Hyperion

The Hegemony diplomat and central narrator of this chunk; revealed as a triple agent who triggered the anti-entropic device at the Time Tombs as vengeance for the destruction of Maui-Covenant and Siri.

Politically formidable leader who meets Brawne privately, reveals Core obsession with Hyperion and Time Tombs, and is shocked by Brawne's knowledge of the Ultimate Intelligence Project.

Disappears from a blood-covered cabin on the windwagon; had drawn story number five; was believed to have planned to use his erg against the Shrike.

Dissolute poet who transforms himself into a satyr on Hyperion, witnesses the first Shrike killings in Poets' City, and is nearly killed by King Billy when Billy tries to destroy the Hyperion Cantos manuscript.

Spiritually oriented; admires the Keep's architecture, notes Father Duré's presence in his cruciform as a potential prime-number factor, and prompts the Consul to tell his tale.

Protagonist of the embedded tale; investigates Johnny's murder, accompanies him into datumplane, meets Gladstone, arms herself for the Temple run, and carries an implanted SchrOn loop without initial consent.

Elite military survivor who escapes a destroyed hospital ship, kills Ouster commandos, crash-lands on Hyperion, and has a violent time-dilated sexual encounter with the entity Moneta that nearly kills him.

Jewish scholar caring for his reverse-aging daughter Rachel on Hebron; loses wife Sarai to accident; petitions for Hyperion pilgrimage; engages in angry theological dialogues with God over suffering and sacrifice.

Jesuit priest exiled to Hyperion for falsifying Armaghast archaeological data; narrates his journey to the Bikura via journal; descends the Cleft and discovers an ancient labyrinth path.

Duré's old classmate and superior, now a Monsignor; addressed repeatedly in journal entries as a spiritual interlocutor; embodies the dying Church establishment.

A member of the Bikura tribe who communicates with Duré, helping him understand the tribe's population replacement customs.

Leader of the Bikura tribe who dies in a fall off a cliff; later revealed to have been reborn inside another Bikura via cruciform fission.

Bikura member who allows Duré's medscans and informs him Alpha 'cannot die the true death' due to the cruciform.

Bikura member who commands Duré not to bury Alpha, explaining he is 'of the cruciform.'

Bikura member found to carry two cruciforms after Alpha's death, indicating Alpha has been reborn within Theta.

The Consul's former aide, now de facto dictator of five million people on Hyperion; urges the Consul to abandon the pilgrimage and take over governance.

Accompanies pilgrims to Edge bluff summit, offers to wait and ferry them back, then departs with the Benares launch per the Consul's directive.

Unnamed copper-haired woman who appears to Kassad in battle simulations and dreams; never speaks, never reveals her identity, always vanishes.

Copper-haired woman who tends Kassad after his landing, guides him to the Time Tombs, fights alongside him with time-manipulation, and reveals herself as fused with or transformed into the Shrike during sex.

Silenus's publisher, promoted to head of Transline Publishing; receives Silenus's manuscript of 299 blank pages.

Wealthy Caribou Herd member who married and later divorced Silenus; introduced him to Flashback and implants; departed when he refused further Flashback use.

Silenus's best friend in youth, lived in Mount Erebus Estates in former Antarctica.

Disheveled, brilliant ruler of the Kingdom of Monaco-in-Exile; passionate arts patron, stuttering and klutzy but insightful; decides to relocate his kingdom ahead of Glennon-Height's advance.

Sol's wife who watches over Rachel nightly; dies in an unspecified accident, leaving Sol alone to care for the infant Rachel.

Led the Hyperion expedition; visits Sol as Rachel regresses to thirteen and is devastated by encountering her as a stranger; plans another expedition.

Delivers the Merlin's sickness diagnosis to Sol and Sarai; manages Rachel's initial recovery on Renaissance Vector.

Massive, red-robed bishop who declares Rachel 'chosen' by the Avatar and forcibly ejects Sol rather than offer any assistance.

TechnoCore cybrid modeled on John Keats; seeks to invest all consciousness into organic form and travel to Hyperion; killed and reconstituted in datumplane; implants SchrOn loop in Brawne.

Technical expert who guides Brawne and Johnny into Core periphery datumplane to execute the consciousness transfer; fights off security phages during the catastrophic transfer event.

Flees Lamia through a chain of Templar Excursion farcasters across multiple worlds; kills a guard with a long knife; Lusian physique matches Lamia's.

The Consul's grandmother/lover from Maui-Covenant, now dead; appears via holographic comlog recording left in her tomb, having posthumously equipped the Consul with the hawking mat and laser used in his betrayal.

The Consul's son, forty-three years old, wearing Hegemony Council robes; guides the Consul to Siri's tomb and reveals the metal box she left.

Ouster representative, tall with dark green eyes and a powered exoskeleton; oversees the anti-entropic device at the Time Tombs before being shot by the Consul.