Hillalum

Role, aliases, and summary hidden by structure-only view.

Elamite miner

The protagonist who journeys to Babylon to climb the tower, dig into the vault of heaven, and eventually discovers the cylindrical shape of the world.

In Tower of Babylon (Ted Chiang, 2002)

Possibly the same character

Same author, same name, in other works — cross-work identity is not asserted here, only suggested. Nartopo tracks character identity per work; these are separate pages that may or may not depict the same character.

Hillalum in Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)