This article discusses a fictional alien. For other uses see Mentor (disambiguation)

Mentor (disambiguation)

Mentor was the tutor of Telemachus in Greek mythology.Mentor may also refer to:* Mentorship, the developmental relationship between a more experienced mentor and a less experienced partner referred to as a mentee or protégé...

Mentor of Arisia is a fictional alien from the planet Arisia

Arisia

Arisia is a Boston-area science fiction convention, named for a planet in the Lensman novels by E. E. "Doc" Smith. The name was chosen as an homage to an older Boston-area con, Boskone, which took the typical ending for a convention—con—and then altered the spelling to match the name of an...

 in Edward Elmer "Doc" Smith's

E. E. Smith

Edward Elmer Smith, Ph.D., also, E. E. Smith, E. E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, and Ted was a food engineer and early science fiction author who wrote the Lensman series and the Skylark series, among others...

 Lensman

Lensman

The Lensman series is a serial science fiction space opera by Edward Elmer "Doc" Smith. It was a runner-up for the Hugo award for best All-Time Series ....

 series. Mentor is actually a fusion of the four Arisian minds (Drounli, Kreedigan, Nedallinor and Brolenteen) known to Arisians as The Moulders of Civilization, and were individually responsible for protecting the nascent civilizations of Sol III, Velantia III, Rigel IV, and Palain VII from attack by the Eddorians

Lensman

The Lensman series is a serial science fiction space opera by Edward Elmer "Doc" Smith. It was a runner-up for the Hugo award for best All-Time Series ....

. The collective fusion was the agent who interacted with, and trained, all Lensmen who were sent to Arisia to receive their Lenses.

Mentor "passes into the next plane" of his own volition at the completion of the Eddorian War, telling the Children of the Lens

Children of the Lens

The Children of the Lens are characters in the fictional Lensman universe created by E. E. "Doc" Smith.One male and two pairs of twin females, they are the children of Kimball Kinnison and Clarissa Kinnison, both of whom are second-stage lensmen...

that they were ready to assume the mantle of the Guardians of Civilization.