Warlock Characters: Full List & Analysis

Who drives the story

Main characters

Taita

Eunuch slave, physician, architect, poet, engineer and self-declared teller of tales, serving Lord Intef's household while giving his true loyalty to Lostris and Tanus. He builds the chain that saves the exodus, exposes the traitor, embalms his queen, and seals the lovers in their hidden tomb before walking into the desert.

Appears in:: Part 1: The Chariot and the Vow; Part 2: The Fall of Egypt; Part 3: The Traitor in the Family; Part 4: Ten Thousand Years
Themes:: Love outlasting death; The servant who sees everything; Engineering as salvation; Treachery within

Lostris

Lord Intef's daughter, married against her will to the aged Pharaoh Mamose, then regent and Pharaoh of a fleeing Egypt. She sentences her own father to death for treason, bears Tanus's son in secret, and dies shortly after Tanus - some say of a broken heart.

Appears in:: Part 1: The Chariot and the Vow; Part 2: The Fall of Egypt; Part 3: The Traitor in the Family; Part 4: Ten Thousand Years
Themes:: Love outlasting death; Duty against desire

Tanus

Chariot officer turned general, Lostris's true love from the temple vow onward. He drives the Hyksos from Egypt forever and is mortally wounded in the moment of victory, dying in Lostris's arms.

Appears in:: Part 1: The Chariot and the Vow; Part 2: The Fall of Egypt; Part 3: The Traitor in the Family; Part 4: Ten Thousand Years
Themes:: Love outlasting death; Duty against desire; Engineering as salvation

Lord Intef

Lostris's father, who sells her into a political marriage and grows wealthy robbing Mamose's tomb in exile. As Grand Vizier he plots with the Hyksos to become their puppet ruler, is exposed by Taita, and is beheaded on his daughter's order.

Appears in:: Part 1: The Chariot and the Vow; Part 3: The Traitor in the Family
Themes:: Love outlasting death; Duty against desire; Treachery within

Memnon

Son of Lostris and Tanus, delivered by Taita and passed off publicly as the dead Mamose's child to secure the dynasty. He grows into a young man and fights beside his true father in the final battle.

Appears in:: Part 2: The Fall of Egypt; Part 4: Ten Thousand Years
Themes:: Duty against desire

Pharaoh Mamose

The aged Pharaoh Lostris is forced to marry. Killed by a Hyksos arrow, he leaves the Double Crown to Lostris with his dying breath.

Appears in:: Part 1: The Chariot and the Vow; Part 2: The Fall of Egypt; Part 3: The Traitor in the Family; Part 4: Ten Thousand Years
Themes:: Duty against desire; Treachery within

How they are connected

Key relationships

Taita Lostris
Eunuch slave, physician, architect, poet, engineer and self-declared teller of tales, serving Lord Intef's household while giving his true loyalty to Lostris and Tanus.
Taita Tanus
Eunuch slave, physician, architect, poet, engineer and self-declared teller of tales, serving Lord Intef's household while giving his true loyalty to Lostris and Tanus.
Taita Lord Intef
Eunuch slave, physician, architect, poet, engineer and self-declared teller of tales, serving Lord Intef's household while giving his true loyalty to Lostris and Tanus.
Lostris Lord Intef
Lord Intef's daughter, married against her will to the aged Pharaoh Mamose, then regent and Pharaoh of a fleeing Egypt.
Lostris Pharaoh Mamose
Lord Intef's daughter, married against her will to the aged Pharaoh Mamose, then regent and Pharaoh of a fleeing Egypt.
Lostris Tanus
She sentences her own father to death for treason, bears Tanus's son in secret, and dies shortly after Tanus - some say of a broken heart.
Lord Intef Pharaoh Mamose
Lostris's father, who sells her into a political marriage and grows wealthy robbing Mamose's tomb in exile.
Memnon Taita
Son of Lostris and Tanus, delivered by Taita and passed off publicly as the dead Mamose's child to secure the dynasty.
Memnon Lostris
Son of Lostris and Tanus, delivered by Taita and passed off publicly as the dead Mamose's child to secure the dynasty.
Memnon Tanus
Son of Lostris and Tanus, delivered by Taita and passed off publicly as the dead Mamose's child to secure the dynasty.
Memnon Pharaoh Mamose
Son of Lostris and Tanus, delivered by Taita and passed off publicly as the dead Mamose's child to secure the dynasty.

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Warlock themes & symbols

Love outlasting death · The servant who sees everything · Duty against desire · Engineering as salvation

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