Master Cherix
Names: Master CherixCherix
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 13 (Inigo’s sixth dream)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 2Cherix is a skilled defense counsel retained for Arminel; Edeard and others think his presence keeps the trial looking fair.
- Ch 4Cherix is a lawyer who represents gang members and tried to use legal technicalities to let Pocklan cross the bridge.
- Ch 4After the ducking, Cherix filed charges of aggravated psychic assault against Edeard; the court cases wasted two days, with Solarin opposing him.
- Ch 9Lawyer prosecuting Edeard in the case brought by Buate; himself under an exclusion warrant.
- Ch 9Master Cherix is a lawyer who has been excluded from Jeavons station and walks to his guild offices in Parliament House.
- Ch 12Cherix, a lawyer who vanished on the day of banishment, turns up to vote in Lillylight; Edeard decides to let him vote.
- Ch 12Cherix, a lawyer, was belatedly allowed to vote after the clerk found his ledger entry; Edeard wondered whether Owain arranged it.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 9Cherix took the newlyweds' legal case, which became a political campaign; Edeard dreads him.
Connections
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 13Thieves' trial
Arminel, Omasis and Harri plead not guilty; Cherix argues they entered the storeroom to help, and discredits Edeard and Kanseen's testimony as unprovable.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Arminel sentenced
After closing statements, judges led by Mayor Owain found Arminel and his four cohorts guilty; the others got twenty years, Arminel life in the Trampello mines.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Showdown on the bridge
Pocklan and seven gang men try to cross into Jeavons; Cherix argues legally for them. Edeard produces a warrant naming Cherix and flings him into Birmingham Pool, and the gang retreats.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Decoy arrest and wave of arsons
While Macsen, disguised as Edeard, is taken to court on Buate's warrant, the real Edeard torches homes of gang leaders, discrediting the case's identification evidence.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Cherix appears to vote
Ronark tells Edeard that the missing lawyer Cherix has shown up to vote in Lillylight. Edeard sees him by farsight and advises letting him vote.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Rise of Our City
A Tosella eviction dispute became a political campaign, Doblek won the election, and riots in Ilongo led to a militia blockade of stopovers.