Sharn
Names: SharnSham the Atrociousbrave SharnShamSharn-MesMighty SharnGreat CaptainSham the Youngerthe Young ChampionSharn-Mes the Young ChampionSharn the YoungerKing SharnSharnmesKing ShamHigh KingKing of the FirvulagSharnieSharethe KingMonarch of the Heights and DepthsLittle Kingthe Firvulag KingAwful Kingthe ogre
First appears in Book 1: THE MANY-COLORED LAND, chapter 39 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: THE MANY-COLORED LAND
- Ch 40Sharn-Mes and Pallol plan to engineer the humans' deaths and to control Felice.
- Ch 49Sham appears as a three-meter albino scorpion, is general of the Firvulag, and can strike enemies at nearly twenty-five meters.
- Ch 49Sham was briefed that destroying the barium mine took priority over humiliating the Foe, and devised a Lowlife-style plan using iron against the mine.
- Ch 49Firvulag general who at first clung to sacred battle tradition, but agreed to shield human minds and try Khalid's new tactics.
Book 2: The golden torc
- Ch 15Sharn-Mes is a Firvulag champion who despises the use of iron; he calls it ignoble and unfair, a Lowlife way of fighting.
- Ch 36Sharn-Mes is the young Firvulag general who was at Finiah and promoted new tactics; he appears as an albino scorpion.
- Ch 39Sharn-Mes defeated Imidol; he wears a scorpion suit and his wife is Ayfa.
- Ch 41Sharn-Mes warned the Firvulag council that the Howlers are demanding the franchise in the election of a new sovereign.
Book 3: The nonborn king
- Ch 5King Sharn, with Queen Ayfa, commands an army whose regulars wear obsidian armor and who now use a siege engine.
- Ch 13New young Firvulag monarch styling himself High King of the Many-Colored Land, he lives at High Vrazel with wife Ayfa and six children and carves a wheeled toy chaliko.
- Ch 15Sharn is furious at Sugoll's presumption but accepts Ayfa's plan; his favorite goblet is made from Lord Velteyn's skull.
- Ch 15Sharn and Ayfa plan to spend this year's Grand Loving in Goriah with Aiken Drum, avoiding the Howler brides.
- Ch 15King of the Firvulag; accepted gemstones equal to his and Ayfa's weight as partial payment of 856 years of back taxes owed by the Howlers.
- Ch 25Sharn is teaching the Firvulag champions to link minds in offensive metaconcert, though cooperation is rough and works only in the creative spectrum.
- Ch 25Sharn suspects Aiken and Culluket deliberately led him to a savage plesiosaur, but kills it with one stroke, obeying the Hunt rules.
- Ch 25Sharn has been illegally using the title High King since the Flood, and fights with a clear crystal sword.
- Ch 26Sharn and Ayfa gave Sugoll stun-guns, which Sugoll reads as a hint that Sharn may suspect his disloyalty.
- Ch 27Sharn is the Firvulag High King; in demonic form he is a three-meter albino scorpion. He punishes Medor mentally for mentioning the war.
- Ch 27Sharn forbids his council to speak or think about when the Nightfall War begins; he says no one knows the day.
- Ch 27Sharn, Ayfa and ten ogres are in Tanu territory to strike Aiken Drum with a combined mind-meld bolt.
- Ch 33Sharn, a Firvulag leader, obtained a cache of twenty-second-century weapons from a hidden hoard when Burask was devastated.
- Ch 41High King of the Firvulag; his ancestor wielded the sacred Sword at the first Great Ordeal and he wants to carry it in the Nightfall War.
- Ch 41Sharn proposes telling Nodonn of the aircraft so the Tanu will seize them and use them against Aiken Drum, in return for the Sword.
- Ch 41Sharn is the High King; he is confident that Nodonn will accept the proposal and that a deal can be worked out quickly.
- Ch 41Sharn plans to contact Nodonn that night and put the whole plan to him, then speak to the Gnomish Council the next day.
Book 4: The adversary
- Ch 4King Sharn and Queen Ayfa of the Firvulag have broken the Armistice.
- Ch 7Firvulag king who denies ordering the Bardelask attack on Armida, blames subordinates, and wants the sacred Sword of his ancestor Sharn Atrocious returned.
