Lucius Brand

A young lantern-bearer and guide who hires himself out to companies going into the undercity. He knows the drains, culverts and buried streets, and he keeps the light going.

Brand was a lamplighter's boy who went down into the drains to fetch a dropped lamp and kept going. He has been guiding companies below ever since.

He is not a fighter. He keeps the light, finds the way and runs when it is time to run. Companies trust him because he has never led them wrong.

This year he is guiding Ezra Lumbe's descent team into a new level below the river wall.

In person

29. Young and thin, with a cheerful freckled face, untidy red hair and bright eyes. He wears a patched long coat, a muffler, and holds up a tall pole lantern.