List of characters in the Ender's Game series
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The Wiggins
- Andrew 'Ender' WigginEnder WigginAndrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's science fiction story Ender's Game and its sequels , as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow...
is the central character of the Ender quartet and a constant presence in the Bean quartet. Brought into the International Fleet's Battle School for his immense potential as a commander of soldiers, he is eventually tricked into prosecuting the war against the FormicsFormicsThe Formics, also known as Buggers, are a fictional insectoid alien species from the Ender's Game series of science fiction novels by Orson Scott Card.The term "Formic" is derived from formica, the Latin word for ant...
, resulting in the almost-complete destruction of that race, and spends a good part of the remainder of his life attempting to find absolution for his unknowing act of xenocideXenocideXenocide is the third novel in the Ender's Game series of books by Orson Scott Card. It was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Novel in 1992...
by becoming a Speaker for the DeadSpeaker for the DeadSpeaker for the Dead is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and an indirect sequel to the novel Ender's Game. This book takes place around the year 5270, some 3,000 years after the events in Ender's Game...
. - Peter WigginPeter WigginPeter Wiggin is a fictional character in the science fiction novel Ender's Game and its sequels, written by Orson Scott Card. He has appeared in the novels Ender's Game, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind and in an upcoming short story to...
is Ender's elder brother, rejected from Battle School for ruthless and excessive ambition. Despite showing sociopathPsychopathyPsychopathy is a mental disorder characterized primarily by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow emotions, egocentricity, and deceptiveness. Psychopaths are highly prone to antisocial behavior and abusive treatment of others, and are very disproportionately responsible for violent crime...
ic tendencies in his youth, he later becomes Hegemon of the free world due to his prescient and charismatic leadership, and founds the Free People of Earth, the Enderverse's first world government. - Valentine WigginValentine WigginValentine Wiggin is a fictional character in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series of novels. She is the older sister of Ender Wiggin.-Biography:...
is Ender's elder sister, being the middle child of the Wiggin family. Rejected from Battle School for her overwhelming compassion, she serves as the intermediary between the weaker Ender and the jealous Peter during the former's (brief) childhood. Later she helps Peter on his rise to power by becoming "Demosthenes," an essayist whose rabble-rousing demagoguery is contrasted strongly against Peter's statesmanlike essays as "LockeJohn LockeJohn Locke FRS , widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social...
." After the end of the Formic War, she leaves with Ender on an odyssey through time and space, turning Demosthenes into a historian whose essays are considered the definitive word on whatever subject they address. After marrying on the planet Trondheim, she eventually uproots her family to follow Ender to Lusitania, where she helps to defuse the onrushing Lusitania Fleet and the impending shadow of xenocide. - John Paul WigginJohn Paul WigginJohn Paul Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's Ender's game series. He appeared in the original novel Ender's Game, and in several of its sequels: Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Ender in Exile. John Paul is a central character in two of the prequel short stories:...
and Theresa WigginTheresa WigginTheresa Wiggin is a fictional character from the Ender's Game series of novels by Orson Scott Card.She is the mother of Peter, Valentine and Ender Wiggin, and the wife of John Paul Wiggin....
are Ender's parents. While Ender's Game portrays them as being dull and oblivious, despite the genius children they raised, both characters are fleshed out in later works and revealed to be more intelligent than even their children imagined. John Paul is CatholicCatholicThe word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
and Theresa MormonMormonThe term Mormon most commonly denotes an adherent, practitioner, follower, or constituent of Mormonism, which is the largest branch of the Latter Day Saint movement in restorationist Christianity...
.
Ender's Jeesh ("Crew")
Ender's Jeesh is a collection of his closest friends at Battle School, particularly those who serve under him during the Third Invasion which ends in the destruction of the Formic homeworld. As chronicled in the Bean Quartet, many of them move into positions of international priority during the chaotic years after the end of the Formic War, particularly due to the machinations of Achilles de FlandresAchilles de Flandres
Achilles de Flandres is a major character and the primary antagonist in Orson Scott Card's Shadow series . It is part of the universe created in the novel and short story Ender's Game...
