Lyan

Lyan was a Shieldmaiden from Anklos, a city in northeastern Genabackis. There, she served the Batarius family, who had hired Caladan Brood to oppose the invading Malazans. As a child, she met Blues of the Crimson Guard.Assail (novel), Chapter 5 When she was older, she served under Brood himself.Assail (novel), Chapter 9
When the Malazans took Anklos, they removed the Batarius family from power and forced them into exile. The young boy Dorrin became king when his father died and Lyan was one of his bodyguards.Assail (novel), Chapter 5 
Lyan was tall with "thick auburn hair, pale, high cheekbones, [a] slim but athletic build, an old scar across her right cheek from a blade." She carried a sword passed down from her father and grandfather, who had both wielded it against the Malazans.Assail (novel), Chapter 5
== In Assail==
Before he died, Dorrin's father instructed Lyan to take Dorrin along on an expedition to the goldfields of Assail. Their mission was to build a war chest to finance an army to retake their home. Their ship wrecked on the western coast of Assail. Of the forty survivors, only Lyan and Dorrin survived the constant attacks from the native tribes of the Silent People. They met Kyle and banded together for mutual protection. 
On the shores of the Dread Sea, they were ambushed by fortune hunters and Dorrin was seriously wounded by a crossbow bolt in his left leg.Assail (novel), Chapter 7 Dorrin survived, but lost his leg from the knee down.Assail (novel), Chapter 10 
Lyan and Dorrin made their way to Mantle where Lyan organized a Genabackan troop among the army of foreigners there.Assail (novel), Chapter 9 She led the defense of Mantle during the assault of the Kerluhm T'lan Imass, even crippling one of them, before she was knocked unconscious by a blow to the head.Assail (novel), Chapter 13 Later, Dorrin was evacuated from Mantle on the Resolute along with an escort of Blue Shields. Lyan remained behind, but they were expected to be reunited in Elingarth.Assail (novel), Chapter 14
==Notes and references==
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