# The House of Rimmon — Character guide

> Key figures in The House of Rimmon by Henry van Dyke Jr..

- [Hazael](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_of_rimmon_se/characters/hazael.md): Naaman is the man the King honors and the people love, a soldier whose absence from his own house is measured in hours of moonlight. His garden holds a small, hideous image of Rimmon and a tower whose shadow falls across
- [Ruahmah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_of_rimmon_se/characters/ruahmah.md): Ruahmah belongs to the same charged world of Damascus where priests, kings, and generals trade favors and grudges. Carrying the aliases Saballidin and Master, this figure's standing places them near the levers of power r
- [Rezon Rimmon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_of_rimmon_se/characters/rezon_rimmon.md): Rezon keeps the House of Rimmon, whose square tower casts its shadow across Naaman's garden, and he wields a rod tipped with star and thunderbolt. He repays Naaman's scorn with double hatred, yet he kneels before Tsarpi'
- [Tsarpi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_of_rimmon_se/characters/tsarpi.md): Tsarpi rules the terrace of Naaman's palace while her husband haunts the camp, arranging her curls and dismissing her maids with careless authority. She wants everything that lifts her beauty to a higher throne: what a p
- [Shumakim](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_of_rimmon_se/characters/shumakim.md): Shumakim moves through the drama's confrontations with a temper that surfaces in clipped, bitter speech. Where others calculate, this character feels the sting of slights and lets it show, making them a barometer of the 
- [Benhadad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_of_rimmon_se/characters/benhadad.md): Benhadad sits at the head of a kingdom whose stability depends on generals like Naaman and priests like Rezon, and his bearing shifts with every turn of fortune. He lingers, repents, rises, and sinks by turns, a sovereig
- [Elisha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_of_rimmon_se/characters/elisha.md): Elisha stands outside the courtly machinery of Naaman's Damascus — no leopard-skin mantle, no bronze rod, no interest in flattering the powerful. His authority comes from elsewhere, and it unsettles a world that measures
- [Naaman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_of_rimmon_se/characters/naaman.md): A character possibly distinct from Hazael, with a limited but notable role.
- [Khamma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_of_rimmon_se/characters/khamma.md): Khamma moves through the moonlit garden with the easy familiarity of a servant who knows every corner of her mistress's life, teasing Nubta about the stars while keeping one ear tuned for the clatter of Naaman's horse. S
- [The High Priest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_of_rimmon_se/characters/high_priest.md): Robed in leopard-skin and armed with a rod shaped like a star at one end and a thunderbolt at the other, the High Priest of Rimmon embodies the fusion of religion and political appetite that defines Damascus. He moves th
- [Saballidin Lady](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_of_rimmon_se/characters/saballidin_lady.md): A female character, possibly a lady of the court, with limited appearances.

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