# The Time Traders — Character guide

> Key figures in The Time Traders by Andre Norton.

- [Ross Murdock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/ross_murdock.md): Ross enters the project as a reluctant recruit with a delinquent's instincts and a talent for keeping his mouth shut while his eyes work. Captured by horsemen who plan to sell him to a hairless, fire-wielding chief, he m
- [Ashe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/ashe.md): Ashe moves through the past as Assha of the traders, a man known and trusted in villages where a wrong word could unravel centuries. Standing over the crater that was Outpost Gog, he reads the dead with grim precision an
- [McNeil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/mcneil.md): McNeil is the mission's memory, able to recite Sanford's informant network from Britain to Brittany and to swear no warning ever came. He explodes at dead ends and needles Ashe for a plan, but his knowledge of the dead a
- [Lal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/lal.md): Lal is a small man caught between great powers, frightened of Lurgha yet shrewd enough to know that quarrels of gods are not for him. When Ashe stages a fiery display and offers the rare wolf skin for the Mother's shrine
- [Kurt Vogel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/kurt_vogel.md): Kurt arrives at the arctic base with ingenious devices and a plan to reach his own rendezvous, and he nearly sells Ross on the gamble. When the project's mechanical hound and Kelgarries's team close in, his boasted immun
- [Assha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/assha.md): Assha is known from his father's post to the marsh villages as a trader of his own race, one who pulled Gurdi from a flooded river and paid for it with his goods. That reputation is armor: it explains his presence, his q
- [Lurgha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/lurgha.md): Lurgha belongs to warriors and great men, too high to bother with a wretch like Lal — until he speaks out of the air and names Lal his meat. That voice turns a timid Great Mother follower into an unwilling instrument, or
- [Foscar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/foscar.md): Foscar leads the riders who take Ross on the trail, and his camp moves at a lounging, unhurried pace that keeps the prisoner bound to a tree with a noose at his neck. He and his men have already heard the hairless strang
- [Ennar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/ennar.md): Ennar studies the captive trader and finds him unlike the hairless chief who put a price on his head — hunter people, hair and eyes, nothing strange. When Ross insists his own people will pay much at the bitter water, En
- [Dr. Webb](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/dr_webb.md): A scientist involved in the time project.
- [Nodren](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/nodren.md): A native of the ancient world encountered by the agents.
- [Tulka](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/tulka.md): A Beaker trader and contact for the time agents.
- [Major Kelgarries](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/major_kelgarries.md): A military officer overseeing the time project.
- [Nelson Millaird](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/nelson_millaird.md): A scientist and member of the time project team.
- [Hardy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/hardy.md): An injured agent encountered during the mission.
- [Ulffa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/ulffa.md): A native of the ancient world with a minor role.
- [Hodaki](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/hodaki.md): A hostile native figure in the ancient setting.
- [Gurdi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/gurdi.md): A native of the ancient world with a minor role.
- [Judge Rawle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_traders_se/characters/judge_rawle.md): A judge involved in the project's legal aspects.

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