Melzar
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 3 (Inigo’s first dream)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 5Melzar is the caravan master, strict about discipline and landcraft, and has led caravans for decades; he threatens to send back or hold back troublemakers.
- Ch 5Melzar downplays bandits as ordinary nomad families, not organised gangs, which makes Edeard wonder what Ashwell's village wall is for.
- Ch 5Melzar organised a galby hunt with five armed apprentices as shooters and the rest, including wolf-controllers Edeard and Alcie, as flushers.
- Ch 5Melzar leads the caravan's flusher line, organises the survivors, and says Edeard's warning saved everyone, including himself.
- Ch 5Melzar says the bandits hid their thoughts from farsight, a technique unfamiliar in Ashwell, and tamed fastfoxes; he plans to warn other towns.
- Ch 5Melzar warns Edeard that the village elders will not allow him to keep the tamed fastfox.
Connections
- leadsEdeardcaravan master over the apprentices
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 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.