Heeth

Heeth first appears as Heeth the Butler — a warmage / scholar whom Minalan appoints to frontier duty. Minalan praises him to Brother Hotfoot as "a sage as well as a warrior, and a bit of a diplomat," and privately admits he is grooming Heeth for a witchstone. Heeth is installed as the Spellward of Maddarch Tower, available to castle and abbey alike; both parties are cautiously optimistic about having a warmage on hand. Minalan takes Heeth's hospitality at the new installation the night Pentandra calls him mind-to-mind with bad news. His quirky nickname comes from time spent, between warmage contracts, serving as an actual butler for an ancient lord on whose estate he was raised near Castabriel.

A passing mention. Heeth the Butler "had been key to filling my cellars with quality wine," Minalan recalls, when he and Dranus discuss installing warmagi as court wizards in client holdings.

Heeth, now the Arcanist of Vanador, is a trusted strategic advisor seated with Terleman, Mavone, and Jannik. On Karakush he offers:

studying us, seeing what our strengths and weaknesses are.

He reveals that he maintains dossiers on every known Nemovort and volunteers his deep Westlands knowledge for the planned assault.

Heeth is functioning as Minalan's major-domo in Vanador. He telepathically relays that Azar and Jannik the Rysh are on their way down from the keep to Azar's bachelor party — small household details that cumulatively show how central he has become to daily Magelaw operations.

Heeth is invited as one of the top arcane minds for a Spellgarden council with Taren, Pentandra, Lilastien, Onranion, Varen, and Kedaran. He examines a mysterious teardrop talisman and is visibly puzzled when it only "makes ice," playing the role of curious-and-sarcastic scholar.

Heeth accompanies an expedition to an ancient ruin, wondering aloud how to open a spellbound steel door — "Warmagic? Alchemy? Thaumaturgy?" — and complaining about obscure Perwynese texts. He is the resident expert on obscure lore during artifact investigations in the Magelaw.