by Black, Jake
Ensign (EE)
The ensign, a young man of about twenty, was the assistant to Admiral Quincy Morgan, the commanding officer of the first transport ship of human settlers. Admiral Morgan yelled at the ensign a lot.
Eros Asteroid (See also Command School) (EGS, EG, ES, [GB])
Location of Command School. Although technically a moon, Eros is considered a minor planet. It had once been a Formic base for their initial assault on Earth. The Formics had carved great tunnels into the moon’s surface, which were later used by the International Fleet as the foundation for its Command School.
Esquecimento, Sister ([SD])
Sister Esquecimento was a nun who taught at the Catholic school on the planet Lusitania. She was said to have menacing fingernails. Ender Wiggin’s stepson Grego held a lifelong disdain for her.
Etruia (SD)
Etruia was an Italian-settled planet of the Hundred Worlds. It was home to the University of Sicily, Milano Campus.
Evenezer ([EE])
Evenezer was married to Afraima, the assistant xenobiologist in Shakespeare, the first human colony on a former Formic world. Evenezer loved his wife deeply, and didn’t know that she wanted to cheat on him with Sel Menach, the head xenobiologist.
Exams/Real Battles (EGS, EG, ES, GB, [EE])
In Command School, Ender was put in charge of battle games, called “exams,” that required him to command fleets of ships in combat against Formic ships. The exams were later revealed to be actual space battles, not games.
Fairyland (EG)
Fairyland was the seemingly impossible destination of the computer game Giant’s Drink, played in Battle school.
Falstaff (See Hundred Worlds)
Fan-liu (XN)
Fanliu was a young teenage girl on the planet Path. Of Chinese descent, she was put into service for a high-ranking family at a young age. She was friends with Si Wang-mu, and prepared her for the life of a servant by telling her that the pretty servants work less than the less-attractive ones.
Father Tongue (SD, XN)
Father Tongue was the means of communication between the pequeninos who had entered the third life known as fathertrees, and their “sons,” the living pequeninos. It required rhythmic drumming by the pequeninos and the fathertrees.
Fathertrees (SD, XN, CM)
The fathertrees were the next evolution of the pequenino male on the planet Lusitania. The most revered pequeninos, when they died, had a tree grow from their chest. The pequeninos’ wisdom and experience lived on in the tree. The fathertrees could communicate with one another and the pequeninos by way of the Father Tongue. Fathertrees were the only male pequeninos that could reproduce. If a male piggie wasn’t made into a fathertree, he would have no progeny.
Female Student (TP)
A young female student was the first to answer Theresa Brown’s questions during a college class called Human Community. She was a classmate of John Paul Wiggin and asked their teacher if she was teaching based on science or religion. Theresa expelled the student from her class for the question, stating that the student had asked a bigoted, troublemaking question.
Ferreira (SP, SG)
Ferreira was the computer expert in the Hegemony compound in Brazil. He had a very close relationship to the Hegemon, Peter Wiggin, and created the computer security protocols that were meant to track Achilles Flandres while the serial killer was in the compound.
Although he seemed loyal to Peter, he was actually working with Achilles. When Achilles attempted to discredit Peter as an embezzler, Ferreira fabricated the evidence to support Achilles’s claims.
Once Achilles was defeated, Ferreira returned to Peter’s side. Peter forgave the earlier disloyalty, and Ferreira continued his position as the head of electronic security in the Hegemony.
He helped Bean and Petra track down their stolen, implanted embryos, even traveling to Rwanda to study the continued illegal work of Dr. Volescu. Ferreira and a group of scientists were able to discover that Volescu had intended to spread the genetic mutation known as Anton’s Key to all humanity through a virus. It was Ferreira’s research that jump-started Peter Wiggin’s campaign to combat Volescu’s virus.
Ferreira also helped Bean and Petra search for their stolen embryos by using the Ministry of Colonization’s semisentient computer program, the Mind Game or Giant’s Drink, to track the information in the birth databases from around the world. He didn’t feel this was a good use of his time, but had said he would and was a man of his word.
