Ghakin

Ghakin is a Towd Catai stationed in Bundlin.[1]

Appearance
Like all Towd Catai, Ghakin is far bigger than humans[2] and other mansthein. He has dark blue green unmottled skin looking like stone in the shadows, and long white stripes on his shoulder.[1]

He fight with an axe.[1]

Personality
Ghakin is generally jovial,[3] and, of the Catai in Bundlin, he is the friendliest to humans,[4][5] actively liking Slaten and Tani, and often playing prank on them and making harmless jokes about them.[3][4]

Ghakin loathe people who came to their position through social connections and bartering favors, to the point of leaving his home to go to Bundlin, far from the monetary side of mansthein society. He thinks these people cause more problems than they have value, and doesn't trust anyone who would smile at someone while cheating them out of everything, believing that if some were decapitated, their successors would heed the warning and change their ways.[4] Kolanin has won Ghakin's respect, as he sees him as a skilled leader, instead of the usual spineless administrators only there thanks to their social connections from the mansthein mainland.[4] However, Ghakin hates the other Catai in Bundlin, especially Rhuvab.[5]

History
Ghakin joined the army and went to Breilin because there he could escape the monetary side of mansthein society.[4] He was part of Bundlin’s garrison only for a short time before Tani came into the city, being the latest Catai who came to the city.[5] One day, as he was walking through mansthein Bundlin, Ghakin noticed Tani trailing him from the rooftops. After a brief chase, he caught her, and nearly killed her when she wouldn't respond to his questions, only stopped by Kolanin’s intervention.[1] A few days later, he was in the waiting room of Kolanin's office, arguing with Loravasik and Rhuvab about the human resistance, when Tani and Slaten came in. Amused, by Slaten's inaccurate use of mansthein titles, he taught him about their proper use, and when Loravasik asked Slaten some questions about the Hero and Legend, he keenly listened to his answers.[5]

Ghakin was part of the guard detail on Kolanin during his negotiations with Bundlin’s merchants. He was on guard duty when Slaten came in, looking to talk to Kolanin during a break. As a prank, he made him believe mansthein don’t have merchants and ignore the uses of money, before telling him a bit about his real dislike for merchants, until Kolanin came out of his office and agreed to see Slaten.[4]

He then was charged with securing a shipment coming via a Teralanthan airship. During the process, he picked up a conversation with mansthein warriors from the airship, which was interrupted when Tani hit him in the back of the head with one of her throwing knife. Initially enraged by the strike, he discovered she was nearly incapacitated by an intruder near the shipment. He struck at the intruder, but was surprised by his defensive arts, and the man managed to escape in the river.[4]

As he was leaving Kolanin's office, he ran into Tani, who had just came back from the trip to Keep Aryabaus, and made fun of her short height, as well as a joke on Rhen and Oken all looking the same to him because of their same hair.[3] Ghakin went with Tani to the Yevee meeting site as the leader of the mansthein soldiers protecting the delegation. He briefly tensed when the Yevee keeper shouted at Tani upon inspecting the texts she had just given her, then relaxed when she finally took the text and left. He was monitoring the Bundlin side of the negotiations when a man claiming to be the Hero appeared and told the humans they needed to fight the “Deathspawn”.[6] Ghakin attempted to subdue him, but was surprised by his strength and skill with his sword. He eventually managed to grab and lift the man, but before the mansthein could do more than ask him what he was doing, the man stabbed him in the arm. Enraged, Ghakin repeatedly smashed the man against a boulder until he was a mess, then seemed to come out of a daze, turning toward the rest of the group with a strange look. At this moment, the Hero, who was somehow still alive, cut his head, killing him.[6]