A Comprehensive Culmination

A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows also pulls together:

the planet Diomedes which was introduced in the van Rijn novel, The Man Who Counts;

the planet Talwin which was introduced in the Young Flandry novel, A Circus of Hells;

the planet Chereion which had not appeared before but had been discussed several times;

Flandry's and Persis d'Io's son resulting from their liaison in Young Flandry;

Chunderban Desai who was introduced in The Day Of Their Return;

a cyclical theory of history expounded by Desai;

Tachwyr the Dark who was introduced in the Young Flandry Trilogy;

more scenes set on Earth of the period;

at last an account of how Chives came to be employed, legally at first enslaved, by Flandry -

- and introduces:

Emperor Hans Molitor, a usurper but now served by Flandry;

the planet Dennitza where Flandry would have settled if his fiancee, Kossara Vymezal, had not been murdered.

Comprehensive indeed.