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Kyan (name)

Kyan is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

  • Anselan O Kyan, 11th-century Irish noble man, a son of one of the Kings of Ulster
  • Chōtoku Kyan
  • John Howard Kyan (17741850), English inventor of the 'kyanising' process for preserving wood
  • Terry Kyan, British television writer

Given name:

  • Kyan Douglas, American actor
  • Kyan Laslett O'Brien, a music composer

Usage examples of "kyan".

So to the kitchen went Kyan, to stand, a sort of living clotheshorse, beside the hot range.

The best times got better when Kyan, in from the borders, joined them, trying to pass off one outrageous story after another as Reorxs own truth.

Father, if you give the wit-craft to convince Hornfel to allow me to accompany Kyan and Piper, I swear by Stormblade itself that I will ward it well and carry it home.

Hed heard reports of the war from Kyan and his fellows who walked the border patrol along the western edge of the dwarven holdings.

When word is brought back to Thorbardin that Kyan Red-axe is dead, a king regent will mourn for you.

Realgars guards had ambushed them while he, Kyan, and Stanach were hardly more than a shimmering of the transport spell in the air.

Piper smoothed the dark leather jerkin over the breeched and bloodstained mail shirt that had failed to protect Kyan Red-axe from a crossbow bolt.

Hed hear no more such lore from Kyan Red-axe, no tales of his adventures.

But these were no worse than the odors in some of the taverns he and Kyan had frequented in Thorbardin.

He thought of his fey mage Jordy and wondered where the mage was now, and if he, Kyan Red-axe, and Isarns apprentice, Stanach, were still alive.

But, he was waiting here, and seems to have been since we first did battle with him and killed Kyan Red-axe.

His palm on Pipers chest, he felt for the rise and fall of life as he had when he crouched in the dusty road beside Kyan Red-axe five days ago.

He did say that Kyan Red-axe was his cousin, but, somehow, I never thought of him having kin, or being connected to anything other than his wretched Kingsword.

Stanach who never ventured outside Thorbardin, but stayed close to his home and family, as most dwarves did, would willingly place his life and safety in Kyans hands.

Kingsword was said to be, crimson as the blood for which dead Kyans axe had been named.