.
- AlaiAlai (Ender's Game)Alai is a major character in Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card. He appears in the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets and Shadow of the Giant...
- Julian "Bean" Delphiki
- Carn Carby
- Crazy Tom
- Dink Meeker
- Dumper
- Fly Molo
- Han Tzu (Hot Soup)
- Petra ArkanianPetra ArkanianPetra Arkanian is a main character of the books Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card. She is also a major character in Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow and Shadow of the Giant.-Ender's Game:...
- Shen
- Vlad
Post-War Battle-School Characters
- Achilles de FlandresAchilles de FlandresAchilles de Flandres is a major character and the primary antagonist in Orson Scott Card's Shadow series . It is part of the universe created in the novel and short story Ender's Game...
(first name pronounced "ah-sheel", in the FrenchFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
manner) is the main villain of the Bean quartet. Like Bean, he grew up in RotterdamRotterdamRotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...
, an orphan on the streets; like Peter, he displays sociopathic tendencies, particularly by murderMurderMurder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...
ing anyone who has ever seen or made him helpless. During the years after the Formic War, he takes steps to begin unifying the world under his rule, causing a series of costly wars between IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, a united IslamIslamIslam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
, and large parts of EuropeEuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and southeast AsiaAsiaAsia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
. - Suriyawong is a Battle School grad from ThailandThailandThailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
who becomes Bean's friend during the wars caused by Achilles. He was known as "Surly" due to his pugilistic disposition, but during his time with Bean develops into a mature and capable commander. - Virlomi is a Battle School grad from IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
who is instrumental in rousting Achilles from his power base in India. As the conflicts increase, she returns to rural India to devise and encourage civil disobedience there, but begins to suffer delusions of grandeurDelusions of GrandeurDelusions of Grandeur is an album by Fleming and John that was released in 1995.-Track listing:# "I'm Not Afraid" — 3:13# "Break The Circles" — 3:01# "Delusions Of Grandeur" — 3:45# "Love Songs" — 4:33# "Letters In My Head" — 3:56...
.
Other Battle School students
- Ahmed
- Ambul
- Anwar
- William Bee
- Bernard
- Ducheval ("Shovel")
- Filippus "Flip" Rietveld
- Nikolai Delphiki
- Bonzo Madrid
- Talo Momoe
- Zeck Morgan
- Rose the Nose
- Sayagi
- Pol Slattery
- Wu
International Fleet personnel
- Hyrum Graff is the principal of Battle School, and personally supervised much of Ender's training. After the war he is put on trial for his controversial actions there, but is given a position within the Hegemony as Minister of Colonization, responsible for sending humanity out to colonize the now-deserted worlds formerly held by the Formics.
- Mazer Rackham is the half-Māori captain who singlehandedly stopped the Second Invasion by realizing that the Buggers are a hive mindGroup mind (science fiction)A group mind, hive mind or group ego in science fiction is a single consciousness occupying many bodies. Its use in literature goes back at least as far as Olaf Stapledon's science fiction novel Last and First Men ....
. Due to his inability to pass on his knowledge, he was forced to spend fifty years at relativistic speedRelativistic speedA Relativistic speed is a speed which is a significant proportion of the speed of light. Therefore scientific analysis must take the consequences of special relativity into account...
s (eight years to Rackham) so that he could train the next commander—Ender Wiggin. After the end of the war, he joins Graff's crusade to keep the human race from destroying itself. - Major Anderson was Graff's second-in-command at Battle School, generally seen in the epistolary conversations from Ender's Game attempting to moderate his superior's unorthodox training of Ender. His passion is the Battle Room; after the war's end, he accepts the post of commissioner for an American footballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
league, and does not appear in the latter three books of either the Ender or Bean quartets. - Admiral Chamrajnagar is the ranking Admiral at Eros, the International Fleet's headquarters, during the final stages of the Formic War; he may have been PolemarchPolemarchA polemarch was a senior military title in various ancient Greek city states . The title is composed out of the polemos and archon and translates as "warleader" or "warlord", one of the nine archontes appointed annually in Athens...
during that time, and has certainly assumed that post by the time Achilles de Flandres begins his power plays.