- Ch 11Sharn plans to change the Roniah assault into a stealth raid by decamole boats down the Saone to seize the Milieu weapons cache.
- Ch 11Sharn drinks from the skull-goblet of Velteyn of Finiah and has ordered Mimee to send Lady Armida's skull for a matching goblet for Ayfa.
- Ch 11King Sham canceled Famorel's part in a planned assault on Roniah, angering Mimee.
- Ch 24He feigns ignorance of the raid but agrees to hand over Wayland for the Sword, arranging a meeting with Betularn on the Northern Track.
- Ch 27Sharn, the Firvulag King, argues that Nightfall need not annihilate everything but can mean the destruction of the old order and a new world with the Firvulag victorious.
- Ch 31Sharn has drilled Firvulag stalwarts in metaconcert for months; the Firvulag use cavalry, captured Milieu weapons and blood-metal.
- Ch 34Sharn is the huge Firvulag King, drinks beer from a skull-cup, and presses Sugoll to join the Firvulag in the Nightfall War.
- Ch 34Sharn suspects Katlinel of being a secret Peace Faction member and of undermining Ayfa's confidence in the war.
- Ch 36Sharn is King of the Firvulag; he stalls on Marc's alliance, noting rumors the time-gate is Aiken's escape hatch, which would suit them fine.
- Ch 37Firvulag High King; he protested Minanonn's inclusion but cannot block it, and took the Firvulag defeat in the tug-of-war.
- Ch 37Sharn, a co-monarch, fears that Abaddon intends to enslave them and recoils in horror at the demand to submit.
- Ch 37Sharn and Ayfa choose to accept Abaddon's offer and join minds with him.
- Ch 38Sharn is the Firvulag King; reluctant to break the Sacred Way, he orders the ultimate offensive metaconcert at Ayfa's urging and dies.
Connections
- member ofFirvulag
- leadsFirvulag
- ally ofKhalid Khan
- ally ofAyfaco-rulers
- ally ofPallol
- family ofAyfahusband and wife
- partner ofAyfaco-monarchs and spouses
- ally ofFitharnadvisor
- has memberMedorserves as his deputy
- related toSugollobtained weapons from Sharn
- has memberMimee of Famorelviceroy of Sharn and Ayfa
- enemy ofAiken Drum
- family ofSharn-Adorson
- has memberSugollnominal vassal of the Firvulag King
- ally ofBetularn of the White Handloyal general
- related toAyfaco-ruler of the Firvulag
Key moments
- 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 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 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 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 15Ayfa scouts the Lowlives and Felice
Using farsight, Ayfa sees the human survivors, refugees and Felice wearing a torc and looting armor, then decides to leave for home.
- 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 3 · Ch 15Sugoll's letter and royal reply
Sugoll announces his marriage and plan to resettle the Howlers and provide brides at the Grand Loving. Sharn and Ayfa choose Nionel for resettlement and reply welcomingly, enclosing stun-guns.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Royals plan to intercept the Howlers
Learning of the 9000 migrants, Sharn and Ayfa follow Fitharn's advice to host a picnic and send them on to Nionel before reaching High Vrazel.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Feast of the Firvulag and Howlers
Sharn and Ayfa hosted a day-long feast by the Onion River, persuading the Howlers to repopulate Nionel, gifting animals and accepting gems as back taxes, and arranging Howler brides for the Grand Loving.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Announcement of the Grand Tourney
Aiken and Sharn reveal that the Grand Combat will become a nonlethal Grand Tourney held at the Field of Gold, with a new Singing Stone trophy. Celadeyr and Betularn are dismayed; the Craftsmaster accepts.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Crocodile hunt in the bayou
With Aiken as bait, Fafnor spears a phobosuchus and kills it with a sword stab behind the eye, after Aiken's advice. Aiken gives him a tusk as a trophy.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Sharn kills the plesiosaur
Goaded by Aiken, Sharn hunts a bull plesiosaur over the sea. Bitten in the leg, he beheads it using his sword and throws the head to Aiken as a trophy.
