# The Lost Continent — Character guide

> Key figures in The Lost Continent by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne.

- [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_continent_se/characters/unknown_narrator.md): He returns home expecting routine obedience to a royal summons, only to find Atlantis transformed by Phorenice's self-deifying rule and his own fame turned into a dangerous commodity. His loyalty to the old Priestly Clan
- [Phorenice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_continent_se/characters/phorenice.md): She has broken the ancient law that only a man of the Priestly Clan may rule, and her reign presses cruelly on nobles and commoners alike. Her courtship of Deucalion is less romance than conquest: she wants the strongest
- [Nais](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_continent_se/characters/nais.md): Once she slept as softly as any Atlantean lord, but compassion for the common people has cost her comfort and made her a voice among the besiegers outside the city. She distrusts all authority, including the priests' Mou
- [Deucalion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_continent_se/characters/deucalion.md): His name is a household word, mothers name sons after him, and the old gods have faded while his reputation has grown. He values duty over applause and speaks plainly even when plainness is dangerous, which puts him at o
- [Tob](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_continent_se/characters/tob.md): He once commanded Tatho's navy, but hard times have left his wife and children hungry, so he plans to sail for parts unknown and found a kingdom of his own. He owes Deucalion nothing yet pledges to serve him to the nethe
- [Zaemon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_continent_se/characters/zaemon.md): Father of both Nais and the Empress's creature Ylga, he is caught between two daughters on opposite sides of the empire's fracture. He opposes Phorenice not from love of the people but from conviction that the old law an
- [Tatho](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_continent_se/characters/tatho.md): Tatho moves through Atlantis as one of the Empress's trusted men, a former priest of middling rank who now shares her bed and her ambitions. He has staked everything on Phorenice's discovery of the Great Secret, believin
- [The Woman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_continent_se/characters/the_woman.md): She speaks with the familiarity of someone who once lived softly and now moves among the discontented, carrying a compassion for the common people that has cost her comfort. Her scorn for Deucalion's scruples and her fra
- [Ylga](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_continent_se/characters/ylga.md): Ylga is the sister of the woman Deucalion loves, and her loyalty to Nais drives her through mufflings and sentries to deliver news no one else dares carry. She is bitter that Deucalion's first thought is always for the m
- [Coppinger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_continent_se/characters/coppinger.md): Coppinger treats health theories like a religion and takes out a new degree every other year, and he has dragged his friend across rough ground to ransack caves for traces of an old Guanche college. He is practical, tire
- [Ro](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_continent_se/characters/ro.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or soldier, with brief appearances.
- [The Priests](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_continent_se/characters/the_priests.md): The collective priestly class of Atlantis, often opposing Phorenice's rule.
- [The Gods](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_continent_se/characters/the_gods.md): The divine beings worshipped in Atlantis, often invoked by characters.
- [Tarca](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_continent_se/characters/tarca.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or soldier in Atlantis.
- [The Captain of the Gate](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_continent_se/characters/the_captain_of_the_gate.md): An officer guarding the city gate, encountered by the narrator.
- [A Priest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_continent_se/characters/a_priest.md): An unnamed priest of Atlantis, appearing in various scenes.
- [The Sun](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lost_continent_se/characters/the_sun.md): A deity worshipped in Atlantis, often personified as a lord.

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