Obron
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 3 (Inigo’s first dream)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 3Obron is Ashwell's chief bully, a couple of years older than Edeard, who torments him outside the Guild; Edeard has refrained from retaliating.
- Ch 5Obron is an antagonistic apprentice who nonetheless carved a fine martoz-wood box that sold for four pounds.
- Ch 5Obron, once Edeard's tormentor, is shaken by the ambush and regards Edeard with awe after seeing his power.
- Ch 7Edeard cannot imagine a world without Obron, who may have been sheltering in the Carpentry Guild compound.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 2Obron is Edeard's lost companion or relative whose hand gesture Edeard still uses; he would be twenty-three now.
Connections
- enemy ofEdeardbullies him
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.