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'''''The Many Colored Land ''''' ("The Many Coloured Land" in the UK) is the first book of the [[Saga of the Pliocene Exile]] (or the ''Saga of the [[Exiles]]'' in the UK) by American author [[Julian May]]. It sets the series up by introducing the story of each of the characters. The main purpose of the book is to provide information for the rest of the series, only beginning the main storyline in its final part.
 
'''''The Many Colored Land ''''' ("The Many Coloured Land" in the UK) is the first book of the [[Saga of the Pliocene Exile]] (or the ''Saga of the [[Exiles]]'' in the UK) by American author [[Julian May]]. It sets the series up by introducing the story of each of the characters. The main purpose of the book is to provide information for the rest of the series, only beginning the main storyline in its final part.
   

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The Many Colored Land ("The Many Coloured Land" in the UK) is the first book of the Saga of the Pliocene Exile (or the Saga of the Exiles in the UK) by American author Julian May. It sets the series up by introducing the story of each of the characters. The main purpose of the book is to provide information for the rest of the series, only beginning the main storyline in its final part.

Characters

Galactic Milieu

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Théo Guderian
Angélique Guderian
See Madame Guderian below.

Human Exiles

Group Green

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Elizabeth Orme

Elizabeth was a talented metapsychic practitioner on the human colonized planet Denali, but suffered severe injuries which resulted in the loss of her metafaculties. Unable to cope with the trauma of this, she traveled to the Pliocene hoping to travel freely in a hot air balloon. But in an ironic twist, the shock of time travel caused her operant powers to return. The Tanu race regard her with awe as no other metapsychic operants have come through the gate in recent memory, and treat her as something of a celebrity.

Aiken Drum

A persistent troublemaker, young Aiken Drum refused to be bent to the will of society. Offered the choice of incarceration, docilization or euthanasia, he instead chose Exile to the Pliocene. Always landing on his feet, his quick wits and schemes earned him respect from his fellow time travelers, and his latent metapsychic abilities earned him a silver torc from the Tanu. But a greater future lies ahead for this maverick Scot.

Felice Landry

Felice starts the book as a tremendously talented athlete, with apparently superhuman strength and forceful personality. She chooses to go into Exile when she is banned from her sport, two other players accused her of deliberately hurting them. In Exile, she discovers her powers are stronger than she had previously expected but refused to be taken by the Tanu. Later in the book, Felice joins the Lowlives helping them discover that 'Blood-Metal' (aka iron) can kill the 'Exotics'. She is determined to get a gold torc throughout the book, confident that it will make her powerful enough to take on the Tanu.

Richard Voorhees

Richard is an ex-spacer who came to Pliocene after being sued by a space crew who he refused to help while on a mission for a client. Richard tries to act tough throughout the book and often refuses to help other people, especially the Lowlives, but always comes through for them in the end. Richard is most notable in the book for killing the first Tanu to die in the book, in the process discovering iron to be a potent weapon against them. As an all-around navigator, he helps the Lowlives find the Ship's Grave which may be the key to freeing Pliocene humanity from the Tanu. He also flies the aircraft at the end of the book being the only one with enough experience to work out how.

Results from Lady Epone's metapsychic testing at Castle Gateway (all latent):

  • Creation +2.5
  • Coercion -2.5
  • Psychokinesis -7.0
  • Farsensing -6.0
  • Redaction -1.0
Bryan Grenfell

Bryan works as an anthropologist in the Galactic Milieu but goes into Exile in pursuit of his love, Mercy. When he arrives in the Many Colored Land, due to his scientific expertise, he is regarded as special by the Tanu, who allow him to work bareneck, without a torc, while he is there.

In the time where Bryan is the main view-point he often quotes There is a lady sweet and kind by Thomas Ford:

There is a lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleas'd my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.
Stein Oleson

Big and strong with blonde hair, he is a former crust driller and engineer for advance energy tunnels that criss-cross Galactic Milieu er earth. He brought a steel axe with him to the Pliocene and is dressed as a viking. He's not quite sure why he went to Exile, but has an adventurous spirit.

Claude Majewski

A 133 year old Polish widower with silver gray hair, no other body hair, and a proper build. Looks about 50 years old and is an exopaleontologist. Enjoys long mountain hikes. Met Sister Roccaro while she was caring for his dying wife.

Amerie Roccaro

Sister Roccaro is 37 years old and a solid posture. She is a long time hospice caregiver who longs for the hermit-like asceticism of the long past. She joins Claude hoping to find an isolated place even farther in the past.

