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Nafai, Elemak and Mebbekew, his older half brothers, Issib and his father Volemak are eventually forced to leave the city.
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Nafai and Elemak
; Nafai: Youngest son of Wetchik Volemak and Rasa by second contract, brother to Elemak, Mebbekew, and Issib.
After hundreds of years, the descendants of Nafai and Elemak have built cities and towns-yet never forgetting the enmity between the two brothers.
The central conflict between Nafai and Elemak is represented in their descendants, but takes a back seat in this book.
However, the rivalry between Nafai and Elemak promises the journey will be anything but peaceful.
It is this dissociation that eventually breaks nearly all the bonds — literally, for Hushidh and Cheveya — between Nafai and his older brother, Elemak.
He also sides with his older brother Elemak against Nafai, though he is considerably less clever than either.
Nafai is in love with her at age fourteen, but she is attracted to power and marries Elemak.
The struggles between the characters ultimately come down to the struggles between Nafai and Elemak, two sons of Volemak.
Nafai leads the faction who have faith in the Oversoul, while Elemak leads the faction who want desperately to return to the civilization of doomed Basilica.
The book focuses on several key events that happen after Nafai, Elemak, Issib, Mebbekew, Zdorab and the father Volemak leave for the desert.
The remainder of the book deals with Nafai and his brothers ' ( Elemak and Mebbekew, who had come ) attempts at finding wives.
In the end, they are all forced into a house arrest along with Rasa, where Elemak takes Eiadh as his wife, Mebbekew takes Dol, Nafai takes Luet, the waterseer, with Rasa and Hushidh deciding to come as wives for Volemak and Issib, respectively.
Nafai and brothers
Nafai and his brothers and father are banished from Basilica and are forced into the desert from a cunning plot conceived by Gaballufix.
Nafai and Issib
Nafai and Issib, his brother, begin to try and defy the Oversoul's capability to override thought.
Nafai and father
To this end the Oversoul recruits Volemak, father of the protagonist of the story, Nafai.
Nafai and eventually
He is eventually killed by Nafai, who will agonize over this choice and never really forgive himself for it.
After they build a community on Earth, Nafai eventually does give her the cloak, at which point she returns to the orbiting spaceship to watch over the planet like a garden.
To her credit, Eiadh eventually sides with Nafai against her murderous husband, and has matured enough that she does not make advances on him.
Nafai and .
Nafai begins hearing the Oversoul's voice in his mind.
Nafai is a tall, 18 year-old-boy ( 14 in " temple years ") who clearly hears the voice of the Oversoul in his mind.
Later Nafai confronts Gaballufix and cuts off his head under the bidding of the Oversoul.
The focus is on the struggles within the descendants of those who followed Nafai.
Nafai finds himself and his " Nafari " living and working primarily amongst the angel people, whereas the " Elemaki " associate much more closely with the diggers.
As Elemak's rage and hatred for Nafai grow, he ingrains such feelings into his family and the digger people, laying the foundation for war.
; Nafai: Fourteen at the start of the series, he is chosen by the Oversoul to lead the expedition to Earth, in part because of his extraordinary connection to it.
As the series progresses, Nafai matures and grows into his role.
She is consistently more mature than Nafai, tempering his impulsive and occasionally headstrong personality with patience and good counsel.
It is his studies that lead him to realize that the Oversoul is blocking things from the thoughts of humans on Harmony ; after he and Nafai begin defying the Oversoul, it begins to work with them.
He never forgives Nafai for this.
Although he has no wish to kill the rest of the company, he never lets go of the idea of killing Nafai.
She was the Oversoul's second choice to don the cloak of the starmaster if Nafai refused it.
Elemak and Mebbekew
A fine singer in Basilica, she cheats on her husband regularly-first with Obring, later with Elemak and Mebbekew.
Elemak and Volemak
Gaballufix plots to have Roptat and Volemak killed, and frame Elemak for the crime.
; Elemak: The eldest child of Volemak the Wetchik by Hosni.
Elemak and city
Elemak has a dream from the Oversoul, foretelling Volemak's sons going back to the city of Basilica to get wives.
Elemak and .
Because of Nafai's careless blunders and miraculous successes, Elemak, Nafai's oldest brother, begins to hate him, a theme that will play out throughout the rest of the saga.
; Hosni: Volemak's " auntie " ( a woman assigned to a boy as he hits puberty, to teach him about sex through example ) and, by him, the mother of Elemak.
; Elemak: Nafai's oldest brother.
Elemak is patterned on Laman from the Book of Mormon.
Her husband, Vas, is deceptively accepting ; unlike Elemak, his plotting is not obvious, but he is cold and calculating and never forgets a grudge.
Mebbekew and eventually
They get married, but Mebbekew is eventually unfaithful.
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