by Black, Jake
Their exoskeleton was seemingly made of the precious metal they mined, making the bugs themselves precious natural resources.
Córdoba (See Hundred Worlds)
Crazy Tom (EG, ES, WG, SH, SG)
Crazy Tom was a contemporary of Ender’s in Battle School, and was one of the few veterans assigned to Ender’s Dragon Army. He was the toon leader of C toon in Dragon Army. He had also developed a reputation for throwing tantrums if his superiors did things that bothered him.
He and his toon helped lead Dragon Army to victory over Rabbit Army in their first battle. They also helped protect Ender from Bonzo Madrid and Salamander Army, when Ender’s life was threatened. In the army’s eighth battle, Tom was frozen and used as a shield by Bean to defeat Salamander Army.
Crazy Tom was promoted to Tactical School and a week later was given command of one of Ender’s unseen squadrons during the exams (that were truthfully real battles) at Command School.
After returning home, Tom, along with the rest of Ender’s final army, was kidnapped by former Battle School student and serial killer Achilles Flandres. He was taken to Russia and forced to participate in war games with his fellow prisoners. He was soon separated from his colleagues and taken to a secret location elsewhere in Russia. There he continued to participate in the war games, which were used as training for Achilles’s ever-growing army.
None of the captives was allowed to have physical interaction with the others. They could write and communicate via e-mail, but nothing else was permitted. Achilles allowed him, and the rest of the prisoners except Petra, to be rescued.
Over the next couple of years, Crazy Tom became a military teacher in Sandhurst, teaching strategy to future soldiers. He was approached by both Hyrum Graff and Peter Wiggin, and invited to leave Earth and its political instability and travel to space where he could begin a new life at a human colony.
As Peter built the Hegemony into the Free People of Earth, Graff again offered Ender’s colleagues the opportunity to leave Earth and govern a planet. It was his fear that Ender’s army would be used in the worldwide conflict, manipulated by whatever political power rose to prominence, and he wanted to prevent that. Every member who received the offer, which did not include Han Tzu, Petra Arkanian, or Alai, said no. The others were already too involved in matters on Earth to leave.
Christao/Cristã, Dona Detesai o Pecado o Fazelo Direito (SD)
Dona Christao was a member of the Catholic Church’s order called Children of the Mind of Christ on the planet Lusitania. She taught at the local school and helped place children in their careers. She was on friendly terms with Pipo, and used that relationship to determine if a prized female student named Novinha could take the xenobiologist certification test earlier than the usual age.
Dona Christao was also married to Dom Cristão, and together they led the Catholic order the Children of the Mind of Christ. She, with her husband, helped Ender Wiggin learn about the people of Lusitania so he could better Speak about their deaths.
She was one who attended the meeting with the governor to discuss the Starways Congress’s absorption of the planetary computer files. She also attended Ender’s Speaking ceremony, learning of Novinha von Hesse’s adulterous relationship with Libo Figueira.
As with the other important meetings, she was present when it was decided that, to protect Miro Ribeira from prosecution, and to protect other planets from the Descolada virus, Lusitania would rebel against the Starways Congress.
Cristão, Dom Amai a Tudomundo Para Que Dues vos Ame (SD)
Dom Cristão was the one of the chief religious leaders on the planet Lusitania. He was the Abbot of the Catholic monastery, which housed an order of the Church known as Children of the Mind of Christ. He was married to Dona Cristão.
He brought comfort to Libo and his family when Libo’s father, Pipo, was killed by the native Lusitanian creatures, known as the piggies.
The Bishop, who was a semirival, asked Dom Cristão for his help in ridding Lusitania of the scourge of a Speaker for the Dead, Ender Wiggin. However, Dom Cristão saw value in what Speakers did, and instead helped Ender prepare to Speak.
When the Starways Congress began absorbing Lusitania’s files, Dom Cristão noticed and began printing out on paper their most important files. With the governor’s aid, he then transferred the bulk of the files into Ender’s open computer storage, trusting Ender to return the files later.
