Clod
A Lifeless soldier owned by Jewels — grey-skinned, grey-eyed, well-muscled, neither tall nor obviously unnatural beyond the absence of colour and breath. She purchased him made-up from someone else's Awakening and uses him as the team's freight hand. He tracks people with his eyes. STD:WB:Ch 19
Known facts
- saved-vivenna-from-lifelessKilled all three of the city watch Lifeless closing on Vivenna in the Highlands alleyway, taking a blade through the belly in the process. Vivenna saw, or believed she saw, an instant of human determination in his eyes as he set himself over her.STD:WB:Ch 31
- security-phrase-howl-of-the-sun*Howl of the sun* is one of Clod's security phrases — the override that overrules his standing Commands. Vivenna overheard Jewels speak it in the cellar after the Highlands raid; in the betrayal scene she uses it to Command Clod to strike Denth, buying the moment she needs to escape.STD:WB:Ch 35
Events
- STD:WB:Ch 19 Walks into the new safehouse with Jewels's bags over his shoulder, sets them down, fetches another, and waits in the corner for the next order — eyes tracking Vivenna when nothing else moves.
- STD:WB:Ch 22 Looms in the room during the interrogation, then silently drifts over to Vivenna's stool as if curious about her — until she snaps and sends him into the cellar.
- STD:WB:Ch 25 Stands among the D'Denir statues lining the garden until his cue, then steps out and breaks the carriage horse's leg.
- STD:WB:Ch 28 Falls into the protective formation around Vivenna as she crosses T'Telir between appointments.
- STD:WB:Ch 29 Falls in to make a protective formation around Vivenna as the group leaves the bodies behind.
- STD:WB:Ch 31 Stands guard outside the slumlords' pavilion with Jewels.
- STD:WB:Ch 31 Vaults over Vivenna from one alley mouth as she huddles between three city-watch Lifeless, beheads the first, takes a blade through the belly from the second, and dispatches both remaining attackers — including a final stab through the neck of one that tries to crawl toward her with a knife.
- STD:WB:Ch 33 Lies open on a sheet while Jewels reassembles him. Tries once to stand with his insides hanging out and is told down with the phrase *howl of the sun* — the security Command that puts him inactive, which Vivenna files away.
- STD:WB:Ch 35 Stands at Denth's shoulder until Vivenna speaks the *howl of the sun* override and Commands him to strike, at which his fist catches Denth in the face and throws him into Tonk Fah.
Backreferences
- summarySTD:WB:Ch 19
- factJewels
- summarySTD:WB:Ch 22
- summarySTD:WB:Ch 25
- summarySTD:WB:Ch 28
- summarySTD:WB:Ch 29
- factNightblood
- summarySTD:WB:Ch 31
- factVivenna
- summarySTD:WB:Ch 33
- summarySTD:WB:Ch 35
- factJewels
- factClod