- Book 3 · Ch 27Firvulag strike fails on the Night of Secret Love
During the masquerade, Sharn, Ayfa and ten ogres mesh minds and fling a bolt at Aiken Drum, who is occupied with Olone; the bolt apparently fails.
- Book 3 · Ch 41Unveiling of the Singing Stone
The Gemcutters present the Singing Stone; Sharn sits and it sings eight notes. Tony laughs and hums along, then is questioned.
- Book 3 · Ch 41Tony's confession and the royal plot
Tony tells of the Lowlife aircraft in the Vale of Hyenas. Afterward the Firvulag rulers plan to tip Nodonn off so the Tanu seize the aircraft and attack Aiken Drum, for the Sword.
- Book 3 · Ch 41Skathe asks to keep Tony alive
After Sharn outlines his plan to approach Nodonn and the Gnomish Council, Medor offers to have Tony killed. Skathe, to the others' shock, asks to keep Tony and investigate whether the Howlers are right.
- Book 4 · Ch 4Aiken reveals Firvulag threat
Aiken reveals that the Firvulag are attacking Bardelask and threatening Roniah's weapons cache, and that Abaddon is coming.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Aiken orders Ochal and warns Sharn
Aiken instructs Ochal to retrieve the Wimborne prisoners and run to Calamosk, then mentally forces Sharn to abort the attack on Roniah.
- 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.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Roniah raid plan and Tony Wayland
Sharn and Ayfa plan a disguised water raid on Roniah and decide not to quickly return Tony Wayland to the Tanu, suspecting him of killing Skathe and the Worm.
- Book 4 · Ch 24Sharn-Ador's Nameday
At High Vrazel, Sharn-Ador is named, manifests as a locust, and announces the Firvulag raid on Roniah and the capture of Tony Wayland.
- Book 4 · Ch 24Aiken Drum's projection interrupts
Aiken's mental projection offers the Sword for Wayland and the stolen weapons. The royals agree to trade Wayland for the Sword at the Northern Track tomorrow, and Aiken knights Sharn-Ador, whom his father forces to repudiate it.
- Book 4 · Ch 27Betularn delivers the Sword
Betularn arrives at the Field of Gold by boat and presents the Sword to Sharn, who dons it.
- Book 4 · Ch 27Sharn's reinterpretation of Nightfall and failed test
Sharn explains his positive reading of Nightfall to Betularn and Sugoll. He tries the highest settings of the Sword, which fail, and he rages at the Foe's trickery.
- Book 4 · Ch 31Aiken warns of Sharn's Nightfall plot
Aiken tells the Table that Sharn plans to touch off Nightfall at the Tourney. Katlinel and Sugoll offer mediation; the Table prepares for war under Aiken.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Opening of the Grand Tourney
The royals and nobles ride in procession to the Field of Gold; Aiken and Sharn jointly open the sky, and the new Song and the Singing Stone are presented.
- Book 4 · Ch 34The Flying Hunt and Star of Morning
Aiken demonstrates overwhelming psychokinetic power, shaking Sharn. Sharn presses Sugoll, then receives Marc Remillard, who calls himself Star of Morning.
- Book 4 · Ch 36Marc courts the Firvulag
Marc d-jumps to the Firvulag box, reveals his trip to Goal and offers a metaconcert program for an alliance; Sharn stalls, and Marc enters the jousts as Jack Diamond.
- Book 4 · Ch 37Tanu win the metapsychic tug-of-war
Aiken's Tanu metaconcert overpowers the Firvulag, Ayfa's split fails, and the black serpent burns, giving the Tanu victory.
- Book 4 · Ch 37The co-monarchs yield to Abaddon
Abaddon offers Sharn and Ayfa freedom and his metaconcert program in exchange for their minds' help breaking into Castle Gateway. Despite their fears of enslavement, they open themselves to his mind and join with him.
- Book 4 · Ch 38Final hurley match and time-gate exodus
Aiken opens the time-gate for evacuation as the Tanu and Firvulag play the final Tourney match. Firvulag, using Marc's metaconcert, take a big lead.
- Book 4 · Ch 38Aiken's blast on the Rainbow Bridge
Marc lends Aiken the CE rig; Aiken strikes the Firvulag leaders, killing Sharn, Ayfa and over half their host in a wildfire, and wakes to be named High King.