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Rud Ellale

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Rud Ellale aka Ryadd Eleis  - Hands of Fire

 

A soletaken eleint, son of Menandore and Udinaas, living with the Bentract Imass.

 

Udinaas to Rud Ellale :‘You are Meckros?’ ‘Some. Letherii Indebted. Indebted. Mother and father. They fled to live with Meckros. Live free, freedom. In freedom.’ Udinaas gestured towards the ruined city. ‘Your home?’

‘Some.’ He took the hand of one of the women attending him. ‘Here.’

‘What is your name?’

‘Rud Elalle.’

Rud meant found in the Meckros trade tongue

 

‘Ulshun Pral wanted to know if you’re my father. I told him my father’s dead. I told him, no, you aren’t. My father was Araq Elalle. He died.’ (MT Tpb, p.429)

 

Rud Elalle was ten paces ahead of them – perhaps he could hear, perhaps not.

"Yes, they share blood,"  Onrack said, nodding.  "That much was clear when they were standing side by side.  And if there is Eleint blood in the mother, then so too in the son."

"Soletaken?"(RG)

 

Tell me what you see, Rudd Elalle, Ryadd Eleis – do you know those words, your true name?  They are Tiste Andii – do you know what they mean?"

"No."

Silchas Ruin studied the embers cupped in his hands.  "Just this.  Your true name, Ryadd Eleis, means 'Hands of Fire.'  Your mother looked into the soul of her son, and saw all there was to see.  She may well have cherished you, but she also feared you." (DoD)

 

Rud's Human form

 

the other was younger by far, thickly muscled yet nearing his companion's height.  His hair, hanging loose, was gold and bronze, his skin burnished by the sun, and he stood with the ease of the innocent.

The younger one bore weapons of flaked stone.  He was dressed in strange, rough hides.(DoD)

 

Rud's Soletaken form 

 A short time later, two dragons lifted into the darkness, one gleaming polished gold that slid in and out of the gloom in lurid smears; (DoD)