Entries gathered under People — 9 in the canon.
- Charlie — Charlie is a Trappist monk associated with the Herd of God who has renounced all language except for a single Low note. Little else is recorded.
- Duncan Horst — Duncan Horst is the founder and High Priest of the Herd of God — its prophet, channeler, and, in the scribes' title, the Calf Pantocrator. A former Wall Street trader, he receiv…
- Electra — Electra is one of the two Handmaidens, the living vessel of Eros — flirty and impulsive, her appetites running toward love, or the sensation of falling in love. She is described…
- Exa — Exa is one of the two Handmaidens of the Herd of God, the living vessel of Madness and the "mad poet" of the pair. Darker and dreamier than her sister Electra, she longs to live…
- Magnetic Rose — Magnetic Rose is the Oracle of the Herd of God and the founder of Astral Spaceways Incorporated — a haunted, melancholy amnesiac who "stands apart from the others" and holds, th…
- Michael Enlightened — Michael Enlightened is the theologian-in-residence and principal funder of the Herd of God — a technologist who, by his own account, worked on the design of a large intelligence…
- The Archangel of Mystery — The Archangel of Mystery is the guardian angel of Mystery and the star-crossed beloved of Magnetic Rose. He is never seen and is unwilling to be seen — an elusive figure who, th…
- The Handmaidens — The Handmaidens are the twin priestesses of the Herd of God — Exa, the vessel of Madness, and Electra, the vessel of Eros — who operate "as a dual-action hivemind," sharing a ps…
- Valentine — Valentine is the Cowherd of the Herd of God — an innocent, bumbling cattle thief with, the scribes say, "an untapped genius for oratory." Kindhearted and optimistic, a natural f…