the current head of the assassins' guild. he succeeded dr cruces after his death; before that he was his deputy. he is a kindly looking, distinguished old gentleman with white hair, eminently professional and seemingly unflappable. certain evidence suggests, however, that he was not always quite as refined or in-control as he is now. he was at school with havelock vetinari, where he was a bully and something of an imbecile, with a propensity for calling everyone 'scags', including vetinari, whom he also referred to as dog-botherer. thirty years' passage seems to have improved him. also, the fact that he managed to get on vetinari's bad side may have something to do with it.