Topar
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First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 9 (Inigo’s fourth dream)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 9Topar is a portly Master of the Guild Council and deputy to Grand Master Finitan, with a gruff, wry manner.
- Ch 9Topar arranges Edeard's constable sponsorship and advises him to hide his strength to avoid political attention.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 9Topar, Finitan's deputy, returned looking gaunt and haggard from a hard journey to Ashwell; only two of his five travelers survived.
- Ch 9Topar recovered the rusted repeat-fire gun from the bottom of the well in Ashwell where Edeard had left it.
- Ch 9Topar has studied the invaders' gun for months and finds nothing impossible in it; any competent Weapons Guild Master could build its components.
- Ch 12Topar sends ex-constables, ex-sheriffs and militia reservists as scouts into the provinces to map the bandit raids.
- Ch 12Topar leads a small, trusted party into the Donsori Mountains to capture a bandit alive and uncover the collaborators in government.
- Ch 12Topar gives Edeard two hours before the party will come looking for him.
- Ch 12Topar leads the group and plans the strike; he is buried under stones in the ambush and killed.
Connections
- member ofGrand Master Finitandeputy to Finitan
- related toGrand Master Finitandeputy in the Eggshaper Guild
- ally ofGrand Master Finitan
- ally ofEdeard
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 9Confrontation with the Blue Tower guards
Challenged by a sergeant for lacking a badge or letter, Edeard lifts him with telekinesis and halts his men until Topar intervenes and reprimands the sergeant.
- Book 1 · Ch 9Edeard meets Grand Master Finitan
Edeard tells Finitan of Akeem's death and the village's slaughter. Finitan, once Akeem's apprentice, offers only junior apprentice status, requiring seven years.
- Book 1 · Ch 9Finitan steers Edeard toward the constables
Finitan explains the Guild's political stagnation and offers Edeard either a Guild place or sponsorship into the constables, advising him to explore the city first.
- Book 1 · Ch 9Salrana taken in by the Mothers
Edeard escorts Salrana to the Lady's central church in Eyrie, where the Mothers accept her. He then longtalks Topar and chooses to join the constables.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Finitan and Topar reveal the Ashwell findings
At the Blue Tower, Topar returns the recovered gun and confirms Ashwell's ruin and the spreading invasion in Rulan. Finitan rejects an immediate military campaign.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Meeting with Finitan and Topar
Edeard, Finitan and Topar discuss the invaders' gun, its origin, and strategy. Finitan keeps Edeard in the city to defeat the gangs and gifts him a technique to see through concealment.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Election results
After voting ends with 80% turnout, Malfit Hall counts the ballots; Finitan wins every major tally, reaching about seventy-two percent, and Sampalok elects Gregorie. Crowds celebrate in Golden Park.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Finitan and Topar reveal the pattern of raids
Finitan and Topar tell Edeard that bandit raids target Finitan's allies' estates, suggesting collaborators in the city who accessed the treasury registry and a source of advanced guns.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Expedition into the Donsori Mountains
Topar, Edeard and a small trusted group ride out disguised as guildsmen to hunt the bandit crew behind raids on Northford and Regentfleet, hoping to capture one alive.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Bandit spotted on the plateau
Using ge-eagles at night, the party spots a bandit with a collared fastfox dressed like the Ashwell attackers and follows him to a concealed hollow.
- Book 2 · Ch 12The gully ambush
Edeard's party enters the bandits' gully, but the bandits knew they were coming and triggered an avalanche and gunfire. Most of Edeard's companions die.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Edeard travels back in time
Edeard throws the squad off the slope, then forces the universe to link his memory with the Void's record, and wakes in the woodland camp days earlier, with his dead friends alive.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Edeard aims for an earlier moment
Realising he may not make it back in time before the ambush, Edeard decides to jump further back to the camp near Stibbington on the first day of the road.