Fedmahn Kassad

Fedmahn Kassad is a fictional character from Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos.

Kassad was a colonel in the Hegemony of Man's FORCE military, of Palestinian descent. He and six other pilgrims were chosen by the Core to be sent to Hyperion to encounter the Shrike during the opening of the Time Tombs.

Kassad was determined to meet and destroy both the Shrike, and its keeper, Moneta on Hyperion. He eventually challenges the Shrike to personal combat, nearly succeeds, and in his death inspires Moneta's people (humanity, milllenia in the future). The outcome of this inspiration is not described by the author.

It is later revealed that Kassad himself was part of the animating spirit of the Shrike, a fact made possible by the passage of the Time Tombs backwards in time.

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