Tony Wayland
Names: Tony WaylandWayland-santhe metallurgistTonythe wounded metallurgistTurncoat TonyToneeLowlifeWaylandBill JohnsonAnthony Bryce WaylandLord VelkonnWayland-VelkonnCreative BrotherWhite Eyes
First appears in Book 3: The Nonborn King, chapter 5 (4)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 5Tony is a metallurgical engineer and sane ex-silver who won high status under the Tanu through an improved barium-refining technique at Finiah.
- Ch 5Captured in Finiah's Pleasure Dome, Tony accepted removal of his silver tore to live free, but secretly resents the Lowlives and plans to flee to the Tanu.
- Ch 5Tony plans to escape to Goriah, hoping the new human ruler there will give him and Dougal golden tores.
- Ch 5Tony devised the flaming-arrow plan to ignite the naval-stores distillery where the Firvulag were hiding the trebuchet's crew, and was injured in the collapse, jaw broken.
- Ch 5Tony is a wounded metallurgist who defended valiantly against the attackers and is being treated by a doctor.
- Ch 5Tony's last words before sleeping were apparently 'Take me back to Finiah!'
- Ch 22Tony is a metallurgical engineer who fled with Dougal from Vulcan's stithy, hoping Aiken Drum will welcome him and his knowledge of iron weapons.
- Ch 22Tony is a poor orienteer; he decides they are lost because the river flows north rather than northwest.
- Ch 26Tony, a metallurgist, was enchanted by Rowane and slept with her; on waking without his blindfold he saw her true mutant form.
- Ch 26Tony is pulled to his feet by a woman and runs hand in hand with her toward Nionel for the May Morning feast.
- Ch 26Tony worries about what to tell Dougal, then sees Dougal with another woman and realizes the worry is unnecessary.
- Ch 41A metallurgist who fled his Howler bride Rowane in Nionel with Dougal, intending to reach Aiken Drum, but stumbled on a hidden Lowlife aircraft camp.
- Ch 41Formerly a silver-torc in Finiah, he cooperated with Lowlives after they cut off his collar, then ran away; he is guilt-ridden over betraying everyone.
- Ch 41Captured by Firvulag in an ambush, he saved his life by claiming to know of flying machines, then tried in vain to recant.
- Ch 41Tony laughs at the Singing Stone's eight-note song and hums along, recognising it as a joke, attributing it to Denny Johnson.
- Ch 41Tony is a captive whom Medor wants killed, but Skathe asks to keep him alive for now.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 6Tony was a human metallurgical engineer who ran the barium extraction operation at Finiah and lost his silver tore when captured.
- Ch 6Tony fled the Milieu through the time-gate after pushing his lover and her new partner, his superior, into a forging press.
- Ch 6Tony had a Howler (goblin) wife named Rowane, and in his half-dreams he confuses Skathe's illusions with her.
- Ch 6Tony shot Skathe and Karbree dead with a Rigby elephant rifle found in their baggage, then put on the golden tore.
- Ch 11Tony is a Lowlife captured by the Worm who revealed the aircraft hidden in the Vale of Hyenas.
- Ch 11Tony hid for six days in a dockside warehouse loft among peanut sacks while the Firvulag looted Bardelask, eating little but peanuts.
- Ch 11Tony wears a golden tore given to him by the late Skathe; he is free of Tanu control and tracking.
- Ch 11Tony lived eleven years in Finiah wearing silver and spied on Tanu notables with farsense; his old silver-tore friends do not answer his calls.
- Ch 11Tony decides to travel north to Nionel, where Rowane, the one person who might care if he lives, may now hate him.
- Ch 18Wayland supervised Haut Furneauxville and wanted sophisticated electric furnaces, which never worked for lack of a power supply.
- Ch 19Tony is a metallurgist who fled Bardelask and has traveled north for over three weeks toward Nionel, where Rowane waits.
