<P> King Adetusa: Former king of Kutuje . Despite his best efforts to curb the prophecy that his child, Odewale, would grow up to take the throne by murdering him, he is inevitably slain when he encounters his son, now fully grown, in the village of Ede . </P> <P> Baba Fakunle: A blind, old man, Baba Fakunle serves as a soothsayer to those who seek him . He is summoned by Odewale to ask of a way to rid the suffering of his kingdom . Baba Fakunle tells him that the source of the kingdom's ails lay with him . After a dispute, Baba Fakunle calls Odewale a "murderer," alluding to the assault that occurred on the yam patch in Ede, in which Odewale kills King Adetusa, unknowingly his father . </P> <P> Alaka: Odewale's childhood friend . Alaka hails from the village of Ishokun . He comes to Kutuje to tell Odewale that the man he called father had passed two years prior and that his mother, though old, was still in good health . It is during the course of the play that Odewale reveals to Alaka why it was that he left the village of Ede, where Odewale said he would live after leaving Ishokun when he was thirteen . </P> <P> Gbonka: The former messenger of the late King Adetusa . Gbonka was present when King Adetusa was slain at the hands of Odewale . Near the play's end, Gbonka retells this event to Odewale, which leads to the discovery that Odewale was in fact the son of the former king, and the son of the current queen, and his birth mother, Ojuola . </P>

Story of the gods are not to blame