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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

Answer: That the highest rank in the church was reserved for women

Toshida was Regent of Mercia, which was the highest rank a man could aspire to in the Church in the East. The absolute highest rank, called the Matrias, was for women only. This was a constant source of bitterness for the ambitious Toshida, but he kept his frustrations hidden.

However, Damien picked up on this during their interview when he told Toshida that a man could be the Patriarch of the Church in the West. The reason for only women having the highest rank was because the Matrias were really rakh, and only females could manipulate the tidal fae that provided the illusion of being human.

When the Matrias were killed, Toshida ascended to Patriarch.

Answer: He was thrown out of the Church service

Because Tarrant couldn't receive his form of nourishment while crossing the ocean, Damien had to provide him nightmares through the channel they shared. In this dream Damien was reporting to the Patriarch about his mission with Tarrant, which could be seen by some in the Church as unethical.

The Patriarch grew angry that Damien had not reported sooner and also about the focus of the mission itself, stripping Damien of his priesthood and throwing him out of the Church forever. Of course, this was only a dream for Tarrant's benefit, but it hit much too close to home for Damien.