Star Hunter · Characters
Character guide
Key figures in Star Hunter by Andre Norton.
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Ras Hume
major
Also known as Hume, Out - Hunter Hume, Out - Hunter, Hunter Hume, Hunter, the Out - Hunter, The Hunter
Hume runs the safari camp with quiet authority, answering Starns' pedantic questions about verifiers and intelligent life while privately calculating what each client has actually seen. He carries a debt to someone unnamed, a reason for hiring a Starfall swamper as his gearman, and a cynical distrust that sharpens whenever events fit together too smoothly. His double role as guide and schemer makes him the hinge on which the hunt's early arc turns.
Vye Lansor
major
Also known as Lansor, Vye, X Vye
Vye Lansor is a state child, S.C.C. 425061, raised after the Five-Hour Fever epidemic with no parents and no prospects beyond the port-side dives. When a Guild Hunter offers him a gearman's berth, he reads the man's Fata Rite talk of balancing scales as the only explanation for a fortune he cannot believe he deserves. His hunger for legitimacy and his instinct to question it drive the story's view from below.
Rynch Brodie
supporting
Also known as Brodie, Rynch
Rynch Brodie survives alone on a world of water-cats and blue-black shelled swarms, his bare arms and scanty gear each earned by labor or battle he can almost remember. Yet the shadow of a room and a cup keeps overlaying the stream and rocks, and the ache in his skull punishes every attempt to hold it. His fractured certainty about who he is seeds the mystery the hunters are walking toward.
Milfors Wass
supporting
Also known as Wass, Veeps of Wass
Milfors Wass travels with the hunting party as a man of consequence, his authority and his man watching the woods with an attention Hume finds worth noting. By the time the Patrol collects him he is a witless, dazed creature still under the mental influence of whoever set the trap, and his ruined state becomes the measure of what the expedition stumbled into. His fate shadows the survivors' reckonings with the Patrol.
Gentlehomo Starns
minor
Also known as gentlehomo, Gentlehomo, Starns
A minor noble or official encountered during the story.
Rovald
minor
Also known as Rovald
A character with limited but notable appearances in the narrative.
Gentlehomo Yactisi
minor
Also known as Yactisi, Gentlehomo
Another minor noble or official appearing in the story.
Chambriss
minor
Also known as Chambriss
A supporting character with a role in the unfolding events.
The Stranger
supporting
Also known as the stranger, The stranger
The Stranger exists in the story as a pressure rather than a presence: a flash of light Starns sights in the treeline, a suspicion Hume refuses to let the civs entertain, a name the reader is made to wait for. Whoever this figure is, their existence forces Hume to manage witnesses, feed Starns' curiosity, and keep the discovery of the L-B looking like accident rather than design. The withheld identity is the engine of the early arc's unease.
The Officer
minor
Also known as The officer, the officer
An unnamed officer who interacts with the main characters.
Peake
minor
Also known as Peake
A minor character mentioned in the course of the plot.
Gentlefem Brodie
minor
Also known as Gentlefem Tharlee Kogan Brodie, The Gentlefem
A female relative or associate of Rynch Brodie.
