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Gorgo

The Duke's Obsidian enforcer, who snipes Ephraim through his own master—killing the Duke to try to stop the children's escape.

Story so far

When Ephraim fights out of the lair with the children and the Duke of Hands as a shield, Gorgo takes position three stories up with a long rifle. Rather than let his quarry escape, he fires straight through the Duke's body to hit Ephraim in the chest—killing his own master in the process, the smile he gave earlier explained: he was never truly the Duke's man. He keeps firing as the children flee aboard the Hornet, clipping Ephraim's earlobe, before Electra's covering fire drives him back.

Cold and lethal to the last, he lets the Syndicate's prizes slip away rather than spare the Duke.

Appearance

An enormous Obsidian with a bloodless pale face, beetle-black eyes and unbound white hair; glimpsed behind a long sniper barrel through a shattered plate-glass window.

Role

The Duke's enforcer; the sniper who kills his own master to try to stop the children's escape.

Relationships

Ephraim — The thief he snipes through the Duke, mortally wounding him.
Duke-of-Hands — His master, whom he kills with the shot meant for Ephraim, having never truly served him.
Electra — The child whose return fire drives him from the window.
Sources — 5 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 17
  • The Duke of Hands's towering, eight-fingered Obsidian enforcer, coldly intelligent and gold-toothed.
Chapter 23
  • The Duke of Hands's towering Obsidian enforcer, now Ephraim's Syndicate liaison supplying the heist's impossible resources.
Chapter 41
  • The Duke of Hands's towering Obsidian enforcer, who takes delivery of the children, exposes Cyra, and throws her to her death.
Chapter 56
  • The Duke's towering Obsidian enforcer, who ferries Ephraim hooded to the Endymion lair and openly counsels killing him.
Chapter 57
  • The Duke's Obsidian enforcer, who snipes Ephraim through his own master—killing the Duke to try to stop the children's escape.
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