The bent Pale King and his Hatter come from the green hills of Gilliam-Briarbraddock with gifts of pudding and sausage. He has four thousand two hundred seven soldiers of the Pale House, and knows the languages of animals.

The young Colorless Queen is amphibious, and rules Nephilidia, the Half-Drowned Isle. Why she’s left behind the discolored foam and torpor of her own land to tour the parlors of Voivodja is as yet unknown. The immunity of her white-haired, black-armored knights to the Rule of Moving Water could make them invaluable allies to the forces of north or south.