Metal Guardians
also known as metal men, the guardians
A force of metal men who live on the Sorceress's island and capture anyone who sets foot on it. As Huck relays from his rat informant, they are completely indestructible, impervious to weapon fire of every kind, and relentless. Captives are imprisoned indefinitely and do not get an audience with the Sorceress; she is reported to consider anyone foolish enough to be caught by them beneath her notice. Getting captured deliberately is thus not a viable way of reaching her. STD:Tress:Ch 45
Known facts
- flummoxed-by-vinesIndestructible to direct attack but baffled by Tress's verdant cannonballs: vines wrapped them in place, their own instructions told them not to fear weapons and to call for support when immobilised, and when their support arrived already entangled they froze in place trying to choose among contradictory orders.STD:Tress:Ch 62
Events
- STD:Tress:Ch 58 A hundred of them stand around the tower in ranks, equipped with spears and shields, motionless as statues; let Tress and Huck pass without stirring.
- STD:Tress:Ch 62 Marched in ranks at the Sorceress's order to bar a landing; wrapped by the vines of Tress's verdant cannonballs and locked up trying to obey conflicting instructions when their own support arrived already entangled.
Backreferences
- summarySTD:Tress:Ch 45
- factThe Sorceress
- summarySTD:Tress:Ch 53
- factFort
- summarySTD:Tress:Ch 58
- factThe Sorceress
- factThe Sorceress's island
- summarySTD:Tress:Ch 62
- factLaggart
- factAnn
- summarySTD:Tress:Ch 63