Leighfer Bardingale
She hired the Assassins' Guild to kill a slaver blackmailing abolitionists. Every word of that was a lie, and she was the slaver.
Leighfer Bardingale is a noblewoman of Melisande and the true villain of The Assassin and the Underworld, from The Assassin's Blade — a poised society hostess with a melancholy gaze who paid Arobynn to have Celaena murder her own abolitionist ex-husband, then bought the girl's horse on the way out.
At a glance
- KIND
- Human — a noblewoman of Melisande
- ALSO
- Benzo Doneval's ex-wife — and the true villain of the tale
- HIRED
- Arobynn's Assassins' Guild to kill Doneval and take his papers
- COVER STORY
- That Doneval was a slaver blackmailing abolitionists
- THE TRUTH
- Doneval was the abolitionist; she was buying the trade
- HER FACE
- A gracious, melancholy society hostess — decency, performed
- BOUGHT
- Celaena's Asterion horse, on her way out
- LEAVES BEHIND
- The betrayal that breaks Celaena from Arobynn
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