Minor Characters
The Wizard’s Son
The man that the wizard dreams up. When the wizard releases him from his mind the wizard erases his son’s memory so that he will not know that he is a creation of the wizard’s imagination.
Al-Mu’tasim
Al-Mu’tasim is a sage from the fictional novel The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim. In the novel, a law student goes on a journey to find Al-Mu’tasim. The story ends right as the student enters his sanctuary, and Al-Mu’tasim remains a mysterious symbol of the divine within human beings.
The Babylonian
The Babylonian is the narrator of the story “The Babylon Lottery.” The narrator is a nondescript Babylonian citizen who describes the tradition of the Babylon lottery. He himself, “like all men in Babylon,” has been both a proconsul and a slave as a result of the lottery.
The Company
In the story “The Babylon Lottery,” the Company acts as the all-powerful body that controls the lottery and, thus, everything that happens in Babylon.
The Librarian
The librarian is the narrator of the story “The Library of Babel.” He describes his infinite library, which is his entire universe.
Richard Madden
Richard Madden is a British operative in “The Garden of Forking Paths.” He pursues Dr. Yu Tsun and eventually arrests him.
James Alexander Nolan
James Alexander Nolan is Fergus Kilpatrick’s comrade in “Theme of the Traitor and the Hero.” Nolan is the one who discovered that Fergus Kilpatrick was actually a traitor, but he decided to hide this information for the sake of the cause.
Commissioner Treviranus
Commissioner Treviranus is the commissioner who initially works with Erik Lönnrot on the murder case in “Death and the Compass.”
Daniel Simon Azevedo
Daniel Simon Azevedo is a thief and informant who is the second corpse found in “Death and the Compass.”
Red Scharlach
In “Death and the Compass,” Red Scharlach is a criminal mastermind. By leaving clues, he sets a trap for the detective Lönnrot. He kills Lönnrot out of revenge, as Lönnrot arrested Scharlach’s brother.
Recabarren
In “The End,” Recabarren, who is paralyzed, lies in his room and overhears a duel between a guitarist and Martín Fierro.
The Guitarist
In “The End,” the guitarist duels Martín Fierro, who killed his brother. He kills Fierro and realizes that he has changed, as he is now a killer.
Martín Fierro
Fierro is the main character of the famous (real-life) Argentinian epic poem The Gaucho Martín Fierro. He appears in “The End” as a character who duels the guitarist, whose brother he killed. He loses the duel and dies.