Results from Lady Epone's metapsychic testing at Castle Gateway (all latent):

  • Creation +3.5
  • Coercion -3.0
  • Psychokinesis -7.0
  • Farsensing -7.0
  • Redaction -7.0

Group Yellow

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Sukey

An intelligent woman, but shy and lacking confidence. She is 27, has a strong will, and is kind. She has strong latent abilities. She has some anachronistic beliefs that she hopes to confirm in the Pliocene, but maybe sees it as an overly romantic and unrealistic utopia.

Other humans

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Madame Guderian

Widow of the late Théo Guderian, inventor of the time gate to the Pliocene epoch. Longtime host to the Auberge that prepared would be time travelers for their journey into Exile. Eventually she herself passed through gate herself and becomes the leader of the Lowlives.

Peopeo Moxmox Burke

The last chief of the Wallawalla tribe. Almost as big as Stein, probably 40 years old, grey hair and a red skin. He used to be the judge of the highcourt in the state of Washington. He takes the role of the military leader and strategist for the Lowlives. He is (in the Pliocene) the leader of the Paskudnyaks.

Basil Wimborne

Someone who shares the love of the high wilderness with Claude in the Pliocene. He is locked with Claude and Richard in a guarded section of the Castle after they arrived in the Pliocene. He looks like a mountaineer, has an elongated face, ash colored hair and grey eyes.

Dougal

A robust (French?) man with a beard and hollow eyes in beautiful knight armor featuring a golden lion. He presumably lost his mind during the transfer to the Pliocene and presents himself as genuinely believing he is a medieval knight.

Raimo

A rope colored man with a silver band. He wears a flannel shirt, a black pants and lumberjack boots. He builds a friendship with Aiken.

Yosh

Japanese man who is a self-style ronin and wears armor and weaponry of medieval Japan.

Khalid Khan

A weak-build man from Pakistan with fiery eyes and beard. He is a smith and under Peopeo Burke's command.

Martha

Big woman with black hair and a tired look. She had four pregnancies for the Tanu until she tried to kill herself, inadvertently escaping in the attempt.

Stephanko

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Calistro

5 year old goat herder in the refugee camp.

Sigmund

Member of Paskudnyaks. Posture of a man with low fat percentage and hair like a broom.

Denny

Member of Paskudnyaks with a dark skintone.

Langstone

Member of Paskudnyaks.

Gert

Member of Paskudnyaks.

Smokey

Member of Paskudnyaks. Skinny with sharp-lined facial features.

Homi

Member of Paskudnyaks. He comes from Singapore and has bow legs.

Uwe Goldenzopf

Commandant of Paskudnyaks.

Frankie

Eyes poked out, castrated, hands cut off, covered in molten tar and driven insane by the howlers.

The Tanu

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Lord Creyn

Creyn is a kindly redactor, a specialist in healing, who takes Elizabeth under his wing.

Lord Velteyn

Aggressive and the leader of the Flying Hunt, Velteyn is the city lord of Finiah, site of the barium mine where the raw materials for torcs are produced.

Nodonn Battlemaster

Nodonn is a powerful psychokinetic and the battle champion of the Tanu, and the husband of Mercy, Bryan Grenfell's beloved. He is the leader of the Host of Nontusvel.

Lady Epone

Epone is the cruel coercive Tanu lady who oversees the transport of some of the prisoners from Castle Gateway, and also conducts their psychic testing. She is the first Tanu to be killed in the book, at the hands of her prisoners armed with iron.

The Firvulag

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Fitharn Pegleg

A liaison to and close ally of the Lowlives, Fitharn is a wise cohort of the Lowlife contingent and representative of the Firvulag. He often acts as scout in Firvulag controlled areas and acts a sort of diplomat between the humans and his people.

King Yeochee IV

Casual monarch of the Firvulag and a 'First Comer'. Not a giant, but savvy and powerful among his people. He has mixed feelings about helping and receiving help from the Lowlives.

Sugoll

Leader of the Howlers faction of the Firvulag, Sugoll is greatest in both power and grotesqueness among his people.

Pallol One-Eye

Grizzled and giant Battlemaster to the Firvulag. One of the 'First Comers'. Grudgingly accepts support from the Lowlives, but wishes their help was not needed.

Kalipin Scarecrow

A small ugly howler with thin arms and legs. Acts as a guide for the group of lowlives seeking audion with Sugoll and the Howlers.

The Rebels

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Marc Remillard

Mysterious and powerful leader of the Metapsychic Rebellion, Marc is only mentioned in passing by Elizabeth.

See also

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