Ferreria, Mrs. (PB)
Mrs. Ferreria is an older Portuguese woman Bonzo Madrid and his mother met in the marketplace. She was upset with her daughter’s life choices, but Mother Madrid helped her see the positive things Mrs. Ferreria’s daughter was doing.
Figueira, China (SD)
China was the second child born to Libo Figueira and his wife Bruxinha on the planet Lusitania. She was best friends with Ela Ribeira von Hesse, before Novinha Ribeira forbade her children from having Libo’s children over.
Figueira, Prega (SD)
Prega was the third child born to Libo Figueira and his wife Bruxinha on the planet Lusitania.
Figueira, Zinha (SD)
Zinha was the fourth and final child born to Libo Figueira and his wife Bruxinha on the planet Lusitania.
Figueira de Medici, Liberdade Graças a Deus “Libo” (SD)
Libo was the middle child in the Figueira family, and like his father, Pipo, became a xenologer on the planet Lusitania. At age thirteen, he was still an apprentice xenologer, but was known for his talent and maturity despite his age.
In his earlier years, he had known a girl named Novinha at school, and was not glad to learn that she would be taking the xenobiologist certification test earlier than the usual age since he was still an apprentice and liked working with his father. Like the rest of his family, Libo was devoutly Catholic growing up.
Libo and Novinha developed a deep friendship that turned to romantic feelings. They spent so much time together that it was a natural outgrowth of their experience working together.
One day, Libo met with Rooter, one of the planet’s native creatures known as the pequeninos or “piggies,” and they discussed male/female relations in their two societies. Rooter called human women weak for not killing Libo or his father once they learned they were wise. Libo and his father, Pipo, thought that Rooter was killed by the other piggies for the conversation, which brought great guilt to Libo.
Libo and Novinha were the two who, a while later, found Pipo’s dead body. It was a crushing discovery for both. However, with his father’s death, Libo became the xenologist for the planet. He wanted access to the research Novinha had gathered, but Novinha refused to give it to him, since she didn’t want him to die like his father had.
Although Libo married a woman named Bruxinha, and had four children with her, he had always hoped to marry Novinha. They had a sexual relationship outside of their respective marriages, however, and Libo fathered all six of Novinha’s children. Novinha had refused to marry Libo despite loving him, because of her fear that he’d die like Pipo.
Years later, Libo was killed by the piggies in the same fashion his father had been.
Filhos de Mente de Cristo (See Children of the Mind of Christ)
Fiorelli, Mil (CM)
Mil Fiorelli was a human colonist and scholar who lived among the Hundred Worlds after Ender’s victory over the Formics. His most famous book was Observations of Distant Worlds with the Naked Eye, which became a philosophical resource among the human settlers on the different worlds.
Firenzette (IC)
Firenzette was the local currency of the planet Sorelledolce and was used throughout the Hundred Worlds. Worth 1/674 of a Starcount. Ender Wiggin discusses the currency while searching for his finances on Sorelledolce.
Firequencher (CM)
Firequencher was a pequenino scientist on the planet Lusitania. He joined Miro II, Valentine II, Ela and Quara on a mission to study the home planet
of the Descolada virus. He was present when the aliens on Descoladore launched an attack against them and helped decipher the insidious message they’d sent, designed to kill all humans.
First Secretary of Starfleet Admiralty (CM)
The First Secretary of the Starfleet Admiralty was a high-ranking officer who first issued the order to destroy the planet Lusitania, but repealed that same order. The fleet was instead instructed to quarantine the planet.
First Speaker of Starways Congress (CM)
The First Speaker of Starways Congress worked with the Starfleet Admiralty to repeal an order that had been given to destroy the planet Lusitania.
Firth, Nichelle (See Randi) (SG)
Nichelle Firth was the alias of a woman named Randi, used to hide her identity to sign up for a colony ship and to protect her son, Achilles Flandres II, from capture by Peter Wiggin and the Free People of Earth.
Firth, Randall (See Flandres, Achilles II) (SG, EE)
Randall Firth was an alias given to Achilles Flandres II by his mother, a woman named Randi, to protect him from being taken from her by the Free People of Earth led by Peter Wiggin.
