Celadeyr
Names: CeladeyrCeloCeladeyr of AfaliahLord of AfaliahLeyrAfaliahLord CeladeyrCreative BrotherThunderheadThunderfart
First appears in Book 2: The Golden Torc, chapter 7 (7)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 7First Comer Lord of Afaliah, a Creator-Coercer who demanded the High King's help against Delbaeth.
- Ch 37Celadeyr of Afaliah takes over the Creator Battalion; he publicly backs Aiken Drum and challenges Nodonn's traditionalism before the whole battle-company.
- Ch 39Celadeyr was field-promoted to the High Table, became Second Creator, and chose to follow Nodonn.
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 6Celadeyr can fly and carry one person; Amerie fears he might kidnap Elizabeth as a hostage.
- Ch 7Celadeyr of Afaliah has purged human executives and technicians and driven out hybrid aristocrats, who fled to Goriah.
- Ch 11Celadeyr is a traditionalist First Comer who might fight rather than accept a human king, threatening a split among the Tanu cities.
- Ch 11Celadeyr, Lord of Afaliah, refused Aiken's Grand Loving invitation, expelled his human technicians, and is training an army for the Nightfall War.
- Ch 12Celadeyr, a fierce old Tanu hero and levitant, rides a chaliko and has been rescuing survivors of the Flood from Aven and Europe.
- Ch 12Celadeyr heard Fian's death-shout from Afaliah, found Kuhal, and cremated Fian's coracle with astral flame.
- Ch 13He is expected to put Kuhal in the Skin to cure him and enlist him in the disloyal opposition.
- Ch 17Celadeyr sabotaged Afaliah's robotic flour mill out of anti-technology principle, wrecking a vital supply source for the region's cities.
- Ch 17Celadeyr believes the Nightfall War is imminent and is gathering traditionalist Tanu knights at Afaliah to fight it.
- Ch 17Celadeyr fired human administrators from his plantations and replaced them with Tanu overseers, including his children Uriet and Fethneya.
- Ch 17Celadeyr zapped the bareneck technician who succeeded Jorgensen, and had Boduragol and his redactors probe humans in Afaliah for traitors.
- Ch 17Celadeyr is a death-seeking figure who finally agrees to accept Aiken Drum's wedding invitation and, implicitly, his kingship.
- Ch 25Celadeyr is an old Tanu champion and longtime antagonist of Betularn; he opposes the Tourney as a betrayal of tradition.
- Ch 31Celadeyr objected to supplying chalikos and wanted the rendezvous in Afaliah, but yielded to Aiken's royal authority.
- Ch 37Celadeyr is Lord of Afaliah and rescued Mercy from a landslide; he took back her empty emerald helmet to fake her death.
- Ch 42Celadeyr is an elderly creator and veteran who had six hours of flight instruction long ago and insists he can pilot the ancient aircraft.
- Ch 42Celadeyr fears the Tanu may repudiate Nodonn if he fights Aiken Drum unfairly, since Aiken is acclaimed by the Conclave.
- Ch 44Celadeyr, an old Lord of Afaliah, leads about seventy knights into the human wing. He and all his knights are stunned after surrendering.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 4Old Celadeyr is a fervent traditionalist who believes Aiken Drum is the Adversary and that Nodonn never doubted it; he yields to Kuhal as spokesman.
- Ch 19Celadeyr heads the new Scientific Corps of the Creator Guild, giving silver tores to cooperating scientists.
- Ch 26Celadeyr of Afaliah commands the Tanu guards at the laboratory stairwell.
- Ch 31Celadeyr was raised to the Table on the battlefield, attainted for Nodonn's treason, and is now reinstated as Second Lord Creator.
Connections
- leadsAfaliah
- family ofUrietson
- ally ofAiken Drum
- enemy ofAiken Drumundermines him
- ally ofKuhalrescues him
- related toBoduragolBoduragol is Celo's healer
- friend ofAluteyn Craftsmasterold First Comer comrades from Duat
- family ofFethneyadaughter
- ally ofMercedes Lamballe
- member ofGuild of Creators
- ally ofNodonn
- ally ofBert Candymanassigned as helper
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 37Brothers' council before dawn
Nodonn and his brothers survey the battlefield, assess losses including Velteyn, and plan to move wounded golds to Redact House and admit fighting grays to the Skin.
- Book 2 · Ch 37Aiken's ambush of Nukalavee
Aiken Drum lures Nukalavee's Firvulag legion into a corridor of illusory corpses where Tanu knights lie hidden; Bunone, Alberonn and Bleyn give the command to strike.
- Book 2 · Ch 37Nodonn presents Bryan's survey
At the banquet, Nodonn brings the torc-compelled Bryan before the Tanu to expose the consequences of human assimilation, while Celadeyr defiantly backs Aiken Drum.
- Book 2 · Ch 39Thagdal names the pairings
Thagdal assigns Tanu opponents to each Firvulag hero. The results leave Nodonn's side with a lead lost, as Imidol's defeat gives the Firvulag the point lead.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Guests object to premature kingship
Morna, Bleyn and Eadnar warn that full-blooded Tanu are not ready for a human king and that Celadeyr's resistance could divide the cities, urging Aiken to secure the city-lords first.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Royal progress planned
Using Mercy's idea, Aiken plans to tour the cities before his coronation, starting with Afaliah, accompanied by the High Tablers. They fly back to Goriah.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Celadeyr rescues Kuhal
After Kuhal sets Fian's body adrift, Celadeyr arrives on a chaliko, burns the coracle, sings the Song, and carries the fainted Kuhal away.
- 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.
- Book 3 · Ch 37Mercy is revealed alive
Celadeyr brings Mercy secretly to Var-Mesk; Moreyn learns her death was a hoax and leads them through the trona tunnels to Nodonn.
- Book 3 · Ch 42Planning the aircraft seizure
Nodonn, Kuhal and Celadeyr plan to take the ancient aircraft from the Vale of Hyenas for an attack on Aiken Drum, but need a human to neutralize the human guards; Kuhal has an idea.
- Book 3 · Ch 44Kite trap destroys Nodonn's aircraft
Nodonn's two rhocraft fly into Aiken's conductive kite swarm and are grounded. Nodonn's flyer falls into the sea, and Aiken's Spear destroys Thufan's trapped flyer.
- Book 3 · Ch 44Battle in the Castle of Glass
Nodonn's knights fight loyalists in the courtyard. Congreve's elite guards stun Celadeyr's force after it surrenders. Kuhal finds Mercy's body in Aiken's bedroom, and Nodonn turns it to ash.
- Book 4 · Ch 4Judgment of the captured knights
The 129 surviving rebel knights are brought in chains before Aiken-Lugonn and the High Table, judged guilty of treason, and given the choice of choosing their own punishment.
- Book 4 · Ch 4Kuhal's submission
Kuhal pleads guilty on behalf of the company and pledges their service. Aiken frees them and demands to know where the other aircraft are hidden.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Decontamination task assigned
Aiken and Bert Candyman examine the poison foam in the storage area; Bert devises an acetone solvent and Aiken gives him a team of Tanu nobles and seven days to finish.
- Book 4 · Ch 31High Table completed
Aiken commemorates the dead and traitors, receives oaths from sitting and newly nominated Great Ones, and secretly seats Katlinel and Sugoll as allies who repudiate the Firvulag throne.