Henrik
Names: HenrikHenrik the Changeling
First appears in Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods, chapter 6 (6)
Appearances
What you know
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 6According to Wynne, the changeling Henrik drugs and tortures him to make him cast a spell giving flesh to Quetzalcoatlus.
- Ch 10Donut's sunglasses reveal that Henrik, the town's leader, is a powerful changeling hiding his true level.
- Ch 10Henrik proves Wynne is alive each day by entering a coded time on a watch twinned with Commandant Kane's.
- Ch 10Henrik sends the gnomes the reply Carl wrote via his pocket watch, and the gnomes abruptly cut off communications.
- Ch 15Henrik wants the ghost Quetzalcoatlus made corporeal so he can touch her and gain her plant-altering spell.
- Ch 17Setting off the watch's alarm shows Carl that Henrik is alive in the necropolis, in the form of a fish-like creature.
- Ch 25Henrik has not answered Carl's pocket-watch alarm since the first time, and his sister Juice Box is worried enough to go in after him.
- Ch 26Henrik and five other changeling principals lie dead on the Akula's bridge, killed by a very pissed-off Quetzalcoatlus.
- Ch 26Carl realises Henrik's team wanted to give Quetzalcoatlus flesh so they could touch her; this attempt was a fallback plan that failed.
Connections
- enemy ofWynne
- related toChangelingis one
- leadsHump Town
- family ofJuice Boxsiblings
- related toThe Gate of the Feral Godsholds a piece stolen from the dromedarians
- member ofChangeling Principal
- enemy ofQuetzalcoatluskilled him
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 10Henrik reveals how the collateral works
Charmed by Donut, the changeling Henrik explains the twinned-watch code proving Wynne alive and the gnome ambassador's inspections, giving Carl an idea.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Quest to save Hump Town
After the gnomes cut off contact with Henrik, Carl receives the quest Squeeze out the Juice Box to save Hump Town before the bombardment.
- Book 4 · Ch 15Juice Box explains the Gate of the Feral Gods
Juice Box explains Henrik's aims, compression sickness and the three-piece gate artifact, and Carl receives the Gate of the Feral Gods quest.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Signalling Henrik
Carl sets off the alarm on the mysterious pocket watch and sees Henrik, in an underwater creature form in the necropolis, confirming he's alive.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Henrik's body found
As the Akula is dragged to the sea floor, Carl reaches the bridge and loots Henrik's corpse, briefly triggering a Syndicate court lock over the gate items.