# The Moon Pool — Character guide

> Key figures in The Moon Pool by A. Merritt.

- [Larry O'Keefe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/larry_okeefe.md): Larry O'Keefe is the soldier-protagonist whose easy wit and Eton-Harvard polish mask a deep-rooted Irish mysticism he can neither explain nor dismiss. He has heard the banshee twice and seen the green people of Carntoghe
- [Yolara](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/yolara.md): Yolara rules the Council of Muria alongside Lugur, wielding her beauty and her voice as instruments of control over both her people and the strangers who fall into her realm. She is drawn to the Norseman Olaf with a cold
- [Lakla](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/lakla.md): Lakla moves between the world of the Silent Ones and the human strangers, serving as both guide and beloved, her voice soft with fear and devotion. She brings Larry tidings that he must not fight, a command that wounds h
- [Rador](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/rador.md): Rador is a soldier of the ebon pit caught between obedience to Yolara's Council and a growing bond with the strangers he is ordered to deliver. He kills a fellow guard to save them, then flies the corial through the coll
- [Olaf Huldricksson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/olaf_huldricksson.md): Olaf Huldricksson is a giant of a sailor whose tear-filled eyes and silent endurance mark him as a man hollowed out by loss. He feigns ignorance before Yolara and Lugur, controlling his rage with a discipline that surpri
- [Edith Throckmartin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/edith_throckmartin.md): Edith Throckmartin is the woman whose disappearance with her husband's party first drew Goodwin into the mystery of the Moon Pool, her absence a wound that never quite closes. She exists in the narrative as a haunting pr
- [Lugur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/lugur.md): Lugur belongs to the ruling caste of Muria, a realm where ancient science and moon-driven forces shape daily life. His authority is absolute and his methods are merciless, which puts him at odds with anyone who questions
- [Marakinoff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/marakinoff.md): Marakinoff moves through the expedition with the quiet confidence of a man who always knows more than he reveals. His scientific expertise is genuine, but so is his willingness to pursue knowledge for its own sake — or f
- [Dr. Walter T. Goodwin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/dr_walter_goodwin.md): Dr. Goodwin is a respected man of science who finds himself chronicling events that no scientific framework can contain. His training demands skepticism, yet the testimony of his friend Throckmartin and the things he wit
- [Dr. Charles Stanton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/dr_charles_stanton.md): Stanton was part of Throckmartin's expedition, a colleague whose scientific curiosity led him toward the Moon Pool's secrets. What he found there transformed him into something between victim and prophet — a man marked b
- [Da Costa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/da_costa.md): Da Costa is a working sailor among scientists and dreamers, a man whose competence lies in ropes and wheels rather than theories. He is superstitious enough to shrink from the uncanny but loyal enough to stand his ground
- [The Shining One](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/the_shining_one.md): The Shining One is no mere monster but a cunning intelligence that promised the Taithu dominion over Earth in exchange for its release from the depths. It taught them to build the Moon Pool and the seven lights that chan
- [Thora Halversen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/thora_halversen.md): A strong-willed woman from the surface world, connected to Olaf.
- [The Silent Ones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/the_silent_ones.md): The Silent Ones belong to the older, submerged world beneath the Nan-Matal ruins, a counterforce to the luminous Dweller that Throckmartin and Goodwin pursue. Their refusal to speak makes them unnerving allies or enemies
- [Dr. David Throckmartin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/dr_david_throckmartin.md): The vanished scientist whose disappearance starts the adventure.
- [The Taithu](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/the_taithu.md): A hostile race of beings in the underworld.
- [The Three](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/the_three.md): Three enigmatic figures central to the Silent Ones' power.

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