Editing Cryptonomicon (section)

===Both storylines===
* Goto Dengo, a lieutenant in the [[Imperial Japanese Army]] and a mining engineer involved in an Axis project to [[Yamashita's gold|bury looted gold]] in the Philippines.  In the present-day storyline, he is a semi-retired chief executive of a large Japanese construction company, Goto Engineering.
* Enoch Root, a mysterious, seemingly ageless former Catholic priest and physician, serving as a coast-watcher with the [[ANZAC]]s during World War II, later a chaplain in the top-secret British-American "Unit 2702", and an important figure in the equally mysterious ''[[Societas Eruditorum]]''. He first appears on a [[Guadalcanal]] beach to save a badly injured Bobby Shaftoe. Hints about his longevity emerge when Root is critically injured in Norrsbruk, Sweden, and is wed to Julieta Kivistik on his "death bed" so that she and her unborn child can obtain British citizenship. Root is officially pronounced dead, but is slipped away, rapidly recovering after a mysterious therapeutic agent is obtained from his antique cigar box. He turns up in Manila later in 1944 and goes on to spend part of the 1950s with the National Security Agency and, by the 1990s, has been based mostly in the Philippines as a Catholic lay-worker while "gadding about trying to bring Internet stuff to China." Root also appears in Stephenson's ''[[The Baroque Cycle]]'', which is set between 1655 and 1714, and in his 2019 novel ''[[Fall; or, Dodge in Hell]]'', including a chapter set in late 21st-century Seattle. 
* Mr. Wing, a wartime northern Chinese slave of the Japanese in the Philippines, who went on to become a general in the [[People's Liberation Army|Chinese army]] and later a senior official in the [[State Grid Corporation of China]].  Described by Enoch Root as a "wily survivor of many [[History of the People's Liberation Army#People.27s Liberation Army in the Cultural Revolution|purges]]," Wing is one of only two other survivors (along with Goto Dengo and a Filipino worker named Bong) of the Japanese gold burial project, and he competes with Goto and Epiphyte(2) to recover the buried treasure. Although Root and Wing do not meet during the action of the novel, Randy reflects that "it is hard not to get the idea that Enoch Root and General Wing may have other reasons to be pissed off at each other."
* Douglas (Doug) MacArthur Shaftoe, son of Bobby Shaftoe and Glory Altamira, is introduced near the end of the World War II storyline as a toddler during the [[Battle of Manila (1945)|Liberation of Manila]], when he first meets his father, who tries to explain Shaftoe family heritage, including their enthusiasm for "displaying adaptability." In the modern-day story line, Doug is a retired U.S. Navy [[SEAL]] officer and [[U.S. Naval Academy|Annapolis]] graduate, who lives in the Philippines and operates Semper Marine Services, an underwater survey business with his daughter, Amy, conducting treasure hunts as a sideline.
* Dr. Günter Enoch Bobby "G.E.B." Kivistik is introduced in the modern storyline as a smug, Oxford-educated liberal-arts professor from Yale who recruits, and later seduces, Randy Waterhouse's girlfriend, Charlene. In the World War II storyline he is the unborn son of Julieta Kivistik and one of three possible fathers (hence his unusual name) including Günter Bischoff, Enoch Root and Bobby Shaftoe. He is a minor character in ''Cryptonomicon'', but both his [impending] birth and his participation in Charlene's "War as Text" conference catalyze major plot developments.
* Mary cCmndhd Waterhouse, Randy's Australian-born, Qwghlmian grandmother and Lawrence's wife.