The Hunt
Names: The HuntFlying HuntTanu HuntRound TableHostHunters
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 28 (8)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 28A Tanu tradition seen as a fast, multicolored streak of light racing through the forest; Creyn will not explain it.
- Ch 30Dawn procession of glowing, glass-armored Tanu riders returning with severed heads of monsters and of two ordinary humans, a middle-aged man and woman.
- Ch 41The Hunt is a glittering, multicolored, noisy cavalcade of elfin riders who chase prey through the night forest.
- Ch 46Velteyn's mounted Tanu company, flying only slightly faster than a galloping chaliko.
- Ch 48Twenty-two glowing knights, all scarlet except a blue-white leader, surrounded the flyer; the leader flung ball lightning into it.
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 4One hundred and nine members of the Host are presently in Muriah; the rest arrive for Grand Combat.
- Ch 8The Hunt is almost fifty armored Tanu men and women from Nodonn's court who hunt monsters and Firvulag on chalikos.
- Ch 8Hunted beasts are becoming scarce from overhunting, and Nodonn forbids wasting them.
- Ch 24A Tanu Hunt from Sayzorask, seen across the river heading south, is looking for the party; Felice believes someone told them.
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 8Isak describes the Flying Hunt as a twisting knotted snake of rainbow light that comes from among the stars, supposedly every year at the full moon after the vernal equinox.
- Ch 25Hunt convention allows a companion to help only when the principal is unmounted or disarmed; metapsychic force is forbidden in the plesiosaur hunt.
- Ch 28Raiding force from Muriah that slaughtered the outlaw human village on Kersic; it has not come since last fall.
Connections
- led byLord Velteyn
- member ofLord Velteyn
- led byNodonn
- has memberVrenol
- has memberCulluket
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 30The Hunt returns
At dawn Bryan watches the Tanu Hunt return, carrying heads of monsters and two ordinary humans on lances.
- Book 1 · Ch 41Madame hides from the Hunt
Madame, in a cork tree, hides fearfully as the Hunt chases the black monster Fitharn past her. She faints, and wakes to Fitharn thanking her for hiding them both.
- 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 48Strike on Finiah and the mine
The flyer hovers over Finiah; Claude breaches the wall and blasts the mine into a lava eruption while the Flying Hunt attacks with ball lightning.
- Book 2 · Ch 8The Hunt kills a plesiosaur
Nodonn stuns a plesiosaur in the Gulf of Aquitaine with lightning; Vrenol wounds and beheads it, taking the trophy head.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Amerie and Felice at night watch
Felice propositions Amerie, who refuses and prays for her. Felice, shaken, regains some confidence. They then sight a Tanu Hunt searching for them across the river.