A Short Stay in Hell
Characters in A Short Stay in Hell
4 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Soren Johansson
A geologist, husband and father, and a lifelong Mormon. He dies expecting the afterlife his faith promised and is instead consigned to the library, where he spends eons searching for the book of his own life.
Antagonists
Dire Dan
A resident of the library who, more than a millennium in, claims a vision from God and founds a cult. His followers, the Direites, begin a campaign of violence against everyone outside it.
Supporting characters
Rachel (A Short Stay in Hell)
A fellow resident of the library and a member of the society's university, which studies the texts its members recover. She and Soren fall in love, and their years together are the one relief the library affords him.
Xandern
A minor Zoroastrian divinity who processes the newly dead on arrival and explains to Soren how the library works and what he must do to leave it.