Lieutenant (Saus)

From The Heretic Knowledge Vault

A particular NPC Guard in the party that tracks down Meji outside Saus, thinking that they're on the trail of Jon Amraphel instead. Actually, they're half right, because Jon is hiding in the bushes nearby and grabs Meji to try to talk his way out of pursuit via a hostage gambit. To say this doesn't work well would be a considerable understatement.

His enthusiasm for performing a "special interrogation" on Meji gets under the skin of his commanding officer (whose rank is not given) enough that the top guy ponders whether he has the authority to have the looey turned into a eunuch. Reasonably enough, this cows him into submission for the rest of his life, which at this point is measured in minutes, since he and his pals make the mistake of threatening Jon and Meji severely enough to make her do some spell casting. Of course, we know how that turns out.

Interestingly, the rank of Lieutenant seems to be lower in the pecking order of the Veracian military than that of Sergeant. At least the sergeant who shows up during Ian's assault on the Veracian Church is a lot older than this guy, and a lot more of an authority figure too, not that that saves him when Sandel finds it convenient to remove him from the picture. Life among the NPC Guards is obviously nasty (in all cases), brutish (in this case, exaggeratedly so), and usually, short.