# The Jade God — Character guide

> Key figures in The Jade God by Alan Sullivan.

- [Perkins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jade_god_se/characters/perkins.md): Perkins stayed on at Beech Lodge after the Thursbys left, and Jean Millicent recognizes her instantly as part of the house itself. She is a queer woman, best left alone, as Martin warns with a meaningful touch to his for
- [John Martin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jade_god_se/characters/john_martin.md): Martin tends the Lady Hillingdons and Richmonds with a tradesman's competence, but his mottled face and clenched fingers betray a tension his master reads easily. Twice proven a liar about whether he has met the mysterio
- [Edith Derrick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jade_god_se/characters/edith_derrick.md): Edith watches her brother closely as the novel stalls and the strange events accumulate, saying little but missing nothing. She is practical where he is occult — she scrubs panels, worries about dilapidations to the Thur
- [Jean Millicent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jade_god_se/characters/jean_millicent.md): Where her mother bows to fate with hopeless wonder, Jean reads the blow as deliberate and feels the power behind it still at large. She is drawn back to Beech Lodge against every instinct of avoidance, sensing the house 
- [Sergeant Burke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jade_god_se/characters/sergeant_burke.md): Burke receives Derrick at the station with the official's suspicion of the amateur, but interest overtakes him before the interview ends. He is dogged, silent, and honest about his failure, qualities that make him useful
- [Mr. John Derrick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jade_god_se/characters/mr_derrick.md): Derrick came to Beech Lodge for quiet and a novel, and instead inherited a study where a murdered man's presence lingers and a hidden panel yields an image from Burma. He matches wits with Martin over flower beds and Hin
- [Blunt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jade_god_se/characters/blunt.md): Blunt moves through the household as a guest whose ease with the occult unsettles as much as it charms, and his offhand remark that without the jade god he would never have found Jean ties his fate to the carving's. He t
- [Mr. Thursby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jade_god_se/characters/mr_thursby.md): A neighbor involved in the unfolding mystery.
- [Mrs. Millicent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jade_god_se/characters/mrs_millicent.md): A matriarch of the Millicent family, possibly unstable.
- [Mr. Millicent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jade_god_se/characters/mr_millicent.md): The patriarch of the Millicent family.
- [Mr. Jarrad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jade_god_se/characters/mr_jarrad.md): Jarrad arrives to catalogue an old house's furnishings but spends at least as much attention on the appetites that gathered them, musing that humanity is run by things, just things. His running debate with the younger Da
- [Unknown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jade_god_se/characters/unknown.md): He presents himself as a worn-out trader too exhausted to move on, yet Martin's stammered evasions and the man's failure at Hindustani and Malay expose a story stitched together badly. Derrick, testing him, finds the lie
- [The Woman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jade_god_se/characters/the_woman.md): A mysterious woman whose presence haunts the narrative.
- [Her Brother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jade_god_se/characters/her_brother.md): A brother of a central female character, mentioned frequently.
- [The Stranger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jade_god_se/characters/the_stranger.md): An unknown person who appears at a critical moment.
- [Henry Millicent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jade_god_se/characters/henry_millicent.md): A male member of the Millicent family.

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