The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Landsman's ex-wife and current commanding inspector; enters the cafeteria; receives Landsman's briefing on Mendel Shpilman; warns she may lift his shield; embodies the collapsed intersection of Landsman's professional and personal life.

Night manager of the Hotel Zamenhof; former Marine; informs Landsman about the service door alarm and lack of visitors to Lasker.

Elderly vagrant who appears outside the Zamenhof; Dutch-accented Yiddish; recurring figure with prophetic aura; asks after the hotel.

Homicide detective, suspended but continuing investigation; escapes captivity, is arrested, diagnosed with alcoholic withdrawal, and pieces together the American-backed messianic conspiracy before being shut down by federal authority.

Retired intelligence operative; lives at the Massacre Spot; implicitly confesses involvement in the St. Cyril riots and the death of Berko's mother; shoots himself at the end of the confrontation.

Tlingit woman of Hoonah; Berko's mother; killed in the Synagogue Riots when a truck of rioters struck her grocery store.

Skeletal man with pointed black beard at the Einstein Chess Club; reacts to the name Emanuel Lasker with sardonic recognition.

Young man with pudding cheeks and rimless glasses at the Einstein Chess Club; debates the complexity of Lasker's chess games.

Former heroin dealer, Russian immigrant, ex-convict; Landsman arrested him a dozen years ago; now retired from crime; reveals Frank was too dangerous to sell to.

Bobover Hasid; shy, reluctant witness at the Einstein Chess Club who knew the dead man Frank.

Lubavitcher Hasid; more forthcoming than Lapidus; admits playing chess with Frank and considering him highly talented.

Former intelligence operative, mute; commands the Peril Strait operation; grieves his dead wife Sora; physically broken but resolute; realizes Shpilman's talent cannot be controlled, only served.

Berko's Verbover cousin; confronts Landsman outside the storefronts on Verbov Island; recognized by Berko, defusing the standoff.

Boundary maven of Verbov Island; found in possession of tunnel rope; accused by Bina of concealing Litvak; negotiates a deal to withhold information until killer is caught; planning to disassemble the rebbe's house for Jerusalem.

Rabbi and conspirator; present at the facility in the Indianer-Lands; interrogates Landsman and is identified as Batsheva's son-in-law who relayed false information about Mendel's death.

Dentist; closing his practice in Sitka to move to Jerusalem; believes the Messiah is there; encountered by Landsman at the Polar-Shtern cafeteria.

Murder victim; only son of the Verbover rebbe; IQ 170; chess prodigy who beat champion Gaystik at age 12; scholar, multilingual, playful; believed by some to be the Tzaddik Ha-Dor; later a heroin addict.

Filipino owner of Mabuhay Donuts, former flyweight boxing champion, operates as Landsman's informant out of gratitude for a past favor involving his lover Olivia.

Benito's transgender lover, currently ill and dying in chapters; Landsman once protected her, binding Benito to him.

Berko's wife; observes Bina and Landsman leaving together with suspicion; catalogs the chaos of the world's riots and warns she cannot handle their possible reconciliation on top of everything else.

Female Verbover enforcer and Batsheva's bodyguard; communicates via concealed microphone with the security convoy.

Local pilot who reluctantly reveals rumors of a Jewish rehabilitation ranch in the Indianer-Lands at Peril Strait.

Airport official who reviews Naomi's flight records with Landsman and discovers her final flight plan has been deleted.

Man in tweed suit at the facility; disarms Landsman with a sleight-of-hand trick and holds a knife to his throat.

American conspiracy partner; a chess-playing believer who is strategically unfocused; debates Litvak on faith vs. pragmatism while awaiting the arrival of the Messiah candidate.

Tlingit inspector who arrests Landsman but assists the investigation; confirms the Tlingit Council's complicity in exchange for the District under Native sovereignty.

Transition team official who arrives to shut down Bina's investigation, identifying himself as a 'shomer'; not personally involved but acting as federal enforcer.

Indian hospital doctor from Madras who examines Landsman and diagnoses alcoholic withdrawal with a cold, interrogator-like manner.

Young operative at Peril Strait who reminds Litvak of the approaching twilight.

Departs Verbov Island for Jerusalem without looking back; folded into the backseat by Rudashevsky bodyguards with his luggage.