# Conradin — Short Fiction character guide

> Conradin in Short Fiction by Saki.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Sredni Vashtar Conradin, Sredni Vashtar

**First appearance:** 0038-sredni-vashtar

## Snapshot

A sickly, imaginative boy who worships a polecat-ferret in secret, building a private religion against a joyless household.

## Who they are

Conradin lives under the thumb of a guardian who regards him as a nuisance and his pleasures as contraband. Denied ordinary comforts, he invents a god of his own — Sredni Vashtar — and tends the ferret's cage with the devotion of a true believer. His private worship is the story's engine, a child's rebellion that turns the household's dull cruelty into something far stranger and more dangerous.

## Relationships

### [Mrs. Peter Pigeoncote](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/characters/mrs_peter_pigeoncote)

_family_

Conradin is a child or young relative under the care or authority of Mrs. Pigeoncote.

### [Mrs. Peter Pigeoncote](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/characters/mrs_peter_pigeoncote)

_family_

Conradin is a child or young relative under the care or authority of Mrs. Pigeoncote.

## In the story

### [Sredni Vashtar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/chapters/sredni-vashtar)

A ten-year-old boy who worships a polecat-ferret as a god and prays for deliverance from his oppressive guardian.

### [The Wolves of Cernogratz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/chapters/the-wolves-of-cernogratz)

A prosperous Hamburg merchant with a poetic disposition who listens to the legends and notices the old governess's tears.

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