Brechdan And Tachwyr

Having become familiar with the friendly Merseians on Dennitza, it seems a shame to return to the hostiles on their home planet. However, the Roidhun reigns yet. The feeling of menace is only slightly tempered by the fact that the viewpoint character is Tachwyr the Dark whom we have seen three times in conversation with Dominic Flandry. 

CHAPTER SIX of The Game of Empire mirrors CHAPTER THREE of Ensign Flandry.

"Brechdan Ironrede, the Hand of the Vach Ynvory, walked forth on a terrace of Castle Dhanghodan."

-Poul Anderson, Ensign Flandry IN Anderson, Young Flandry (Riverdale, NY, January 2010), pp. 1-192 AT CHAPTER THREE, p. 22.

"Banners snapped in the wind..." (ibid.)

"...mists and shadows...still cloaked the valley. Thus he could not see the farms and villages which Dhanghodan dominated: nothing but the peaks on the other side. Those climbed until their green flanks gave way to crags and cliffs of granite, to snowfields and the far blink of glaciers. The sun Korych had now cleared the eastern heights..." (ibid.)

"High overhead wheeled a fangryf, hunting, and the light burned gold of her feathers." (ibid.)

"...Brechdan presided over the Grand Council." (p. 23)

"Tachwyr the Dark, Hand of the Vach Dathyr, stood silent..."

-Poul Anderson, The Game of Empire IN Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, June 2012), pp. 189-453 AT CHAPTER SIX, p. 264.

Tachwyr addresses:

"...the Grand Council over which he presided..." (ibid.)

- from:

"...a towertop of his castle." (ibid.)

- where:

"...ancient battle banners snapped above him in the wind. The sun Korych cast brilliance on forested mountainside, broad fields and clustered dwellings in the valley beneath, snowpeaks beyond." (ibid.)

"A fangryf winged on high, hunting." (ibid.)

The fangryfs represent the Merseians.