bandits
Names: banditsforest meninvadersemissariesbandit packsbandit crew
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 5 (Inigo’s second dream)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 5The bandits wear mud-smeared camouflage cloaks, use poison-tipped arrows, knives and swords, can eclipse their thoughts from farsight, and use collared fastfoxes.
- Ch 5The bandits attempted heartsqueezes on Edeard; the attempts were warded off.
- Ch 7The attacking bandits wear dark tunics and cross belts with knives and metal boxes, use fastfoxes, and set Ashwell's thatch roofs ablaze by telekinesis.
- Ch 7The bandits are well organized, use fastfoxes and rapid-firing guns, and can conceal themselves from searchers.
- Ch 9Bandits slaughtered Edeard's village; they used concealment techniques and repeat-fire guns, which Finitan says the Guild lacks, suggesting a rival society.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 9The attackers are organized, wear proper clothes and boots, use repeat-fire guns and concealment, and destroy villages without settling the land.
- Ch 12Topar's scouts identify six main bandit packs spread across the Ulfsen, Komansa, Gorgian, Yorarn and Sastair mountain ranges; the west is now quiet.
- Ch 12Raids have targeted estates and villages tied to Finitan's allies, implying someone searched the official treasury registry and has collaborators in Makkathran.
- Ch 12Refugees from the Ulfsen Mountains report strange, powerful guns that can defeat an entire cavalry platoon.
- Ch 12The bandits use ge-eagles to watch the pass and tamed fastfoxes as sentinels, and are expert at concealment.
- Ch 12Edeard recognises the bandit's dress and rapid-fire gun as identical to the attackers at Ashwell.
Connections
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Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 5Bandit ambush in the forest
Edeard senses dread, then poison arrows and bandits attack the flusher line with fastfoxes. Edeard kills several bandits and a fastfox and tames another. Nine of twelve apprentices survive; Janene is lost and Alcie wounded.
- Book 1 · Ch 7Bandit attack on Ashwell
Waking in terror, Edeard senses the bandits; a large force with guns and fastfoxes burns Ashwell and slaughters villagers and guards. Edeard kills several bandits, and Akeem urges him to flee.
- Book 1 · Ch 7Hiding in the well
Edeard distracts bandits with beer and genistars, leads Salrana to the unfinished well, and seals it with a stone slab, hiding for hours while Ashwell burns.
- Book 1 · Ch 7Aftermath of Ashwell
Emerging, Edeard and Salrana find the village destroyed and gather seven survivors. A Thorpe-By-Water posse arrives and takes them away without pursuing the bandits.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Bandit spotted on the plateau
Using ge-eagles at night, the party spots a bandit with a collared fastfox dressed like the Ashwell attackers and follows him to a concealed hollow.