Lowlives
Names: Lowlivesfree humansfree peopleLowlifeLowlife folkLowlife humansFree HumanityLowlife armyhumansOperant invadersaliensLowlife invadershuman rebelsoutlawsLowlife people
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 39 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 39Roughly two hundred escaped humans, mostly men, ordinary-looking and unafraid, who proudly use the Tanu's insulting name and resist the exotics.
- Ch 47Nearly 400 volunteers from distant places like Bordeaux and Albion were recruited, trained briefly, and armed with bronze and vitredur weapons.
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 14Lowlife invaders give captured grays and silvers a choice: have their torcs removed with iron tools ('Live free or die') or be killed; many chose death.
- Ch 15The Lowlife infantry's tactics against mounted Tanu at Finiah impressed Ayfa; she plans to copy them against the Tanu chalikos.
- Ch 20The Lowlives are outlaws protected by no Truce. Their companions wear sundered gray torcs, which would be detected as fakes by telepathic probing.
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 1About 101 masterclass operant humans fled through the Pliocene time-gate from the twenty-second century after a failed metapsychic coup in the future, and killed Tanu defenders at Castle Gateway.
- Ch 1The invaders wiped the minds of sixteen ordinary time-traveler prisoners at Castle Gateway, leaving them vegetables, after learning what they knew about the Tanu.
- Ch 1They surpass the Tanu in farsensing, and carried a portable photon cannon, personal force-screens and twenty-second-century gear in small ATVs.
- Ch 20Lowlives' tiny settlements were raided by migrating Howlers; some of them are among the refugees Peo found.
Connections
- led byMadame Guderian
- has memberPeopeo Moxmox BurkeWarlord in Chief and former leader
- has memberKhalid Khan
- has memberUwe Guldenzopf
- ally ofFirvulagalliance engineered by Madame
- includesHidden Springs
- led byPeopeo Moxmox Burkegeneral
- led byMarc Remillard
- led byDennyWarlord Pro Tem
- led byOld Man Kawai
- enemy ofFirvulagsecretly attacking while nominal allies
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 39Refuge in the Tree
Madame Guderian shelters Group Green's remnant with the Lowlives in the giant sequoia, explaining Firvulag help, torcs, and the exotics' nature, and proposes they join her plan.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Claude identifies the Ship's Grave
Claude reasons from geography that the Ries crater in the Swabian Jura region is the Ship's Grave, sparking celebration among the Lowlife.
- Book 1 · Ch 41Alliance of Firvulag and humans
Madame was taken to High Vrazel, forged an alliance between the Firvulag and Lowlife humans, and was awarded a golden torc after Iskender-Kernonn was killed.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Firvulag recruit distant Lowlives
Firvulag messengers gave gifts and aid to isolated human settlements, then presented Madame's plan, bringing nearly 400 volunteers to Hidden Springs and the Rhineland staging area.
- 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 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 14Aftermath of the sack of Finiah
Three days into the Truce, Finiah lies in ruins; Lowlives continue fighting loyalist humans and force captured grays to choose between torc removal and death.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Operants storm Castle Gateway and flee
Operant humans came through the time-gate at an unusual hour, killed Lord Moranet, Lady Senevar and many staff, drained prisoners' minds, and fled west with the Roniah Hunt in pursuit.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Ambush on the Donaar and invaders' escape
Three days later, the Tanu ambush failed: 419 knights died, including Hual and Mitheyn, and Leyr was maimed. The invaders reached the Atlantic and sailed away; the king hid the affair.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Firvulag prisoner maneuvers
Firvulag under Pingol and Fouletot attack a cage of iron-armed Lowlife prisoners, using metaconcert. Discipline collapses into melee, but they win; all prisoners die.