Corporal Kalam, 9th Squad, an ex-Claw from Seven Cities

GotM, Dramatis Personae

"Kalam - you'd be Whiskeyjack's corporal."

GotM, US HC, p.114

"The third and last man, also black, slipped past the sergeant's left and for all his girth seemed to glide forward..."

GotM, US HC p.59, UK mmpb p.55

"Wouldn't take much to set him off, I think... The man was big, bearish, but she remembered his dangerous glide past her. Snake indeed, the man’s a killer, a soldier who’s reached the next level in the art of murder. Not just a job any more, this man likes it."

- Tattersail on Kalam

GotM, UK Trade p.59, UK mmpb p.80

"The assassins eyes were dark, penetrating as they searched her face."

GotM, UK mmpb p.82

"'Answers,' he said quietly, in a north Seven Cities accent, melodic and round."

GotM, UK Trade p.61, UK mmpb p.82

"She stared at the assassin's bearish face."

- Tattersail observes Kalam

GotM, UK mmpb p.82

"...was the horn-handled, silver-pommeled long-knives tucked into the man's narrow belt. Those weapons were anything but southern, and stamped on the pommels was a cross-hatched pattern, recognizable to all with the trade as the mark of an assassin."

GotM, US HC, p.284

'Kalam. He was a Falah'dan's Dagger, and the Claw gave him command of a Hand. Kalam's a master assassin...'

DG, UK MMPB, p.63

'Kalam was recruited into the Claw...That's rare.'

DG, UK MMPB, p.369

"'You're not averse to partnerships, are you? There was Quick Ben and before that, Porthal K'nastra - from your early pre-Imperial days in Karaschimesh.'"