People from Path
- Han Fei-tzu is a "godspoken" man from the planet of Path, whose treaty ended a burgeoning rebellion within the Hundred Worlds some three thousand years after Ender's Xenocide. Since then he has been retained as an advisor to Starways Congress.
- Han Jiang-qing is wife of Han Fei-tzu. She dies in the opening chapter of the novel.
- Han Qing-jaoHan Qing-jaoHan Qing-jao is a major character in the science-fiction novel Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card. She is the sixteen-year-old daughter of Han Fei-tzu, a respected leader from the colony world of Path. Qing-jao is named for the poet Li Qingzhao.Qing-jao originally appeared in the short story...
is the daughter of Han Fei-tzu and Han Jiang-qing, also "godspoken" like her parents. When confronted with evidence that the godspoken affliction is not a sign of deitic favor but rather a genetic modification, giving her and all other godspoken both genius-level intelligence and obsessive-compulsive disorderObsessive-compulsive disorderObsessive–compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing the associated anxiety, or by a combination of such obsessions and compulsions...
, she is unable to cope with the truth and clings to her old traditions, becoming a tragic character. Her name means "Gloriously Bright." - Si Wang-muSi Wang-muSi Wang-mu is a major character in the science fiction novels Xenocide and Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card. She is named after the Chinese goddess Xi Wangmu, the Royal Mother of the West.-Childhood:...
is Qing-jao's "secret maid," an ambitious and extremely bright commoner whom Qing-jao takes under her wing. She is named after the Queen Mother of the West, a powerful figure in Chinese mythology. When the godspoken genes are studied in hopes of retaining the genius-level intellect but removing the OCD, it is discovered that Wang-mu has naturally mutated into such a condition, and her genes are treated as a model of what the revision is intended to do, making her rather outrageous name somewhat less ironic. Later, she accompanies the reborn Peter Wiggin on his quest to stop the destruction of Lusitania, and eventually marries him.
People from Lusitania
- Joao Figueira Alvarez, known as "Pipo," is the first xenologer of Lusitania, studying the "Lusitania Aborigines," though they are generally known as pequeninosPequeninosThe Pequeninos , or piggies, are a fictional alien species in the Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card. They are first introduced in the book Speaker for the Dead. The Pequeninos are written as forest-dwelling and technologically primitive, but incredibly intelligent, able to learn languages...
(PortuguesePortuguese languagePortuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
for "Little Ones") or "piggies". He is one of the few people on the planet who treats Novinha as a real person, and becomes her beloved father-figure during her teenage years. He is the first human killed by the piggies, and his death prompts Novinha to call for a speaker for the deadSpeaker for the DeadSpeaker for the Dead is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and an indirect sequel to the novel Ender's Game. This book takes place around the year 5270, some 3,000 years after the events in Ender's Game...
. - Liberdade Graças a Deus Figueira de Medici, known as "Libo," is Pipo's son and the xenologer after his death. He is Novinha's first love, but she refuses to marry him after Pipo is killed, believing that one of her discoveries about the Descolada led to his murder and refusing to allow him marital access to those files. Unfortunately, he too is vivisected by the piggies, making her effots in vain; his apprentice, Miro, calls for a speaking of his death, which Ender performs. He is the father of Novinha's children.
- Ivanova Santa Catarina von Hesse, known as "Novinha," is the daughter of Lusitania's xenobiologists, who were able to inhibit the descolada before it killed the entire colony but did not manage to save themselves. Orphaned, Novinha became distant and formal until finding a sanctuary with Pipo and Libo. It is her pain and sorrow that draws Ender Wiggin to Lusitania, and the two eventually marry. Despite this, Novinha never loses her fragility and fear of losing those dearest to her.
