Dybal
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 11 (Inigo’s fifth dream)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 11Notorious satirist in the Musician's Guild, popular with young nobles, rumoured caught in bed with two of the Lady's novices and with many offspring in mountain villages.
- Ch 13Dybal is a carefree, flamboyant rebel musician over a hundred years old, with wild black hair, and wealthy; he charms everyone he meets.
- Ch 13Dybal is a singer, a rebel-voiced performer popular with the poor and paid by the rich, and he announces his engagement to Bijulee.
- Ch 13Dybal grew up in a Lady's orphanage and admires the four young people for making lives for themselves from nothing.
- Ch 13Dybal is acquainted with the Grand Council members and knows their scandals, including that Mayor Owain is buying votes early.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 4Dybal is an old musician who hosts Edeard's squad in his Cobara home.
- Ch 4Dybal gives Edeard a recognition gift, a burst of thought that should warn him if anyone tries longtalk dominance on him again.
- Ch 7Dybal is a popular musician whose loud, angry songs of love, loss and corruption mock the Council; Edeard had long wanted to hear him.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 13Dybal's last composition, 'Bittersweet Flight', became an anthem sung by the whole city after he was guided by a Skylord about eighty years earlier.
Connections
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 13Celebration at Rakas
Edeard, Salrana and squadmates set out by gondola to the Rakas restaurant, hosted by Macsen's mother and Dybal.
- Book 1 · Ch 13Celebration lunch at Rakas
Dybal toasts Macsen's squad and Edeard's promotion to squad leader, and announces his engagement to Bijulee. He discusses orphanages, the nobility and Mistress Florell's power.
- 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 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 9Wedding of Macsen and Kanseen
Edeard prompts Macsen to propose with a ring from the wreckage, and a Mother marries the couple in Sampalok square before the crowd.