Fahin
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 5 (Inigo’s second dream)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 5Fahin is a thin doctor's apprentice with glasses who always carries a physick satchel and is mocked for it.
- Ch 5Fahin brewed a foul herbal hangover cure that worked, earning the apprentices' acceptance.
- Ch 5Fahin, an apprentice physick, panicked and hid in a thicket during the ambush, then is persuaded to tend the wounded.
- Ch 7Fahin is a doctor's apprentice under Seneo, content to become village doctor, and is smoking kestric leaves on a near-nightly basis since the Witham caravan.
- Ch 7Fahin believes Edeard could build the Eggshaper Guild to greatness, become Mayor, or even lead a barbarian army to sack Makkathran.
- Ch 7Fahin tells Edeard the gate guards still farsee collared fastfoxes at night, which Edeard insists are not his.
Connections
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 5Trading in Witham
The Ashwell caravan spends two days trading in Witham; Edeard sells ge-spiders and buys practical clothing, and the apprentices get drunk and badly hungover.
- Book 1 · Ch 5Fahin's hangover cure
Fahin brews a foul herbal tea; Edeard drinks first, it works, and the apprentices bond more easily afterwards.
- Book 1 · Ch 5Galby hunt begins
On the return through the Sardok foothills forest, Melzar camps by a river, hands out guns, and organises a galby hunt with shooters on a ridge and flushers in a line.
- 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 5Aftermath and regrouping
Fahin is encouraged to treat the wounded. Melzar thanks Edeard, who bitterly expresses hatred of bandits. Melzar orders him to call back the ge-wolves and the tamed fastfox.
- Book 1 · Ch 7Edeard meets Salrana and joins the cave gathering
Edeard meets Salrana, who teases him about Zehar, then joins the apprentices in a cave, bringing wine, and learns Zehar's plan from Fahin.