- Scrutator
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name = Scrutator
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image_caption = Australian edition cover
author =Ian Irvine
cover_artist = Marco Nero
country =Australia
language = English
series =The Well of Echoes
genre =Fantasy ,Novel
publisher =Orbit Books ,Penguin Books
release_date = 6 September 2004
media_type = Print (Paperback )
pages = 708 p. (paperback edition)
isbn =
preceded_by = Tetrarch
followed_by = Chimaera"Scrutator" is the third book in Ian Irvine's "The Well of Echoes" quartet. It is named "Alchymist" in the UK.
Official Synopsis
The node has failed, rendering humanity's battle clankers and the
Aachim 's constructs useless. The battle has been lost. Now hordes of alienlyrinx are swarming out of the tar pits ofSnizort , intending to fall upon the survivors and destroy them to the last man.Tiaan , crippled and unable to walk, is held prisoner by a vengefulVithis , who is determined to extract her geomantic secrets from her at any cost. For his failings, Nish has been cast out and branded a traitor, whileIrisis , accused of high treason, has been forced to flee for her life.The fate of humanity is dependent on the survival of one wily old man, Scrutator Xervish Flydd. But Flydd has been blamed for the defeat at Snizort. His enemy, vicious
Chief Scrutator Ghorr , has expelled him from the Council and stripped him of all rights. Now Flydd is condemned to die a brutish death as a slave, hauling ironclad clankers out of the battlefield mire until his heart bursts under the strain.Characters
Characters who appear in this volume of the series include:
*Tiaan
*Irisis
*Cryl-Nish Hlar
*Xervish Flydd
*Malien
*Gilhaelith
*Ullii
*Yggur
*Liett
*Ryll
*Jal-Nish
*Vithis
*Minis
*Tirior
*Chief Scrutator Ghorr
*Matriarch Gyrull
*Fyn-Mah
*Scrutator Fusshte
*Scrutator Halie
*Scrutator Klarm
*Scrutator T'lisp
*Great Anabyng
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