A very small man in a very large red fez; the Princess's spymaster, operations officer, and a man nobody has ever managed to surprise. His network of "little birds" (scullery maids, dock talk, things unspecified) produced Ilsa's prison transfer schedule inside a day, down to the escort roster and three ambush sites with commentary.
His hiring pitch remains the finest foreign policy in the campaign:
If my enemy make enemy of another… I make enemy's enemy good friend. Better you swim together than fight current.
Selected achievements: recruited the company over sake he drank himself, sang the Ballad of Tikiyama through a city on lockdown while walking fugitives past the guard, drove the getaway wagon at the pilgrim road ambush under his one standing condition, "no wolf", and offered his own fez to preserve a naked prophet's dignity. Standing next to the Queen, he accepted a royal compliment on the wisdom of dwarves with a bow. He was right to.