"Black Sun Rising" by C.S. Friedman Quiz

Answer: Rakh

The Dark Ones were originally believed to be demons that fed on their victims' memories. They lived in the rakhlands and were controlled by the Master of Lema. Damien and his group were hunting them because one of these creatures had stolen Ciani's memories.

They were successful in eliminating the Dark Ones, but Damien later told Tarrant that when they examined one of the bodies, they found out that the demons were actually rakh, and that someone had evolved them to become Dark Ones.

Answer: He swallowed the Fire

Senzei had always wanted very badly to be an adept; it was a hunger that consumed his thoughts constantly. One day when they were in the rakhlands, Ciani came to Senzei and told him that he could be an adept if he drank a little of the holy Fire that Damien carried as a weapon.

This sounded too good to be true to Senzei, but what he didn't know what that this wasn't Ciani, but a demon who had gotten in his head and found his innermost thoughts. Senzei stole the Fire and swallowed the whole thing, which basically burned him alive from the inside out.

As he died, he saw the demon come to feed on his suffering.

Answer: The sun was too dangerous to him

When Gerald Tarrant made his transformation into the Hunter, he became a nightborn entity. Any sort of light, especially sunlight, was extremely dangerous to him and would kill him. This was why their group traveled at night, even though normally it would be considered very dangerous to do this. Yet when they escaped from the tunnels during the earthquakes, Tarrant wasn't killed when he had to stay behind and thus be exposed to sunlight. According to him, it was all "a matter of degree".

Answer: Loremaster

Before her memory was taken from her, Ciani ran a business in Jaggonath called the Fae Shoppe. Her title was the resident loremaster, or archivist, where she did research and collected information. In addition to being a loremaster, Ciani was also a very talented adept, but when the Dark Ones fed on her, they stole her memories and her adept abilities.

Answer: His nightmares

The journey through the Canopy seriously drained Tarrant of his powers, and there were no humans in the rakhlands for him to feed upon and therefore regain his strength and power. Damien knew that they would need his strength, so he consented to Tarrant creating a channel between them so that Tarrant could feed on Damien's nightmares.

Their plan did work sufficiently. After Tarrant was exposed to the fire at the House of Storms, both Damien and Ciani gave him blood so that he would live.

Answer: Earthquakes

Erna was an extremely seismically active planet. Therefore, earthquakes were a very common occurrence and quite a few happened in this story. At the House of Storms, however, the Master of Lema had set up quake-wards so that no earthquakes occurred.

She meant to draw the earthquake energy from them, but such a situation was highly unstable. Tarrant managed to cause the wards to blow, which destroyed the evil Master of Lema in the process. This action also resulted in a huge earthquake, decades in the making.

At the beginning of the story, it was also noted that Erna had a frequent tsunami.

Answer: Xandu

The xandu were animals that the rakh used for transport. They were very similar to horses, with very thick fur, five toes on each foot, and large horns. After visiting the rakh camp, Damien's group was given some xandu to replace the horses they had lost in the earthquake.

Answer: Translator

Hesseth's rank in the rakh tribe was that of khrast, and she was a translator. She was one of the rakh who could speak English. She was chosen to accompany Damien's group on its mission, as the Dark Ones had attacked rakh as well. The rakh were Erna's native species and a complement to the human species.

Despite the rakhs' natural hatred of humans, Hesseth worked well with the humans and was a valuable asset to their mission.

Answer: A demon

Karril was a demon who was close to Ciani. He had helped her when she had been to the rakhlands before, but he couldn't help her this time. He also ended up telling the Hunter of the whole affair. Karril was known as the demon of pleasure, and he really wasn't a bad sort at all, despite being a demon.

Answer: Healing

Damien was a Healer, meaning he could heal people and animals of injuries and ailments. It was the only type of Working that the Church allowed and condoned, and Damien was a priest of the Church. Damien's healing ability was demonstrated when he healed his horse's broken leg.

However, Damien was unable to Heal as they reached the House of Storms due to the lack of fae to draw from, which hindered them all in many ways.