Udinaas

'Thirteen years ago Udinaas had been a young sailor in the third year of his family's indenture to the merchant Intaros of Trate..' (MT UK HC p.50)

During a fight with a Wyval Udinaas became infected with it's blood.

'His target was the air swirling above her, (Feather Witch)the place where the invisible creature hovered. And when he reached that place he collided hard with a massive, scaled body. Leathery wings hammered wildly at him as he wrapped his arms tight about a clammy, muscle clenched body. He heard a wild hiss, then a jaw snapped down over his left shoulder. Needle-like teeth punched through his skin, sank deep into his flesh.' (MT UK mmpb, p.62)

'Another kind of blood was spilled across Udinaas's chest, gold and glistening still' (MT UK mmpb, p.67)

The Wyval possesses Udinaas.

'He could hear his heart now, thundering an answer to that touch. And another heart, distant yet quickly closing, beating in time. But it was not hers, and Udinaas knew terror.' (MT UK mmpb, p.67)