- Marcos Maria Ribeira, known as "Marcão" ("Big Marcos"), is Novinha's late husband. He is known for his fearsome stature, surly temper, and habit of beating his wife, traits which earned him the epithet "cão," dogDogThe domestic dog is a domesticated form of the gray wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties. The dog may have been the first animal to be domesticated, and has been the most widely kept working, hunting, and companion animal in...
; he dies a few weeks before Ender arrives at Lusitania, of a congenital disease which caused his glandGlandA gland is an organ in an animal's body that synthesizes a substance for release of substances such as hormones or breast milk, often into the bloodstream or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface .- Types :...
s to turn to fatty tissues. Among other things, this rendered him sterile, and it is revealed during Ender's speaking of his death that none of Novinha's children are actually his, but rather Libo's; the two agreed to this form of cuckoldry before getting married. - Marcos Vladimir Ribeira von Hesse, known as "Miro," is Novinha's eldest child. He follows Libo into xenology and falls in love with Ouanda, Libo's firstborn daughter by his (actual) wife. In response to this and other factors, he attempts to cross the nerve-stimulating fence separating the piggies from the human compound, suffering brain damageBrain damage"Brain damage" or "brain injury" is the destruction or degeneration of brain cells. Brain injuries occur due to a wide range of internal and external factors...
and becoming crippled. He is sent out into space to greet Valentine Wiggin and her family, and later becomes a key player in the events leading up to the almost-second Xenocide. - Ekaterina Elanora Ribeira von Hesse, known as "Ela," is Novinha's second child. Like all the females in her line, she becomes a xenobiologist, and is one of the first members of the Ribeira family to warm to Ender. Later in life, she is instrumental in the destruction of the descolada virus, and its replacement with a far-more-benign variant, the recolada.
- Estevão Rei Ribeira von Hesse, known as "Quim," (Quim is pronounced KEENG. Estevão is pronounced ES-te-vowng) is Novinha's third child. He is extremely pious and at first resists Andrew Wiggin on grounds of his atheistic avocation, but later warms to the Speaker, partially for his reputation as a crusader. He later becomes the first Christian evangelist to the pequeninos and holds great respect among them, but is martyrMartyrA martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...
ed by a particularly heretical forest who believe that the descolada is the Holy Ghost and it is the pequeninos' duty to judge all humans with it. - Lauro Suleimão Ribeira von Hesse, Novinha's fourth child, is known as "Olhado," "the guy with the eyes," because a freak laserLaserA laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of photons. The term "laser" originated as an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation...
accident blinded him in his youth, requiring the implant of metal replacements. He has reduced binocular visionBinocular visionBinocular vision is vision in which both eyes are used together. The word binocular comes from two Latin roots, bini for double, and oculus for eye. Having two eyes confers at least four advantages over having one. First, it gives a creature a spare eye in case one is damaged. Second, it gives a...
and depth perceptionDepth perceptionDepth perception is the visual ability to perceive the world in three dimensions and the distance of an object. Depth sensation is the ability to move accurately, or to respond consistently, based on the distances of objects in an environment....
but can plug a computer jack directly into one eye, to upload visual recordings. Due to the resulting ostracism, he becomes a keen observer of human nature and interaction. Later in life he becomes a brickmaker (or at least a manager of them) because, to him, familyFamilyIn human context, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children...
is a far more important calling than the sciences that took his relatives; nonetheless he has revolutionary ways of looking at physicsPhysicsPhysics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
and metaphysicsMetaphysicsMetaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:...
