Character from The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
A sharp-tongued, hard-drinking woman trapped between her brother's violence and a society that offers her nothing — who ends up married to the Union's most powerful cripple and raising his secret daughter.
Ardee speaks in barbs — quick, cutting, and aimed at the soft parts. She's smart enough to see through every pretension in Union society and powerless enough to do nothing about any of them. She drinks because sobriety means facing what her life actually is. Her brother West beats her. Jezal courts her and then abandons her for a crown. Society offers her the roles of wife or ornament and nothing else. She's trapped, and her fury at the trap makes her one of the series' most compelling voices. Her marriage to Glokta is the series' strangest love story — the torturer and the drunk, finding something genuine in each other's damage. She raises Savine as her own, and the secret of Savine's true parentage becomes another trap she carries.
Pretty in a bruised, defiant way — dark hair, sharp features, and the look of someone who drinks too much and sleeps too little. Her beauty is the kind that comes with edges — inviting and dangerous simultaneously.
Also known as: Ardee, Ardee West, Ardee dan Glokta