Nogusta

Nogusta is the swordsman among the three old soldiers at the heart of Winter Warriors, alongside the archer Kebra and the wrestler Bison. He is a black man in the Drenai army, an outsider long used to prejudice, and fiercely loyal to the few people who know him well, above all his two friends and his old general, Banelion, the White Wolf. He wears a family talisman that sometimes shows him glimpses of the future. When King Skanda forcibly retires his older veterans, the three friends find themselves outside the army just as demonic powers move against the pregnant queen Axiana and the heir she is carrying. Nogusta's visions warn him that protecting her will cost more than he wants to pay, and he agrees to do it anyway. He is the most reserved of the three, and his past, revealed in fragments, is a hard one. He is also a master tracker, from a family that bred horses for the Drenai army.

Appears in

1. 1Winter Warriors (1997)Three old soldiers, sent home by their king, are all that stands between a pregnant queen and the demon riders hunting her unborn son.