Buate
First appears in Book 2: The Temporal Void, chapter 7 (Inigo's Tenth Dream)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 7Buate is Ivarl's half brother and the new owner of the House of Blue Petals.
- Ch 7Buate is Ivarl's younger half brother, slim and muscled with green eyes, who now runs the House of Blue Petals and its gang business.
- Ch 7Buate refused Edeard's demand to leave Makkathran and threatened that next time someone other than Mirnatha would be taken.
- Ch 9Buate learned that Edeard is compiling a list of about a hundred gang leaders to hold for twenty-two days until the election.
- Ch 9Buate orders the gang lords to fight arrest, arm themselves, and riot across the city, shooting constables and burning warehouses, to force the Council to back off.
- Ch 9Buate dismisses talk that Edeard is Rah, calling him an orphan from Rulan province, and threatens to slit the throat of anyone saying otherwise.
- Ch 9Buate is subjected to a grueling tax investigation of three years of House of Blue Petals accounts, sitting in court six hours daily for ten days.
- Ch 9Gang lord who ran the House of Blue Petals and named Edeard in a civil warrant as an arsonist and assailant.
- Ch 9Buate, a gang leader, was arrested for suspicion of extortion and lives in a modest house on Zulmal Street after the House of Blue Petals burned.
- Ch 9Buate was taken to the cells under Parliament House, but he used longtalk to rally the mob in Sampalok against Edeard.
- Ch 9Buate is banished, tells Edeard he will never last, and walks away apart from the other exiles.
- Ch 12Buate, dressed as a Haxpen District Master on Owain's orders, supervised disposal of the dead and told Edeard that killing makes him like them.
- Ch 14Buate arranged an ambush of the Waterwalker outside the crystal wall to rob him of the city's advantage.
Connections
- family ofCaptain Ivarlhalf brother
- ally ofRanaleerumored partner in House of Blue Petals
- has memberMedathenforcer working for Buate
- related toNanitteabused by him; she informs on his gun purchase
- ally ofGilmorns
- enemy ofEdeard
- ally ofMaster Cherixprosecutes on his behalf
- related toHouse of Blue Petalsowned by Buate
- member ofthe hundred
- ally ofOwain
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 7Edeard confronts Buate
Edeard visits Buate at the House of Blue Petals, demands he leave the city, and, after Buate threatens Mirnatha, lifts him against the wall with static as a warning.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Spying on Buate's gang lords' meeting
Using Finitan's ge-mouse, Edeard and the squad watch Buate and other gang lords. Buate announces a plan to resist arrest with citywide riots before the election.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Buate's tax hearing
Edeard watches Buate endure a tedious tax inquiry into three years of House of Blue Petals accounts, and laughs afterward.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Edeard burns the House of Blue Petals
Edeard soaks Buate's establishment in jamolar oil, ignites it, frees the ge-chimps, floats Buate's girls to safety and warns Buate to leave the city.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Arrest of Buate
Edeard and his squad arrest Buate in Sampalok, scaring off a gathering mob with a burning oil fireball and neutralizing a fire trap via the city.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Sampalok riots
Buate's call triggers mass rioting and looting across Sampalok; arrest teams struggle and only eight of the hundred are caught, and Kanseen is shot but saved by her waistcoat.
- Book 2 · Ch 9The banishment of the Diroal and their allies
After the mansion melts away, Edeard orders the Diroal and named men escorted by constables to North Gate; Bise and Buate leave defiantly and Edeard re-seals the gate.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Death of Buate
Edeard tortures Buate to death with his mind in the Culverit courtyard; Macsen and Kanseen then depart as souls.
- Book 2 · Ch 14The conspirators are killed and the guns destroyed
Edeard rises through the floor of the sealed records chamber, kills Owain and the other conspirators with a rapid-fire gun, then has the city dispose of all the guild's weapons and designs.