Tiserra

Tiserra was a gifted potter in her early thirties who owned a modest home and workshop in Darujhistan and was the wife of Torvald Nom.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.856-857Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.192-194Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.1001 She was also an Adept who had some magical talent and was capable of reading the Deck of Dragons.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.193Toll the Hounds, Chapter 15, US SFBC p.610 Her personal wooden Deck was a Barukan version with a number of unique cards of her own addition.
She never did her best pottery work after a night of lovemaking, as if the essential something that fed her creativity had been used up.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.265
==In Toll the Hounds==
Torvald Nom fled Darujhistan after a dispute with the moneylender, Gareb, left him deeply in debt. Gareb had then hounded Tiserra for the money claiming the debt was hers as well until she hired an advocate to end the dispute. Still, he had his thugs follow her for months, suspecting she was delivering food to Nom in some hiding place.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.193
Years later, after his adventures in Seven Cities, Torvald returned to Darujhistan and began living with Tiserra once again. Despite the troubles he had caused her, she still loved the "damn fool", though she admitted to taking two lovers in his absence.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.193Toll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.266 Torvald infiltrated Gareb's estate and made off with the man's treasure hoard, bringing it home so Tiserra's wards could hide it from any mages Gareb sent to find it.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.146-151/194 He gave enough of the money to Scorch and Leff to pay off his debt to Gareb, promising that would be the last of his dealings with his two old criminal accomplices. Tiserra was not convinced and was unhappy when her husband revealed the three had taken a job together as guards at Lady Varada's estate.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.269-270Toll the Hounds, Chapter 11, US SFBC p.428
Torvald's talk of the strange happenings at his new job and her own sense that powerful forces were gathering in Darujhistan worried Tiserra enough that she performed a reading of the Deck, something she rarely did. The results filled her with dread. The Deck gave her a divination of the future with the card she made to represent Darujhistan (The City) at its centre. The other cards were The Rope, Obelisk, Soldier of Death, Crown, Knight of Darkness, King of High House Death, King in Chains, Dessembrae, and most terrifyingly another of her unique cards, The Tyrant.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 15, US SFBC p.610-612
Tiserra and Torvald had been a couple since they were seven years old and Torvald had stolen her away from his cousin, Rallick Nom. Torvald spent a lifetime of fear and guilt, worrying over when the notorious assassin would seek revenge. But Rallick insisted he only had admiration for his cousin's relationship and still loved them both.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.857-858 Tiserra considered the two men "the two loves of her life."Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.1001
==In Orb Sceptre Throne==
Tiserra's displeasure at Torvald deepened as he took an unpaid seat on the Darujhistan council. Her quick thinking decision to warn the Greyfaces not to turn on Darujhistan's gas flames before the Moranth's evening attack against the Legate likely saved the city from burning.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 18 Her pots, urns, and amphoraeOrb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 11 helped to prevent fires that did start from spreading during the assault.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 21
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