A well-known literary historian and doctor of anthropology in his sixties who spent the Third Reich as a passive observer.

A fifty-year-old fugitive from the crushed Reich who organizes an expedition into the Argentine interior, builds Parisia, and reigns as an absurd reincarnation of Louis XVI.

A former Waffen SS physician at Mauthausen who acts as Taudlitz's envoy to Europe to retrieve Bertrand and envies the role of cardinal.

One of Taudlitz's three blindly loyal men, described as slow-witted, who envies the Duc de Rohan's ability to justify his abuses.

One of Taudlitz's initial three blindly loyal enforcers.

A twenty-one-year-old former waiter from Hamburg who is lured to Parisia, crowned the Infante, and struggles with the unreality of the court.

A former Gestapo chauffeur who acts as a cardinal and projects stag films in the castle cellar.

A courtier who physically beats his spouse and mocks her past as a prostitute.

An ex-commissary who helps change film reels in the cellar and rapes Indian boys who assist at Mass.

A courtier who was beheaded for high treason after drunkenly calling the palace a "German whorehouse."

The master of ceremonies at Taudlitz's court, named after a wine.

A courtier mentioned in a conversation with the Archbishop of Paris.

An older former prostitute who takes Bertrand to bed and sternly advises him to keep quiet to survive.

An accomplice who joins fourteen courtiers in breaking into the royal bedroom.