Lamberd

Lamberd is a young officer in the service of the rebel leader Rainer Karga in the Sürgün Günlükleri ("Exile Chronicles") campaign. When the drow Ephorus sent word to Rainer from a tavern in Tal'gard, six armed men surrounded him, left him his weapons but hooded him, and led him by a winding way to a closed room. There Lamberd lay in bed, wounded in the face, the leg and the arm, and named himself as one of Rainer's officers.^{1 2}

The hiding place

Lamberd told Ephorus that he did not know where Rainer was and could not take him there. In return for help with medicine he offered a way to talk again later, since his people feared that buying remedies themselves would give their hiding place away. Ephorus asked him to tell Rainer to consider terms for the sake of those he loved.^{3 4}

Rainer himself then came into the room, told Lamberd to rest and heal, and said he could not take him along for now. Before leaving he asked Ephorus to keep the place secret, saying that the wounded officer knew a great deal about the rebel camps, and threatened him with a cruel death if he betrayed it; he valued Lamberd's life, he said, above the lives of noble families.^{5 6}

Ephorus and the owl that had followed him knew the way, but the company chose not to raid the house: doing so, Ephorus argued, would destroy any trust in their word in later talks, and they hoped to keep open a settlement without bloodshed.^{7 8}

The last meeting

About a week and a half later Ephorus found the old hiding place empty, but met Lamberd, healed and on his feet. Lamberd had him leave his weapons at the door and brought Rainer to him. In that meeting, the last before the duel the Empire arranged against Rainer, Rainer made it his condition that his men in the city be allowed to leave whatever the outcome, for he did not want to endanger those who were still wounded, and Ephorus accepted.^{9 10}

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Lamberd survived the war. After the battle in which the Empire's forces and the rebels faced a hobgoblin host together, he was seen alive beside Marcus Boldvar. Marcus sent his men home to their villages, then took hold of Lamberd and led him into the forest, while the other rebels scattered in small groups.^{11 12}