- Ch 19Tony wears a golden tore and uses its psychic powers to knock out the recruiting squad, but his metapsychic abilities are weak.
- Ch 19Tony is remembered by Burke's band as the straw boss who betrayed their people at the Vale of Hyenas.
- Ch 19Tony stole a gray tore from the recruiters and sold it on the Roniah black market, buying a chaliko, gear and a ruby parure for Rowane.
- Ch 21Tony Wayland is a metallurgist needed for the Guderian Project; Chief Burke captured him and offered to trade him to Aiken.
- Ch 23A metallurgist, shackled in glass gyves, he agrees on his word of honor to help Aiken build the time-gate wire, wanting to return to his wife.
- Ch 23Tony was adopted by the Tanu as Creative Brother in Finiah and wears a golden tore, which protects him from crude mental violence.
- Ch 23Tony left his wife Rowane in Nionel, regrets it, and wants her to come to Goriah or to return to her.
- Ch 24Captured by Firvulag warriors, he is threatened with dismemberment; the Tanu call him a murderer and Aiken wants him alive.
- Ch 26Tony Wayland works on the Guderian device and is anxious for news of his Howler wife Rowane; the King is deceiving him.
- Ch 31Tony is a metallurgist working on the cladding device; Aiken orders him to Fennoscandia to obtain pure dysprosium despite his protests.
- Ch 32Tony is a metallurgist dragooned into the Guderian Project who only wants to return to his wife in Nionel.
- Ch 32Tony is traumatized after being pulled into the gray limbo and the pain, then released back at the starting point.
- Ch 38Tony works exhausted through the night repairing the faulty wire cladder, sustained by Cloud's redactive power, and is fatalistically convinced Marc will catch them.
- Ch 38Tony is caught trying to sneak off to his wife in Nionel and is held with gazebo technicians.
- Ch 38Tony slipped away from Chief Burke on a shuttle to Nionel and searched all night for his wife Rowane.
- Ch 38Tony now wears his golden tore, which makes him strong enough to accept Rowane; he says he loves her changed or not.
Connections
- related toDougalbodyguard and devoted vassal
- related toJafarphysician treating his wounds
- ally ofDougalserves as knightly companion
- partner ofRowane
- friend ofDougal
- related toSkathegave Tony the golden tore
- related toPeopeo Moxmox Burkecaptured him and offered him in trade
- family ofRowanehusband and wife
- related toAiken DrumAiken paid a high price for him and directs his work
- member ofGuderian's deviceconscripted
- friend ofAlice Greatorex
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 5Siege of Iron Maiden Mine
Attackers pinned the miners in the barracks with boulders and a trebuchet. Tony's flaming arrow, fired by Dougal into the still shop, burned the engine and Tony was knocked out.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Firvulag treachery revealed
Tony wakes with a wired jaw to learn reinforcements killed the attackers, whose corpses reverted to normal Firvulag, proving the supposed Howlers were allies betraying humans.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Tony's delirious plea
After Denny and Kawai explain that the dead attackers were Sharn and Ayfa's armored regulars using a siege engine, the wounded Tony falls asleep murmuring 'Take me back to Finiah!'
- Book 3 · Ch 22Night camp on the islet
Lost on a north-flowing river they doubt is the Laar, Tony and Dougal camp on a hummock; jungle noises frighten Tony while Dougal chants a prophecy of Asian.
- Book 3 · Ch 22Howler hunting party spotted
Next day they see mounted Howlers across the river and a distant exotic city, then flee south along a game track.
- Book 3 · Ch 22Hoe-tusker charge and rescue
A deinotherium charges Tony and is felled by a stun-gun shot from Crazy Greggy, who then takes the pair to Nionel.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Tony and Rowane
At the Dance of the Brides Tony is paired with Rowane and spends the night with her; waking unblindfolded he sees her true form and learns she wants a hybrid child.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Racing to Nionel
Tony and a woman who mentions her parents run hand in hand toward Nionel for the May Morning feast. Among other couples at the gates he sees Dougal with another woman, which resolves his worry.
