C.S. Friedman Trivia

1. Who administered lethal poison to Anzha lyu Mitethe's parents?

From Quiz C. S. Friedman Novels

Answer: Zatar

"In Conquest Born". The episode of Anzha'a parents' murder starts the hatred-fascination bond between her and Zatar. Incorrect answers: Darmel is none else than Anzha's father, thus the victim of the murder; Ferian del Kanar is a half-Azean, half-Braxi unwilling spy; Ni'en is Zatar's lover and Mistress of his house.

From Quiz "When True Night Falls" by C.S. Friedman

Answer: Katassah

Katassah was the top male rakh under the Prince's command. When Jenseny's father visited the Black Lands, he sensed that Katassah was unhappy with the Prince's rule and might be a potential ally. When the Prince was driven from his body, he chose to inhabit Katassah's body, much to Katassah's displeasure. However, after the Prince was killed, Katassah kept up the charade that he was the Prince so that his people would have a leader. He also helped Damien rescue Tarrant from the sun.

From Quiz "Black Sun Rising" by C.S. Friedman

Answer: Rakh

The Dark Ones were originally believed to be demons that fed on their victims' memories. They lived in the rakhlands and were controlled by the Master of Lema. Damien and his group were hunting them because one of these creatures had stolen Ciani's memories. They were successful in eliminating the Dark Ones, but Damien later told Tarrant that when they examined one of the bodies, they found out that the demons were actually rakh, and that someone had evolved them to become Dark Ones.

From Quiz C.S. Friedman's "Coldfire" Trilogy

Answer: to train possible sorcerors in Jaggonath's Church of the One God

The Patriarch of the Eastern Autocracy of God's Church is not fond of Damien or of the fact that he persists in using sorcery, but is determined to use every tool at his command to battle the evils of Erna.

From Quiz "When True Night Falls" by C.S. Friedman

Answer: Because a rakh took over her father's body

Jenseny's father, Protector Kierstaad, had set up a controlled invasion on his Protectorate by the southern enemy, but his efforts failed and he was betrayed. He was killed and a rakh took over his body. When he went home, Jenseny, due to her tidal fae ability, was able to see what he truly was. This caused her to run away from her home in terror. Jenseny had never really been outside before; her father had kept her hidden all her life due to her powerful adept capabilities because adepts were murdered in that region. But, she risked it anyway.

From Quiz "Black Sun Rising" by C.S. Friedman

Answer: He swallowed the Fire

Senzei had always wanted very badly to be an adept; it was a hunger that consumed his thoughts constantly. One day when they were in the rakhlands, Ciani came to Senzei and told him that he could be an adept if he drank a little of the holy Fire that Damien carried as a weapon. This sounded too good to be true to Senzei, but what he didn't know what that this wasn't Ciani, but a demon who had gotten in his head and found his innermost thoughts. Senzei stole the Fire and swallowed the whole thing, which basically burned him alive from the inside out. As he died, he saw the demon come to feed on his suffering.

From Quiz C.S. Friedman's "Coldfire" Trilogy

Answer: he takes the life of a young boy whom Damien had tried to heal

Tarrant insisted that the boy's soul was gone, and that he was being merciful by taking the child's life. Damien never quite believed him, and the incident was the first of many sins the priest attributed to Tarrant.

From Quiz C. S. Friedman Novels

Answer: All the answers are incorrect

"The Coldfire Trilogy". Ian Casca was an officer on the first ship, but not its captain (the captain's name was Leonid Case). Much as he was preoccupied with the concept of the sacrifice, he was not the founder of the church, and, quite obviously, he lived well before the Hunter's times!

From Quiz "When True Night Falls" by C.S. Friedman

Answer: Children

The Terata were feared as demons in a region south of the Protectorates. When Damien and Hesseth were escaping from the Matria, they were captured by the Terata, and were astonished to see that they were just children. The Terata worshipped Calesta; the Iezu demon Damien and Tarrant were battling. Tarrant rescued them and destroyed the Terata, and he revealed that the Terata were not children, but very ancient people whose diseases were destroying their bodies. Calesta provided the illusion that they were children while their true bodies rotted away.

