Harrison

Harrison is a Mantis born on Vigam 5 years before Book 1. Not much is known about his early life, except that he lost his right eye when the Tatians launched an orbital bombardment on Vigam early in the war. Later in the war, after the Aurean Empire was conquered by Tate at the Battle of Awal Kabab, Tate himself took particular interest in Vigam, as that planet was particularly important to protect the nearby Aurea from an attack from the Aurean Alliance (a group of rebels in the northeastern corner of The Galaxy led by Weasel's old friends). As such, Tate drew all the Arachna clans on Vigam into his Shadow Haze, causing them to immediately become loyal followers of him. When the Mantis clan was subsumed, the hatred of the Tatians Harrison acquired from his eye injury was enough to give him enough willpower to resist the Shadow Haze. Even so, he was forced to serve in Tate's Army, but he secretly worked as a spy for the Burrowers, the single remaining group on Vigam standing up to Tate. Harrison's efforts soon proved mostly futile, as the combined might of Vigam's mentally enslaved inhabitants rapidly took more and more territory from the Burrowers, until they had only Caputus Vigamius and the Vardanian Wood remaining. Soon, Tate's forces had Caputus Vigamius completely surrounded, but they could not break through the city's walls no matter what they tried. Growing impatient, Tate journeyed to the top of the Eclipse Tower in the Lunar Cliffs and tapped into the magical potential of that location, allowing him to use Astral Rock to transform all of Caputus Vigamius's inhabitants to inanimate crystal. The only Burrowers who escaped this fate was the refugee population already in the Vardanian Wood. Once all the inhabitants of Caputus Vigamius were statues, Tate's army quickly entered the city and began using it as a base. Despite numerous attempted Tatian invasions of the area, the Burrowers always managed to hold onto the Vardanian Wood, the last forest on Vigam (Tate had burned the others in the north down in order to deny cover to the Hoppers, which were the Burrowers' northern tribe). Harrison would continue to serve as a spy for the Burrowers, relaying them information from Caputus Vigamius. After another few years of this, Weasel and his friends arrived on the planet, claiming to be new recruits for Tate's army in order to avoid capture. Weasel and his friends would often have Harrison assist them in various tasks all around the southern continent of the planet, but he would never catch on to what they were actually doing since he was not allowed to leave the city with them. Soon after Weasel and his friends help the Burrowers reconquer the Lunar Cliffs and lift the Shadow Haze on the Bees and Wasps, Harrison realizes who they are and who they are working for, and they all reveal their true motives to each other. Soon after, Weasel uses his Sword of Caliber in the Eclipse Tower to lift Tate's curse on Caputus Vigamius, restoring all the statues there to life, which in turn allows them to take back their city. Since Weasel and his friends needed a Dying Star Stone from Fort Rachias in order to cross the Starfall Sea to Vigam's northern continent, Harrison works together with everyone on the southern continent to take Fort Rachias. During the battle of Fort Rachias, Weasel and his friends meet Harrison's long-lost brother Holland, who was also a Burrower-sympathizing spy in the Tatian Army. Once Weasel and his friends take Fort Rachias, Harrison's role decreases as he remains in Caputus Vigamius while Weasel and his friends liberate Vigam's northern continent. However, when they eventually reach New Wathinai (the Mantis city where Harrison was born), Harrison agrees to be Caputus Vigamius's ambassador to New Wathinai. Once all of Vigam is freed from Tate's rule, Harrison returns to New Wathinai, where he lives in relative peace for the next year or so. After that, however, his new life is interrupted by Weasel and his friends returning to Vigam to ask for allies to help them sneak into Tate's Palace. After participating in the battle of Tate's Palace, Harrison returned to New Wathinai. It is presumed that this is where he spent the rest of his life after the war.