He attended the Speaking for the Dead that Ender performed on behalf of Marcão Ribeira, and was surprised to learn of the adulterous relationship between Novinha von Hesse and Libo Figueira.
He was also present at the meeting where it was discovered that the planet’s charter had been revoked, and the leaders of Lusitania elected to defy Starways Congress’s orders and rebel. They did so to protect Miro Ribeira and Ouanda Figueira. Dom Cristão and the other leaders hoped the rebellion would open the door to taking their religion to the pequeninos—the native species of Lusitania.
Cups (SD)
Cups was a pequenino, the native species of the planet Lusitania, also called “piggies.” He saw Miro Ribeira climb the protective, electrified fence that surrounded the piggies’ land, and wanted to plant him as a tree—the highest honor in their race.
Custer (SH)
Custer was a military man who communicated with Demosthenes regarding the apparent Russian imprisonment of Ender’s former colleagues.
Cyrillia (See Hundred Worlds)
Dag (ES)
Dag was a soldier in Ender Wiggin’s Dragon Army in Battle School.
Dap (EG, ES)
An adult on Battle School, Dap was the supervisor for new recruits when they arrived at Battle School. He referred to himself as the new students’ “Mom,” and instructed them in where they were and were not allowed to go in the school.
When Ender hacked into the school computer system to send messages to his fellow students under others’ names, Dap turned a blind eye. Student Bernard complained about the messages being sent in his name, to which Dap replied that Bernard must be sending them, though he knew it was Ender. Dap did not expose Ender to the other students. He chastised Bernard for yelling at him, a superior.
Ender, Shen, Bernard, and Alai teamed up and froze the rest of their launch group during their first practice at Battle School. It was Dap who unfroze the group, and chastised them for not being as ready as Ender and company had been in the same amount of time.
He was very paternal about the launch groups, and filed a report expressing concern for Ender’s welfare. The report garnered the attention of the International Fleet, who sent General Pace to investigate.
Dap had a rivalry with Captain Dimak, another officer who oversaw a different launch group. Dimak had chosen Bean as the top student, and both he and Dap felt their students were best. They argued often, looking to better their own protégé’s circumstances.
das Lagrimas, Commodore Vlad (EE)
Commodore Vlad das Lagrimas was the executive officer on the first spaceship transporting colonists to former Formic worlds. He served under Admiral Quincy Morgan.
Daymaker, Father (XN)
Father Daymaker was a pequenino, the native animallike sentient species of the planet Lusitania. He was a son of Human, the pequenino who was made into a fathertree at Ender Wiggin’s hands, and trained to be a Catholic priest among his species by Quim Ribeira.
He was plainspoken when he talked with Quim, revealing that the Formic Hive Queen was building the pequeninos a ship to take them off Lusitania, where they would spread the Descolada to other planets.
Deadline (EG)
Deadline is a thin twine used during construction in space. Bean used it as a tool in the Battle Room to connect himself to the wall and rappel around the room in combat.
Deaf (XN)
Deaf was a pequenino, or piggie, the native sentient life on the planet Lusitania. Despite his name, Deaf was not hard of hearing. He was a close friend of Quara Ribeira von Hesse, Ender’s stepda
ughter and an up-and-coming piggie scientist.
Dean of the Cathedral (SD)
The Dean of the Cathedral was a high-up religious leader on the planet Lusitania. He contacted the abbot of the planet’s other monastery, the Children of the Mind of Christ, ordering him to meet with the bishop to discuss the arrival of a Speaker for the Dead on the planet.
Debarkation Chamber (IC)
A debarkation chamber is a portion of a spaceship where a traveler lives. Similar to quarters or barracks.
Deedee, Nurse (EG)
Nurse Deedee assisted a doctor in removing Ender’s monitor from the back of his neck. She said she was too weak to hold the struggling Ender as he squirmed during the removal procedure.
Dekanos, Colonel (SH)
Colonel Dekanos was a soldier in the Greek Army. He was in command of a group of soldiers who rescued the Delphiki family when their lives were in jeopardy during a vacation they took together after the Formic War. He told Bean that ten of his fellow members of Ender’s team in Command School had been kidnapped.
