The Mayor of Hambry and Chief Guard of Barony Mejis. An elderly man with bony fingers, white hair, and a compulsive knuckle-cracking habit, he has become infatuated with the young Susan Delgado and arranged for her to become his gilly. He is vain, easily manipulated by his Chancellor Rimer and by Jonas, and oblivious to the conspiracy being run from his own house. He is murdered by Depape on Reaping Night.