

Katora, the most powerful female mindsea in the galaxy, has striven through teaching at the Mindsea Academy to direct the Empire on a path toward illumination, and has met only frustration, as well as disappointment in love. Prilas is a prominent philosopher she has known of but never spent time with before.

Vedina teaches at the Mindsea Academy of Lal. She too has been unhappy in love. In the dance, she tries to smooth things over with her first lover, water-chess champion Thaej.

Katora's father, Head of the Circle Raolin, reminds his daughter and others that the dance is not about pursuing romance; it is about healing the Empire. He partners with his half-brother, Member of the Circle Hub.

As the dance progresses, it begins to pull in participants from other timelines. Once lovers, Puflet and Serpenlino have died on one another's timeline. But they meet again in the dance.

Like Puflet, Thermeon no longer lives in the Poba-verse. But the Deep-level dance summons his other selves, as well as instances of the woman he believes to be his goddess-star.

Morning Glory never thought much of Horl's son Fleomis, who peddled arms during the Empire's wars. But he has come into his own on other timelines, and he joins the dance with his husband Sunfox. Tall red-haired Sunfox has earned fame as a detective on multiple timelines. Together, he and Fleomis will track down the source of the Empire's evil.

Shell has always longed for Rathax, a long-dead mindsea-emperor who sought to rule the multiverse, and she finds him in the dance.

Tara is a set of memories that has surfaced in many lives from prehuman days to imperial times. Some of the most powerful recurring images revolve around a sabertooth cat.

The person Morning Glory most hoped would find her partner in the dance is her granddaughter Wila. Like Katora and Vedina, Wila was rejected by the man all three of them loved, Kahee's son, the Wamatuan composer Raggee. Morning Glory felt certain that when she went back in time to stop Raggee's father from sacrificing himself in front of his children, Raggee's wound would be healed, and he would be able to love. But Raggee does not appear. His father's sacrifice was not the sole source of the Empire's evil, after all.