Claire's father, based on the real-life dastard Lord Lucan, loved her mother, until he grew tired of her.
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He then embarks on a round-the-world journey, with sojourns as a motivational speaker and a patient in an insane asylum, but in the course of several decades, he can never quite figure out who he is, hero or villain, dupe or dastard.
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She was a central figure in Geis of the Gargoyle and Stork Naked. She has a daughter by Umlaut. In The Dastard, it is discovered that she can reuse talents she's used before, after a long time has passed but the Dastard "unhappens" this discovery.
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The Dastard is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-fourth book of the Xanth series. The Dastard is a vile, loathsome man with the power to travel back in time. He uses this to neutralize people's joyous moments and if this includes removing the existence of sentient beings, so be it. Despite this selfish, amoral attitude, The Dastard finds himself involved with a cross-Xanth adventure anyway, with a woman resistant to his methods.
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Son and heir to Simurgh. He is being tutored by Che Centaur. He has dated Ilene, the second daughter of Trent and Iris. Appears in Roc and a Hard Place and stars in The Dastard, Swell Foop and Air Apparent.
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Sea Hag is the Sorceress of Immortality and a member of the first human colony of Xanth. On her death, Sea Hag inhabits and possesses another male or female body. The character is introduced in Golem in the Gears and given further explanation in Question Quest and The Dastard.
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To unravel the mystery of her Fate, Becka did as Humfrey bade her: traveling on foot to the statue of the dreaded Sea Hag to meet the man who would be waiting for her there, and offering him her assistance. But to her dismay, Becka discovered that the one who awaited her there was a dangerous, despicable libertine who called himself the Dastard. Once a common country boy, the Dastard had sold his soul to a detestable demon in exchange for the power to erase events and rewrite history to suit his own devious ends. Lacking a conscience and filled with craven self-loathing, he roamed the width and breadth of Xanth in search of anyone happier than he was.
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The term gavotte for a lively dance originated in the 1690s from Old Provençal gavoto (mountaineer's dance) from gavot, a local name for an Alpine resident, said to mean literally "boor", "glutton", from gaver (to stuff, force-feed poultry) from Old Provençal gava (crop). The word is cognate to French gavache (coward, dastard). The Italianized form is gavotta.
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He decided that he would rather travel to Freetown before making his own plans to sail to England. However, this proposal was rejected by the government. Kojo Thompson then came to his house and informed him that the governor had withdrawn his deal and now wanted Wallace-Johnson to stand trial. The activist claimed that the "whole arrangement was a hoax and a dastard conspiracy to round me up in a more serious charge" and suspected that Thompson was somehow involved in the plot.
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Written in arch, ironic style and containing a great deal of deliberate anachronism, it traces the adventures of a classic hero (Captain Benjamin Avery, RN, very loosely based on Henry Avery), multiple damsels in distress, and the six captains who lead the infamous Coast Brotherhood (Calico Jack Rackham, Black Bilbo, Firebeard, Happy Dan Pew, Akbar the Terrible and Sheba the She-Wolf). It also concerns the charismatic anti-hero, Colonel Thomas Blood (cashiered), a rakish dastard who is loosely modeled on the historical figure, Thomas Blood. All of the above face off against the malevolently hilarious Spanish viceroy of Cartagena, Don Lardo. The book's 400 pages of continuous action travel from England to Madagascar to various Caribbean ports of call along the Spanish Main.
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Hooker's "blood boiled, I felt myself a dastard; now I saw my advantage–I swore to myself I would smite that Amalekite Sam hip and thigh", (he was invited up to the platform and) "there and then I smacked him amid rounds of applause... proceeded to demonstrate... that he could never have read your book... wound up with a very few observations on the...old and new hypotheses... Sam was shut up... and the meeting was dissolved forthwith leaving you [Darwin] master of the field after 4 hours battle." Both sides came away claiming victory, with Hooker and Huxley each sending Darwin rather contradictory triumphant accounts. Supporters of Darwinism seized on this meeting as a sign that the idea of evolution could not be suppressed by authority, and would be defended vigorously by its advocates. Liberal clerics were also satisfied that literal belief in all aspects of the Bible was now questioned by science; they were sympathetic to some of the ideas in Essays and Reviews.
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Anthony's most extensive series, with 41 novels and growing. # A Spell for Chameleon (1977) # The Source of Magic (1979) # Castle Roogna (1979) # Centaur Aisle (1982) # Ogre, Ogre (1982) Ogre, Ogre was the first paperback original fantasy novel to appear on the New York Times Bestseller List. # Night Mare (1983) # Dragon on a Pedestal (1983) # Crewel Lye (1984) # Golem in the Gears (1986) # Vale of the Vole (1987) # Heaven Cent (1988) # Man from Mundania (1989) # Isle of View (1990) # Question Quest (1991) # The Color of Her Panties (1992) # Demons Don't Dream (1992) # Harpy Thyme (1993) # Geis of the Gargoyle (1994) # Roc and a Hard Place (1995) # Yon Ill Wind (1996) # Faun & Games (1997) # Zombie Lover (1998) # Xone of Contention (1999) # The Dastard (2000) # Swell Foop (2001) # Up in a Heaval (2002) # Cube Route (2003) # Currant Events (2004) # Pet Peeve (2005) # Stork Naked (2006) # Air Apparent (2007) # Two to the Fifth (2008) # Jumper Cable (2009) # Knot Gneiss (2010) # Well-Tempered Clavicle (2011) # Luck of the Draw (2012) # Esrever Doom (2013) # Board Stiff (2013) # Five Portraits (2014) # Isis Orb (2016) # Ghost Writer in the Sky (2017) # Fire Sail (November 5, 2019) # Jest Right (in publisher queue) # Skeleton Key (in queue) # A Tryst of Fate (in queue) # Six Crystal Princesses (in progress) # Apoca Lips (planned) Books 1–3 were omnibussed as The Magic of Xanth (1981) // Three Complete Xanth Novels / The Quest for Magic. Books 4–6 were omnibussed as The Continuing Xanth Saga.
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