- Book 3 · Ch 41Tony brought to High Vrazel
After a miserable journey, blinded and bound, Tony is delivered to High Vrazel, cleaned up by Skathe's order and brought before the Firvulag monarchs.
- 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 6Skathe's first seduction interrupted
Skathe, disguised as a houri, nearly kills Tony in his cell at High Vrazel until Karbree interrupts; she decides to take Tony along on the mission to Goriah.
- Book 4 · Ch 6Voyage to Bardelask
Queen Ayfa redirects Skathe and Karbree to observe the Bardelask attack; they commandeer a riverboat and pilot on the Saone and travel downriver with Tony.
- Book 4 · Ch 6Tony kills Skathe and Karbree
After overhearing the ogres feasting on captives after the Bardelask battle, Tony finds a rifle in their baggage and shoots Skathe, then Karbree, dead.
- 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 11Bardelask looting ends
Firvulag finish looting Bardelask and withdraw, killing remaining gray-torced captives, including Werner, while Tony hides unseen and listens through his tore.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Tony leaves Bardelask
After the Firvulag leave, Tony finds a wherry, gathers leftovers, and drifts down the Ysaar toward the Rhone, planning to head north home to Nionel and Rowane.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Howler woman enters the Skin-tank
Greg-Donnet and Melina wrap a mutant Howler woman in Skin and fill the tank to start regenerative treatment; she thinks of Tonee as she sleeps.
- Book 4 · Ch 19Tony escapes the recruiters
At Hilltop House, Tony is pressed to accept a gray tore; he blasts the five soldiers with pleasure-induction through his golden tore, flees with a teamster's ride to Roniah, and takes the tore.
- Book 4 · Ch 19Tony captured by Burke's band
Poling through the marsh, Tony is captured by Chief Burke's armed band, identified as the traitor Wayland, and bluffs unsuccessfully. Burke spares him as a bargaining chip with the King and for passage to the Milieu.
- Book 4 · Ch 23Tony agrees to build the time-gate wire
Tony advises Aiken on niobium and dysprosium and, after assurances, gives his word to cooperate. Kuhal escorts him to the Roniah docks to join Neyal's convoy bound for Sasaran.
- Book 4 · Ch 23Tony speaks with Burke
From a passing rivercraft, Burke telepathically reveals his deal for Tony and his destination of Nionel; Tony asks him to tell Rowane he will return.
- Book 4 · Ch 23Firvulag raid the convoy
Disguised Firvulag raiders board Tony's boat, kill the lone Tanu guard, find crates of Milieu weapons and capture Tony, planning to trade him for their sacred Sword.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Tour of the Guderian Project laboratories
Aiken shows Elizabeth the heavily secured labs and the Guderian device, explaining its progress and the deception about Tony's wife Rowane.
- Book 4 · Ch 31Tony ordered to Fennoscandia
Contaminated dysprosium threatens the time-gate wire; Aiken sends Tony Wayland to Fennoscandia to ensure proper refining despite Yotunag danger.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Marc rescues and seizes the dysprosium workers
Marc blasts the Yotunag besieging Tony, Alice and Kalipin, coerces them to hand over dysprosium, concentrate and the ion extractor, then d-jumps with the materials and Tony to his ship.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Tony returned from limbo
After being jerked back to the starting point, Tony is left with the cargo as the armored attacker vanishes; Alice guards him and calls the King for help.
- Book 4 · Ch 36First power-up of the tau-generator
The Guderian device is tested with a potassium wafer on a stool; the stool is sliced and the potassium returns dated ~11.78 million years old, proving the gate works but is only a handspan wide.
- 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 38Tony reunites with transformed Rowane
Tony finds Rowane, remade by Greggy's Skin-tank, and declares his love; she reveals she is pregnant.