# The Night Land — Character guide

> Key figures in The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson.

- [The Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/characters/the_narrator.md): A lonely athlete-scholar who once loved Mirdath in an older age, now reborn to cross the Night Land and win her back.
- [Naani](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/characters/naani.md): The Maid whose voice arrives by brain-elements in the dark, speaking words only Mirdath could have known, and drawing the narrator onward.
- [Lady Mirdath the Beautiful](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/characters/lady_mirdath.md): Lady Mirdath the Beautiful is the neighbor and cousin the narrator meets by chance on a country road at sunset, when her voice answers his half-believing laugh with 'And thou also!' Their love grows into a union he later
- [Master Monstruwacan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/characters/master_monstruwacan.md): The Master Monstruwacan governs the Last Redoubt and speaks with the great Voice of the Home-Call, urging lost youths to return before the House of Silence claims them. He watches the Instruments for signs of the Forces 
- [The Diskos](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/characters/the_diskos.md): The Diskos is the narrator's constant companion on his journey down the Mighty Slope, a weapon whose light seems astonishingly great against the surrounding darkness. He uses it only in extremity, for its power is not to
- [The Humpt Men](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/characters/the_humpt_men.md): Grotesque, hunchbacked creatures encountered in the Night Land.
- [The Hounds](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/characters/the_hounds.md): Monstrous canine beasts that hunt in the darkness of the Night Land.
- [The Monsters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/characters/the_monsters.md): Generic term for the many terrifying entities inhabiting the Night Land.
- [The Beloved](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/characters/the_beloved.md): A poetic reference to Naani, the narrator's eternal love.
- [The Master Doctor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/characters/the_master_doctor.md): A high-ranking healer in the Last Redoubt.
- [The Slug-Beast](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/characters/the_slug_beast.md): A giant slug-like monster encountered in the Night Land.
- [The Giants](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/characters/the_giants.md): Enormous, stationary beings seen in the Night Land.
- [The Silent Ones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/characters/the_silent_ones.md): Silent, menacing figures that wander the Night Land.
- [The Beast-Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/characters/the_beast_man.md): A yellow-skinned beast-man encountered in the Night Land.
- [The Monster Slug](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/characters/the_monster_slug.md): Another giant slug-like creature in the Night Land.
- [The Squat Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_night_land_se/characters/the_squat_man.md): A short, brutish humanoid creature in the Night Land.

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