‘They will come from there,’ Alcyon rumbled, pointing. Veradis looked at the giant’s arm. At the wrist, flowing from beneath a leather band, a dark tattoo swirled up it, circling great knots of muscle and sinew. Curved thorns were etched into the skin, the tattoo resembling a vine creeping up Alcyon’s arm. It disappeared at his elbow, covered by a half-sleeve of chainmail. ‘Why do you have that?’ Veradis asked, without thinking. The giant looked at his arm and grunted. ‘That is my Sgeul; my Telling, in your tongue.’ His voice was cold, flat. ‘Telling?’ ‘Aye. The lives I have taken.’ Veradis
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He's Uthas, the giant from the beginning which means he's on Asroth's side
