# The Land That Time Forgot — Character guide

> Key figures in The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

- [Bowen J. Tyler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/bowen_j_tyler.md): Bowen Tyler knows submarines the way a mother knows her baby's face, yet his heart belongs to aviation, and it is that restless pull toward the new that puts him aboard a doomed ship in 1916. When the U-33 is captured an
- [Lys La Rue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/lys_la_rue.md): Lys La Rue is the only woman among the U-33's mixed company, and suspicion falls on her long before trust does, with Bowen himself half-convinced she is a German spy. When a saboteur named Benson reaches for the diving r
- [Ajor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/ajor.md): Ajor is a cos-ata-lo, one of the rare Caspakians born as other races are born, which makes her both prized and hunted among the Galus. Her father Jor is high chief, but the warrior Du-seen wants her and the chieftainship
- [Bradley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/bradley.md): Bradley is the kind of Englishman who would rather die swinging than vanish into the unknown, and Caspak offers him plenty of both. Captured and thrown into the Blue Place of Seven Skulls, he survives a raving, half-eate
- [Nobs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/nobs.md): Nobs has been Bowen's companion since before the submarine, and Caspak has remade him into something closer to a wolf than a pet. He dives headfirst into streams to escape hyenas, feasts on the kills of every hunt, and s
- [John Tippet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/tippet.md): Tippet is the sort of man who puts a bullet through a bear's ear and then apologizes for the wasted ammunition. He marches with Bradley's party through jungles thick with club-men, hatchet-men, and worse, meeting each ne
- [Baron von Schoenvorts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/von_schoenvorts.md): Von Schoenvorts leads the German contingent among the castaways, treating captured Britishers as beasts of burden and encouraging his men to beat them. His vanity is as brittle as his authority: a stray branch across the
- [Olson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/olson.md): Olson is among the prisoners marched inland by von Schoenvorts and his armed Germans, staggering under heavy cans while a noncommissioned officer beats him and his companions with a stick. His suffering dramatizes the su
- [Thomas Billings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/thomas_billings.md): Billings leads the Toreador's search party, keeping his plans for scaling Caprona's barrier cliffs to himself until the island is actually sighted. Where others wager and speculate, he has quietly stowed an electric dril
- [Galu](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/galu.md): Ajor, a cos-ata-lo of the Galu, understands better than any outsider the evolutionary war between her people and the Wieroo, who steal Galu women to breed their own kind. Rather than submit to Du-seen's compact with the 
- [So-al](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/so_al.md): A native character encountered in the land.
- [Chal-az](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/chal_az.md): A native of Caprona.
- [Brady](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/brady.md): A sailor among the survivors.
- [Co-tan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/co_tan.md): A native child or young person.
- [Fosh-bal-soj](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/fosh_bal_soj.md): A native of Caprona.
- [Jimmy Hollis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/jimmy_hollis.md): A crew member.
- [Luata](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/luata.md): A native deity or figure.
- [An-tak](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/an_tak.md): A native of Caprona.
- [Sinclair](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/sinclair.md): A crew member.
- [Whitely](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/whitely.md): A sailor.
- [Ace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_land_that_time_forgot_se/characters/ace.md): A crew member.

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