# The Jewels of Aptor — Character guide

> Key figures in The Jewels of Aptor by Samuel R. Delany.

- [Geo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jewels_of_aptor_se/characters/geo.md): Geo is the poet whose opening lines from The Galactica frame the entire conflict between Leptar and Aptor, giving him a strange authority as both chronicler and participant in the journey. He leads the expedition with a 
- [Urson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jewels_of_aptor_se/characters/urson.md): Urson serves as the group's muscle and its most openly acquisitive conscience, grumbling about danger while still stepping forward. He worries aloud about who will rescue them if things go wrong, a fear that makes him bo
- [Snake](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jewels_of_aptor_se/characters/snake.md): Snake is the quietest member of the party, a miniature figure with multiple arms who sits apart when the others press on into darkness. When Geo asks if he can make the climb, Snake simply shakes his head, and the group 
- [Iimmi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jewels_of_aptor_se/characters/iimmi.md): Iimmi is the group's navigator and its quiet skeptic, counting turns on the dark highways and wondering aloud whether the naked figure they saw was running from them. He carries a jewel that glows when touched, a small c
- [Leptar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jewels_of_aptor_se/characters/leptar.md): Leptar — also called Argo — is the divine figure at the center of the conflict Geo's poem immortalizes, invoked in the very first lines of The Galactica. He is known through his priests, his incarnations, and the fear an
- [Jordde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jewels_of_aptor_se/characters/jordde.md): Jordde accompanies the group as a representative of Argo, the deity also known as Leptar, lending the expedition a religious dimension it might otherwise lack. His presence raises the stakes: the party is not merely trea
- [the Priestess](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jewels_of_aptor_se/characters/the-priestess.md): She holds rank among Argo's priestesses, the power that dispatches the ship-borne company toward Hama's hidden temple and the third jewel. Her teaching method is brutal: she screens a real atrocity for a girl not yet six
- [the captain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jewels_of_aptor_se/characters/the-captain.md): The captain of the ship that transports the characters to Aptor.
- [Hama](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jewels_of_aptor_se/characters/hama.md): Hama is Argo's opposing power on Aptor, and the priestess's word sends the travelers toward a band of Hama's disciples beyond the volcano. The god never appears directly; the tension lives in the search — a temple to fin
- [Priestess Argo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jewels_of_aptor_se/characters/priestess-argo.md): A young priestess serving Argo, distinct from the older Priestess.

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