# The Silent Ones — The Moon Pool character guide

> The Silent Ones in The Moon Pool by A. Merritt.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Silent Ones

**First appearance:** 0027-xxv-the-three-silent-ones

## Snapshot

Ancient adversaries of the Shining One, they haunt the moonlit ruins of a lost civilization, watching intruders with motives as opaque as their silence.

## Who they are

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, and the scientists can only infer their intentions from what they do not say. As the expedition descends toward the Moon Pool, these figures embody the story's central question: whether the forces behind the pool are human-made, inhuman, or something stranger still.

## In the story

### [XXV: The Three Silent Ones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/chapters/xxv-the-three-silent-ones)

Three ancient beings with triangular black eyes, feathered scalps, and opalescent auras; heal Larry and radiate benign sorrow.

### [XXIX: The Shaping of the Shining One](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/chapters/xxix-the-shaping-of-the-shining-one)

The ancient race that created the Shining One; they are the Three, who loved their creation despite its rebellion.

### [XXXII: “Your Love; Your Lives; Your Souls!”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/chapters/xxxii-your-love-your-lives-your-souls)

The Three; communicate through Lakla; reveal the prophecy and bless Larry and Lakla with a tender touch.

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