# Daniel — The End of the World character guide

> Daniel in The End of the World by Geoffrey Dennis.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0000-how

## Snapshot

The biblical prophet whose visions of successive empires gave apocalypse its timetable, a date-mine later prospectors worked for centuries.

## Who they are

Daniel supplies the symbolic architecture, the beasts and kingdoms and numbered weeks, that later interpreters mined for their forecasts, much as Pseudo-Methodius and the Sibylline Leaves were mined in the Middle Ages. His visions sit behind the book's distinction between the spectacular side-issue of planetary destruction and the real end, the Last Judgment of souls. He matters because the whole numerological tradition Dennis chronicles, from Stoffler's 1524 flood to the Fifth Monarchy Men, runs on the rails his prophecies laid down.

## Relationships

### [William Miller](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/characters/william_miller)

_psychological_

Daniel's biblical prophecies are obsessively interpreted by William Miller as the key to calculating the end of the world.

### [Jesus Christ](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/characters/jesus_christ)

_psychological_

Daniel's prophecies are seen as directly foretelling the coming of Jesus Christ, creating a prophetic link.

## In the story

### [Next Year](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/chapters/next-year)

Not directly mentioned in excerpts, but the apocalyptic tradition is referenced.

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