Old Bear

Old Bear was a figure of legend amongst the people of the Iceblood holdings and lowlander homesteads of northern Assail. He was a valley hunter who seemed to be free to move about the normally fiercely protected holdings. He was rumored to have once worked as a hired spear for the Heel clan.Assail (novel), Chapter 1 When he chose, he could transform into a giant black bear the size of a wagon. He was the last of his shape-shifting kind.Assail (novel), Chapter 10 
Old Bear was a large, aged man with a ruddy, lined face.Assail (novel), Chapter 4 One eye was brown while the other was "frost white like an orb of ice."Assail (novel), Chapter 3 On his back, he wore the stinking hide of a great, brown, shaggy bear whose head rested atop his own like a hood.Assail (novel), Chapter 1
== In Assail==
Old Bear was in the service of the Sayer clan, when he recruited Orman and Keth and Kasson Reddin as Sayer hearthguards.Assail (novel), Chapter 4 When Jass Sayer was taken by Lotji Bain, Old Bear joined the Sayers in their battle against the Bains and their outlander hirelings. He lost his life protecting Orman from Lotji.Assail (novel), Chapter 10 
==Notes and references==
Category:Males
Category:Shapeshifters
Category:Assail natives