# Key Out of Time — Character guide

> Key figures in Key Out of Time by Andre Norton.

- [Ross Murdock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/key_out_of_time_se/characters/ross_murdock.md): Ross enters the expedition as the project's roughest, least polished operative, a man more comfortable with a knife than a chain of command. His instinct to go it alone collides with Ashe's patient discipline and with th
- [Karara Trehern](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/key_out_of_time_se/characters/karara_trehern.md): Raised among the Alii and bound to the dolphins who serve her people, Karara moves between the Terran camp and Hawaika's native powers with quiet authority. She is torn between aiding the off-worlders and protecting the 
- [Gordon Ashe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/key_out_of_time_se/characters/gordon_ashe.md): Ashe commands the Terran team with the caution of a man who has already lost people to careless time work. He mentors Ross even as he withholds pieces of the operation, and his restraint strains against the urgency of wh
- [Foanna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/key_out_of_time_se/characters/foanna.md): The Foanna rule from a citadel of sorcery and silence, feared by Hawaikans and utterly unimpressed by time agents from the future. They offer aid, but always at a price, and their motives remain as veiled as their faces.
- [Loketh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/key_out_of_time_se/characters/loketh.md): Loketh has lost the standing that should have been his and now measures himself against men who came from the stars. His pride makes him prickly, but his knowledge of the islands and their old ways proves invaluable to t
- [Torgul](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/key_out_of_time_se/characters/torgul.md): Torgul is a sea captain first and a diplomat never, a man who judges allies by what they do in a storm rather than what they promise. His suspicion of the off-worlders softens only as they prove themselves against the Ba
- [The Terran](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/key_out_of_time_se/characters/the_terran.md): He arrives on Hawaika as part of a survey team, but the mission collapses into ambush and separation, leaving him dependent on unfamiliar allies and his own dwindling resources. His defining tension is between the discip
- [Baldies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/key_out_of_time_se/characters/baldies.md): The Baldies operate as a hostile occupying force on Hawaika, using mental powers to track, manipulate, and destroy Terran agents who intrude on their designs. Their menace is defined less by numbers than by the terrifyin
- [Hawaikan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/key_out_of_time_se/characters/hawaikan_creature.md): The Hawaikans exist under the shadow of Baldy occupation, their communities fractured and their ancient knowledge suppressed. The visibly reluctant Hawaikan who aids the Terrans embodies this tension: cooperation is surv
- [Vistur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/key_out_of_time_se/characters/vistur.md): Vistur moves between his own people's caution and the Terrans' urgent need, acting as translator, pathfinder, and occasional skeptic. His willingness to assist Loketh and the Terrans places him at odds with Hawaikans who
- [Tino-rau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/key_out_of_time_se/characters/tino_rau.md): A Terran agent or native guide among the group on Hawaika.
- [Lady Jazia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/key_out_of_time_se/characters/lady_jazia.md): A Hawaikan noblewoman with ties to the Foanna and the ancient conflict.
- [Glicmas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/key_out_of_time_se/characters/glicmas.md): A Hawaikan character involved in the political struggles of the islands.
- [Taua](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/key_out_of_time_se/characters/taua.md): A Terran or native character among the expedition group.
- [Salkars](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/key_out_of_time_se/characters/salkars.md): A group or individual Hawaikan mentioned in the narrative.

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