# Planet of the Damned — Character guide

> Key figures in Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison.

- [Brion Brandd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/planet_of_the_damned_se/characters/brion_brandd.md): Brion is the youngest champion of Anvhar's decathlon-like games, a poet-athlete raised on discipline and nonviolence, now thrust into a mission to save a world he has never seen. He discovers, in his first real fight, th
- [Lea Morees](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/planet_of_the_damned_se/characters/lea_morees.md): Lea is a scientist pulled into the Nyjord crisis, quick to puncture Brion's grim solemnity with dry wit even as hysteria titters at the edges of her mind. She is brilliant but physically unprepared for the desert — her f
- [Winner Ihjel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/planet_of_the_damned_se/characters/winner_ihjel.md): Ihjel was once Anvhar's champion, but the man who forces his way into Brion's hospital room is draped in soft fat, an impossibility on a world of athletes — only his burning eyes still hold the strength that won the game
- [Ulv](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/planet_of_the_damned_se/characters/ulv.md): Ulv is a native of Dis who can grasp facts the magter cannot, which makes him both invaluable and suspect among his own people. When the magter raid the Foundation, he goes along carrying explosives because he cannot sto
- [Telt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/planet_of_the_damned_se/characters/telt.md): Telt is one of Hys's volunteers, a practical man of equipment and engines who supplies Brion with a corpse and drives him toward the magter tower while defending the only thing that has to be done. He admires Hys — a twi
- [Faussel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/planet_of_the_damned_se/characters/faussel.md): Faussel is part of the compulsory-volunteer staff Brion inherits, a man who flushes with anger when told that saving a planet matters more than paperwork and who carries the resentment of the whole outer office. Through 
- [Hys](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/planet_of_the_damned_se/characters/hys.md): Hys leads the only fighting force left on Dis, a volunteer army of sand-cars and weapons camped in the desert, and he carries the bitterness of a man whose warnings were ignored until the deadline for planetary destructi
- [Krafft](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/planet_of_the_damned_se/characters/krafft.md): Krafft operates where academic expertise meets battlefield command, a figure whose titles range from professor to commander and whose judgment shapes how the mission against the magter is planned. He is caught between th
- [Disan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/planet_of_the_damned_se/characters/disan.md): A representative of the native population of Dis.
- [Nyjorders](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/planet_of_the_damned_se/characters/nyjorders.md): The people of Nyjord, a neighboring planet involved in the conflict.
- [Lig-magte](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/planet_of_the_damned_se/characters/lig_magte.md): A figure or concept associated with the Disan culture.
- [Doctor Stine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/planet_of_the_damned_se/characters/doctor_stine.md): A doctor who provides medical expertise on the mission.
- [Irolg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/planet_of_the_damned_se/characters/irolg.md): A native of Dis with a brief role.
- [Anvhar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/planet_of_the_damned_se/characters/anvhar.md): A character or entity mentioned in the Disan context.

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