Onyx

Onyx was one of six board members of the Rat Catchers' Guild.Midnight Tides, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.375/387 The other members included Bubyrd, Glisten, Ormly, Ruby, and Scint.Midnight Tides, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.387-388
She was described as a roundish woman, "mostly a collection of spherical shapes, face, head, torso, breasts, her eyes tiny, dark and glittering like hardened tar." She had a mass of upright, billowed black hair that crawled with rats. 
Onyx disliked working with people who were always changing their minds.
==In Midnight Tides==
Tehol Beddict and Bugg approached the guild's board as part of Tehol's plan to crash the economy of Letheras. Amidst a sea of writhing rats in Scale House's boardroom, Tehol proposed a plan for the guild to move the city's tribal refugees to safety in the islands along with plenty of provisions. He also asked the guild to give him their findings on the city's disappearance problems as well as provide him bodyguards to watch his back. For this, he was prepared to pay a half peak with investment recommendations minus. The guild would also need to spend a quarter peak to cover Tehol's expenses.Midnight Tides, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.385-392
At the beginning of negotiations, Onyx reminded Tehol that he was the one who had wrecked the guild's investments during his initial foray into the Letherii stock market. Then she brought the guild's Chief Investigator Rucket into the room seemingly as a threat.Midnight Tides, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.387/389-390
Much like Glisten, Ruby, Scint, and the guild's secretary, she was quite likely merely an illusion created by Bubyrd, the guild's sorcerer.Midnight Tides, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.375/390-392
==In Reaper's Gale==
The Rat Catchers' Guild was one of the first victims of new Emperor Rhulad Sengar's regime after the Tiste Edur conquered Letheras. Karos Invictad outlawed the guild on his first day as Invigilator of the Patriotists and sent a hundred agents to Scale House. Scores of guild members were arrested, although all later turned out to be illusions.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 3, US HC p.84 While Rucket established the Guild's new headquarters in a tunnel system under Adventure Alley, Onyx set to work producing a set of sixteen lacquered tiles to Tehol's exact specifications.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 3, US HC p.87 The tiles were used in a devious puzzle box containing the insect, Ezgara, that Tehol used to torment the Invigilator.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 5, US HC p.122
==Notes and references==
Category:Females
Category:Letherii
Category:Rat Catchers' Guild