Aluteyn Craftsmaster
Names: Aluteyn CraftsmasterAluteynthe CraftsmasterLord PresidentLord AluteynAlCreative BrotherLord Creator
First appears in Book 2: The Golden Torc, chapter 1 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 1Lord Aluteyn Craftsmaster leads the Guild of Creators, but his authority has recently been challenged, possibly to be settled at the Grand Combat.
- Ch 10Aluteyn, the Craftsmaster, is a First Comer who laments that few young Tanu pursue practical disciplines and that humans are displacing Tanu culture.
- Ch 10Aluteyn Craftsmaster believes Aiken has no chance against the Shape of Fire and refuses Greg-Donnet's long-odds bet, apparently knowing something.
- Ch 12Pragmatic First Comer who values human craftsmen and technicians and mocks the Host's nostalgia; supports Gomnol's plan with reservations.
- Ch 22Stout, hostile President of the Guild of Creators; accepted Mercy's challenge and tested her by conjuring a giant lamprey from the Kral.
- Ch 32Aluteyn is a Tanu over three thousand years old, tired, and ready to accept the life-offering.
- Ch 35Aluteyn, defeated by Mercy, chose life-offering and walked to the Great Retort to join the condemned.
- Ch 38Aluteyn is the deposed Craftsmaster and a First Comer; he revived Bryan with redactor skills and feels honor-bound to warn of danger.
- Ch 38Aluteyn's metafaculties are blocked to the immediate vicinity, but he senses ground tremors, changed earth currents and strange clouds.
- Ch 39Aluteyn, former Lord Creator, is imprisoned in the Great Retort among condemned prisoners and fears an earthquake or seiche; he used to light the corpse pile.
- Ch 39Aluteyn etches a warning message on the inside of the Retort's front pane with his remaining metapsychic power.
- Ch 41Aluteyn has regained full consciousness and metafunctions after his restraints were lifted; he can create a PK wind and reinforce the Retort's walls.
- Ch 41Aluteyn took the dead Bryan's golden torc and gave it to Raimo, replacing Raimo's silver torc.
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 17Aluteyn is a deposed High Tabler who chose Retort (death) and then un-chose it; he now accepts that Aiken Drum may be king.
- Ch 17Aluteyn is Lord of Calamosk, a plump former head of Creation House, and an old friend of Celadeyr from Duat.
- Ch 25Aluteyn accepts the Tourney, saying the Exile is entering a new era whether they like it or not.
- Ch 35Aluteyn told Mercy who Abaddon is, starting with the events of twenty-seven years earlier when he first met Marc Remillard's exiles.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 1Aluteyn would not abjure the ancient battle-religion even though his heart rejected it; he died in the landslide.
- Ch 9Aluteyn, a renegade from the Great Retort, ousted Sullivan-Tonn from Calamosk and later died.
Connections
- leadsGuild of Creators
- enemy ofMercedes Lamballechallenger for presidency
- ally ofBryan Grenfellrevives and tends him
- friend ofRaimo
- ally ofRaimo
- friend ofCeladeyrold First Comer comrades from Duat
- leadsCalamosk
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 10Royal box discussion
Bryan reports on his survey while Tanu leaders voice fears about human influence, and Greg-Donnet rants about cloning.
- Book 2 · Ch 22Mercy challenges Aluteyn
At an extraordinary assembly Mercy challenges Aluteyn for the Creators' presidency. Aluteyn conjures a lamprey; she answers with fish and chips and is validated to contend at the Grand Combat.
- Book 2 · Ch 35Mercy defeats Aluteyn
Mercy challenged Aluteyn over the Kral, overcame his black creations, and rained edible manna on the crowd; she became Lady Creator and Aluteyn chose the Great Retort.
- Book 2 · Ch 38Bryan revived in the Great Retort
Aluteyn pulls Bryan from his mind-cave; Bryan, longing for Mercy, learns he is in the Great Retort while captives speculate about earthquakes.
- Book 2 · Ch 39Aluteyn's futile warning in the Retort
Aluteyn tries to warn of coming seismic disturbance but is dismissed by a human coercer and mocked by the doomed; he etches a warning on the glass.
- Book 2 · Ch 41Survivors in the floating Retort
Raimo and Aluteyn caulk the Retort and sort survivors from the dead; Aluteyn gives Raimo Bryan's golden torc.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Council at the force-field
Tanu leaders learn from Gomnol's mindspeech that the invaders are defeated rebels seeking only to leave for North America. Nodonn rejects Gomnol's alliance plea and orders them destroyed.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Quarrel over the ruined flour mill
Aluteyn berates Celadeyr for wrecking Afaliah's flour mill and for his Nightfall War obsession, then agrees to help; both remember Aiken Drum is the Kingmaker's Chosen.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Aiken Drum overawes Afaliah
Aiken appears, paralyses Celadeyr after a mindbolt, shows off his armies and smuggled weapons, calls Celadeyr a death-seeking coward, and invites him to the wedding; Celadeyr reluctantly accepts.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Yosh Watanabe left to repair the mill
Aiken leaves Yosh at Afaliah to help fix the mill; Aluteyn leads Celadeyr and Yosh to Treonet's lab.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Announcement of the Grand Tourney
Aiken and Sharn reveal that the Grand Combat will become a nonlethal Grand Tourney held at the Field of Gold, with a new Singing Stone trophy. Celadeyr and Betularn are dismayed; the Craftsmaster accepts.
- Book 3 · Ch 35Mercy tells the Tanu lords Nodonn lives
Mercy and Culluket meet Celadeyr, Aluteyn and Kuhal inside a sigma-field. She reveals Nodonn lives and proposes flight; they refuse, learn Abaddon's identity, and resolve to cooperate with Aiken's raid.