From Quiz "Black Sun Rising" by C.S. Friedman

Answer: The sun was too dangerous to him

When Gerald Tarrant made his transformation into the Hunter, he became a nightborn entity. Any sort of light, especially sunlight, was extremely dangerous to him and would kill him. This was why their group traveled at night, even though normally it would be considered very dangerous to do this. Yet when they escaped from the tunnels during the earthquakes, Tarrant wasn't killed when he had to stay behind and thus be exposed to sunlight. According to him, it was all "a matter of degree".

From Quiz C.S. Friedman's "Coldfire" Trilogy

Answer: he is really the Prophet, responsible for founding Damien's church

A thousand years prior to the story, the Neocount of Merentha (Gerald Tarrant) was known as the Prophet. He was a brilliant visionary who founded the Church of the One God in an effort to battle the evils of Erna. He succumbed to darkness and lived thereafter in a replica of his castle deep inside the Forest.

From Quiz C. S. Friedman Novels

Answer: Cain, the father of vampires

"The Erciyes Fragments". The book is in fact a companion to the "Vampire: The Dark Ages" RPG system and it deals with a mysterious manuscript supposedly written by Cain himself!

From Quiz "When True Night Falls" by C.S. Friedman

Answer: She fell into a ravine

Damien, Hesseth, and Jenseny had barely recovered from the effects of the Wasting when Hesseth sensed that something was after them. That something turned out to be hideous predatory scaled creatures that could smell their trail. Damien, Hesseth, and Jenseny hurried away and eventually found a ravine. They managed to get a tree trunk across the ravine to use as a crossing, but the creatures had caught up to them. Damien and Hesseth were trying to dislodge the tree, but the tree broke as she was standing on it and fighting a creature, sending her plummeting down to the ravine's depths. Damien and Jenseny were very grieved at Hesseth's death.

From Quiz "Black Sun Rising" by C.S. Friedman

Answer: Loremaster

Before her memory was taken from her, Ciani ran a business in Jaggonath called the Fae Shoppe. Her title was the resident loremaster, or archivist, where she did research and collected information. In addition to being a loremaster, Ciani was also a very talented adept, but when the Dark Ones fed on her, they stole her memories and her adept abilities.

From Quiz C.S. Friedman's "Coldfire" Trilogy

Answer: it is built over a fault zone

The Keeper of Souls was a woman whose obsession with power drove her to construct a castle over an active fault zone, using quake wards to stave off the earth's natural movement, while harnessing the tremendous energy of the site. It would be her demise, when Tarrant destroyed the quake wards and the castle collapsed around her.

From Quiz C. S. Friedman Novels

Answer: All answers are correct

"The Coldfire Trilogy". Riven Forrest was created by the alien Mother of the Iezu to replace Calesta killed by Tarrant on the slopes of Mount Shaitan. He inherited the Hunter's dark instincts - in one of the scenes we see him salute the portrait of Tarrant with a drink of fresh blood...

From Quiz "When True Night Falls" by C.S. Friedman

Answer: A knife

After that long and arduous journey, Tarrant betrayed Damien by making a deal with the Prince behind Damien's back. Damien and Jenseny were held far underground so that they wouldn't be able to work the fae. One day Tarrant himself brought them their meal, and while he expressed no remorse, Damien later found a sharp knife hidden in his napkin. Tarrant had also Worked the knife so that it could be efficiently hidden. This was the first indication that maybe Tarrant hadn't really betrayed them after all.

From Quiz "Black Sun Rising" by C.S. Friedman

Answer: His nightmares

The journey through the Canopy seriously drained Tarrant of his powers, and there were no humans in the rakhlands for him to feed upon and therefore regain his strength and power. Damien knew that they would need his strength, so he consented to Tarrant creating a channel between them so that Tarrant could feed on Damien's nightmares. Their plan did work sufficiently. After Tarrant was exposed to the fire at the House of Storms, both Damien and Ciani gave him blood so that he would live.

From Quiz C.S. Friedman's "Coldfire" Trilogy

Answer: Celesta tried to trick him into betraying himself, and he wants revenge

In the beginning of book one, the Hunter made a promise to Narilka, a Jaggonath woman, that he would never harm her. Celesta pretended to want to offer his services to Tarrant, and brought a woman as an offering. He tricked the Hunter, who almost killed Narilka. The bounds of his contract with the Unnamed forbid him from breaking his word, and would have caused his "death".

