Anthony Meredith
Meredith is the future scholar who edits Avis’s manuscript roughly seven centuries later.
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Spoiler-freeMeredith is the future scholar who edits Avis’s manuscript roughly seven centuries later. He respects its personal value but corrects its chronology, terminology, and hero worship. His confidence shows that the Brotherhood of Man eventually replaced the Iron Heel, yet his amused distance sometimes reduces past suffering to an academic curiosity. His personal fate is outside the story.
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