List of Ender's Game Characters - Pequeninos

Pequeninos

• Rooter is a piggy who plays an influential role in human-pequenino relations. He is extremely intelligent and frequently proves the wisdom of the xenologers' directive of minimal interference; he is the first piggy to be flayed alive by his tribe after the establishment of the colony of Milagre, and thus the humans' first exposure to this practice; and his "totem tree" (as the humans think of him) provides them with wisdom and direction for years to come.
• Human is a pequenino who serves as a diplomat of sorts between the piggies and the humans, helping Ender Wiggin communicate with one of the wives, Shouter, and create a treaty so that both races can live together. He is the first and last piggy to be "planted" by human hands, to sign the treaty in the piggies' way. Later in life he becomes the friend and confidant of the Lusitanian Hive Queen through philotic communication; Children of the Mind implies that the two have developed romantic feelings for each other.
• Planter is a lab technician who assists Ela and Quara during the years before the arrival of the Lusitania Fleet. To prove that pequeninos can be separated from the descolada without harm, he volunteers for an "experiment" in which his body is purged of the virus, which is as vital to him as oxygen; though this loses him his "third life" as a sentient fathertree, he proves that pequenino sentience is not affected by the descolada, and as such is remembered by all peoples of Lusitania as a hero and martyr.
• Glass is, like Planter, a lab technician to the Lusitanian xenobiologists. He volunteers to be a guinea piggy for the recolada virus and is successfully transformed into a fathertree, proving its suitability as a non-destructive descolada replacement.
• Warmaker is a fathertree who, as his name suggests, was influential during the last great war between piggy tribes. It is his forest that develops the peculiar heresy of the descolada being the Holy Ghost, and he himself kills Quim by withholding from him the medicine all humans need to keep the descolada dormant.
• Arrow
• Calendar
• Firequencher
• Leaf-Eater
• Mandachuva
• Water-jumper