Azidem is a snow dwarf who guided the company of Sogol to the Halls of Frost while selling information about them to a giant.
| Type | Character |
| People | Snow dwarf, clan of the frost cousins |
| Chronicle | SGL |
| Spanish entry | Azidem |
History
She appeared alone on the white plain of the Road of Mertylmane with snowshoes, club and dagger, after two attacks on a caravan of thirty sleds. She said she had come to find her cousin in her people’s old dwelling to the north and found it taken: doors forced, orcs “and worse”. She knew of a six-pillared watchtower with ancient healings and the dwelling’s layout, but no secret entrance. The company left the caravan and followed her north with two sleds.
At the watchtower she told them:
- she belongs to the clan of the frost cousins and had traveled as far as Caloria;
- giants made the region uninhabitable long ago, and the dwarven halls were abandoned;
- the special weapons forged against the giants (one, a guija or guijón of one Ray Thorn) were lost or stored in the mines, now under kilometers of ice;
- through the mines “one goes in one side and comes out the other”.
The five thousand
Dandy saw through her. She admitted she had been promised five thousand coins to gather information and report to the Dwarvish-speaking giant Sidqa of Ascalon, including the thirty sleds and their obsidian cargo. Tied up, she tried to escape and was recaptured, yet still helped with the access to the Halls and passed on the claim of the seed.
Open questions
- Whether her cousin and family story are real is not settled.