# At the Earth’s Core — Character guide

> Key figures in At the Earth’s Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

- [Abner Perry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_earth_s_core_se/characters/perry.md): Abner Perry has spent a long life perfecting an iron mole that can bore through solid rock, and his scientific pride in the machine outweighs even his fear of death. When the device plunges past its intended depth, he cu
- [David Innes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_earth_s_core_se/characters/david_innes.md): David Innes was raised to run his father's mining business, but Perry's iron mole offers him adventure instead of ledgers. He narrates his own story with disarming honesty, admitting he cares more about survival than sci
- [Dian the Beautiful](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_earth_s_core_se/characters/dian_the_beautiful.md): Dian the Beautiful belongs to the cliff-dwelling tribe of Amoz, and she ran from Jubal the Ugly One rather than become his mate. Chained beside David on a slave march, she teaches him her language and customs, but a sing
- [Ghak](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_earth_s_core_se/characters/ghak.md): Ghak the Hairy One is a captive among the Sagoths, but his bearing marks him as a leader of his people. He watches David's actions closely, and his approval or disapproval carries weight among the prisoners. When David p
- [Hooja the Sly One](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_earth_s_core_se/characters/hooja_the_sly_one.md): Hooja the Sly One shares the slave chain with David and Dian, but his instincts run toward opportunism rather than solidarity. When he seizes Dian's arm, David's swift punch earns the approval of prisoners and Sagoths al
- [Jubal the Ugly One](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_earth_s_core_se/characters/jubal.md): Jubal the Ugly One placed the head of a mighty tandor before Dian's father's house, a trophy no rival could match, and by the customs of Amoz that made her his. Dian fled rather than submit, and the Sagoths caught her in
- [Ja](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_earth_s_core_se/characters/ja.md): Ja rules the island tribe of Anoroc and repays David's rescue of his life with fierce, practical loyalty, guiding him through jungles where every path doubles back on itself to confuse enemies. He is shrewd, generous, an
- [Dacor the Strong One](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_earth_s_core_se/characters/dacor_the_strong_one.md): Dacor moves through the story as a man of muscle and reputation, bound by the fierce loyalties of tribe and blood. His power cuts both ways: he can shield David's small band or crush it, depending on where his honor poin
- [The Mahars](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_earth_s_core_se/characters/the_mahars.md): The Mahars of Phutra sit at the top of the inner world's food chain, keeping humans as slaves and Sagoths as enforcers while they dissect captives alive in their experimental pits. They debate in unspoken thought, dismis
- [The Sagoths](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_earth_s_core_se/characters/the_sagoths.md): The Sagoths serve as the Mahars' armed hands, tracking escaped prisoners across Pellucidar's cliffs and canyons with brutal efficiency. Their terror of the ryth, the great cave bear, exposes them as bullies rather than t
- [The Sarians](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_earth_s_core_se/characters/the_sarians.md): The Sarians live as one of the free human peoples of Pellucidar, offering food, shelter, and companionship to the two strangers from the outer crust. Their kindness stands in sharp contrast to the Mahars' cruelty, and th

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