Minanonn
Names: MinanonnMinanonn the HereticMinanonn Hereticthe Hereticex-BattlemasterMinniethe former BattlemasterGrand MasterBrother HereticBattlemasterMinanonn the Proud
First appears in Book 2: The Golden Torc, chapter 4 (4)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: The Golden Torc
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 6Minanonn, a former Tanu Battlemaster, presides over a small enclave of Tanu, Firvulag and free humans living in peace in the Pyrenees.
- Ch 11Minanonn the Heretic was a fierce Battlemaster but is now a pacifist and unsuited to lead against the Firvulag.
- Ch 36A heretical ex-Battlemaster of the Tanu who flew the medic party from Black Crag and plans to watch Aiken from the Pyrénées.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 1Minanonn is a bearded blond giant, a former Battlemaster who has rejected the ancient battle-religion; he shields the observers and carries the room without doors.
- Ch 5Minanonn is a powerful Tanu with coercive ability who froze the intruders and the Black Crag staff with a word.
- Ch 10Former Battlemaster and powerful coercer, belongs to the Peace Faction; helps Elizabeth in the procedure but opposes prolonging a child's pain without good chance of success.
- Ch 10Minanonn is the auxiliary mind assisting Elizabeth in the baby's redaction; at his rate the procedure would take over twelve hundred hours.
- Ch 12Minanonn is a former Battlemaster called the Heretic, who carries Elizabeth and guides her to the cave.
- Ch 12Minanonn, a giant coercer, raises a mental shield to protect Elizabeth, then lowers it when she insists on going on.
- Ch 26Minanonn is a banished Heretic leading the Peace Faction from a Pyrénées stronghold, banished for 516 years, yet still feels his old Battlemaster's love of battle.
- Ch 26Minanonn accepted the King's invitation to fight in the Grand Tourney, and plans to compete despite his philosophy of peace.
- Ch 26Aiken says Minanonn will have to carry the whole party to Black Crag.
- Ch 33Minanonn asked the King, for the Peace Faction, for the great ship Kyllikki to flee to the Blessed Isles with children and Peaceful Folk.
- Ch 34Minanonn, the Heretic and a former Battlemaster, is a man of peace who agrees to body-fly Creyn, Anatoly and Basil to the Grand Tourney.
- Ch 37A former Tanu Battlemaster, exiled as a heretic and a Peace Faction member, he replaced Kuhal and defeated Medor in the final Manifestation.
- Ch 37He fought Medor in a chain-pulling duel through a fire fountain, enduring the flames, and forced Medor to yield.
- Ch 38Minanonn, the Heretic, is a former Tanu Battlemaster who flies to Kyllikki out of the rising sun.
Connections
- ally ofDionket
- member ofPeace Faction
- family ofCulluketCulluket was Minanonn's Thagdalson brother
- ally ofElizabeth Ormework together on Brendan's redaction
- family ofArtigonn of Amalizanson of his late sister
- leadsPeace Faction
- ally ofCreyn
- enemy ofMedorDefeated him in the final Manifestation of Power
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 31Secret meeting of the antibattle faction
In the Mount of Heroes, leaders plan around Aiken Drum's expected kingship. Leyr agrees to challenge Imidol, Minanonn conditionally pledges support, and captains volunteer for Aiken's cohort. Sugoll and Katlinel's betrothal is revealed.
- Book 3 · Ch 36Aiken recovers
Elizabeth's redaction restores Aiken. He learns the casualties, thanks Minanonn, and returns to cheering followers.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Aftermath of the gigantomachy
After the great psychocreative blast, Elizabeth and the Tanu descend to the ruined battlefield. Dionket and Creyn go to save Aiken and organize rescue.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Elizabeth entombs the Duality
Elizabeth finds the fused minds of Felice and Culluket under the rockfall and, with Minanonn's help, plans to seal them in the room without doors before healing Aiken.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Friar Anatoly bursts into the conference
Brother Anatoly evades the retainers and barges into the salon. Minanonn freezes everyone, and Anatoly announces that Amerie Roccaro sent him as Elizabeth's spiritual adviser. Elizabeth lets him go, and he leaves.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Anatoly's prayer and exit
Anatoly argues with Mary-Dedra over the experiment, is rebuked by Elizabeth, then, bolstered by Minanonn's mental touch, recites a prayer and leaves with Dedra to the spring.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Redaction of Brendan's mind
Elizabeth and Minanonn spend eight hours rewiring the baby's brain; briefly he functions operantly without his tore, but Minanonn is exhausted and they must rest three days.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Marc offers to help heal the baby
Marc examines Elizabeth's redaction program, says it can cure the baby but is too slow, and proposes joint work after solving his stasis problem. Elizabeth tentatively accepts.
- Book 4 · Ch 12Flight to Quicksilver Cave
Minanonn carries Elizabeth, Dionket and Creyn south before a storm, passing the caravan camp and discussing Duat, the Milieu and the time-gate before reaching Quicksilver Cave.
- Book 4 · Ch 12The chimaera shadow
In the cave the party sees a monstrous three-headed shadow engaged in a frenzied sexual display ending in a flash of light; Elizabeth recognizes it as a chimaera and rushes in.
- Book 4 · Ch 12Elizabeth finds Aiken
Elizabeth, guarded by Minanonn and coercers, enters the subsidiary chamber and finds Aiken Drum weakened, his suit in rags but his body normal.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Elizabeth and Minanonn arrive at the Castle of Glass
Flying through storms, they land at Goriah and Aiken greets them; Elizabeth reveals she has come on Marc's behalf and that Marc d-jumped Basil Wimborne from Monte Rosa.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Plan to flee to the Blessed Isles
Minanonn reveals the King's news of Marc's escape and possible Firvulag alliance, and proposes evacuating the babies and Peaceful Folk on the captured Kyllikki to the Blessed Isles.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Elizabeth refuses and flees
Elizabeth declines to leave, reveals her despair, and runs into the night; Minanonn and Dionket decide not to follow.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Evacuation of Black Crag
After the children are healed, Black Crag is evacuated. Minanonn, Creyn, Anatoly and Basil plan to fly to Nionel to find Remillard and appeal to him.
- Book 4 · Ch 37Minanonn defeats Medor
Replacing Kuhal, Minanonn beat Medor in the fire-fountain chain duel, making him yield and putting the Tanu well ahead.