# She — Character guide

> Key figures in She by H. Rider Haggard.

- [Ayesha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/she_se/characters/ayesha.md): Ayesha governs the buried city of Kôr with absolute authority, her subjects prostrating themselves at a whisper of her name while she receives outsiders in Greek to keep her words from their ears. Her icy composure crack
- [Leo Vincey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/she_se/characters/leo_vincey.md): Leo arrives in Africa as the orphaned heir to a mysterious family legacy, accompanied by his guardian Holly and their servant Job, and quickly becomes the object of fierce rivalries he barely understands. When fever stri
- [Horace Holly](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/she_se/characters/horace_holly.md): Holly takes charge of Leo after his father's death, and the two sail for Africa with guns, a whaleboat, and Holly's scholarly skepticism as their chief baggage. He is a self-described misogynist and confirmed bachelor wh
- [Job](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/she_se/characters/job.md): Job accompanies Holly and Leo out of loyalty, but his nerves are frayed from the moment they leave English waters, and his blunt contempt for the Amahagger nearly costs the group their lives. When a local woman publicly 
- [Billali](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/she_se/characters/billali.md): Billali is the first Amahagger to treat the outsiders with something like courtesy, addressing Holly as 'my Baboon' with an affection that sits oddly beside his fear of Ayesha. He knows the ancient tunnels, the tombs of 
- [Ustane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/she_se/characters/ustane.md): Ustane nurses Leo through his fever and binds herself to him in a ceremony the Amahagger recognize, an act of love that places her directly in Ayesha's path. When the Queen summons her to answer for it, Ustane does not b
- [Kallikrates](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/she_se/characters/kallikrates.md): Kallikrates exists in the novel first as a name Ayesha breathes over Leo — her lost love, her vow, her excuse for everything she has become. He was a priest of Isis who fled with her and then, by her account, betrayed he
- [Amenartas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/she_se/characters/amenartas.md): An ancient Egyptian princess who fled with Kallikrates and left a cryptic sherd.
- [Mahomed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/she_se/characters/mahomed.md): An Arab guide who leads the expedition into the African interior.
- [John Vincey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/she_se/characters/john_vincey.md): Leo's father, whose death sets the quest in motion.
- [Tisisthenes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/she_se/characters/tisisthenes.md): An ancient Greek ancestor of Leo, mentioned in the family history.
- [The Amahagger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/she_se/characters/the_amahagger.md): A fierce, cannibalistic tribe dwelling in the caves of Kôr.

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