Gaskaral Traum

Gaskaral Traum was a Letherii soldier "with faint threads of Tarthenal blood in his veins", and the favoured bodyguard of Atri-Preda Bivatt.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.665/666 He was a large man who could move with ghost-like stealth and possessed an uncanny instinct for detecting assassins.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.666
He had a gentle face and soft eyes.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.708
==In Reaper's Gale==
Brohl Handar was the appointed Overseer of Drene, but true power in the region belonged to Letur Anict, local Factor of the Liberty Consign of Merchants.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 1 Letur Anict enriched himself by confiscating land and resources belonging to local tribes.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 1 He deeply resented Brohl Handar, who intended to expose his corruption.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 2 
During the Awl Campaign, Bivatt assigned Gaskaral Traum to protect Brohl Handar while the Letherii and Tiste Edur armies jointly pursued Redmask and the Awl. Bivatt understood the political situation and felt certain that Letur Anict planned to have Handar killed during the operation.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 8, US HC p.206
On the eve of the Battle of Q'uson Tapi, Traum set up his tent forty paces from the Edur encampment and arranged his bedroll to look as if he was sleeping in it. In the darkness before dawn, he made his way to the Handar's tent and discovered an assassin looming over the sleeping Overseer. He dispatched the killer with his knife and carried him away with the Overseer still sleeping. Of the seven assassins he had slain on the campaign, this was only the third to get close to Handar. Traum thought the job finally complete, but before he could spirit the body away to his tent, he was ambushed by two more killers. He threw the body onto one while snapping the neck of the other barehanded. Then he kicked the first so hard in the head that it separated from his spine.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.665-667
Afterward, Handar was astonished when Atri-Preda Bivatt told him, "The Factor infiltrated my forces with ten assassins. All of whom are dead." Gaskaral Traum had made sure that Handar had no idea.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.707
The Letherii defeated the Awl, but before the exhausted army could celebrate seventy thousand vengeful White Face Barghast took the field. Instead of rejoining his own troops, a resigned Brohl Handar asked for Gaskaral's leave to fight and die at his side.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.707-708
==Notes and references==
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