Letur Anict

Letur Anict was a highly ranked member of the Liberty Consign of Merchants and the Factor in Drene.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 1, US HC p.38 While Brohl Handar was the Overseer of Drene and officially in command, the true power lay with the Factor.
He was a pale-skinned man with a strangely round face, light blue eyes, and lank hair so pallid blond it was nearly white.Reaper's Gale, Prologue, US HC p.24-26Reaper's Gale, Chapter 16, US HC p.455 He considered himself talented with numbers and had the mind of a bureaucrat. His actions were precise, intolerant of deviation, and almost neurotic when faced with messy circumstances. Every insult was grievous, and every failure was an insult.
The Factor maintained spies, agents, and assassins skilled in poison throughout Drene and the Eastern Army.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 8, US HC p.206
He wore silk robes. When in the sun, he wore a broad-brimmed hat to protect his pale skin.
He had a wife and children.
==In Reaper's Gale==
The new Factor was contracted to supply and accompany Preda Bivatt's expedition in the northern Awl'dan in the waning days of King Ezgara Diskanar's reign. The Preda brought two hundred soldiers of the Tattered Banner Army, a troop of thirty Bluerose light cavalry, and four hundred support staff to investigate a sighting on the coast. They discovered four to five thousand war canoes stacked off the beach, which Letur Anict quickly estimated capable of holding upwards of half a million passengers. The Factor 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.
Several years after the Tiste Edur conquest, Brohl Handar was assigned as Overseer of Drene. Handar quickly realised that the Factor was utterly corrupt, waging an unofficial and unnecessarily bloody war against the Awl to steal their lands and herds for his own personal wealth. At the same time, the Factor's alliance with Chancellor Triban Gnol and the powerful Liberty Consign kept the Overseer isolated from the Edur court in Letheras and his reports unread.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 2, US HC p.61-62 He was determined to find a way to remove Factor Anict and reassert control by the Edur in Drene. The Factor's downfall would serve as an example to others.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 8, US HC p.206 Rautos Hivanar, Master of the Liberty Consign, was also concerned with Factor Anict's activities, suspecting his ambition had lost its restraint and was no longer harnessed to reason or common sense. He sent his trusted aide Venitt Sathad to Drene to learn the truth of the matter.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 5, US HC p.119 
After a bloody slaughter of Letherii troops outside the Drene Garrison, Bivatt realised that legendary Awl war leader Redmask had returned from exile. One of Factor Anict's past schemes had been responsible for Redmask's original rise among the Awl. Anict had coveted the herds of a rich Awl tribe and kidnapped one of the clan leader's daughters to extract concessions. He adopted the girl into his own family where she soon became Indebted to him. On the day the clan leader agreed to relinquish his herds to remove the debt, the girl had killed herself. Then the Factor's agents massacred the clan, with only Redmask, the clan leader's young son, escaping. Redmask successfully waged war on the Letherii until his own people drove him into exile.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 2, US HC p.66-69
Redmask newest 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 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 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 ignored the order and secretly assigned Handar her favoured bodyguard, Gaskaral Traum, who eliminated ten of the Factor's assassins.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.665-667/707
While the Awl Campaign was underway, the Factor took Orbyn Truthfinder, twenty of the Factor's best guards, and multiple scouts to investigate the pass in the Bluerose Mountains where Fear Sengar's party had been spotted and where one of the Factor's illicit weapons shipments had gone missing. The Factor sought to capture Fear and Udinaas to earn a reward from Emperor Rhulad. He speculated that Fear had gone to ground with the rebel Tiste Andii of the Onyx Order and convinced Orbyn to lead his warriors to their secret monastery at Andara.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 16, US HC p.454-460 Once there, they massacred all of the monastery's residents.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 16, US HC p.458-460
By the time the Factor returned to Drene, the city had devolved into rioting and chaos as Tehol Beddict and Bugg's conspiracy to bring down the Letherii economy left Drene's citizens low on coin, overburdened in debt, and unable to purchase food and other goods. The soldiers of the understaffed Drene garrison met the unrest with violence and the mob's attempt to sack the Factor's home was repelled by his personal guard.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 19, US HC p.572-573/576 Venitt Sathad, who was an Indebted himself and sympathetic to Tehol's goals, assassinated the Factor in the name of the downtrodden before murdering the Factor's family and his heirs.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.708-709
==Notes and references==
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Category:Males
Category:Merchants