Khalid Khan
Names: Khalid KhanKhalidthe Pakistani metalsmiththe metalsmiththe Pakistani
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 39 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 39Turbaned Lowlife metalsmith who can smelt iron and proposes making iron arrowheads, lance tips and blades.
- Ch 44Khalid led a team of seven that smelted about 220 kilos of medium-carbon iron and steel, buried the furnace to reuse later.
- Ch 44Khalid suspected the impostor because Dejah the cat growled and because a good woodsman would not be caught by a salamander.
- Ch 44Khalid will turn a soundproofed vented cave into a smithy for the final preparation of iron weapons.
- Ch 49A Pakistani metalsmith of Pathan descent who devised the anti-cavalry tactic of gutting chalikos with long spears, and persuaded the Firvulag to adopt it.
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 17Khalid proposed the Iron Road: making the wilderness smeltery a new human stronghold with smaller settlements along the Moselle.
- Ch 18Khalid is wounded but insists on going because he is the only one who has been to Muriah, ten years ago.
- Ch 24Khalid says only the Donzere-Mondragon rapids, the longest and worst, remain before Lac Provenpal, followed by the easy Glissade into the Med Basin.
- Ch 28Khalid Khan, whose spatial sense guided the saboteurs, dies in the battle holding a Tanu warrior spitted on an iron spear.
Connections
- member ofLowlives
- member ofPeopeo Moxmox BurkeAssigned by Burke to lead the iron-smelting party
- createdIron
- member ofSteering Committee
- createdPeopeo Moxmox Burkeforged his iron tomahawk
- ally ofSharn
- ally ofOld Man Kawai
- ally ofFelice Landrygray-torc escort
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 39Iron discovery
After Claude recounts Epone's death, Burke and Madame test the dagger theory; the group resolves to smelt iron weapons and try iron chisels on gray torcs.
- Book 1 · Ch 44Smelters return with iron
Khalid's team returns to Hidden Springs with 220 kilos of iron; three men are lost to Howlers, and Burke orders secrecy about the iron.
- 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 1 · Ch 44Steering Committee meeting
The committee reviews preparations for the Finiah attack, adopts testing for shape-changers, and Burke denies Amerie's request to join the fighters.
- Book 1 · Ch 44Steering Committee meeting adjourns
Burke reports the attack timing, members raise new business on iron weapons, drink supplies and later phases of Madame's plan; strategy planning is tabled and the meeting adjourns.
- 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 2 · Ch 18Farewell supper and planning
On the eve of departure the eleven expedition members and Kawai dine at Madame's table, quarrel over who should go, and agree to bring the dead Spear south for Aiken Drum to recharge.
- Book 2 · Ch 20Council of war at the campfire
The party plans to send the torc-factory strike-force to Muriah by riverboat. Claude's alternative plan changes the time-gate action. They agree to try contacting Aiken Drum by farspeech through Elizabeth.
- Book 2 · Ch 20Plans for the river escape settled
The expedition agrees that Felice leaves at dawn with an escort and a noon broadcast is set, while the others scout a boat at the Roniah wharf.
- Book 2 · Ch 27Felice's group rejects Aiken's plan
With no word from Aiken, the saboteurs suspect a trap and decide to assault the torc factory that night by a different route through the front, led by Felice.
- Book 2 · Ch 28Infiltration of the Coercer headquarters
Felice, disguised as Lady Phyllis-Morigel, and her saboteurs coerce their way through the Guild keep, killing a Tanu woman, and reach the torc factory doors.