Gottlieb Mannfredstein

Gottlieb was only nineteen years of age when he had traveled to Lustria. The Eastlian watched in horror as half of his friends die in the poisonous air of the jungle, their corpses scattered like grisly chaff between the shore and the cursed temple of Ytzel Cho. At first he mourned their deaths, weeping as he and the handful of survivors had tried to hack their way back to their boats, but that had been before he was trapped by the lizards and brought back to entertain them like an animal in a zoo. By his reckoning, that had been eight years ago.

In truth, the Slann Chuptzl Qo had ordered Scar-leader Scythera's skinks to teach Gottlieb how to talk when the mage-priest had passed through ten years ago. In turn, Scythera branded the Estalian with neatly burnt, square hieroglyphs onto his tanned skin. These simple lines of branded ownership symbols run down the pallid flesh of Gottlieb's spindly arm, and the human's shackles carrying similar marks, a simple script that spoke its owner's name and rank.

Source

 * : The Burning Shore (novel) by Robert Earl
 * : Chapter 14
 * : Chapter 15

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