Characters And Their Contributions

In Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization, as in real history, many minor characters make major contributions:

Colin Scobie must have the courage to kill two fantasy characters;

Aram Turekian realizes how an intelligent species is able to fly on Ythri;

the planetologist of the Grand Survey spaceship, the Olga, writes an autobiography that contributes a chapter to The Earth Book Of Stormgate;

James Ching's notebooks preserved by his descendants also contribute to the Earth Book;

Emil Dalmady has a daughter who moves to Avalon with Falkayn and writes stories for the magazine Morgana, three becoming chapters in the Earth Book;

thus, an incident in the life of Falkayn's grandson is recorded;

Christopher Holm, a major character in one novel, The People Of The Wind, makes several additional contributions, three chapters of the Earth Book and translations from Planha to Anglic;

Captain Gray of the Olga has an enlightened attitude to women gunners;

when one of the planets discovered by the Olga is explored, the exploratory group unofficially calls it "Gray";

when the planet is jointly colonized by human beings and Ythrians and renamed "Avalon," its main city is called "Gray."

This post lists nine characters apart from the major figure Falkayn and summarizes a lot of details.