Shy South's stepfather - a quiet, gentle man with scarred hands who does the farm work and says very little and does not want to fight. Readers of the original trilogy will recognise Lamb. His real identity is one of Red Country's central dramatic ironies: the most dangerous man in the book is also the one most desperate to avoid violence, and the gap between what he is and what he is trying to be is where the novel lives. He is one of Abercrombie's most carefully handled characters.