Lazar

Lazar [Lah-zar] was an Avowed member and standard-bearer of the Crimson Guard. He was a member of the Second Company. 
Lazar was a huge man with long black hair and dark brows. Her wore a mail shirt that fell to his ankles. Fellow Guard Shell thought him even bigger than Skinner.Stonewielder, Chapter 5, UK TPB p.267Stonewielder, Chapter 6, UK TPB p.287Stonewielder, Chapter 7, UK TPB p.347
==In Night of Knives==
The Mock's Hold garrison soldier Larkin claimed to have personally fought Lazar in Black Dog Forest during the Genabackis Campaign. Lazar supposedly injured him in the leg.Night of Knives, Chapter 1, US TPB p.20-22
==In Return of the Crimson Guard==
During the invasion of Unta, Lazar bore the Guard's standard as they marched down the Way of Opals towards the Malazan Imperial Palace.Return of the Crimson Guard, Book II Chapter II, UK PB p.289 He was one of the select few Avowed chosen to accompany Skinner and Shimmer into the palace itself where they found only Mallick Rel.Return of the Crimson Guard, Book II Chapter II, UK PB p.293-294 
==In Stonewielder==
Upon receiving word that missing Guardsman Iron Bars was a prisoner on the Stormwall, Blues led Fingers, Lazar, and Shell on a rescue mission. They crossed from Stratem to Korel by foot, running afoul of the Chase, a Jheck war band.Stonewielder, Chapter 3, UK TPB p.137-141 After crossing the Iceback Range into the Plains of Blight, they hired Orzu and his clan of Sea-Folk to sail them to Korel Island.Stonewielder, Chapter 5, UK TPB p.267 
When they reached the Stormguard fortress at Shelter, they infiltrated the Stormwall by passing themselves off as prisoners.Stonewielder, Chapter 7, UK TPB p.349 Lazar fought expertly on the Wall and was placed in the thick of the fighting. Towards the end, when the Stormwall was coming down around them, Blues and his squad made their move to rescue Bars. Lazar single-handedly fought two divinely powered Stormguards while the others fought Wall Marshal Quint and High Mage Ussü. Before the Wall came down they retrieved Bars, Corlo, and Jemain and Blues transported them all away by warren.Stonewielder, Chapter 12, UK TPB p.581-593
Once free, they sensed Skinner and his Disavowed at the Sky Tower. They raced to meet them only to see their former comrades disappear into a warren with a fragment of the Crippled God. Lazar and the others returned to Stratem to inform K'azz D'Avore.Stonewielder, Chapter 12, UK TPB p.615-619 
==Notes and references==
Category:Males
Category:Avowed
Category:Crimson Guard members