Howlers
Names: HowlersHowling Onesles CriardsCriardsHowlerthe poor lost ones of the northern wildernessthe wild onesspooksMisbegottenmutantsHowler nationemigrantsgoblinsboglesLittle People
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 39 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 39Malign, deformed mutant Firvulag who delight in psychic torment; they captured seven boat escapees.
- Ch 39The Howling Ones are Firvulag who refuse King Yeochee's direction and who haunt the Black Forest, endangering explorers.
- Ch 43Deformed, malign Firvulag-kin living in the Feldberg mountains, they project hatred and self-loathing mentally and obey only Sugoll.
- Ch 43They are tiny, grotesquely mutated beings, and can cloak themselves in illusions of normal appearance.
- Ch 44Howlers are shape-changers regarded as mutant Firvulag; each has a different hideous true shape. They torture captured humans and wear monster suits.
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 21Howlers are wild beings who trade amber from Fennoscandia to the Firvulag; rumor says they have come south this year.
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 5Howlers were blamed for months of attacks on the Iron Villages and are deformed mutants who rejected the human-Firvulag alliance.
- Ch 15Howlers are deformed outcast Firvulag mutants whose germ plasm was damaged by radioactive minerals near their Meadow Mountain settlements.
- Ch 15The Howler migration grew from about 700 to nearly 9000, including 1256 marriageable virgins, far more than Sharn and Ayfa expected.
- Ch 15Mutant emigrants who are being persuaded to repopulate Nionel; they are easily overawed and became drunk and woozy on food, drink and hooby mushrooms.
- Ch 15Howlers assume their usual forms when they fall asleep, and can see through each other's illusions.
- Ch 20Howlers have undergone peculiar migrations in recent months and have left the Feldberg.
- Ch 22Howlers are exotics distinct from regular Firvulag; a mounted Howler spotted the fugitives across the river and apparently knew they were there.
- Ch 26Howlers are mutant Firvulag kin, immune to blood metal; ordinary Firvulag see through their illusions and never choose the red brides.
- Ch 41The Howler tribe has thrown in with the humans, according to Ayfa, though Sugoll nominally remains loyal to High Vrazel.
- Ch 41The Howlers may have an idea worth checking out, according to Skathe.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 14The Howlers, deformed mutants, have not joined a joint event with nonmutant folk in 856 years and hope Katlinel's devotion to Sugoll brings fresh hope.
- Ch 37Howlers withdrew from the tug-of-war, citing equipment duties for the Hurley/Shinty Game; they openly cheer the Tanu, though they pretended loyalty to the Firvulag.
- Ch 38The Howlers lend their minds to Aiken's shield on the Rainbow Bridge, helping him keep the ball out of Firvulag reach.
Connections
- part ofFirvulag
- led bySugoll
- related toFirvulagbelieved by some biologists to be a Firvulag mutation
- has memberBukin the Estimable
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 43Meeting with Sugoll
Led by the Bogle to an alpine meadow, the travelers are overwhelmed by the Howling Ones' mental projections, and meet Sugoll, who delivers his challenge by revealing and hiding his true form.
- Book 1 · Ch 43Claude explains the mutations
Claude identifies radiation from nivenite and radioactive springs as the cause of the Howling Ones' deformities and offers genetic advice, deeply moving Sugoll.
- Book 1 · Ch 43Sugoll grants guides to the Ystroll
Sugoll learns of the travelers' quest, and the Bogle Kalipin explains the underground Ystroll route; the Howling Ones agree to send boatmen and vanish.
- Book 1 · Ch 44Howler impostor killed
The false 'Sigmund', a female Howler, is exposed by Dejah and Khalid, who kills her with an iron lance-blank; Burke tests the others for more impostors.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Siege of Iron Maiden Mine
Attackers pinned the miners in the barracks with boulders and a trebuchet. Tony's flaming arrow, fired by Dougal into the still shop, burned the engine and Tony was knocked out.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Howler Migration
About 9000 Howlers travel by boat through the underground rivers under the Feldberg, led by Sugoll, Katlinel and Greg-Donnet, and emerge by moonlight near the Rhine.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Feast of the Firvulag and Howlers
Sharn and Ayfa hosted a day-long feast by the Onion River, persuading the Howlers to repopulate Nionel, gifting animals and accepting gems as back taxes, and arranging Howler brides for the Grand Loving.
- Book 3 · Ch 22Howler hunting party spotted
Next day they see mounted Howlers across the river and a distant exotic city, then flee south along a game track.
- Book 3 · Ch 41Skathe asks to keep Tony alive
After Sharn outlines his plan to approach Nodonn and the Gnomish Council, Medor offers to have Tony killed. Skathe, to the others' shock, asks to keep Tony and investigate whether the Howlers are right.