Characters in Death Comes As the End

Supporting characters

• Renisenb

  Reflective and grieving for her late husband Khay, she slowly learns to see the people around her clearly as deaths mount.

• Imhotep

  Self-important and controlling, demanding deference while remaining blind to the resentments his decisions provoke.

• Nofret

  Beautiful, sharp-tongued, and deliberately divisive, she inflames the household's existing jealousies.

• Yahmose

  Dutiful and mild, he labors loyally for his father yet receives little trust or reward in return.

• Sobek

  Confident and impulsive, given to boasting and resentful of being kept under his father's authority.

• Ipy

  Spoiled and arrogant, openly contemptuous of his older brothers and eager to claim his father's favor.

• Hori

  Calm and perceptive, he becomes a steadying confidant to Renisenb as the family fractures.

• Kameni

  Handsome and personable, he draws Renisenb's attention amid the household's growing unease.

• Esa

  Half-blind but shrewd and unsentimental, she observes the household with cynical clarity.

• Henet

  Ingratiating and ever-present, she professes selfless loyalty while trafficking in everyone's secrets.