Teela Brown

Teela Brown is a fictional character created by Larry Niven in the Ringworld novels. Teela was a member of the crew recruited by Puppeteer Nessus for an expedition to the Ringworld. Her sole qualification was that she was the sixth generation of a line of ancestors born by virtue of winning a Birthright Lottery. The Puppeteer saw her as the product of a program of breeding humans for luck, and hoped she would bring luck and success to the entire ... more

Teela Brown is a fictional character created by Larry Niven in the Ringworld novels. Teela was a member of the crew recruited by Puppeteer Nessus for an expedition to the Ringworld. Her sole qualification was that she was the sixth generation of a line of ancestors born by virtue of winning a Birthright Lottery. The Puppeteer saw her as the product of a program of breeding humans for luck, and hoped she would bring luck and success to the entire expedition. Teela is a descendent of a former lover of Louis Wu. Her age in Ringworld is given as twenty, though there are conflicting data in later books. She joins the Ringworld expedition, then becomes separated from the group. She meets a Ringworld native called "Seeker," and she decides to remain on the Ringworld with him while the remainder of the crew returns to human space. In "The Ringworld Engineers", when Louis Wu returns to the Ringworld, it is revealed that Teela has become a Pak Protector, who manipulates the characters into... less