Sirrys ban Irtuus bon Alaamac is a troll, first introduced in the story The Contract from The Benevolence Archives, Vol. 1.  He is Rhundi’s head researcher and a scholar of the Benevolence.  He is also a fairly capable gearhead, and has been able to circumvent Benevolence technology locks on more than one occasion.

Trolls may be the oddest of the races in the Benevolence Archives.  Trolls are limited shapechangers; they cannot change their overall mass or the basic arrangement of their bodies, but their limbs and bodies can change in length and thickness radically, and a troll can grow from shorter than a gnome to taller than an ogre in the blink of an eye, or extend an arm much longer than normal in order to reach something.  Further, trolls appear to have multiple personalities, and often a different body configuration may respond to a different name and act very differently than the same troll at a different size.  In Sirrys ban Irtuus bon Alaamac’s case, his “tall” form is known as Irtuus-bon, and is the form most people know him in.  His shortest, widest incarnation calls itself Sirrys, and is much more petulant and childish.  If he has a form that calls itself Alaamac, he does not use it very often.

My theme for this year’s A to Z challenge is my series The Benevolence Archives.  You can learn more about the series by going to the Amazon page for Volume 1 here or add it to a Goodreads shelf here.  

Previously: Rhundi.

 

Rhundi Tavh’re’muil is one of the three main characters of the Benevolence Archives series.  Rhundi is a gnome, and is married to Brazel and Grond’s employer.  She is a few centimeters taller than her husband– typical for gnomish females– and her fur is a few shades lighter brown in color.  She is fond of using dyes to alter the color of her fur, and is especially partial to the color green.  She and Brazel have fourteen children together.

Rhundi also owns the resort on Arradon that serves as the main characters’ base of operations.  As such a large part of her income is now legitimate, but she is the source of most of the jobs that Brazel and Grond end up taking.  She prefers to work behind the scenes rather than going out in the field herself, but is far more capable than most of taking care of herself when the need arises.  See the story The Contract from The Benevolence Archives, Vol. 1 and The Sanctum of the Sphere for additional details.

My theme for this year’s A to Z challenge is my series The Benevolence Archives.  You can learn more about the series by going to the Amazon page for Volume 1 here or add it to a Goodreads shelf here.  

Previously: Queris System.

The Queris system is the setting for the first part of the story Remember from The Benevolence Archives, Vol. 1.  The Queris system is not terribly memorable or important, composed of four planets, only one of which is named, around an average star.  None of the planets are terrestrial in nature and if the system is inhabited at all it is by either pre-starfaring societies or small groups who are not interested in being bothered.

My theme for this year’s A to Z challenge is my series The Benevolence Archives.  You can learn more about the series by going to the Amazon page for Volume 1 here or add it to a Goodreads shelf here.  

Previously: Prescott.

Prescott is the name of an associate of Rhundi’s who has been mentioned in several stories but has not actually appeared on-page yet.  Prescott has been both Rhundi’s boss and a business associate, and occasionally sends work for Brazel and Grond, most notably in the story The Closet from The Benevolence Archives, Vol. 1.  Prescott’s name implies that he is probably human, but no description of him has been provided.

My theme for this year’s A to Z challenge is my series The Benevolence Archives.  You can learn more about the series by going to the Amazon page for Volume 1 here or add it to a Goodreads shelf here.  

Previously: Ogres.

Ogres are the largest and strongest of the Known Races.  A full-grown ogre of either gender can stand three meters tall, and ogre males in particular are muscle-bound to a degree that well outpaces any of the other spacefaring races.  Ogrespace stands mostly between the dwarven and gnomish realms and Benevolence space, and it is widely believed that part of the reason the Benevolence have not made a harder push into the territory of the other races is that they are not especially eager to begin a war with the ogres.  Ogrish society is the most patriarchical of the Known Races as well, and male ogres tend to occupy most positions of power and make most of the decisions.

Some additional details about ogrish society appear in The Sanctum of the Sphere.

My theme for this year’s A to Z challenge is my series The Benevolence Archives.  You can learn more about the series by going to the Amazon page for Volume 1 here or add it to a Goodreads shelf here.  

Previously: Asper.

 

Third Sunday!  This week’s bonus entry is a character who ended up placing third in the available entries for “A,” behind Arradon and Angela. 

Asper is an elf and one of the main characters of The Sanctum of the Sphere.  Xe is slender and pale-skinned, and typically keeps xir head shaved.  Asper is talented with a wide variety of weapons and possesses some magical talent as well, although xe prefers to only use it when necessary.

Asper is a fairly high-level member of the Noble Opposition and is the child of Overmorrow, who leads the Opposition group that appears in Sanctum.

My theme for this year’s A to Z challenge is my series The Benevolence Archives.  You can learn more about the series by going to the Amazon page for Volume 1 here or add it to a Goodreads shelf here.  

Previously: The Nameless.

 

The Nameless is Brazel and Grond’s ship.  Brazel is the pilot (the cockpit is sized for gnomes) and Grond copilots and operates the weapons systems through a remote chair installed in his quarters.  The Nameless is only lightly armed, but is a fast and capable boat and has decent shields for something its size.

The most significant detail about the Nameless is its AI, generally called “Namey” by Brazel and Grond.  Namey is, to put it bluntly, a rude, sarcastic pain in the ass, and both Grond and Brazel have frequently threatened to reprogram him into something less obnoxious.  Neither have attempted to follow through on the threat, however, and the ship is intelligent enough to be aware of the implications of this fact.

If there is a story behind the Nameless acquiring its unusual name, it has not been revealed yet.  It has nothing to do with the author having been tired of naming things at the time, and was absolutely not a placeholder name that somehow stuck and now has to be explained in-universe.  Not at all.

My theme for this year’s A to Z challenge is my series The Benevolence Archives.  You can learn more about the series by going to the Amazon page for Volume 1 here or add it to a Goodreads shelf here.  

Previously: Malevolence.

 

The Malevolence, also known as the Noble Opposition or simply the Mals, is the closest thing to an opposing army the Benevolence has to worry about.  The group is only loosely organized, composed mostly of dwarves and those few elves who have escaped the Benevolence’s influence, and while some operate as a rebel military others are simply pirates.  The easiest way to tell the difference between the two is to see if they are offended by being called “Mals”; the more militant members of the Noble Opposition find the term pejorative while the more piratical Malevolence are likely to embrace it.  Despite their name, the Malevolence are not “bad guys” as such; the term was a natural side effect of fighting against a group called the Benevolence.

The Malevolence plays a role in the short story Yank and in The Sanctum of the Sphere; a number of characters, including the elves Asper and Overmorrow, are members of the Noble Opposition, and Overmorrow is effectively a general.

My theme for this year’s A to Z challenge is my series The Benevolence Archives.  You can learn more about the series by going to the Amazon page for Volume 1 here or add it to a Goodreads shelf here.  

Previously: Lady Remember.