Apsalar
Name: Given name unknown; took the name Apsalar in GotM, inspired by Apsalar, Lady of Thieves (GotM, UK MMPB, p.493)
Pseudonyms: known as Sorry while possessed by Cotillion
Age: late teens, DOB 1147-9 BS
Race: Human, Kanese
Appearance: "dark eyes" (GotM, US HC, p.75)
Further Info: A fisher-girl who was possessed, turned into a killer.
Recruited as a Bridgeburner.
Sorry, 9th Squad, a deadly killer in the guise of a young girl
GotM, Dramatis Personae
"'You're the fisherman's daughter,' the old woman
Rigga said....'Seen you and your dad at the market. Missing an arm, ain't he?'"
GotM, UK mmpb, p.13
"As she turned away to descend the slope and make her way to the main camp, she caught the girl's eye. A chill rippled through her. The sorceress stopped. ' You, recruit,' she called. 'What's your name?'
The girl smiled as if at a private joke. 'Sorry.'
Tattersail grunted. It figured."
GotM, UK mmpb, p.82-3
"I have a handful of images from my life as a fishergirl. Bargaining at a market for twine. Holding my father's hand over a cairn where cut flowers lay scattered on the weathered stones, a feel of lichen where once I touched skin. Loss, bewilderment - I must have been very young."
DG, UK mmpb, p.685
Appearance
"The girl's dark eyes slid to her sergeant."
GotM, UK mmpb, p.82
"Older than Apsalar. Perhaps twice her years. Same black hair, though'"
DG, UK mmpb, p.454
"Sheathed in tight silks, head wrapped and face hidden beneath a scarf, she was nonetheless worth a second glance, if only for the grace of her stride and the sway of her hips."
BH, UK Trade, p.17
"The recruiter's expression tightened.
Damn, she can't be more than twelve or thirteen...
...What's got her eyes looking so bloody old?"
GotM, US HC, p.44
This is in 1161 BS, making Apsalar's DOB 1148-49. So she is anything from 15 upwards in the main series.
"'The girl was young, pretty as an icicle and looking as warm to the touch.'"
GotM, UK Trade, p.42
"...the girl couldn’t be more than fifteen years old. The exception was her eyes, which held the dull glint of weathered onyx – they looked ancient, every emotion eroded away into extinction."
GotM, UK Trade, p.44
- the year is now 1163, which backs up the conclusion that Apsalar was born around 1148.
Apsalar as Sorry
"What frustrated the sorceress was that she couldn't decide who among the people surrounding her was the dangerous one. Something kept drawing her back to the young girl. But the child seemed only half there most of the time."
- Tattersail examines the Bridgeburners
GotM, UK mmpb, p.79
"The black man's expression was glacial, but she saw a flicker around his eyes. Looked like fear."
- Quick Ben fears Sorry.
GotM, UK mmpb, p.82
See Quick Ben's repulsing of Sorry.
"But what had pulled a seventeen-year old girl into the world of war? He (
Whiskeyjack) couldn't understand it -- he couldn't get past her youthfulness, couldn't see beyond to the cold, murderous killer behind those dead eyes."
GotM, US HC, p.259
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