Valean
Names: ValeanOndra
First appears in Book 3: The Evolutionary Void, chapter 3 (TWO)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 3Valean is a Higher with a skeletal gray iridescent body, brass teeth and pink eyes, serving a faction hierarchy under Atha; she replaces Marius at Ellezelin.
- Ch 3Valean says deployment of the Swarm is hours away, after which no re-life will be available.
- Ch 3Valean demanded access to the Agra wormhole generator to stop the ANA agent from retrieving more fragments of Chatfield's ship.
- Ch 5Accelerator agent used for extreme measures; arrives on Oaktier, apparently to reach Laril.
- Ch 6Valean is an Accelerator agent who impersonated the custodian Ondra and led an eight-agent team to trap Laril at the coliseum.
- Ch 6Valean acts under orders from Ilanthe, who gives her no choice about her mission.
- Ch 6Valean, a skeletal Accelerator leader with carmine streamers, came to seize Laril and was killed by accelerated aging, about two years' subjective time.
- Ch 6Valean claimed her team was counter-programmed against Paul's T-sphere.
Connections
- related toMariusreplaces and outranks him
- member ofAccelerators
- related toIlantheacts under Ilanthe's orders
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 3Valean demotes Marius
Valean meets Marius in space, downgrades him for the Chatfield and Cat problems, and assigns him to track the Delivery Man on Fanallisto.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Digby attacks Riasi generator
Valean uses the Agra wormhole to swallow Chatfield's wreckage. Digby smashes the force field and wormhole, then pursues the escaping ship into hyperspace.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Digby tracks Valean to Oaktier
Digby follows Valean's ship to Darklake City, with Paula ordering him to keep her from Laril and prevent anyone else getting Araminta.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Laril arranges a meeting with the custodians
After a night of careful inquiries, Laril contacts 'Ondra' and arranges to meet Asom alone at the Jachal Coliseum, preparing escape routes and monitoring software.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Accelerator trap at the coliseum
Valean, posing as Ondra, springs a trap with her team and jams Laril's connection; Laril is nearly seized.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Valean's team destroyed
Valean and six agents attack Paul's bungalow; Paul traps them in accelerated-time fields and they age to death within seconds, their bodies teleported away.