# The Purple Cloud — Character guide

> Key figures in The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel.

- [Adam Jeffson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_purple_cloud_se/characters/adam_jeffson.md): A doctor who joins the Boreal's race for the Pole, he narrates a world transformed by what waits beneath the ice.
- [Countess Clodagh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_purple_cloud_se/characters/clodagh.md): A countess whose presence haunts Adam's solitude, she becomes the mirror in which his strange new dominion is tested.
- [David Wilson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_purple_cloud_se/characters/david_wilson.md): A fellow explorer sharing the Boreal's cramped quarters and mounting dread, he embodies the human cost of the polar obsession.
- [Clark](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_purple_cloud_se/characters/clark.md): A crew member on the expedition ship the Boreal.
- [Aubrey Maitland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_purple_cloud_se/characters/aubrey_maitland.md): A member of the polar expedition team.
- [John Mew](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_purple_cloud_se/characters/john_mew.md): A sailor on the expedition ship.
- [Mackay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_purple_cloud_se/characters/mackay.md): A crew member on the expedition.
- [Abel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_purple_cloud_se/characters/abel.md): A biblical figure referenced in the narrative.
- [Old Johnson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_purple_cloud_se/characters/old_johnson.md): An elderly crew member on the expedition.
- [Cain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_purple_cloud_se/characters/cain.md): A biblical figure referenced in the narrative.
- [Eve](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_purple_cloud_se/characters/eve.md): A biblical figure referenced in the narrative.

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