Ananta is a blue-skinned designer of experimental intelligent armor who calls himself, in his own diary, “the traitor of the axiomatas” (el traidor de los axiomatas). He was a companion in a gesta (campaign-cycle) and fought alongside Pérsico.
| Type | Character |
| Also called | Ananda |
| Spanish entry | Ananta |
Description
Ananta has blue skin, a white beard (“white so it can be washed magically”) and “half-ecstatic eyes”. He is quiet and thoughtful. When portrayed he wears white robes stained with blood and is wounded, cut and bruised. Seated, he is “almost like a statue”, in a posture “almost millimetrically calculated so that everything is symmetrical”.
He wears a simple armor that “forms two cubes in two moments” and a cape with two symbols, a decan’s and a religious one, one on each side. His ring finger is missing, with “a little drop of blood” on the stump; the loss bothers him because it breaks his symmetry.
Armor
Ananta designed advanced intelligent armor experimentally; the suit he wears is his own. That category of armor is “evidently no longer experimental”. A female companion worked with him on it (“you were Ananta’s experimental companion in your time”).
Dissolution
Mist was seen coming from his armor before his body broke down into “a kind of cloud” that floated around the fight and then “moved on its own” into a cavern. His case is contrasted with Jalil’s: Ananta “is not in the same situation as Jalil”.
Treason and gift
- His diary, which others have seen, names him a traitor; the question “Did he hand over his brothers?” stays open.
- A voice in the record, addressee unstated, says: “But what did he do? He gave you life!”
Open questions
- Whom he gave life to, and in what context.
- What the axiomatas are and what his treason consisted of.
- To whom he gave his ring finger, and for what; what the religious symbol on his cape is.
- What the intelligent armor does; whether the mist comes from the armor, the body or both.
- Whether the dissolution is death, a voluntary ability or an armor effect, and whether it is reversible.
- Where the diary and the cavern are, and what they contain.