References To Earlier Instalments

A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows, I.

Dominic Hazeltine's looks recall:

"...Persis d'Io as she had been when she and Flandry said farewell on a planet now destroyed, he not knowing she bore his child." (pp. 344-345)

- Ensign Flandry.

"'Fenross hated my guts.'" (p. 345)

-"Hunters of the Sky Cave" and "Warriors from Nowhere."

"...Flandry well-nigh singlehanded put down the barbarians of Scotha and was knighted for it..." (p. 346)

-"Tiger by the Tail."

"...Flandry well-nigh singlehanded rescued the new Emperor's favorite granddaughter - and headed off a provincial rebellion..." (ibid.)

-"Warriors from Nowhere."

"...the civilized Roidhunate of Merseia probed..."

-several previous instalments.

"'Remember how hard the colonists of Avalon fought to stay in the Domain of Ythri, way back when the Empire waged a war to adjust that frontier.'" (p. 351)

-The People Of The Wind.

"'Nicholas van Rijn...was shipwrecked [on Diomedes] once.'" (p. 353)

-The Man Who Counts.

"'Shall I open the Chateau Falkayn '35?'" (p. 355)

-Van Rijn's protege was David Falkayn.

Thus, eight direct or indirect references to previous instalments.