The narrator
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 1 (Excerpt from the Preface to A Past Outside of Time)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 1Writes only a frame of events from memory, hoping someone someday will fill in the specifics, though that task will not fall to the narrator's generation.
- Ch 1Can move the sun and dim it to bring dusk early, and waves at a silhouette of themselves on the horizon.
- Ch 74The narrator began as a rocket engineer working on chemical rockets, later joined the PIA, and was tasked with sending a probe a light-year away to meet the Trisolaran Fleet.
- Ch 74The narrator received a star and became the Swordholder, responsible for maintaining dark forest deterrence.
- Ch 74The narrator wanted to give humans lightspeed wings but also had to thwart that goal to prevent a war.
- Ch 74The narrator says they and Guan Yifan share responsibility for the fate of the universe.
- Ch 74The narrator denies being the Chosen One or a history-maker, insisting they are an ordinary person whose path became a civilization's journey.
Connections
- member ofPDC Strategic Intelligence Agency
- ally ofGuan YifanShare responsibility for the fate of the universe
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 1The narrator prepares to remember
In a preface, the narrator explains that the account is only a frame based on memory, adjusts the sun to bring an early dusk, waves at their own silhouette and decides it is a good time for remembering.
- Book 3 · Ch 74Reflection on the stairs of responsibility
The narrator reviews their life as an escalating series of responsibilities, from schooling and rocket engineering to the PIA, being Swordholder, and now responsibility for the universe's fate, framing it as every civilization's journey.