Boyd
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 9 (Inigo’s fourth dream)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 9Boyd is a baker's fourth son from Jeavons with limited, unexceptional psychic talent, who joined the constables for lack of options.
- Ch 9Boyd's brother runs a bakery and must pay a gang protection money, though it is far from Sampalok.
- Ch 11A probationer who knows much gossip and city layout; he asks to join Macsen's outing to pursue Clemensa.
- Ch 11Boyd stayed to help Chae, holding Kavine's flesh together to slow the bleeding, and regrets hesitating.
- Ch 11Boyd is smitten with Clemensa, who kisses him in the tavern.
- Ch 13Boyd has grown bolder and more mischievous over six months, and deliberately needles Macsen.
- Ch 15Boyd's brother Isoix runs the family bakery in Macoun Street, which gang members have repeatedly harassed.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 2Boyd is a baker's son and constable who is seeing Saria of the Matran family, who hinted she'd accept a proposal.
- Ch 2Boyd says Vilby of Droal's squad is on the take and that Droal's squad is worthless.
- Ch 4Boyd accepts Julan's feast invitation on the squad's behalf before Edeard can refuse.
- Ch 7Boyd warns Edeard that he tends to see the best in people and may be too trusting.
- Ch 9Boyd was shot dead by Mirayse while using his third hand to free a trapped teenage lad from a toppled cabinet.
- Ch 9Boyd's spirit tells Edeard the universe is a pattern-like memory, that the city is alive, and urges him to be bold.
- Ch 9Boyd asks Dinlay to comfort Saria, and urges Kanseen and Macsen not to hide their feelings.
- Ch 12Boyd and Chae have left the city, trying to reach Odin's Sea.
Connections
- member ofConstables
- partner ofClemensa
- family ofIsoixbrothers
- friend ofEdeard
- partner ofSaria
- ally ofEdeardsquad member
- member ofEdeard's squad
- enemy ofMiraysekilled him
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 9Constable recruit psychic tests
Woken before dawn by Chae, Edeard and fellow recruits are tested on psychic abilities. Edeard hides his strength, but Chae detects it and makes him lift the heavy ball.
- Book 1 · Ch 9Recruits talk over breakfast
At the station Edeard and fellow recruits eat breakfast, share why they became constables, and explain the Makkathran gangs and their protection rackets to the newly arrived Edeard.
- Book 1 · Ch 11Solarin's law lecture
Master Solarin lectures the probationers on residence law and assigns reading on weapons law, while Edeard is bored and Dinlay is eager.
- Book 1 · Ch 11Patrol through Silvarum
Chae leads the probationers on patrol across Arrival Canal into Silvarum and its markets; Kanseen shares gossip about Dybal and Macsen's mother, and noble girls tease Edeard.
- Book 1 · Ch 11Chae debriefs the squad
Chae calms his anger, admits fault with the squad's market chase, explains the risks of reprisal and escalation by gangs, forgives them, and orders strict procedure in future.
- Book 1 · Ch 11Drinking at the Olovan's Eagle
The squad drinks at the tavern; Macsen secretly spikes Dinlay's beer with vodka to ease his guilt, and the friends pledge to stand together whatever happens.
- Book 1 · Ch 13Squad catches the Silvarum thief
Edeard spots the market thief with two accomplices through his ge-eagle. The squad surrounds them; Edeard enters the underground storerooms through a hidden fissure, confronts the thieves, and the squad arrests them.
