Tamas Volkov

A foreign mercenary who came to Britannia to hunt monsters and stayed because there were so many. Companies hire him when they need a man who has fought things they have never seen.

Volkov came from the far east beyond the seas, where he hunted things in the steppes and forests. He came to Britannia on a merchant ship and found work at once.

He has fought things in Britannia that he had fought at home under other names, and some he had never seen. He is grim, patient and very good.

This year he is hired by the Red Bend Company for a hunt in the Marches. He has told Strangways what he thinks the thing is, and Strangways did not want to hear it.

In person

45. Tall and lean, with a long weathered face, a drooping black moustache and narrow dark eyes. He wears a fur-trimmed coat over a scale shirt, a curved sabre and a short bow.