Lord Velteyn
Names: Lord VelteynVelteyn of FiniahVelteynExalted CocksmanHouse VelteynLord of FiniahCreative Lord VelteynLord Velteyn of FiniahVel
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 39 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 39Lord of Finiah, enraged by Epone's killing, whose Flying Hunt will search the Vosges for Felice.
- Ch 40Velteyn defends Finiah with flyers and earlier foiled a Firvulag tunnel attack by flooding it with the Rhine.
- Ch 46A Tanu champion who can levitate his steed and those of twenty-one warriors by psychokinesis; strong in creativity and leads the Flying Hunt.
- Ch 47Leads the Flying Hunt from the topmost parapet of House Velteyn at Finiah; he lacks infrared sight and rarely comes this far west.
- Ch 49Velteyn leads the Flying Hunt; he failed to catch Claude's flying machine and then ordered his knights to defend Finiah on the ground.
- Ch 49Lord of Finiah, who rallied the defenders from the air but failed to hold his palace and ordered the roof evacuation of noncombatants.
- Ch 49Is forbidden to die and must explain the defeat to the King.
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 14Velteyn is a Tanu Creative Lord of Finiah whose colors are blue-green and silver; his human guards fought to the last.
- Ch 16Velteyn, who held Finiah for five hundred years, is humiliated by its fall and vows to rebuild it and avenge it at the Grand Combat.
- Ch 35Velteyn, the former ruler of Finiah, was bereaved and had damaged prestige; being named Second Creator offers a chance to restore it.
- Ch 37Velteyn, Second Creator, died in the first round after underestimating Pallol; the creator ranks lost a quarter of their number.
Connections
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 46Planning the Finiah raid
Around the campfire the group discusses the flyer, the Spear and the air raid on Finiah. Madame overrules Claude's objection and insists on providing a metapsychic screen; Claude will fire the Spear.
- 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 49Fall of House Velteyn
Allied Lowlives and Firvulag surprise the Tanu cavalry with iron spears and break the defense of House Velteyn near dawn. Velteyn evacuates the Tanu civilians by roof.
- Book 2 · Ch 16Arrival of new time-travelers
At dawn, Pitkin receives several batches of costumed time-travelers and cargo at the time-portal under the watch of the Tanu leaders; guardians frisk them for iron and sort them.
- Book 2 · Ch 16Dispute over the fate of Finiah
The leaders debate rebuilding Finiah. Nodonn wants a fortified mining outpost and blames the time-gate; Thagdal and Gomnol offer a new city; Velteyn accepts and vows revenge at the Grand Combat.
- Book 2 · Ch 35Mercy defeats Aluteyn
Mercy challenged Aluteyn over the Kral, overcame his black creations, and rained edible manna on the crowd; she became Lady Creator and Aluteyn chose the Great Retort.
- Book 2 · Ch 37Brothers' council before dawn
Nodonn and his brothers survey the battlefield, assess losses including Velteyn, and plan to move wounded golds to Redact House and admit fighting grays to the Skin.