# Taë — The Coming Race character guide > Taë in The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. **Role:** supporting **Also known as:** Taë **First appearance:** 0003-iv ## Snapshot A young Vril-ya boy, son of the narrator's host, whose easy friendship offers the stranger his only unguarded companionship below ground. ## Who they are 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 frankness about death and emigration. His gravity — and his willingness to plead for the narrator's life — turns a casual friendship into one of the story's quiet moral hinges. ## Relationships ### [Gy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/gy) _friendship_ Gy and Taë are close friends and frequent companions, often exploring and discussing ideas together. ### [Zee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/zee) _friendship_ Taë and Zee are friendly acquaintances, with Taë showing admiration for Zee's knowledge and status. ### [Aph-Lin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/aph_lin) _friendship_ Aph-Lin and Taë share a mentor-student friendship, with Aph-Lin guiding Taë's intellectual growth. ### [Tur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/tur) _rivalry_ Taë and Tur are rivals, often clashing over status and the narrator's attention. ### [Koom-Posh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/koom_posh) _psychological_ Koom-Posh exerts a strange influence over Taë, using him as a pawn in subtle power games. ### [Gy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/gy) _friendship_ Gy and Taë are close friends and frequent companions, often exploring and discussing ideas together. ### [Zee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/zee) _friendship_ Taë and Zee are friendly acquaintances, with Taë showing admiration for Zee's knowledge and status. ### [Zee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/zee) _friendship_ Taë and Zee are friendly acquaintances, with Taë showing admiration for Zee's knowledge and status. ### [Tur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/tur) _rivalry_ Taë and Tur are rivals, often clashing over status and the narrator's attention. ### [Aph-Lin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/aph_lin) _friendship_ Aph-Lin and Taë share a mentor-student friendship, with Aph-Lin guiding Taë's intellectual growth. ### [Koom-Posh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/koom_posh) _psychological_ Koom-Posh exerts a strange influence over Taë, using him as a pawn in subtle power games. ### [Aph-Lin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/aph_lin) _friendship_ Aph-Lin and Taë share a mentor-student friendship, with Aph-Lin guiding Taë's intellectual growth. ## In the story ### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/chapters/v) The child who heals the narrator and later pleads on his behalf. ### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/chapters/viii) The magistrate's eldest son, handsome and vivacious, questions the narrator about the monster but is forbidden by Zee from asking about his origins. ### [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/chapters/xviii) Guides the narrator through the fields, explains Vril-ya community structures and emigration, criticizes Koom-Posh and Glek-Nas, and uses vril to destroy a Krek. ### [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/chapters/xix) Taë guides the narrator on a circuitous route to show the station and explain the vehicles. ### [Chapter XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/chapters/xx) Child of the Vril-ya who visits the narrator frequently, finds amusement in his awkwardness, and laughs at Zee's endearing words. ### [Chapter XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/chapters/xxi) Referenced in comparison to Zee's affection; the narrator distinguishes Zee's feelings from those inspired in Taë. ### [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/chapters/xxii) Previously begged off the narrator from dissection; mentioned as a child-friend and companion. ### [XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/chapters/xxv) Mentioned as having blasted a reptile into ashes, illustrating the danger of vril. ### [Chapter XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/chapters/xxvii) Visits the narrator and invites him for a stroll; sternly rebukes his sister for addressing the narrator, upholding gender norms. ### [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/chapters/xxviii) Reveals his father's order to kill the narrator and the sealing of the chasm; offers to intercede or even die with him. ### [The Escape](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/chapters/xxix) Mentioned as having tried but failed to persuade his father to spare the narrator. ## Links - HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters/tae - Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se - All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_coming_race_se/characters