# The Coming Race — Character guide

> Key figures in The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

- [The Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/narrator.md): He enters the Vril-ya commonwealth as a curiosity — a Tish, or inferior being — and narrates everything through the double lens of wonder and dread. His growing conviction that these people could one day destroy the surf
- [Zee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/zee.md): Zee is a Gy of high standing whose intellect and command of vril set her apart, yet she is drawn to the narrator with a tenderness that startles even her. Her affection collides with her people's contempt for a Tish, and
- [Taë](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/tae.md): Taë is still a child by Vril-ya reckoning, which makes him the one native who treats the narrator without ceremony or suspicion. He invites the stranger on walks, sings with the young Gy-ei, and speaks with unsettling fr
- [Aph-Lin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/aph_lin.md): Aph-Lin is a man of property and standing whose household becomes the narrator's refuge, but his protection comes with conditions — the stranger is never to wander alone or speak freely of the upper world. He is courteou
- [Bra](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/bra.md): A Vril-ya sage and philosopher who explains their society.
- [Gy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/gy.md): A female Vril-ya child who interacts with the narrator.
- [Tur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/tur.md): A Vril-ya official or leader mentioned in the narrative.
- [Koom-Posh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/koom_posh.md): A Vril-ya title or character associated with governance.

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