# World’s End — Character guide

> Key figures in World’s End by Richard Jefferies.

- [Violet Waldron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/violet_waldron.md): Violet is the cherished only child of Jason Waldron, raised in seclusion on the Downs and courted by Aymer Malet, a man the local farmers consider far beneath her. As her wedding approaches she grows pensive rather than 
- [Lady Lechester](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/agnes_lechester.md): Agnes Lechester has returned from Florence to her grand, comfortless home, where she recognizes Aymer as the coarse-garbed pilgrim she once observed at the shrine of art. No longer young but still a fine woman, she looks
- [Aymer Malet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/aymer_malet.md): Aymer Malet is a sensitive, self-doubting young man who cannot quite believe he deserves Violet Waldron, and whose constitutional shyness nearly keeps him from ever speaking. When Jason Waldron generously approves the ma
- [Theodore Marese](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/theodore_marese.md): Theodore is the seasoned companion and confidant of John Marese Baskette, older by nearly a decade yet just as hungry for pleasure and power. Together they tour Paris and Vienna, burn through Baskette's reduced income, a
- [Fulk Lechester](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/fulk_lechester.md): Fulk Lechester is little in body but large in soul, a young man of the Towers who resolves to find the elusive Odo and thereby free Aymer Malet. Knowing he cannot match Odo's strength, he prepares a lasso learned in Sout
- [Marese Baskette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/marese_baskette.md): John Marese Baskette is a tall, dark, fascinating man whose twenty-first birthday brought him only two thousand a year instead of the fortune he expected, a blow that perverted his nature and inflamed his ambition. Polis
- [Arthur Sibbold Waldron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/arthur_sibbold_waldron.md): A man who buried his true name and history so thoroughly that his own descendants inherited a fortune they never knew was theirs.
- [Mr. Broughton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/mr_broughton.md): The lawyer Aymer instinctively trusts when everything else has collapsed, a steady professional anchor in a world of traps and false friends.
- [Aurelian](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/aurelian.md): Lucia's brother and strategist, a fashionable physician whose cleverness serves his sister's ambitions and his own advancement.
- [Sternhold Baskette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/sternhold_baskette.md): A self-made patriarch whose colossal vanity and late marriage set in motion forces that will strip him of everything he built.
- [Lucia Marese](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/lucia_marese.md): A woman whose beauty and ambition carry her from provincial obscurity to the Paris stage, and whose choices destroy the man who married her.
- [Jason Waldron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/jason_waldron.md): The kindest man at World's End, whose murder sets the whole machinery of inheritance, madness, and revenge into motion.
- [Dando](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/dando.md): A loyal dog who plays a symbolic role in the narrative.
- [Albert Herring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/albert_herring.md): Albert Herring is a farmer whose losses—dead cattle, ruined crops, a thousand pounds sunk in bad shares—have curdled into bitterness against the Union and its local secretary, Jenkins. He abuses Jenkins endlessly yet kee
- [James Sibbold](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/james_sibbold.md): James Sibbold belongs to the Sibbold family whose tangled history with the Waldrons sits at the heart of the Stirmingham inheritance case. His name, rather than Arthur's, dominates the family council's recollections, lea
- [Martin Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/martin_brown.md): Martin Brown is a sturdy, well-meaning farmer who took in his sister's child and gave him shelter but no money, expecting Aymer to earn his keep among the sheep and ewes. Utterly incapable of understanding a mind absorbe
- [John Marese Baskette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/john_marese_baskette.md): John Marese Baskette is the son whose birth old Sternhold celebrated with wine by the gallon, and he trades shamelessly on that memory, promising beer, lower rents, and relief from local taxation to win the city. With a 
- [Miss Merton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/miss_merton.md): A genteel woman whose presence stirs romantic interest.
- [Lucia Marese Baskette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/lucia_marese_baskette.md): Lucia Marese Baskette is the wife of old Sternhold Baskette, whose theatrical triumph in Paris—riding a milk-white palfrey as Godiva, then appearing as Cleopatra—makes her notorious and drives her husband to a paralytic 
- [Odo Lechester](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/odo_lechester.md): Odo Lechester is a physically powerful man who has become the Beast-Man of the woods, living wild, playing strange music on a tin whistle while his dog Dando dances on its hind legs. Fulk hunts him with a lasso, torn bet
- [Edward Jenkins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/edward_jenkins.md): A loyal servant whose fate intertwines with the main families.
- [Mr. Merton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/mr_merton.md): A gallant gentleman who courts Miss Merton.
- [Walter de Warren](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/walter_de_warren.md): A military man with ties to the Lechester family.
- [Davidson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/davidson.md): A minor character who appears in social settings.
- [Romy Baskette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/romy_baskette.md): A delicate Baskette family member, often ill or in distress.
- [Will Baskette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/will_baskette.md): An elderly Baskette, known for his kind heart.
- [Hannah Bond](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/hannah_bond.md): A gossipy servant who spreads news among the households.
- [Dodd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/dodd.md): An old retainer who serves the Waldron family.
- [Esther Herring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/esther_herring.md): A Herring family member, often in the background.

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