Skathe
Names: Skathethe Dreadful SkatheGreat Captainthe giantessthe ogressthe houri
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 40 (2)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 41A giant female Firvulag Great Captain with glowing red eyes, in black-glass armor with gold; she opposes any Firvulag-Lowlife alliance.
- Ch 41Skathe is a giantess, also called an ogress, who praises Sharn's wisdom and describes herself as a traditionalist.
- Ch 41Skathe asks to keep the prisoner Tony for a while to test whether the Howlers are onto something.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 6Skathe is a Firvulag ogress Great Captain who shapeshifts into a seductive black-skinned, scarlet-haired houri to pursue a sexual 'experiment' with Tony.
- Ch 6Skathe learned that Tony's mine was a Firvulag target because without barium the Tanu cannot manufacture new tores.
- Ch 11Skathe, Ayfa's friend, died mysteriously with the Worm near Bardelask; their half-sunken boat and bodies were found.
Connections
- member ofFirvulag
- ally ofKarbree the Worm
- member ofAyfaserves as vassal Great Captain
- friend ofAyfa
- related toTony Waylandgave Tony the golden tore
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 49Capture of the barium mine building
Pliktharn carries Homi across the lava under a mental screen; Homi shoots the Tanu engineers with iron bolts and plants containers in the lava, destroying the mine's last defenders.
- Book 3 · Ch 41Tony brought to High Vrazel
After a miserable journey, blinded and bound, Tony is delivered to High Vrazel, cleaned up by Skathe's order and brought before the Firvulag monarchs.
- Book 3 · Ch 41Tony's confession and the royal plot
Tony tells of the Lowlife aircraft in the Vale of Hyenas. Afterward the Firvulag rulers plan to tip Nodonn off so the Tanu seize the aircraft and attack Aiken Drum, for the Sword.
- Book 3 · Ch 41Skathe asks to keep Tony alive
After Sharn outlines his plan to approach Nodonn and the Gnomish Council, Medor offers to have Tony killed. Skathe, to the others' shock, asks to keep Tony and investigate whether the Howlers are right.
- Book 4 · Ch 6Skathe's first seduction interrupted
Skathe, disguised as a houri, nearly kills Tony in his cell at High Vrazel until Karbree interrupts; she decides to take Tony along on the mission to Goriah.
- Book 4 · Ch 6Voyage to Bardelask
Queen Ayfa redirects Skathe and Karbree to observe the Bardelask attack; they commandeer a riverboat and pilot on the Saone and travel downriver with Tony.
- Book 4 · Ch 6Tony kills Skathe and Karbree
After overhearing the ogres feasting on captives after the Bardelask battle, Tony finds a rifle in their baggage and shoots Skathe, then Karbree, dead.