, and is crucial in the development of faster-than-light travel (via a modified hyperspaceHyperspaceHyperspace may refer to:*in mathematics and general science** A Euclidean space of dimension greater than three, see fourth dimension and higher dimensions ** Space of any dimension, whether lower, higher, or...
mechanic related to philotic theory). Like Ela, he quickly warms to Ender; as he relates to Valentine in Xenocide, his greatest secret is that, while alone with Ender, they call each other "Father" and "Son". - Lembrança das Milagres de Jesus Ribeira von Hesse, called "Quara," is Novinha's fifth child. Throughout her life she exhibits stubbornness and contrariness, generally doing whatever the people who love her don't want her to do. She also becomes a xenobiologist, and assists Ela in "truncating" the descolada, despite discovering that the virus is quite possibly sentient and is certainly able to communicate with other individuals of its species.
- Gerão Gregorio Ribeira von Hesse, called "Grego," is Novinha's final child, only six years old when Ender arrives. As a child he showed a disturbing capacity for destruction, modeled on his father's habit of domestic violence, a temper which does not subside during later years. After Quim's death, he attempts to whip a mob into a frenzy to attack the responsible forest, only to have them jump on the nearest one to hand—Human and Rooter's forest—after being chewed out by Valentine, Grego tries to end the massacre with as little bloodshed as possible, eventually placing himself between the surviving piggies and his own riot. He later collaborates with Olhado on faster-than-light travel.
Pequeninos
- Rooter is a piggy who plays an influential role in human-pequenino relations. He is extremely intelligent and frequently proves the wisdom of the xenologers' directive of minimal interferencePrime DirectiveIn the universe of Star Trek, the Prime Directive, Starfleet's General Order #1, is the most prominent guiding principle of the United Federation of Planets...
; he is the first piggy to be flayed alive by his tribe after the establishment of the colony of Milagre, and thus the humans' first exposure to this practice; and his "totem tree" (as the humans think of him) provides them with wisdom and direction for years to come. - Human is a pequenino who serves as a diplomat of sorts between the piggies and the humans, helping Ender Wiggin communicate with one of the wives, Shouter, and create a treaty so that both races can live together. He is the first and last piggy to be "planted" by human hands, to sign the treaty in the piggies' way. Later in life he becomes the friend and confidant of the Lusitanian Hive Queen through philotic communication; Children of the Mind implies that the two have developed romantic feelings for each other.
- Planter is a lab technician who assists Ela and Quara during the years before the arrival of the Lusitania Fleet. To prove that pequeninos can be separated from the descolada without harm, he volunteers for an "experiment" in which his body is purged of the virus, which is as vital to him as oxygen; though this loses him his "third life" as a sentient fathertree, he proves that pequenino sentience is not affected by the descolada, and as such is remembered by all peoples of Lusitania as a hero and martyr.
- Glass is, like Planter, a lab technician to the Lusitanian xenobiologists. He volunteers to be a guinea piggy for the recolada virus and is successfully transformed into a fathertree, proving its suitability as a non-destructive descolada replacement.
- Warmaker is a fathertree who, as his name suggests, was influential during the last great war between piggy tribes. It is his forest that develops the peculiar heresy of the descolada being the Holy Ghost, and he himself kills Quim by withholding from him the medicine all humans need to keep the descolada dormant.
- Arrow
- Calendar
- Firequencher
- Leaf-Eater
- Mandachuva
- Water-jumper
People from/Colonists of Shakespeare
- Alessandra Toscano
- Sel Menach
- Vitaly Denisovitch Kolmogorov
- Ix Tolo
- Po
- Abra is the boy who Ender was with at the end of Ender in Exile, when Ender discovered the cocooned Hive Queen at the End of the World the buggers built for him. In Ender in Exile, Abra is revealed to be a bright boy of eleven years old who can fix nearly any machine. Abra is not really accepted by the children of his age because he is seen as someone who is at the level of an adult, while the adults mostly see him as a child.
