Congreve
First appears in Book 3: The Nonborn King, chapter 7 (6)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 7Congreve is commander of the Goriah receiving barracks, a gold human in blue coercer armor, who screens arrivals.
- Ch 23Disciplined severely a group of incompatible humans who tried to flee their work detail at the Grove of May.
- Ch 44Congreve, a formerly loyal servant of Nodonn, commands Aiken's uncoercible gold-torc elite guards in glass armor armed with lasers and Husqvarna stun weapons.
- Ch 44Congreve's guards fire on Celadeyr's knights despite their surrender, since they are pressed for time. Congreve says the true Adversary is the Firvulag, not humanity.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 4Congreve commands the human garrison at Goriah and escorts the prisoners, carrying a Matsushita laser carbine.
Connections
- member ofAiken Drumserves
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 7Arrival of recruits at Goriah
Aiken and Culluket meet a batch of Tanu and human recruits from Afaliah and Calamosk, including Sullivan-Tonn, Olone and Aiken's old friend Raimo.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Aiken welcomes the newcomers
Aiken rebukes Congreve, ends searches of arrivals, and invites everyone to a party at the Castle of Glass.
- 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.