Ayfa
Names: AyfaThe Mighty AyfaAyfQueen AyfaAfyaAyfeHigh QueenQueen of the Firvulagthe QueenSovereign of the Heights and DepthsMums
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 40 (2)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 49Ayfa is a female Firvulag general commanding Warrior Ogresses, strong in farsense, attacking from the Black Forest side.
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 15Ayfa leads the Warrior Ogresses, has strong farsight, wields a two-handed sword, and is pragmatic, willing to fight dirty to win.
- Ch 15Ayfa has armorers modifying Firvulag gear to adopt the Lowlives' anti-chaliko tactics for the coming Grand Combat.
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 5Queen Ayfa rules alongside King Sharn, whose army wears obsidian armor.
- Ch 15Ayfa is a psychokinetic ogress who is intrigued by Sugoll's wealth and devises sending the Howlers to restore Nionel.
- Ch 15Queen of the Firvulag; promised to invite remote wild Firvulag to the Grand Loving to supply extra grooms for the Howler brides.
- Ch 25Ayfa is Sharn's wife and sister to the late King Yeochee; she is broad-shouldered, wears a gem-studded face-frame, and speaks to Sharn mentally.
- Ch 41Firvulag High Queen and Sharn's wife; she reports that the whole Howler tribe has allied with humans.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 6Queen Ayfa farspeaks Skathe, ordering her and Karbree to observe Mimee's attack on Bardelask and give honest reports.
- Ch 11Ayfa insists concerted mind-power (metaconcert), not individual efforts, is the only sure way to victory.
- Ch 11Ayfa is suspicious that Tony Wayland killed her friend Skathe and the Worm, and wants Mimee to find him.
- Ch 24Ayfa denies the Firvulag know anything of the stolen boats and weapons, citing the Armistice, while bargaining with Aiken for the Sword.
- Ch 37Firvulag Queen who proposed splitting the linkage to push the Tanu bracelet; the plan failed as her force deserted.
- Ch 37Ayfa, a co-monarch, weeps that the Nightfall victory is worthless if the Adversary ends up ruling over all.
- Ch 38Ayfa, Firvulag Queen, is the more ruthless of the pair and pushes for an all-out offensive; she dies in Aiken's blast.
Connections
- related toFelice LandryAyfa or Skathe would restrain Felice if she betrays
- member ofFirvulag
- leadsWarrior Ogresses
- ally ofSharnco-rulers
- family ofSharnhusband and wife
- partner ofSharnco-monarchs and spouses
- leadsFirvulag
- family ofYeochee IVsister of the late king
- has memberSkatheserves as vassal Great Captain
- friend ofSkathe
- family ofSharn-Adorson
- related toSharnco-ruler of the Firvulag
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 49Capture of the barium mine building
Pliktharn carries Homi across the lava under a mental screen; Homi shoots the Tanu engineers with iron bolts and plants containers in the lava, destroying the mine's last defenders.
- Book 2 · Ch 15Victory celebration in High Vrazel
After the short Finiah campaign, the Firvulag hold a three-day drunken feast in the Hall of the Mountain King while Sharn and Ayfa watch from the musicians' gallery.
- Book 2 · Ch 15Ayfa scouts the Lowlives and Felice
Using farsight, Ayfa sees the human survivors, refugees and Felice wearing a torc and looting armor, then decides to leave for home.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Sugoll's letter and royal reply
Sugoll announces his marriage and plan to resettle the Howlers and provide brides at the Grand Loving. Sharn and Ayfa choose Nionel for resettlement and reply welcomingly, enclosing stun-guns.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Royals plan to intercept the Howlers
Learning of the 9000 migrants, Sharn and Ayfa follow Fitharn's advice to host a picnic and send them on to Nionel before reaching High Vrazel.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Feast of the Firvulag and Howlers
Sharn and Ayfa hosted a day-long feast by the Onion River, persuading the Howlers to repopulate Nionel, gifting animals and accepting gems as back taxes, and arranging Howler brides for the Grand Loving.
- 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 25Sharn kills the plesiosaur
Goaded by Aiken, Sharn hunts a bull plesiosaur over the sea. Bitten in the leg, he beheads it using his sword and throws the head to Aiken as a trophy.
- Book 3 · Ch 27Firvulag strike fails on the Night of Secret Love
During the masquerade, Sharn, Ayfa and ten ogres mesh minds and fling a bolt at Aiken Drum, who is occupied with Olone; the bolt apparently fails.
- Book 3 · Ch 41Unveiling of the Singing Stone
The Gemcutters present the Singing Stone; Sharn sits and it sings eight notes. Tony laughs and hums along, then is questioned.
- Book 3 · Ch 41Tony's confession and the royal plot
Tony tells of the Lowlife aircraft in the Vale of Hyenas. Afterward the Firvulag rulers plan to tip Nodonn off so the Tanu seize the aircraft and attack Aiken Drum, for the Sword.
- Book 3 · Ch 41Skathe asks to keep Tony alive
After Sharn outlines his plan to approach Nodonn and the Gnomish Council, Medor offers to have Tony killed. Skathe, to the others' shock, asks to keep Tony and investigate whether the Howlers are right.
- Book 4 · Ch 4Aiken reveals Firvulag threat
Aiken reveals that the Firvulag are attacking Bardelask and threatening Roniah's weapons cache, and that Abaddon is coming.
- Book 4 · Ch 6Voyage to Bardelask
Queen Ayfa redirects Skathe and Karbree to observe the Bardelask attack; they commandeer a riverboat and pilot on the Saone and travel downriver with Tony.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Firvulag prisoner maneuvers
Firvulag under Pingol and Fouletot attack a cage of iron-armed Lowlife prisoners, using metaconcert. Discipline collapses into melee, but they win; all prisoners die.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Roniah raid plan and Tony Wayland
Sharn and Ayfa plan a disguised water raid on Roniah and decide not to quickly return Tony Wayland to the Tanu, suspecting him of killing Skathe and the Worm.
- Book 4 · Ch 24Sharn-Ador's Nameday
At High Vrazel, Sharn-Ador is named, manifests as a locust, and announces the Firvulag raid on Roniah and the capture of Tony Wayland.
- Book 4 · Ch 24Aiken Drum's projection interrupts
Aiken's mental projection offers the Sword for Wayland and the stolen weapons. The royals agree to trade Wayland for the Sword at the Northern Track tomorrow, and Aiken knights Sharn-Ador, whom his father forces to repudiate it.
- Book 4 · Ch 36Marc courts the Firvulag
Marc d-jumps to the Firvulag box, reveals his trip to Goal and offers a metaconcert program for an alliance; Sharn stalls, and Marc enters the jousts as Jack Diamond.
- Book 4 · Ch 37Tanu win the metapsychic tug-of-war
Aiken's Tanu metaconcert overpowers the Firvulag, Ayfa's split fails, and the black serpent burns, giving the Tanu victory.
- Book 4 · Ch 37The co-monarchs yield to Abaddon
Abaddon offers Sharn and Ayfa freedom and his metaconcert program in exchange for their minds' help breaking into Castle Gateway. Despite their fears of enslavement, they open themselves to his mind and join with him.
- Book 4 · Ch 38Final hurley match and time-gate exodus
Aiken opens the time-gate for evacuation as the Tanu and Firvulag play the final Tourney match. Firvulag, using Marc's metaconcert, take a big lead.
- Book 4 · Ch 38Aiken's blast on the Rainbow Bridge
Marc lends Aiken the CE rig; Aiken strikes the Firvulag leaders, killing Sharn, Ayfa and over half their host in a wildfire, and wakes to be named High King.