Gaz

Gaz was a former fisherman from Darujhistan who lost his fingers when his net was torn away by something big beneath the waters of Lake Azur, leaving him only thumbs and rows of knuckles.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.158-162 Embittered, he turned to drinking and fighting, and ultimately to murder. He was married to Thordy and lived in a ramshackle house in a poor stretch of the Gadrobi District.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.867
Thordy's business selling vegetables in the market from their garden was their only source of income. The couple were unable to have children, and Gaz knew that Thordy no longer loved him. He told her he picked fights with weaklings to prove his skill and find some reason to live, but he really fought the biggest, meanest bastards he could find. He fully expected to die this way and did not expect his wife to mourn him.
He saw his wife as his rightful possession and was often infuriated by her failure to adhere to the rules this implied. He was also laconic in nature, seeing brevity in both words and thought as a virtue.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.341
The neighbour's dog, Nou, hated Gaz and barked incessantly whenever he appeared except when Gaz was drunk. Thordy thought it was because the dog knew better than provoke the man when it sensed he had bad intentions.
==In Toll the Hounds==
After a day's earnings left poorer by Harllo's theft of vegetables from Thordy's market stand, Gaz angrily marched over to the Blue Ball Tavern. He did not have enough coin for a night of drinking so he went looking for a fight in the alley behind it. Finding only someone else's wheezing victim, he stomped the man to death. He was immediately visited by the shrouded figure of Hood, who filled his head with the sound of flies and noted this latest death was Gaz's sixth sacrifice to his god. Despite Gaz's protests that he had no god, Hood told him to continue harvesting souls in preparation for what was to come. Gaz came to believe that killing was the only thing that could make the sound of flies in his head go away.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.145/158/160-162 The City Watch were puzzled by the nature of the weapon that left such strange marks on his victims.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.169 One particular Guard with a failing heart made it his personal crusade to find the bizarre killer.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.839
When Thordy began laying a pattern of stones in the space meant for her garden, Gaz was puzzled, but too intent on his nightly string of murders to question her.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.340-341 His crimes finally caught up to him on the last night of the Gedderone Fête when he killed Hanut Orr in an alley behind the Phoenix Inn. Realising he had killed a nobleman, whose death would attract more attention, Gaz hurried home to establish an alibi. Coincidentally, the guard with the bad heart was the first summoned to the crime scene. Kruppe pointed out the strange markings on the body were not signs of a foreign weapon, but the injuries left by a fingerless hand. The guard knew of such a man and raced to Gaz and Thordy's home.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.861-865
Gaz found Thordy at home amongst the garden stones and when he angrily approached her, she cut his throat. Without her husband's knowledge Thordy too had been visited by Hood and prepared the stones under the god's instruction. She named herself Mason of High House Death and thanked Gaz for collecting the necessary lives as Death's Soldier. He had unwittingly helped his wife's ritual to fuel Hood's physical manifestation in Darujhistan and his death served as the final step. After the god's departure, the guard appeared and Thordy claimed Gaz had confessed to the crimes, so she killed him. Then she asked for the reward.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.865-869
==Notes and references==
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Category:High House Death
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