Bethod

Character from The First Law by Joe Abercrombie

The northern king who united the clans through cunning and Logen's violence — a schemer who used the Bloody-Nine as a weapon and then discovered you can't put that weapon down.

Also known as: Bethod, King Bethod

What They Know

• United the northern clans through cunning — the first Northman to forge a real kingdom
• Used Logen Ninefingers as his primary weapon of intimidation and conquest
• Employed Practitioner advisors and Flatland tactics — innovations that horrified traditional Northmen
• Defeated and killed by the Union-Northern alliance — his sons Calder and Scale survived him

Connections

• former_ally_of — logen
• father_of — calder
• father_of — scale
• ruler_of — the_north
• nemesis_of — dogman

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