Sirryn Kanar

Sirryn Kanar was Sergeant of the Guard of the Eternal Domicile during Emperor Rhulad Sengar's reign. He was also secretly a lieutenant in the Palace Cell of the Patriotists and the personal bodyguard to Chancellor Triban Gnol. Born in Letheras,Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.750 he had a wife and three children, all of whom he was pleased to have live in terror of him.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 9, US HC p.235 His eyes were flat and remorseless.
Sirryn Kanar believed in Karos Invictad wholeheartedly and was a Patriotist through and through. The Invigilator brought peace and certainty to a world that Kanar had previously found confused and uncertain. Kanar thought his own motivations were simple and straightforward. He feared what he did not understand and despised what he feared, declaring an eternal war on all that threatened him. Those who did not submit to authority were the true cowards and his enemies. The Letherii Empire was under eternal siege from enemies within and without, and mercy towards its enemies was a sign of weakness. Enemies deserved to be expurgated, not understood.
He despised women and frequently visited prostitutes, who he believed secretly thought him weak and simple for securing their services. He was proud of his ability to wipe the smirks from their faces, and envied those Patriotists who interrogated women who were "bitches" like his wife.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 9, US HC p.236
Although he soon became Triban Gnol's favoured agent in the palace, the Chancellor thought him stupid and unimaginative--the type of person who likely tormented weaker classmates as a boy to compensate for his inability to grasp their tutor's lessons. He found the man eager to have faith in a superior.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 18, US HC p.526
Kanar detested the Tiste Edur.
==In Reaper's Gale==
Kanar was a key player in Chancellor Gnol and Karos Invictad's campaign to remove Emperor Rhulad from power. They slowly isolated the Emperor from his own Tiste Edur to be surrounded by complicit Letherii, thereby ensuring control for the Chancellor. Kanar led the nighttime raid into the quarters of First Concubine Nisall. After his men killed her Edur bodyguard, he ordered Nisall and her senior handmaiden brought to the Patriotists' headquarters for interrogation, while the other two handmaidens were murdered on the spot.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 9, US HC p.235-237
When the emperor ordered his parents, Tomad and Uruth Sengar, brought before him, Kanar burst into their private chambers with a dozen guards to arrest them. The High Priestess of Shadow sneered at Kanar, telling him to remember his place and threatening to kill him and his guards with the magic of Kurald Emurlahn if they did not sheathe their weapons. An enraged Kanar complied, but privately swore revenge. He was exultant when Rhulad ordered them jailed in the palace's dungeons and Kanar stripped Uruth of her cloak so that she would better suffer the chill of her cell.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 15, US HC p.417-420/437 Both later drowned when their inattentive jailers failed to note the rising waters in the oft-flooded dungeon.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 18, US HC p.555
After Adjunct Tavore Paran's Bonehunters invaded Lether, Kanar was appointed as a Finadd and Chancellor sent him to be his representative with the Letherii Army.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 20, US HC p.616Reaper's Gale, Chapter 18, US HC p.526-527/531 He met with the commander of the Imperial Brigade camped on Kravos Hill just outside the city carrying orders from the Chancellor. One set of orders directed Hanradi Khalag to sweep around the Malazan forces to attack them from the rear and pin them against the Letherii defensive lines. The other set gave the Imperial Brigade commander instructions to focus his attack on both the Malazans and Hanradi's Edur. Kanar settled in among the army's camp bristling with contempt for the army officers he believed imagined themselves superior to their palace counterparts.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 20, US HC p.615-617
When the 800 weary Malazan Marines formed beneath the hill as planned, Kanar sneered that they had only made it to Letheras because they had refused to stand and fight. The Imperial Brigade's sorcerers unleashed a ritual of Chaos upon both the Malazans and the Edur, but it was negated by the sacrifice of Beak's own magic. The backlash sent Kanar and the other officers stumbling. Then Adjunct Tavore's main force was spotted disembarking on the Lether River and the Letherii army scrambled to face the more dangerous threat.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.679/686-694
Malazan tactics and Moranth munitions made short work of the Letherii Army and Kanar barely escaped with his life. Terrified and unwilling to waste his life dying for his country, he stripped off his armour and ran for the city walls. He convinced a Letherii deserter to allow him through a postern gate before attempting to extort the man for sexual favours. The man drove him off with his knife. Unbeknownst to Kanar, Fiddler's squad had followed him and now had access to the city through the same gate.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.748-751 
Once inside the city, Kanar determined the safest place would be by the Chancellor's side. But when he reached the Eternal Domicile, the Chancellor had already been killed by Fiddler's squad. Finding Trull Sengar cradling the body of his brother Rhulad in the palace's arena, Kanar quietly approached from behind. He thrust his knife into the Edur's back and through his heart thinking, "The barbarian dies. As he must, for mine is the hand of civilization." Koryk fired a Crossbow bolt into his left shoulder that knocked him to the floor and left him stunned. Hedge, grieving over Trull's death, demanded Quick Ben send Kanar "some place with...with eternal torment." After agonising over the decision, Quick Ben complied and Kanar disappeared screaming into a dark blur. Afterwards, Quick Ben insisted Fiddler not pity Kanar. The Errant, tipper of balances and maker of widows, watched from nearby.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.814-819
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