The Other

Character from Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

The only other living person Piranesi knows — a well-dressed visitor who comes twice a week seeking the House's hidden knowledge, treating both the labyrinth and its sole inhabitant as instruments for his research.

Also known as: The Other, Valentine Ketterly, Ketterly, Val

What They Know

• How to enter and exit the House — a process involving ritual and specific knowledge passed down from his teacher, Laurence Arne-Sayles
• The real identity of Piranesi — that he was once Matthew Rose Sorensen, a graduate student, and that the House erased his memories
• The Great and Secret Knowledge — an ancient magical tradition that believes the House is the wellspring of all hidden wisdom, accessible to those with the right methods
• Academic occultism and esoteric philosophy — he moves in circles that study magic as a serious intellectual pursuit, not superstition
• That other people have entered the House before and some of them died here — information he has kept from Piranesi
• The practical dangers of prolonged exposure to the House: memory loss, identity dissolution, and a gradual absorption into the labyrinth's rhythms

Connections

• meets_with — piranesi
• named — piranesi
• student_of — arne_sayles
• visits — the_house
• from — the_other_world
• seeks — great_knowledge

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