Dr. Thongsa
Names: Dr. Thongsathe Tibetan physicianLowlife
First appears in Book 3: The Nonborn King, chapter 33 (6)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 15Dr. Thongsa, a Tibetan, is pilot, mountaineer and physician on assault team Number Two; Phronsie dislikes him.
- Ch 22Tibetan physician and pilot, deputy assault leader of the second team; cowardly and tries to resign, but is persuaded by Betsy's appeal to return to the Milieu.
- Ch 22Killed instantly by a Firvulag photon beam fired prematurely as the party approached the supply dump tents.
- Ch 25Dr. Thongsa, an experienced alpine mountaineer, died earlier and his body was interred in a rock cairn.
Connections
- member ofBasil's Bastards
- related toGresson Glacierled the party's route across it
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 22Pre-dawn briefing
Climbers learn the Firvulag split into two forces, one unseen northern force of about seventy that may ambush the climbers. Bleyn conveys the King's command to begin the climb at once; Thongsa's resignation is overruled.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Ambush at the Gresson Icefall
Near the supply dump, a premature Firvulag shot kills Thongsa. The party shelters behind an ice ridge, then fires and uses Tanu psychokinesis to topple a sérac, burying the Firvulag redoubt and the supply tents.