Thordy

Thordy was a vendor of vegetables which she grew in the small garden behind her home in Darujhistan. She was married to Gaz and lived in a poor stretch of the Gadrobi District. The couple were unable to have children and she felt worn down by age and hard work.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.158-162
Gaz was a former fisherman who lost all of his fingers in an accident on Lake Azur. Since then, he spent his time getting drunk and picking fights with people weaker than himself. Thordy knew in her heart that Gaz only held back from hitting her because her garden was their only source of income. She no longer pitied him and began to believe she would be better off if he was dead.
==In Toll the Hounds==
Harllo robbed Thordy's stall twice in one week to find vegetables to feed his family. This sent Gaz off angry that he would not be able to afford a night of drinking.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.145/158 After stomping a drunk to death behind the bar, Gaz was visited by Hood and encouraged to commit more murders in preparation for something to come.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.145/158/160-162 The City Watch were puzzled by the nature of the weapon that left such strange marks on his victims.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.169 One particular Guard with a failing heart made it his personal crusade to find the bizarre killer.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.839
Thordy too was visited by Hood in voices and dreams,Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.837/865 and under his instruction began laying a pattern of stones in the space meant for her garden.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.341 The stones were rubbed with crematory ash to keep their glyphs hidden.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.531 Gaz was puzzled by her actions, but too intent on his nightly string of murders to question her.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.340-341 His crimes finally caught up to him on the last night of the Gedderone Fête when he killed Hanut Orr in an alley behind the Phoenix Inn. Realising he had killed a nobleman, whose death would attract more attention, Gaz hurried home to establish an alibi. Coincidentally, the guard with the bad heart was the first summoned to the crime scene. Kruppe pointed out the strange markings on the body were not signs of a foreign weapon, but the injuries left by a fingerless hand. The guard knew of such a man and raced to Gaz and Thordy's home.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.861-865
Gaz found Thordy at home amongst the garden stones and when he angrily approached her, she cut his throat. She named herself Mason of High House Death and thanked Gaz for collecting the necessary lives as Death's Soldier. He had unwittingly helped his wife's ritual to fuel Hood's physical manifestation in Darujhistan and his death served as the final step. After the god's departure, the guard appeared and Thordy claimed Gaz had confessed to the crimes, so she killed him. Then she asked for the reward.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.865-869 Receiving the bag of coins made her feel as if she had awakened from a nightmare of decades.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.1000
==Notes and references==
Category:Gadrobi
Category:Females
Category:High House Death
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