[Dragaera] Temek and Mario (Dzur spoiler)

[Jon Lincicum]

Recent discussion led me to re-read the beginning of /Yendi/, where I 
discovered this little nugget which made a lot more sense to me after 
what we learned in /Dzur/. It regards an enforcer in Vlad's employ named 
Temek:

[Yendi Cite chapter 2]:

He was the only enforcer I had that I knew, with one hundred percent 
certainty, had done "work"--because Kragar had given him the job at my 
orders.

A month before this business with Laris started, a certain Dzurlord had 
borrowed a large sum from someone who worked for me, and was refusing to 
pay it back. Now this Dzurlord was what you call "established"; that is, 
he was considered a hero by the House of the Dzur, and had earned it 
several times over. He was a wizard (which is like a sorcerer, only more 
so), and more than just a little bit good with a blade. So he figured 
there was nothing we could do if he decided not to pay us. We sent 
people over to plead with him to be reasonable, but he was rude enough 
to kill them. This cost me fifteen hundred gold for my half of the 
revivification on one of them (the moneylender, of course, paid the 
other half), and five thousand gold to the family of the second, who 
couldn't be revivified.

Now, I did not consider these sums to be trifling. Also, the guy we'd 
lost had been a friend at one time. All in all, I was irritated. I told 
Kragar, "I do not want this individual to pollute the world any longer. 
See that this is attended to."

Kragar told me that he'd hired Temek and paid him thirty-six hundred 
gold--not unreasonable for a target as formidible as this Dzur was. 
Well, four days later--four days, mark you, not four weeks--someone 
stuck a javelin through the back of the Lord Hero's head and pinned his 
face to a wall with it. Also, his left hand was missing.

When the Empire investigated, all they learned was that his hand had 
been blown off by his own wizard staff exploding, which also accounted 
for the failure of all his defensive spells. The investigators shrugged 
and said, "Mario did it." Temek was never even questioned...

[end cite]

My thinking here is that the Imperial Investigators had it right, and 
Vlad had it dead wrong. Given that Kragar arranged the job, and given 
who Kragar represents, and how that individual feels about justice, I 
doubt Temek actually had anything to do with this particular incident...

Majikjon