MANCANWIDDLYSPAN , IS AS WHITE AS WHALEBONE & AS THIN AS A RASHER OF WIND. HE IS THE GREAT ARCHITECT WHO CONTROLS'' UNIVERSES'S ONE , TWO & THREE'' AND HAILS FROM PLUM CAKE ON SEA IN CALLISCO , UNIVERSE TWO. HE IS ALSO THE ESTEEMED LEADER OF THE DISCOMFLICTED DROOZE WHO ARE AN ANCIENT BAND OF MANCAN WARRIORS WHO COMPRISE BOBELDEKS , BARRIDIANS & GRINDGRIMERS. IN AN EFFORT TO TRAIN HIS SON SHAKESPEARE AS A NATURAL HEIR TO HIS LEADERSHIP OF THE DISCOMFLICTED DROOZE , WIDDLYSPAN ERASES SHAKESPEARE'S MIND AND DROPS HIM INTO THE SOUTH AMERICAN SEWERS IN COLOMBIA , SOUTH AMERICA , AMONG'ST THE DISPOSSESSED CARDBOARD CHILDREN OF COLOMBIA WHERE SHAKESPEARE BECOMES THEIR LEADER. MANCANWIDDLYSPAN VISITS HIS UNSUSPECTING SON IN THE SEWERS AS AN ALIEN BEING TOGETHER WITH SEVERAL OF HIS ALIEN COUNTERPARTS AND AS BOOK ONE TAKES OFF , SO TOO DOES SHAKESPEARE IN BOOK TWO TO CALLISCO TO MEET HIS FATHER WIDDLYSPAN WHO REVEALS WHO HE REALLY IS. AND AS BOOK'S THREE , FOUR , FIVE , SIX AND SEVEN EMERGE , SO TOO , DO 650 CHARACTERS OF THE DISCOMFLICTED DROOZE WHO SPEAK IN SHAKESPEARINESE MANY OF WHOM LIVE ON CHIRON IN UNIVERSE THREE.