Finiah
Names: Finiahthe Tanu cityCity of LightsTanu Finiah
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 22 (2)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 22A northern caravan travels to Finiah, and travellers who fail Epone's tests are sent on it.
- Ch 25Finiah is a Tanu-held city on the Proto-Rhine near the future Freiburg, where humans are served by ramas.
- Ch 26Finiah is a cooler northern city where the captive time travelers are to be settled.
- Ch 29Finiah is a Tanu city on the Proto-Rhine roughly where Freiburg stands, six days' ride from the castle.
- Ch 39Finiah is an isolated Tanu city on the east bank of the Rhine and contains the only barium mine in the Exile world.
- Ch 40Finiah is a Tanu stronghold with a wall, and the first target of the planned strike.
- Ch 41Finiah is the oldest Tanu settlement, on a promontory in the Rhine about twenty kilometers north, lit splendidly.
- Ch 42Site of the mine, always defended by silvers and grays, some of whom can fly.
- Ch 44Finiah and High Vrazel are the oldest exotic settlements.
- Ch 46A city with a mine and a Tanu quarter, the target of the planned attack with the Spear-armed flyer.
- Ch 47A Tanu city on a high, narrow-necked peninsula across the Rhine, blazing with colored lights; Lowlife and Firvulag forces are poised to attack it.
Book 2: The Golden Torc
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 5Finiah is someone or somewhere Tony wants to be taken back to; the passage does not explain who or what it is.
Connections
- inMany-Colored Land
- related toLady Eponecomes from
- led byLord Velteyn
- part ofTanu
- inKaiserstuhl
- has memberCommander Seaborggarrison commander
- containsHouse Velteyn
- related toRefugee camppopulated by people freed from Finiah
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 47Burke and Pallol watch the Hunt
At the Rhine, Burke and Pallol see Velteyn's Flying Hunt leave Finiah. Pallol reveals he smells iron; Burke vows no betrayal of the Firvulag, and Pallol doubts Madame will return.
- Book 1 · Ch 49Invasion of Finiah
Claude's photon blasts breach the Rhineside wall; Lowlives and Firvulag storm into Finiah, where Firvulag champions rout the garrison and the invaders spread into the city.
- Book 1 · Ch 49Marshak surrenders
Marshak kills a Firvulag attacker to save Koliteyr's party, but Burke's Lowlives arrive and kill Koliteyr; Marshak yields.
- Book 1 · Ch 49Khalid's new tactic
Khalid demonstrates that Lowlife spear phalanxes can disembowel chalikos and kill gray troopers; Sharn and Betularn agree to adopt the tactic and shield human minds.
- Book 1 · Ch 49Marshak's execution
Marshak and other gray-torc prisoners choose torc removal in a tribunal, which means death, in solidarity with their Tanu masters' memory.
- Book 2 · Ch 5News of Felice's revolt
Gomnol questions Bryan about Felice, revealing that her caravan revolted en route to Finiah, killing Epone and the gray-torc escort; Felice and three others remain free.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Aftermath of the sack of Finiah
Three days into the Truce, Finiah lies in ruins; Lowlives continue fighting loyalist humans and force captured grays to choose between torc removal and death.