Vayadan Bahudde

The Giant. One of SYRIANI DORAYAICA’s vayadan (generals), its servant and concubine. Converted into a half-machine chimera with the aid of MINOS. Commander of the vanguard at the Battle of Berenike.

Other members of the Iedyr Yemani (White Hand):

VAYADAN VATI INAMNA, the First Sword

VAYADAN HUSHANSA, the Many-Handed

VAYADAN TEYANU, the Unbreakable

VAYADAN AULAMN, the Wings of Despair

VAYADAN IUBALU, the Four-Handed

VAYADAN ATTAVAISA, the Blue

VAYADAN PELEDANU, the Opulent*

VAYADAN MUZUGARA, the Once-Prince

* Opulent and the Once-Prince are not official descriptors.

A hand appeared from the smoke. A white, six-fingered hand felt around and gripped the bottom of the arch. Then an arm emerged and a pointed elbow followed by the fingers of another hand that gripped the far corner of the apartment block. The world was momentarily silent, and I stood transfixed, stunned to realize that each hand was the size of fully grown man.

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A metal face appeared, and the terrible impression I had had of an infant only intensified, for it was bulbous and swollen, its huge machine eyes glowing like dying coals. It screamed again, jaws mighty enough to snap a man in two, and, with titanic effort, dragged its broad torso forward, shoulders scraping the sides of the avenue and cracking the archway.

And then it stood, and kept standing. Twenty feet tall it was, twenty-five. Thirty! A hulking monstrosity in black and white, clear cousin in design to the lesser giants that climbed the wall above, but greater than any I had seen. Greater than Iubalu, greater than the living failures I had encountered in the experiment tanks of Arae. Great almost as the smallest of our colossi.

I knew then with certainty that here was another of the Vayadan, the holy slaves that gathered round the person of the Prince of Princes, and facing it there in the square before the wall and the ascent, there was but one thing I could do.

Demon in White, Chapter 76: The Giant