Pallol
Names: PallolPallol One-EyeShadow-sibBattlemasterPallol BattlemasterPallol the BattlemasterFirvulag Battlemasterdemon otterBig Eyeball
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 1 (Prologue)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 1Pallol is an irrepressible, one-eyed enemy of Thagdal who sneers at the hymns and doubts they can survive.
- Ch 40Pallol and Sharn-Mes plan to engineer the humans' deaths and to control Felice.
- Ch 44Pallol, the Firvulag generalissimo, has said his forces will be combat-ready during the last three days of September.
- Ch 47An irascible ancient Firvulag Battlemaster, 600 winters old, who wears an eye patch and has not fought at a Grand Combat in over twenty years.
- Ch 47He thinks Madame's war is amusing, expects her to fail to return with the Spear, and will not personally fight.
- Ch 47He smelled iron in the human camp and believes humans and Firvulag will ultimately become enemies.
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 14Pallol One-Eye commands an elite Firvulag corps wearing gold-chased obsidian armor.
- Ch 15Pallol disdains fighting alongside humans with iron but loves a party; he passed out drunk in the King's grotto.
- Ch 26The Firvulag Battlemaster returned to the Combat after a twenty-year sulk.
- Ch 35Pallol, a First Comer ogre, was proclaimed Firvulag Battlemaster in place of Sharn the Younger, who held the job for twenty Combats.
- Ch 35Pallol demonstrated his power by summoning storm clouds, then firing a scarlet beam from his uncovered second eye through them to the sun.
- Ch 35Pallol has one normal red eye and a terrible left eye of unfathomable color, usually kept behind a patch.
- Ch 36Pallol is the old Firvulag Battlemaster, appearing as a six-legged black otter; he was skeptical of the new tactics but is proud of his troops.
- Ch 36Pallol uses his Eye to turn severed heads into gold-plated skulls for the trophy makers, to the cheers of his troops.
- Ch 39Pallol is the Firvulag Battlemaster, five times mightier than his blood-cousin Delbaeth, and fights by standing and facing foes rather than striking and fleeing.
- Ch 40Pallol was the Firvulag Battlemaster, a giant whose left Eye fires psychoenergy beams; he scorned Aiken Drum and was killed by him.
Connections
- enemy ofThagdal
- leadsFirvulagBattlemaster
- ally ofPeopeo Moxmox Burke
- member ofFirvulagBattlemaster
- ally ofYeochee IV
- ally ofSharn
- family ofDelbaethblood-cousins
- enemy ofAiken Drumkilled him
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 1The Ship arrives and crashes
The dying Ship emerges near the planet; the exiles flee in flyers before it plunges into the eastern highlands, creating a huge crater.
- Book 1 · Ch 40Firvulag betrayal planned
After the humans leave, Fitharn explains the Firvulag plan to use the humans, control Felice, and have them die heroically so the Firvulag keep the Spear and Sword.
- 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 2 · Ch 15Victory celebration in High Vrazel
After the short Finiah campaign, the Firvulag hold a three-day drunken feast in the Hall of the Mountain King while Sharn and Ayfa watch from the musicians' gallery.
- Book 2 · Ch 35Firvulag captains presented
Firvulag Great Ones stood unchallenged; King Yeochee named Pallol One-Eye Battlemaster after he displayed his Eye's power.
- Book 2 · Ch 36Firvulag new tactics succeed
Firvulag foot soldiers scatter and hamstring chalikos, destroying a gray-torc cavalry charge; Pallol manifests to gild the captured heads.
- Book 2 · Ch 39Banners are planted for the Heroic Encounters
Firvulag and Tanu champions rally behind Pallol, Nodonn and Aiken Drum, revealing a split among the Tanu. A cloaked woman with the chain of silence calms the crowd and the Marshal opens the Encounters.
- Book 2 · Ch 39Aiken gains permission to fight Pallol his own way
After Imidol's loss, Aiken offers to kill Pallol the human way, showing the champions his plan. Nodonn confers with the High Table and permits it.
- Book 2 · Ch 40Aiken Drum kills Pallol
Aiken shields himself from Pallol's Eye, then slings a cigar cutter into Pallol's right eye, felling and beheading him.