# Odo Lechester — World’s End character guide

> Odo Lechester in World’s End by Richard Jefferies.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Odo, Poor Odo, Mr. Odo

**First appearance:** 0000-book-i-facts

## Snapshot

A powerful man reduced to a whistling wild man of the woods, Poor Odo haunts the copses with his dog Dando, playing tin-whistle tunes that only his brother Fulk can recognise.

## Who they are

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 between the need to find him and a deep pity for the ruined soul before him. Odo's elusiveness and his old bond with Fulk make him both a key to Aymer's release and a haunting emblem of the Lechester family's decay, anchoring the novel's gothic strain.

## In the story

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/chapters/xv)

A homicidal lunatic in Aurelian's asylum; killed his wife with a tinker's hammer; has a monkey-like appearance and a fondness for tinkering, dogs, and the tin whistle.

### [X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/chapters/x)

Speaks to Aymer from behind a painting, sharing his own story of wrongful confinement and offering advice.

### [The Hole in the Wall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/chapters/xi)

Escaped the asylum nearly a year ago, instructed by Theodore to kill Jason Waldron.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/chapters/xiv)

Fulk's cousin, a lunatic who stole the dog Dando; confesses to murdering Jason Waldron but denies harming Lady Agnes.

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