Cae Ahil Xahil {KAY AH-hill KSAH-hill}
hume of the planet Oraea
Direct descendent of the legendary poet of love Amoran yCahil. Everyone believes Cae only barely knew Amoran, but in fact they were quietly close friends and Amoran taught Cae a great deal before he passed from body into ground and on to legend.
Celephaia Shamdasaani {sel-eh-FIE-ah shahm-dah-SAH-nee}
historical hume of the planet Noma
A Noma of silver hair who was named by her companion Currents - the Currents are a guild of ocean explorers on Noma - to become the First Current of the Luminescent Canyon. She was also the first to be named so at all, a position created when she could no longer be contained by the then-current limitations of Noma culture and its quests beyond the known ledges and edges of their nearer deeps.
The name, and the mysterious school she created in its wake, provided a structure to the Noma homeculture which allowed her companion Currents to continue diving ever farther and ever deeper. Celephaia stopped diving after her partner Kurena became incapable, as a partner is essential and she would dive with no one else.
When Celephaia explored the Luminescent Canyon the first time, a poem coalesced in her somewhere just below the Canyon’s Third Cataract.
“I am amidst a continual becoming.
A conjunction of my spheres,
of my life’s waves and currents.
A resonance of cosmic distance,
escaping the chaos of dissonance through
an awareness of the numerous aquanuminous.”