History
Kruggar is a Lem alien and a member of the sect Mourners,[1] that honor the passing of great things in the universe through funerals.[2] Being a Listener, Krugarr could perceive the dying screams of huge populations and notify them to the leaders in the order. He did so in the Large Magellanic Cloud when he detected the death of the Scadamites. This attracted the attention of Mourners' guest Her, who questioned Krugarr and Mourner leader Fath about their methods to find objects of funeral. Not holding secrets, Lem and Fath explained her, but she was aghast at the Mourners, claiming that they were morbid addicts to death when they should have been trying to help.[1] Her however also failed to save the Scadamites.[1]
Attributes
Powers
Listeners Krugarr is one of the Listeners among the Mourners. He can hear the psychic scream of those dying anywhere in the universe, which he reported to the Mourners leadership so that the Mourners could go there to honor the dead. There was apparently no limit in his range, as he detected the death of a species in the Milky Way while he was in the Large Magellanic Cloud.[1]
- Krugarr hears of massacres taking place at that moment, meaning that theoretically the Mourners could, if not stop the disaster themselves, maybe summon a champion who could save lives. However, there are no precedents of this happening successfully.[1]
Trivia
Krugarr pinpointed the place of the Scadamite deaths in the Advinter System.[1] However, Scadam is the Gogol System.[3] This suggests that Advinter System is another name for the Gogol System.