Vayadan Iubalu

The Four-Handed. 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 fleet at the Battle of the Beast.

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 BAHUDDE, the Giant

VAYADAN ATTAVAISA, the Blue

VAYADAN PELEDANU, the Opulent*

VAYADAN MUZUGARA, the Once-Prince

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

Bone-white and hulking, taller than any man and far broader it was, with hunched shoulders and a head lost to shadow. I could hardly get a glimpse of it in the sparse light, though where the light caught it shone with a fire like the light of stars.

For a brief instant, I saw the last of the three soldiers find his feet and bring his plasma rifle to bear. He stood etched against the shadow and his quarry, a pitiful small thing against the Dark and the monster that had emerged from it. His rifle flashed, and for a moment then I beheld the beast clearly. Nearly twice again so tall as a man and armored all in white, its legs bent like a dog’s, its arms—and there were four of them—so long they nearly trailed the ground. And its face! Its face! It wore a horned mask with a hooked visor like the beak of some evil bird, and beneath I saw the silver-glass flash of teeth and knew it had been Cielcin once.

One of those impossible metal arms caught the soldier by the ankle and pulled. He tumbled backward and struck the floor.

Demon in White, Chapter 23: Kingdoms of Death