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)