Character map
At the mountains of madness
Vietnamese has no single word for "I" or "you". Speakers choose words according to age, rank and closeness. Each arrow in this diagram runs from speaker to listener. Its label gives the word the speaker uses for themselves, then the word they use for the other person.
graph TD
N1("William Dyer (Narrator)") -->|"tôi -> các vị"| N2("Scientific Community")
N1("William Dyer (Narrator)") -->|"tôi -> giáo sư / ông"| N3("Frank H. Pabodie")
N1("William Dyer (Narrator)") -->|"tôi -> anh"| N4("Lake")
N1("William Dyer (Narrator)") -->|"tôi -> anh"| N5("Atwood")
N1("William Dyer (Narrator)") -->|"tôi -> cậu"| N6("Danforth")
N1("William Dyer (Narrator)") -->|"tôi -> cậu"| N7("Carroll")
N8("William Dyer") -->|"tôi -> anh"| N4("Lake")
N4("Lake") -->|"tôi -> anh / các anh"| N8("William Dyer")
N8("William Dyer") -->|"tôi -> thuyền trưởng"| N9("Captain Douglas")
N8("William Dyer") -->|"tôi -> cậu"| N10("Sherman")
N8("William Dyer") -->|"tôi -> cậu"| N6("Danforth")
N8("William Dyer") -->|"tôi -> anh"| N11("Douglas")
N8("William Dyer") -->|"tôi -> anh"| N12("Thorfinnssen")
N6("Danforth") -->|"tôi -> giáo sư / ông"| N8("William Dyer")
N1("William Dyer (Narrator)") -->|"tôi -> ông ấy"| N13("Pabodie")
N1("William Dyer (Narrator)") -->|"tôi -> gã / hắn"| N14("Abdul Alhazred")
N1("William Dyer (Narrator)") -->|"tôi -> ông / giáo sư"| N13("Pabodie")
N1("William Dyer (Narrator)") -->|"tôi -> cậu ta"| N15("Gedney")
N8("William Dyer") -->|"tôi -> cậu"| N15("Gedney")
N8("William Dyer") -->|"tôi -> họ"| N16("Old Ones")