Characters in Revelation Space
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These are major characters from the Revelation Space series of stories and novels.
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[edit] Ana Khouri
Ana Khouri, an ex-soldier from Sky's Edge, was placed aboard an interstellar lighthugger and brought to Chasm City. At Chasm City she participated in Shadowplay, being the hunter and killing or mortally wounding the participants. After one Shadowplay event she was recruited by the Madamoiselle to infiltrate the crew of the lighthugger Nostalgia for Infinity. She was also recruited by the triumvirate of the lighthugger Nostalgia for Infinity as the Gunnery officer where she thinks she is heading back home to Sky's Edge after Triumvir Ilia Volyova's experiments ended in the death of the previous Gunnery officer, the position she is expected to fill. She plays no part in Chasm City, as most characters from the other novels do not, and is an important part in Redemption Ark organising the evacuation from Resurgam and again in Absolution Gap.
[edit] Antoinette Bax
[edit] Aura
The product of Ana and a renegade from Resurgam named Thorn, their child is altered in the Hades matrix to convey knowledge of advanced technologies to fight the Inhibitors, and adapted with Conjoiner technology. At one point, Skade kidnaps her and becomes her surrogate mother: she is "born" when she is cut from the dying Skade, who demands the death of Clavain to allow the recovery.
[edit] "Captain" John Brannigan
A victim of the Melding Plague, throughout the series, the Captain becomes more integrated with his ship, Nostalgia for Infinity. He ultimately becomes one with the ship: afterwards, he has erratic moods, attempts suicide with the hell-class weapons, and eventually is coerced to convey the refugees from Resurgam & Ararat.
[edit] Clavain
Nevil Clavain is one of the oldest Conjoiners. Born in the 22nd century, he originally fought against the Conjoiner faction before he was captured and, against his will, Conjoiner implants were placed in his brain by Galiana. He is also know as the Butcher of Tharsis after what he did on Mars during the war against the Conjoiners. Clavain does not use the newer Conjoiner technology as Skade and other Conjoiners do and continues to rely on his outdated and old implants. Clavain defects from the Conjoiners and joins the Demarchists during the war against him. Clavain departs from the Yellowstone system for the Resurgam system along with several other Conjoiners and Underworld figures from Chasm City.
Clavain is killed by Scorpio when Skade demands his life to recover Aura from her womb.
[edit] Dan Sylveste
Dan Sylveste, son of Calvin Sylveste, is an archaeologist working on Resurgam and studying the Amarantin. He is eventually inducted into the Hades Matrix, where he is granted eternal youth as a simulation.
[edit] Felka
Felka is the product of an experiment carried out by Galliana on Mars during the early days of the Conjoined.
[edit] Galiana
Galiana's experiments on Mars lead to the creation of the Conjoiners.
[edit] Grelier
[edit] The Mademoiselle
[edit] Quaiche
[edit] Rashmika Els
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Rashmika is the assumed name that Aura takes as she covertly inserts herself into Quaicheist society in a bid to gain access to Quaiche himself and thus the mysterious Shadows. Rashmika is unaware of this for most of the story, as she has also manipulated her own (Aura's) memories. Instead, she believes she is on a quest to revenge her dead "brother" that happens to take her to the Cathedrals of the Permanent Way. Rashmika is imbued with the unusual ability to know with 100% certainty (and seeming success rate) when someone is lying. This enables her to become useful to Quaiche.
[edit] Scorpio
[edit] Skade
Skade is a fictional character from the Revelation Space hard science fiction series, by Alastair Reynolds. She appears in the book Redemption Ark and, to a lesser extent, in Absolution Gap. Skade is a Conjoiner, and one of the more recent ones. She is a member of the Closed Council and also the Inner Sanctum, both executive bodies within the Conjoiner Mother Nest. Supposedly, she also works for the ultra-secret Night Council, although in Redemption Ark it is hinted that the Night Council does not exist at all, and that Skade is merely following the Mademoiselle's orders — without knowing it, of course.
She is expert at Conjoiner technology, being able to unleash neural attacks on other Conjoiners and peer past security divisions — even those within the minds of other Closed Council members. She has trouble with unfamiliar mind architectures — one reason why Clavain was able to survive her attack.
She is killed in Absolution Gap to allow the recovery of Aura.
[edit] Triumvir Ilia Volyova
Triumvir Ilia Volyova of Nostalgia for Infinity is an implant-free Ultra. She is the major character in Revelation Space and Redemption Ark and kills herself in an attempt to slow down the Inhibitors attack on Resurgam after she was exposed to vacuum for too long.
