A brilliant constructor who loves gold, builds three storytelling machines in three days, and tells tales to kings.

A spherical being who orders the storytelling machines on behalf of King Genius.

An old king living in a cave who espouses the Doctrine of Inaction and pays Trurl only with 'health and life' instead of gold.

A boastful people whose sheer numbers and collective actions cause massive natural disasters.

A professor of matter who leads his pupils in torturing Malaputz out of a sacred dedication to vengeance.

A red-doubleted scholar being savagely beaten in a cellar for allegedly bringing unhappiness to the Legarians.

A half-rusted philosopher who debates complicositry and is ultimately loved to death by automated machines.

A monarch who listens to Trurl's second machine and seeks amusement rather than wisdom.

A greedy, cowardly, and lustful king who becomes trapped in a labyrinth of simulated dreams.

An agent of the Sinistral Isomers who builds dream cabinets to trap King Zipperupus in his own illicit desires.

An entity within a dream cabinet who attempts to permanently simulate and digitize Zipperupus to keep him with Ineffabelle.

A robot formed entirely by coincidence in a garbage dump, who believes he is the perfect center of creation.

A brilliant but ignored sage who spends his dying days writing a testament of venomous curses against his future admirers.

Trurl's colleague who witnesses Chlorian's death and reads his terrible testament, paralyzed by indecision over whether to publish it.