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Hector Grinslathe, better known as Haymarket Hector, is the Underlord of Scion Citadel of London syndicate. His territory is the Devil's Acre in I-1 Cohort. His gang is known as the Underbodies. Hector is a macharomancer, a type of soothsayer that uses knives. 

Biography[]

History[]

Little is known of Hector's history. It is suggested that he might have killed the last Underlord, Jed Bickford,[1] but Jaxon Hall disagrees with this idea. After Bickford and his mollisher were murdered, Hector won the third scrimmage and became Underlord himself. He has been Underlord for about a decade.

After winning the scrimmage, Hector takes up residence in the Devil's Acre, the traditional home of the Underlord, where he gathers a large collection of spirits, including The London Monster. His reign is corrupt, full of beatings and murders, and he ignores the many problems facing the syndicate, including the arrival of Senshield. Due to his laziness and cruelty Nick Nygård calls him "the worst Underlord the citadel has ever seen." Hector is widely despised. Those who obey him do so out of fear, or because he pays them well. At some point he takes Chelsea Neves as his mollisher. Although she thinks the best of him and is completely loyal, he mutilates her face with one of his knives, leaving her with a distinctive scar and the nickname "Cutmouth." His reign as Underlord has brought nothing but corruption.

The Pale Dreamer[]

As Nick and Paige Mahoney arrive at Farringdon station looking for the poltergeists Sarah Metyard and Anne Naylor, they are confronted by Hector and his gang. Hector wants to "welcome" Paige to the syndicate by beating her up. As the two sides begin fighting, they disturb Anne. Her sudden appearance allows Nick and Paige the chance to escape.

The Bone Season[]

Paige is accosted by Hector while she waits for the Underground at Station 1-4B. He calls her a liar and a cheater and then warns her to be safe before walking away.

The Mime Order[]

After Paige leaves the black market, Hector and his gang arrive incredibly drunk. He starts asking Nadine Arnett and Zeke Sáenz questions about the paintings they are selling. They argued with four different traders about whether the paintings were fakes. To please the traders, Hector confiscates the Champaign painting so it can be examined. He also takes the rest of their wares. Nadine and Zeke try to stop them, but it is nine against two and they end up getting beaten up.

Hector is murdered in September 2059. When Paige arrives at his townhouse, she discovers his body and the bodies of the other Underbodies, minus Cutmouth. He has been beheaded. His bodyguard, the Underhand, is dead beside him. The rest of his gang has been arranged in pairs. Paige says the threnody for Hector, but his spirit is not there. Hector is buried by I-2 footpads beneath the ruins of St. Dunstan-in-the-East. It is where all syndicate leaders are interred.

Later, Paige discovers Hector's role in the gray market, which sold clairvoyants to Scion. When Ivy Jacob had reported the missing voyants stolen by the Rag and Bone Man to Cutmouth, the Rag and Bone Man sold Ivy on the gray market and brought Hector into the trafficking ring. Paige reveals Hector's role after she wins the scrimmage.

The Song Rising[]

During her trial, Ivy recounts how she observed voyants disappearing and became worried. She told Cutmouth about it. Cutmouth investigated the Camden Catacombs where she found imprisoned voyants waiting to be sold to Scion. She reported this to Hector. But Hector’s lust for easy gold persuaded him to join the gray market instead of suppressing it.

While imprisoned in the Archon, Paige learns from Jaxon that Hector was the one that ordered her sold to Scion. He also informs her that the Rag and Bone Man killed Hector on Jaxon's orders. Hector had become unsatisfied with the cut he was receiving from Jaxon for selling his own subjects to the gray market, so he targeted Paige because she was Jaxon's mollisher, and sent her to Scion without Jaxon's knowledge. In retribution, Jaxon arranged for Hector and his gang to be assassinated by The Abbess, who was possessed by the spirit of Jack the Ripper.

Physical Description[]

Hector has dark, greasy, chin-length hair that hangs like strings from beneath a bowler hat. His "small, round, black eyes, like a shark's, sit in his gaunt face. Even his mouth has a whiff of shark about it. His teeth are lucent and uneven, like chips of blackened seashell."[2] He has a scabrous nose and his eyes are threaded with blood vessels. Hector is very unhygienic. He smells of sweat, a sewer, and rotting breath. He wears a gold pocket watch and dirty white cravat. He has an unctuous, oily voice. He always carries a golden pocket watch and wears multiple rings. He has moist hands. Hector's in his forties.

Personality[]

Hector is very violent and corrupt. He lives by one rule: follow the money. He particularly enjoys cutting throats. The syndicate has been getting increasingly corrupt since he became Underlord. He has no concept of empathy. He might be lazy, but he is also smart. Hector is a symptom of the diseases in the syndicate: greed, violence, and apathy.

Etymology[]

Hector is the Latinized form of the Greek Hektor which was derived from ‘εκτωρ (hektor) "holding fast," from εχω (echo) meaning "to hold, to possess."[3]

Trivia[]

  • Despite being Underlord, Hector has never called a meeting of the Unnatural Assembly.

Appearances[]

References[]

  1. The Mime Order
  2. The Pale Dreamer: Chapter 3
  3. http://www.behindthename.com/name/hector
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