General Janarle
One of Straff Venture's field generals; assumes practical command of the army outside Luthadel while Straff is incapacitated, and is the officer eager to assault the city once Vin is known to have escaped. MB1:WoA:Ch 49
Known facts
- swears-army-to-elend-ventureKnee broken in the snow before Vin with Straff just killed, Janarle inherits practical command of the Venture army and at her direction swears it instead to Elend Venture — making Straff's estranged son the new lord of the army that had come to take the city from him.MB1:WoA:Ch 55
Events
- MB1:WoA:Ch 51 Rides up beside Straff when the messenger brings news of the koloss attack, impressed that his lord expected it, and takes the order to turn the column back toward Luthadel at an unhurried pace.
- MB1:WoA:Ch 53 Reports the breach pattern across Luthadel's gates — Zinc Gate first, the northern gate worst — and asks Straff whether they should attack now.
- MB1:WoA:Ch 53 Reports that the city has fallen and that the koloss are weakened enough to take. Visibly shocked when Straff instead orders the army to wait and let the city burn for the atium's sake; Straff privately notes him as a man who will rebel once it becomes known Zane is gone.
- MB1:WoA:Ch 55 Meets Straff outside his tent with the report that the city is quiet and the fires out; later names the unknown second army of humans behind the koloss.
- MB1:WoA:Ch 55 Leg broken, koloss holding him under each arm, dropped before Vin in the snow. Hears that Straff is dead and the army is his, kneels, and swears it instead to Elend Venture.
- MB1:WoA:Ch 57 Drinks tea unfazed by Cett's pounding; argues that the Northern Dominance must be stabilised before any westward push, and that he wants to avoid ending up dead at the Mistborn girl's knife.
Backreferences
- summaryMB1:HoA:Ch 57
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- factStraff Venture
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- factGeneral Janarle
- factHarmony
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