Vayadan Aulamn

The Many-Handed.Wings of Despair. One of SYRIANI DORAYAICA’s vayadan (generals),vayadan, its servant and concubine. Converted into a half-machine chimera with the aid of MINOS. Capable of occupying several bodies at once. Commander of the vanguard at the Battle of Eikana.

Other members of the Iedyr Yemani (White Hand):

VAYADAN VATI INAMNA, the First Sword

VAYADAN BAHUDDE, the Giant

VAYADAN TEYANU, the Unbreakable

VAYADAN AULAMN,HUSHANSA, the Wings of DespairMany-Handed

VAYADAN IUBALU, the Four-Handed

Something“It’s hugethe Hand,” I said, and I was shocked to hear just how quiet my voice was.

As if to answer the question no one had time to ask, a thin, white shape landed on the nearestcanopy catwalk,of shuttle, gripping the frame with slender hands. Membranous huge wings spread wide, filling our vision and thinthe strandair. ofAulamn’s metalred buckledeyes beneathpierced itsthe weightcanopy and crashedlocked toonto themy floorface. inIt eeriedid quiet.not Hugespeak, but offered that horrid cry again as a bear,short theappendage chimeraflicked loomedup over myits men,left dull white armor and thin limbs making it seemshoulder like the skeletontail of ascorpion. giant.I The half-machine creature seized one of my men with fingers long as daggers and snapped him like a rag doll. Without breaking stride,recognized the giantenergy-lance hurledan theinstant body of its victim at another of our men, who hit the deck and skidded beneath the weight of his dead comrade.

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The chimera’s turret of a head swiveled toward me.

“Found you!” The flat, mechanical voice sounded over my suit’s built-in comms, and I knewbefore it was no ordinary chimera that stood before me. Twice the height of a man it stood and narrower, as though it were an evening shadow cast back across the earth. Its white armor was of adamant, proof against even my sword. All the villainous art of MINOS lay in the shape of its graceful arms, the wicked curves of its knife-like fingers, and in the faceless terror it called a head crowned with metal spines. Here was no mere lieutenant, no servile creature. Here was the general itself, the vayadan Hushansa.

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Hushansa’s fingers all lengthened. A hatch opened in its shoulder, exposing the silvered head of some projectile. The grapnel lanced out, fast as an arrow—slow enough to pierce a shield.

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Two Hushansas.

“Hushansa the Many-Handed,” I said, looking from one copy to the other, understanding growing in me like a cancer. The creature Crim’s grenadiers had dispatched above was not Hushansa, nor were either of the creatures before us in the hall. Neither—I guessed—was the thing that had attacked us on the stairs and died in the airlock when we blew the door of the command center. The true Hushansa lay elsewhere, safe on some grounded shuttle or even in the fleet above the refinery. These bodies—these hands—were its shadows, its puppets, emanations of its vile will. There was nothing of the original flesh in them, as had been true of its brothers. They were no two alike, these vayadayan of the White Hand. The human magi who served the Cielcin had fashioned each according to its need. Iubalu had been a crawling horror, Bahudde a giant thirty feet high. This Hushansa was a ghost flitting between bodies, possessing one or several at will. Turning my head so I could see either creature by turn, I said, “I see.”fired

Kingdoms of Death, Chapter 3:42: The Red and the BlackSacrifice

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