Thieves World #10 – Aftermath
Robert Asprin
AFTERMATH
CONTENTS
Dramatis Personae, Lynn Abbey
Introduction, Robert Lynn Asprin
Cade, Mark C. Perry
Wake of the Riddler, Janet Morris
Inheritor, David Drake
A Mercy Worse Than None, John Brunner
Seeing Is Believing (But Love Is Blind)
Homecoming, Andrew Ojfutt
AFTERMATH
Dramatis Personae
The Townspeople
AHDIOVIZUN; AHDIOMERVIZ; AHDIO-Proprietor ofSly’s Place, a legend- ary dive within the Maze.
AYE-GOPHLAN-Captain of the palace guard before the arrival of Prince Kadakithis. Now he is one of three men charged with keeping the peace in Sanctuary.
LALO THE LIMNER-Street artist gifted with magic he does not fully un- derstand.
GILLA-His indomitable wife.
GANNER-Their middle son, slain during the False Plague riots of the previous winter which signaled the end of severe civil unrest in Sanctuary.
VANDA-Their daughter, employed as nursemaid to the Beysib at the palace.
HAKIEM-Storyteller and confidant extraordinaire. HORT-Son of a fisherman and now Hakiem’s sometime apprentice.
JUBAL-Prematurely aged former gladiator. Once he openly ran Sanc- tuary’s most visible criminal organization, the hawkmasks; now he works behind the scenes.
MASHA ZIL-INEEL-Midwife whose involvement in the destruction of the Purple Mage enabled her to move from the Maze to respectability up- town.
MELILOT-Owner of a scriptorium where letters can be written or trans- lated.
MRADHON vis-Nisibisi adventurer and sometime spy. He has betrayed almost everyone and been betrayed in return, but he is a consummate survivor.