- Book 1 · Ch 15The bakery extortion trap
The squad stakes out Isoix's bakery for gang extortion. Edeard senses danger; Boyd announces arrest, but the gang members flee, having known they were being watched.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Dinlay's chase and the ambush
Dinlay disobeys Edeard and chases the gang to Birmingham Pool. Edeard's ge-eagle is killed by gang ge-eagles. Arminel steps out and shoots at Dinlay.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Ambush at Birmingham Pool
Arminel's gang shoots Dinlay and pushes Edeard and Dinlay into the pool. Edeard nearly drowns saving Dinlay and is pulled out by his friends with a punt pole.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Edeard walks on water and arrests Arminel
Edeard walks across the pool on telekinetically stabilized water, shares his sight with all Makkathran, stops Arminel's bullet, breaks his nose and arrests the gang. The crowd hails him Waterwalker.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Bijulee beaten by thugs
Edeard's squad gathers at Dybal's home in Cobara after four thugs assaulted Bijulee as a warning to Macsen, apparently linked to Ivarl. Edeard promises to prevent a repeat.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Squad quarrel at Jeavons station
Macsen angrily accuses Edeard of not trusting the squad; Edeard admits he hid things out of fear and promises to reveal the gangs' scale soon.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Edeard summoned to the squad
During an evening with Jessile, Edeard notices Vilby crossing into Silvarum and leaves, then reveals himself to the waiting squad on Golard Street.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Vilby exposed
Using concealment, Edeard's squad bursts into a private room at the Black Horse, catching Vilby and Ivarl's spy Nanitte; Edeard banishes Vilby from the station and tenement.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Squad confronts Ivarl's infiltration
At Olovan's Eagle Edeard reveals that Nanitte, Chiaran and Ranalee were Ivarl's agents; the squad recommits and Edeard lays out his plan to drive gangs from the districts.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Confrontation with a racketeer's wife
On festival morning, Eddis's wife confronts Edeard over her husband's exile. Kanseen rebukes her; Edeard offers to cancel the warrant if he quits the gang.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Escape from the mansion
Edeard evades Florrel, Julan, and Finitan's political pressure, persuades Homelt to lock the squad in a cellar, then takes them through the floor to the canal tunnels.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Rescue attempt begins
The squad rises concealed into the cellars; Edeard smashes through Mirnatha's door and shields her as shots ring out.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Rescue of Mirnatha
In a gunfight in the cellar, Edeard and his squad kill the kidnappers and free Mirnatha. Edeard uncovers and kills the last concealed kidnapper, who dies and Edeard sees his soul leave.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Triumphant return home
Edeard carries Mirnatha by gondola along the canals past cheering crowds to the Culverit mansion, where Julan and Kristabel are reunited with her and invite the squad to a feast.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Night at the Poilus Theater
After a Culverit party, Edeard and Kristabel join his squad at the Poilus to hear Dybal's band, dancing, drinking and smoking kestric.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Ambush on Riorn Street
Edeard's squad intercepts Medath's enforcers about to cripple Rapsail, and arrests several. Medath escapes. Edeard releases the captured men and orders them to leave Makkathran.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Raid on the Eyrie gun exchange
Edeard's squad and constables ambush the handover in the tower, capturing most gang members; Edeard chases Medath up the stairs and finds hidden foes on the platform, one striking him.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Edeard wakes
Edeard wakes two days later, learns the guns came from the Weapons Guild, and is reunited with his friends.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Planning mass arrests
At Jeavons station, Edeard's team reviews files on seventy-two identified gang leaders. He aims for a hundred and plans to detain them twenty-two days without charge to break the gangs before the election.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Spy captured in Moslet Avenue
Edeard leads his squad into Moslet Avenue, spots a concealed follower with Finitan's technique, stuns him with a thunderbolt and drags him into the tunnels. Friends then voice concern that Edeard's power frightens people.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Spying on Buate's gang lords' meeting
Using Finitan's ge-mouse, Edeard and the squad watch Buate and other gang lords. Buate announces a plan to resist arrest with citywide riots before the election.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Arrest of Buate
Edeard and his squad arrest Buate in Sampalok, scaring off a gathering mob with a burning oil fireball and neutralizing a fire trap via the city.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Boyd killed by Mirayse
While helping an injured lad in a baker's shop, Boyd is shot dead by Mirayse. Edeard sees his soul, which bids farewell and urges Edeard to be bold.