Denny
Names: DennyDenny JohnsonDennisYellow-Eyes
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 44 (6)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 5Denny Johnson is Lowlife Warlord Pro Tem; his fighters arrived by barge and wiped out the attackers.
- Ch 5Denny reports that the dead attackers wore obsidian armor and were regulars in the army of King Sharn and Queen Ayfa.
- Ch 5Denny says the enemy is quickly adopting new methods of warfare, like the siege engine, now that the balance of power has shifted in their favor.
- Ch 22Tony fears Denny Johnson, a large black man, may hang them as traitors if their pursuers catch up.
- Ch 33Commander of the Lowlife defensive forces, a black man and singer who has found the Vale of Hyenas as a hiding place for two aircraft.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 17Denny Johnson, a singer, longs to return through the time-gate to the Milieu and Covent Garden.
- Ch 19Denny is made Tony's jailer; he is a singer who performs Baron Scarpia at the Garden.
Connections
- leadsLowlivesWarlord Pro Tem
- friend ofPeopeo Moxmox Burke
- ally ofPeopeo Moxmox Burke
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 44Smelters return with iron
Khalid's team returns to Hidden Springs with 220 kilos of iron; three men are lost to Howlers, and Burke orders secrecy about the iron.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Firvulag treachery revealed
Tony wakes with a wired jaw to learn reinforcements killed the attackers, whose corpses reverted to normal Firvulag, proving the supposed Howlers were allies betraying humans.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Tony's delirious plea
After Denny and Kawai explain that the dead attackers were Sharn and Ayfa's armored regulars using a siege engine, the wounded Tony falls asleep murmuring 'Take me back to Finiah!'
- Book 3 · Ch 33Strategy talk in Burke's wigwam
Burke, Basil and Denny meet Kalipin and inspect the stun-guns, discuss Firvulag raids, Aiken Drum's weapons, hiding aircraft in the Vale of Hyenas, and a possible search for weapons at Roniah, deferring to Elizabeth.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Burke's failed hunt
Burke hunts waterbuck with neglected primitive gear, misses, and realizes he is content to kill nothing; he plans to meet Denny Johnson and share news of the time-gate.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Kawai refuses to leave Hidden Springs
Burke and Denny Johnson urge Kawai to join the departing Lowlives, but he insists on staying as caretaker of the abandoned village.
- Book 4 · Ch 19Tony captured by Burke's band
Poling through the marsh, Tony is captured by Chief Burke's armed band, identified as the traitor Wayland, and bluffs unsuccessfully. Burke spares him as a bargaining chip with the King and for passage to the Milieu.