# The World Below — Character guide

> Key figures in The World Below by S. Fowler Wright.

- [Unknown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_world_below_se/characters/narrator.md): He arrives underground as an outsider with a magistrate's habit of judgment, only to find his senses rudimentary and his conclusions borrowed. His companions — a thought-reading guide and a Leader whose followers are mos
- [Templeton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_world_below_se/characters/templeton.md): Templeton vanished into the underground world after returning armed from it, and the narrator keeps finding traces of his passage rather than the man himself. A discarded pistol on a hillside is ominous but ambiguous — t
- [The Dwellers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_world_below_se/characters/the_dwellers.md): They are the unseen authority against which every other faction — Amphibians, Killers, even the narrator's own plans — must be measured. Their forbearance is as terrifying as their power, and their purposes are described
- [The Killers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_world_below_se/characters/the_killers.md): The smaller Killers are all greed and cunning, obeying archers who signal by whistling through their suckers and who are far more dangerous. Their tactics are intimate and horrible: a living cord that tightens in spasms,
- [The Amphibians](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_world_below_se/characters/the_amphibians.md): They are a political power with pledges, articles, and reservations — not merely creatures of the deep. Their treaty with the Dwellers binds them to abandon an envoy who overstays or trespasses, and to police the Antipod
- [Bryant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_world_below_se/characters/bryant.md): A character associated with the narrator's past or the surface world.
- [Young Danby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_world_below_se/characters/young_danby.md): A younger figure, possibly a relative or acquaintance of the narrator.
- [Clara](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_world_below_se/characters/clara.md): A female character, likely from the narrator's memories or encounters.
- [The Antipodeans](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_world_below_se/characters/the_antipodeans.md): Another group or race inhabiting the world below, distinct from the Amphibians.
- [Harry Brett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_world_below_se/characters/harry_brett.md): A named individual, possibly a companion or historical figure.
- [Britomart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_world_below_se/characters/britomart.md): A named figure, possibly a literary or historical allusion with brief mention.

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