Bridthok

Bridthok of G'danisban was an acolyte of the Grey Goddess Poliel.The Bonehunters, Chapter 15, UK MMPB p.748/749 He was described as an old man with a murderous heart for whom ambition and lust for power seemed everything. He had an academic bent and was obsessed with cataloguing coins, especially those of alien, foreign lands. He hoped to one day release the results of his studies in a book called Cataloguing of Realms that he claimed would be his final glory of scholarship.
Bridthok loosed rumours about his death every year or so because he claimed it kept his many hunters off his trail. But Torahaval Delat suspected he simply took pleasure in inventing the stories.The Bonehunters, Chapter 15, UK MMPB p.734/735
He was a blood relative of Bidithal.The Bonehunters, Chapter 3, US SFBC p.120-121
He wore flapping, threadbare robes.The Bonehunters, Chapter 15, US SFBC p.605
==In The Bonehunters==
Apsalar discovered Bridthok's name among Mebra's secret notes after the spy's murder. Mebra had listed Bridthok as his nearest rival for leadership in the Cult of Rashan among those who had attended the cult's Grand Meeting. Mebra dismissed Bridthok's chances, stating he leaned heavily on his bloodline to the madman Bidithal and that other weaknesses would see him "eliminated from the final vote by misfortune".
As the Bluetongue Plague spread across Seven Cities, Bridthok and Poliel's other acolytes gathered at the Grand Temple of Poliel in G'danisban where the goddess herself had manifested. Bridthok spent his time sorting through the empire's treasury-worth of exotic coins left in the temple's coffers by pleading supplicants. After Poliel's mortal lover, Sribin, perished under her ministrations, the goddess summoned Bridthok, Torahaval Delat, and the other terrified acolytes to her presence so she could choose another.The Bonehunters, Chapter 15, US SFBC p.604-605/615-616
Poliel chose Torahaval, much to the other acolytes' relief. But before the goddess could fully claim the woman, they were interrupted by the entrance of Ganoes Paran. The Master of the Deck stepped past Bridthok and the two other withered and trembling acolytes, who each knelt under his regard. In the confrontation that followed, Poliel was killed and her temple destroyed.The Bonehunters, Chapter 15, US SFBC p.615-629 Presumably Bridthok did not survive.
==Notes and references==
Category:Priests and acolytes
Category:Males
Category:Seven Cities natives