....in Shanghai
- Li Wen-Cheng (translator and guide)
- Mr. Lung Wen (astrologer)
- Wu the Implacable (cat-demon)
- Fergus Chum (barkeep at the Stumbling Tiger)
- Ho Fong (businessman and cultist leader)
- Liu Chen-dai (proprietor of music store)
- Mu Hsien (scholar)
- Lin Tang-Yu (former Manchu court official, collector of occult books
and artwork)
- Lionel Finch (American diplomat)
- Tom Sullivan (US Marine)
- Jack Brady (former bodyguard to Roger Carlyle and fugitive from
cultists)
- Chu Min (leader of Firm Action)
- Carl Stanford (wealthy Bostonian financier and cultist-sorceror)