Character from Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
Adjunct of the Bonehunters, Ganoes's sister — a woman of iron will and impenetrable composure who marches her army into oblivion on nothing but faith that compassion matters.
Tavore Paran is the most divisive figure in the Malazan world because she refuses to explain herself — to her soldiers, to her family, to the reader. She sent her own sister Felisin to the mines, an act that looks like cruelty and might be something far more complicated. She commands the Bonehunters with an iron discipline that earns respect but never warmth, driving her army across continents toward a goal she will not name. Her soldiers follow her not because they love her but because they have seen enough to suspect she sees further than they do. She carries the burden of command in its purest, most terrible form: making decisions that will kill people she is responsible for, absorbing the hatred this generates, and offering no defense. Her march to Kolanse — to free the Crippled God — is an act of compassion so enormous and so unannounced that most of her own army does not understand it until the very end. She is the answer to the series' central question: what does it cost to do the right thing when no one will ever thank you?
Plain-featured by any conventional standard — mousy brown hair pulled back severely, a thin face without softness. Wears her armor like a second skin and carries an otataral sword. Her posture is ramrod straight, her expression a fortress. She is the kind of woman you would pass on the street without a second glance, which is precisely the kind of mistake that has ended careers and empires. Her eyes give away nothing. Ever.
Also known as: Tavore, Tavore Paran, Adjunct Tavore, Adjunct, The Adjunct