Characters
- Bel Riose, the last strong general who attempted to capture the Foundation.
- Ducem Barr, Siwennian patrician and hostage of Riose.
- Lathan Devers, trader sent to spy on Riose.
- Cleon II, the last strong emperor before the sack of Trantor.
- Brodrig, Cleon II's Privy Secretary.
- The Mule, mutant who captures the Foundation and attempts to establish a Second Empire.
- Toran and Bayta Darell, the Mule's companions.
- Captain Han Pritcher, intelligence agent for the Foundation, and first to recognise the power of the Mule.
- Mayor Indbur III, mayor of the Foundation during the Mule's conquest.
- Ebling Mis, psychologist who discovered the location of the Second Foundation.
- Dagobert IX, one of the last emperors on Neotrantor
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“The more gifted and talkative one’s characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)