Lady Kliss
A minor noblewoman whose performance of inept court gossip is the cover. Kliss is a paid informant who trades the rumours other houses bring her for higher-value secrets — she has been feeding Vin's planted misinformation back to interested parties from the start. MB1:TFE:Ch 30
A minor noblewoman of small fashion sense and a substantial appetite for court gossip. Vin has come to keep her in conversation because she reliably knows things before the other courts do. MB1:TFE:Ch 23 superseded at MB1:TFE:Ch 30
Events
- MB1:TFE:Ch 23 Holds court over Vin's conversation table with a long-running theory about who killed whom in the running Tekiel-Geffenry feud, and lets slip that the Inquisitors have just hit another skaa thieving den — this one not far from Clubs's shop.
- MB1:TFE:Ch 28 Eagerly accepts Vin's planted hint that House Hasting is preparing to bolt Luthadel, and hurries off to spread the rumour.
- MB1:TFE:Ch 30 Drops the gossip act on the balcony, identifies herself as a paid informant, and trades the Elariel assassination plan against Elend for a sapphire necklace.
Backreferences
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 23
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 28
- summaryMB1:TFE:Ch 30
- summaryMB1:WoA:Ch 36