# The Speaker — Phantastes character guide

> The Speaker in Phantastes by George MacDonald.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0015-xii

## Who they are

A rhetorical or narrative voice within the text.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phantastes_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_social_

The Speaker is a mysterious orator who addresses the narrator with cryptic, philosophical pronouncements.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phantastes_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_social_

The Speaker is a mysterious orator who addresses the narrator with cryptic, philosophical pronouncements.

## In the story

### [Chapter XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phantastes_se/chapters/xx)

The wise woman consulted by the brothers, who foretold the narrator's coming and advised them to forge their own armor.

### [XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/phantastes_se/chapters/xxi)

The king; father of the two brothers, knights the narrator and mourns his sons.

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