Foreigner Dramatis Personæ

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Character
Species, primary association: {human, atevi, mecheiti], [ Ragi, Edi, University, etc.]

Rôle: [Ongoing job description]

Household: [e.g., Bren's domestic staff; or in the case of humans, what job or party. Also note changes of household, like Bindanda, who has moved around a bit.]

First appeared in Book.


 * book: person suffered some major change, like moving, dying, getting married

CV: [age, family, important life events that happened before the start of the story]

Bren Cameron
Species, primary association: human, Western Association

Rôle: Paidhi (interpreter/diplomat).

Household: His own, attached to Tabini-Aiji.

First appeared in Foreigner.


 * “Deliberations”: set among Atevi before Bren’s arrival on the mainland.
 * Foreigner: Bren’s world gets turned upside down.
 * Invader: Bren’s world gets turned upside down.
 * Inheritor: Bren’s world gets turned upside down.
 * Precursor: Bren’s world gets turned upside down.
 * Defender: Bren’s world gets turned upside down.
 * Explorer: Bren’s world gets turned upside down.
 * Destroyer: Bren’s world gets turned upside down.
 * Pretender: Bren’s world gets turned upside down.
 * Deliverer: Bren’s world gets turned upside down.
 * Conspirator: Bren’s world gets turned upside down.
 * Deceiver: Bren’s world gets turned upside down.
 * Betrayer: Bren’s world gets turned upside down.
 * Intruder: Bren’s world gets turned upside down.
 * Protector: Bren’s world gets turned upside down.
 * Peacemaker: Bren’s world gets turned upside down.

CV: Born on Mospheira, family: mother, brother, father estranged. Age: early twenties at the start of the story.

Studied atevi and worked for the foreign office on Mospheira, before becoming the paidhi shortly after Tabini became aiji of the Western Association.