From Quiz "When True Night Falls" by C.S. Friedman

Answer: Jenseny

The way the Prince stayed alive was by taking control of someone's body when his present body became too old. When Damien stabbed the Prince with Tarrant's knife, the Prince moved quickly to the nearest body available, which happened to be Katassah's. The Prince wanted to use Damien's body, but Jenseny convinced him to use hers instead as he would be able to see the tidal fae. What no one knew was that Jenseny had snatched Tarrant's knife, and when the Prince moved into her body, she stabbed herself in the throat and used the tidal fae to bind him to her, thus killing them both. It was the ultimate sacrifice on Jenseny's part.

From Quiz "Black Sun Rising" by C.S. Friedman

Answer: Earthquakes

Erna was an extremely seismically active planet. Therefore, earthquakes were a very common occurrence and quite a few happened in this story. At the House of Storms, however, the Master of Lema had set up quake-wards so that no earthquakes occurred. She meant to draw the earthquake energy from them, but such a situation was highly unstable. Tarrant managed to cause the wards to blow, which destroyed the evil Master of Lema in the process. This action also resulted in a huge earthquake, decades in the making. At the beginning of the story, it was also noted that Erna had a frequent tsunami.

From Quiz C.S. Friedman's "Coldfire" Trilogy

Answer: she is a human that can see and manipulate tidal fae

Before Jenseny, our heroes have never encountered a human that could work the dynamic tidal fae of Erna. Previously, this ability was limited to native species of Erna, which accounts for the mother-child relationship that developed between Jenseny and Hesseth, a native Ernan Rahkwoman.

From Quiz "When True Night Falls" by C.S. Friedman

Answer: Trees

The Wasting's trees were horrible things that managed to survive in that barren land. The trees snared their prey by lulling their victims to sleep and then fibers from the tree would invade the body, thus eating the prey from the inside out. There were many skeletons as evidence of this, and this almost happened to Damien, Hesseth, and Jenseny, but Damien realized what was happening and got them moving. However, many fibers had invaded Jenseny and the matter was life-threatening, but Damien Healed her. These trees were how the Prince ensured that no one could survive the Wasting.

From Quiz "Black Sun Rising" by C.S. Friedman

Answer: Xandu

The xandu were animals that the rakh used for transport. They were very similar to horses, with very thick fur, five toes on each foot, and large horns. After visiting the rakh camp, Damien's group was given some xandu to replace the horses they had lost in the earthquake.

From Quiz C. S. Friedman Novels

Answer: Anzha lyu's DNA specimen

"The Wilding". The Braxana need their genetic pool to be improved, and the royal descendant of Zatar wants his children to be descended from the great enemy of their tribe and the rebellious leader of the telepaths, Anzha lyu Mitethe. She is herself long dead by then, as it is several hundred years after her escape and Zatar's ascention to the throne.

From Quiz "When True Night Falls" by C.S. Friedman

Answer: Pilot of the Golden Glory

Rasya Maradez was the very competent pilot of the Golden Glory, the ship Damien, Tarrant, and Hesseth traveled on to reach the East. Rasya was also Damien's lover while he was aboard the ship. When the Matrias were exposed, murderous mobs rose up and not only destroyed the Matrias, but anyone who looked "odd" and nightborn. As Rasya was paler and had lighter colored hair than the locals, it was inferred that she was murdered for looking so "foreign".

From Quiz "Black Sun Rising" by C.S. Friedman

Answer: Translator

Hesseth's rank in the rakh tribe was that of khrast, and she was a translator. She was one of the rakh who could speak English. She was chosen to accompany Damien's group on its mission, as the Dark Ones had attacked rakh as well. The rakh were Erna's native species and a complement to the human species. Despite the rakhs' natural hatred of humans, Hesseth worked well with the humans and was a valuable asset to their mission.

From Quiz C.S. Friedman's "Coldfire" Trilogy

Answer: Gerald Tarrant killed Andrys' entire family

When Gerald Tarrant sacrificed his humanity for immortality, his vanity drove him to leave one decendant alive to continue his family name. One condition was that no other could ever take the title of "Neocount," because Gerald was never "dead." Andrys brother did so, and so every member of his family was murdered but for the one man that most resembled Gerald (Andrys).

From Quiz C. S. Friedman Novels

Answer: "Feast of Souls"

Kamala, a talented girl sold into prostitution, is one of the characters of C. S. Friedman's 2007 novel, "Feast of Souls".

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