Ahab is an insane but kind old woman characterized by her extreme and passionate desire to hunt the Pallid Whale, with so little regard for anything else that she offers her life to Ishmael after the deed is done. Initially, she appears to be highly charismatic, bringing in and unifying individuals from all walks of life for the goal of hunting the Calamity. However, she is highly manipulative, egocentric but kind, seeing herself as nothing but a means to an end. Her end-justifies-the-mean mind