The Black Tulip · Character
Mathias
A minor character who assists in the prison escape plot.
minor
First appearance: xv the little grated window
Mathias shows up with force in In Which Van Baerle, Before Leaving Loewestein, Settles Accounts with Gryphus. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Referenced as a prisoner executed five years earlier for a lesser offense, used as a warning to Cornelius.
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In In Which Van Baerle, Before Leaving Loewestein, Settles Accounts with Gryphus: Referenced as a prisoner executed five years earlier for…
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- Minor and Antagonistic Characters
- Protagonist
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This is the dramatic climax because it marks the emotional and psychological peak of Cornelius’s despair—he be…
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See Mathias in xv the little grated window