Pormqual

Also known as High Fist

Supporting
First seen · Book 2 · Ch. 8

Pormqual is the High Fist in Malazan Book of the Fallen (Book 2).

Gender: male
First appears: Book 2 · Ch. 8
Books: 1

Pormqual begins as the High Fist whose incompetence has long been whispered about, his ornate armor a poor substitute for leadership. As the siege tightens, his fear becomes palpable, his pale hands fluttering like trapped birds until a war chief's tulwar removes his head from his shoulders.

Description

A tall, wiry man with slope-shoulders, his pale hands skittering across surfaces like trapped birds. He wears ornate decorative armor with a gold-threaded sunburst helm and the jewelled hilt of a Grisian broadsword at his side. His oiled thin face shows raw fear, his sickly bloodless complexion at odds with the magnificence of his warhorse and armor.