Sand dan Glokta

Character from The First Law by Joe Abercrombie

A crippled torturer who was once the Union's most dashing swordsman — broken by two years in Gurkish prisons, now extracting confessions with the same precision he once used to win fencing tournaments, and hating every second of it.

Also known as: Glokta, Sand dan Glokta, The Cripple, Arch Lector Glokta

What They Know

• Was the Union's greatest swordsman before being captured by the Gurkish and tortured for two years
• Superior of the Inquisition — expert interrogator and torturer, later Arch Lector
• Lost most of his teeth, the use of his legs, and his looks to Gurkish torture — lives in constant pain
• Father of Savine dan Glokta — a secret kept from everyone including Savine herself
• Married Ardee West — one of the few genuine human connections in his life
• Survived the siege of Dagoska by making impossible choices about who lived and who died
• By the Age of Madness era, secretly controls the Union as Arch Lector behind the scenes
• His rivalry with and eventual defeat of Arch Lector Sult established his dominance over Union intelligence

Connections

• married_to — ardee
• father_of — savine
• nemesis_of — sult
• commands — severard
• commands — frost
• commands — vitari
• serves — bayaz
• based_at — the_agriont

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