People from Ganges
- Randall Firth: Originally named Achilles Flanders II, Firth is the missing ninth child of Bean and Petra. Randall was born prematurely and appears to have Anton's Key turned. His mother, Nichelle Firth, also known as Randi believes Achilles is a hero assassinated by foul enemies. Nichelle allows Achilles to implant an embryo, believing that she would be carrying Achilles' child. To avoid persecution by Peter Wiggin, Randi determines to leave Earth and live in a colony, where she can raise her child and return him to Earth later to become the new Achilles. Nichelle ends up as a part of the colony Ganges led by Virlomi. Randall, called "Achilles" by Nichelle, is raised to see Peter the Hegemon and Julian Delphiki (otherwise known as Bean) as monsters, and to believe that Achilles was a true hero. Randall was one of the first to read "The Hive Queen" and treat it like a holy book, and thus he was also the first to paint Ender in a negative light, as Ender "The Xenocide". When Ender encounters Randall on Ganges, Randall plots to provoke Ender so that Ender will strike out and kill Randall. He thinks if this can be done, the universe will realize that Ender was a dangerous criminal. However, Ender does not strike out and instead tells Randall about his true mother and father: Petra Arkanian and Julian Delphiki. Randall is so enraged by this that he proceeds to brutally beat Ender, but Ender does not retaliate at all. Just before he delivers the final blow, Randall realizes that what Ender has told him is true, and he takes Ender to a doctor immediately. Randall then decides to rename himself Arkanian Delphiki, after his true parents.
Others
- The Hive QueenThe Hive Queen (Ender's Game)The Hive Queen is a fictional character, the central consciousness and physical embodiment of the group mind the Formics from Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series....
is the physical embodiment of the central consciousness of the Formics. - JaneJane (Ender's Game)Jane is a fictional character in Orson Scott Card's Ender series. She is an artificial sentience thought to exist within the ansible network by which spaceships and planets communicate instantly across galactic distances. She has appeared in the novels Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children...
is an artificial sentience thought to exist within the ansible network by which planets communicate instantly across galactic distances and instant communication is made possible through the hundred worlds. - Anton is a scientist of European descent who discovers two genetic modifications which will allow the human brain unlimited growth, at the cost of unlimited physical growth. This discovery, Anton's Key, is named in his honor. However, research into human genetic engineering was outlawed by the international community, and when the nature of his work was discovered, he was subjected to classical conditioningClassical conditioningClassical conditioning is a form of conditioning that was first demonstrated by Ivan Pavlov...
to make it difficult for him to continue or even discuss his research. - Volescu is an unethical scientist of European descent, and the brother of Bean's father. He illegally modified 23 human embryos, "turning" Anton's Key within them; only one, Bean himself, was ever grown to maturity. Volescu was later discovered and had to destroy all his "research," but Bean escaped him by, at the age of 9 months, hiding himself in the tank of a toiletToiletA toilet is a sanitation fixture used primarily for the disposal of human excrement, often found in a small room referred to as a toilet/bathroom/lavatory...
. Volescu was later imprisoned for his crimes. - Poke is an orphan girl from the streets of Rotterdam, the leader of a "crew" of fellow orphans who eventually take in Bean—and Achilles. Bean, on some instinct, tells Poke to kill Achilles when she has the chance; she refuses, and Achilles later kills her by stabbing her in the eye and then throwing her in the Rhine.
- Sister Carlotta is a CatholicRoman Catholic ChurchThe Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
nunNunA nun is a woman who has taken vows committing her to live a spiritual life. She may be an ascetic who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent...
who works as a recruiter for Battle School. Like Poke, she takes in both Bean and Achilles; however, her battery of psychological tests manage to identify Achilles for who he truly is. Later, when he escapes from a mental institution in BelgiumBelgiumBelgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
and begins his reign of terror, she and Bean go undercover to oppose him, eventually linking up with Peter Wiggin. She, like Poke, meets her death at Achilles' hands; Bean is never able to forgive himself for these deaths. - Stilson is a bully in Ender's Game. In the very first chapter of the book, he and three friends gang up on Ender, who decides to win, not just this fight, but all fights that might happen in the future. Ender's counterattacks are so effective that Stilson, unbeknownst to Ender, suffers enough injury to later die in the hospital.