Flandres, Achilles I (ES, [EE], SH, SP)
Achilles (pronounced ah-SHEEL) Flandres was a bully on the streets of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. He was smaller in stature compared to the other bullies who stole food from the smaller kids in groups called “crews.” Achilles’s status as a dominant bully was also challenged because of his bad leg. He walked with a limp that portrayed weakness to the other, stronger bullies.
When nine-year-old female crew leader Poke was advised by Bean to find a bully to protect her crew, she chose Achilles. It was a poor decision on Poke’s part, however, as Achilles’s charisma and intelligence quickly manipulated the crew into following him more closely than Poke. He called the crew his “family,” filling a need the kids didn’t know they had—love. Bean admonished Poke to kill Achilles, but it was too late. Achilles was the new unofficial leader of the crew and promised to take care of them like family.
Achilles arranged for Sarge, his right-hand man, to pick a fight with another bully named Ulysses in line at the local soup kitchen. The fight, which Achilles won by seriously hurting Ulysses, led to the family being in the front of the line and the first to get food. Achilles never accepted Bean or Poke, though. In fact, he was determined to kill them. This murderous desire grew when Bean convinced other bullies to protect small children, taking away the family’s exclusive rights to the front of the soup kitchen line.
It was Bean who warned Achilles that the other bullies were looking to kill him in retaliation for hurting Ulysses. Achilles went into hiding, running from the bullies, or so it seemed to his family. In actuality, it was a plot to kill Poke.
Poke knew where Achilles went and sought him out the night he left. They kissed, and Poke reminded him of a promise he’d made her: not to kill Bean. Instead, Achilles killed Poke. He beat her to death and left her body in the river. He returned to his family, blaming Ulysses for the murder. He swore revenge against Ulysses, never revealing it was he who killed Poke.
Over the next several months, Achilles underwent several surgeries on his gimp leg, performed by Dr. Vivian Delamar, whom he killed. The goal was to get him physically up to par to send him to Battle School, where he would be a test for Bean. Sister Carlotta warned against assigning him to Battle School, but the warnings fell on deaf ears.
Achilles arrived at Battle School around a year after Bean. He was immediately assigned to Rabbit Army, which Bean had just been assigned to as commander. The assignment was a test for Bean, to see how developed his leadership abilities really were. Achilles was initially disrespectful of Bean as his commander, but after Bean made it clear that stories of their time together in Rotterdam would not be tolerated, and demanded that Achilles answer his orders with “yes, sir,” he seemed to fall into line.
However, Bean was certain that Achilles intended to kill him, just as he had Poke. Shortly after he arrived at Battle School, Achilles was called into a meeting with Bean. Bean convinced Achilles to travel with him through the ductwork, where, Bean said, he and Ender had spied on other commanders. Achilles followed Bean into the ducts, but was tricked by Bean and tied up with deadline, Bean’s favorite ropelike tool, and held captive.
Bean gave Achilles a choice—either confess to all the murders he’d committed or die by dehydration in the heating system’s ducting. Achilles confessed to seven murders, including Poke’s, as well as Ulysses’s and even Dr. Delamar’s. A serial killer, Achilles murdered those who saw him helpless. The confessions got him kicked out of Battle School, and put into psychiatric care. But they also renewed Achilles’s desire to kill Bean.
Achilles escaped from the hospital and began using Russian soldiers to kidnap ten members of Ender’s army after the Formic War. It was Achilles’s goal to use these most brilliant of military minds to establish armies under his command and destroy the world governmental structure. He longed for power and sought to obtain it on a grand scale.
He tried to kill Bean and his family but was unsuccessful. Nonetheless, he manipulated his captives, including Petra Arkanian, into presenting plausible, successful military strategies for his evergrowing armies.
After several months, Achilles noticed that Petra Arkanian, one of his prisoners from Ender’s army, had sent a message out to an unknown recipient that contained a coded message. He was unable to figure out the message and was frustrated by it. But it told him that Petra was the smartest and most talented of his captives.
