Grum

Grum was the Royal Engineer of Letheras and responsible for the construction of the Eternal Domicile, the capital's new palace complex.Midnight Tides, Chapter 6, US TPB p.153Midnight Tides, Chapter 12, US TPB p.298
==In Midnight Tides==
Royal Engineer Grum's work to complete the new palace before the day of the Seventh Closure was bedeviled by problems. Two of the building's five wings remained unfinished and were sinking into the clay beneath them. Their lower levels were also continually flooded with chest-high, mud-filled water seeping in from the nearby Lether River. The water defeated all attempts at pumping it out and was infested with uncounted numbers of rats.Midnight Tides, Chapter 6, US TPB p.151-152 At the same time, the building's unfinished central dome proved so challenging that four royal architects had commited suicide and a fifth had mysteriously died while trapped inside a sewage pipe.Midnight Tides, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.69
Grum hired Champion Ormly of the Rat Catchers' Guild to handle the rats, and brought King's Champion Brys Beddict to the flooded corridors to ask him for help from one of the Ceda's mages. Engineer Grum was also intrigued by a new company called "Bugg's Construction" that had had impressive success with shoring up similarly flooded warehouses near the Eternal Domicile. Unbeknownst to him, "Bugg's Construction" was owned by Bugg, the manservant of Tehol Beddict, and part of Tehol's plot to destabilize the Letherii economy. Although eager to see the job complete, Grum reluctantly turned over control of the project to Bugg and his crew, and the construction company's shares climbed frighteningly fast in the Merchant Tolls.Midnight Tides, Chapter 12, US TPB p.298Midnight Tides, Chapter 14, US TPB p.343 
==Notes and references==
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