Bivatt

Bivatt was the Atri-Preda, the Letherii equivalent of a Fist, of the Drene Garrison of the Eastern Letherii Army. Although she worked to support Drene's Factor, Letur Anict, her first duty was to the Letherii Empire.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 6, US HC p.142 
When it came to war, Bivatt was prepared to do whatever was in her power to win. She was not concerned with any moral justifications for her actions. She also had supreme confidence in the Letherii Army's ability to defeat its enemies.
She was considered by most to be the next Preda of the Imperial Armies.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.776
== In Reaper's Gale ==
In the waning days of King Ezgara Diskanar's reign, then Preda Bivatt led an expedition expedition from Drene to investigate a reported sighting on the northern coast of the Awl'dan. She brought two hundred soldiers of the Tattered Banner Army, a troop of thirty Bluerose light cavalry, and four hundred support staff, and Letur Anict, the new Factor of Drene. They discovered four to five thousand war canoes stacked off the beach, which the Factor quickly estimated capable of holding upwards of half a million passengers. He could not fathom where the invaders had gone or how they had remained undetected in such large numbers. The Preda ordered him to have his mages learn every detail they could, while she quietly did the same with Ceda Kuru Qan's squad of acolytes. She did not trust the Factor and expected his eventual report to be filled with lies and half-truths benefiting his own interests.Reaper's Gale, Prologue, US HC p.24-26
Several years after the Tiste Edur conquest, now Atri-Preda Bivatt led Factor Anict's extermination campaign against the Awl to take their land and resources for the Factor's personal benefit. She was sometimes accompanied by Drene's new Edur Overseer, Brohl Handar, a man whose company she enjoyed, but who she thought hopelessly naive in his attempts to reign in Factor Anict.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 1, US HC p.37-40Reaper's Gale, Chapter 8, US HC p.206 Bivatt knew the Factor was deeply corrupt, but was not aware of the full extent of his illegal activities.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 6, US HC p.148-149
After a bloody slaughter of Letherii troops outside the Drene Garrison, Bivatt realised that legendary Awl war leader Redmask had returned from exile. She warned Handar that the Letherii would need his Edur troops if Redmask managed to organise his people against them.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 2, US HC p.66-69 Redmask's next act was to massacre a camp of drovers and their families, stealing thousands of Myrid and Rodara belonging to the Factor.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 6, US HC p.141-143 Bivatt prepared for war against the Awl by requesting additional troops from the Crimson Rampant Brigade and Merchants' Battalion to support those already in place from the Artisan Battalion, Harridict Brigade, and Bluerose Lancers.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 6, US HC p.149 
When Factor Anict gave the command to hunt down and destroy those who had killed the drovers, Overseer Handar stepped in to contain the scope of the punitive expedition. He demanded that the Awl be given a chance to concede, but Bivatt would agree only to the terms of complete surrender and enslavement. Handar secretly arranged to fund the expedition as well as accompany it with his own troops as a step in reasserting Edur control over the Factor. While the Overseer was aware Factor Anict had given Bivatt secret instructions for the Awl Campaign, he was not aware they involved himself. The Factor knew all about Handar's attempts to outmaneuver him, and ordered Bivatt to make no special effort to protect him on campaign. If the Overseer survived, he would be arrested on charges of treason and dealt with by the Patriotists.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 6, US HC p.148-149Reaper's Gale, Chapter 8, US HC p.204-208
Bivatt proceeded to march on Redmask's forces, overconfident in her victory and ready to face the failed Awl tactics of previous campaigns.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 6, US HC p.149Reaper's Gale, Chapter 12, US HC p.305 But Redmask humbled her at the Battle of Bast Fulmar, using the unnatural properties of Bast Fulmar to strip her Mage cadres of their magic and employing innovative battle tactics. The Letherii were forced to retreat.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 12, US HC p.325-337
Bivatt was chastened by her defeat and appeared visibly aged with strain. The Awl disappeared into the grasslands and she became much more cautious, refusing to send out a reconnaissance in force to find the enemy for fear they would be ambushed. Brohl Handar hoped she would return to Drene, but the Atri-Preda was sure that Redmask would soon lose patience and attack in a place where the Letherii mages would be ready to face him.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 16, US HC p.450-451 Her instincts proved correct when Redmask launched an evening attack on the prepared Letherii forces at the Battle of Pradegar. Letherii sorcery proved deadly and Redmask was forced to withdraw, but two-thirds of her mages perished.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 16, US HC p.451-452/473-479Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.668
The Letherii pursued the Awl to the mud plain of Q'uson Tapi for what Bivatt knew would be the last battle.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 19, US HC p.580 Redmask forced the Letherii to attack his position in the mud turning the battle into a slow and difficult melee. But the superior Letherii discipline and numbers finally overwhelmed the Awl and Redmask was slain by his own K'Chain Che'Malle guardians.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.679-686/696-697 Bivatt wanted to feel triumphant over the hated Awl, but she had lost over a third of her army.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.697 When Onos T'oolan's mysterious army of seventy thousand White Face took the field in the battle's final moments, she thought at first to parley before realising the Barghast were her enemy.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.706-707 
Recognising they were doomed, Handar boasted that Bivatt had been overly worried about the Factor's assassins in the end. But she shocked him with the information that she had secretly assigned Gaskaral Traum, her favoured bodyguard, to protect him and the man had quietly killed ten of the Factor's assassins. Bivatt and Handar wished each other a good death before preparing for their final battle.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.665-667/708
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