Delamar, Dr. Vivian (ES)
Dr. Vivian Delamar was a surgeon. She fixed the damaged leg of Achilles Flandres, and was killed by him for it. Achilles used a hypodermic to simulate a heart attack. She’d been a close friend of Sister Carlotta, who attended Vivian’s funeral in Cairo.
Delphiki, Andrew (“normal” child) (SG, EE)
Andrew Delphiki, the “normal” child, was one of the embryos created by Bean Delphiki and Petra Arkanian who was implanted into an unknown surrogate. He was born without Bean’s genetic mutation, and given the same name as one of his brothers who had the mutation to prevent suspicion when the mutated brother was taken into space to await a cure with his father. This Andrew was raised on Earth by his mother, Petra.
As an adult, Andrew married a woman named Lani and had several children with her. He was frequently visited by his mother, Petra.
Delphiki, Andrew “Ender” Arkanian (SG)
Andrew Arkanian Delphiki, or “Ender” as he was known, was the first child born to Petra Arkanian and Bean Delphiki. He was born two months premature, a result of his accelerated mental and physical development courtesy of the genetic manipulation he’d received at the hands of Dr. Volescu, who had performed the in vitro fertilization that had created him.
He was loved by his parents, and they worried for his future. Would he grow giant like his father, who also carried the genetic switch? Would he die young?
He accompanied his father into space where they traveled at relativistic speed to forestall death, waiting for scientists on Earth to develop a cure for their mutation.
Delphiki, Arkanian (See also Flandres, Achilles II) (EE)
Arkanian Delphiki was the name chosen by Achilles Flandres II once he learned that he was actually the son of Bean Delphiki and Petra Arkanian.
Delphiki, Cincinnatus (mutant child) ([EE], SG)
Cincinnatus Delphiki, mutant, was the third of the embryos Bean Delphiki and Petra Arkanian created that suffered from the genetic mutation of his father. He traveled into space with his father and two siblings, awaiting a cure for their mutation.
Delphiki, Bella (“normal” child) (SG)
Bella Delphiki, the “normal” child, was one of the embryos created by Bean Delphiki and Petra Arkanian who was implanted into an unknown surrogate. She was born without Bean’s genetic mutation, and given the same name as one of her sisters who had the mutation to prevent suspicion when the mutated sister was taken into space to await a cure with her father. This Bella was raised on Earth by her mother, Petra.
Delphiki, Bella Loyrinha “Carlotta” ([EE], SG)
Bella Delphiki was the second child born to Petra and Bean, though she was actually birthed by a woman in Portugal. Bella had begun as an embryo made of Bean and Petra’s DNA, but stolen by Achilles Flandres. She was implanted into the surrogate in Portugal and birthed there. Petra retrieved the girl, who carried the genetic mutation called Anton’s Key that had made her father brilliant but grow to be gigantic, and kept her to be raised with Bean. She had been named Bella by her surrogate parents.
She was taken into space with her brother “Ender,” her father, and another sibling. One of her sisters, who did not have the mutation, stayed behind on Earth and was also named Bella to avoid suspicion when this Bella disappeared. To differentiate between the two, Bean called her Carlotta, for the nun who had cared for him as a child.
Delphiki, Elena (ES, SH, SP)
Elena Delphiki and her husband, Julian I, desperately wanted a child. When they finally conceived one, thanks to in vitro fertilization and surgery, they all but worshipped him. Their son Nikolai was the world to them, which made it so hard when he chose to go to Battle School.
While Nikolai was in Battle School, Elena and her husband met with Sister Carlotta, who brought saddening news. The remaining embryos that the Delphikis had tried to conceive with, were stolen and destroyed by Julian’s half-brother, a scientist named Volescu. There was hope, though Elena didn’t know it at the time. One of the fertilized embryos had successfully developed into a child—a boy named Bean. Elena’s husband told her of their unknown son, giving hope for the future.
She took her newly reunited family on a vacation after they returned from the war. But the vacation ended up being more dramatic than relaxing, as their house was bombed, and their lives threatened. They were rescued by a group of Greek soldiers and informed that several of Bean’s colleagues from Command School had been kidnapped.
