Collem West
A common-born Union officer with a good heart and a terrible temper.
Collem West is a common-born Major in the Union Army, later promoted to Lord Marshal, and the older brother of Ardee West. A good man who tries to do the right thing, he has a terrible temper that frightens even him. He is a major point-of-view character in Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy.
Quick Facts
- Also known as
- Furious
- Rank
- Major; later Colonel and Lord Marshal
- Organization
- The Union Army
- Origin
- Angland
- Sister
- Ardee West
- Status
- Deceased
Facts from the source article.
Background
Born and raised in Angland, West escaped a father prone to drunken violence by joining the Union Army. With no natural talent for fencing, he won the Contest through sheer determination, served in Glokta's cavalry regiment in the First Gurkish War, and made his name as the first man through the breach at the siege of Ulrioch. In the First Northern War he travels with a crew of rebel Northmen, who name him Furious after he bites an enemy's nose clean off. Jezal later promotes him to Lord Marshal; he eventually dies of his sickness, remembered as a good man gone too soon.
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