Too Like the Lightning
Too Like the LightningAda PalmerTerra Ignota, book 1
Characters in Too Like the Lightning
6 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Mycroft Canner
A paroled convict who serves others across the world as a Servicer and narrates the book as an openly unreliable memoir, secretly protecting Bridger.
Supporting characters
Carlyle Foster
A sensayer, a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed public religion, assigned to the Saneer-Weeksbooth household.
Bridger (Terra Ignota)
A thirteen-year-old boy who can make his wishes real, bringing toys and other representations to life; keeping his gift from the wrong hands drives the story.
Thisbe Saneer
A member of the Saneer-Weeksbooth household who, with Mycroft, brings Carlyle into the family's secret.
Dominic Seneschal
A Blacklaw who investigates the Saneer-Weeksbooth household as the stolen document draws in rival powers.
Mommadoll
An animated doll who looks after Bridger and his living toy soldiers.