Once the message got out, the political pundit Locke called for a rescue mission of the kidnapped war heroes. He used the information from Petra’s message to call on the Russian government to make things right and free the prisoners.
Achilles allowed this rescue operation to go forward for all of his prisoners except Petra. Knowing that she was the smartest, he interfered in her rescue, and rekidnapped her. He took her on an airplane, where he nearly killed her by sending her out of the cabin into the sky. He helped pull her back into the plane, though. They landed in New Delhi, where Achilles was hopeful that Petra would use her strategic brilliance to aid him in his plans of world domination.
He had made an alliance of some kind with the Indian government. Half a world away, Bean, Peter Wiggin, and Sister Carlotta determined that this alliance was a great threat to Asia, and to Bean and Peter personally. Peter had derailed Achilles’s plans in Russia by exposing his kidnappings, and Achilles wanted revenge. It was possible, they knew, that Achilles could form an alliance with the Polemarch, Chamrajnagar, who would expose Peter’s identity as Locke to Achilles, and bring about many problems for the world at large.
With much influence in the Indian government, Achilles orchestrated the next phase of his world domination. He convinced the prime minister of India to pull his troops back from the border with Pakistan. He then took Petra, whom he had forced to create new military strategies and then ignored, to Pakistan and convinced the prime minister of that country to also pull back their troops.
It was his goal to take over Asia with Pakistan’s help. Masterfully manipulative, Achilles was successful in convincing the leadership to be a part of his plan. He also secretly got into the head of the top military leaders in Thailand and convinced them to kill Bean and his ally Suriyawong.
The assassination attempt was unsuccessful, but Achilles began his march across Asia by sending the Indian army into Burma.
He called Petra to his office. There he told her that he was certain Bean was dead and revealed that he knew about the secret messages Bean had been trying to send Petra through the online forums. Another female Battle School graduate in their military compound, Virlomi, had responded to the messages, and for that Achilles was going to kill her.
This warning led to a physical confrontation between Petra and Achilles. They beat each other up pretty soundly, and Petra changed tactics. She kissed Achilles and tried to convince him that she was on his si
de. She hoped it would help dissuade him from killing Virlomi. It was all an act, and Achilles was skeptical, but Petra gave it her all. Achilles dismissed her from his presence and returned to issuing orders for the army, believing Petra was becoming his.
All of Achilles’s efforts in India had been a cover. He was actually setting up India and Pakistan to be taken over by the Chinese. When this was exposed by rebellious Indian soldiers from his planning team, Achilles killed the soldiers and took Petra hostage as he tried to leave India for China. Bean was on his way to rescue Petra and kill Achilles, so Achilles was desperate to escape with his life.
When Bean arrived and confronted Achilles, Achilles held a gun to Petra’s head. The Chinese soldiers who had been working with Achilles to take over Asia had orders to return him to China unharmed. Bean exploited these orders, brokering a deal with the Chinese that let them take Achilles but free Petra.
Petra wanted Achilles killed. As the Chinese solider in command moved to free Petra from Achilles, Achilles tried to shoot him. But he was not fast enough, as the Chinese soldier took the gun from Achilles’s hand and broke his arm, freeing Petra. Bean used a tranquilizer to incapacitate Achilles.
Achilles traveled back to China, unconscious, with his soldiers. He was arrested and imprisoned. The Chinese government had determined that he was a threat to them and wisely put him away. As they moved him to another prison facility, though, he was freed by a small army sent by Peter Wiggin, the Hegemon.
This small army, led by Suriyawong, took Achilles back to the Hegemony compound in Brazil. Suriyawong was overly respectful to Achilles, trying to gain false trust with him. He knew that Achilles always killed the people who had seen him helpless, and rescuing him from the clutches of a Chinese prison made Achilles appear helpless.
Achilles helped train the small army that Suriyawong had commanded. He was again positioning himself to assume great power in a governmental position, this time in the Hegemony run by Peter Wiggin. But it was all part of Peter’s plan to assert his own authority.