Martin Silenus

Character from Hyperion by Dan Simmons

The Poet — an obscene, brilliant, centuries-old writer whose masterwork summons the Shrike with each canto, and who has been impaled on the Tree of Pain for the crime of creating something the universe noticed.

Also known as: Silenus, The Satyr, The Old Poet

What They Know

• Born on Old Earth before the Big Mistake — the oldest living human being
• Writing the Hyperion Cantos — each completed canto summons the Shrike and someone dies
• Was impaled on the Tree of Pain for years — consciousness broadcast into the Void Which Binds
• Founded the City of Poets with Sad King Billy near the Time Tombs
• Recruited Raul Endymion 300 years later to find Aenea — the last act of his centuries-long life
• His speech is approximately 40% expletives — profane, brilliant, insufferable

Connections

• pilgrim_with — consul
• impaled_on — tree_of_pain
• freed_by — lamia
• recruited — endymion
• ally_of — sad_king_billy

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