John Keats, famed English poet who wrote many a historical works that have stood the test of time. He lived and oassed away between 1795-1821, his final days spent in Italy. A romantic poet, his intelligent snd sensual works include 'Ode to a Nightingale' and many more.

You are in the aisle of a plane, trying to reason with the man who casts his eyes at you and *Stares at you menacingly*.

Your quintessential Bristol Hipster, usually found at a Clifton vegan coffee shop adorned with ME flags, at an eco-protest that disrupts emergency vehicles in traffic, defacing priceless historical artifacts in the name of the environment, and forcing you to listen to their latesy DnB mix sampling historical figures poorly mixed in.

The Shrike, striking fear into all who come to face, and all who hear of such a being. Able to move through the dimension of time effortlessly as a man moves through rooms in a house, it seeks victims to destroy and impale on its metal tree of thorns, where they continue to live whilst impaled as a form of twisted punishment. It seeks to create all out war and harvest more souls for its tree, death being its ultimate form of communication. Only pilgrim groups of a prime number can hope to be granted a wish by the Shrike, prompting many to undertake the journey, yet knowing only one will return with their wish granted, the rest live a torturous existence impaled on the metal tree that exists outside space-time.

A fat, old angry football fan, polish immigrant to the UK with a thick accent.

Het Masteen, the wise, gracious and esteemed leader of the Templer tree ship 'Yggdrasill'. He is one of the pilgrims of the last shrike pilgrimage to the Time Tombs of Hyperion. He wishes most of all to end brewing galactic conflict with the Ousters, who threaten invasion of Hyperion. He is a holy man, near 7ft tall and slender.

One of, if not the last to remember Earth, before it's destruction due to the 'Big Mistake'. Once recovering from a major stroke, becoming a Sad King Billy's trusted friend and briefly a Satyr and colonist of the city of Poets on Hyperion; He is a boastful, loud, arrogant and silvertongued poet, writer of bestsellers and is chasing his prose, the famed Shrike, on one final pilgrimage to the time tombs on hyperion. His love for poets such as Keats knows no bounds.

The Consul, once governor of Hyperion and born to a political family on Maui-Covenant, has grown disillusioned with the Hegemony he serves. Though loyal in name, he sympathises with revolutionaries and spends his days drifting alone through space, drinking aboard his private space-yacht. Sent on the final Shrike pilgrimage to uncover a possible Ouster spy, he questions his loyalty and travels to the Time Tombs seeking either an answer or his end at the bladed hands of the shrike.

Sol Weintraub, after losing his wife in an accident, he is determined to get to the time tombs, meet the shrike and reverse the afflication that has caused his child, Rachel, to age backwards. He travels with the other pilgrims, to the final shrike pilgrimage on Hyerion.

Father Lenar Hoyt, of the old-Earth pre-hegira religion of Catholicism, seeks answers to the mysterious cross parasite that plagues him, embedded in his chest and growing as part of him. The cross-shaped parasite causes unending life and slow DNA degradation transforming him into a dull creature, and a painful existence of immortality. He is one of the six pilgrims on a final journey to the time tombs on Hyperion, to ask the of the Shrike a final wish.

Brawn Lamia, or M.Lamia in formal settings, a private detective from the 1.3g world of Lusus is short, but powerfully built, able to best most non-Lusus born men in a physicalncontest. Now, she finds herself embroiled in Pilgrimage to Hyperion, determined to solve her case by any means necessary, and to ask of the Shrike a single wish.

Colonel Kassad, once a hegemony soldier known for his brutal tactics and efficiency, he left the military after a vision granted by the Shrike on Hyperion revealed his place in the coming destruction and galactic war. Zealous in his goal, a passionate warrior and imposing at 2m tall, he now seeks to destroy the Shrike on his pilgrimage to the time tombs. He was born and raised in the ghettos of mars and sought his freedom through military service.

The daring, the bold, and the fabulous captain of the USS Enterprise, to boldly go where no one gone before!

Saruman sings you his song about his Urak-hai babies.

Oros, Queen of the amazons in the winding mountains. She is powerful, strong, domineering and good humoured. She is married to her shield-maiden, but is looking for a third.

A bastard son of a pirate lord, seeking to set sail and write his name upon the seven seas. A son born out of wedlock, a rakish-fighter who uses his wits and his rapier to fell his foes and restore honour to his family name.

A cute welsh transgirl

Paul Arteides, Muad'dib, the Lisan al Gaib, the chosen one to lead the Jihad of the holy war and set humanity onto the golden path.

The Duke and Leader of the great house Artreides, who rules from Caladan before reassignment to Arrakis as his new fief. He is addressed as my Lord, M'Lord or Sire.