After being watched under guard in a small apartment, the Delphiki family was taken by Hyrum Graff and Sister Carlotta to another undisclosed location. Elena was uptight, wanting to know what was going on and what the real plans were. Carlotta and Graff split the family up for their own safety. Bean went with Carlotta, while Graff oversaw the rest of the family’s protection and journey deeper into hiding.
The Delphiki family came out of hiding to join Bean in Brazil, where he was given a position in the new Hegemony that was centered in the South American country. They were promised protection from future kidnappings by living there. They had to return to hiding, though, a short time after arriving in Brazil. Achilles was on his way to the Hegemony compound and was a threat to the Delphiki family.
Achilles was killed months later, and the Delphikis were allowed to return to Brazil. They worked in the government for a time, but soon retired. Elena felt too old to be out working all the time.
Bean married Petra Arkanian, and they had several children through in vitro fertilization. Achilles had stolen and implanted the embryos, leading Bean and Petra on a worldwide hunt for their children. They eventually found them all, but Bean left Earth for space, where he and three of his babies would wait for a cure for the genetic mutation that cursed him and his children.
Elena cared for the babies while Petra mourned the loss of Bean and worked in the military. When Petra finally returned to Brazil more than a year later, Elena turned the care of her grandchildren over to her.
She was proud of her life’s work, and wanted to see Petra live life fully with her family.
Delphiki, Julian I (ES, SH)
Julian and Elena Delphiki tried hard to have children, resorting to test-tube in vitro conception and surgery. Finally they got their son Nikolai and treated him like he was to be the king of the world until the International Fleet came calling, wanting to take him to Battle School. At Nikolai’s suggestion that he may be the next Mazer Rackham, they let him go.
Several months later, during a visit from Sister Carlotta, Julian learned that the fertilized embryos he and his wife had given to have a child had been stolen and destroyed. They were, in actuality, the same embryos that the evil scientist Volescu had grown illegally. From them had been created Bean, a wunderkind at Battle School.
Volescu was Julian’s half-brother, and it broke his heart that the son of his father’s mistress would steal the embryos that were to be his children. However, he held out hope that Bean, his unk
nown son, would return to them someday.
Bean and Nikolai both returned home after Ender’s victory over the Formic home world. Julian took his boys and his wife on a vacation but quickly learned that it was dangerous to be related to Bean. Their home was bombed, and they were saved by Greek soldiers. They learned that ten of Bean’s colleagues from Command School had been kidnapped, and Bean’s life was in jeopardy.
After a few weeks under the Greek army’s protection, the Delphiki family was moved again to an undisclosed location. They were to be split up, with Julian and Elena taking Nikolai with Hyrum Graff and going into hiding, while the nun who’d helped raise him, Sister Carlotta, took Bean.
They came out of hiding at the end of the conflict and joined Bean in Brazil, the new home of the Hegemony. Bean had been given a position in the new government, and his family was promised protection if they moved there. The promise was shortlived, and the family had to go back into hiding to avoid Achilles who was on his way to the compound.
Once Achilles was killed, Julian and Elena returned to Brazil and watched the events of the world unfold. They were proud of their family, and grateful for the grandchildren both Bean and Nikolai brought them.
Delphiki, Julian II “Bean” (EGS, EG, ES, [EE], SH, SP, SG)
He was without a name, but the boy who would one day become Julian Delphiki II, and be given the nickname Bean, was born precocious. At under a year old, Bean knew that his home, which he described as “the clean place,” was dangerous. He heard adults fighting and hid in a toilet tank. He was found by a janitor named Pablo de Noches, and taken into his home. It is unclear how long Bean stayed with Pablo, though it was thought to be a very short time. He escaped from Pablo’s house, and went into the streets.
At age four, Bean was tiny. He looked like he was two, and had barely any clothing to speak of. He lived on the streets of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, watching how the different groups of homeless children worked together. These “crews” of kids were the key to survival, and soon Bean aligned himself with a crew led by a nine-year-old girl named Poke.