Archai

"The inhabitants of Tegma were what Cassarion's Manuscript calls the Archai!"

Lord of the Isles 1997

Sharina's flash of anger felt good after the hours of formless dread as she watched the Archai preparing to overwhelm the citadel.

Lord of the Isles 1997

The pole was untouched, but roaches and other insects prowling crevices in the bark blackened and died just as the Archai did.

Lord of the Isles 1997

They could clear at least one building for defense before the Archai within reached their full lethal vitality ....

Lord of the Isles 1997

The end was chipped square as neatly as a skilled man could have done with a broadaxe and unlimited time, but Sharina had seen the Archai use no tools save their own forelimbs.

Lord of the Isles 1997

They wavered in the windless air as hundreds of Archai, with the mindless precision of a school of fish, thrust with limbs and long poles to tilt them toward the citadel.

Lord of the Isles 1997

When the Archai had the trunks vertical, they would topple them onto the citadel.

Lord of the Isles 1997

The wizard's voice drifted down to the battlements where Sharina stood watching the Archai prepare to attack the citadel.

Lord of the Isles 1997

The only door into the citadel was guarded by the seventeen surviving Blood Eagles: armor and better weaponry meant that a much higher percentage of soldiers than sailors had lived through the chaos of the first few minutes after the Archai appeared.

Lord of the Isles 1997

Three Archai stepped out of the trees in front of them.

Lord of the Isles 1997