Entities from No Return

A medication in Presence used by the narrator during worsening illness and eventual death.

The tea strain in The Palisade required for Matthew Saaland's transit ritual and later made scarce by its disappearance from sale.

A municipal artificial intelligence in The Olynthian.

A household and identity assistant in Presence that manages calls, searches, approvals, and device access.

A screenless networked device in Presence that joins its owner's identity and eventually continues the owner's life online.

A Project Remus consciousness-transfer device in The Third Machine.

A Project Remus dimensional bridge device in The Third Machine.

The narrator's partner in Presence, who leaves for Japan and remains connected through the narrator's mediated identity.

The wireless operator in Dark Peak.

An English playwright in The Palisade who introduces Matthew Saaland to the rules and dangers of Lionel Prescott's realm.

A recurring contact of the narrator in Presence who remains connected through mediated calls and Realspace meetings.

The acting Project Remus lead in The Third Machine.

A Project Remus scientist in The Third Machine.

The viewpoint character of Dark Peak, a postwar flight sergeant haunted by his former captain and carried into a supernatural moor.

An officer and insurrectionist leader in Execution Detail.

A Project Remus engineer in The Third Machine.

The deceased mystic figure in The Palisade whose instructions and manifested realm draw Matthew Saaland into another relation to time.

A scientist in The Olynthian.

An American airman in Dark Peak.

The viewpoint character of The Palisade, whose discovery of Lionel Prescott's ritual instructions draws him into a realm outside ordinary time.

The unnamed viewpoint character in Presence whose identity is gradually assumed by the Presence device.

A lance corporal and marksman in Execution Detail.

Martin Mercure's wife in Dark Peak.

A Project Remus physicist in The Third Machine.

The narrator's sibling in Presence, whose final conversations are largely carried by the Presence device.

An imagined forest realm where time runs differently. Home to Lionel Prescott's cottage.

The desert realm at the end of The Palisade, where Matthew Saaland arrives after failing to return to the palisade.

A fictional survival and dimensional-research project in The Third Machine.

A social-status organization in The Olynthian.

The fictional Wellington aircraft in Dark Peak.