It was said the captain’s adopted child – who at that time

was known by the unfortunate name of Grub – refused

the wagon on the march. That he walked the entire way,

even as, in the first week beneath the year’s hottest sun,

fit and hale soldiers stumbled and fell.

This is perhaps invention, for by all accounts he was

at that time no more than five years of age. And the captain

himself, from whose journals much of that journey and

the clash in which it culminated is related in detail, writes

very little of Grub, more concerned as he was with the

rigours of command. As a result, of the future First

Sword of the Late Empire period, scant details, beyond

the legendary and probably fictitious, are known.

Lives of the Three

Moragalle

(HoC, UK Trade, p.548)