The Jade God · Character
Mr. Jarrad
A lean, quiet-eyed inventory man of thirty years' experience, who appraises rooms and the people in them with the same impassive, unsettling accuracy.
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Also known as Jarrad
First appearance: i the old house
As a major figure in The Jade God, Mr. Jarrad is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
One of the inventory men who interrupts Derrick and Perkins.
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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…
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Derrick’s psychological whirl and Martin’s shift from silent, fearful contemplation to a “new look” and awkwar…
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See Mr. Jarrad in i the old house