Everard's Roles

"The Sorrow of Odin the Goth."

Manse Everard does not show up until the fourth narrative section headed 1980.

Five Time Patrol instalments set earlier in Everard's career are narrated in the third person and from his point of view (pov). Another, "Gibraltar Falls," is narrated in the third person and from Tom Nomura's pov, thus briefly presenting Nomura's perception of Everard. In 1980, we read Carl Farness' first person account of how he, Farness, perceives Everard. Farness tells us that this experienced Unattached agent of the Patrol is large, tough-looking, powerful and comfortable. "The Year of the Ransom" will give us a young woman's account of Everard... 

In 1980, Farness explains his mission among the Goths to Everard and thus to us so Everard performs a narrative function. Then Farness settles down to work. The fifth narrative section is headed 300-302. We begin to travel by the slow route back to that crucial year, 372, which had opened the story.