Huldah
Names: Huldahthe womanHuldah Henning
First appears in Book 3: The Nonborn King, chapter 8 (7)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 8Huldah is a large, immensely strong, plain young woman who is simple-minded or childlike and devoted to the God from the Sea.
- Ch 8Huldah lifts Isak off the ground and makes him promise not to hurt the God, then comforts him tenderly.
- Ch 8Huldah secretly hates Grandpa and, at the end of the passage, decides she and the God will kill him once the God awakens.
- Ch 8Huldah's breasts are swelling for a reason Isak can guess, implying she may be pregnant.
- Ch 8Huldah believes the rising sea has flooded the slot where the sun goes down, so the Hunters can no longer come through.
- Ch 19Huldah is a large, unwashed woman in a doeskin shift who found the helpless man at the lagoon's edge and nursed him in a cave.
- Ch 19Huldah regards the man as a god from the sea, claims him as hers, and physically stops Grandpa from harming him.
- Ch 19Huldah revives the paralyzed man's life-energy with oil massage and humming, then forces sexual union on him against his will.
- Ch 28Huldah is a tall, strong, simple-minded woman with Firvulag genes who worships Nodonn as her God and sleeps with him.
- Ch 28Huldah is pregnant by Nodonn, a twelve-week male fetus, and plans to name him Dagdal.
- Ch 28As a girl she punished Isak's attempt to force her, using her Firvulag nature to mutilate him.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 30She is in her eighth month, carrying Nodonn Battlemaster's tri-hybrid son, on the Isle of Kersic, unaware of the royal proclamation.
Connections
- family ofIsak Henninggranddaughter and grandfather
- related toNodonndevoted worshipper and nurse; hopes he will awaken and love her
- ally ofIsak HenningGrudgingly obeys her and made the wooden hand for her
- family ofKarindaughter
- family ofThagdalunborn son
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 8Isak sends Huldah to keep watch
Isak nags Huldah into climbing to the promontory to watch for the Flying Hunt and light a signal fire. She first overpowers him to make him swear not to harm the God, then goes.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Huldah resolves to kill Grandpa
At the promontory, Huldah recalls finding the God in the cove and decides that when he awakens and loves her, they will kill Isak.
- Book 3 · Ch 19The helpless god awakens
A paralyzed, powerless man wakes in a cave, fed mouth to mouth by Huldah. Grandpa abuses him until Huldah beats the old man into promising to stop.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Wooden hand and forced union
Huldah shows the man his amputated arm and the wooden hand Grandpa made. She then oils his body and arouses him despite his resistance, and has sex with him while Grandpa is allowed to watch.
- Book 3 · Ch 28Huldah's worship awakens Nodonn
Huldah dresses the paralyzed Nodonn in his glass armor and mounts him. The armor blazes and he recovers movement and power.
- Book 3 · Ch 28Nodonn kills Isak Henning
Nodonn finds Isak spying and tears off his head. Isak's dying cry leads Nodonn to sense Huldah's male fetus, so he spares her.