Host of Nontusvel
Names: Host of Nontusvelthe Host
First appears in Book 2: The Golden Torc, chapter 9 (9)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
B4
What you know
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 9The Host of Nontusvel tries to drive Elizabeth to suicide by mental compulsion, seeing her operant-metafunction genes as a potential lethal threat.
- Ch 9The Host's four directors in the attack are Kuhal, Imidol, Riganone and Culluket; they withdraw when Elizabeth shows she is fully aware of them.
- Ch 19The Host of Nontusvel will not be satisfied until Elizabeth is dead.
- Ch 21The Host of Nontusvel wants to kill Elizabeth, fearing she might bear children by Aiken Drum or team up with him in the Grand Combat.
- Ch 28The Host of Nontusvel, forty-seven combined Tanu minds, ambushes the saboteurs in the torc factory and then kills Gomnol out of hatred and jealousy.
- Ch 31The Host of Nontusvel favors exterminating humans and hybrids and must not be allowed to dominate the High Table.
Connections
- has memberKuhal
- has memberLord Imidol
- has memberLady Riganone
- has memberCulluket
- enemy ofElizabeth Orme
- has memberNodonn
- led byLord Imidol
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 9Suicide compulsion on the headland
The Host of Nontusvel bombards Elizabeth with suicide compulsion at the cliff edge; she shows she is aware of it and shuts them out, and they withdraw.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Elizabeth leaves to see the King
Elizabeth, angered by Brede's attempt to resume probing the pattern, resolves to tell the King her new judgment and retrieve her balloon. Brede promises the balloon and to deal with the Host of Nontusvel.
- Book 2 · Ch 28Ambush at the torc factory
Felice melts the doors and the Host of Nontusvel ambushes the party. Most saboteurs die; Felice is subdued by the combined Host; Amerie, Burke and Basil are captured.
- Book 2 · Ch 28Murder of Gomnol
Gomnol arrives and thanks the Host, but Imidol and the Host combine their minds against him and kill him, planning to blame Felice.